“Sinister Forces” Ft. CJ @FireBloodBone, Fr. @Solar_Exile Ep. 99

Thank you so much, CJ.

I appreciate that.

So why don't we actually start there? Let's start at, I was honestly, okay, this is what I was thinking pre-recording.

I was like, I'm going to go on and I'm going to tell CJ, like, he's got to behave.

He's got to be good.

He has to, you know, like not too much magic, but then I actually reassessed and I was like, you know what? He can say whatever he wants to say and express himself in whatever way he wants.

And that goes for solar as well.

So yeah.

Um, we'll just have a free range like sorceress discussion.

And I feel like that'll be the most generative, most productive.

So that being said, um, uh, Dharma protectors, what do you think that looks like on the new world island CJ and how would you interact with them?

Um, well, I recently started just kind of a thought experiment and I wrote an article about it.

Um, I believe the article was called, uh, The restless ghost at the cry baby bridge on that lonesome road is tomorrow's Dharma protector.

And I mean, it sounds like just kind of a nuts and bolts, like just a spooky idea.

But if you think about it, it is really deep because even that restless ghost or that fragment or whatever you want to call it, even that has Buddha nature within it.

And That's kind of where that thought experiment got me.

When I was a little bit younger, I mean a couple years, I used to daydream about doing spirit subjugation on the Bell Witch.

And that does kind of ring back to the idea of Padmasambhava coming into Tibet and subjugating a lot of the demons and wrathful spirits of that land to make life better for the people.

But Yeah, I'm just curious what you think about potentially Dharma practitioners in America nowadays going around and not just subjugating spirits, but kind of healing the land in a way.

Okay, well, thanks, CJ.

That's a huge question.

You know I'm going to approach it more conservatively, whether I am fully on that polarity, we'll call it, like what my private thoughts are versus like how i'm gonna articulate it might be a little slightly different but i'm gonna you know i try and come thing come to these ideas honestly so for me i think cultivation of the mind number one and i think that that is um how you heal the land as well like the geo-ontological relationships I think that happens on the primordial ground.

That's sort of the fundamental place where all of these things can come into focus and clarity and understanding.

And so for me, I am, as you know, CJ, I do not really do ghost practices other than like Gana Chakra Puja or, you know, like I don't really do Chud or any of those, like the ghost calling rituals.

But for me, I definitely think, yakshas.