Hey JMG, wondering if you are familiar with the ideas of Bernardo Katsrup and his metaphysics rooted in Idealism. I find the metaphors that he uses in his books "More Than Allegory" and "Materialism is Baloney" to be extremely poetic and match my own experience.
That being said, I have been practicing the SOP for about a year now on a nearly daily basis at varying times of the day (I do shift work during the day and sometimes over nights). My query to you is...his metaphysical view and many others like it explain the world in models of ever widening consciousness. However such models could make it appear that after death your individual consciousness could and seems to be absorbed back into a greater mind.
However occultism and various other religions talk about your individual soul as something that somehow maintains its own individuality throughout incarnations.
My own personal experience with magic hasn't lent contact with other spirits or entities as of yet so I haven't had any personal evidence that there do exist separate, more advanced mental entities. And even if I were to make contact with what appears to be a separate entity, how could I tell if it were indeed an individual entity and not just a mental process of mind at large? I'm not sure what the distinction would even be, and I've mostly been involved in the occult philosophically a I have yet to have a direct experience. My query stands, then; what does your occult training say about the retention of individuality after death? And what does individuality even mean if all individuals come from a vast mental process?
That being said, the change in my own world view has been immensely helpful and rewarding regardless of any "supernatural " evidence.
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That being said, I have been practicing the SOP for about a year now on a nearly daily basis at varying times of the day (I do shift work during the day and sometimes over nights). My query to you is...his metaphysical view and many others like it explain the world in models of ever widening consciousness. However such models could make it appear that after death your individual consciousness could and seems to be absorbed back into a greater mind.
However occultism and various other religions talk about your individual soul as something that somehow maintains its own individuality throughout incarnations.
My own personal experience with magic hasn't lent contact with other spirits or entities as of yet so I haven't had any personal evidence that there do exist separate, more advanced mental entities. And even if I were to make contact with what appears to be a separate entity, how could I tell if it were indeed an individual entity and not just a mental process of mind at large? I'm not sure what the distinction would even be, and I've mostly been involved in the occult philosophically a I have yet to have a direct experience. My query stands, then; what does your occult training say about the retention of individuality after death? And what does individuality even mean if all individuals come from a vast mental process?
That being said, the change in my own world view has been immensely helpful and rewarding regardless of any "supernatural " evidence.