The Steppenwolf and the Outsider (Colin Wilson)

The outsider's basic problem is that he is stuck in a dreary, lukewarm civilization that was created for the “average man,” a culture based on mediocrity.

In Hesse's "Steppenwolf", the hero has temporarily abandoned the dream of the open road, with its elusive prospects of far horizons which always turn out to be as solid and ordinary as a backstreet in one's home town.  Hesse is honest enough to acknowledge that a man with a room of his own, a sufficient income, and plenty of books, can still feel as maladjusted as a romantic wanderer.  This, I saw, was the main problem: Our odd inability to stay in contact with reality.

Whenever I returned from a few weeks on the open road, I had an odd feeling of strength for a week or two; my home town no longer oppressed me. But the strength would leak away and I would again feel vulnerable and bored. What I wanted to discover was the basic discipline for developing strength and objectivity.

The intensity of the poet's response to existence means that the poet is obsessed by the need for contact with “the source of power and purpose” that lies inside us. All great poets become more spiritual as they attempt to establish contact with this source.

Hesse's Steppenwolf has freedom, in the physical and economic sense; so what is it that he lacks? I knew that if I could answer this question, I would have solved one of the basic problems of the century.

Steppenwolf was Hesse's closest approach to a solution, because it was his clearest statement of the problem. Why had the author failed? It was because he kept looking for his answer outside.

What is wrong with Steppenwolf is that he has no purpose or discipline. He sits in a passive state of mind, waiting to be moved by another's genius. Without external challenge, he ceases to make any effort. He becomes subject to that stringent spiritual law that says the less you put into life, the less you get out of it. The answer had to lie in a sense of inner purpose, and a rigid self-discipline. And so out of these insights I began to fashion the ideas of The Outsider.

-- Colin Wilson, from Three Essays: Hesse, Reich, Borges

a thing is a thing (sufism)

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

-- Sufi saying 

death and birth concepts (wei wu wei)

 

“Death” and “birth” are only apparently separated
as a consequence of the conceptual extension
of the concept of matter in space and duration.

-- Wei Wu Wei, from Posthumous Pieces

matter and mind (jung)

Microphysics is moving into the unknown side of 'matter,' just as complex psychology is moving into the unknown side of the 'psyche.' The concept of the relativity of mass does not actually explain anything, and neither does the relativity of time and space; it is simply a formulation. These opposites only come into being through the projection onto space of what is in itself a non-spatial, transcendental, existence.

-- Carl Jung, Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Letters, 1932-1958

action in the world

One cannot help but perform action, over and over yet again, which is naught but true dharma, within in the realm of samsara; inaction is not possible, for even while the yogi is seated in contemplation, seemingly immobile, the great cosmos moves unceasingly.

-- Bhagavad Gita

kierkegaard on the present age

'Talkativeness is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only someone who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk, and act essentially.'

-- Kierkegaard, from The Present Age and Of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle

self-observation (nyland)

Self-observation is the many little 'I's' that want to become one 'I.' It works through the head. Self-remembering is 'it,' it works through the body. Self-awareness is the relationship between 'I' and 'it.'  It is the product of the process.

-- Wilhem Nyland, from Gurdjieff Group Work

warrior-shaman legend (Nagual)

 For a warrior-shaman, a personal legend becomes the real reason for living.

-- the nagual

spalding gray

'I'm kind of a control freak and I like to create my own hells before the real ones get to me. I kind of like to beat hell to hell.'   -- Spalding Gray, Monster in a Box

more advanced-plane consciousness work by Petrosz in 2021 is happening -- still !

continuing transmission of higher dimensional vibrations is being effectuated now via the ongoing work of Petrosz

now more than ever is this boddhisattvic service needed on the globe

Petrosz Xristosz, Magus of the PanDaemonAeon (2016+) and Arch-Magus of the NullDaemonAeon (2020+) is continuing to offer daily energetic transmissions as part of his ongoing practice. These take place at sunset, local time, in the Southwest United States. 

Anyone who wishes to contribute to the overall energy field thus established can do so by participating in the privacy of their own temple space or "quiet place" at the same synchronized time, utilizing whatever mantric invocations they are used to working with.

The daily astral event runs officially through the end of the year, although Petrosz has engaged his daily practice for years in this fashion and will continue to work beyond this timeline.

There is no need to contact us on the physical if you wish to participate, but feel free to post your experiences on our page (AUMM) in regards to how your practice and meditation is going along under current conditions. Remember the energy of the NullDaemonAeon, as well as the PanDaemonAeon, are available for your easy access!