07-26-2013, 05:02 PM
I didn't say anything about nirvana, or needing to become one with the Creator, that is not the point. To suggest that all activities only expand consciousness and none exist which contract consciousness is, to me, strangely one-sided for a polarized experience, as Id think individual should have the right to not "progress" if they so choose.
I said power is awareness. I do not see power as being a function of manipulation, but of presence. Manipulation may happen as a result of power, but it is not the cause of power.
You are somewhat detracting from the initial point here. I do not deem any activity of greater value than any other, that comes down to the perception and seeking of each individual. There are many articulate ways of developing consciousness that work using all manners of different configurations of the world, so I am not in disagreement that the material and spiritual are absolutely intertwined, my point was on what is power, not the appropriate use of or methods of gaining that power.
I apply them in two ways, one as a system for reflection upon and thus apprehension of the self through the archetypical mind and thus understanding the aspects or "characters" through which mind expresses itself in this particular field of experience, which I believe is the same way you are using them.
The second is through invocation and the actual assumption of those archetypical personalities within my own consciousness and thus experiencing the different aspects of the archetypical mind as directly as possible through the discipline of my own personality done through the reshaping and examination as such through the interaction with the archetypes as "real" things.
Thus, you could say I use them as a way to know the possibilities of experience through the many facets of possible personality and identity to thus increase my total awareness of "what is".
Do you know the Riddle of Steel?
I said power is awareness. I do not see power as being a function of manipulation, but of presence. Manipulation may happen as a result of power, but it is not the cause of power.
You are somewhat detracting from the initial point here. I do not deem any activity of greater value than any other, that comes down to the perception and seeking of each individual. There are many articulate ways of developing consciousness that work using all manners of different configurations of the world, so I am not in disagreement that the material and spiritual are absolutely intertwined, my point was on what is power, not the appropriate use of or methods of gaining that power.
I apply them in two ways, one as a system for reflection upon and thus apprehension of the self through the archetypical mind and thus understanding the aspects or "characters" through which mind expresses itself in this particular field of experience, which I believe is the same way you are using them.
The second is through invocation and the actual assumption of those archetypical personalities within my own consciousness and thus experiencing the different aspects of the archetypical mind as directly as possible through the discipline of my own personality done through the reshaping and examination as such through the interaction with the archetypes as "real" things.
Thus, you could say I use them as a way to know the possibilities of experience through the many facets of possible personality and identity to thus increase my total awareness of "what is".
Do you know the Riddle of Steel?
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