Crowley's great work was to combine a nonsense mess of metaphysics with sex magick, drugs, and methods purloined from Asian mystics. [...] his innate metaphysics were still those of a Christian.
Douglas E. Harding (the man with no head
Douglas Edison Harding (12 February 1909 – 11 January 2007) was an English philosophical writer, mystic, spiritual teacher and author of a number of books, including On Having No Head, Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious.Wait, what?
The photo shows a third person view of a man without a head (that body over there wihout a head – perhaps even our own in the mirror! – while DEH's headlessness is always a first person realisation of the headless one looking out at the obviously headed beings visible around us. We hallucinate the presence of a head at the place, here, we are looking out from, not in those places, there, where we find heads crowning human (and other) bodies. Here, at precisely zero millimeters from that which is looking (i.e. subjectively), there is always only space for the world (and all the headed bodies it contains) to appear in.
DEH was always at pains to point out that the headlessness of which he spoke was already the case, subjectively, for any conscious, perceiving being (even if not knowingly realised for oneself). If imagined as being true of other (third person) beings or entities, or even for oneself (as an imagined third person), then it is not what he was referring to. (Of course, that doesn't mean that practices such as the one you describe do not have results, only that they have nothing to do with what DEH was talking about).The headless rite is a practical incantation undertaken routinely by magical practitioners to bring in favour. I had half a mind (heh) to give it a burl. Still haven't hit the moment. Hoping January's promise means I won't have to bother.
Anyway here's a description by someone who did, and who I'm surprised to see was brought to it by my own Chaos guru, Gordon White.
https://triplesnake.com/post/159334789235/ἀκέφαλος-a-headless-rite-experience-ok-take
Parsons was an interesting maniac, until he blew himself up.There is clearly a crossover between Crowley and another topic. See, 'Strange Angel: Jack Parsons Coming to TV' - any further discussions re this aspect appropriately there.
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/strange-angel-jack-parsons-coming-to-tv.62848/
There is an, arguably quite extraordinary, archive recording which explains the inherent connection:
The photo shows a third person view of a man without a head (that body over there wihout a head – perhaps even our own in the mirror! – while DEH's headlessness is always a first person realisation of the headless one looking out at the obviously headed beings visible around us. We hallucinate the presence of a head at the place, here, we are looking out from, not in those places, there, where we find heads crowning human (and other) bodies. Here, at precisely zero millimeters from that which is looking (i.e. subjectively), there is always only space for the world (and all the headed bodies it contains) to appear in.
Sounds nothing like the couple of Crowley recordings I have heard in the past.Strewth... didn't realise we seemingly have an actual Crowley incantation on YouTube...
Quite extraordinary...?
Please do! As unsure of its authenticity, hence, 'seemingly'.Sounds nothing like the couple of Crowley recordings I have heard in the past.
must look them up and post a link.
This seems too clean a recording for such a light young voicePlease do! As unsure of its authenticity, hence, 'seemingly'.
A magical language discovered & used by John Dee, magician to the court of Elizabeth l.
I’ve recently been listening to The Whisperer in Darkness podcast where there is some supposed Enochian chantingIf you're interested in conjuring demons in your own home I have this CD which I would be willing to send your way for a small consideration. Some tracks are in Enochian.
I don't think the recording in post 471 is him.
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