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hoodbran
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Some powerful wisdom
#9609675 - 01/14/09 05:21 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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I happened across 3 volumes of work that I just cannot keep to myself; I have searched the forums for this work and it appears to have never been posted, though it's over 85 years old!
I have recently had my interest in spiritual and ancient wisdom peaked and have read many esoteric works and understood many truths, but none so mantramistic as this:
The Initiate by His Pupil
I would say that Carlos Castaneda's work is loosely based on this work, since this was written in the 1920's - and it contains promulgations that science today verifies (i.e. the power of thought).
If you can tolerate the occasional adobe document conversion errors and have a thesaurus ready (or use Google's Define: "word" function) I think this would be a very nice addition to your collection of true wisdom. It has the power to open your eyes and soul and contains much more direct instruction than the cryptic clues of the world's other sages.
Justin Moreward Haig (a fictitious name) was an English Adept living in London who spent his time in London's classes of society, changing people's points of view in aspects that troubled their lives, the impressions as written by an anonymous author called Cyril Scott attempt as Castaneda did to chronicle the lessons from a teacher in super morality and higher wisdom that was god-like and suggested a being of superior spiritual evolution.
That being said and no more time wasted, I hope you find these well.
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Edited by TerryTibbs (01/18/09 05:36 AM)
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Re: Some powerful wisdom [Re: hoodbran]
#9609910 - 01/14/09 05:57 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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and it contains promulgations that science today verifies (i.e. the power of thought).
Care to expand?
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hoodbran
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Sure... I'll give it my best shot.
Maybe I shouldn't have said with conviction "science verifies" - perhaps, "suggests as true" - or better still, to use "axiom" which is an assumed truth for the purpose - however, Since I'm not in the position to write the whole book out I'll quote a section:
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Now after a few more weeks had gone by, the time came for the undertaking of a further step on the journey, which led to a town situated some day’s march away, higher up in the hills. So than one morning Petrius told his two disciples they must bid him farewell and fare forth to newer fields. “And from now on,” he said, “your lives must be different for a time, and no longer secluded from your fellows, but rather must you be as missionaries, seeking to spread a little enlightenment abroad, though at the same time sedulously guarding the secret of those practices I have entrusted to your care. And to this end you will need money and more clothing and equipment generally, taking a house which shall be ready for you, having been arranged for your coming at my request; while as to the money and clothes, I will notify one of the Brothers living near your own house to dispatch a servant on horseback, so that you can give him all the needful instructions yourself. For we of the Brotherhood have a means of communicating with one another across space, as you in the near future will learn, realizing that space is no obstacle to the power of thought or the transplanting of consciousness from one place to another. And so to-morrow evening your servant will be here, and no the following day you will set forth for the doing of new deeds. Moreover, in the town which is your destination, and known as Marbletown (since all the buildings are composed of white marble), you will find another teacher, Florian the sage by name, a man of venerable appearance and renowned for his wisdom. And yet you will only go to him once in a while, though you will seek him at the moment of your arrival, seeing that the will indicate to you the place of your abode; also the work you shall undertake.”
What this book attempts to do is show 'how' and not only 'it is' as other such material I have read tries to convey, hidden in symbols.
I wonder if my assertion that science verifies comes from somewhere in my childish mind associated the physicist Fred Alan Wolf with them movies; The Secret and What the bleep *I cringe at these movies* but ya dont get to collaborate with authority, get where you have and not have anything to say about anything unless you have a ph.D O_o
It's a great read - I know my statement now is as full of error as saying "God Exists - I have proof"
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Re: Some powerful wisdom [Re: hoodbran]
#9610289 - 01/14/09 06:45 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Alan Wolf makes hyper-jumps without filling in the blanks. Makes me wonder how he got his doctorate. I have little respect for his writings.
There has been no verifiable demonstration of the power of thought to affect matter except to get off one's ass and DO something.
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Re: Some powerful wisdom [Re: hoodbran]
#9610440 - 01/14/09 07:12 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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LOL
Yes, you're right on all three points. But, this being the Philosophy and Spirituality forum, I find it tantalizing to the buds that some folk like me have experiences of calling a friend to find that friend already on the phone as they pick up to call... This is one of them thought experiences people cant understand and as in the quest of knowledge, would like to learn. Most conventional answers, just will not do.
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OrgoneConclusion said: There has been no verifiable demonstration of the power of thought to affect matter
I dont see where matter came into it as even I know this would be a *bs* indicator by far...
The context i tried to present it in was thinking a thought and being receptive to that thought, mantramisticly.
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Re: Some powerful wisdom [Re: hoodbran]
#9610460 - 01/14/09 07:16 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Most conventional answers, just will not do.
Conventional answers actually do quite well. Swami wrote volumes on coincidence and synchronicity.
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hoodbran
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this is true but they (jung included) were still limited of knowledge at their time. today we can model all sorts and even do stem cell research.. as nice an idea that synchronicity is it's still an idea that is attempted to be settled almost clinically in a *new* system of philanthropy (at the time) versus thousands of years of ancient knowledge.
I'm flogging that horse with ya, btw
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Re: Some powerful wisdom [Re: hoodbran]
#9611957 - 01/14/09 10:59 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fred Alan Wolf's book about his shamanic experience is pretty tasteful and matches the works of Mckenna, Harner, and Narby.
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