Sublime

How should I make use of the black mirror? A black ocean, a current through the mirror. Swim. For which functions can I enquire of Aratron? The duration within time and within the body. Works of preservation and destruction. For which functions can I enquire Tzaphkiel? The ascending and descending. Works of motion within time and across the planes.

In one of his hypnagogic episodes, the Sybil had shown PKD the cover of Steiger’s book Revelation: The Divine Fire (1973) and told him that in this book he would find the explanation of what was happening to him. In the letter to Steiger, he explained that he was soon to publish a novel that would present his experiences in a fictional format. PKD

Half a century after van Gennep published his book, Turner began to extend the ideas, and in 1964 he presented a paper titled “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage.” The phrase “betwixt and between” helped emphasize the liminal period or position as between two stable conditions, and he also used the term “margin” in a simila

My central thesis is that psychic phenomena are associated with processes of destructuring. If one keeps this rather abstract formulation in mind, the assortment of seemingly disjointed examples will make a bit more sense. I have included a variety of specific instances in order to demonstrate the generality and consequences of the central idea.

Action, Attraction Integration, Christopher Power (available from www.actionattractionintegration.com)

The ritual directives can serve this role as they are, kabbalistically imagined, limbs of the body of the Torah, a notion of corporeality that is not inconsequential to understanding the apophatic embodiment we are seeking to articulate in these reflections.