04-09-2015, 10:28 AM
I feel like there's a somewhat... defeatist... thread running through some of these replies. Just because it's common for Wanderers to be outcasts or loners of some sort does not mean it's inevitable\fated\demanded. Something as simple as taking up a hobby can be a way of meeting new people and having more contact with the outside world.
Because I think what Ra was saying with that quote about power more or less boils down to "once you've begun working with these energies, they'll keep working whether you intend them to or not." A person can't simply bottle them up, or store up energies like a battery. They leak out. They become manifest. (We are leaky vessels, you might say.
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So it's good, I believe, to simply have a focus -or multiple focii- for your energies, even if that focus isn't DIRECTLY related to LOO/Harvest/whatev. If you take up knitting, as a random example, you'll be focusing those energies through your knitting and likely creating highly-energized sweaters. Or playing some form of organized sport - your energies would likely give you a bit of an advantage PLUS a positively-energized player is also going to be a good sport and help encourage healthy, friendly competition.
I tend to suspect the more spiritual martial arts do much the same thing as well, although I've never studied them in depth.
Whereas without these outlets, well, the old saying about idle hands being the devil's plaything comes to mind. It becomes far easier for the energy leaking out to take negative forms. A metaphor of curdling always comes to my mind, although I can't really fit that into Ra's musical\tarot metaphors. But if the energy is just left bottled up, it seems to tend towards "going sour."
(Maybe it's just an effect of entropy on this plane?)
Either way, I tend to think that enjoying and embracing life on Earth means enjoying and embracing other humans on Earth as well. Finding positive outlets for excess energy that involve other people would almost certainly be a very positive way of working with them "in the world," as it were.
Because I think what Ra was saying with that quote about power more or less boils down to "once you've begun working with these energies, they'll keep working whether you intend them to or not." A person can't simply bottle them up, or store up energies like a battery. They leak out. They become manifest. (We are leaky vessels, you might say.
)So it's good, I believe, to simply have a focus -or multiple focii- for your energies, even if that focus isn't DIRECTLY related to LOO/Harvest/whatev. If you take up knitting, as a random example, you'll be focusing those energies through your knitting and likely creating highly-energized sweaters. Or playing some form of organized sport - your energies would likely give you a bit of an advantage PLUS a positively-energized player is also going to be a good sport and help encourage healthy, friendly competition.
I tend to suspect the more spiritual martial arts do much the same thing as well, although I've never studied them in depth.
Whereas without these outlets, well, the old saying about idle hands being the devil's plaything comes to mind. It becomes far easier for the energy leaking out to take negative forms. A metaphor of curdling always comes to my mind, although I can't really fit that into Ra's musical\tarot metaphors. But if the energy is just left bottled up, it seems to tend towards "going sour."
(Maybe it's just an effect of entropy on this plane?)
Either way, I tend to think that enjoying and embracing life on Earth means enjoying and embracing other humans on Earth as well. Finding positive outlets for excess energy that involve other people would almost certainly be a very positive way of working with them "in the world," as it were.
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