Dear JMG, few questions for you (and anyone else who wants to opine).
1) Is inflation a big risk of spiritual work?
It seems to me that spiritual work often increases the ego and sense of self in some ways and there are real dangers to the sense of significance/grandiosity it can create. As people walk advanced paths, real dangers or tests show up with greater consequences than when you were a neophyte.
Could you comment on his and how to address it in one's daily life and spiritual life?
2) What are you thoughts on envy vs pride as spiritual or emotional/psychological imbalances and where they come from?
(I find I don't really experience envy at all, but pride is a something I have to contend with, whereas most people I know in real life experience envy a lot, and I'm wondering how it came to be this way).
3) Wondering if you've read this piece by Mark Stavish on the kundalini energy (secret fire), kaballah and alchemy, and its link to the vital energy (ether?), and how imbalances of the latter in our energy centres create issues with how the former affect a person who has a rising kundalini: https://hermetic.com/stavish/essays/secret-fire
I am intrigued by how the kundalini energy is a force of individuation, and a distinct force from other energies/forces.
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Dear JMG, few questions for you (and anyone else who wants to opine).
1) Is inflation a big risk of spiritual work?
It seems to me that spiritual work often increases the ego and sense of self in some ways and there are real dangers to the sense of significance/grandiosity it can create. As people walk advanced paths, real dangers or tests show up with greater consequences than when you were a neophyte.
Could you comment on his and how to address it in one's daily life and spiritual life?
2) What are you thoughts on envy vs pride as spiritual or emotional/psychological imbalances and where they come from?
(I find I don't really experience envy at all, but pride is a something I have to contend with, whereas most people I know in real life experience envy a lot, and I'm wondering how it came to be this way).
3) Wondering if you've read this piece by Mark Stavish on the kundalini energy (secret fire), kaballah and alchemy, and its link to the vital energy (ether?), and how imbalances of the latter in our energy centres create issues with how the former affect a person who has a rising kundalini: https://hermetic.com/stavish/essays/secret-fire
I am intrigued by how the kundalini energy is a force of individuation, and a distinct force from other energies/forces.
Does this sound roughly right?
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