Portals Pt 1: Magick Gateways, Jungian Symbols & Pop Culture Portals EXPLAINED!

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You may think you know what a portal is, but it's far more mysterious and illuminate confirmed than you ever thought.

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I've been podcasting about the occult since 2014 and today I'm taking you through the hidden meaning of portals.
Today we started a deep dive into the paranormal symbolism of portals.
Now this is going to be broken up into two parts.
In part one, today, on this episode, we're going to define the term and we're going to discuss

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the ideas of portals as literal gateways.
We're going to talk about the metaphysical concept of crossing certain thresholds,
how portals represent transitions between different worlds or unlocking the enlightenment through magic rituals of triangles of manifestation, magical circles and so on.

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We're going to talk about call of young and the symbolism of the portal as a gateway into the subconscious or the shadow realm.
And we'll get into the tools used for accessing other realms,
the sounds, the sounds, the sounds, the bath tubs, and then we're going to run through a ton of pop culture, pop culture portals that you've seen in your favorite films.

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From Alice in Wonderland to 2001 in Space Odyssey or the beloved Twin Beaks, it's all here today on a cult symbolism of pop culture.
I'm your host, Isaac Wiseau.
Now I need to just stay subscribed to the show.
If you're not subscribed, I don't know what you're doing.
I'm going to subscribe right now because when we come back for part two, we're going to talk about literal portals.

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We're going to talk about what they are, how they were constructed, who's been messing around with these things.
And I'll provide some examples from Jack Parsons to British spears and British Murphy and Travis Scott.
And we're going to talk about some of the modern concepts of a portal when it comes to aliens and artificial intelligence.

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And we're going to tie it into all the research that we've been doing.
We've been talking about the dark enlightenment, the CCRU, which I'm still working on the book, the CCRU writing is from 1997 to 2003.
A lot of mysteries to unpack here.
Boy oh boy, I can't wait to share my findings with you.
But that'll be in part two.
And in fact, last night I just finished the new season of Ghost Adventures has an episode where they are doing a ghost hunt in the house where they filmed a poltergeist.

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You could say they accessed a portal, right?
Because when they filmed a poltergeist, they dug the backyard for a pool and the,
it was a Native American burial ground and all these evil spirits kept through and all these people died.
So many tragedies involved with poltergeist.
But anyhow, let's start with part one today.

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Definition and this is this was surprisingly I put a I put up polls on Patreon all the time.
And I'm always asking you guys questions about where you want the show to go.
And a couple months ago I floated the idea of talking about portals and it was very well received.

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And it took me a while to get to about here we are today talking about the portals.
So I thought we if we get to find this first, we can work our way through the literal definition to the metaphysical because it's actually a pretty massive topic.
We've got literal portals and thresholds.

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We're talking about doorways or gates or entrances.
So as you see, it says caves and films or bridges or mirrors like an house in Wonderland or tunnels or mountains or tunnels through mountains.
A water area like in dark city, it's surrounded by water. There's a threshold there.

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It's in the realm of the term veil.
When we talk about piercing the veil, it's the idea of crossing over into another world.
Interdimensional maybe doesn't really matter whether it's a literal physical space or a metaphysical space.
And you also have in terms of like the literal aspect, you've got the technologically spiritually, what do you call it?

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The singularity, the technological singularity.
That is a portal basically where mankind steps through and becomes one with artificial intelligence becomes the transhuman.
And there's always this big to do about when that will happen. Ray Kurzweil says 2045.
I don't know what the latest prediction is.

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If you talk to the AI, the chat GPD, but it seems pretty sentient.
And from there, you've got a lot of more questions, right?
Of the sentience of the AI.
Who determines that?
You know, and you could talk about this in terms of religion. It's like if a religious person says, well, I know who God is.

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Well, people from other religions would say, that's not God. You're worshiping a false God.
And who's to say the difference? Who knows? It's all subjective. It's in the mind.
Reality is created in the mind.
And this is a concept that is discussed in the novel 1984, which, just so you know, we're working on a 1984 book club on the show.

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More details coming.
That's my next project.
We're going to unpack the whole book.
But they talk about the idea of reality being created subjectively and in the mind.
Alright. When it comes to the portals, you also have the metaphysical types. These are the more intriguing areas.

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These are entering liminal spaces.
A liminal space is kind of like the term back rooms that you see online.
It's a transitional state between two worlds.
You can see this in twin peaks in the red room. And if you don't like twin peaks, or tell us on me, is don't the warmer church.

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They have a apparently I've never been through, but in the endowment ceremony that a recent guest Ryan Springer was talking about.
We talked about how there is what do you call the celestial room, which I would refer to as a liminal space.
It's supposed to feel like you're kind of in the heavens, but you're not. You're really anchored to the earth.

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That kind of thing.
Now these portals can take you to another space or time.
Like in a wormhole.
The metaphysical types are more abstract.
It seems like you're accessing a different reality in some ways.

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And you'll see this referred to in psychedelics and hallucinogens.
You see this in terms of the paths of a cult practice for apolonian or dynicyne rituals.
The whole idea is to abstain or overload the human consciousness in order for it to yoke up to and link up to the divine of God.

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It's kind of it's not a portal, but it's the same idea, right? It's the same idea of escaping from this three dimensional reality and entering into a new one.
That's why a lot of people do psychedelics. You'll hear about people who do DMT that Joe Rogan DMT and they'll talk about entering this new realm with fractals and geometric shapes and talking to elves and a voice tells them welcome to the real world or whatever it happens.

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And you see this with the shamans and the ayahuasca journeys.
You see this with transcendental meditation processes where the practitioner will enter into this meditative flow state.
And they can access, they go inwards and they access all the way down to the basic unified field from which everything derives supposedly where we're all connected as one.

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And from here the univiled sort of goes through whatever filtering shell process and becomes part of our world.
You can see these ideas of entering new spaces mystically through sacred geometry or sacred architecture in the Orthodox church even there's an element of this right when you enter an Orthodox church there is a mystical element.

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That's why the icons that you see like on the iconostasis or just various icons around the church.
So they don't quite look human right like they're not realistic they're not sexy creed Jesus.
They're kind of something else they're kind of more and the people that paint those it's not an arbitrary thing like those people are spiritually prepared to create that art.

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Now the point of a and then also the church is laid out typically like a cross and you face east like there's a whole aspect of the sacred architecture of it.
And when you're in the church during the liturgy the idea is that with the priest has the censor and there's incense and you sort of are supposed to be in a different realm in a way right like it's not of this world like that's the whole that's the whole stick of

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Orthodoxy well I shouldn't say the whole thing but that's the part of it that I am drawn to is it's not it's not a rock band church with the monster trucks or whatever it's not like that right.
It's about entering a different realm.
In fact when you cross the narthex into the nave into the main part of the church you cross yourself because you're kind of entering a sacred space.

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But the point of the portal is to escape from this material realm.
Sounds very gnostic.
Very soternian.
Sorry I'm pointing.
I'm pointing aggressively if you're watching the video and I'm breaking all my microphone stands.
But the point of the portal is to escape from this realm and enter into a new one.
Some would say this is a scary process some would say it's very liberating either way it is exciting.

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So which I think you could find that experience with psychedelics right it's all about set and setting and the intention and if you go in scared I mean so I've heard if you go in scared you might have a scary terrifying experience but if you go in positively with a focus on love and light and all that will stuff then you're more app to have a positive experience.

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But you see why the concept of portal is depicted so much in pop culture and in fiction especially in those those horny books you ladies be reading them horny books.
There's always portals and you know those fantasy nerds they love this kind of thing right because it's part of the escapism of a fantasy novel.

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That's why the fantasy books have hundreds of pages talking about different weird terms and everyone's got weird names and everyone's magical and all that stuff right it's not supposed to be of this world supposed to be another realm.
And oftentimes there are portals I believe because I read most of act are.
And I believe there's like a portal under the mountain or something from what I remember.

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In fact if you look at universal studios in Florida they've got the epic universe right which is five different realms one of them is the celestial realm that's for the fantasy nerds.
Then they've got the dark universe that's for the horror nerds that's me I'm very excited to go see this thing when I don't know but I'm very excited.

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I like that old school Frankenstein and Dracula oh baby but anyway when you enter into each of these new worlds supposedly there's a portal that crosses you over because that's all part of the experience right.
You're entering into a new world.
Now when it comes to the occult they view they believe that through a variety of processes one can cross the veil cross the portal and make contact with a higher plane of existence or make contact with higher ascended entities.

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God the devil go with the bobs whoever or maybe there are chaos magician and it's just good old fashioned Mickey Mouse or Scooby-Doo we don't know.
And if you read there is a book that I have I know I read the comments on the patreon people like to know books and resources.

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So I have this book called the complete book of spell ceremonies and magic by guns a la is whiplier.
And this was a book I bought because this was part of my focus focus film analysis if you listen to that if you haven't listened to that one boy you missing out I think it was in 2021 I did it and I unpacked a dream of chrome and satanic sex magic rituals and this is where I found the information for that show.

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And it's it's an amazing book honestly it's if I can memorize this whole book you guys will take on a genius you know because there's so much good information in there.
But in it describes a like when I talk about crossing into the astral realm and stuff like that they talk about it as a plane of being that is not a place but a state of being.

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So we're already talking we're already walking back this idea of hey we're going to Mars hey we're going out of space no no we're just going into a new state of being.
And the astral plane which it actually refers to the Greek gods because the term astral in Greek means related to a star.

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Because that's where all the occultism comes from come from the ancient cultures the Greeks the romans all these pagans were worshipping multiple gods and they thought they could really see them and experience them and if you read.
Seeker history of the world by Mark both he explains he says yeah like they really did that that's the belief.

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And it was only over time and technology that we've restricted our consciousness that we can't experience these things it's kind of like when you've got a dog or a baby who's talking to spirits in the corner and you're like.
They really experience is something yeah according to these people yes their third eye is still open.

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But we can perceive this other realm the astral plane using our astral senses or visiting it through our astral body.
And you probably heard the term clairvoyance that is referred to as astral vision.

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Because some people can perceive this astral plane with their astral senses.
And in the book it talks about how there's these four doorways to the astral realm and there's processes to unlock the doorways from cabala the tree of life the tarot and the eaching.

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And you'll notice a lot of the occultus talk about those those tools.
And that's what the book says that's how you do it that's how you access these astral planes these other dimensions and it also warns you the astral projection can be dangerous they say not to try this without a proper teacher because the astral plane is just as dangerous to the astral body as the material world is dangerous to the material body.

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And when you get into the astral plane there's demonic entities and they can possess you and all kinds of stuff right.
Now and what's interesting is that we just got done talking about the remote viewing with writer Lee on the project stargage show which I would argue is in a similar ballpark maybe right.

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And this book goes a lot deeper it talks about sets up the conversation by talking about how we all have these seven bodies these are the levels of awareness.
Three are a theory for our material.
Therefore there are seven planes of existence that we can sort of access and all of these are connected with our astral body they're all connected with the cord that goes into the astral plane.

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Which I would assume is very similar to the silver cord of the osophy that we talked about during the Wizard of Oz shows.
Now the astral plane has this thing in it called the astral light and this is where the echausic records are held supposedly and these contain basically all the past, the present, the future.

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So as a magician you could see why this would be the goal is to access the past present future like biffing back to the future too.
Yeah you want that sports all maniac you want to you want to lay the bets make the monies.
But some people are accessing the astral plane strictly for vibes. Marjorie Cameron she was accessing the astral plane to have sex with Jack Parsons after he died.

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She was trying to make that Rosemary's baby.
How does that work? I don't know it didn't work that's how works.
So in terms of ritual magic they are also familiar with this idea of accessing other realms.
A magician will draw a triangle of manifestation which will be the location from which an entity will be conjured and appear.

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There's two there's two symbols involved in a magic ritual you've got the circle within which the magician stands and then you got the triangle within which the demonic entity is conjured up.
And the circle is where the magician will do their incantations they will concentrate their will and send it out.

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And when you get into solomonic ceremonial magic there's a lot of focus on this stuff and it's even mentioned in Peter Leventon and Tom DeLong's book Secret Machines Gods.
Where he goes to this whole Nostek Rigamorel and implies that UFOs because you see the Delta craft UFOs there's like the triangle shape ones.

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And Leventon kind of suggests that hey maybe the triangle means it's sort of the reverse operation of a magician meaning it's sort of manifesting itself into our realm which I thought was pretty interesting.
And you also notice the triangle manifestation is what we talk about when we refer to Jay-Z and Beyonce doing that rock diamond thing right because they do the triangle.

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Illuminate confirm me I'm doing the triangle it's the trial manifestation to sort of channel energy through which is why Beyonce talks about how she channels Sasha fear she she feels the Sasha fears come into her body.
She's channeling a spirit through the triangle of manifestation into her body to perform because as you know a lot of performers have to employ some kind of alter ego in order to perform.

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Now many of the magical ceremonies they will use invoking and banishing rituals of the pentagram and those are meant to protect the magician as well as to dispel the spirits to get rid of them because you're effectively opening a portal calling the entity through and then you say okay bye bye now and then you got to close it behind so they don't stay in our world.

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And this is where you get the terms invocation or evocation two different tactics here than the magician use the invocation is to call down forces from the higher planes and into the magician's consciousness and this is done through meditation visualization all that stuff.
But the idea is that the work is done internally inside the mind of the magician whereas the opposite is the evocation and that's to call down this actual spirits and demons into the triangle the manifestation and to materialize them into our world.

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Crowley did this in Algeria for corone zone there's like the storm or something.
And this is more of a this is more of the con duration practice this is more of what you think about when you think about the heavy conspiracies of ritual magic.
But either way it requires opening up gates.

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Either way open up gates to the subconscious mind opens up gates for the triangle manifestation.
And either way it's dangerous for the magician they can become possessed by demons.
And if a magician is well practice they will call out a license to depart to the spirit evoked and they will make sure they don't leave that magical circle until the entities gone.

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You'll notice in fact in 1999 I was doing ghost hunting with the Utah ghost under society and that was one of the first lessons we learned which is insane.
We would do ghost hunts and EVPs and record stuff and go to haunted places.
And when we would we would call upon these things we would call out and be like hey turn this flashlight on hey what's your name hey talk to me.

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And you would do this for however long and then when you're going to leave you'd be like okay now you don't get to leave here you have to stay here and leave me alone.
Which seems kind of preposterous that we would have that kind of power.
Like oh oh you're just going to ask it to and it's going to do it.
I think it's kind of crazy to me in hindsight.

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Which is why I don't do it anymore I've done a bunch of ghost hunts and had a lot of weird things happen.
I didn't enough to know that I believe it's happening.
That's why I like watching the ghost adventures guys because they get some wild stuff.
Could it be rigged sure but I've witnessed an experience I've seen orbs.

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With my own eyeball I had paranormal activity in the home after we were messing around with stuff I've communicated with spirits of people that passed on in other people's families I didn't know their names before and they said their name clearly I mean crazy stuff.
But also you'll Matt went on about magic circles and at the end of Stanley Cooper's eyes wide shut in the toy store there's a game called the magic circle.

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Anyway all these portals are basically different ways of being initiated into a new state of being.
Because the initiate after completing the ritual become transformed or changed or evolved in some way enlightened.
And sometimes they'll believe that they access the the noces the secret wisdom and that enlightenment is makes them better better than you and I and all the other mouth breathers out there.

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And sometimes they think it's to the point of apotheosis where they are becoming gods or this is part of their archchemical process that starts out with the black sun or the negrado it's the darkness before the light kind of like how free basins where the hood wink to cover their eyes that whole thing.
But when you get into this you find out that oftentimes there is a barrier before these people we can become these ascended masters the guardian of the veil also Crowley had the corone zone right.

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And if an initiate wanted to cross the veil and pass the guardian and become a master of the temple they had to be prepared they had to have full destruction of the ego.
Or they had to have proper keys because there's keys involved like the 1772 names of God and cabala which you know you know where we are the grand days she has tattooed on her finger 72 names of another word easily the worst easily the worst impression I do is aerial aggrande and I stop doing it and then people on patreon asked me to do it again.

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Oh dear okay so shout out to the people that care it's terrible and also if you if you're on the free feed you ever hear the W the WF all call him in and I do I didn't do those voices those are actually really well done I am not that good.
Anyways little aerial aggrandes has the 72 names of God tattooed on her finger because she's wearing that red string cabala bracelet like Tucker cabala Carlson and some of my family saw Tucker in the airport.

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I said gross don't make me throw up he's like no he was cool I'm betting was cool now I most of people even like the hard the hard liners the blow hard I've been real life most people are alright you know what I mean I think and this goes back to that idea of channeling entities to perform because I kind of understand what that feels like because I have to in a way

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put on my alter ego which isn't a far stretch from who I am but I'm much more lively on the show and stuff when I do appearances because I'm a pretty boring quiet dude I don't know if I'm introverted necessarily but I don't like to share my opinion as much if people people know me be like I was pretty quiet guy.

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So in a way I got to become something that I'm not because he doesn't want to see him if you look go back on this in the first episodes I did you'll know what I'm talking about go back to 2014 and you'll say a holy low T Isaac who is this guy because I'm trying to provide a service and I try to keep it entertaining.

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Now we're talking about the keys to cross and then you've got secret words so only the initiated can cross we talked about this with the Mormon and down ceremony stuff I'll give you a secret name and a secret handshake because when you meet I don't know God when you die you're going to give him a secret handshake seems crazy very free Masonic and you see the keys represented in the matrix which is a sort of

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gnostic tale of Apotheosis with the keymaker who unlocks the doors right so Neo can cross the threshold he can cross the portal into the the mainframe via the doors because the whole idea is that there's a veil that blocks the unworthy because what's on the other side of that veil of the portal is God.

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It's kind of like the tower of Babel man was trying to build this technology to get close to God so every mouth breather could just walk on up there but God was like him now you about to get smited full and they tore it down they weren't ready.
Then we have portals as symbols in terms of symbolism Carl Young you know he's talking about this.

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I'm out of the importance of symbolism working on the subconscious level like a symbol because there's all these psychological internal processes that happen

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and Edward Bernays Freud's nephew he infamously used a lot of these ideas for corporate propaganda so it works right that's how he got got us to start buying diamond rings that's how he got us to make bacon and eggs for breakfast that's how he got women to smoke with the torches of freedom propaganda
so don't tell me it doesn't work all this stuff works they know it they don't want you to understand it they want you to think it's just woo woo paranormal activity

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but young viewed portals as thresholds to accessing the subconscious mind right he he was more of the I would argue the occult internal process variety
archetype Lee it was the idea of approaching one's own shadow doing the shadow work the dweller on the threshold which is coron's own according to crowley

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and if that was a subject we went deep into at the twempings gray lodge series at the season to wrap up show we talked we talked about this dweller on the threshold stuff
so I think it shows up in twempings season two I think episode 15 or 16 Hawk talks about the dweller on the threshold and all of that is based on real stuff

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and the whole idea for young was that a person can confront their own shadow and through this process they can become transformed
because it's actually a confrontation between the person's ego or the conscious mind against the personal unconscious the subconscious mind

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because in the young in model you've got the ego which is the conscious mind you've got the personal unconscious which is the subconscious and then you've got the collective unconscious which is the group sort of archetypal mind
and his whole jam was that the unconscious forces are always influencing the conscious forces the ego so any kind of personal memories or traumas or relationships

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repressed memories whether it be unconscious personal unconscious or whether it be the collective unconscious of the group of the world the world history
the what do you call it the reservoir of human experiences where you would find the archetypes this is and this gets into Joseph Campbell's heroes journey with the hermit who guides mankind

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the goddess the trickster that anima animus feminine masculine like these are all part of the reservoir or the unified field right these are all kind of similar terms
and it's interesting because it kind of gives credence to all these concepts because you have multiple people that put a lot of thought into these things and they kind of came up with the same answers just in different terms

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so this is why a lot of people they do shadow work or dream work because they're analyzing the personal unconscious they're trying to unpack what's going on in the unconscious mind that's affecting me on the conscious level
so young would say there's a portal to dive deeper into the shadow and we talked about this with the Kobe Bryant books go back to February of 2020

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right before the pandemic I did a few shows on Kobe Bryant because I read his books that he wrote about about the hero children's books and who I talk about luminecon farm my goodness those Kobe Bryant shows are fire should I put links in the show notes eyes I mean if I was a good host I would what do I talk about I talk about wizards of ours I talk about Kobe Bryant

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what I talk about the matrix I don't know I'll link some stuff if you want more if you knew you got a lot of catching up to do you're you're looking at about 700 episodes okay
so young Carl Young would suggest that the unconscious could guide one's conscious mind towards the threshold towards the portal between the known and unknown

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and he called this a ritualized transformation process in order to confront the repressed shadow which is hidden I know it's a lie right a lot of nerd talk
but it's basically a process called individuation and I talked about this very personal level in the dark path in my book the dark path

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because it's a journey the therapy took me on of understanding and unpacking memories and histories and repressed ideas and seeing how it affects you on a conscious level
it's kind of like go with the bombs it's kind of a reconciliation of opposing forces in a way kind of
but it takes strength to do this takes courage to do this that's why nobody wants to go to therapy you know if you're out there you're either your husband your wife has been like a go to therapy or your wife who's like now and bag of my husband go there trust me I understand it's very difficult

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me and my wife have been on that journey and you know it ain't no secret I don't like therapy I told my therapist was I said no offense I love you you change my whole life because I've gone in for I don't even know how many years 10 years 12 years I said I said a bro no offense you change my life I love you for it but I hate coming in here every time I hate coming in here I get anxiety I on the day before I'm like man I hope he cancels I mean it's like going to church

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I'd never want to go but when I go I feel great when I do it what the hell is that it's because it's work because you're constantly staring at the shadow you're constantly digging into the unconscious and unpacking all this repressed memories
and to confront all these things it's kind of like going on a hero's journey in terms of pop culture that's why we like to watch the people in the movies do instead of having us do it

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there's always this call to action you know some kind of war some kind of life or death scenario separation from the real world where they actually gone the journey and then they always dissent right they dissent towards the portal towards the threshold towards the shadow where they confront the enemy the shadow and then they return as the king it's the return of the king

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it's that dissent towards you know scaryville and that's where you find the portal that's where the gateway is and it's depicted in movies as caves or tunnels or mirrors or rabbit holes
it's like whatever takes the character on that hero's journey and that's the sort of symbolism of a portal that's Carl Young how he would describe it it's accessing the internal shadow

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and there's very tools for all of this because because I know you're thinking you're thinking man there's a lot of woo woo talk not a lot of action here how do you do it I want to and I want to go into a portal
well I don't know that it works or not I don't know exactly how the mechanics have a work but in fact I think oftentimes a lot of this stuff is just strong imaginations

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drug hallucinations but I do believe in some level of genuine paranormal activity you know I think it's like how people are talking to AI and they think they're gods I think these are people that are susceptible to this kind of magical thinking to a degree that's too much

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but it's all about working with energy all of this stuff and whether it's a ritual or if you're at a location where there's a lot of heightened emotions left behind leaving an imprint in the environment
a location where you might get a lot of various energies and emotions like a graveyard or a hospital or church or maybe some kind of place where they did satanic human sacrifices or animal sacrifices like all those are charged up

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right so that's like one of the environments of which you would do it another tool is for divination for scrying and this is the idea that one will stare into a scrying object to see images to get sort of hallucinations from the other side through the portal it's like looking through a portal

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and the practices of divination there are specifically condemned in the Bible by the way and the book of do it around me and Leviticus you know so as evil is eating shelf is I don't know maybe but but that's like the Christian version if you talk to a Christian priest they say hey man you shouldn't be doing none of this stuff naughty boy

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so anyways for scrying gypsies will use crystal balls no sir dramas he's scried by putting his face near a crystal ball that was filled with water
John D used a black obsidian mirror to gaze into which you can find in there is a show called the house of hammer on Amazon it's from like the 70s and they have an episode called Guardians of the Abyss

(42:49):
that's really cool and they have they have a whole episode about obsidian scrying mirror used in rituals goes back to John D
Joseph Smith from the Mormons he used seer stones those were he took a hat and he put these rocks in it the Irm and the Thumim to gaze into he was scrying into these stones

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and the Mormons believe that Joseph Smith story because if you ask if you ask a Mormon you'd say hey I thought the Bible said you shouldn't be doing that why is your why is your supreme leader messing around with this stuff and they say well to
you're finally inspired God told him to do it then you got sigils sigils are basically symbols loaded with powers and intentions and how it is it accesses the subconscious mind you will the way I've heard it described as you if I wanted to what do I want to manifest happiness I would write the word

(43:54):
remove the vows because it's a sort of capitalistic thing so near left with just those letters HPP and SS you would sort of scramble up those letters in a way that no one could read them and that would be your sigil and if you're Johnny Depp you'd get that tattooed on you
the idea is that you would look at that and that accesses the subconscious mind you understand the meaning of that sigil and it's a reminder

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then you've got magic rituals you've got psychedelic trips right and the again this is about set and setting that's why the church of Satan they use all that dark spooky imagery it's about creating a mode intended to flood the subconscious
and you know make it feel extra spooky extra spooky so they're doing little ritual ceremonies are to banging out witches and pretending they're the devil they don't actually worship the devil in church of Satan they're just making it spooky they're creating an environment right

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and the same goes for psychedelics it's whatever you prep the mind for it can achieve by accessing these other realms it's and that's the whole idea of a portal
and you can see another idea is the bathtub the bathtubs are portals meant for the passage of the goddess talked about this ad nauseam on the show every episode I bring it up the Whitney Houston Bobby Christine of bathtub passages of the goddess those were

(45:23):
blood sacrifice rituals allegedly they were probably then you've got the bathtub of the cabala mikva you can see it in a kind of grant movie I think is loose for rising
in even in Christian faith you got the baptism that happens in the water right this is about connecting to higher powers of God

(45:45):
you also see mirrors windows bathtubs those are all portals in terms of what pop culture the occult both Michael Jackson he covered up his mirrors in his home
right and of course we're talking about all this and we're through the looking glass they believe that mirrors are portals people come through I believe when I interview doctor Kimberly George years ago we are talking about this idea presented by what is his name

(46:21):
the guy talks about the are how you you go to these cloning centers at night when you're in REM sleep
I believe that they said that that's how they would come into your home is through the mirrors and they would come and snatch you up
Alistair Crowley he was of course a master in the occult ways of magic he had formulated rituals and techniques for cultists to pursue their great work and you would do this by opening up portals

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whether that was for entities to come through or for the person to access the inner shadow the subconscious and he was always advocating for one to contact their holy guardian angel through ritual magic
all right and I saw comment on the spotifiably wasn't someone corrected me there was a video and I didn't make the video but it depicted Crowley when I was discussing lamb and lamb is a different entity lamb is the through the arm

(47:23):
and I was talking about the animal and the animal work is of 1918 he successfully channeled this gray alien supposedly and drew it in the preface to
a commentary on a hulay and bovazky's book later but he was always about trying to make contact with this holy guardian angel it's kind of like a higher self
it's different from the self it's not the same it's a totally different entity in his was a was and he would do these rituals intended to create space with which contact could be made with this astral realm

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and this is why you see the occult practices of the new age being utilized this is what they used to be utilized for meditation and yoga yoga means to yoke means to connect to with to unionize with the entities
and sex magic these are all and tantra like these are all sort of like modern day new age things that people are just into right but the reality is the history of this is about making contact with entities

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and that is that they open up the mind and unlock the chakras in a way that can be used to enter into these other spaces
altering the states of consciousness to access deeper into the subconscious mind to find the you know the unified field the shadow the source of these repressed traumas and such

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and of course currently talked about coron's own in his book confessions where he talks about how he became a master of the temple traversing this liminal space called the abyss
it's actually going through that portal he said the name of the dweller in the abyss is coron's own but he is not really an individual the abyss is empty of being it is filled with all possible forms

(49:11):
yada yada yada
and then finally in cabala there are twenty two paths that the issue can take to understand the various aspects of reality and ascend up that tree of life towards the godhead towards the keter
it's all they also call the fifty gates of understanding but one path the issue could take is through the portal of day out

(49:39):
the same process that croly discusses as the abyss and this is kind of like the star wars tale loop goes on his heroes journey becomes
changed after dramatically finding out that dot veta is his father
and now his journey becomes an internal struggle of sorts

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this takes us to the final section of the show the pop culture portals because i mean that's what we're really into here right
i've got a bunch of examples here so that you can take these examples with you so the next time you watch this movie you say
oh ok i see what he's talking about right
allyson wonderland one of my favorites goes and in fact i blame part of my mental state on my babysitters when i was young

(50:30):
with these neighbors across the street and they would come over and they would bring this vhs of allyson wonderland and i was obsessed with this movie i was like you have to bring that over every time
absolutely loved it in fact i got to announce and wonderland tattoo but in the story the whole idea is that she gets her call to action

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and she tumbles down the rabbit hole she goes underground to be initiated she's going into the subconscious she crosses through that portal
and in the sequel or the second book i should say she goes through the looking glass she goes through the mirror to access the same realm
then you've got the movie donny darko which i've also done a show about didn't i do a show about donny darko

(51:16):
pretty sure i did i'm just gonna update my notes if i did i'll put a link in the show notes because that was a really cool movie
i'm actually a big what's that guy's name jill and all jill and all fan
he has his character as a mental breakdown and that breakdown enables his access to these altered dimensions right this is kind of like the psychic down legs or whatever

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and it seems like the dueller the guarding of the threshold the coron zone could be the bunny the big bunny
then you got the matrix of course a classic neo gets jacked into the real world but first you'll notice he puts his little thingies through that gelatinous mirror

(52:08):
right remember that scene and his ego death is literal remember cuz agent smith has this whole conversation with him he says
there's mr. and then there's neo there's only a future for one of these you to choose and of course he chooses neo
then you got the abyss that's a movie where plots boiler coming here there there's an underwater drilling operation and they unlock a portal

(52:37):
threshold into another realm where they make contact with these higher enlightened ascended aliens
then you got holy mountain which is hodorowski's occult initiation for the viewer takes the viewer on an alchemical journey kind of like 2001 a space odyssey

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because in the movie you are guided by the alchemist that's the the hermit in a way of the tarot and it culminates with the initiates ascending the holy mountain and they burn up the ego full destruction of the ego
and they plots boiler they break the fourth wall to end and let the viewer know like hey you just been initiated a lumine confirm you

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then you got annihilation another great movie my goodness I just watched this the other day
Natalie Portman's character goes into the shimmer this jungle of chaos full of alien entity goo and she ends up pulling elements of the subconscious mind
into this world like there's each person has this individual experience in the shimmer it's almost like it unlocks the shadow around for each character

(53:55):
and she ends up going to the lighthouse where she confronts her literal shadow and insane movie if you've never seen annihilation are you in for a treat
then you got stargate this is kind of one of those more that's like this probably the most obvious example out of all of them
there's a giant ring that the military on covers with these anokian style magical sigils all around it

(54:20):
and inside the ring is a water thing just like the neo mirror right and it's a portal that takes them to the Egyptian magicians
the Egyptian magicians the aliens and that water is the boundary within the ring and you know you got a bit of that sort of cleansing baptism flood bathtub unconscious archetype there

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and then they of course they had a stargate Atlantis right the Atlantis type show it's this archetypal society of high technology
giant pagan alien gods and all that stuff I never seen the TV show but apparently talks about multiple stargates found throughout the world in the middle east and Iraq and Mesopotamia and all those places

(55:09):
which a lot of people argued was the real reason we went into Iraq after 9/11 allegedly then you have the character doctor strange in the movies
creates an opens portal I did I did a movie review on both one end to he creates an opens portals through magical sigils and of course again a no key in language script all around the circle the portal

(55:37):
and allows him to and look I understand when I say the word portal I have a hard time with it's a weird word to me I blame this on my tons select me guy
that's where we remove my tonsils a hard time saying to work pool and apparently portal some started to go fun me for me I guess anyway so he time travels and he acts as the other

(56:02):
world to these portals that he makes he can transcend the space time of our world through these occult practices he's a talismans and the ring it's all he's like the most occulted character
then you've got the chronicle of narnia series the line the witch in the wardrobe and the wardrobe is the portal that takes you to narnia

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there's a show called doctor who I've never seen it and it has a thing called the tarte's tartis it's the police phone box or whatever it is that's apparently a portal
then you got the movie core line which I love I love core line thought it's a great movie she goes through this little doorway into the small tunnel and she goes into this weird parallel type world that's they call the other world

(56:50):
great movie packed with tons of like little hidden symbol that should have analysis on some day
there's a lady on tiktok who I mean she's an expert on I should just have her get on here and explain it then you've got everyone's favorite little Harry Potter he crosses the threshold going through the portal

(57:13):
from because he was in the the muggle world and the mundane and he goes into the wizard world by going to a portal at the platform nine and three quarters
kings cross station and in Harry Potter's journey which I talked about on this podcast years ago as well as in my book conspiracy theories and unpopular culture

(57:35):
the whole thing is about Harry Potter's initiation and he assess approaches the black veil in the department of mysteries he overcomes death and he's reborn apotheosis man becomes god
it's all right there in the Harry Potter story we're almost done hanging there folks hang in there folks uh

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2001 space Odyssey one of my favorites commander ballman enters a stargate
kind of like interstellar when when all right all right all right when he enters the test or act same thing he goes out to he's drawn from the model draws him out towards Saturn

(58:21):
towards a wormhole which I know in the movie it's Jupiter but in the book Saturn
because Saturn makes more sense in the occult aspect of being the the limiting adversarial force that one initiate needs to overcome in order to cross over
but what happens is they they an interstellar or 2001 they're accessing other realms of space time to become initiated into something greater

(58:47):
higher form of consciousness they become ascended apotheosis right same thing with star wars we talked about this already he's approached
Luke approaches his repressed unconscious represented as Darth Vader a day off Vader when he was I always shit you're my dad
the hidden realm on the capitalistic tree of life then stranger things there's an upside down where the it's the dark side to the real world

(59:15):
the what in in Caballo is a tree of life and then there's the dark side of the tree of life where the cleapoth are
but the lab is in the show stranger things the lab is trying to access this upside down this dark realm
but 11 she's got the the gift she can just do it right she can cross over

(59:37):
and unfortunately when she goes to the portal where she opens that portal the demi-gorgan and these entities come through and just into Hawkins and the Anna
and finally twin peaks you know you know what you guys said are you going to mention every episode I might I might
twin peaks if we talked about the dual earth threshold season two episode 11 there you go it's in my notes here

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Hawkins Cooper about approaching the black lodge with imperfect courage because it will annihilate your soul
and that's the whole point of the twin peaks journey Cooper approaching his shadow does he succeed does he
individuate does he become the master of the temple
and he kept going on and on about choosing fear versus choosing love and being vulnerable to the darkness

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and then in twin peaks the return we get a depiction of how the atomic bomb opened up a portal between worlds
and it shows us the beliefs of Kenneth Grant and outside the circles of time which we've talked about a bunch
so that is the conclusion of part one now I need to just say subscribe to the show right now while I am

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or actually make sure you're subscribed hit the button subscribe to the show because in part two we're going to talk more about portals
where they are how they're constructed who's messing around with these things
we're going to talk more about the jack parsons stuff the Babylon working rituals Britney Spears
Travis Scott the astral world mass satanic sacrifice being done at the portal to hell

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and we're going to talk about how artificial intelligence and the darken lightmen fits into all this the CCRU
and AI entities and how when we cross the singularity like that's the end game you know what I mean
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