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From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment
Aether, the Void, Upper Sky, the pure essence, where the gods lived and that which they breathed (in Greek Mythology), the substance which fils all of space, the "fifth element".
Aether (also referred to as Ether) in relation to ' We're our own imagination' is an incomprehensibly vast pool of energy that all consciousness joins at one point or another.
Commenteers have theorised that the Ether is drawn upon by many revolutionary minds when thinking "ahead of their time". It has also been noted that this Ether seems to pool in certain areas through the course of history, relevant examples being San Francisco during the late 1960's and 70's, Black Rock City or ancient Athens. As Hunter S. Thompson said, "it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."
Connotations of reincarnation can be assumed, and obviously 'life after death'. I'll leave defining the 'life' part from that sentence to someone else.
Peter Carroll speaks of aether as an indeterminate, non-physical realm, halfway between the completely unmanifest, completely free chaos or Tao, and the determined, mechanistic physical reality. Aether may be seen as the subreality at the quantum level which can be affected by consciousness, and can also affect macroscopic material reality. Quantum theory tells us that when we perceive things we change them on the quantum level. Thus perception affects the aether. Will also affects the aether, of course. Thus will and perecpetion have the same source - pure Chaos or Tao or Kia - exist in the same realm - aether - and act upon the same realm - physical reality. Will and perception (represented by the wand and cup in magick, the lingam and yoni in Hinduism, or the ! and ? in The Ultimate Comment) are thus intimitely linked. We're our own imagination.
