Alifelongme
Mar 21, 2023 21:27:57 GMT -3
Post by alifelongme on Mar 21, 2023 21:27:57 GMT -3
Hello all. Here is my belated intro.
I have been reading JMG since ADR days. I came to his blog on the recommendation from one of the members of the forum I follow Early Retirement Extreme (ERE for short). It has one of the most diverse, interesting, and intelligent communities on the web. So, when one of its members mentioned ADR I checked it out and it was “all she wrote.”
However, when JMG decided to end ADR and started a new blog that went in completely different direction, I hesitated. I would come and poke around, reading here and there, but not too deeply. I regret it now, of course. I wish I paid more attention. But my previous failures to adopt any religion discouraged me to the point of paralysis when encountering anything spiritual.
Later, however, the inevitable happened - I achieved all my worldly goals, more or less. Granted, I had my share of unachieved goals, but the time and opportunity was gone by that time, and I did not want to spin the wheels only to get where I was already but with less time left. So, I needed something to get me out of the corner I backed myself into. Desperate, I posed the question on the ERE forum and someone suggested I take a stab at spirituality. I don’t know why but that time I decided to go all in. I am very stubborn that way and used to do things completely from scratch, knowing absolutely nothing about the subject in the beginning and having no in-person instruction. Or having miserably failed at it before. So, spirituality was one of my past failures and I thought it is time to do something about it or I will never know. Not knowing bothers me a lot! I literally cannot sleep sometimes when there is something I want to know and did not figure out yet
Well, that’s Asppie in me I guess.
I stared my serious occult study a couple of years ago but hit the wall pretty quickly. I probably started with the wrong system. Wrong for me anyway. Taro did not “talk” to me. The cards had no meaning. I had no background. My imagination failed me. I have no problem with visualization, I “think” in pictures. I read and watch movies in my head. But this time I had no reference point, I guess. I continued reading JMG’s both blogs, studying books on occultism, but felt I am missing something important that would unlock the doors that were still closed. I hope GSF is the key to unlocking it.
With respect to my failure with Taro divinations, by the way, I now know why after starting to read John Gilbert’s “The Tree of Spirit.” Boy, I wish I read something like this earlier! No wonder I was totally lost before. It helps to make sense of ANY oracle imho.
Well, that is my long winded introduction.
Blessings to all.
I have been reading JMG since ADR days. I came to his blog on the recommendation from one of the members of the forum I follow Early Retirement Extreme (ERE for short). It has one of the most diverse, interesting, and intelligent communities on the web. So, when one of its members mentioned ADR I checked it out and it was “all she wrote.”
However, when JMG decided to end ADR and started a new blog that went in completely different direction, I hesitated. I would come and poke around, reading here and there, but not too deeply. I regret it now, of course. I wish I paid more attention. But my previous failures to adopt any religion discouraged me to the point of paralysis when encountering anything spiritual.
Later, however, the inevitable happened - I achieved all my worldly goals, more or less. Granted, I had my share of unachieved goals, but the time and opportunity was gone by that time, and I did not want to spin the wheels only to get where I was already but with less time left. So, I needed something to get me out of the corner I backed myself into. Desperate, I posed the question on the ERE forum and someone suggested I take a stab at spirituality. I don’t know why but that time I decided to go all in. I am very stubborn that way and used to do things completely from scratch, knowing absolutely nothing about the subject in the beginning and having no in-person instruction. Or having miserably failed at it before. So, spirituality was one of my past failures and I thought it is time to do something about it or I will never know. Not knowing bothers me a lot! I literally cannot sleep sometimes when there is something I want to know and did not figure out yet
Well, that’s Asppie in me I guess.I stared my serious occult study a couple of years ago but hit the wall pretty quickly. I probably started with the wrong system. Wrong for me anyway. Taro did not “talk” to me. The cards had no meaning. I had no background. My imagination failed me. I have no problem with visualization, I “think” in pictures. I read and watch movies in my head. But this time I had no reference point, I guess. I continued reading JMG’s both blogs, studying books on occultism, but felt I am missing something important that would unlock the doors that were still closed. I hope GSF is the key to unlocking it.
With respect to my failure with Taro divinations, by the way, I now know why after starting to read John Gilbert’s “The Tree of Spirit.” Boy, I wish I read something like this earlier! No wonder I was totally lost before. It helps to make sense of ANY oracle imho.
Well, that is my long winded introduction.
Blessings to all.
And I’m glad I did! Ken Wilber and spiral dynamic thing always felt too *corporate* to my taste. And also too sterile to produce anything of spiritual value, imo. Just another prop to keep the myth of Progress going while pretending it could fill the spiritual void so many people feel these days.