'Inner Demons' Articles
We get very busy projecting, and this projection takes on a life of its own. Whenever you become invested in a view, a perception, or a belief, you see what you believe you see. Each demon arises from a perceived meaning. Basically a meaningful threat. They feel most comfortable when their life is recognizable, and our pet inner demons make our life recognizable. Inner demons can be channelled in a good way. To master the inner demon you must see the truth of the “inner heaven”. Meditation or inner peace. Confront your inner demons when at peace.
“We like Batman – we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they’re conflicting philosophies. Let’s bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.” Wolfgang Petersen
“Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
Our Inner Demons
Inner demons. I’m not actually going to talk about what might seem to be implied by the topic, but I will be talking about inner demons. People say demons, and ghosts, and things, are just fantasies. Just in your head. Well, this is the dirty little secret that even your pasts don’t really tell you clearly. Literally anything you think you see, hear, feel, smell, is literally all in your head. There is a process, and it’s more powerful and pervasive than people generally know or admit. We get very busy projecting, and projecting isn’t just being opinionated, nor is it… Seek More
Real Demons
Whenever there is a “demonic” sighting they dismiss it as mass hysteria, and they are right in a sense. Mass hysteria is a great deal of stressful psychic energy, and this has been proven even scientifically. In patches of desert with heavy quartz and granite deposits many reported “hallucinations”. In the presence of intense energy people can be stimulated in a way they are unaccustomed to. Depending on their tolerance, the stress can become distress, and the weird sense of presence gets perceived as threatening, and the person may even hallucinate a frightening “monster”. If the presence is just a… Seek More
Born of Hate
Are you familiar with the term synchronicity? We protect our inner demons because they have meaning for us. This is why we created them, and they do indeed manifest both as a social shift due to scapegoating, and as weird synchronicities if they are heavily charged. There are meaningful events linked to the meaning of the inner demon. Social shift due to scapegoating? Ah, each demon arises from a perceived meaning. Basically, a meaningful threat. It is usually the “cheat” demon, but sometimes it’s another. This is why people used to say “the devil made me do it“ and mean it. There… Seek More
From Obsession
A Buddhist story. The monk says there are two wolves inside me. One is angry and fighting, the other is kind and gentle. He was asked which one will live, and his answer was the one I feed. The metaphor is apt. If your inner demon is a hateful wolf, you need not feed it. When you see it as what it is, coming from you, and part of your reality that you chose, you can chose new things. The reason inner demons seem more common than beauty, or at least can seem more common, is that the inner demon… Seek More
Master Your Demons
Can inner demons be channelled a good way? Yes. In eastern beliefs, the Oni, a.k.a. demons, were crude, sort of dim witted, and very violent. But they existed to enact the justice of heaven. They were moved when heaven recognized a wrong, and they were the active agents of correction. Now keep in mind they aren’t very smart. They are like the human mind, but obsessed. Very function focused and two dimensional. The question is who masters who? To master the inner demon you must see the truth of the “inner heaven”. Meditation or inner peace. Confront your inner demons when at… Seek More
