Of course, I am also aware of the deliberate causing of discomfort for acheiving altered states, but this doesn’t have to be anti-flesh either, although a misunderstanding of the importance and use of these techniques may be the origin of the religious aesthetics error.

Discomfort, especially prolonged and severe discomfort, can be a means of bringing forth from the psyche powers that in the normal run of things are kept locked away. Magic can simulate or stimulate this kind of discomfort. Carefully tended the unlocked powers can be directed by the trained magician to whatever ends he or she chooses.

@Skratte: Indeed, thanks for reminding me. Although paradoxically, thanks to magic I have found myself comfortable in many situations I would not have been comfortable with had I not taken it up. It seems that by putting ourselves in uncomfortable situations we eventually become comfortable with them. Thus the breaking out needs to be a continual process for continual progression.

@Sharlene: Thanks for your feedback. See you soon?

I reiterate the comfort I have felt among KIA Illuminated Adepts.

I will likely comment again after I read your missive in full.
The word that caught me eye was comfort, and how recently I had admitted such.

Yet that is where I ‘work’ from. My ‘background’ is as only a mist, yet a mist that seems to have some grounding, as when I draw from it, not quite certain, it works.

Thanks for your long reply. I like the saying ‘Comfort can be treacherous’ as it softens and therefore weakens the verb ‘to be’.

I tried to look at irreality.net, but it doesn’t seem to be loading. I’m just getting a ’server not found’ error. Is the spelling correct?

I love serpents also, hence having chosen it as the title of my blog. Thanks for the kind words regarding my design, really I just threw it together, so I guess wordpress really is that good. Especially since I added the Akismet plugin. Before that it used to notify me of every spam comment that wanted approval. I love open source software!

I ran into your site, completely by accident, whilst digging around the search-engines for something else, and the title SERPENT caught my eye as it is wont to do, being that I’ve had an irrepressible snake fetish ever since I was a youngling.

In this sense Wisdom is not so much the opposite of foolishness so much as an arbiter between a foolish-serious polarity.

Hear hear! Took me a while to figure it out, but almost any form of foolishness can become wisdom in the sphere of the life of someone who hears the call of hir own life and answers it, and any wisdom can become foolishness to any who either never hear the call, never bother to answer or have a way of always picking up the wrong phone…though that latter case is readily redeemable, since it involves lots of change.

I think I magnetise to Chaos because my weak suit is dealing with change, and this is my means of making it less traumatic, and more interesting.

I’m going to go post a link to this blog at Irreality.net – you would probably like that site, it’s a fabulous community, and a great resource hall. There’s a couple of abbreviations that are bandied about on Irreality that this post here reminds me of: SRSBZN is one and the other is LULZ. The former means Serious Business and the latter is Shits and Giggles. There’s a ‘tracker’ function built into Irreality for its users to graph their head spaces, like a biorhythm chart that’s not based on your date of birth, and so isn’t total bunk.

The design here is absolutely stellar, incidently. More and more, I wish I could run Wordpress on my server…I keep trying other things for my website, which is in severe need of update, and each fails for one dumb reason or another. Sadly, my host does not have MySQL so that I can’t run Wordpress. A bummer, because there’s a reason we see so many blogs on Wordpress now: it’s excellent.