Are Spirits All In Your Head? [Esoteric Saturdays]

[@p0ul3nc]

One of my favorite perspectives actually comes from Dumbledore of all places. It's at the end, when Harry has a near death experience and converses with Dumbledore. He asks if their conversation was real or just in his head and the wizard responds "Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"

[@chrisspace1999]

Factsss

[@anthonyhughes8026]

Brilliant!

[@jeromecaldwell7152]

All those mega successful franchises are riddled with truths at every turn, I think it's largely what contributes to their success. What they are saying resonates deep within us whether we know it or not, I think that that deep subconscious resonance is what ends in our conscious mind manipulating our physical brains neurochemistry into liking something more than just simply liking it. Leave it to a series about magic to embed a description of mentalism, if only more people looked twice!

[@bestwitch2931]

That’s also my favorite

[@lucavolpe]

Being a mystery performer and a magick practitioner I can say (from my point of view) that cerimonial and ritual magick in general creates a shift in our mind in reaching specific results. The actual “spirit” don’t magically appears in front of our eyes like in the movies, but in our mind. Rituals are utilized to create a strong emotional reaction that then will help us to create what we “asked the spirits”. I think are the visual and practical representation of our thoughts that then will lead in actions to achieve specific results.

[@FedeLux]

Thanks for your reflection, I think the same, greetings!

[@derekanderson5429]

I think rite or ritual activates the same portion of the brain that the placebo effect does. If you believe its working the belief brings it into being or manifesting itself...which is what I interpret your text as meaning.

[@robertbrazzell8095]

Braincrunch will not affect the external world . The psychological model while valid to a degree, doesn’t explain how the physical work is altered after rituals and spell work. I reject the “ it’s all in your mind “ mentality.

[@iceblinkmender]

bingo

[@steveenglehart5402]

I believe it's all in your head because I have experienced it as such!

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

Your comments remind me of a famous anecdote featuring the Dalai Lama. His Highness was being interviewed by a Western journalist. The journalist asked, 'Do all the various deities, buddhas, dhakinis, etc., that you use in your ceremonies really exist?'. The Dalai Lama, in his usual manner, laughed and replied, 'Do you really exist?'.

[@SOLRAY1123]

After experimenting with DMT a few times and going to other “realms” I started to believe that magicK is getting our mind and body to a certain “wave length” and to a reach other “realms” and to align with other dimensions that are around us

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Agree. Someone said that if everything that it is possible to perceive (the electromagnet field) were Mount Everest, what human beings usually perceive is about the size of a golf ball.

[@kojinmaster]

Have you done it a few more times and what happened?

[@RoseGuyCrazy]

On a tangent, for mental health awareness, saying something like "Well it's just all in your head. It's not real" is also diluting the power and significance of what happens in the brain. And the same fallacy is occuring. It can be happening in your head and still be real. Your emotional and mental states are subjective but also still valid. They won't always line up with an objective reality, but then again very little of what we experience could be counted as actually fitting whatever is an objective reality. It's all subjective and that's ok and still has significance.

[@michorizo84]

A real eye-opener, Denis 👁 Someohow, everything just felt a lot more interconnected.

[@happydayssunny7830]

One of the best channels on this subject 👍⭐

[@haha3216]

Yes! He’s a gem!

[@psychedianic]

I love this channel so much! It's easy for people to discount other people's personal experiences. C. G. Jung talks about the materialism of the 1870s negatively influencing psychology to the degree that dreams are written off as merely a somatic experience. We are still in the 1870s. If someone says she saw her grandmother's ghost at the foot of her bed the night her grandmother died, it's not anyone else's place to say it wasn't real, though there are plenty of people who will. They are speaking out of turn. The mind is a powerful thing.

[@faith2691]

I have a schizophrenic friend. She knows things that she just couldn't know if the common model of reality was true. She does a lot of good in our community because she just knows when someone needs food etc because 'God' told her. Seperately, I believe that if someone experiences an attack by, say, a Demon which was a product of imagination, they still experienced it! Like having a nightmare that you're still shaking from at the end of the day. You experienced that dream and your body reacted. I hope I'm making sense? I'm not as eloquent as Deni.

[@faith2691]

@@313koneko oh, she's troubled alright. Her mother was always moving them as children because of the Demons. She's hard to hold a conversation with because there are always other voices chipping in. I think she thinks it's all God or Jesus, but I'm clairsentient, and I can feel it's not. She must be working off some heavy karma.

[@derekanderson5429]

I've actually witnessed in my apartment at one time what I think back upon as either familial spirits or trickster spirits. I was going through some hardship and was not in a good state or frame of mind., there was a lot of turmoil going g on. I actually witnessed my mother walking in an area inaccessible to anyone unless they were to pass where I'd been seated. I was so convinced that it was here that I asked what she was doing there. The only response was a smile and a wave of her hand calling me towards the direction she was in...I of course didn't follow because I knew it was something else. This happened a few times and I finally said depart from me you wicked spirit. It looked as almost in a mocking manner pretended to sob in its hands. At one point after this I witnessed it coming towards me turning towards its left and then strangely walking backwards through a wall and into the bathroom area. When I got up to look in,it was nowhere to be found. My children also were manifest in that way and were in the same spot. I was so convinced that I asked them what they were doing there and were not in school. I tried several time to get them to come out but they were pretending to be stuck. I finally gave up and went to my stepfather to tell him to talk to them so they'd come out from where they were hiding. He looked at me and said they're at school...just then my oldest walked in the door with a back pack on and when asked she said she just came from school. Needless to say I was bewildered by this...I thought I was losing it. I've experienced other events that I won't get into, but I feel that this wasn't hallucinations, I believe something was showing itself. I had dabbled a little in trying to contact spirits. I guess they work on their own time-line. My mother is alive if anyone is wondering if this was a ghost...it wasn't. Just so everyone knows, make sure you know what you are doing before trying to contact the other side.

[@Mereship]

I agree. Make sure you are prepared for what you are tying to do also. This is really interesting. I haven’t experienced anything like this, but I know people who have. I think I would be too afraid to try to contact spirits.

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

I know you wrote this 6 months ago but I had similar situations. I literally watched a carbon copy of my better half walk in front of me and when he turned the corner he was gone. My other half was asleep. It couldn’t be him. I freaked! A few weeks prior my other 1/2 saw a boy that looked identical to my son and vanished. I’ve seen some crazy shit! Had to tell a demon or whatever it was to get TF out of my home as it was following me around. You’re not crazy! I believe some of us are blessed with comprehending these things, this allows us to see them.

[@metagordy]

The answer to this, in my opinion, is in how one interprets the question itself, meaning, how are we interpreting "The Mind" in the question. If the Monad was mind before matter, and everything emanates from the Monad, then everything is in "The Mind" Spirits are in "The Mind" meaning the mind from which everything emanates, as are we. The Scource of all is everything, and thus, even our minds and the things we perceive are in "The Mind"

[@FedeLux]

Exactly, there is nothing on the outside, or rather there is no outside and inside, ALL IS ONE !, Greetings

[@mr.b1362]

Exactly my thoughts too

[@lilydewinters4729]

The fact that we only use a very small percentage of our brain/minds capability, already proves there are potential abilities/capabilities we can harness.

[@Skitdora2010]

So, I used to work in a video store in a strip mall in the woods. It was secluded and a lot creepy at first but I got used to it. One day a couple came in with an old man and they were ignoring him. I found it a weird family dynamic. The couple picked out a few movies and they came to the counter and the older man kept talking to them as they ignored him and he told me to say which one they should watch first because it was his favorite and so I did. The couple looked uncomfortable and asked who's, and the old man said his name and a few other silly things which I repeated. The woman started crying hard on her husbands shoulder and the husband gave me a dirty look and they left. I just thought they were jerks. A few weeks later they came back in and tell me her dad died, I said I was sorry, but then they said he died before they had come in before. She was having a very hard time so they came in to get her mind off of it and feel better. He had looked completely solid to me and they said ghosts can look solid. She asked what he had on and where he had been standing and she said she knew his outfit but it wasn't what he had been buried in. Now, either I somehow saw a ghost who was worried over his daughter, or that was a messed up weird family. Could be either way really, but why would they put on an act like that and lie to me? One other time I saw a man who looked solid at a college when nobody else had- they had all walked past him, but when I described him the teacher said nobody was suppose to be there and described the man who had died there as fitting that description. Again, the man had said hi to me and seemed really nice. Gag on me or do ghosts appear solid? I do have visitation dreams where I feel loved ones are there, even received a message from my dad a decade later that turned out to be true. When I was depressed a few years ago I started hearing their voices talking to me but that was too much and I shut them out and ordered them to stop. I don't know anything for sure, but it seems those who have died care about the living, or our minds are very magical themselves and seek to make us happy and comfort us.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Thanks for sharing! Amazing story!

[@theserpentshallwin]

I think you probably have a serious gift to communicate with the departed. Pursue it and develop it, you could bring amazing comfort to a lot of people, if you can see and get messages from their loved ones.

[@KristenKras]

Ghosts can indeed appear solid, I've seen this myself. Its quite unsettling.

[@marilynlucas5128]

it has to do with frequencies. Your head is a receiving station that can connect to an unlimited amount of channels. This is why our ideas and experiences are not unique. Anyone who has traveled to the same frequency you have to travelled to with your mind, also has the same thoughts or experience you have had

[@rr8367]

You are an awesome thinker/speaker /teacher!! Im somewhat new to the occult. I find major interest in the goetia. I've been studying in my free time for the past year and find I'm still barely scratching the surface. But I've been watching your videos all day and I love all of them.. You are the most insightful I've found.. Thank you for time and effort towards the cause.. Plz Keep making these videos bro 👍👍

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Hi @R Dub, thank you so much for the kind words! It's really good to know that you've found the content informative, and thank you for taking the time and trouble to check it out! I know it can be a little sense at times, but the subject is just so fascinating, isn't it?

[@Sapientiaa]

@@FoolishFishBooks The Jungian model is currently unfalsifiable. It’s better to presume otherwise. Donald Hoffman is currently working on a similar model, but falsifiability isn’t there yet.

[@zelbarnap]

Perception perspective context time. These are the understandings that have allowed me to be able to understand my world better and change it. You just an excellent demonstration of understanding how to conceptualize the mind in a better way where I think sometimes the definitions and the way the we experience them can be limiting if we do not have, the correct teacher

[@marilynlucas5128]

Most people think the limited source where they draw inspiration and instruction from, on how to live a life is the end of the scope of their minds. That is where they get it wrong. There's a collective unconscious where our minds are connected. Spirits are like functions on an app downloaded onto an electronic device like a cell phone. The app is the human mind. In the app, several functions (spirits) can be invoked to perform a task.

[@TheGreenKnight500]

I know this is an old video, but I had some recent experiences that fit in with this discussion. Recently, I had a very positive experience using mushrooms. While under their influence, I often experienced objects and even myself as being repeated in multiple directions within a sort of three dimensional grid or "The Lattice" as I called it at the time. It seemed as though this was how I was able to see and comprehend four dimensions. I, and other things in my home, were "echoed" into neighboring three dimensional spaces. As a mere three dimensional being, this was my mind's feeble attempt to turn four dimensions into something I could perceive. People sometimes talk about parallel universes as if there are copies of us in these other worlds with their own separate souls and consciousness from us. I think instead, we should see such copies (be they full copies or mere echoes) as extensions of ourselves rather than weird spooky doppelgangers. I also had the realization that "spirit" and "energy" are really one in the same. The energy that flows in and out and through us has its own sort of intellect and often even a soul. Some magick practitioners argue over whether spirits carry out your spells, or if it's all an exertion of your own energy. From what the mushrooms taught me, it's all the same thing. Energy is often aware of itself and knows it's being used by us. We could say that energy is the "Flow" of spirits through a system. Of course, by "energy", I'm referring to subjective energy of the spiritual/mental/psychic variety. I don't yet know if this is true for more objective material forms of energy.

[@JerryMain1]

what type of shrooms? For me the best trip was with Copelandia Hawaiian

[@TheGreenKnight500]

@@JerryMain1 I used Golden Teacher

[@ehsanakrami4365]

The more important question to be asked is whether are they independent from human consciousness with decision-making power? Yes so can it be dangerous? yes

[@Tisula1]

Makes sense totally. As someone who volunteers at spiritist centre in Brazil for past 6 years I can say for certain that all the communications are within your mind...but, the vast variety of things I have seen/heard confirms to me everyday that it is totally real. Not that I was doubting it...

[@absolutely9483]

I felt the vast mind for about 3 minutes after the video ended, but the skeptic promptly returned along with my usual state of mind. Great video. Great channel. I appreciate all that you do.

[@jasonpiper975]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law Love your work. I’ve been following you for sometime now and I must say Bravo! 👏 I have recently experienced the difference between theorizing and believing. My devilishly wonderful mind has searched for knowledge and truth for as long as one can remember despite the universal law of inertia. My skeptical but very open mind supposedly expected knowledge to reveal the secrecies hidden behind the veil. However, one day while my mind was feveriously smashing information together as if witnessing fire for the first time a soft but stern voice inside me said : “ You spend so much time desiring proof and wanting a connection through mere books and a multitude of information instead of simply believing.” This is not verbatim of what was heard or felt rather but it changed my perspective non-the-less. For me at least at this moment of my life believes that I believe. It does not matter the garment I dress my belief in. Love is the law love under will

[@varcol8375]

That was fun! Thank you for giving my spirits a platform to express themselves. Please do more of these, the vast mind requests.

[@BrelynnHeart]

I think TV and movies are one of the biggest culprits for this idea of what's "real". Before we had TV, we told stories and every part of those stories activated our imaginations to give us those experiences... we saw the images in our minds and they were real... now we see images out side our minds. Not to mention all the TV shows and movies that are portraying supernatural things have no choice but to make them seem as if they appear corporeal to the other characters. It's been really helpful to me to realize that our minds are actually just the doorway to other realms and altered states of consciousness allow us to peer into those realms but the only faculty we have to perceive them is our 3rd eye... although, black mirrors help to externalize the experience. Just because the point of perception is in our mind, doesn't mean that the entire experience is.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

@Brelynn Heart, you make a valid and urgently valuable point. I hope you won't mind if I credit you in an upcoming Esoteric Saturday video on the matter?

[@TheMagicofJava]

I have long since concluded that both the thesis and antithesis are simultaneously true, or untrue. So if we see the world as materialist and having substance then so too are spirits. But if we see everything as co-created by our consciousness then spirits are also. Seeing spirits as different from so called inanimate objects simply reflects the constraints we place on our experience.

[@FedeLux]

Very good thanks!

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

The thing is. How do these so called thought forms get captured on camera if they are just a manifest from our minds?

[@TheMagicofJava]

@@GermanShepherdDaphne Are they captured on camera, or is this simply what we are projecting? There is substantial evidence that everything is a hallucination, including what we call reality. But as I say thesis and antithesis are simultaneously true, or untrue.

[@MrThelonliestpunk]

There are more ways to see than just with the eyes .

[@deathsheadtarot8888]

As a medium this is a question I have pondered for years! Thank you for sharing this perspective 🙏😊

[@FedeLux]

If the universe is MENTAL or consciousness or ENERGY, there is no OUTSIDE and INSIDE, everything is consciousness, it comes from there, what do you think? Cheers!

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

It’s all connected

[@dylangammons6596]

This is something I am struggling with after having a vision of a deity I had never heard of nor tried to contact. In my case the vision was black and white and 2 dimensional and seemed to project out of my eyes as a semi transparent overlay on my "physical" surroundings. Obviously a hallucination, but I heard a name spoken as if it were in the room with me. And as I said, I had never heard the name, and upon researching the vision matched his discription to an irrefutably non-coincedental degree. The fact that It was Abaddon has caused me to stop performing any ritual work until I can convince myself that it was a confrontation with my own shadow (which is honestly very fitting). It's distressing in that my christian upbringing keeps surfacing a dread of looming damnation, yet I am so extremely compelled to keep searching for God through experience as dogma and nonpolar ethical doctrine always seem to exacerbate the impulses it represses. Abaddons face was undeniably representative of destruction, emptyness, nihilism, etc. But he was just smirking at me with one corner of his mouth. So he announced his presence and did nothing else as if waiting for me to make a proposition, but faded as I was too bewildered to speak. I felt no fear until I googled his name. Not sure why im even posting this other than to vent a heavy experience and possibly get some input or perspective. I was only doing the lbrp, lirp, middle pillar, and some sigil/servitor work, and am not part of any formal group so I lack any avenue for trusted advice

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Gosh, this sounds intense! Well, I have quite a large Discord group that's open to all Patreon members with people asking and answering to each other's questions under over 300 topic headers, you may find it interesting - Patreon starts at $2 a month plus taxes :)

[@dylangammons6596]

@@FoolishFishBooks Ill be doing just that this evening! (Eastern US Time lol). Thank you for your content and time

[@entheo302]

Yes. The question then becomes, how big can you make your head.

[@zemimsky]

Subbed!! on the sole fact that you used science to explain spirituality! which is how i like my shit. I have my faith and my beliefs but i DO Love a solid scientific basis or rational explanation and you provided that. Thank you!

[@psychologixselfmastery]

Excellent points raised here

[@andythedishwasher1117]

I tend to think of various parts of the human brain as energetic receptacles that, in certain states, are able to conduct universally present energy patterns that phenomenologically create complex archetypal structures of images, sounds, and emotions. I also tend to think that all experiences that a human is capable of having are the results of these patterns combining in one's environment to affect one's brain in chaotic ways that our job as consciousness is to make sense out of. I stop thinking this as soon as it gets too confusing, however. It tends to be safer that way, I think.

[@andrewbasile1847]

This was an entirely beautiful experience. It was so well crafted and thoughtful. I could not believe some of the things that I was saying and I wished that I had taped it. It was totally unexpected but so expansive. I especially like the way that you involve your followers having them discover for themselves rather than droning on in a one sided tutorial. Excellent, just excellent!

[@StellaWembley]

What a Trip!!

[@alentjes]

The Mystical Yogic view (Vedantic, Jnain) is of course that Mind creates the physical using Prana. Mind is not a product of the physical but the physical is a product of Mind. More like Mind is a form of Will used by Self as a form of Consciousness. I'd say Time is a product of Mind as well, as matter cannot be without time and time is distinct definition of the infinite flow, of Beingness. Being truly in Mind (or Wilful Self-identified Consciousness) and working with Prana, we can influence physical reality. But mind you, there's not just one mind or one level of mind so we need to learn to defocus from this one focused frequency or contracted point we call 'I' or our person. So we're back to square one. Still, the moment we as a species truly grasp what mind is an how we can operate from it, reality is our oyster (perhaps we need to grow up a bit more first or perhaps the game is to not know and trying to figure it out).

[@FedeLux]

great thanks! There may be an unconscious collective consensus to agree on the objects of reality, be it the same for everyone, a car, a tree, etc, greetings!

[@deonwhite201]

I just happened to stumble upon this video topic and I‘am glad that I did

[@artdanks]

Hmm. Very interesting! I'll give you this...your videos are definitely making me think!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

😄 mission accomplished! Thanks for taking the time to watch 👍

[@lilyso8633]

You are so right!

[@StellaWembley]

my comment was actually for the other video about the Vast mind. Wow, that was amazing! I love this one too. ✨

[@ljr6723]

The answer as you point out, is yes and no. From the previous Saturday video I think we first consider the vast mind. I would use the Hermetic descriptor, the ALL, the ultimate expression of idealism. All is mind, and that is the ALL. The ALL is in all, and there is nothing that is not in the ALL. But how do we get particularity, individuation? Particularity pre-supposes limitation but because the ALL is not or cannot be limited, then particularity must exist within the ALL, within the vast mind. Particularity and identity are then closely tied. The dimensions that you describe are a parallel to the levels of vibration expressed by the Hermetics. However, I believe the difference is that within the ALL, the borders are progressive and fluid between them. Dimensions per se are a mathematical expression that comes from our "operating system" if you will, the way that we define borders, ie. circles, rectangles, triangles and so forth. The ideals of Plato we may say, and really "hard" borders that do not correspond precisely with the vibrational world around us.. This is how we have a material world with speciation. We have individuation and extremes of vibration within our own species. And we have the capability of transcending the borders in either direction. As above so below we may say. When we move into the layer of slightly lower vibration we communicate with animals such as pets and so forth. This would be the source or framework of the Animist belief system I think. When we transcend above us we can communicate with that which is proper to that level of vibration. But spirits, demons, angels, principalities and powers, to use the scriptural expression, are also individuals within the ALL, within the vast mind. As particularities, they are also limited. They are definitely individuals separate from us, as we are individuals separate from them, but the only way that we can apprehend and/or communicate with them is through the vast mind, in which we and they exist. To the extent that we do apprehend them they have to be in our own mind for that is our interface of perception for any level of vibration. And to the extent that they are in our mind we have the power in that sphere, whether we are aware of it or use it. Just my take on it. Excellent video, fascinating subject matter well presented.

[@FedeLux]

Thanks for your reflection, one must reach a "STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS" according to interact with them, being them and us the ALL? Cheers

[@LaneMaxfield]

Here's a question that gets more usefully to the heart of the issue: do the spirits you encounter have their own experience of being a separate unit of consciousness, before you perceive them in your own mind? I think part of the controversy is that, for some people, "all in your head" means something like a fictional character, who only has the traits that you give them or the knowledge you project on them. Many people believe that spirits who they contact do have an existence separate from their own perception: if I am unaware of what my husband is doing, he still exists, and so does the deceased woman who nudged me to clean up her daughter's stove and the deity who I give offerings to. The distinction does have real implications for magick work. For example, if a deity is just a projection of your mind, you don't have to worry about them doing anything you would not give them permission to do, any more than you need to worry about being hypnotized into killing the president. If a deity has their own separate will, consciousness and priorities, you need to be a little more wary. Another implication: if a spirit from another culture interacts with you, and they are a projection of your mind, they know nothing about their culture that you don't. They may behave in ways that reinforce harmful stereotypes, and your believing that they actually represent the spirits of that culture could cause you to treat real people from that culture in a way that perpetuates oppression. On the other hand, if a spirit from another culture interacts with you, and they have their own consciousness, now they have agency in this interaction, just like a human friend from that culture would have agency. They can guide you to opportunities to learn and to interact with that culture in a positive way, and also choose to leave you if you are not being respectful of their culture. So while I do think this is a useful clarification of one aspect of the debate, I think it leaves some important questions on the sidelines. Personally, I think both types of spirits exist. We know that we can raise and lower dissociative barriers between parts of ourselves, as well as make up fictional characters who seem to have a life of their own, so it is entirely plausible to encounter spirits that are projections of repressed parts of our own consciousness. We also know that other people have minds, and if other people's minds are capable of reaching a mental plane, why can't we encounter those minds there? Why can't there be beings that have those mental planes as their sole mode of existence? I approach the spiritual experience with the assumption that both might exist, and rely on the evidence to make my best guess about which type of spirit I am interacting with at any given moment.

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Nothing is outside of our mind. Every single thing we experience, both "out there" and within, such as pain, memories, emotions and so forth, is in the mind. Every undergraduate psychology student knows that if 10 people see an incident, you will get 10 different accounts. That there was a crash, for example, they will probably all agree. But who did what, when and how will vary greatly, depending on their prejudices and pre-suppositions. That's how the police know when a story is concocted, btw - it's usually too homogenous, bc people don't understand this. The ancients have known this for thousands of years. You can't get outside of consciousness.

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Q: “Is energy a Wave or a Particle?” A: “It depends what you want to do with it…”

[@malachi-]

Complementarity - Bohr Watch... "Quantum Entanglement Documentary - Atomic Physics and Reality"

[@cornbeanwheatbeet]

Your videos are some of my favorite time spent each day. This video and the epiphany I had are incredible. You do amazing work! Many blessings to your home and family!

[@nataliec2644]

the way that you explain concepts through visuals is so simple, yet opens up a completely new perspective for me!

[@celark]

Great perspective! I also have come to realise we make the mistake of assuming that something being, "real" or "not real" is a binary system, that it can be only one or the other. Why can't it be a spectrum? There are different states of something being real or not real. You can have something that is partially real. Are we real to spirits? From their perspective, maybe we are not so real if we are too far away from their reality, but as we do magick and other practices, we shift our vibration and state of being to match their vibrations and so our realities can temporarily connect so we then experience each other either in mind or in a full evocation and we can perceive them in our reality. Maybe when we experience them in our mind, they are now partially real, and when we see them in front of us, they are now temporarily real.

[@ingvaeon582]

Beautiful video!

[@BeyondSkynDeepTarot]

We can also fold the paper and interact face😮 with the apple 🍎.

[@rainali8736]

cute but creepy drawings. love them!

[@jgee6243]

I wasn't sure what to think when I came across your videos. So many so called "wizards, witches, shaman, etc." talk about this and that, but their understanding to the occult is limited to some "fluffy" "feel good" perspective and it's annoying... You sir, you are amazing! I don't near as much as you, but even I have understanding of dimensions. Thank you, this was inspiring and wonderful to watch! Love you content, keep it up!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

:D Thank you for the very kind words, I'm so glad you like the content! :D My best wishes to you!

[@montannabullard4765]

I've shared a similar experience with another human being we both interpreted the same things along with seperate interactions. I was brought there to be communicated with but I never left from where I was in the first place like you said to expiernce both simultaneously.

[@Skitdora2010]

I had the same but separate sort of experience with a sister. I woke up to what looked like a baby shadow person with red eyes watching my mouth who looked shocked when it saw that I saw it and it did a 180 and flew through the wall to my older sisters old bedroom. I thought it could be a hypnogogic hallucination. I later asked my sister if she thought the house was haunted, she went and said not the house itself but she said outside her bedroom window she used to see small black shapes with red eyes looking in her room and watching her. I never saw it again.

[@LuisSanchez-ob2ok]

Enlighten to have found your channel. Thank you for the context.

[@nomadicoutlaw2566]

This is a great topic and perspective. You're clearly thinking like a mystic.

[@mrstoic4338]

Finally someone speaking some Truth about spirits. I've had to left tons of forums because of the difference between my "faith" in spirits, and others. This is the first time that I find another person saying the same things that I am. Blessings to you, Foolish Fish.

[@Jason.1734]

Another good podcast

[@JFeldon]

fold the paper along that line: The face now has access to the apple.

[@alexandria2243]

like a below commenter said, it seems a shift in perception/energy has to be worked up to reach spirits. You see this commonly in spiritualism and such. Sitting in circles and singing generates energy which seems to be the point of a seance for example.

[@stuff4826]

smell has always intrigued me. of all the senses it alone hits the brain directly, or more directly than the others and supposedly is the last sense to die. also really interesting is the delay before a signal reaches the brain and how we compensate for that lag. and another thing is how sometimes we react before a signal reaches us. which licks up against the shores of the whole time slowing down thing some people experience during accidents. oh and have you tried sensory depravation?

[@LinguisticLifeform]

It's useful to take the non-dual position that there is nothing outside of consciousness and that everything is made of consciousness. All forms arise from the one field of consciousness and there is no real separation between forms. Our perception of separation is akin to an optical illusion. We make practical but ultimately false divisions like "subjective" and "objective" because of this illusion. Like everything else, spirits are a manifestation of form in the field of consciousness. Our subjective experience is connected to the objective world because there is no real separation. Therefore spirits are naturally "in your head" and "out there" at the same time. The way a spirit interfaces with you is individualistic and "subjective" but they have their "objective" existences that run independently of your localised expression of mind.

[@susiewalsh7641]

Love the way you present your subjects and the lack of ego. Really appreciate. Thank you

[@Ledbythestars]

You just came into my world and I love listening to your videos

[@FoolishFishBooks]

I'm so glad you've been enjoying them 😄 thank you for the kind words 😄🙏

[@Chickenface12345]

This is illuminating. Amazing insight. Thank you 🙏

[@hadenshaffer9674]

I've been a magic practitioner for a couple of years now, and Fish, every time I watch one of your videos, my brain hole blows open.

[@wishpunk9188]

I think it comes down to personal choice. Choose a path and the all gives you trail to tread. Exercise your free will or others will do it for you.

[@kennethfraley9642]

Talking about myself in the third party is some thing i do not do! But talking to my different brain (mind) was a good thing. I struggle with dyslexia and it was not easy to express my thoughts in language. but it was worth it!!!!

[@andrewbasile1847]

I love this channel especially because of the way you approach these topics. You tend to be instructional, curious, quizzical, and educated all at the same time. The good thing is that you are not dogmatic or absolute. Instead you are a seeker on a journey and I sense that there is a turn in your focus and your progress. While I am nowhere near as informed as you, I have been exploring with a sped up intensity. I am a believer that science, biology, and physics combined are in fact magic (it is the terminology that makes it seem mythical). In a universe that is largely unexplored and misunderstood there a many things that we cannot see but they do exist. The quantum world is exposing more and more each day. What I find perplexing in Solomonic Magic is the connection of calling up spirits or demons but needing to go through an Angel. This brings up not only the existence of God but his autocratic authority and need to be praised continually. This is problematic to me and makes we reconsider the Assyrian and Babylonian mythos of otherworldly interplanetary beings creating the world. At the end of the day I believe all is energy and we just have to figure out how it travels. Your movement into Solomonic Magic will no doubt provide some answers. I hope you share them in generosity to your thirsty followers. Alan Watts wrote "What if when we die we just wake up?' an interesting view.

[@crystalearth29]

Awesome content 🎉thanks much

[@PlaylistsForCymphony]

Reminds me of Mr. A Squared!

[@a.m.e.]

Well said. I totally agree!

[@juliensoyer5786]

I agree that it is all in our heads, however this statement does disqualify the effects on what we call the outside in my opinion. I believe the "outside" is shared between each and every conscious and more, and thus the outisde can be influenced by inside changes

[@FoolishFishBooks]

This works for me 😊

[@laubatt3534]

I loved this! Best wishes from Argentina 🙂

[@zacharywimer6708]

What is it like being a way point of synchronicity for seekers like myself? Whenever I'm needing reassurances or specific directions on my path your videos on the oppropriate topics begin to show up in my feed. I know I'm assuming a great deal here but it is my assumption that I'm not the sole owner of that claim. Thank you for your sharing, thank you for your candor and thrice thank you for your willingness to assist any who would seek to assist themselves.

[@TheCourageOfTruth]

I just happened upon you. I’ve never read a spiritual book (not including the Bible) nor anything about this, but I “know”. I happened to intuitively click on some video you made of the tree of life and 4 worlds (actually 7) and this is sacred knowledge. Everything was true. Even Keter. It’s is the most beautiful place. No light. No form. No thought. It isn’t until you reach thought that light begins to form. Like zillions of molecules. All you. But no identity. Then all lives - all awe and love. This is the knowing. Where U got all your information. I don’t teach and rarely translate. The spirits you speak of on this video. We are shown in this world backwards. Everything is backwards here. It’s death to life. We are seeing them (bringing our energy to them), not them to us. We aren’t truly evoking. Consciousness leaves a trail like a snail. Lol. They show me so my pea brain can understand. Spirits are very much alive and well. Anyway, I am impressed. Rarely do I come across anyone who is right on and can translate the knowing. Be. 💙 And you were right on with each tree being within each sepherot. All of it. So, I subscribed. Lol.

[@jeromecaldwell7152]

Mind is all!

[@javierpindado3486]

4:30 caillou with hair!!!🤯🤯🤯

[@JDG602]

Owen Barfield's book "Saving the Appearances" plays into a lot of what you are trying to convey. It is in a vastly different context, but the same general idea. Kind of. Almost. Maybe.

[@joaquimrosa5967]

Magic seems to be mental in the sense that the ritual is the way to unlock the veil that separates the different dimensions, but some apparitions are seen by more than one person at the same time and so it becomes difficult to conceive of this mental concept in different situations in that the ritual was not present.

[@adamj3566]

Great videos and very fun channel! I see it as a a near miss to say the spirits of the grimoires are only appearing here or only there. The old axiom goes: as above, so below, as within so without. Not trying to cop out, I think spirit is first, matter is second. But, I wouldn't have any physical friends on the wrong side of the circle! In my view "the real world" is everything from the earth to all the way beyond the 7th heaven. The "world" tarot card means "universe" for a reason.

[@cozy5217]

Thank you, so much! Amazing insight 😊

[@cozy5217]

@@FoolishFishBooks Absolutely!

[@Deepfake820]

Everything is in my head along with spirits.

[@jiakas_124]

law of mentalism, the universe is mental🤝🤝

[@ajourneysaved4311]

Your mind delights in things other might not. It add to individuality.

[@FolkcraftConjure75]

The mind is the house of consciousness I suppose and we’re an aperture through which the universe sees itself including other entities, spirit etc, if it is one consciousness in our cosmos, but linked to the other dimensions it would seem certainly plausible that we are in fact communicating with other beings when in a state of ritual or meditation. That’s what I’m getting from this anyway.

[@DarayEdalene]

My theory is these beings are of a similar energy (or something we don't know yet) that merges with our own, hence people having similar yet different experiences with each, which can also explain how there are so many branches of religions as well. Just as they would need energy to manifest to us, they could take some of ours to do it, which explains the fatigue one gets after communicating with them. It's the best way I can think of to explain different versions if the same God, like Artemis Agrotera and Artemis Ephesus, but also the Spartan War Aphrodite compared to the one ONLY about love and sex.

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

"Everything that we experience is in our mind," makes me think of ACIM. (Anthough I've only read a bit of it so far)

[@MIZZAY1000]

Appreciate the videos...😉👌

[@andrewswanson7575]

VALE-FAR the 6th spirit of the goetia spirts. This i my gift to you of public recognition for being in my service and helping / making my desires a reality. Genuinely I’m thankful and satisfied with the results

[@justbrian...]

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[@chrisbartlett454]

I think there's something to it being both 'all in your head' and 'real outside you' simultaneously. Many traditions like to posit that mind is all, or that the body is 'created In the image of god' (which would happen to include the universe if a being above the universe could exist). This would suggest that our mind does indeed have the capacity to contain every possible spirit and being within It. You could literally say this is true by simply stating that all phenomenon are experienced by the mind in the mind. However, I think it's arrogant to suggest that there is no objective or at least persistent reality beyond us, because that would basically deny the existence of any other being, and lead to some very damaging solpsism. It's more like our bodies contain a blueprint for every possible experience, including that of external spirits, or even just basic other human beings. Note the use of the word 'external'. These beings manifest first in the mind because one must first expand their access to their own 'body/mind as all' before they can experience active communication with higher or lower dimensional entities. A cool side effect of this is increasing the types of people you are capable of 'percieving', and thus creating unique friendship vibrations. Building that connection would be more like discovering all the possible frequencies a radio is capable of transmitting rather than creating new possible frequencies. I think that's why the process of invoking spirits and practicing ceremonial magick is typically a part of the path to 'becoming like god' because becoming like the universe you were made in the image of is a necessary part of magickal work. You can't really perceive certain entities if you haven't expanded your own brain's ability to create those experiences. It's also why many of the same spirits are contacted, and why traditions exist that are based on 'objectively' solid principles. Sure, you could create your own spirits and many actively do, but it'll probably be easier to generate results working with spirits that have existed and had 'names' for longer than you've been around. That said, I think one really cool implication of this model is that - especially if you include belief In a collectively constructed reality - you genuinely can create entirely new spiritual experiences, or ways of accessing spiritual experiences. I think the best magickal practitioner ends up with a system all their own, and a perception of spirits and magick that uniquely models their own creative potential.

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

Our eyes can only see what our brain can comprehend. So open the minds “eye” to actually see what most cannot see. Of course it’s real. Even the Bible states do not speak to spirits they know nothing more than you do.

[@Gabriela-cb3wm]

"It's all in your head. You just have no idea how big your head is."

[@ChannelWright]

Very interesting concept!

[@mielipuolisiili7240]

I like to apply to same logic to spirits as I would to any other phenomena that I can perceive. (Ie. The material world for instance.) Sure it could be all an illusion, but as long as I have no indication that that would be the case, it seems easier to just assume it to be real. I don't go around questioning the personal consciousness of my fellow humans, why should I do that to spirits?

[@FedeLux]

reality is an ILLUSION, but a PERSISTENT illusion (Albert Einstein) material reality can be part of the UNCONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE, we all agree that the car comes down the street, etc.

[@-SteampunkTraveler-]

reality is an illusion the universe is a hologram, BUY GOLD ...BYE!

[@MRK1099]

Hello there! I have a very egocentric suggestion: Im struggling with the ideas of soul and spirit, its quite confusing to me, and if you think it'd be an enriching video for the rest of the audience as well, then lucky us. Thanks in advance, your work has helped me a lot (sorry for the foregin english, google translate is not the safest bet, but i have no choise lol)

[@candaniel]

Awesome idea! I am in a similar boat

[@bulldragontarot6714]

Maybe this boils down to our dualistic natures. When we seek to abolish separation and instead experience unity, doesn’t this point become moot?

[@murnoth]

I've always imagine that: Time ≅ State of matter ≅ Dimension Where in our physical bodies the common states of matter are what we can access, such that they are on a scale among other states of matter. And that when we attune softer on the scale, we are accessing data from the more inner states, where all the others(spirits) are doing what they do.

[@chrisspace1999]

When ur happy and high in energy, time will seem to flow faster. When ur upset,annoyed,angry, etc, time would seem more sluggish because of the lower vibrational energy

[@Jubeininja1221]

i have manifested/ summoned/ encountered a real spirit before. I had been thinking of angels a lot. Thinking about god. I was at work when i saw "him". He looked exactly like a normal man, but when i saw him i saw this strange...I cant explain it, it was a kind of weird circular light that was on his head for a few seconds. It was a halo I guess, but it didn't look like the halo from pictures. He knew my name and I should have had a deeper convo with him but I was scared I was hallucinating. I think back to that moment. It has left me... words cannot describe. I am not sure if I created this being through my creative power or if he existed before. God willing my next encounter I will ask. He knew my name and I am positive I didnt know him. This stuff is for real If you want to encounter one of these spirits, dont think of a being that looks unrealistic, like something with wings, think of a being that looks like a normal person. "God" willing you will meet one

[@theacman135]

If you can explain the difference between the soul and the spirit the difference, we mortals would love it, not kidding , not a joke

[@number3037]

I'm atheist but lately I found myself falling deep through this rabbit hole called magic there is so many information and interesting things but mostly interesting thing Is that I found lots of magic starts with preparing your mind you should try something else it is truly interesting but sometimes I feel like my atheistic mind won't let me continue for there is always that little voice behind my head saying that all of this is nonsense it is really hard to get over this mindset I created throughout my life

[@breathevideopro]

But if anything our minds conjure is "real" then what is to separate spiritual experiences from, say, schizophrenic episodes? How do we distinguish between these things if everything that goes on within the mind is real?

[@MorgantheJedi]

Love your videos! Just one request: rather than watching your hand continually moving over the same static object, could you maybe show your face while you speak, or just change it up a bit? Otherwise, great info!

[@lookoutitscaleb]

@foolishfish Hey there. The goetia is interesting to me. I have been practicing ceremonial magic and I definitely believe we’re all consciousness. I keep getting door ways leading to Saturn work. I’m interested in path working and fulfilling my souls journey in this life. At the climax of my Saturn symbolism downloads you posted a video on Saturn work. The rituals seem intense and the warnings bring up a feeling of caution and tension in my body. Do you have any experience working with Saturn or thoughts on the rituals in the grimoire you posted a video on. My concern is that im “not far enough on my training” to take up this step yet. I just started the Queria work feeling that and Franz bardons work were the most succinct and straightforward. Chaos magic is intriguing but it’s so open ended I like the structure of Queria a bit more. Would love to hear your thoughts.

[@epicaf140]

Idealism is definitely true; even beginners know this.