Spirituality for Living

I feel like I never learn from unwise choices, and they keep repeating. What am I doing wrong? When a choice repeats it isn’t from a failing on your part. You merely misunderstand the nature of the choice. You may perceive it as what it presents itself to you as, but there can be an internal side you haven’t yet seen. The unseen world is very real, in fact within you. We tend to fall into the role of mirror, action and reaction. Often this mirror seems to satisfy life’s requirements, but something can arise within you that the other doesn’t mirror. In satisfying them in your decisions you may be ignoring the decisions that makes the situation repeat, and the choice is about you, not them.

So is it the same whichever choice we make? No, ultimately it’s not the same. Human integrity. There is a reason that every system in [...] Continue to Seek…

Choice is both very simple (perhaps one of the most simple things in life), and honestly also one of the most aggravating, frightening, complex things we do in life. The way we are brought up to view choice and to view life in which we make our choices, tends to make choice often seem like nothing more than “picking your poison”. As is often said, we move through the world by choices and yet we see only half the terrain.  We are often rudely surprised when the other half, the unseen side of life, causes us very real pain. We make decisions based on a view of reality that we are very much encouraged to have, but is a half truth. Is it any wonder things seem almost impossible to influence by choice?

Though even that ‘seeming’ is an illusion. You did in fact choose every element of the surprising [...] Continue to Seek…

There is the fear of insecurity, and to choose is to change. To choose is to admit you needed to choose. That something had to change. People fear this like it was a threat to their own lives, and to their place in the herd. Truth be told the answer is readily at hand, but not in the modern institution of education which is just programming. The atenaeum, the old mystery schools, the real gymnasium, the renaissance informal colleges, these were the true spirit of education.

Institutions of education are serving commerce now. The ancient mystery sects were about empowering the individual. A peerage of seekers who saw the power in understanding, and were seeking it for its actual impact on life. The real betterment of mankind, not just the furtherance of some abstract concept of progress. They used intuitive metaphor, thus they were called mystery. Not because the knowledge [...] Continue to Seek…

People speak of good choices and bad choices, and do everyone a disservice by doing so. There are only wise choices and unwise choices in my experience. Good can arise from an unwise choice anyway, and harm can arise from a wise choice. When guided by that inner spirit, it’s a certainty. If that inner spirit is ignored nothing is defeated, and nothing destroyed, but it can be awfully stagnant.  Stagnant water, like stagnant blood, is toxic more often than not.

Understanding can affect not only what you would choose, but how others see your choices. Knowing where they’re coming from to know truly where they are going. Often someone opposes you only because they don’t know where you are coming from. Even the professionals who teach conflict resolution say this. If you don’t let people see the process you use to get somewhere, you make of yourself a strange influence [...] Continue to Seek…

If we must attribute power to events and the mechanics of life, then this suggests it is then a rule, does it not? If it’s not a rule then maybe the mechanics as we see them aren’t seen clearly? If events have power, they arise from cause and effect. Look over any community and there is a discernable pattern. A rhythm. Not infinite choices, not on the large scale, just something much like neural switching. So if circumstances have power on their own, then that is what we have.

My statement is not a condemnation of anyone in depression from these circumstances, it’s an effort to show a liberation from that. The power of the circumstance is your own power. People see the world and say that is bigger than me. In fact, the truth is that situation.  Whatever it is, is you. You are there because of your part [...] Continue to Seek…

Someone who is quite depressed is so because of how he is ‘thinking’ about the situation. He is in that. He is causing his distress and it is not the situation itself. What could be said further is to ask him how he feels when he isn’t thinking about what has him depressed. Unless his condition is clinical, it isn’t constant. Help him see that he can choose that, and also help him see that by choosing that he will deal differently with the depressing issue. At first it might have to be an action. Finding a quiet spot for example, but when he sees:

He isn’t the depressed emotion.
He doesn’t have to go there even though the situation seems to justify it.
He can be happy anyway, and by being happy maybe even see a solution to his problem.

It might be the first choice he will have truly made in [...] Continue to Seek…

Choice seems so readily obvious. People claim to make choices, and then complain about the consequences of those choices. We make choices every day if only minor ones, but do people really choose? Do they take the action that choice supposedly is? In my experience people tend to choose by habit not by thought, so in fact make no choice. They just let an old one replay itself.

They say I choose this (whatever it is), and don’t even truly know what they choose. Like men who live the life of a womanizer. They rationalize their attitudes, and even believe they are giving of themselves fairly, and when the very natural and real consequences arise they blame their partner. It is a failure of choice. They don’t even understand the biological imperative. They look at themselves and yet not, like becoming very absorbed on a dogs tail while it makes [...] Continue to Seek…

To overcome, some require some rather dramatic stuff. Familiar at all with any of the mystery cults? They are called cults only because some insights could only be shared when the disciple was ready. Like the elusian mysteries, notice the psychodrama? They called them morality plays later. It is very similar to shamanic dancing and ritual. Very free form and instinctive. They do work on people, but only one of two ways. Either because you steeped yourself in doctrine for so long the symbols of the initiation have very clear meaning for you, or because the symbols themselves are very personal to you.

Now in Tantra practise what you may have encountered and maybe so far shied away from, is spontaneously to be overtaken by a scenario. It’s the terrain you are exploring. In the tantric union you aren’t just embracing the carnal body. It’s a degree of intimacy that [...] Continue to Seek…

We were warned off of Tantra from someone, and about practising and discovering it for ourselves. That it was dangerous. Well actually any religion is, but fear is a cult dogma and there are those who take the sacred and profane it with ideas of ownership. Saying you must adhere to their guru, and know their teachings. The rise of the serpent force has happened in every tradition, and they have had contradictory teachings. What matters is an understanding of the force, and an understanding of self.

There are much deeper gratifications of sex than just carnal union, and they can be had with self development. But the emphasis on self development doesn’t invalidate the partnership. The spirits balance. One grows with the energy of the other in a way that a hermitage cannot hope to do. Withdrawal serves a purpose, and a limited one. Neglecting the divine union isn’t really [...] Continue to Seek…

The idea of the matriarchal society is strong in a lot of cultures. Matriarchy by spiritual and not military leadership and the two coexisting. In the Yezidi culture (the non Islamic Kurds), women are not made to wear veils by anything but law as supposedly Satanist as they are. As the Ophistes were seen, they keep the divine union sacrament, but they must keep it in secret regrettably. As the Islamic purist regimes are waning, and as Christianity seeks to found one in the states, the idea of the Islamic people being the unenlightened and uncompassionate people is shifting. As they seek to understand themselves as a people they are forced to cooperate more under Christian and Jewish assault. They are changing as a culture.

Our “heroism” is more the work of the evil they seek to fight than their cultural confusions are. We might not be the devil, but [...] Continue to Seek…