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[kellymagovern]

Ashley Velvet Frost [x]

[polyphanes]

Reading the Kybalion: Chapter XV ("Hermetic Axioms") and General Follow-up

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re woefully continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapter XV (“Hermetic Axioms”). This week’s adverb for the reading is “woefully” because we still (somehow) have more to read, but in reality, we should feel a bit of relief; this is the last week we have to read anything we haven’t yet from the Kybalion, since we’re…

[kimchicuddles]

Written with real-life Rajeev TikvaWolf.com Bypassin' Betty: "Informing people of the harm they're causing is just creating more division!! Why don't you just LOVE EVERYONE?" Rajeev: "OK!" Rajeev: "I love you, and by that I mean: I will do my best to be in integrity with what I'm responsible for, as I hold you accountable for what you are responsible for." Rajeev: "I love you, and by that I mean: I will take an honest look at the division that already exists and WHY, instead of sweeping it under the rug in exchange for the plastic veneer of cohesiveness."

[errantabbot]

On Spiritual Bypassing the Imperial Vestiges

All spirituality is attempting to bypass something, sometimes it's healthy, and sometimes it's malignant, and those distinctions are entirely situational and relative, as frequently internal realities are not visible or readily discernable via external demeanor or actions. Fundamentally the concept of spiritual bypassing pits contemporary Western Psychology at odds with spiritual systems that do not necessarily share the same cultural context or world view, and it does so with an attribution of intrinsic superiority to Western Psychology. This is a consistent blunder reflective of the imperial tendencies still deeply vested in Western culture and academia. Again and again, when speaking of spirituality, and religion in general we need to keep a working definition in mind. In this I feel that the famed anthropologist Clifford Geertz has done a wonderful job in proposing that religion is a "special system of symbols" that primarily accomplishes four things, namely it: 1.) Establishes powerful "moods and motivations" in people 2.) Formulates a "general order of existence" 3.) Makes these conceptions appear as fact, and  4.) Makes these moods and motivations seem "uniquely realistic" It's arguable that most of what we do in life could be cast as religion via this metric, and it's thus advisable to keep perspective, as some disciplines such as psychology lend themselves more to this definition than do others. In light of this so much of the spiritual bypassing argument simply becomes an imperial crusade.  ~Sunyananda

[kellymagovern]

Joe Hudson [x]

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—Osho, "The Great Zen Master Ta Hui," Discourse 27