I just completed a course in Modern Demonology from paralearning.org It provided useful guidance on the subject and even covered summoning (invocation). Instrumental Trans-communication, or ITC caught my interest and I want to know more about it.
The Spirit Releasement Therapy course taught by Mark Beale on udemy presents way more material than the books I came across. Highly recommended. The majority of people I know believe the dead remain silent. Maybe the subtle contact comes through in various ways, often discounted or denied. For me Death represents a great cultural myth that many people unknowingly subscribe to. Take the mourning of a loved one that takes the form of desperation or permanence. Christians often grieve like this and then add that God took them as His Will. I meet Buddhists who also grieve like this and imagine a Pureland Heaven where they will reunite.
"Brain research supports the existence of at least seven primary-process (basic) emotional systems - SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, LUST, CARE, GRIEF (formerly PANIC), and PLAY - concentrated in ancient subcortical regions of all mammalian brains."
Grief appears as a valid emotion. Most people struck with the loss of a loved one in the United States, lack a grieving ritual or process. Communication with the dead, holding vigils, and other methods for grieving grow towards attitudes beyond the secular. More and more people are going this direction and feel loss acutely for a prolonged period. Extended suffering and ignorance of the process of dying often leads to feelings of shame or guilt. A vicious cycle of living and definitely not satisfactory for my way of life.
The Hebrew legend states five parts of the soul. Two of which we cannot apprehend. The remaining three get explained in this letter from a Rabbi:
"Dear Eliezer Shifrin,
A soul is like a chain with one end linked into the brain and the other to a certain spiritual source. There are five levels of the soul like the five links in a chain, each one parallel to the spiritual sphere where it exists. However, we only relate to the three bottom links as we have no understanding about the two top ones. The three are 1) Nefesh 2) Ruach 3) Neshama. The nefesh is the spiritual existence which resides in the body and keeps the physical metabolism working and the person alive. The ruach is a connection between the neshama and the nefesh. It is the cause of feelings and personal qualities. The neshama is the spiritual existence which pulls the man towards G-d, to the performance of good deeds, to be pious and humble and to seek knowledge and achievement in spiritual fields. It resides around the head.
When a person dies, it takes seven days before the parts of the soul understand that it's all over and leave the body. Until then they hover around the grave and travel to and fro between the grave and the house of the deceased, waiting for the body to start functioning again. The nefesh does not completely leave until the body is decomposed."
Consider that the nefesh remains as long as the bones reside in your coffin before getting buried. Crowley got cremated. Speculation regarding his reasoning remains. Bones turn to dust also. This Rabbi states it takes seven days, but others say six weeks. During this period there exist activities one performs to honor and process death. Compare that to the average secular American and you get the picture. God is Dead as proclaimed meant so are you. People believe this. Smells like a vast conspiracy to create more earthbound spirits after death.
After reading about possession and spirits from Doctors and other professionals on the fringe, I came into contact with a different perspective. Earthbound spirits of the human dead, dark force entities, and extraterrestrials name some of the presences detected by these people. People at the whims of hungry ghosts and malevolent entities sounds like a cop out of responsibility to many. Gurdjieff said the majority of us remain robots and "food for the moon". Barely cognizant and filled with many "I"s.
"Legion. For we are many."
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