From tyagi@bjt.net Wed Dec 18 01:24:41 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com (kudonet.com [165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22085 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:24:36 -0500 Received: by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA13051; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:14:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:14:07 -0800 Message-Id: <199612180514.VAA13051@kudonet.com> To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Subject: Satanism/9612.ghoulsm.bj From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Status: O >From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) >Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.satanism,alt.evil,alt.religion.orisha >Subject: BJonell: Ghoulism >Followup-To: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.satanism,alt.evil,alt.religion.orisha >Date: 17 Dec 1996 02:07:37 -0800 >Organization: KudoNet On-Line Services >Lines: 83 >Sender: tyagi@bjt.net >Message-ID: >References: <577g25$4jg@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> <32a8f8d8.441706@news.demon.co.uk> <58g494$5hq@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <58g7aq$c7b@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <58ltln$2d2@nyheter.chalmers.se> >Reply-To: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) >NNTP-Posting-Host: kudo.kudonet.com >Xref: kudonet.com alt.magick.tyagi:8433 alt.magick:77261 alt.satanism:47087 alt.evil:33447 alt.religion.orisha:233 [from alt.horror.cthulhu: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)] In article <58g7aq$c7b@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>, David Brazil wrote: > Another point about interbreeding; humans can somehow be transmuted >into ghouls, as seen in "Pickman's Model," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown >Kadath," etc. How is this achieved? Does some type of ghoulish >practice revive dormant human DNA which contain "ghoul" codes? Howabout this: 'Ghoulism' is essentially a state of changed brain activity(1) where the lower reptilian parts of the brain (eat, sleep, fuck(2)) are much more influential than the convoluted surface of the brain, which normally is what our conciousness uses. (In other words: they don't have a concious and an unconcious part of the mind, they are integrated, albeit the part that was the unconcious is much more influential than the part that was the concious. This also means that they don't sleep and dream, or rather they are always simultaneously awake, dreaming and sleeping, which explains why they and their tunnels exist in parelell in the Dreamlands) This brain activity makes various glands (the pitutary(sp?) etc) excrete different hormones than they normally do, which cause the physical changes. According to some theories users of different languages have physical differences in their brains, ie different languages stimulate different parts of the brain into developing. This gives a clue about how humans can change into ghouls. The ghoul language stimulate the right parts of the brain, and may over time cause it to switch into ghoul mode. This is a gradual process, not a sudden switch, but it can take place even if just *listening* to ghoul speech, depending on individual suceptibility. This is why ghoul speech is decribed in vague terms like 'gibbering' and 'meeping'. It is indecribable and incomprehensible to a human in human mode since the brain in that state simply can't grasp it. If you understand it, you're probably a ghoul or well on the way of becoming one(3). Ghouls on the other hand can learn human speech, but tend to use it in a strange manner. If they are isolated from other ghouls and only listen to human speech for a long time they tend to be less and less ghoulish and more and more like humans. Children and infants switch the easiest, both from human to ghoul and the reverse. With increasing age switching takes longer and longer and ultimately becomes impossible, although this is unlikley to happen before the age when the brain starts to decline in capacity. A given individuals difficulty in changing from ghoul to human is not necessarily equal to the difficulty of changing from human to ghoul for the same individual. Generally low SAN, nocturnal activity cycles and many recent ancestors that were ghouls or humans that had been ghouls make it easier to become a ghoul and harder to become a human. High SAN and extremely few recent ancestors that are ghouls or have been ghouls make it easier to become human and harder to become a ghoul. Rumour has it that ghoulism can be triggered by visual impressions. (Pickmans paintings for example?:) It is quite possible that the state of ghoulism was the normal state of humans, since it is the way an animal might behave if it had the brain of a human, and that the 'normal' state of humans is a recent aberration. (1) Epileptic fits are also a state of changed brain activity, albeit temporary and not semi-permanent like ghoulism. (2) Lovecrafts sensibilities made him focus on the eat part: they eat everything edible that doesn't move (and some things that do move) especially ghoul and human carcasses. (3) When Randolph Carter spoke with the ghouls he had gone through the Door of the Silver Key and wasn't human anymore. He wasn't ghoul either, though... > David -bertil- -- "It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. 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