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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28603199 - 12/30/23 10:35 AM (28 days, 20 hours ago) |
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Ecclesiates ch1 v2 comes to mind.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28606801 - 01/02/24 08:46 AM (25 days, 22 hours ago) |
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Blavatsky? Wasn't she proven a fraud?
I was given all of her books by a friend, I read them and then gave them away. They aren't something I can take seriously.
What in them do you think is worthwhile or not totally made up?
Here is some of her material:
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No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African Tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The 'sacred spark' is missing in them and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe
She's doesn't know what she is talking about. Missing sacred spark because of a skin color and historical cultural difference?
The secret in her Doctrine is that she was an ignorant superstitious racist.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28606852 - 01/02/24 09:58 AM (25 days, 21 hours ago) |
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It isn't just Agrippa and Blavatsky I reject, for the record I view Yogananda Paramahansa and Carlos Castaneda as frauds as well. It's even a longer list than that, but it should already be clear that I reject numerous teachings from most classic or allegedly organized religions.
I've got my own transmissions, history and occult material but the presentation of them is not really suitable for public consumption and the time it would take to present them in text form as well as the volume of information that they entail are too great to make them suitable for presentation in a context such as this.
Hopefully I can address aspects of them adequately over time. I believe there is no conflict with the occult and science, so Blavatsky and I agree on that but not much else.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28607026 - 01/02/24 12:21 PM (25 days, 18 hours ago) |
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It is worth considering. I like that you shared it.
I don't believe in race in any classic sense.
One might also consider that in Blavatsky's day that the theory of human origin was that people of the different races developed from different monkeys in different regions. They didn't have genetics and could not compare genes and based a lot of bad science on things like bone structure and skull shape.
But as for the content, her comments about the natives of Tasmania, being animals, or of tribes in China covered in hair, is evidence that she was quite full of it and didn't have a clue about the majority of what she was talking about. Her books are little more than second hand gossip and hearsay about unproven miracles and events that if they were real would be all over youtube by now. The world she presents is a fantasy that after more than a century, still lacks any rational support or measurable observation.
Before technology made the world small, so to speak, people were more likely to believe written claims. One would think that if there was truth to the occult claims of Blavatsky and Paramahansa, as examples, then at least some photographic or video evidence would exit by now. In the past text was the equivalent of video, we lacked photographs and could not record things so the best thing we had were written accounts. This led also to tremendous problems and misconceptions. Eventually we gained the tech to take pics and video, but the lies, exaggerations and misconceptions from that primitive literary age remains ingrained into the fabric of our society nonetheless.
The point this isn't, as it were, to ask if Blavatsky was actually intentionally racist, the point is to ask if there is anything that she claimed that can now be shown to be correct. After all, we have come so much further in our ability to understand the world than we were in her time. For me the answer to the question, so far, is no. No levitating people, no limbs being cut off and magically reattached etc. The wild and often marvelous claims in her work and those of Paramahansa are just that, wild claims that lack support.
Back then phrenology was considered a science. Even what Blavatsky thought of as legitimate science is utterly distinct from science today, which has no place for the primitive superstitions of anthropology that were considered cutting edge science in her time.
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#28607232 - 01/02/24 02:36 PM (25 days, 16 hours ago) |
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I even have another version the story of Eden, though it's not public. Lilith is interesting to say the least.
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#28607734 - 01/02/24 09:16 PM (25 days, 9 hours ago) |
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I've been meaning to write a book before I die, but I have shared some of the material with loved ones. I mostly write things down in paper notebooks and move on to new topics.
I can address the allegory of Eden, instead of sharing my version of historical Eden, so to speak.
In this, the trees are systems of knowledge and Adam is an every-man character aka You. The fruit is the result of the system of knowledge, both in terms of action and consequence. There are two types of fruit, that which hastens your demise and that which prolongs your life. The good truth, or right teachings help a person grow and thrive. They are of the tree of life and their fruit is worth eating. The other fruits, these are things like reckless behaviors and addictions, they are very attractive and taste lovely, but leave one empty and can hasted death in endless ways.
In this sin is not something that causes damnation in an afterlife, rather it is simply harmful to the person who engages in it while alive because it can shorten and or end their life. Life is sacred. Don't bet or count on another one, take care of and appreciate this one as if it is the only one you get, even if you believe you get more.
This part of the allegory of Eden. I am not aware of others making it public.
Understanding it relates to the: By their fruit ye shall know them material. The trees being spoken of are not people, but rather are traditions of knowledge passed down. The whole thing is an ancient pun because writing was done on leaves of palms and on pounded bark and stems and so the idea of systems of knowledge being trees was evidently amusing enough to certain scribes that they stuck with the allegory for thousands of years. Punny right?
So I can at least share that.
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