METAPHYSICS V

METAPHYSICS V   With new audio sound

Class40.MP3   The Middle Magical Way of the West

Development through “Cabala”

Divine Consciousness and Collective Consciousness

Definitions of magical practices

Class41.MP3   Baphomet: The Survival and Transmission of Sophianism Through the Templar

Tradition

History of the Templars

Origins of the Myth

Links with Sophianism

Propagation of new mythos

Conclusions

recommended reading:           Murdered Magicians by Peter Partner

Baphomet, paper by Milan Petrovich in Meta Library

Class42.MP3   Shamanism and Ethnopharmacology

Shaman as wounded healer

Definitions

Drug use/classification

The Shamanic Journey and shamanic healing

recommended reading:           Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within

You by Jose Stevens and Lena Stevens

Healing States: A Journey into the World of Spiritual

Healing and Shamanism by Alberto Villoldo and Stanley Krippner

Faces in the Smoke by Douchan Gersi

The Search for the Beloved by Jean Huston

The Magician Within:  Accessing the Shaman in the

Male Psyche by R. Moore and D. Gillette

Shamanism and Ethnopharmacology paper by Tom Lyttle                                                                                           published in Green Egg #104

Class 43.MP3  Understanding the Western Tradition

Myth vs. Reality

Basic belief systems

Free will and the purpose of conflict

Creation of the Universe

recommended reading:     "The Big Bang Never happened" by Eric Lerner,

Discover, June, 1988

"The Self-Reproducing Universe" by Eugene Mallove

Sky and Telescope, September, 1988

"State of the Universe" by Ivars Peterson,

Science News, Vol. 99, April 13, 1991

"The Death of Proof" by John Horgan,

Scientific American, Oct. 1993

Class44.MP3   Tiphareth Ritual: Union with Self

Abramelin the Mage

Assuming the God Mask

The importance of commitment

recommended reading:           The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage,  by S.L. MacGregor Mathers

Class45.MP3   The Nature of Human Consciousness

Puharich’s work in telepathy

Relationship of hypnosis and ESP

Thought forms

Jewish burial rituals

recommended reading:           Real Magic, by Isaac Bonewits

ESP Induction Through Self-hypnosis  by Richard Alan Miller

Class46.MP3   General Questions and Answers

Class47.MP3   Traditions within Western Magic

Function of Man in the Universe

Nature of Human Consciousness

Personality (or Pseudoself)

Class48.MP3   The Magick of Austin Osman Spare

Spare’s beginnings

The focus of Zos Kia Cultus

Spare’s theories of magic— chaos magick

Searching for the True Nature of Art

recommended reading:     The Book of Pleasure by A.O. Spare

The Anathema of Zos by A.O. Spare

The Focus of Life by A.O. Spare

downloads: Spare.PDF

Class49.MP3   Patterns of Western Magic

Emotion, Motivation and Memory in Transpersonal psychology

4-Space and the hypersphere

METAPHYSICS V
AUDIO LECTURE SERIES with books

Author: Dr. Richard Alan Miller