Few of us enjoy being alone with ourselves because nobody likes a liar. Cue cell phone lights and entertainment. Cue talking about ourselves to other people as though we’re relating. More like, if we can convince them we’re real, maybe we will feel it. We so fear being alone that we shun the actions of […]
Ghosts. They’re constantly trying to keep you involved in their repeating patterns. Ghosts. They’re two of the five stages of grief. Ghosts. They turn weak minds obsessive and weaker minds mentally ill. Those people become pillars, lightning rods, doorways through which hauntings come to pull those nearby into a dark night of the soul. Ghosts. […]
Maranasati is the Buddhist word for mindfulness of death. To that end, Buddhists created a series of corpse meditations that involve looking at and contemplating over corpses in various states of decomposition. The effects of meditating thus are supposed to be humbling. One realizes that one’s body is the same as the dead body. We […]
He talks about all of the magical things that come to him during meditation. He’s a visionary, he says, piercing the veil between worlds in the multiverse and bringing back magical practices, which he spells, “magickal”. He says all of the right things, the things his listeners want to hear, but he does so trepidatiously […]