The concept of egregores is nothing new, the ancient Greeks knew them as the "Watchers," and in Tibet they are called "Tulpas." They can be best described as immaterial entities born out of human thoughts, created from the power of a group mind - a nation is a perfect example of a large historical egregore - a nation is an idea that seems like an entity as it acts like a god and its spoken about as if it were a god.
Today, we are living in the grip of egregore symbolism and it’s getting stronger. When there is excessive egregore possession, our collective group entity becomes destructive and we run into fundamentalism, especially religious fervour mixed with nationalism. The Egregore of Uncle Sam is making a move to become a god. Many generations previously had to learn the hard way of stopping the feeding of these symbols, we have many examples when nations were thrown into a mass hypnosis in the past. Often education is required to acquire freedom from polarity and dualistic possessions, but its not an easy route, division is always easier, like walking down hill.
Here is a great interview with one of my favourite thinkers at the moment Dr. Ben Joffe, a Tibetologist and Buddhist practitioner who speaks of the Tulpas (egregores) and this phenomenon of the mind and how it affects the world. This is part 1. Part 2 we will go into other topics such as the consecration of statues in Tibetan and Hindu tantra practices, which relates to Old Customs practices here at Northern Spirit House - and much more!
Latest offering with Andreas Kornevall, co-founder of Northern Spirit House:LETTERS AS SPIRITS (Rune-Mageia) - A spring time offering - 8th March, 6pm - 7:30pm - £18
The most powerful symbols we possess are our letters. For a name to exist, including yours, it must have a sound, or a graphic depiction. Our alphabet contains 26 phonetic-letter-glyphs, these glyphs have built our world: everything that you know and all knowledge leans on them.
The great magician Alan Moore says: "Two dozen phonetic glyphs, they are the titans on whose shoulders the entire Earth is resting. Alive as abstract animals, they animate us, galvanise our inert culture with sublime significance.”
Letters offer us a field of endless exposition and we are all hypnotised; we have all been spelt.
There is an old Icelandic magical idea: it is that the shape of the letters (runes, staves, lines) carry the "primary agency." Therefore, combining rune-stave-lines-shapes, a magician can perceive new views, new feelings and new worlds.
Drawing from practices, runes, alphabets, signs, and symbols. I am offering an intensive course on how to become post-literate. To use our hands to conduct new lines and shapes, expressing our emotions in lettered shapes found in streets, trees, feathers, rocks, furs, snail trails, or ripples of water. To become founders of new alphabets, and play with whim, explorations, spell-metres, new hidden passes and obscurities. To free a magical language from the landscape and from within us - to retrieve new hieroglyphs. This effect the world around us and it can liberate us from the peripheries of meaning which are limited to only the lettered perception. When we read the lines of the leaves, the Earth's language becomes mysterious. We are so familiar with the words on the page that we have long lost the ability to look at the sigils of nature in their poetic fullness.
And yes, what can a post-literate expression look like? And what consequences can it have on our thinking? We will also explore the counter measures of resisting the power of text less sigils such as logos - countering their effects, a technique called "the Demblem."
We will journey into the language of something greater: we will enter into the provocation of new thought.
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