Now that I’ve had 5 months to let this idea stew, when I read your comment again just now, I think I understand it completely? After getting comfortable using “demons” to refer to patterns of thought or behavior which proliferate in ways not completely unlike some patterns of matter, this comment now makes a lot more sense than it used to.
Lovely! I’m glad to hear it’s making sense to you. I had a leg up in perceiving this—I spent several years of my youth as a paranoid, possibly schizotypal occultist who literally believed in spirits—so it wasn’t hard for me, once I became more rational, to notice that I’d not been entirely wrong. But most people have no basis from which to start when perceiving these things!
Now that I’ve had 5 months to let this idea stew, when I read your comment again just now, I think I understand it completely? After getting comfortable using “demons” to refer to patterns of thought or behavior which proliferate in ways not completely unlike some patterns of matter, this comment now makes a lot more sense than it used to.
Lovely! I’m glad to hear it’s making sense to you. I had a leg up in perceiving this—I spent several years of my youth as a paranoid, possibly schizotypal occultist who literally believed in spirits—so it wasn’t hard for me, once I became more rational, to notice that I’d not been entirely wrong. But most people have no basis from which to start when perceiving these things!