Is the Occult proof for the metaphysical reality of the Will? The Paranormal in Schopenhauer

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SCHOPENHAUER LETS FUVKING GOOOOOOOO THAT'S WHY HES THE GOAT

[@MrBeautifulmountain]

Thanks for the amazing video! I did not know about this side of his philosophy.

[@She_Nanigans]

So was Schopenhauer, at least in part, where the stone tape theory derives from? A sort of residual haunting? 👻

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Would you do a Video on vitriol concept..Journey to the inner earth..

[@greyhunter2453]

“I see the Thelemites in the back…” I love the tidbits of commentary he sticks in at times. They add flavor and relevance.

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This Halloween, Esoterica tells the story of the scariest monster of all, a grouchy German philosopher.

[@Signum7]

I love finding out that an idea that I had, which I thought was profound, was already fleshed out 200 years ago. On the shoulders of giants, excelsior!

[@jeremyt4292]

Which idea? His conceptualization of ghosts as in after image resonated with one of my own "theories"

[@Signum7]

@@jeremyt4292 I struggled with the concept of God for a long time, until I began to think about it as "the will of the universe, in a deistic manner" I love that I have a new philosopher to study! Happy Trails!

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[@BennyAscent]

@Signum7 idk, I feel like it takes a lot less struggling to not presuppose a God, and to take the lack of evidence for its existence to mean that it may just not exist, instead of finding a more restricted definition to slot into our rapidly narrowing gaps of knowledge. I could describe the second law of thermodynamics and the move of a closed system towards maximal entropy as "God", but that redefinition isn't remarkably useful.

[@tedmcmanus7166]

the beginning of this video is quite possibly the best tonal summary of schopenhauer i’ve ever heard. you really nailed the whole “hellish despair” aspect of idealism

[@mateomoreno331]

The fortunate ones being those who have not been born... damn

[@unicornucopiaclear]

Thank you for being Dr. Justin Sledge, and exploring the arcane in history, philosophy, and religion.

[@RoseBleueDuRosierSec]

"mortification of the flesh is just performance art, salvation is itself a pipe dream" [cute kitten stock photo]

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Honestly, props to Dr Sledge for that

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Every crib is a coffin

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Maybe I'm crazy but that statement was more disturbing with the cute kitten on the screen 😂 the cognitive dissonance is too strong

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@@darkclownKellen [picture of a cute puppy]

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​@@connor991 oh, really? ya think? 😭

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@@connor991bot Doesn’t really add much now does it 😂

[@robertgreen7593]

Bloody hell, I thought I was a miserable git. Schopenhauer is a Gold Medalist

[@glitchedoom]

I think it's physically impossible to out-miserable a German philosopher.

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@@glitchedoomSo funny.. and true😂

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Forget gold, he’s platinum, or electrum even!

[@varet-markushinfernalshade5904]

I don't know about 'miserable'.. realising and accepting that existence is a cruel tyranical scam can be quite a liberating thing.. the weight of the world, the stress of life is lifted from your shoulders when you accept the futility of it all.

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

Lol. I remember having a simplified thought version of this. Thinking what if life is just some kind of virus that keeps mutating to try and take over as much geography as it can.

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I've never clicked a notification so fast in my life. I remember when Dr. Sledge first teased this video idea over a year ago!!

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Thought-provoking - The World as Will and Representation - it's been a long time 🙂

[@michaelnesbit6447]

The demiurge reading Schopenhauer: that's my jam, homes!

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HAHAHAHAHAAH NICE

[@michaelnesbit6447]

Bonewits said pretty much the same thing in his book Real Magic. He theorized that all magical ability came from natural psychic ability, only augmented through ritual practices, which he described as "stage props". 🙂

[@billballinger5622]

thanks for the recommendation, starting reading the first 20 or so pages seems pretty good so far!

[@rosycross3438]

Agreed. The accoutrements of magic are merely tools to focus the attention, intent, will and energy of the magician. Also, they provide techniques for mobilizing mind-power. I think the mind is pluripotent. Whatever one believes it can do, it can do. Faith/trust in the power of the mind is the main driving force towards its efficacy. Greater faith, greater will-power.

[@Vitali_Osandor]

8:10 As a musician, I've never expected to see my favorite composer on this channel AND a quote from a philosopher from my country in the same time. Thanks for the surprise.

[@VioletFem]

I find this oddly comforting

[@chompachangas]

I absolutely love that you included pictures of puppies and kittens to keep us from imploding.

[@alabamapilot244]

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. - Arthur Schopenhauer This man almost lead me to despair, occult truths or not.

[@off6848]

The second best rebuttal of Alister Crowley The first being “Yes do what thou wilt, or if you prefer, don’t” Robert Anton Wilson

[@JerehmiaBoaz]

@@off6848 Indicating you don't get Thelema at all. "Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." IOW You have to mortify every desire but your "True Will" and you recognize what your true will is by the lack of external resistance to it. Lack of external resistance to your will is the ability to do magic. Crowley is even more desperate than Schopenhauer because the only escape is a miracle of your own design.

[@Valdagast]

I wonder what he would thought about people like Bohr and Wigner proposing that consciousness is what causes wavefunction collapse and thus, in a way, makes the world exist. Edit: Philosopher Tim Maudlin has called the tests to solve the measurement problem "empirical metaphysics".

[@ZephrumEllison]

Would have likely been in agreement with them. While I believe these concepts to be true, the ultimate expression of this is found in Alan Watts and Fr Seraphim Rose. “We are an aperture through which the Universe is exploring and experiencing itself.”

[@derpfaddesweisen]

​@@ZephrumEllison Isn't Seraphim Rose very much not like this? I've read the soul after death and his view on our perception is basically that deception is the norm. At least it seemed like that in this specific work of his.

[@eric_intotheunknown]

I find this absolutely fascinating! I’ve been a shamanic practitioner for about 10 years now, and his philosophical perspective is very close to what I am learning & experiencing with my spirit guides. The one difference, which shifts the entire philosophy into something optimistic, is that we little blips of individuated consciousness/will do have choice and free will. And our choices shape the evolution of The Will over eons. So not only can we strive to grow and mature, but doing so grows and matures the whole of consciousness. No pressure, humanity. 😂

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

This is how I feel when I trip. Not a unification with beautiful nature but the sense that we are all just one giant maw consuming itself.

[@foodchewer]

Why do you trip then? It sounds awful. I've been depressed (clinically) since I was 12 or 13. That was over a decade ago. What you describe is just my normal day-to-day. I would recommend dropping the drugs and just being miserable.

[@JunkDevJunk]

@foodchewer It's perception and framing. One giant maw endlessly consuming itself in an endless cosmic cycle means I am insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Therefore I am free to do as I please and need not concern myself with the giant maw. Let alone what Stacy from accounting thinks of my power point presentation.

[@BeFr-vp7ot]

​@@JunkDevJunk No, at the core you are that maw yourself. It is your most primitive drive. The macrocosm is in the microcosm.

[@BeFr-vp7ot]

Finally someone with a similar experience. I usually have this, too, and it is not awful but feels liberating in the same way that truth liberates. You have to be prepared to stare into the abyss, however. Only once it got a little too much for me when I had read that Lovecraft was inspired by Schopenhauer and started associating Cthulhu with the will, granting metaphysical heavyweight to Lovecraft's fantastical mythology. It was on a grim january afternoon. During the first couple of hours I had already shivered all the time and lay in bed enveloped into my blanket listening to music. When I finally went out and took a walk, it was already getting dark. Where I live, I have to walk past the sewage treatment plant to really get out into the green. Together with the weather and the time of day, that really was a terrible setting. There was the typical industrial background noise, and the fog kept reflecting the floodlights. At that point I started to feel that the very earth I was walking on was itself the body of Cthulhu. There were even some dead birds lying around, which almost made me panic. Later that day when the peak was over and I was having dinner, I felt that I myself was the all-consuming Cthulhu... consuming not only everything outside itself, but itself as well. But that trip was an exception. I usually see more light than darkness.

[@foodchewer]

@@BeFr-vp7ot "As above so below" right?

[@michaelwhiteley9712]

Nice dip into this genius, the profundity of mesmerism, pessimism, philosophy, and magic as well. Cute puppy and kitty, too. It’s most refreshing to consider that the ultimate of pessimists became something of an optimist in his waning days. Seems the ultimate goal of any attainment is the ability to abandon attachment to that which as attained. I perceive that most are incapable of such abnegations. For a few, however, hope rings eternally as ‘riz said.

[@phillipbernhardt-house6907]

Excellent once again, Dr. Sledge! Well done! I haven't read any Schopenhauer, but have wanted to for over 30 years...Joseph Campbell seems to have been a big fan of his, but it seems to me that their overall approaches (though Campbell was no philosopher, despite what some people try to suggest) are radically different, based on what you've said here. Campbell is many things, but a radical pessimist he's not. I'll have more to say elsewhere...! :)

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That's for sure!

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its hard to put into words, but the book Book of Wisdom from Zirtana completely changed my life and it's not new age bs

[@aresaurelian]

Fascinating study. I believe every aspiring philosopher should get their own take on will alone. Set their minds in motion.

[@davidmckayii752]

Shopenhaur is amazing. The thought of fusion with religion and metaphysics is uncanny...I believe it. You can will occurrences, sts, by faith in a suchness. Thanks for podcast

[@Adze99]

The positive image is on screen during the summary of Schopenhauer's philosophy is like a reverse ludovico technique.

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Thanks!

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[@jonmustang]

Amazing video, thanks! Schopenhauer's pessimism brings laughter and joy to me, for the reason of recognition of one who has seen something true. Time to start looking deeper into his metaphysics. Thanks again for the video!

[@robertmcmanus8760]

I LOVE the juxtaposition of the adorable orange kitten in a sunny room being on screen as you drive home the utter nihilistic nature of Schopenhauer's metaphysics.

[@lorddelanghe666]

I actually agree 100% with everything Schopenhauer said in the context of this video. I don't believe in magic or ghosts, but the explanation he provides is something I've always thought would be the only explanation for such things.

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[@DystopianUtopia8]

Schopenhauer makes some good points and interesting assessments, but to me, has a religious out look on kinetic energy connections that can seem other worldly. Great show!

[@jonathanfrost8767]

I love Spinoza and Schopenhauer

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[@EresirThe1st]

Very interesting video. I read about similar phenomena being explained by the Psychoid Field hypothesis in J.R. Haule's book Jung In The 21st Century, which to my mind is much more elegantly accounted for than with Schopenhauer's metaphysics. It has to be mentioned that though Schopenhauer was brilliant he could have been so much more if he transcended his own mental illnesses causes by his mother. I think they warped the final product of his work.

[@neophytedubious]

Thank you for this, I always try to earnestly explore topics on my own after watching your content; but this has really satisfied an intellectual...craving(?)...I've been unable to identify, and I look forward to delving deeper here!

[@HeartsContent5E]

Excellent presentation, Dr. Sledge. For one of many good zingers: "They all float down here." 😂 Love the panorama of Capricornian humor. It was very amusing.

[@ekenks8650]

We can’t always choose the people who imprint themselves on our souls, but Schopenhauer is indelibly marked on mine. Always love to hear people explore his philosophy

[@Moto_Medics]

I heard your intro song as hold music to HR at my new gig and it made me smile 😂

[@numinous2506]

Congrats!

[@numinous2506]

Such well written and thought out content. Truly scholarly. Thank you Dr.

[@mateomoreno331]

Sigils, rituals and ceremonies being (superfluous) just the training wheels that a mage can grow out of, the ban of magic by Romans as proof of it,... I did not know this side of Schopenhauer, I love it

[@SlowPursuit]

Excellent. Truly interesting, and great English- few to no basic grammatical errors, and no "it literally was" when it really wasn't. Apart from the fact that you can actually speak- great, great content delivered with a certain style. Top marks!

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Last time i was this early it was shopenminute. Seriously, i love these discources, this channel is wonderful. Thanks doc!

[@numinous2506]

Wait a shopensecond- I see what you did there. Wiley!

[@kiowhatta1]

Having studied Schopenhauer extensively at university, I’m impressed with your succinct explanation of the central concept of his theory. Kant as well. Both brilliant philosopher’s; but very dense, and dry reading!

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I love your channel. Thank you

[@egm3912]

Aged 18 I was really into Schopenhauer. I remember nicknamed me Arthur. It probably said a lot about me back then I was caught between Schopenhauer and Marx. I do feel that Schopenhauer is a good place to begin philosophy

[@museumoflosttime9718]

Thank you Justin, another great presentation, as always it’s very much appreciated.

[@joefearn9694]

The world as Will and Idea. Leibniz, with his best of all possible worlds, is a truly wicked thing to say. Ah, the crime of being alive. The blind, unassuagable force, constantly sinking its teeth into its own flesh. Arthur was not on the final exam. Proof enough for me. Thank you, I really enjoyed this.

[@larae3nynian]

Really cool episode! Always loved Schopenhauer, and even if the structure of our understanding is now based on positivist or post/positivist reasonings, I greatly appreciated the perspective on occultism! ❤

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[@fulviobennato]

such a journey this video Enlightenment is the ultimate truth, when your will aligns with the greater will that embraces all forms, the end of the illusion of duality and the embrace of a greater narrative

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

Dr Sledge going WILD with the captions on this one…! Even quoting CIORAN the Genius!! 🤩

[@ThailetsWorld]

I love the stuff you put out. Another gem to dive deeper into 🕳️🐇 who doesn't ponder about metaphysical Will?!😅

[@samheinrichs8366]

would love more of your thoughts on philosophical pessimism, really love this content

[@gilgamesh.....]

I plan on reading The World as Will & Representation as soon as I finish Human, All Too Human. Looking forward to it.

[@stevenkammerer8002]

Thank you for this, Dr. Sledge, what an outstanding intro to Schopenhauer those first few minutes are. I’m hoping that this is just the beginning of a deeper dive into post-kantian philosophy! With the late Schelling and his impact on late 19th century Russian thought and British idealism as the denouement. Or at least you have promised us, at some point I believe, a full length assessment of Magee’s “Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition”… haven’t you? I might have imagined that… But I believe your opinion of it has changed her over time, and you’ve met and discussed things with Magee?

[@exiladometafisico]

Brilliant presentation, Dr. Sledge. Thank you.

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Man, I remember when you only had about thirty viewers. Thank you for what you do..

[@ajra4626]

Damn-this is an excellent episode. Thanks!

[@l0uiswh0lb]

I find the concept of the Will quite soothing, not depressing at all. From an agnostic perspective it is a palatable alternative to the chaos of existence without edges, or to any kind of faith.

[@jimmysnowmanthe7003]

The extreme contrast with his, lets be fair here, quite realistic outlook on life, and the cute texts and pictures, made me chuckle.

[@lilykatmoon4508]

Oh my gosh, that Wolverine reference made me choke on my drink, lol. Every viewer can always count on Dr Sledge for that sly pop culture reference ❤. What an interesting philosopher. As a modern witch, we focus our intent on a magical working , very much in the way he describes the “will”. In some ways, the way he talks about the will seems almost Buddhist to me, but I must admit my knowledge is not great. Wow. To have a conversation with this guy must have been intense.

[@QuasarEE]

As a Buddhist, it definitely rings with similarities, at first. The main point of divergence is the nihilistic assertion of there being no way out, since the whole point of Buddhism is to realize the unborn and unending Buddha nature and thus escape Samsara. Rather than saying there's "no good", we'd assert that good and bad lose their meaning when we do not attach to relative attributes. We wouldn't assert you can never know the fundamental truth as that's what the Buddha explains you can discover through meditation and practice. Finally, compassion is critical, and is why and how beings who have this level of realization continue to manifest into the world in forms fit to the need of the rest of us.

[@tonioene2262]

Where's the reference in time?

[@lilykatmoon4508]

@ about 6 1/2 minutes in, thereabouts, he has that image of the guy staring into space and he has a caption underneath saying something to the effect that he was about to have his bones fused with adamantium. It dawned on me that he has those hair wings that Wolverine has.

[@lilykatmoon4508]

@ I did notice the extreme nihilism. It was just when he was saying how everything exists in the will that seemed to reflect Buddhism to an extent. Thank for the clarification and new information!

[@adam-byrne]

One of the best videos on Schopenhauer ever

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Thanks for the puppy’s and kitty’s.

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I don't know why youtube isn't recommending your videos but I sought it out anyway.

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Thank You for the Halloween Special🎃 every vídeo a gem 🕯️🔮.

[@Yourethemuse]

Two of my favorite subjects! thanks,Doc!

[@alanarturdemitrovfernandes1161]

wow... I´ve just listened to the intro and got super interested. It´s hard to find some real content with people who do research and work on the logic behind it all before uploading a video. Thank you

[@jordanscott8854]

When I did my philosophy undergraduate I mostly took courses on German philosophy. My prof once described Schopenhauer as “one parts Kant, one parts Plato, and one parts disaster”

[@Nikulsinh_darbar_9115]

this video literally came in the perfect moment in my life, love you

[@moorhexe1400]

why was this not the first thing i learned when i delved into spiritualism? all the things i know about it make much more sense now. this video was extremely insightful

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I love absolutely love this channel his content is always so interesting and his observations and takes on things are always so in depth.

[@janepawson5416]

Thank You. I love your sense of humour.and existential aid in Puppy and Kitty photos.

[@pocketfuloducks1062]

This episode hits on a different level

[@thishandleistacken]

One of my favourite videos you have done. Time from a Will Eyed View is a phrase I won‘t soon forget. This is generally how I view the Art. Add some Plotinus and a whole lot from contemporary science particularly physics and I think many of the “big questions“ can be scientifically explored by anyone conscious and Willing to do so at this point. 20:15 I feel called out XD Ah well... at least I ditched all the dude‘s dogmas when I converted to Discordianism after I left all the various “official“ groups. Oh and I gave up the always wearing all black thing (though yes... I am wearing a black hat, black long sleeve shirt, dark jeans and black shoes as I write this... but I assure you this is a comical coincidence and my favourite stuff.is instead tye-dye, rainbows and flowers... which I guess just puts me in the **other** stereotype of a Thelemite.. especially one who would ditch the whole A.C being “The“ Prophet thing). Rant: I just see him as another “Star“ just as each and everyone of us is both metaphysically and our atoms are starstuff. The Current has a lot to offer but not as a static system... gotta say I did not care much for the (sometimes) repressed authoritarianism a lot of the system is merely set dressing for. Did ya know at one point in his diaries AC writes about starting an island nation governed by his groups and which had a military? He wrote a lot in those diaries people should know... especially about the 9th degree and women in general. The set dressing though did such a good job more than half our practitioners don‘t even know the system is as broken and twisted as it is and so if they don‘t know they end up pretty awesome people. Those who do know certain things have choices. Leave (did that first). Leave but don‘t actually leave.. just become one of several community gnatflies (my current route). Stay and openly drop hints that you‘re doing your best to change things (I see you people and I salute ya all). Stay and just ignore “all this“ and anything problematic to simply focus on your own path. You get it, there are a few other choices but then there‘s those who dive deeper and deeper and eventually you find people who will defend the worst stuff and eventually change for the worse. There‘s a reason the alt-right is discovering it and choosing to get involved. The structure of the system was designed for one thing: make AC God. Everything else is set-dressing. Once you realize that though you can democratize a system of self-divination to whoever cause why not. As it is by itself though its for AC and its brutally elitist, militant, misogynist (Equinox 3‘s DE VIA PROPRIA FEMINIS is just the beginning of how bad it gets... especially for the “secrets“ of the 0T0‘s 7th, 8th and 9th degrees (mostly just the 9th the other two are dedicated to building up to the 9th and its semi-attached 11th) and so many other words I could list... but it should say something for the usefulness of his system that even as someone who hates the guy and never would want to be around him I still call myself a [Discordian] Thelemite. Dangerous things are often useful things and vice versa. Wish I could say more.

[@radkonpsygami7634]

5:50 - "He would later undergo a process whereby adamantium would be fused to his bones" . . . . . . Schopenhauer does have gnarly sideburns, but I didn't know that he was THE Wolverine of the Marvel universe.

[@tapevault9444]

God damn i love Schopenhauer. Thanks for covering this and so many other fascinating topics!

[@TheRighteousSurvivor]

resonance can be unsettling... Great article!

[@PunkOpossom]

Thank you for the happy photos, I didn't want to have a depressive episode at the gym 😂

[@marcharley6465]

Fascinating concepts, clearly elucidated by the always impressive Dr Sledge.

[@MmmmmFFF12]

I actually learn things watching your show.thanks for being awesome!!!!!!!!

[@psukebariah3435]

"They all float down here" You crack me up.

[@sproglodyte]

I always liked Schopenhauer's philosophy but his views on women definitely made him one where you have to separate the man from his ideas. I had no idea about his research of the occult though. That is truly fascinating. Thank you for this episode.

[@FracturedParadigms]

Everything in the world is either a potato or not a potato

[@donbarile8916]

pa-tah-toe

[@darkclownKellen]

Objectively true

[@numinous2506]

I have a lump of not potato in my underwear now because your insight inspired my incontinence.

[@foodchewer]

This is incorrect. They both contain elements of each other, and that is in itself an ontological category. In other words, to account for everything, you have to at LEAST count potato, non-potato, and potato-interacting-with-non-potato. No ontological category is pure.

[@FracturedParadigms]

@foodchewer 🫨

[@Bildgesmythe]

Amazing that pictures of puppies and kittens can stop existential dread.

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@@Bildgesmythe 😅

[@Koroli]

Love your sense of humour!

[@MasterAlgae]

Fantastic riffing on the bleak! And today we can manipulate the pervasive vitalist fluids to resonate thanks to passing magnets over the body to produce amazingly clear images! MRI technology...

[@loolylooly81]

If you haven’t done so already, would you make an episode on Theosophy and its association with occultism? Thank you for all your work❤

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Probably not any time soon, too late.

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@@TheEsotericaChannelnae bother, I’ll wait.

[@Fr.O.G.]

This was a good one.

[@ChipSuey207]

Just in time for the end of daylight savings! Thanks Doc.

[@Adrian-vk5xl]

Jawdroppingly relevant to today’s Idealism philosophers.. How on gods green earth did he get these insights and so long ago?.. a video on Schopenhauer’s background and inspirations would be brilliant. In the meantime I think I need to read his stuff.

[@geneh460]

Loved the Bach quote.

[@jeremyt4292]

Wow! Schopenhauers concept of Ghost is nearly the same as mine, except that I believe ghosts are an electromagnetic (or perhaps quantum) scar on the fabric of space-time; similar to how a bolt of lightning which strikes the sand leaves an imprint in the medium of sand which, while not lightning anymore, can be experienced as a form of lightning's previous existence and violence.

[@off6848]

There’s no quantum, they’re in the astral world which impresses itself upon the material from a supra stature giving animus Like a face impressed upon a coin but giving life and will to that which is dead

[@stellamaxwell777]

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you Dr!

[@lilhomang1]

Good timing on that puppy. I needed that.

[@TimmyTimeGames]

I am a new viewer to your channel and hope you keep up the great work! I have watched a few of your videos so far and wanted to request a video on the Egyptian goddess Hathor? In the same format as the Thoth video you made would be awesome! You could make an Egyptian deities playlist too.

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“Compassion is the basis of morality, bub."

[@samheinrichs8366]

spectacular video

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Amazing lecture! Thank you!

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O M G, I had no idea this existed, thank you so much. After ordering the book post haste (Schop wrote a book on what amounts to parapsychology! I am losing my shit!), I watched the video and it was the best video I have seen this year, I am over the frikkin moon right now. It occurs to me that perhaps The Will is a sort of "Quantum Force", more specifically a tendency towards the phenomena of coherence, which as far as we know does not exist, indeed quite the contrary does. As a quantum system interacts with its environs it becomes "less quantum", this is called decoherence. Quantum-ness is comprised of things like superposition (the ability of a system to exist in multiple states simultaneously) and non-locality. If the "more" that the will seeks was more coherence it would be seeking to remain undefined, lost or in a state of unrealized real-ness so to speak. For some years now It has been my opinion that there exists an economy of coherence, that among consciousness(s) coherence is a currency of sorts. I think we can all agree that consciousness is information. Add to this that the only complete model of consciousness is a quantum biophysical one, the OrchOr hypothesis proposed by Penrose and Hameroff in the 90s (from a Bayesian standpoint it is all we have) and a picture emerges of what magic might be and a possible answer to the question of death. As far as "magic" goes, the observer effect demonstrates direct influence upon reality via consciousness, yet everyone assumes this effect is evenly distributed among individuals, which I find to be patently absurd. Meaning some people have or cultivate more powerful perception which in turn influences reality more and so they are described as "magical". Whether they use foci or ritual to enhance the effect of measurement disturbing the system measured (ie, perception) is irrelevant to the process. As for death, if the "soul" as we describe it is defined as quantum information then it must decohere, the information remains but the system is less quantum, less undefined, less potentially changeable or able to "evolve" one might say. At the verge of total decoherence (a horrible fate, to be informationally locked as many might describe an angel, elemental or demon), the only solution is for this information to Change Mediums, because information by definition must exist in a medium, but if that medium becomes "quantumly worn out" and thus we die or rather transmigrate. The universe is more than willing to orchestrate this event within the framework of spacetime in order to keep the accounts balanced, indeed the business of non-human intelligence may be the policing of this system. Of course they would be rewarded for this service with coherence, be allowed to remain themselves that much longer and on it goes. But I digress. I cannot wait to see how this book influences my comprehensive hypothesis of the paranormal based on quantum biophysics, consciousness and microbiology. My quest to find magic in science began when I ran across a reference to Wilhelm Reichenbach's work with magnets and neurasthenics in Colin Wilson's "The Occult" at age 16 and continues to this day. You have aided me greatly in this endeavor today and have done so more than once and for this I salute you! What is next, are you going to point us to a resource that reveals some details of the Paracelsian ritual for the summoning of elementals that he refused to divulge?