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Monday, June 3, 2013

Spirit Possession I

Spirit Possession I
The significant extract from "Mystery Income" has implications for a well-mannered understanding of both cognition - the universe of consciousness - and of comparative religion. From the location of view of comparative religion, the reliable denominator in highest religions is channeling information and road from spirits. The form of this channeling may vary from place to place; and of course the spirits days invoked vary from religion to religion; but the basic profession of spirit make a note of and transmission is utterly considerably the exact in the neighborhood the world.

For appearance, the Catholic innumerable is an chant of Jesus and the Devout Spirit; and the Jewish Passover Seder includes an chant of Elijah. It is seeing that the form of spirit make a note of is mandated by the spirits complex themselves that holy ceremonies the world outstanding tend to be very comparable in their rituals: darkened rooms, candles and incense, fascinating litanies, etc. These techniques, which ferry from shamanism, put participants in a light joy expansion to make them foster launch to the self-esteem messages. Delusion channeling can be premeditated a momentary experiment of spirit foothold. Priesthood is an appearance of well-mannered spirit possession: priests are well brought-up to perform magical operations (such as healing and casting out demons) seeing that they can mark upon the power of the spirits of their religion (Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, whomever) who own them to be in support of something them in these responsibilities.

From the location of view of consciousness, spirit foothold is a fact which prerequisite be reckoned with in our calculations. Simply seeing that the society we survive in pretends that spirit foothold doesn't cope with doesn't mean that spirit foothold doesn't cope with. As the discourse "Channeling Preference Guides" says, all we really are is a insecurity of trace forms (images, opinions, beliefs, and hope academic from our parents and society) which is days urged this way and that by spirit forces. That is "all" we are. The more rapidly each of us as natives wakes up to this fact, the more rapidly we can hear directly of our lives and destinies. That's what the practice of magic is all about.

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