tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post8719548160806980553..comments2023-09-01T10:08:28.177-07:00Comments on The Golden Dawn Blog: Esoteric Orders, Self-Training & Mental InstabilityImperator David Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05569334890339311989noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-41159565316718751272012-12-27T12:34:08.529-08:002012-12-27T12:34:08.529-08:00The history of "Mental Health" treatment...The history of "Mental Health" treatment is a nightmare. [In the UK they are still dosing elders with respiridone to make them compliant - so what if it causes strokes!]<br /><br />I am not so sure that the majority of mental illness is physical in origin. I think that people are pushed into non-ordinary states of being by the warped culture they experience. These are MAGICAL experiences, and the wanderer has no map to guide them and no idea how to get back home. <br /><br />Their physical plane issues are often compounded by dangerous drugs given as "treatments" that serve only to make life easier for other people.<br /><br />Some treatments do also work, but honestly, a few months with a shaman would be more likely to effect a permanent cure.<br /><br />LVX Aletheia LVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762845110527318958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-39793149426839364602012-12-27T12:23:36.553-08:002012-12-27T12:23:36.553-08:00Worse, solutions often negate revenue generation! ...Worse, solutions often negate revenue generation! <br /><br />Anyone up for a few Mercury fillings? Who holds patent on those...Aletheia LVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762845110527318958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-50409353166370492652012-12-11T15:48:16.231-08:002012-12-11T15:48:16.231-08:00There are also very pernicious models of "men...There are also very pernicious models of "mental health" that are if anything directed AGAINST the Perennial Tradition. Politicized distortions of "health" based on maintaining "proper consumers" in a predictable social control paradigm.<br /><br />We do become increasingly more robust and balanced in our mind and emotions through the processes of the Great Work - but this need not happen in response to SURVIVING it! Ha ha.<br /><br />We can make an easier transition with the assistance of NATURAL Therapies, based on removing energetic blockages that generate lack of balance and dis-EASE on an emotional (astral) and mental level.<br /><br />There is no ideological basis to such energetic therapies, and maybe no talking at all. Clearing the way for higher energy throughput as a result of the Great Work is a matter then of re-instating the natural energetics of a body-mind unconstrained by external ideological constraints applied through societal and moral pressures.<br /><br />Random imprints and shocks applied to us during our early development as a result of ignorance as much as malice, are only going to constrict our ability to MOVE energy as Magicians, especially as the power of that energy be4comes amplified as we reach more refined practices.<br /><br />Hermetic Orders can't really be expected to provide full in-house therapeutic intervention of this nature - and there is no need, as there are many skilled healers available.<br /><br />What Hermetic teachers CAN do, is to watch for the signs of blockages earthing out into psycho-spiritual reaction patterns, and to guide the student to the right variety of therapy to ease the ordeal.<br /><br />With long and gentle Work through the Grades, there need never be a blow-out - but Life also brings harsh shocks and lessons outside the Temple.<br /><br />In fact, being part of a Temple, and having Magical PEERS as well as Guides, can help one to avoid so many pitfalls... this is another reason why it is often safer to join an Order.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08017468994177903518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-71908978614808039082012-12-06T18:58:05.210-08:002012-12-06T18:58:05.210-08:00Solutions often do not generate revenue.Solutions often do not generate revenue.Frater F.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07776093094547945333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-70827594954546003432012-12-06T02:21:18.059-08:002012-12-06T02:21:18.059-08:00A couple of questions come to mind from reading th...A couple of questions come to mind from reading this article.<br /><br />Is there such a thing as a spiritual malady that manifests and appears as if it were a mundane pyschological pathology? If so, what happens when an "exoteric" pyschologist/psychiatrist tries to wrap their arms around that?<br /><br />Is there not such a thing as esoteric psychology, the priniciples of which spring from a more full understanding of the workings of the mind. If so, whey a lay person learns and applies these principles from esoteric sources, is that not a method of self-healing?<br /><br />I can understand that those with psychotic disorders would be at a severe disadvantage in an initiatic setting, and that that particular path possibly should not be tread by those unfortunate individuals.<br /><br />However, when it comes to mood disorders, such as mentioned by GH FR. SR, when he discusses "clinical depression," where is the cuttoff point? When is dysfunctional too dysfunctional? It seems to me that in some cases, a clearer understanding as to the nature of life and our place in it might actually be therapeutic---you know, truth and light shining on a hitherto misunderstood circumstance that allows wider vision and understanding and synthesis?<br /><br />I believe that self-discovery is in itself therapeutic, especially in a world that is full of blinds and darkness. Unfortuately, much of the medical community, to include therapists, are delusional themselves, at least when it comes to the reality as presented by the mysteries.<br /><br />Just some thoughts on mental stability and the path.S.V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14485713664230077664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-10092689890722965702012-12-05T09:50:02.790-08:002012-12-05T09:50:02.790-08:00Thanks. I missed those. By the way, since English ...Thanks. I missed those. By the way, since English is not Sincerus Renatus' native language, I think he does pretty darn well!Imperator David Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569334890339311989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8814337050017726886.post-21680587357165872942012-12-04T13:39:59.458-08:002012-12-04T13:39:59.458-08:00I am pleased with the recent tone of this blog in ...I am pleased with the recent tone of this blog in that it is advancing the cause of magic. Long may it continue!<br /><br />Some typos here:<br /><br />hiding their symptoms until it is *to* late... <br />>> too<br /><br /> only *argument* these symptoms<br />>> augment<br /><br /> training on one's own or within *and* Order<br />>> an<br />IM Researchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03604771512762192136noreply@blogger.com