I was tripping pretty damn hard the other night and decided to listen/watch EA Koetting’s video “The Black Alchemy of Belial”.
I had never watched one of his videos while on a psychedelic drug, but I was feeling very powerful and decided to seek some guidance on youtube that might help me decide how to use the energy I was aware of/in possession of…
It was a really intense experience. On his left, where he has his bones and cleaver hanging on the wall, I saw a hooded entity. It was there, as real as you and I… The figure was like Death/The Grim Reaper… Holding something in his hand, dangling it over Koetting. The being itself also was a doorway/portal/gateway to a realm of the dead and the dark… It was intense.
To his right, in the black mirror, I saw the image of gateways within gateways, portals within portals… Like when you take a camera and face it to a screen that is streaming the video footage that you’re capturing on the camera… A mirror within a mirror within a mirror… and on for infinity.
Koetting himself, sitting in between these two gateways became a bridge between the portals. But, him being the central connection between the two gateways, he became the third realm. Here, I realized that when he speaks of Gatekeepers, he is also speaking of himself. In my psychedelic mind, looking him straight in the face and listening to his words as if he was speaking directly to me in the same room, his words indicated that we were in a special place, and are of a special sort of breed. The Gatekeepers. Able to see, communicate with, and travel through many different gates, doorways, and portals to other worlds with other beings, but also the guardians and creators of our own gates, into our own worlds…
When I saw him in ritual, with the smoke, in front of the black mirror, I saw an entity in armor made of metal and bone, as black as the void itself, and as royal as the purple used to frame the black mirror…
This whole experience sent me into a very beautiful, powerful, and dark trip. Just witnessing the video made my open and closed eye visuals skyrocket in terms of their intensity…
I’ll post the video I watched at the end of this post. I’m curious to see your online psychedelic experiences during your own research/work… Or any psychedelic experience tied into your practice at all. Please share. <3