1) There are, as you'd expect among Druids, various ways to go about it. Treating all nonphysical beings with the same sort of courtesy and caution you'd apply to strangers in an unfamiliar city will take care of most of the risks, however.
2) No, I haven't read it. Dugin's on my get-to list but it may be a while. Yes, I've considered writing a book on the theory of history, though as often as not I've thought of writing it as a long novel.
3) Everyone I've met who made that claim neglected core elements of Western esoteric practice -- above all, discursive meditation and the suite of practices that goes with it -- and most of them, at least in my experience, were still in the honeymoon phase with the new system. I can't speak to Kaminsky's case specifically because I'm not familiar with him, but I've done a variety of Asian spiritual practices as well as Western occultism and I've had better results with the Western methods.
4) Depends on what kind of self-discipline you have in mind. Do you need to motivate yourself to do something? That's Mars. Do you need to motivate yourself to stop doing something? That's Saturn.
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2) No, I haven't read it. Dugin's on my get-to list but it may be a while. Yes, I've considered writing a book on the theory of history, though as often as not I've thought of writing it as a long novel.
3) Everyone I've met who made that claim neglected core elements of Western esoteric practice -- above all, discursive meditation and the suite of practices that goes with it -- and most of them, at least in my experience, were still in the honeymoon phase with the new system. I can't speak to Kaminsky's case specifically because I'm not familiar with him, but I've done a variety of Asian spiritual practices as well as Western occultism and I've had better results with the Western methods.
4) Depends on what kind of self-discipline you have in mind. Do you need to motivate yourself to do something? That's Mars. Do you need to motivate yourself to stop doing something? That's Saturn.