My idea of cosmopsychism
When I started my paranormal research three years ago, in 2018, I only picked up the terms “conscious Universe” and “Matrix”. I’ll explain. I know I talked about it in earlier books, but now my understanding evolved. Cosmopsychism implies the whole Universe entity is more conscious than every little part. We are talking about cosmopsychism type of "Matrix", because artificial types of Matrixes are not compatible with natural laws, as it seems. Matrix as in the movie is equal to god's existence as a "man in the sky" - it is not reliable. I talk about a naturally evolving RPG in the telepathic network of numerous dimensions. Cosmopsychism = conscious Universe. Matrix = one of dimensions where we’re switched to. RPG is created by evolution.
Cosmopsychism ideas are connected to egregors and archetypes and to the whole RPG theory of subconscious telepathic network. Telepathic network is a neural network. Egregors are lesser neural networks (or similar to it). But egregors can merge and interact. Archetypes are system’s features that are accentuated most and get revealed in everyone. The whole telepathic network consists of information without a source – information is the essence of the world. Egregorial signs get revealed in this dimension. Language plays a big role in showing typical telepathic structures, as this one dimension is an informational psi-entity too.
How does cosmopsychism relate to paganism? First, I think, cosmopsychism is not necessarily to be pagan! A person of any faith can study the paranormal facts and find it valid to some extent. My idea is that both cosmopsychism and paganism bring us closer connected to Nature and its laws. Because cosmopsychism tells us that everything is connected by psi and we all are parts of a global telepathic code! Both cosmopsychism and paganism consider the existence of magic and following typical patterns to recognize how the world works. Magic and psi plays a big role in both cosmopsychism and paganism. I’d like to restore some ancient magic (not sacrifices!). We have to understand what types of telepathic programming works best, because not likely everything our ancestors tried – worked. Most likely, they tried both false and right variants of magic rites and incantations and actions. Nowadays with science only working methods are left alive. But as you see, some forms of pagan sorcery survived through scientific method. Psi-healing, using herbs, scrying are among these. We can keep magic traditions and make Nature our friend – this is the purpose of blending paganism with cosmopsychism. But as I said, cosmopsychism is not a religion – it is a philosophic movement, aspiring to be scientific.
Cosmopsychism world
I would like to tell you a little about my paranormal hypothesis, the existence of which I have been researching for the last 4 years (unofficially enough facts have been accumulated to call it a theory). This is associated with cosmopsychism as a philosophy. The whole concept is called "RPG theory of subconscious telepathic network". Cosmopsychism is the belief that the universe has consciousness as a whole. Cosmopsychism presupposes some kind of coordination of objects in the universe, and my assumption was a telepathic network, which carries out communication between objects. There was a thought that such a network must be subconscious, otherwise we would have known about its existence.
The main idea of my hypothesis is that the world is, first of all, a telepathic structure based on information without a source. The principles of game theory apply primarily to the world. Our world is connected with other worlds with the help of egregorial-informational signs that appear in this life. Telepathy is closely related to the linguistic vision of the world: signs indicating incarnations are material and associated with language (names, surnames, date and time of birth, various data about a person, birthmarks in the form of letters). You can translate names and surnames from different languages backwards (from right to left) - they indicate the life events of a person. There are archetypal plots that appear in real life and are expressed both in signs and in backward texts. Letters from several car number plates can make up meaningful phrases, since there is subconscious coordination between people too.
An important role in this concept is played by water scrying - photos of splashes / glares of water. Having been engaged in this type of paranormal activity for 3 years, I have achieved some success. In the beginning, I was just communicating with the spirits. Soon I started receiving letters, numbers, words, texts through waterglares. Then I began to project my thoughts into the water (to check the possibility of such an activity), and this was confirmed. I solved math problems through the water, guessed words and groups of words, picked by people at the same time with my scrying. Downloaded personal information (gender, height, weight) from the telepathic network. In particular, it was water scrying that reinforced my suspicions that telepathic network exists. After all, the projection of thoughts into water presupposes the existence of telepathy and telekinesis. And the supposed appearance of meaningful texts in water without an observer hints at the existence of a certain force that regulates the appearance of texts from water reflections. Hundreds of carried out experiments convinced me of the reality of scrying as a form of visual art - I was able to express my thoughts through water and receive exactly the information I wanted to draw, including meaningful words and phrases.
This conception is of interest as a philosophy. But it is also important that this may be of interest to science. How many new discoveries can happen, if the world is really arranged this way? This opens up room for imagination. But to speak about such a hypothesis more definitely, we need an officially conducted research, the work of many people. My two files with paranormal research (2018-2021) are, perhaps, only the beginning of a big work in this direction.
Ancient paganism and its development
Pagans believed in "gods"? Ok, most likely they did. But what matters is the truth about reality. If gods gradually became egregors and archetypal characters, then it is closer to the truth. Evolution of religion. Souls with high psi-energy always existed, but ancient understanding of gods differed from "just souls with psi". They thought them to be all-powerful, while in reality souls are not. The whole telepathic system has most psi-power.
Ancient worldview will differ from modern understanding of the world anyway. Because we know more now. Those who stick to religious dogmas, ignore scientific evidence. If our ancestors believed in some gods, we need to know what was the meaning of it. Their views might be "ancient type of science". What was suspected at their times. Now the understanding evolved.
Fairy tales smtms describe initiation rituals or other magic rites. So the symbolism may mean some particular things - some actions needed to perform magic or secret knowledge.
What a modern person misses is that we already take into consideration Jungian archetypes, while dealing with myths. But such notions didn't exist in earlier centuries! A new thing is that archetypes and egregors can be revealed in real life by special "signs".
My idea is practical application of myths to real life – archetypal characters that get reveal irl (in everyone to some extent), while history is influenced by global subconscious telepathic network.
The archetype and reality are more closely connected than we knew before. So it is hard to explain the interconnection. "Souls with high psi-energy" is a vast range of characters. They are many. So we are all gods to some extent. Some suit archetypal mythological images better. They don't keep the title forever. Constant competition. Like May kings and queens.
Due to Frazer, our ancestors worshiped humans with high psi-abilities (able to evoke rain, crops etc.), as they were often considered incarnations of the deities. In early times it was literally meant. So the "deities" seemed to them to be souls with high psi-energy existin in the afterworld.
Surely, details of godly lives in myths were metaphorical, but the thing is, they meant someone real. As you can see, archetypes reveal irl, so most likely they meant a soul that fits a description of a myth better than others. BUT: this is already a modern explanation. The initial explanation was that our ancestors believed in “gods in the sky” from the lack of knowledge about this material reality.
Maybe, some of myths were connected to real existing magicians who lived in earlier times (just exaggerated a lot!) Some of myth meant secret magic rites. Some myths meant an idea of a soul that could represent some egregor (and such souls surely exist).
I see gods as souls with much psi energy. And our ancestors saw it too. But the revelation of irl gods is connected to archetypes. Myths can be about magic rites, existing magicians, or simply an egregor that further gets revealed in real persons.
Svarog is the Slavic god of celestial fire and of blacksmithing. Appeared when humans started to use iron. It's like, making physical abilities god-like. An egregor appeared when appeared an activity describing it. Such "god" could be any dead soul that fitted the description best. Main Slavic worships seemed to be sky, fire, Sun and bearing kids/bearing harvest. Also war and death (several gods).
Archetypes connected to such gods - are filled with egregorial info and actually souls representing it - appeared earlier than "gods". So traces of worshiping magicians too. Magicians with psi-abilities could influence the weather (sky), Sun, heal people (influence death)or help deliver kids, influence crops and war victories. So it seems likely that the concept of “gods” arose from magicians’ worship&some myths showed magic rites.
Another ancient Slavic worship was about dichotomy of upyrs (vampires) and bereginis (rusalki, mermaids, from áåðå÷ü - to guard, or áåðåã - shore) the primitive dichotomy of good and evil. also Belobog and Chernobog. Like “god” and “satan” egregors.
The Slavic cult of Rod and Rozhanitsy (translated like "Kin" and "those who bear") - some researchers connected it with fertility of land/animals/women. It developed in agricultural stage of society. So symbolism reflected worshipping those who bear kids best and worshipping harvest. If to show fertility cult as the only cult existing in paganism, like Varg does, then no wonder mentally ill patients are shunned as "not productive". But pagan gods were many. Especially that cults were centred around nature or human abilities. Another thing is, Slavic pagans didn't always kill the elderly people. Gradually a form of ancestral cult and support for "old age tribe members" was developed. They gave pensioneers separate lands or let them live in everyone's houses for a while.
Magicians' worship was widespread in ancient world, so some myths are most likely a reflection of it. In myths they symbolically meant souls who died and came to the afterworld - their ancestors with high psi-abilities. The world is full of gods. Why I think that magicians'worship is reflected in myth? First, people indeed were worshipped for powers to evoke rain or crops. Secondly, by analogy with a deer cult - a heavenly deer's life was imagined in myths according to the fact that deer was sacred. Myths reflected life. So “gods on the sky” were either anthropomorphized plants/animals/natural events, or people themselves. Ancient people indeed allowed the possibility to drink a soul of a plant with its juice or a soul of an animal with its blood, so the possibility of humans be “gods incarnated” was possible, even while the main gods were trees and animals!
I try not to confuse you. Some myths maybe reflected worshipping magicians and initial spiritual nature of reality (like gods of rain, thunder, harvest, fire, water). Some "gods" reflected worshipping ordinary human abilities. But anyway, believing in “gods on the sky” suggested believing in some soul to exist somewhere in other dimensions!
I am not really a theistic pagan. I just have an idea that worshipping some qualities described in myths inevitably leads to such qualities revealed irl - and most often the myths even appeared AFTER people already revealed such qualities - so it is a hint to more developed souls. The idea of “god incarnate” was more close to humans, than an abstract monotheistic deity of later centuries – godly incarnations were considered more ordinary. I just state that archetypes pictured in myths, reveal in real life in a more precise way. And that sometimes myths (with fictional plots) were based on real persons with psi-abilities.
Our ancestors used lots of different magic rituals, connected to psi-energy. We can't restore everything, as some were prejudice, but some rituals and beliefs can be useful for present society. A better use of telepathic programming is needed and new ideas for it. Our ancestors knew the literal magic meaning of things. If they wanted a spear to be fast, they drew a running animal or a jumping beast or a quick fish on a lance thrower. Literal meanings that modern people prefer to ignore. Sympathetic magic. It’s like "your backward name corresponds to your life aims".
Surely Odin is not the only god - the main gods are represented in all cultures differently. And we could spot some similarities between them and later historical characters - it's just a guess. What I mean is that gods are archetypal constructions. But if a person has signs around oneself, it means having a connection to that godly egregor - it may mean a life purpose. Where we could possibly dig for archetypal characters? To study old gods of different cultures and see if some of mythological features reveal irl, like that "Lennon-Odin" thing. Lots of ancient gods and they are all our subconsciousness that gets revealed irl. It's a multigodly world.
The main godly egregor is one psi-entity - it describes the notion "god" - as something abstract. But lesser egregors of multiple gods exist too. If to search for "archetypal characters revealed irl", it has to be with many details of myths and finding historical characters who fit it. I mean not historical characters at the time of myths, but later in history. Formation of archetypal characters is not a set-forever thing. New myths appear. Characters fitting the old myths may be many or several. It is like a basic logic: we'd call someone a Minerva if they are wise. But the proof to such ideas could be definite myth details coinciding.
Gods of pagans were symbolical to some extent – worshipping egregors, seeing egregors as animate beings. At the same time perfect representatives of egregors were chosen. (an oldest woman in the village – a symbol of Death) It was both honoring the spirit of psi-entity and individuals who represented it.
Worshipping humans with psi-abilities was popular in paganism, due to Frazer. Jesus cult would be pagan if not for Old Testament elements. Psi-abilities don't mean you can "do everything". It is having lots of egregors around you. And some telepathic influence. The system doesn't need a sentinel.
"The god-man is usually expected to vindicate his character by working miracles" (Frazer) By "god-man" they mean an ideal representative of a godly egregor, not an omnipotent deity. But deity worship was present too in pagan cults. An egregor was seen by pagans as an animate entity (and it is, to some extent), that can be installed in a body temporary or permanently. It is a bit complicared. But there's a difference between an omnipotent god and an egregor representative. Maybe ancient people didn't exactly know it though - they just guessed.
I suppose our ancestors believed in some gods, and historians say so. But the thing is, we know now that gods don't live in the sky. So ancient gods became archetypal constructions for us. Another thing is magic: this is real and serious - it didn't change since pagan times. But the main factor here is archetypal plots and symbolic constructions in real life. They get "from books/myths to life" and generally - history characters reflect the will of the crowds.
Reincarnation and archetypes
There was a notion in Slavic songs, that people can turn into trees or birds or animals, when they die. It is actually close to the concept of reincarnation. Slavic people buried the dead in fetal position and sprinkled them with red paint. (a symbol of blood) A sign of the belief in reincarnation. Such burials occurred in Neolithic Europe too.
Genes memories influence basic instincts, vulnerability to illnesses and environmental factors. No full incarnational memory in genes. Considering the spirit's/soul's existence, not likely that all memories are kept there either. It may be possible that we just follow archetypal plots. It may be possible, the main memory of archetypal situations is stored in the global telepathic field, but individual incarnations are not so important. It may mean that we're more connected to the Universe - with the past too, as these are gradually developing evolutional characters. Practically, we can suspect that information about incarnations is passed through global subconscious telepathic network. ( and is stored there) It doesn't have all lives' details - only some crucial facts. Even details are mostly archetypal (as we know, names and numbers and signs can be) But full details are kept in an individual “soul”.
Individual incarnations mean unique characters, but the existence of souls doesn't mean that "a soul" is separate from the whole psi-entity and from subconscious telepathic network. Characters are archetypal and are closely connected to the overall course of historical events.
About archetypal characters: how you really determine a character - as a set of traits? It has some biological and societal laws. The "content" of personality depends on society, but it is all organized by Nature. Personality may be developed from typical structures. I mean, I know that personality has structural division - it was studied earlier. But my point is that the existence of souls doesn't make such structures "vague" or "unknown". It is still the same structure but with psi - what's more, it has origins in archetypes and egregors.
Archetypal memories may be equipped with "videos" of definite places and times. But you know that a soul does not consist of "videos of castles and historic scenes". What's more, the number of such video recollections is usually limited. The basis of a soul seems to be a set of archetypal traits, but it is much more than it. Every soul has its egregors.
Humans might see a soul as an unknown thing, but most likely consciousness has some basic laws. If we can discern structures in personality here on Earth, why would it differ there? If a telepathic network works by archetypes and egregors, seems likely that souls consist of it.
What am I trying to explain? A theory of gaming characters - like in an RPG. We should consider studying how heroes are programmed in videogames. You don't choose a player, but the personality may be constructed like a programmed entity. In particular, I'm thinking of the ways programmers create non-player characters. How to apply it to real life. Not as an insult, but practically: how are they telepathically programmed, in details. It may be a clue to more features here - maybe, if an RPG conception is true. So consciousness doesn't exist separately from experience. We integrate ourselves into the world by reacting to stimuli. Our previous reactions pave our way.
I wrote about archetypal situations in my initial research. So indeed, typical qualities evoke typical behaviour that is determined by archetypal qualities and by egregors of the same content. Character traits are archetypal features. Earthly environment is archetypal situations. How you play is determined by your consciousness. And consciousness has features too.
My idea is about a programmed world - digital. It's the field of information without a source. The overall telepathic network matters. Telepathy is passing the info - info packages. Those packages are in itself consciousness. It's a bit like behaviorism, but it works on another level.
Are our actions consciousness? I guess not, because consciousness is constructed out of genes, societal influence, personal characteristics, crucial life's events, physical and moral qualitities, signs around... so our actions are only a part of how consiousness reveals itself.
Reincarnation is not transmission of instincts and not a superstition. If they call all ancient magic "superstition", then what is ancient in such neopaganism? Our ancestors thought souls to be real, or why would they do magic rituals? Not all ancient rituals were useful, but the worldview was based on psi-knowledge. They seemed to know more than we do now. Now that we went far from our real nature and lost magic skills. We lost the attachment to the supernatural, replacing it with cold materialism. Sympathetic magic (mimicking the effect they wish to reproduce) may be a part of telepathic programming skills. So we have to observe ancient rituals attentively to find if some of it can be applied to modern life (not all). Not everything might work, but some tips can be useful.
Christianity, paganism and monotheism
Concerning the gradual mixing paganism with Christianity. Pagan spells were Xtianized: carriers of evil became not upyrs (vampires), but demons and devils,saviours from evil became not beregini (rusalkas), but christian saints and angels. Xtian dualism was not theologists' imagination, but reflected deep primitive ideas existing since ancient times (Rybakov) I can recall my own magic spell inherited from my great grandmother. Half of words are connected to Jesus and Xtian saints, the other half is pagan: some folk phrases and expressions, also about Nature.
"Good forces" were more christianized - the image of rusalkas as good guardians disappeared and was replaced by Xtian angels. Evil spirits kept more archaic elements even in Xtian folklore.
In particular, my own magic spell mentions evil spirits who live in bogs and reeds (for spirits to become implanted into Nature's objects) - it's animistic.
They say, everyone has a different view on paganism. But paganism is not one faith. e.g. hunters' beliefs in good and evil spirits were mostly replaced by agricultural fertility cult. Was Xtianity a step back to hunter-gatherers society and Varg's - an agricultural cult? History repeats. There're no perfect religions. They are made for masses who can't think for themselves. Only individual spiritual search is perfectly fit for an individual.
The conception of "one god" appeared when people started to personify the whole Nature. Earlier they personified trees and animals as deities and worshipped humans with psi-abilities. Cosmopsychism went a long way from monotheism to philosophy to a scientific view. In reality it's subconscious telepathic network and not "an old man on a cloud".
The main god was present in pagan pre-Slavic culture. Moose Cow or The Invisible Great Mother later. Such god was supposed to live in the sky, as ancient people didn’t know what was above the clouds. The idea of monotheism was slowly developing. “The upper sky” (the third tier) was shown in ancient Tripolye drawings as living by its own life: with arable lands and dogs. So there was a notion about “heavenly life” in pagan culture. (according to Rybakov)
Buddha state and its types seems to be equal to revealing the main godly egregor and similar egregors. There's an idea of "underground Sun" - the sun of the realm of the dead - on some ritual Slavic vessels. So they thought that some Sun shines for the afterworld too.
Seems like lot of pagan cults grew out of vegetation worship. Tree worship, then reverence to animals, then to humans. Maybe even humanism appeared evolutionary. Fertility cult is a form of vegetation cult too. Humans anthropomorphized Nature, that’s why they pictured “the main god” as a human. Then they came to realizing the value of themselves.
Some more about subconscious telepathic network
Why subconscious telepathic network? One of signs are backward texts: they are fulfilled by people who didn't even read them, or didn't know various languages' backward meanings. It is not "materialistic subconsciousness". It is a sign of telepathic commands passed from one to another. Other research data points at this network too: birthmarks are done by subconscious body cells' organization. Mirror names and a cipher were created as if things are connected subconsciously, but it is not a material kind of subconsciosness - passed through telepathy.
Car numbers forming phrases suggest that the drivers subconsciously know where to drive for their cars to form meaningful phrases or "be in the right place at the right time". But you see by observing such data that it differs from ordinary psychology understanding of subconscious.
"In psychology, the subconscious is the part of the mind that is not currently in focal awareness"(Wikipedia)"the totality of mental processes of which the individual is not aware; unreportable mental activities"(http://dictionary.com) It doesn't suggest the existence of a soul.
My definition of subconsciousness would be "telepathic processes of which the individual is not aware". As there also exists conscious transmission of thoughts by telepathy.
About water scrying
Lots of ancient magic rites were connected with water. Water was often considered to be a purifying force. Worship of waterfalls, rivers, sacred lakes was spread among pagans. Sacred waters were considered doors to other worlds or a road, leading to the afterworld. Water scrying is a kind of special divination, providing information about the future and the past.
Gods of the waters existed: Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, Syrens, the water-nymphs; Norse folklore water gods: Bridgi, Kludde, Kraken, Lange Wapper, Lorelei, Margygr, Marool, Nykr, Ran, Raue Else, Mermaid, and so on. Also Laguz rune, it means "water" or "lake". As well as a swan and a frog in Slavic tribes as personifications of water gods. Also Vodyanoy, Rusalki as water spirits.
Water reflection was supposed to have magic qualities: when a human is reflected in the water, one's soul transmits into water, so water contains the soul. Water is supposed to transmit psi-energy. There existed Eneolithic figurines, depicting a woman -"sorceress", telling fortunes with a sacred watercup. By the way, "sorceress" is "÷àðîäåéêà" in Russian, from "÷àðà" - "÷àðêà" - "cup". The one who performes miracles with a cup of water. So scrying played a big part in ancient magic rites.
Water plays a big part in Norse myths: Muspelheim and Niflheim - fire (light) and ice (water) - the creation of the world in Norse mythology. Slavic tribes worshiped rivers and water sources. But later river symbolized Jesus. And Lucifer means "light-bringer". Water reflection method - it's like a marriage between light and water - as light is reflected in water - the initial creation symbolism, as it was before Christianity – fire and water.
Social issues in ancient paganism
Different social issues were observed in pagan traditions, as society’s formation started at ancient times. For instance, social classes and their differences were observed since early centuries. Pagan sacrifices show some evidence to social classes’ stratification.
For instance, a vampire issue. Frazer writes that in some tribes high priests drank animals’ blood in order to be "temporarily incarnate as a deity" (when animals were worshipped). As blood contained animal's soul. But later in the book he writes that ordinary people were not allowed to drink animals’ blood - it was banned. Blood was meant to be like vine - the spirit of vegetation - the soul of a tree or animal. It served divination purpose - installing the spirit of an animal within one's own body. How Frazer explains such a phrase "sacrificed himself to himself (like Odin): a ritual animal sacrifice, first an animal as god was slain, then it was anthropomorphised&an animal became only a part of the ritual - "god's old self".
So, some animals were worshipped as much, that people wanted to become them, to catch their souls into their own bodies (though such idea was not scientific). But not all people were allowed to become like gods, as society wasn’t equal. Later when Nature was getting more anthropomorphized, animals stopped being deities and only served as a sacrifice to more humanlike gods. So we can see some pattern, that first people wanted to become gods themselves, later they chose to make sacrifices to “higher gods” and separate themselves from “gods”.Gradually the idea of godly creatures was evolving to be more detached from humans and from present reality, to be more abstract.
Slavic pagan sacrifices in ancient times were not only war trophies. There were ritual killings of people who had to be cremated together with the deceased chieftains. So actually class differences mattered even in ancient times. Pagan society wasn't equal. Such people were called "ñìåðäû" - peasant people who were dependant on Knyazs. The meaning of the word is maybe "those who died together/were sacrificed". We can also recall ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifices, also some Indian customs – Sati. Frazer actually describes lots of cruel pagan practices in different tribes. So if we want to form an adequate pagan movement, we shouldn’t repeat bad history, just the same as Christianity doesn’t do Crusades and inquisition now.
Catcher in the Rye. German myths: Corn-mother, Rye-mother or Pea-mother – a deity that prohibits children to pick up corn/rye flowers (or she will "catch" them). In Poland and Czechia - the Old Corn-Woman - sits in the corn and strangles children who trample it. The meaning seems like "punishment for misdeeds". If u look at pagan customs by Frazer, it seemed popular to find scapegoats and sacrifices among those "who were the last at harvesting corn" or those who were supposed godly incarnations. So the strongest and the weakest were bullied. It is still present in modern society, unfortunately: hate to those who differ.
So we can see that some social stratification started early and some social groups were more distinct than others. It seems like, all human problems appeared at an early stage of societal development, and modern people are only starting to learn to cope with their cruel history and injustice, and to rearrange their lives.
Pagan features in cosmopsychism
Ancient pagans perceived nature as an animate creature. They saw water, fire, air, earth like living substances. Vegetable worship was connected to the harvest and its ability to provide for the whole tribe. For instance, the corn-spirit in a form of a bull/horse/pig. Early anthropomorphizing started when people perceived plants as animals or human beings. They knew evolution instinctly. The sun, the moon, the stars were personified, as well as water, fields, forests, wind, Earth – as human beings. As pagans were closer to Nature and and thought it more “alive”, than now when people mechanically destroy Nature. Being “human” was the highest praise to Nature. Cosmopsychism is close to animism – the belief that all nature has a living soul. That’s what connects it to paganism most.
Magic (psi-healing, using herbs, different forms of divinations, scrying) plays a part both in paganism and cosmopsychism. My idea of cosmopsychism is based on the notion of subconscious telepathic network, that leaves room for lots of miracles that can possibly happen.
Another point is the existence of magicians with archetypal qualities. It is valuable both in paganism and in cosmopsychism. Alfoers of Celebes (magicians) gathered souls in a bag and then gave it away to people back. (maybe Santa's gifts are related to this custom) They had different techniques of catching souls! It may be related to Santa (Odin, whatever) like a Wild Hunt - gathering the souls. So the myth points at an ancient custom, so indeed we see that a myth points at a magic rite, as I said earlier. It might have occured telepathically or historically. The idea of "gathering souls" by psi-influence seems to be ancient and archetypal. Magicians always played a big part in tribes. "Gathering" mostly meant some psychological influence.
Animal worship is connected to animism and can be a part of some pagan traditions. How is my type of cosmopsychism related to that? "Deer pic" (rehpic - cipher) in research has another connotation, as Slavic tribes believed in a deer cult (that appeared before bear cult) so a "reed" might symbolize deer. They had drawings of heavenly deers and Ursa Major was caled The Elk. Winter lair of a bear is called "áåðëîãà" in Russian - "ëîãîâî Áåðà". - "Borr's lair". Borr is the father of Odin. So animal cults are further in time than Odinism, even in symbolism.
The main gods and moral qualities. Good and evil was presented in Slavic mythology not only as Belobog&Chernobog. Also as Srecha/Dolya (dole)(Ñðå÷à, Äîëÿ)&Nesrecha/Nedolya (Íåñðå÷à, Íåäîëÿ) Srecha spins the thread of life. Nesrecha spins a too thin thread of life, that can be easily torn. The notion about revealing godly egregors exists in several religions, but it is called different names. Avatars of Vishnu, states of Buddha, "incarnations of gods" in paganism.
Animism and deism have common features. It's very dubious to predict thoughts of ancient people - how they really thought of the world. Belief in spirits that hide in trees and animals and stone. How do we know what type of spirits our ancestors thought of? Maybe they thought them to be human, imagining the godly spirit could happen by analogy with human spirit, as our ancestors knew no other example of highly conscious behaviour. The border between animism and deism might be vague. Even if spirits inhabited plants, their souls could be humanlike. Then, then notion of "god" being outside or inside the world - is actually vague. It could be both or none. Pagans indeed observed Universe objects as animate. For instance, to “guard the Sun” was an ancient rite at Ivanà-Kupala night – to watch the play of Sun. So people celebrated all night: burned fires and waited for the sunrise. Observing Nature’s patterns.
All in all, paganism and cosmopsychism have common features. It is possible to integrate paganism into cosmopsychism. I feel it is important, as cosmopsychism without historical roots can be dubious philosophy. The point is to make cosmopsycism a blend of several philosophical ideas, that can describe the world best, based on material and statistical facts. The idea is to see paganism not only as a religion, but as future science – the old ways how our ancestors received knowledge about the world. So cosmopsychism is a logical continuation of paganism – observing the world and making conclusions. We have difficulties at integrating ideas from different fields, as cosmopsychism is actually not a religion. But the thing is, all historic data can be useful for exploring the world. The borders between different social fields are not too restrictive.
Conclusions about the version of cosmopsychism that my concept offers
This concept of the world appeared suddenly and requires some kind of rethinking of reality. It is difficult to determine to which sphere of human activity this concept belongs. We need to understand what results we want to get from scientific activity in the direction of cosmopsychism. At the moment, cosmopsychism is a philosophy, but we see in it religious motives (both pagan and Christian), we see specific ideas for scientific work. Some other understanding of this line of thought is needed.
Cosmopsychism is a too all-encompassing idea. This gives more directions for the development of the concept, but also scatters attention a little. Both scientific work in this direction and individual rethinking of reality are important. The truth about reality is important, and it can be outside of religions. We know that science explains the structure of the world. If some concept explains how the world works, it will be close to the scientific worldview, if based on observations, experiments. Cosmopsychism is not for building temples.
Perhaps we should separate the religious and philosophical aspects of cosmopsychism in the form in which it is presented in my works. There are many difficulties in this concept, for example, questions of the relationship and interaction of part and the whole, the question of free will, the question of the distribution of psi-energy between people and objects in the telepathic network, the question of predictability of events, etc. In general, the concept seems to be worth organizing scientific work in the direction of this particular version of cosmopsychism. But this must be done in syncretism with other directions of human thought.
On religious cults and personality cults
As we can see, our ancestors had widespread worship of people who represent the egregor of God best of all, either possessing magical abilities, or having any other skills that distinguish them from the rest. How has this vision of the world developed in the present? First of all, the prevalence of various religious cults of people, often these are small and in no way grounded cults. Various speculations on the themes of "divinity" and "righteousness." In more modern history, there are personality cults, when popularity and fame for some particular quality presupposes a crowd of fans. On the one hand, we understand that people have the right to admire some personality traits and "the fullest manifestation of egregors in them" and gain life experience from other people. On the other hand, history teaches us that personality / religious cults have often had sad consequences. In fact, nobody is perfect.
Modern life dictates its own terms. We understand that this version of cosmopsychism is very "personally grounded", but it is also clear that this concept can have meaning for everyone. Another important fact is that with just such unfavorable incarnations, the creation of a cult would be an immoral, contradictory and even harmful idea. The creation of a cult from the incarnations of murderers is unacceptable.
I think that in recent years I have pointed out quite often that I am here mainly to inspire further research into cosmopsychism and water scrying, not for cults. Humanity needs to work together on paranormal data. We can take a fresh look at events in our lives and the world around us by studying paranormal data. But it will be a factual worldview. Religious views (in this case - paganism) will be an addition to the scientific picture of the world and are not the basis of my theory.
Certainly certain incarnations involve responsibility. But here the concept was created by itself from the found paranormal facts. Therefore, it is rather the responsibility of the researcher. I myself adhere to the principles of secular humanism and do not consider it necessary to write commandments. My concept is, rather, a problem in my life that I have to solve. But I hope for your understanding.
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