Scientific/Philosophical Materialism

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I started listening to this again tonight and had the thought occur to me that it would be worth sharing here. I'm coming to that conclusion because there's a lot to parse in what people would consider religious and spiritual practice with respect to how much of it is just writing different software for your brain to run, how much of it is sincerely an attempt to reach out to other layers of the universe, and how much of it is indifferent to which is true and even slightly aided by the notion of a person buying into their symbols to the degree that they can do so without it causing them to lose their bearings on reality. We were talking about the mythopoetic earlier and this points at the interactive side of it.

Mark's one of the people I've been listening to for a long time on the topic of esotericism and traditional Hermetic and Martinist practice, I say that bringing people up to speed who are new here - I went on something like a three or four year reading binge where I easily read thirty or more books to try and get a touchstone on every corner of western esotericism because I wanted to see what was there - that also helped what was actually interesting to come to the surface and the more unrefined new agey stuff to fall to the side.

This treatment of the concept of prayer I think covers the 'relationship with self' and self-authoring components well, and I think that's where a lot of people get hung up - ie. not seeing that angle. TBH I think one of the saddest losses in today's world is just how many people just completely throw themselves into culture, become whatever people tell them they should be based on what their limitations as an ape are supposed to be, and it's really sad sort of dutiful discard of tools and options that are actionable if you're able to parse the differences between what you can depend upon in physical reality (going right or wrong) and what sort of software changes would be beneficial if you could find the scaffolding to build them.