Did you by any chance read my essay a while back on the blog, about what I call the One Drop Fallacy? This is the notion that if something isn't all the way over to one side of a dichotomy, it must be all the way over to the other side. Your questions suggest that you're caught in that fallacy, believing that when I say that something is active it must be 100% all the way active with no receptive qualities at all -- which is not what I was saying.
Of course ritual magic has receptive elements and psychedelic practice has active elements -- in the real world, the One Drop Fallacy does not apply. The point I was trying to make is that there is an active core to the one path and a receptive core to the other, and these don't combine well -- the qualities that lead to success in one conflict with the qualities that lead to success in the other
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Re: Passive and Active Paths
Date: 2018-08-14 03:51 am (UTC)Of course ritual magic has receptive elements and psychedelic practice has active elements -- in the real world, the One Drop Fallacy does not apply. The point I was trying to make is that there is an active core to the one path and a receptive core to the other, and these don't combine well -- the qualities that lead to success in one conflict with the qualities that lead to success in the other