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Esoteric Wizardry

Seeker 2017-01-31 00:07:49 No.12653

JOY is objectively the greatest emotion in a cost to benefit analysis.

Will JOY into every macro and micro process and part of your physiology.

Enjoy the benefits of a reformed body, will and awareness that now runs on the JOY OS.

I suggest that JOY is closest to life force, and can move between active and passive states effortlessly. I also suggest that JOY boosts intelligence, power, flow, wisdom, creativity and productivity. Thus, one should choose JOY as their favorite emotional 'flavor' for it has the least cost and greatest benefits.

The reason it is the best is because one's body does not need to defend itself from it, and likes to be shared. It is fulfilling and healthy.

Love on the other hand can lead one to self-sacrifice and thus the user may not defend themselves, and become too passive to attacks.

Hate has more killing potential, but is difficult to maintain for any extended period of time without constant negation from turning on its user. Yes? Also, it tends to destroy other emotions whilst positive ones permit co-existence and thus a greater repertoire and reservoir of energies and powers to draw from. Greyscale vs color.

Discussion:

>What magics are possible with different emotions?

>What capacities and abilities are gained through different emotions?

>Positive vs Negative emotions and emotional affinities for combo moves and synthesized emotions/fuel e.g. courage + hate + pride = war???

Seeker 2017-01-31 09:09:02 No.12657 >>12664 >>12673

Define joy

how is it different than happiness

how isn't this just another "think positive thoughts" technique? Not saying it doesn't work, but it's pretty much the same idea

>being happy feels good

>not being happy feels bad

>try to be happy as much as you can

Seeker 2017-01-31 20:51:31 No.12664 >>12673

>>12657

>Define joy

This may not be what OP means, but I really like C.S. Lewis' definition of joy and I think it's a valuable one. From his autobiography, Surprised By Joy:

'The second glimpse came through Squirrel Nutkin; through it only, though I loved all the Beatrix Potter books. But the rest of them were merely entertaining; it administered the shock, it was a trouble. It troubled me with what I can only describe as the Idea of Autumn. It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamoured of a season, but that is something like what happened; and, as before, the experience was one of intense desire. And one went back to the book, not to gratify the desire (that was impossible–how can one possess Autumn?) but to re-awake it. And in this experience also there was the same surprise and the same sense of incalculable importance. It was something quite different from ordinary life and even from ordinary pleasure; something, as they would now say, "in another dimension".

The third glimpse came through poetry. I had become fond of Longfellow's Saga of King Olaf: fond of it in a casual, shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms. But then, and quite different from such pleasures, and like a voice from far more distant regions, there came a moment when I idly turned the pages of the book and found the unrhymed translation of Tegner's Drapa and read

I heard a voice that cried,

Balder the beautiful

Is dead, is dead—-

I knew nothing about Balder; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky, I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described (except that it is cold, spacious, severe, pale, and remote) and then, as in the other examples, found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it.

The reader who finds these three episodes of no interest need read this book no further, for in a sense the central story of my life is about nothing else. For those who are still disposed to proceed I will only underline the quality common to the three experiences; it is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and from Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again. Apart from that, and considered only in its quality, it might almost equally well be called a particular kind of unhappiness or grief. But then it is a kind we want. I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.'

OP 2017-02-01 04:19:40 No.12673

>>12664

>>12657

Well personally I see the idea of it as being that you map your organs and thoughts and sensations with the intention of JOY so that your body is accessed by JOY rather than something shitty, thus anything negative that happens to your energy is diminished and easily handled.

As well, JOY is co operative so they all connect and interact very well. And anything negative that comes up is transmutated into something positive instead, rather than making you feel worse; even depressed mean people can be enjoyable. Unbearably positive… oh woe to the woeful.

Negative is fine I guess but the laughing, unbearably happy murder psycho is just as effective as the dark miserable one. The positive one probably lasts longer as well.

You have to challenge a positive status with external negativity however, which makes one great for handling the dark and tragic things of this world.

Enlightenment, the ineffable, is probably best for existential tragedy or terror. Joy is more grounded than that I feel, and is better suited for an Earthly existence… though this image is biased and up for interpretation.

One could take the whole top of this chart and recreate your own with all the positive buzzwords you value and make that what you inject and imbue your body, mind, awareness, breath and soul with. Make a color wheel even, and put positive emotions for each color, ala http://13chakras.com and focus on these when you need them throughout the day and in meditations.

Emotions can be on-demand, creating a very liberated existence. Vulnerability then is the sort of anti-thesis to this and can be practiced separately for balance.

Or even practice negative emotions after the positive, for some very enlightened existence.

Just throwing ideas out there. Emotions need not be such a wild ride because it's "natural". Practice their foundation and call on them like the elements!