>>24553893the Other can be in this context can be especially understood as a manifestation of the noumenal especially when we lack the means to properly orient around its influences. i think a lot of occult practice involves the both the development of receptivity, but also a refinement of orientation capacity to not get lost
as far as spiritual traditions go, i can list a few that ive been currently thinking about:
>sabbatic witchcrafti am especially interested in their discussion of incarnating atavistic forms (which relates to the schizophrenic vitalist/organic idealist stream), and the idea of enfleshing magick itself. ive already integrated some of their ideas into what im currently doing but there is much much more work to be done
>energy workfrom a d&g perspective this can be seen as a way to sensitize oneself to partial objects. there is also an extended connection to bergsonism and the concept of qi. this comes from the fact that virtual action is akin to gibson's idea of affordance, and gih in a lot of contexts may be read as affordance + orientation. this article elaborates on such a perspective:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00556/full
>tantrasome forms tantra can actually increase your cortical excitability (i believe ive talked about this before). this can lead to forming radical changes in brain connectivity and perception if harnessed properly
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665945X22000262
>vipassanaif we follow the practice of noticing and noting elaborated by daniel ingram and mahasi for instance, we are able to experience finer and finer grains of reality as our cortical excitability raises. mediation actually does alter ones flicker fusion threshold, and it can do so to an extreme degree
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6382144/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3132583/
>order of nine angles (unironically) this concept of the acausal touches on the idea of a integrated wholeness underlying reality. myatt's ramblings about it being a many dimensional space can be read as a recognition of the intensive dimension of the noumenon, following deleuze's reading of riemann's concept of a manifold. a major practice these guys also emphasize is the cultivation of empathy, a sinister empathy, or pathei mathos. this resonates with bergson's association of intuition (for duration) with "sympathy". based off of these deep theoretical resonances with my own thinking, ive thought that some parts of their thinking may be worth taking seriously. i appreciate the synthesis of witchcraft of hermeticism, edgelordism aside