Jacob, perhaps it would be interesting to experiment with the suggestion Dan made, to attempt to condense your writings in a few sentences only? You call my writing cryptic, unsubstantial, incomplete and 'holding back' a lot. But I do make a habit to condense a lot of stuff in a few words, preferable simple language too. To me the ability to do just that, to
cut away is advanced.
As I said, I do not see their path as about freedom and free-thinking but about building a home in conditioned, cookie-cut, theological dungeons. Though it is represented as a path of freedom and growth, it looks to me that it is about shutting down. In your case, it seems to me, you can't or won't really state it as you genuinely see it.
It's really simple Alex, "their" path seems to me the path of all ages. There's nothing exclusive or unique about it, only snowed under most of the times. Once in a while it pops up like weed (the 'kingdom of god is like a mustard seed". It's only a contemporary manifestation you see here, imperfect as it might be. It always seems to come in
crooked ways?
I wish to completely distinguish myself from them, you, any of you-plural, and to maintain complete spiritual, intellectual, psychic, moral, ethical, and personal freedom. That is the most valuable thing any human being has and it is the essential thing, in truth, that comes under assault in our world.
Growing spurts, Alex. It's very important until it stops being important. Your non-conformity is largely illusion but without it you probably wouldn't develop enough to grow some real thought.
Unfortunately, I read much 'on these pages' that is a losing of grounding, and that is what I write about.
In a way, this is true. Lifted from the Earth while at the same time cast from Heaven? That's the true middle way.
An individual, more often than not male, is 'called' to the path of shamanizing through upheaval, certain ominous events, a great disturbance in the psyche, powerful dreams, visitations that come from both the inside and the outside, and a 'conspiracy' of events that force him to embark on the shamanizing path.
Again, this is what was meant with the statement about you confining your understanding to the distance of your imagination. Just one sentence from David encapsulates all what you're trying to say and explain here. It needs no more tuning and embellishment: you are dealing with spirituality through opinion and imagination (henids?) and haven't started seriously on reason yet.
But to make a long story short, these fellows allowed themselves to get captured [if you will permit me to say it that way, will you?] by 'possessive ancestral forces' and whereas the core model, the core need, for freedom and growth is clearly there, they begin to shut themselves down, and call on other to do the same, but all in the name of growth, etc.
I wish you could cut a bit more short. Sometimes I fear you have some
disease that forces you to talk, to write, feverishly without stopping. The whole Internet becoming the mirror of your thinking. I even wonder if it's healthy for you and a banning, if it ever would happen will be in that spirit, I can assure you.