This pertains to an overlay on the corporeal that, unlike the sidereal, is not shared.
Warning: The following entry may contain triggering material.
When Captain Foxglove acts out of character, I'm inclined to interpret this as reflecting a psychological node of sorts, that is breaking down due to some subconscious program of a sort gathering "error data" of a sort. So, Foxglove, usually encouraging, supportive, incisive with honesty at his worst becomes prone to verbally violent outbursts.
In this instance, however, it holds more significance to me to keep to running with the spiritualist program. I just really feel like I make more progress with believing in the experience than I do with meta-analysis.
So, Foxglove has three faces: the first I saw when I first met him, the second I saw on a quest where I caught sight of him lounging on a grassy cliff by the sea (and I sensed it was Foxglove even though he looked so different), and the third when I followed him down a flight of steel steps and he turned around when I asked to know more about him—and his face shattered, like the spaces between a perfect spiderweb only it was meant to shatter, because behind the human masque revealed pointed petals that blossomed into rows upon rows upon rows of pointed teeth.
That last bit could be another example of error data in my subconscious, though, crossing over my pirate fantasy with one of the Resident Evil genetically engineered monsters. But I told myself that I wouldn't be going with that, at least in this entry.
Because, within the spiritualist paradigm, the thing that I figured out was that while they're all Foxglove, he's managed to get jealous of himself when one face gets more of my consideration than the other.
If only it could have been as simple as some evil mischief-maker stole the image of Foxglove that I knew, to impersonate him getting angry so that I would be upset or misled. Then I just have to call out the trickster and keep it real with Foxglove.
It might still turn out to be that way. The stuff of the otherworld and the otherworld itself can be so capricious.
The very night before this all happened, I did have a dream of my ex-mentor in psychism, let's name him Mar, sat at this bar in a stable and radiated smugness about something terrible that he (Mar himself, not Foxglove) had done to me. While I was embodied in the dream, sitting somewhere across from Mar in this bar that was also a stable, I felt detached and unafraid.
Now I don't know if my own response was because I've developed the strength to have my own standpoint from which I see that Mar is wrong about enough that nothing he does has the effect on me that he intends to have (because I can't respect his point of view anymore) or if my own response was because I've shut down attachments and fears to the point that that I no longer panic when I ought to panic.
Part of me is convinced that this dream meant that Mar did something. This is preposterous to consider, of course, because there's no empirical evidence for that sort of thing. Inner alchemy or practices with similar effect? Maybe. Dreamwalking and curses? I'm not so sure about those anymore.
So I bring it back to mind.
Perhaps there remains a node in my psyche that can manifest as Mar, and that's who corrupted Captain Foxglove somehow, if that is even what the how is. That's the way I'll speak of it, if so, because it's an important distinction for me to make right now between corporeal, certificate-of-life-birth possessing, social-security-number having, other-people-can-see-him-too Marr and surreal Mar.