A Rational Analysis of the Structure of the Empyreal World
I. First Preliminaries
The preparation period for gaining a solid (pun intended) foothold, vantage point, or vista from which to explore the fundamentals of the empyreal world is quite lengthy. As a current reading group, our egregore has received, nothing more, than the most rudimentary preparation needed so to discuss and explore the empyreal world and its forces and inhabitants. It is likely sufficient.
However, my advice is for each one of you to review a number of my earlier blogs dealing with concepts of self, imago operators, and the universal dreamtime. I realize that I am asking each of you to expend significant Effort; but as my essence friend, Baal Eyt, notes, “Difficult in preparation, easy in execution; easy in preparation, difficult in execution. Thou beest the person who dost chooseth.”
So, we shall commence with the most basic fundamentals.
First, a new traveler needs to understand that access to the most interesting planes of the empyreal world occurs solely through his or her personal unconscious mind. By personal unconscious mind, I am referring to the psychoneural circuitry, or imago operators, responsible for manifesting the virtual world we all operate within. Such virtual world being continuously recreated with each moment of awareness (awareness is composed of a series of discrete blocks of information filling and vacating prefrontal working memory) accessed when awake and when asleep.
During the waking state, people go about their activities with minimal conscious awareness, as the semantic information and motor skill sets (habits) residing within the unconscious mind, primarily learned stimulus-evoked response patterned actions (SERPA) and set-sensitive personas (ego states), are sufficient. True conscious awareness is only activated when the person has to deal with the appearance of a novel event or after a potential threat to his or her safety.
During the sleeping state, our imago operators remain active, using our sensory, procedural, and episodic memories so to create our personal dream worlds. The specific content of our dream world arising from the combined operation of our dual cognitive organ, the mindbrain, as influenced by the activities of the day, our cultural leitmotifs, our desires and wants (conscious and unconscious), and so on. The virtual worlds we utilize during the day and the night evolved so to help us survive and reproduce.
One rational explanation, as to the necessity for the existence of the physical world, mechanical as it is, is that such a world is necessary and sufficient, given long periods of time and geoclimatic stress, for producing complex central nervous systems capable of generating virtual worlds. The physical world is unique, because it must operate under a distinct set of unchanging laws of nature (whether they are expressed using quantum or classical mechanics). Moreover, events actualizing within the physical world (one day, I will explain the universal wave function and its true operation) are isolated from happenings in the integrated empyreal world. The phrase “isolated from the physical world” means that the individual desires of partially conscious creatures, such as human beings, are without effect upon the physical unless physical actions are applied. In other words, human dream worlds (created by each person’s mindbrain), though created by physical events, are impotent in affecting the biological life of the planet.
This is not to say that certain individuals cannot cause weather changes, increase or decrease another’s probability of experiencing a possible event, cursing someone, and so on. However, generally the person so cursed is aware of said curse and his or her expectations make such curse effective. Moreover, such skills arose from the evolution of semiconscious life upon this planet and so are not important in the long term.
Whenever, we purposely work to be aware that we are present in the here and now, awake or asleep, we consciously connect with the events transpiring within our ongoing virtual world. During the day, the nocturnal dream world is kept separate from the diurnal waking world. The nocturnal worlds are accessed consciously only when a dream or fantasy is finally recognized by the dreamer as a dream or fantasy. The development of such a skill is the first step in active investigation of the empyreal world. First, the worlds you create, then the worlds created by others, and finally the complete conjoint mind-content of humanity from the beginning of the dreamtime.
Without having activated a conscious presence within your own dreams, you cannot safely explore the forces and entities existing therein. Most persons are automatically isolated from such forces and entities; generally, empyreal entities foreign to your mindbrain, i.e., forms you did not create de novo nor assimilated via interactions with persons having access to such forms. In other words, they are prohibited from becoming or associating with existing ego states. For this to transpire, an empyreal entity must be able to merge into the person’s psychoempyreal awareness so to occupy with his or her “ergoegotic center” and become a part of the person’s psychoism. Traditionally, such persons are “said to be possessed by a spirit, saint, or demon.”
Although, the phrases, “the personal unconsciousness” or “the personal unconscious mind” are convenient monikers, it is important to realize that such phrases are descriptive phenomena relating to the underlying activity of the glioneuronal networks of the organic brain. How such images arise secondary to information processing by the brain is a mystery, though discussed above.
Even more interesting is the observation that no one can actually observe his or her peripheral / central nervous system processing information so to [1] provide perceivable images, feelings, and physiological responses or [2] habitual behavior. Moreover, presuming one could observe and record the electrochemical activities of the involved neuronal network in great detail, he or she would still be ignorant, as we have no methods to observe the operation of the psychoempyreal cognitive organ(s).
Subsequently, we are restricted to application of conceptual, phenomenological models in our psychoempyreal investigations. By such models, I am referring to common scientific models such as thermodynamics, quantum dynamics, and other standard models of physics.
The take-home lesson being that your unconscious mind contains an imaginably dense set of feelings, desires, compelling commands, habitual behavior, belief systems, and other competing thought-forms. The great majority carrying a negative valence, i.e., fear versus joy, mine versus ours, self-importance, ego survival, hoarding, and aggression.
More importantly, the many roles we habitually occupy each day, our varying personas, ephemeral selves, jivas, or ego states, hide within the unconscious mind (with their distinct cognitive-affective qualia) until they are evoked by an unrecognized stimulus. The majority of such jivas having been unknowingly introjected into your personal unconsciousness via contact with other persons, books, movies, video games, and stories. Such introjects can be healthy and productive or unwholesome and destructive. Most of them remain outside of conscious awareness and haunt us in our dreamtimes.
When it comes to self-exploration of the empyreal world, even that minute part we experience in our nocturnal dreams, “What you do not know, what you conjure up, what you toy with, will, in the end, harm you.” For the great majority of local and global personas occupying the empyreal world are clothed in emotional negativity (fear, self-aggrandizement, and greed dominating); those same feelings and desires ruling our species.
The only sound methodology for exploring the empyreal world(s) is to maintain conscious awareness, that is to be consciously aware of being with the empyreal denizens, at all times. Also, realize that most of the time your contacts in the empyreal world will lie to your face so be careful what you accept as truth and how you should behave. [NOTE. I refer you to the story of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley and their uncovering of Enochian Magick in their skrying.]