RECENT QLIPOTHIC EXPERIENCE

 "Oh god, oh fuck, what is the Trashaman going to rant about now?!" Glad you asked! The gist of it is that I read a passage of certain book (details later) and things have happened in the last three days. Spooky things corroborated by third party witnesses but I know you do not care for veracity, so I will stick to the interesting parts:

>get e-mail from BALG

>"new book, read free chapter here!"

>okay.jpeg

>Asenath Mason's third chapter on qliphotic tradition 

>tl;dr inner soul travel

>you "astral project" inside yourself, experience own psyche as a place

>talk to "demons" that bully you into being normal

>good book but not my thing for now

>Lafcursiax's ambassador thinks the contrary

And then it begins.

>few hours later dog acts up

>stares into wall, might be rats

>actual black rat on couch 

>snarling at dog

>rat turns into spider and pops out of view

>whoa_mama.wav

>not the first time, ignore

>but then the voices start speaking

>turn to mom, ask if she said anything

>she denies

>hear her mumble something

>it is not her talking though

>heard it too

>haha what a scare! Right?

>this keeps happening thru 3 days

>hear us being called from other rooms

>billowy cloud of static snow crosses room

>from wall to wall

>shrug and blame my shitty glasses

Next day:

>hear idle singing in kitchen

>think it must be my mother cooking

>mom opens door from library and walks out

>look at kitchen

>a woman with waist-level black hair stands there

>giving me her back

>wears old-timey teal  dress

>refuse to acknowledge

>I know it is there, I know what it is

>not gonna address it out of contempt

>was not called, was not invited, will not budge

>later on a shape like golden potato sack stands up from behind couch

>big man standing in garden leering at me few hours later

>knife in one hand, cannot see the other, vanishes in a blink

>recite exorcism before bed time

>it did not help

>the ambassador appears in dreams

>we talk, explain I am not ready

>she disagrees but accepts

>banging on front door wakes me up

It was a drunk neighbor. Dumbass lost his keys and could not say where he was. Should have invited him in for coffee and cuffed him to a radiator for the night instead.

>return to bed annoyed

>loud, slapping noise next to me

>ears ringing slightly, gust of wind

>felt like letting a plank hit the floor flatly

>the smell of burnt blackpowder alerts me

>open wardrobe, smell intensifies

>handgun is there somehow

>resting on folded pair of jeans

>it shot by itself without even being cocked 

Luckily for me it is a Derringer signaling gun, it fires nothing but blanks. Should have been unloaded and in my safe, stored away until it is New Year's Eve as it is the safer and cheaper alternative to fireworks. Or shooting live rounds haphazardly into the air, really.

I guess this was L's parting "gift" which it surprises me. Qliphotic entities are, to the best of my knowledge, beings with very little interest in manifesting outside of the so-called Tunnels of Set. I guess I will take a deeper look when time allows it but it would seem I made a new friend! :)

During that time a delivery man dropped his cargo on our garden using the back entrance, something I had not realized but gave no thought, thinking maybe either of my parents had supplied him with a key. I ask for said key back and the delivery man explains my own "mother" let him, which is really interesting seeing how I was alone at the time. Either way I am changing the locks. Imagine someone really has a copy of your keys but you refuse to do anything, chalking it up to spirits instead!

Now onto the technical details:

1.- What is this about a qliphotic tradition?

If you do not know already then it is not for you.

No, really, not trying to be a pseudo-intellectual elitist here. All I am saying is that it is an advanced subject that you should not explore from the get go only due to its complexity, all those warnings about inherent dangers are for the most part exaggerations from armchair theorists, and people who love to feel important by pretending to be "guardians" of obscure knowledge.

The general caveats apply, though. 

My tale could have been avoided by doing a simple exorcism from the get go but instead I chose to overpower the phenomena by actively ignoring them, but to answer your question, the qliphoth are creatures that represent vices and the darker side of human psyche, and serve as cruel teachers that throw your personal defects back into your face. You are in a way going on a field trip to Hell and back to learn about what makes you a better person. 

2.- How does anything of this work?

Lets put it this way. You really do not need to tell people how certain things are wrong to do, and most accept they should not even think about doing certain things, ok? The problem is that human nature is as rational as it is animalistic so it is only inevitable that a clever person realizes the truth: they will not pursue egoist and criminal behavior out of fear for retribution.

It is useless to tell these people how wrong they are if they know they can get away with it.

The qlipoth are the living embodiment of reverse psychology. No, I am not claiming that they really are there to help you, that they are just scary, misunderstood monsters with a golden heart, what I am saying is that they lead by example and show you the consequences of excess. Are they downright evil or antithetical to life or your soul because of it? No, not really. The Kabbalah is a practical system plagued by dogma and musings on morality that really have no place in it. It is comparable to finding prayers sandwiched between a vacuum cleaner's instruction booklet.

By the way, and please keep in mind this subject is not my forte, this works in the sense that you fall in trance and go with the visions you experience, which are transformative in nature. The closest non-paranormal version of it is clinical hypnosis, but your guide is a literal demon instead of a certified mental health professional. Results may vary.

3.- So are demons evil or not?

You need to divorce yourself from this dichotomy of "good versus evil" or "Heaven and Hell" as it is a very, though safe, simplistic view on the matter and amounts to asking if this or that group of people are wholly good or evil. The word "demon" is used to designate beings of spiritual nature that are not worshiped as deities. Even though the Kabbalah may designate these beings as evil it is little more than ordering wholly-unexplored data into sides and categories that really do not apply.

You will see this frequently in demonology which though it claims to study demons it merely records and ordains the spiritual from our mundane point of view. An example of this is Dictionnaire Infernal of Collin de Plancy, which sets a number of demons in hierarchies similar to the aristocratic European denominations (kings, counts, dukes and so on). Other works, if memory serves, attribute regions of the world as under the dominance of this or that demon, claims that do not hold up to the true practitioner's scrutiny.

What matters is that evil has no other origin but the heart of selfish people and opportunity. I am not saying that spirits cannot manipulate you, they are bodyless intellects with wants and needs after all so honesty may vary as with any random person you might encounter on the street, what I am saying is that just as we all need transcendental reasons to our existence? We also need someone to take the blame for our misfortunes to circumvent accountability. Just as the folklore idea of changelings was used to justify the unfortunate behavior or parents affected by post-partum depression, modern occultism is rife with convincing superstitions and very little practical knowledge.

Bottom line is: play it safe and disregard the advice of cowards, for the most part.