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Dark Symbolism and Imagery
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Hello,
Using the pictures as a general idea, I was hoping to find some more images that invoke and explore the feelings that are expressed above. Certain books and a fair number of albums offer art that has a kind of 'dark' connotation to it. So, if you have any you'd like to share, I'd appreciate it. Of course, what you think is 'dark' is up to you but in this instance I think that those pictures point in a distinct direction.
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: WScott]
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: WScott]
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Why is that darker images are more personally fascinating than lighter ones?
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: deCypher]
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Everyone has a fascination with the darker side
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: TheWolf]
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Not everyone explores the darker side. It is a necessary aspect to be balanced if one wishes to serve the Light and vice-versa. I believe it is the beings of each side we balance that we bring into our own awareness in order to use their help/powers/guidance to achieve a purpose we have so chosen to take on.
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: Frangelico]
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Awesome thread I love this sort of stuff. Here's what I got..







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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: Ouija]
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: NetDiver]
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: deCypher]
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There is a highly charged internal conflict when we are confronted with approach-avoidance issues. Consciously we know that we should be compassionate in our responses, not coldly curious. This causes 'rubbernecking' at highway accidents - people looking for death and gore - then being satisfied that 'it's not me.' I say, if you're not there to help, keep your morbid curiosity from influencing your behavior and move on. This is why I stopped watching 'The Asylum' story on American Horror Story. There was no redeeming value to me in being disgusted and horrified by insane Nazi experiments, mutilation, torture, etc. Ram Dass once pointed out that people should examine their attraction to horror movies because it might indicate an attraction to Hell Realms in the Bardo. I get it.
There are interesting, surreal scenes on this thread, and one might ask oneself what might the infernal intelligence be thinking in the creation of Hell Realms. There are often themes of rending, eating, digesting and eliminating. Hieronymous Bosch is famous for such imagery - the demon on an elevated toilet-throne, eating and shitting out the damned into an even grosser cesspool of Hell, for example. Filth, vermin, rotting diseases, piercings, dismemberments, burning, freezing, suffocating, horrifying mutations, fear, agony - all normally aversive creates a morbid attraction. Fear of heights often comes with the thought of jumping, even though there is the fear of falling. The conscious attitude always has its unconscious mirroring, the Shadow. I acknowledge the Shadow, but I do not identify with 'it.'
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I've enjoyed Knut Hamsuns novels, they held my attention despite not much really happening in any of them. Art depicting very plain lives where we look it peoples little idiosyncrasies, fears, frustrations desires and the intense interest in gossip. I don't remember the name of some novel I read about a hippy growing water melons or something where there was no anticipation of anything in the story at all. Are you saying a cautious, individual would only look at still life and landscapes? while the rest of us fools are playing with hellfire? I don't know if one could look at Venus and not worry about Mars or Saturn, so burn all mythology. I was fucked up enough to watch American Horror Story, the first season was very cool. But I'm bored with haunted houses really. Season 2 was utter shit. I'm fascinated with the movies Inferno, Hellseeker, Deader and Dagon. They are unique horror movies. What about The Violent Kind? WOW that blew me away. Maybe it was just the rockabilly soundtrack.
As far as I can tell enjoying the images in this thread seems to connect me with God The Father.
I'm enjoying folk music allot these days. Its all focused on violence and tragedy. The heart breaking stuff I use to remind myself never to fall in love. Expressing the pain, the blues, through song is my only way forward. There is no just focusing on the positive.
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As far as I can tell enjoying the images in this thread seems to connect me with God The Father.
The Unmanifest Godhead? Definitionally, there is nothing in our awareness that would allow for consciousness of such a connection, which is why in Christian terminology our human egos need to surrender to "the mind of Christ," or Logos, which is the "only begotten" aspect of God that CAN interface with our human egos and survive. You DO continue to exist, even if you feel invisible, depersonalized, derealization. Just trying to align my understanding with yours. I mean, beyond Kether is Ain Sof Aur (Eternal Light), Ain Sof (Eternity), and Ain (Undefined). The Father is Undefined, Unmanifest, utterly transcendent. Just saying, as I understand the terms.
I am not interested in entering into the Hell or Hungry Ghost, or Animal Realms. I mean, I try to befriend animals, not harm them or desire to act as an animal unmediated by the Logos. I am not into suffering, so I do not watch horror films, or read horror stories. In fact, I just stopped receiving Weird News and Crime from Huffington Post on FB because none of it is edifying, it's all just bummerville.
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Is artistic self-expression of dark art a healthy and constructive outlet for something innate or a perpetuating activity that only reinforces those kinds of energies in the mind?
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: WScott]
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WScott said: Is artistic self-expression of dark art a healthy and constructive outlet for something innate or a perpetuating activity that only reinforces those kinds of energies in the mind?
That's a good question. I think it's a matter of degree, like everything else. Suppression and Repression are not the answer, so allowing this stuff to come out is good, but then, what does one do with it. Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, George A. Romero, H.R. Giger, to name a few, have become famous and wealthy with their dark creativity. I don't know any of them personally, so I cannot know how becoming a channel for this stream of contents has effected them. But, it does indicate what kind of images, thoughts, and feelings dominate their inner life. I wonder how much their greater personality has been tinctured (or besmirched) by the continual passage of dark stuff coming from their Shadows.
The average person who cannot transmute the Shadow into marketable, socially acceptable contents may become unduly fascinated with Shadow material. It can seem to take various paths, from outright sociopathy (Satanic, baby-sacrificing shit, and/or extreme sado-masochism, animal cruelty, etc.), to morbidly depressive and potentially suicidal ideation, to Goth aestheticism, to heavy-metal mentality, to dabbling in the (lighter) occult, to a penchant for horror films and books, to a yearly encapsulated acknowledgement on Halloween. In other words, by degrees, and by corollary, from sickness to healthiness.
My wife has been getting on me because I've taken a liking to wearing black harness boots, black belt with silver garrison buckle on my blue jeans, and a black t-shirt. I'm not a biker, a heavy-metal fan, a Satanist, occultist or particularly depressed or morbid. There is something slightly off-putting by the look. Perhaps in unfriendly/hostile Miami, I want to be perceived that way. Inside, I'm all psychedelic colors, rainbows, peacock-tails, and fairly kind. I try to make my backyard look like Pepper Land in the midst of living among Blue Meanies. So, I still think I need a harder persona. But not including truly hurtful things, I did explore satanism when I was a kid, black magick, Black Sabbath music. It was the occult revival of the 70s. Unlike Stephen King's acid trips, this dark, terrifying stuff did not come pouring out. Instead, Light descended from transcendental realms, illuminating the vampyric crypts of my dark unconscious.
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WScott said: Is artistic self-expression of dark art a healthy and constructive outlet for something innate or a perpetuating activity that only reinforces those kinds of energies in the mind?
Inside, I'm all psychedelic colors, rainbows, peacock-tails, and fairly kind. I try to make my backyard look like Pepper Land in the midst of living among Blue Meanies.
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But not including truly hurtful things, I did explore satanism when I was a kid, black magick, Black Sabbath music.

Do you have a well-dressed quartet that plays in your backyard? If so, I'd like to jam with them.
Black Sabbath music has a lot of light at times, even if sad:
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Re: Dark Symbolism and Imagery [Re: WScott]
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WScott said: Is artistic self-expression of dark art a healthy and constructive outlet for something innate or a perpetuating activity that only reinforces those kinds of energies in the mind?
Inside, I'm all psychedelic colors, rainbows, peacock-tails, and fairly kind. I try to make my backyard look like Pepper Land in the midst of living among Blue Meanies.
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But not including truly hurtful things, I did explore satanism when I was a kid, black magick, Black Sabbath music.

Do you have a well-dressed quartet that plays in your backyard? If so, I'd like to jam with them.
Black Sabbath music has a lot of light at times, even if sad:
No quartet (unfortunately), but in the wintertime, the flowering trees, bushes, and vines explode with colorful many-shaped blossoms. Pepper Land was a colorful metaphor for a home-spun oasis. But of course, even micro-paradise is punctuated by cardinals throwing themselves violently against their own reflections on the windows of our house, and the occasional passing reckon taking a shit on the first step of the pool. At least we don't have any Apple Bonkers or Snapping Turks. I wasn't downing Black Sabbath, but their first album corresponded with my reading of the Satanic Bible, and a bunch of low budget witchcraft films I saw in 1971.
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