04-04-2012, 09:20 AM
(04-04-2012, 08:49 AM)zenmaster Wrote: By the way, the so-called 'ancient teachings' are anachronistic these days and not as efficient learning aid as what we have to work with now. There are orders of magnitudes more individuals at the same or more full level of 'beingness' or 'awareness' than those which first reached 'intelligent infinity' here.
As you say the so-called ancient teachings. Most of what we call ancient teachings are modern reinterpretations of the ancient teachings. I do agree that the ancient teachings are anachronistic. People these days are way more capable of reaching higher level consciousness. So there are occasionally better ways of doing things than the old ways..
However, they are as potent as they have ever been. And a surefire way to achieve a higher level of understanding is to study the ancient lore. We do not however need to become fulltime monks these days.
I had the honor to meet, get to know, and study with a few people who follow an ancient tradition. Sufism in this case. And I can tell you that their methods are highly efficient. They kicked me into orbit for a good period of time. And their influence on my development is undeniable.
I do think you need people who have kept the core teachings alive, just reading about rituals and philosophies in a book is a hard way of discovering things. Especially when these topics are merely history or hearsay to the author themselves.
I don't want to answer Shin'Ar's question specifically to the Ra information here because there are many people who are better at that. So this is my answer generic to all spiritual information instead.
Generally spiritual information is simply information that is pointless unless you have a certain level of understanding for it to combine with. So you can safely tell a knuckledragging neanderthal the secret to infinite power. He's not going to be able to use it untill he is evolved enough. So no danger in sharing it with people low on their evolution. Also most lore can be understood on multiple levels. So it is often equally relevant to the beginner as it is to the adept.
When too much information is given and it begins to be confusing. This often means simply that the given information is too full of superfluous dogma. At least for that person on that level.