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Spiritualism is
individual.
Spiritualism is
personal.
Spiritualism is Creative.
Religion is
collective.
Religion
is impersonal.
Religion is
recreating ritually
acts of Spiritual
Creation.
"Rituals are
superstitions; they
are adventitiously reinforced.
The more
conspicuous and stereotyped
the behavior upon which
the reinforcer is
accidentally contingent, the greater the effect."
BF Skinner
"When
people enjoy doing some particular thing, performing a specific activity -
athletic,
scholarly,
artistically - for enjoyment, then the
more times we perform the activity the more the activity becomes a ritual and
the more we will note a
reduction in pleasure due to habituation.
The activity we once enjoyed has
become an ordinary experience.
Ordinary experience we don't seem to
notice or remember and at sometime we will inevitably
wonder why we are still performing
the activity.
Two devices allow people to beat pleasure reduction due to
habituation - increase the variety of activities or
increase the amount of time that
separates repetitions of an activity.
When
episodes of activity are sufficiently
separated in time, increased variety is unnecessary." - Daniel
Gilbert
mystical experience
methodology There are multiple
traditional methods of engaging the mystical experience.
Mystical experience
opens a window to the subconscious.
The most widely
spread method used by proponents of every religion is the contemplative
meditative prayer.
Other methods include:
chanting;
fasting;
self-flagellation;
engagement in
ritual practices;
holding a rigid body
position for a prolonged period;
the use of
entheogens.
An entheogen is a psychoactive
substance used in a shamanic context.
Entheogens generally come from plant
sources which contain
molecules
closely related to endogenous neurochemicals.
A wide variety of psychedelics
are used in various religious rites.
Entheogens directly provoke what users
perceive as a mystical experience.
"Entheogen" refers
to any
molecule which stimulates the
central nervous system
through one of the two main neurological pathways:
phenethylamine - a
brain chemical associated with the adrenaline pathway, and a
precursor of mescaline and 2C-B;
tryptamine - a brain chemical
associated with the natural metabolism of
serotonin, a
precursor of psilocin, psilocybin,
n,n-dimethyltryptamine
and lysergic acid
diethylamide.
Within the
global paradigm shift in thought
processing occuring during entheogenic initiation the
concept of Eternal Life shifts along with
understanding of
time,
self-control,
agency and
self-conceptualization.
In
experiential allegory, Eternal Life refers to the
experience of timelessness, or
the discovery of the existence of
timelessness - life suspended in a
moment.
This is the true mystical meaning of
Eternal
Life.
1955 Christopher Paget Mayhew, a
British member of parliament, is given 400mg of mescaline before BBC TV cameras
by Dr Humphry Osmond.
Chris is totally convinced that
a part of our consciousness
exists outside time.
Christopher Mayhew is tested by Dr Osmond
throughout the experiment and shows
no significant loss of
intelligence.
Christopher Paget Mayhew received a life peerage and
was raised to the House of Lords as Baron Mayhew.
"After brooding about it for several
months, I still think my
first, astonishing conviction was right -
that afternoon I existed
outside time.
I don't mean this
metaphorically, but literally.
I mean
the essential part of
me ("This is me") has
an existence conscious of
itself in a timeless
order of reality outside the world as we know it.
Though perfectly
rational and wide awake I was not experiencing events in
the normal sequence of time." -
Christopher Paget Mayhew
The
state of selflessness, Nirvana, gained through
true knowledge or
gnosis is typically
misunderstood by both the individual and society in general.
Individuals
typically see selflessness as a loss of either
identity or
sovereignty.
Selflessness is an abandonment of
concerns of the ego.
Abandonment of concerns of the
ego does not mean a loss
of identity, but a loss of concern for
the fulfilling of previously established desire.
Once
the requirements for continued
existence are met then all other desire is simply
window dressing for the
ego.
An ego freed of desire exists in
contentment and enjoys
an inner peace.
Ritualized pain can come in
many forms and appears in many religions.
The act of self-flagellation
is practiced by some Shi'a and utilized by many
Christian sects such as Opus Dei throughout Christian history.
In India
the Standing Babas, or Khareshwari,
vow never to sit or lie down
in a self-inflicted punishment intended to spark spiritual
enlightenment.
They hope to experience
a mystical timeless
rebirth.
They want to grow out of an
entirely materialistic
concept of self.
A
consciousness overcoming delusion, māyā, takes
a higher
perspective.
The
mystic definition of salvation
and of Eternal Life can happen now, whereas
the literal definition
of salvation you will only find in
death.
Enlightenment,
redemption,
salvation,
awakening,
reconciliation and
communion with God all
pivot around the discovery of
timelessness.
Most interpretations of
the Jesus narratives suggests
Jesus gave his life to remove
the burden of original
sin.
To gain this redemption
from original sin it is claimed that Jesus
the Tekton freely gave his life.
If this is true then
Jesus did not live for his
own self.
Self-sacrifice,
once seen as a noble endeavor, has become something other.
In a tight knit social group
self-sacrifice still is a noble endeavor.
In the
context of
MICE culture it is
a presentation of feeble
mindedness.
Self-sacrifice cannot be an
actual physical sacrifice, as in the
terrorist act of a suicide bombing, and have any
lasting impact upon MICE
culture.
The only truly noble
self-sacrifice within MICE cultural is the execution of the
parasite of the
self.
This requires
a razor sharp
intellect that is not afraid of using the razor to
shave away the overlay to reveal the marble
underneath.
Elegua - guardian of the crossroads of life
Eleguá
is a syncretic deity of roads in Santería, Umbanda, Quimbanda,
Candomblé and Palo Mayombe.
Eleguá is syncretized with
either Saint Michael, Saint Anthony of Padua or the Holy Child of
Atocha.
Eleguá is known in Cuba and Puerto Rico as the
Orichá and "owner" of caminos.
All ceremonies and rituals in
Santería must first have the approval of Eleguá before
progressing.
Eleguá is known as Èṣù-
Ẹlẹgbára in the Yoruba religion.
In Afro-Brazilian
religion Èṣù- Ẹlẹgbára is an
Èṣù.
There are 365 paths to Èṣù
or Exù - each one an Èṣù-
Ẹlẹgbára.
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