What to write about?

[Unbound]

It seems the beginner's guide is already a popular idea, so I will work on building that! Again, I ask, if anybody has any suggestions or ideas of things they would like to see or think should be in said guide, let me know!

Hello Dear Unbound,

Since I always have some ideas in this Field, I will continue

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I'm wondering how You would like to write this "Guide" - as step-by-step "Growth Guide", or maybe You would like to make more of a lexicon which would show connections between (seemingly) different phenomenons?

This will determine orderliness/arrangement of the entire Blog and the way You will be updating it.

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I'll write in points topics, that are interesting in that Field, in my opinion. In parenthesis suggestions only

- Prayer (religious / non-religious take)
- Meditation (how and why)
- Creativity (roots, ways of working with, to seek Creativity within every single moment)
- Dreams (functions, as platform of experience/communication/Creation)
- Beliefs (as Creators of Experience)
- Time (differences in its perception and Consciousness as Phenomenon not constricted by it)
- Power of Will (how to develop it and exercise further)
- Visualizations (and its functions - including in Rituals)
- Soul (as Phenomenon not contained with organized religions naive and oversimplified idea of Soul, with physical duality as one of "It's" Property/Quality)
- Incantations (and in general role of repeatedly spoken sentences (sometimes gestures are involved - rituals); Self programming - it may has something to do with building of an energy charge, but this is beyond me, at this time)
- Mobility of Consciousness (classical OOBE [when Consciousness-Self can see Physical-Self], as well as inner exploration [Focus of Consciousness involved ])

But above all, to Open Self for New Experience. Because that's what this Sphere is all about - Experience.


All I have Best in me for You

Many excellent topics that I would indeed have plenty to comment on. Again, it seems to me these are 'intermediate' topics and are best for me to express to those already familiar with the suggestion of mystery.

That being said, I think this gives me some perspective on what I consider to be the "beginning" of the spiritual self, which really has nothing to do with practices or traditions, but as you say, the experience we are having. All of the things you have mentioned I see as techniques and tools, but I believe that all spirituality should be grounded in a philosophy.

Perhaps then I will start off discussing the philosophy of spirituality as an idea itself before I actually engage in to any discussion on the many topics that are considered "spiritual". This is actually a key point for me because my sense of spirituality is somewhat broad spectrum as I believe there is much that is spiritual that has absolutely nothing to do with metaphysics.

That being said, I will probably include that distinction between metaphysics or 'subtle physics' and the actual philosophy and direct experience of the divine as I believe the former can be learned and mastered but the latter may occur suddenly and spontaneously.

Good thoughts though and I shall certainly include them in my structure. It seems to me that this is going to be less of a 'guide' and more of a "lexicon" or study hall where ideas will be connected together in different ways.

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I started blogging about something I was infinitely excited about, the human design chart. I believed I had found a way to bring the two different archetypal systems into harmony, and bring a lot of extra information in, although I didn't say that.

I also blogged about how certain Law of One quotes had benefited my life.

Once you start blogging you will get your next idea, since I have found the energy kind of 'raises' as people read it and send energy back to you. Also, if you are a spiritual teacher the energy that you have from learning one spiritual lesson will lead you onto the next. I.e. I just blogged about Jupiter, the next blog if I chose to write it might be about my experience with a girl that surrounded my understanding of Jupiter, and the Law of One. Another one I could write is things that have improved me from the 'distortions' that I have found uncomfortable. Another thing may be of the 'revolutionary' sort of zeal that you also have expressed passion about.

If I was to read anything you wrote from what you have written, I would be interested in your experience with magickal groups, but would be concerned reading it as to it's polarity (since I have a lot of anxiety around these areas.) To be specific, since that could be taken as an insult. I would read it but if you said the 'Ipsissimus' wasn't so bad like you did on the other thread, I would be concerned about taking the teachings for that reason. Not that it is a correct or incorrect perspective. Just that I would be concerned.

But above all, to Open Self for New Experience. Because that's what this Sphere is all about - Experience.

Agreed!

Tanner: Having actually read this thread. I have just got a computer and am excitedly darting about. I would say that you already know what you want to write. That there is a message springing up inside you and that it is different from my sort of energy, so I would have to probably invest energy to understand it! Although if we were to talk about archetypes personally so that there was no risk of infringement of free will, there might be common ground.

Aha You may find difficulty discussing things with me as it appears you have many more rules for yourself than I do.

Also, "Ipssisimus" is a word and can relate to numerous concepts. Ra is not my authority on words nor on concepts so that they identified the concept with something apparently negative doesn't really mean that word at all times is related to the words of Ra. I think Ra would agree that they do not have a monopoly on the definition of words and concepts. The whole Ra Material must be seen to be a somewhat person matter inclusive of the thoughts of the individuals involved in the channeling and their concerns in their own lives. They were the ones that used the terms, it was Don that used the word first, not Ra, and so Ra was responding to whatever concept Don had in mind attached to that word. That doesn't mean that that is the absolute definition and sole understanding of that word.

That being said, my main magical group experience is actually nothing to do with Golden Dawn or Thelema as I have never been a part of either of those groups. My roots are in Celtic druidism and nature worship more than anything else. I was part of a druidic group at one point (well I'm still technically a member, just 'inactive') and completed a couple initiations. At this point I'm not sure I have any interest in joining another group so much as starting my own, and even then I am very wary of this as there is a lot of stigma and convoluted concepts surrounding the whole concept of a spiritual or 'magical' group.

If it gives you any indication of the 'rules' I abide by, nature is my measure. I seek balance and always balance.

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What should be in the guide is kind of a tough question IMO... It brings up a lot of other questions for me: would it be a guide to 'awakening' or just general 'spirituality'? Isn't that the same concept (or simply awakening to spirituality)? Guides are linear, so where do you start?

I would like to share my thought process on this. Let's say it is a guide to 'awakening to spirituality'. Where exactly do you start? When I try to answer that question, I tend to refer to my own awakening process. The seed thought that began my awakening seems to be 'there is something wrong with the world'. I always wanted to help people and was really bothered how bad certain things were in the world (such world hunger, wars, etc), and to a lesser extent things such as the structure of Western society (income disparity, authority figures trying to push you not to question and to be a happy worker bee, economy based on buying goods we don't need or important goods such as clothing designed to wear out so you have to buy more).

But at this point, I no longer feel there is something 'wrong with the world' because I just see it as society working out it's collective shadow. It still pains me to see many of these problems, but I am able process the catalyst properly (for the most part). So to me, it is a bit of a dilemma to put information about 'what is wrong'/conspiracies into a beginners guide because I would consider that a temporary step. Perhaps that is still appropriate to include that into a guide as long as you broaden your perspective enough to the point where you see that all is well in the grand scheme of things.

I suppose you could be nonspecific and simply include the Tool/Timothy Leary mantra "think for yourself, question authority". That mantra actually was the primary seed which blossomed over 5+ years.

All this could just be my own starting point... Maybe some people don't even start off with finding/feeling something is wrong with the way the world works.

Beyond that very first step in the guide, I'm not sure. I kind of had this part stuck in my head, so hopefully this post will allow me think beyond that to give other suggestions.

This is actually close to my own thoughts as an opening, but I will probably abstract it slightly more at first and suggest that there is a realization that reality is greater than is currently known. This may take the form of a realization of suffering or of human potential or of the vastness of nature. In all cases there is something sparked, a curiosity and a wonder at a mystery. Sometimes that mystery is very dark, other times it is a brilliant light. I imagine each needs their own catalyst which provides them with the experience necessary to spark that fundamental 'spiritual curiosity' which is what I would call the desire to seek to the truth of nature/reality.