Spirituality for Living

To deify the inner self is to set it up as an unreachable god. Obviates the validity of a path of any kind. Individuated self has a place, and it isn’t some inane handout till some god gets to gobble us up. The individuated self exists in the context of the greater spirit.

In the way, in the flow of the spirit, individuation isn’t just a quirk or a bad cosmos joke. Individuation is necessary for the actualization of the infinite. The great center is there, and is in every heart. But we are not it, not meant to be it. Not meant to describe ourselves as separate from it either. This is perhaps a paradox, but it is true.

To deify the inner self and to obviate choice is to deny the landscape of individuation. Choice is our nature, it unfolds through us. In fact, people make poor choices in [...] Continue to Seek…

We heal by knowing why we are where we are, and maybe discovering how that can change. For all our pursuit of light, we still fall into darkness. It is a part of the cycle. The right hand is strong. The left hand is sensitive.

In general, we live with people who are eager to see evil, but if you see how your brother suffers clearly it changes everything. Suffering in normal circumstances exhausts itself. Refusal to let another suffer often wraps them in suffering. For me the dark path is mine, but there is compassion even in darkness. In suffering, in deeply suffering, you come to learn the limits of suffering. In learning the limits of suffering you also learn the true bounds of joy. Feeling for another is the start of a path. It’s not an easy path, but it is valid. I know that way.

Grieving is an [...] Continue to Seek…

We call some energies positive and others negative. What I would caution any healer is to not assume an energy is to be removed or rejected. There are those who without choice and just by nature are negative. This doesn’t mean they are destructive. They can be a fire wall fighting fire with fire. It is just how they are. I feed on negativity, but when I am done they are not left trapped.

Is it harder to heal someone with different energy then you? Actually no. The awareness is the same despite energy alignment, though it can create tension in the one seeking healing as they sense the differing energy. Not knowing negativity and not being a creature of negativity, you are often at a disadvantage when dealing with it. Positive people tend to be able to feed positivity. Negative people can exhaust negativity. Positive people tend to feed [...] Continue to Seek…

Perhaps less philosophical is therapeutic touch. Therapeutic touch has been found to reduce the nervous defence response. This is the biggest part of its healing benefit. They have done extensive studies on a phenomenon called biophilia. We inherently are comforted by life. Even loud noisy life, wild life, and more than life in general we have the safety in numbers instinct. The sound of a human voice speaking calmly, calms, no matter who you are.

You have no choice but to be a part of the energy, and you never cease your connection. If hypothetically you could, you would die. Then you would be in for a shocking surprise, because you still wouldn’t disconnect. It’s the source of even new life and the destination of a mortal life lived. This is why we can feel the presence of ghosts. They didn’t go somewhere else in space. Like all energy they just changed state.

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Energy healing is both very simple, and perhaps one of the most complicated subjects in this field. We live and breath in a field of reality. We are fed and feed into an ecosystem of energy. It is alive and has rhythms and patterns all its own. What we call our feelings and health is not strictly ours. This is why another can use energy to heal. This energy has a memory and is the precursory to the constructs of consciousness we call minds. Thus empathy can affect health. Even a lack of empathy is in fact still the same force, just balanced negatively.

We feel energy all around us. Sort of like the environment supporting a human baby in uterus. We are dependant on energies we don’t ourselves create; food, air, and actually even love. The exchange of spiritual energy is necessary for health and well being. We absorb [...] Continue to Seek…

What is the difference between Luciferianism and Satanism? Actually there are a few different traditions that get called Satanism. As a whole the Satanism that scares people is a creation of the Catholic church. A counter cultural movement that arose from second sons being forced into the clergy and resenting it. Luciferianism stems from the influence of Greek culture on the Celtic. It arose as an almost Gnostic insight when the Celts were exposed to Greek thinking through the Catholics.

Lucifer is the Romanized name for Lugh, the chief Celtic god, the shining one. Lugh is a name that has been used a lot (like Latinos use Jesus), and Irish lore goes back to prehistoric times. Lugh wasn’t evil. Catholicism to be universal absorbed the traditions of many faiths then demonized them. The original Lugh was a pagan ancestor deity type. They linked him to the Yezidi melek ta’us, also [...] Continue to Seek…

Satanism is a descriptor some people have applied to other beliefs versus a belief itself? It has evolved and some have accepted the related ideas. Basic teachings of Satanism are:

Ecstatic practices
Self acceptance
Embracing both the darkness and the light in life

The most public Satanic church is in fact almost atheistic. It acknowledges human need for religion and embraces a doctrine of accepting human nature.  They adopted the symbol of Satan for its connection to what was reviled by orthodox faiths. Showing their embracing of it. Their philosophy is not amoral.  It is a more naturalistic morality.

In the Greek system where we get the word demon (daemon which meant spirit of any kind), there were two classes of daemon;

Calodaemons, the guides and supporters of humanity
Cacodaemons, the bringers of plague and hardship and the fomenters of civil unrest

In the Bible the plague bringers are often “holy angels”, bringing Gods just wrath. Seems [...] Continue to Seek…

Satanism is more complex than people see it and it has had a long history. The Knights Templar were accused of it and many factions of Christianity were dismissed as Satanism including most if not all Gnostic Christianity. So there have been different nested groups that contribute their belief systems to modern Satanism. Even Catholicism is influenced by it.

There were two basics schools of theology and they were for a time on equal footing. They were the Mosaic and the Hermetic schools. In the Mosaic school the stories of the Bible are taken in a literal way. The apostolic succession favoured it. And the Hermetic which interpreted the scrolls that made up the Bible in a symbolic way, and who parallel the Cabalists in many of their interpretations.

One major difference being who was made head of the church at the last supper. To the Gnostics, Mary Magdalene was made [...] Continue to Seek…

There is no Satan necessary. You are your own Satan. In old catholic terms, the demons that run the pits of torment are called the kindly ones. People think they are on their own side by being in control, doing what they choose to do, by getting what they think they want. We are our own kindly ones.

There is a reason they say beware what you wish for. It is an old Sufi curse, may your every wish be immediately fulfilled. Can you imagine the suffering? We don’t understand what we seek to control, ourselves. So in lacking understanding, we might say I wish they were dead. If that were immediately fulfilled our planet would be rather barren or at least devoid of humans, and it isn’t from our natures that this arises. When people assert that our souls are inherently good they are right, but we sell our [...] Continue to Seek…

Control is human nature, but control was never to deny other parts of our nature. Self denial is slow and pointless suicide. Control exists as part of our nature to let our thought guide our fulfillment, and our fulfillment arises only from inner nature. If we ignore inner nature in favour of another definition in the name of an unnatural concept of control, we loose control of even the things we value because we make them something to achieve.

Even in the words of Jesus when he was spoken of as a good man, he asked why that person called him good. He said that it was more appropriate to say he was on the way of good and then spoke of the living father who is also the word, law, or wisdom. Nothing is to be attained. It’s said in the Bible that the word of God is written [...] Continue to Seek…