what is occult psychogeography

i also have an interest in psychogeography.... which has ritualistic correspondences, sympathetic correspondences and chaos correspondences

the term refers to the psychological effect a the landscape/environment has on the individual
it comes from situationist theory
but it has a long occult legacy
going back to the golden dawn

basically, as an occult practice, it involves walking/being in landscape and considering it from a multitude of perspectives, how the spaces, distances, pathways, architecture, flow of people and things, history of the area effect you and what they mean
thinking about ways you could approach the space diffrentally
what it would mean if you were a monkey and could climb the facades of buildings easily, or if it were all underground and the outdoor areas impassable rock or anything you can imagine

if that building with all the antennas was a government spy centre what would how that effect the meaning of how the people entering and leaving it are acting
i guess at its most pointed it's a kind of logomancy oy mythopeoia
telling stories with the hopes of affecting the flow of reality

The gods and their power over us

oblivion - Today at 11:37 PM
if religious mania causes you to undertake some kind of crazy fucked up performance, that is more spiritually valid than going through the motions for the sake of continuity
Ubik - Today at 11:37 PM
I would agree
oblivion - Today at 11:38 PM
considering the gods' claims aren't built on rationality but on potency
extremes of internal and external weather
Ubik - Today at 11:40 PM
potency of action in the world? or within oneself as an experience
oblivion - Today at 11:40 PM
it depends upon the god
gods are complex entities that exist across disparate spheres
potency to exercise power over humans
whatever form that takes
a power that cannot be unseated
Ubik - Today at 11:46 PM
But in your mind, what do you think the Gods are
oblivion - Today at 11:46 PM
i don't think the gods are all one thing
all one kind of entity
Ubik - Today at 11:47 PM
By that do you mean some of psychological in nature and personal, and some are singular beings existing independently of mankind all together
Because that is the major question of most, an the truth, even to those who have met them face to face, is still uncertain
oblivion - Today at 11:49 PM
they all exist independently of mankind... it doesn't mean they all arose independently of mankind
Ubik - Today at 11:49 PM
ah
So you are asserting a kind of aggregated thought form
oblivion - Today at 11:50 PM
in some cases
take Athena
the civilising impulse
arises when you gather humans together
without any of them willing it
Ubik - Today at 11:51 PM
A kind of emergent property
oblivion - Today at 11:51 PM
something in us governs our nature
maybe just the act of arrangement
there are other gods who manifest as storms and exercise their power over us  by blowing us away

Monotheism as square peg

people take a monotheistic model and force it on a chaotic world then declare morality and spirituality solved... you just need a big enough hammer to get that square peg to fit nice and snug in the round hole
then all you need to do is find a way to stop people pointing out the hole is round