Look at your sheet from the other day outlining your Visions and Challenges. Re-read the past few days’ essays related to identity and cognitive biases. How can these ideas, and your further exploration of these topics, be used to rethink and develop your sense of your Challenges? Are specific modes of identification helping to createContinue reading “Constrains: Orienting by Desire II”
Author Archives: setemheb
Constraints: Beyond Sleepwalking
Humanity’s default conditions can be considered sleepwalking, as the Fourth Way suggests. Another way of looking at it is that the Gift of Set acts as a complex series of systems designed to function on autopilot. Our problems, more often than not, come from this autopilot system having never been appropriately programmed despite its brilliantContinue reading “Constraints: Beyond Sleepwalking”
Constraints: Orienting by Desire
Orienting by Desire When you are in territories without maps, it is only by your Desire that you can orient. The best orientation on the Left Hand Path comes from having a clear sense of what you want at the present moment and what it is you are facing. Doing so will allow you toContinue reading “Constraints: Orienting by Desire”
Constraints: Introduction
Constraints Take a moment and focus on your breathing. You can direct your breath specifically, making it shallower or deeper. Most of the time, however, your breath is simply working independently without needing attention. While most people realize this reasonably early in life, another process is continually running outside of our awareness: the Mind. ThisContinue reading “Constraints: Introduction”
Sunday Sermon with RAW
A Quote and Some Notes
From the moment of its [re]creation in 1975, we have instinctively felt the Temple of Set to be something unprecedented on this world. It crystallized a premise at once more ambitious and more subtle than that of its Church of Satan prelude. And unlike the cynical pessimism of the Church, the Temple has always hadContinue reading “A Quote and Some Notes”
Setian Hierarchy of Knowledge Resources: Base Layer
If you are looking to build your skills in the various levels of the Setian Hierarchy of Knowledge these resources may help. While some are commercial tools while others are informational pieces. I have no commercial benefit from these links, but have used any tools I recommend. Awareness Training Brightmind Mathematics Brilliant Representational Skills
Introducing the Setian Hierarchy of Knowledge
As a philosophically aligned Initiatory School the Temple of Set tends to be somewhat differently oriented than other organizations positioning themselves as “occult organizations” and the like. Rather than offering a reactionary approach or ideology to limit anxieties and provide easy answers, the Setian approach suggests exploring reality as it is and in all ofContinue reading “Introducing the Setian Hierarchy of Knowledge”
Still Alive. Have Some Videos.
Setian Initiation in Summary
“Initiation” is the term used to describe the experience of an affiliate of the Temple of Set. Since the term is very easily misunderstood and misused, its usage within and by the Temple deserves careful explanation. In its traditional sense, initiation is induction into the membership of a secret society, hence being entitled to successivelyContinue reading “Setian Initiation in Summary”