(10-28-2025, 09:24 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Not having any sort of background in Victorian Occultism, most of the above just flies right over my head as if spoken in an obscure dialect of Martian. Especially the parts hinting at Hinduism, Zoroastrainism, Kabbalism, and any permutations of those foreign and esoteric "isms" ("Ahriman", anyone?) as Victorian Occultists were wont to do.
Really, all - the entire universe including you - is just the interplay of energies... every person, tree, bush, plant, rock, radio wave, light wave, and gravity wave.
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Sounds to me like you understand just fine. Nothing these authors say is unique to them, it's the same stuff a million other people has written about or said since the dawn of time.
I did actually find the method written down, the issue is if I say do this and that and it looks so and so and what not then immediately others copy it and make up stories and the whole thing gets diluted into pseudo whatever. Sometimes I wonder if it's done on purpose to discredit people.
Ectoplasm is just a name made to describe a phenomena, so is mist or light beings or shadow entities. We don't know what the "stuff" is so we just give it the name we have as a description (or make one up). It's an attempt at rationalizing the irrational. We don't refer to each other as made of flesh, we refer to persons and leave the rest up to the proverbial gods and assume the learned ones knows a thing or two more, the spirit is not plasma it's a spirit. We all know what flesh is, what it tastes like what it looks like how it works..no we don't know how it works, we look and we just find more questions, a bit of the puzzle here and there but never the whole. We fail at that and then try and apply the same failed process to the ethereal.