Let me explain a little something right now that I feel I need to.
I'm very familiar with Qabalah and understand its routes in the Talmund. As am I very familiar with Paganism and neo-spirituality. My mum classes herself as a white witch and is a certified crystal healer and Tarrot reader. I have my own Tarrot deck that I was gifted on my 16th birthday and have grown up in an environment of esoteric-ism, and have spent many years of my life since childhood having that paradigm as a substantial part of my perception of reality.
I'm
very intimate with the place you are speaking from, please don't think my opinions come from a position of naive-ity.
It may confuse you then why I am arguing against what you're saying. Think about it. For someone that spent so long believing in it completely, why do I take so much of it with a pinch of salt now, when I used to utterly believe in what you're trying to express?
Say you're out and you speak with someone that agrees with your perspective, one that isn't so readily accepted in a neo-western culture. You both have a riveting conversation and speak about all manner of complex aspects of the belief system, and the other person confers your thoughts and strengthens them with their own aggreance.
So you come away from that experience believing in the system more. But is it not true (and something that I had a massive issue coming to terms with), that you are simply both regurgitating second hand information you have both picked up from the same belief paradigm? The mistake is believing that the situation you just experienced some how reinforces the objective validity of the concept. The only thing it validates is you met someone else interested in the same 'phillosophy' as you. Its important to see it as that.
Arguing that 200 years ago you would be punished by wizards for sharing secret information (and actually believing that!) is fooling yourself. You only think that because at some point you read it somewhere, someone told you, or you shared a common experience with someone in the same belief system and somehow that opinion came from that.
parson wrote:i'm not reciting a manual about visits to the moon
... yuhuh... unless you have something completely original to tell me, yes you are.
Its dangerous to take on this stuff as gospel, that's the biggest thing I learned. That it's nothing beyond a collection of beliefs. The only truth is your own truth, things you have experienced, you carry baggage of concepts you have picked up along the way and been conditioned by, you have to see that and be careful in how your mind develops. Me 'completely' accepting everything i was bought up to believe in would be the equivalent of me becoming a Jehova's Witness if i was bought up in a christian house hold. You have to challenge things, and keep challenging things and challenge the things come upon through those challenges, keep peeling away the layers of the onion, never accept anything as true, see everything as half truths, even the things you've spent so long trusting in.
That is the only way to truly expand your consciousness.
I refer back to the exert of that poem.
