Many thanks for this! I had a really bad experience with a nasty nature spirit a few months back that nearly killed me and this other guy. Everyone involved I saw except for one guy who meditates tremendously, could not think in the face of the spirit. If you looked in their eyes you could see something and it wasn't them, and it was trying to lead them into a river to drown them. To make a long and sad story short, my magic prevailed, my mind stayed steady even when it suddenly felt like I was high on mushrooms, and I managed to get everyone out the other side, but the entire experience really shook me up, really badly.
With the internet type of memetic infection I've not had the same experience, to be honest. I've seen myself and others deal with bad ideas, but having gotten close enough to nature spirits to see the shape of the trap they had, the internet beings seems much easier to handle, at least in my experience.
While there are some very nasty things on the internet, I think it's easy to avoid them by avoiding all video content. With videos they have an eerie advantage, but much less so ,with text, at least in my mind, because text requires so much conscious work, at least for me. With video one can lay back and the video transports one to....another world and it is as easy as it is mindless, and mindless as it is narcotic.
Also I do not participate with facebook, twitter, or the like. Those scenes strike me as lugubrious and bleak in the extreme, and exemplify all of the worst aspects of human brains interacting with text.
I guess I view the internet as a multifaceted entity, and so that website with the 8000 volume of classic occult texts is, strictly speaking, just as much the "internet" as Tik-Tok. That website doesn't seem like a vector for anything gross, and has a nice vibe. Other portions of the internet, the quiet, library-esque, html portions with a focus on text tend to likewise have good vibes, in my experience. Of course this website is in that category, in every way.
I wonder to what extent "the medium is the message" and the internet now is compromised of heterogenous media accessed through the same computers. To my mind, the internet became increasingly nasty with the proliferation of Java script, for whatever it's worth. It seems to me that there are multiple internets, with entirely different sets of values and messages.
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Date: 2021-01-28 03:10 pm (UTC)With the internet type of memetic infection I've not had the same experience, to be honest. I've seen myself and others deal with bad ideas, but having gotten close enough to nature spirits to see the shape of the trap they had, the internet beings seems much easier to handle, at least in my experience.
While there are some very nasty things on the internet, I think it's easy to avoid them by avoiding all video content. With videos they have an eerie advantage, but much less so ,with text, at least in my mind, because text requires so much conscious work, at least for me. With video one can lay back and the video transports one to....another world and it is as easy as it is mindless, and mindless as it is narcotic.
Also I do not participate with facebook, twitter, or the like. Those scenes strike me as lugubrious and bleak in the extreme, and exemplify all of the worst aspects of human brains interacting with text.
I guess I view the internet as a multifaceted entity, and so that website with the 8000 volume of classic occult texts is, strictly speaking, just as much the "internet" as Tik-Tok. That website doesn't seem like a vector for anything gross, and has a nice vibe. Other portions of the internet, the quiet, library-esque, html portions with a focus on text tend to likewise have good vibes, in my experience. Of course this website is in that category, in every way.
I wonder to what extent "the medium is the message" and the internet now is compromised of heterogenous media accessed through the same computers. To my mind, the internet became increasingly nasty with the proliferation of Java script, for whatever it's worth. It seems to me that there are multiple internets, with entirely different sets of values and messages.