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Hope you're doing well!
1. Did you notice a big change in your magical/spiritual life when you moved over to the east coast?
2. A youtuber I follow recently had weird paranormal activity live on video while continuing his jungian discussion work with a depth psychologist (weird noises and books flying off shelves). In their discussion that followed, they talked how Jung himself had significant poltergeist activity when going through certain phases of his red book. Is there something about the emotional intensity of depth work, or its incorporation of imagination into its workings, that draws in spiritual activity?
3. You've discussed how the use of an iron knife can be used to clean parasites off the etheric body by the use of stabbing motions. Could this also be done with scraping motions as well?
4. One of the interesting meditations I've been thinking on is why for the Revival Druid tradition you face south while beginning and ending the SoP. That direction is associated with the element of fire, and in the dolmen arch its associated with Mars both of which don't immediately strike me as related to druidry (as compared to their abrahamic tradition facing east which is associated with wind and the sun).
My instinct would say it would make sense to face north, towards earth and venus, given the focus in druidry on the land and the natural world. The one potential answer I have was through the upward triangle symbol of fire. Given that the DA course is attempting to move along the development of strong etheric/astral bodies and to help with the development of the mental body, it would make some sense that druidry would be associated with a symbol of upward movement.
Anyways thanks for letting me ramble. I'm sure this is one of those digressions that will get your patented "that's interesting, you should meditate on that" :p.
5. And one of the things I couldn't help but notice was that you seem to follow in the same track as the ole american William James, what with both your emphasis on accepting the wide expanse of spiritually on its face, without collapsing it all to be slightly tweeked versions of the same thing like perrenialist or new agers do. Were you influenced by his works at all?
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2) Yes.
3) No. You need to puncture the etheric form, and points are needed for that.
4) You're right, that's a great subject for meditation. ;-) Keep in mind, as you do that, that to face spirit in the south, you're symbolically placed in the north...
5) Yes. The Varieties of Religious Experience was one of the core texts that John Gilbert assigned his students to study in preparation for ordination to his Gnostic priesthood.
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4) I hadn't even though about that haha. I had been operating as me always being the unmoving center between the directions. But of course, in the material world, we're always in relation to something or someone.
So that's very I interesting. Using that same concept, the Abrahamics stand in the west, associated with Gabriel, Mercury and Water when looking to the east. I cant pinpoint why that feels important but it gives more opportunities to meditate on it. Have there ever been SoP recommendations where you've advised someone to start looking northward or westward based on their pantheon?
5) Sounds like a good mentor! What other non-occult books did he recommended for that?
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5) That was the only non-occult book, and one of only two that he specifically required -- the other was the Kybalion. You were expected to read voluminously and report back on what you read, but you chose your own reading list.
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