/x/ - Paranormal / Occult

For maximum effect, sit in the dark after midnight and watch on a TV.

All of their videos are great, I personally find Real Sleep the most unsettling.

>>1598
The scare factor wears off when you realize its all fake.

>>1616
-for Qabbalah:
Dion Fortune's "The Mystical Qabbalah"

-Magic 101:
Agrippa's books of occult philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy

-Rituals:
Look for explanations (golden dawn or thelema?) on the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram

-Tarot
Can't think of anything entry-level, I like Jodorowsky's The Way of Tarot, but it's a big brick

-Meditation
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I'd definently recommend 'Ssotbme Revised - An Essay on Magic'

Discussions around Science, Religion and Art break down unless the fourth factor, Magic, is recognised.

Magical thought is described and contrasted with Science, Art and Religion. The dynamic relationship between them is explained. Modern magic and its role in the 21st century is outlined with respect to practices ranging from ritual magic, through alchemy to New Age therapies.

Prometheus Rising is a great starting point if you suffer from the inability to the believe in anything.

The truth is out there!

This is a good source for non-Hermetic Qabalah. It gave me a wider perspective.

http://www.workofthechariot.com/TextFiles/Teachings-Introduction.html

My recommendations for starting out in Chaos Magick, in no particular order:
* Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine
* Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman
* Liber Null by Peter Carroll
* The Psychonaut Field Guide by Bluefluke
* Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger

For Qabalah:
* The Chicken Qabalah by Lon Milo DuQuette (beginner)
Followed by…
* A Garden of Pomegranates by Isreal Regardie (intermediate)

>>1513
I beg to differ; ever run into hikkifags?

There are

>>5
One theory that's popular: there are various bodies that make up a being. Physical, astral, mental, etc. There's disagreement on the particulars and I'm certainly no expert, it seems to be that the astral body (one 'layer' up from the physical) is gradually discarded after death; it wears out like the physical body after a while, and drifts around, an empty husk.

Without a 'soul' to animate the astral body–and especially if someone died a horrible death, or had unresolved emotions that were very strong, or something of the sort–the astral husk gets stuck in a kind of loop, like muscle memory, repeating itself over and over. Ever heard of those ghost stories of hitch hikers, always doing the same thing and disappearing spookily by the end? Over time the brain and body grow accustomed to doing things a certain way, like digging a rut in the soil over time as you walk the same path: the grass becomes dirt, becomes a trail, becomes a path, becomes a road, until it's used so much that people decide to lay down bricks and make it a proper thoroughfare. I imagine this is how the mind works, especially when energized by strong emotion. Heavy guilt, unrequited love, especially over years, has potential to animate these astral bodies, whether or not the 'soul' is still inhabiting them.

This is just one theory, of course.

Dinosaur ghosts aren't around because, just like physical bodies, astral bodies decay too.

There are some legends of dinosaur cryptids (that might be ghosts) on the Amazonic jungle and the Australian desert, but it's just that, legends.

>>1511
…they are. If you're psychically sensitive, then old battlefields, prisons, hospitals etc. are haunted as shit.

That is a 90% match to the possessed horse from Berserk. Not convinced with this one.

The horse in question. Image didn't post properly the first time.

>>1589
Congrats, you're being haunted by the rape horse

Roy would like to know its location (bronnen).

you were probably looking at his waifu t-shirt

>>1608
If you ask a super vague and confusing question without any supporting information, you aren't going to get serious answers. Based on what little you've told us, I would suggest a banishing ritual, like the LBRP. If you had posted more information I might have better suggestions.

You might be nuts. What are cliché bullying tactics anyways? Are they stabbing you with pencils, putting yoghurt in your bags and tacks in your shoes?

>>1608
I could write exactly the same question about me to a point where everyday that passes I ask myself whether I'm schizophrenic or some other shit.
Context, my situation has degraded a lot recently. It's not much compared to a lot of people but I've dropped out of a decent school because of procrastination plus inability to deal with both the amount of work piled up and the ensuing amount of stress. Haven't been doing anything for almost a year now.
People that were friend seem friendly at times but I keep interpreting things they say in a bad way, as if they were making fun of me or insinuating bad things.
When too far away to actually hear anything my brain will be able to just make shit up and be half convinced the muffled discussion were one word barely sounded like my name was about me.

>after someone bricks a portion of your mind
For me, it started gradually after I dropped out of school, at some point I was staying with them so often (since I had nothing better to do) that I realized "wtf am I doing here doing nothing smoking weed when I should be trying to figure out what to do with my fucking life", it was the tipping point where I started having anxiety
>smoking weed
>being with my friends
and I basically distanced myself from them more and more as time went by.
The paranoia peaked when smoking pretty dank shit with the closest friend later. That was the bricking part. I wondered if at some point earlier in life I hadn't smoked myself retarded, wondered if that may be related to me dropping out, wondered if I was made fun of much more than I thought and that I was just too stupid to notice. I realized that forever up until now I was "that kid" that just was lucky to never be bullied and whose weirdness went unnoticed because I was just normal enough to be on good terms with people. That lead to me wondering whether this friend of mine realized I was weird and actually way stupider than people made me out to be, and started subtly poking fun at my weirdness.
And this conclusion didn't go away when sobering up. It slowly went away, but it comes and goes, when I go see them and everything goes well, it's good and it fades even more, but if they say something that may be interpreted in favour of that conclusion it comes back atPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The /x/ part is that I seem to be being trolled as if I am a Sim where the person above me playing believes I am an unfeeling game character, and a game objective is to torture me.

Let me out if you can or turn the game off. If you knew what this felt like you would not have done this.

Has anyone here ever had their brain shut down remotely by a hive-mind psychic attack causing temporary mental retardation and genetic mutations with lasting physical damage?

>>1601
1. make a movie "based on a true story"
2. profit
3. move out

sound like soft ad, to be honest.

>>1601
People with spiritual sensitivity generally shouldn't indulge in those sorts of games (not that anyone should.) It sounds like you've either invited an actual spirit to haunt you, or the ritual of the game created a thought-form which is now stuck to your auras.

In this case, your best bet is for you and your friend to study and practice a banishing ritual until you can both do it from memory, and then perform the ritual wholeheartedly in your respective houses. That should eliminate foreign presences / unwanted energies from your auras and from the space surrounding your dwellings. The upside of being sensitive is that when you perform the ritual it should end up being particularly potent.

This is the golden standard for banishing rituals in western esotericism – the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. You should be able to learn it in a few days if you study it earnestly. Good luck.

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Hermeticism/LBR.htm

>>1604
Thanks so much for the advice, and sorry for being late. Got my ass kicked by work. Anyways, any other steps we should be taking?

>>1605
Besides the full-on banishing ritual, you can also try smudging your houses with sage, which has banishing properties. If the thing haunting you is a thought-form of your own creation rather than a spirit, then you might be able to get rid of it by just convincing yourself that it isn't real, but this can be harder than it sounds. And I don't know how to tell whether it's spirit or thought-form. I doubt that ARA was ever a real person, but if lots of people played the game, then it could be a group thought-form called an egregore, in which case the belief and energy of everyone who has played the game is empowering its existence. So, I still think the banishing ritual is your best option, but shore it up with sage smudging, and maybe research some protective seals you can put on the doors of your house.

If you need additional help or advice, I'd ask on the DKMU Facebook group. It's a huge gathering of magicians from many different schools of thought with an emphasis on chaos magic, who collaborate on projects together and give each other advice. That place has always been super helpful to me. There are questions to get in, but as long as you give honest answers (even "I don't know" will do for the second one,) then you will be added shortly. If you don't have Facebook, you could ask on the DKMU Discord server.

https://dkmu.org/

https://mega.nz/#F!7KoQzKqS!XhgA5uYbfshsDfFrGSJZBA

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An interesting camera trick. It's kind of sad that this is more disturbing than most horror movies these days…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2MsDogV4g4

>>1530
This looks like some student project.

I saw a video like couple of years ago where a russian guy sprayed graffitis on abandoned trains.Do any have that?

Something evil in his videos. You may be followed by misfortune if you indulge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo0decEybWo