tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1934432015613777582..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Intuitive Magic: the 'magic' of Final Participation (post 'ritual magic')Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-51582280004558897682022-09-01T17:59:56.425+01:002022-09-01T17:59:56.425+01:00@Wm - No, not consciously at least; but in the mur...@Wm - No, not consciously at least; but in the murky depths of the unconscious... Who knows?...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64851086981022114082022-09-01T17:47:46.566+01:002022-09-01T17:47:46.566+01:00@Bruce
You may be confusing lowercase "ben&q...@Bruce<br /><br />You may be confusing lowercase "ben" with capitalized "Ben Pratt"; I thought they were the same person at first, too.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-45810710841357989062022-09-01T06:22:22.687+01:002022-09-01T06:22:22.687+01:00@John G - @JG - That's it!
Obviously true... ...@John G - @JG - That's it!<br /><br />Obviously true... once you pointed it out!<br /><br />And a valuable reminder how thinking about (ideal) *family* is so often the best way to understand God and destiny, i.e. the best 'metaphor' for understanding (when it is not simply literal truth).Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-21820425305616617502022-09-01T06:19:37.639+01:002022-09-01T06:19:37.639+01:00@b - "I was consciously an atheist ..."
...@b - "I was consciously an atheist ..."<br /><br />S'funny - I vaguely guessed you were a cradle Mormon who was becoming more 'mystical' and less church-orientated!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-46449184071477828392022-09-01T01:34:49.381+01:002022-09-01T01:34:49.381+01:00Maybe the thing is to find out, pretty specificall...Maybe the thing is to find out, pretty specifically, what God wants *you* to know. why are you here? what are you supposed to be doing? and to do that, it might be necessary(?) or helpful to have an understanding of God and I suppose the general situation. My thinking is very much in terms of ideas that I found here on this blog; I understand myself to have incarnated from a pre-mortal existence, I understand God's plan to be about the development of human beings, I understand Truth, Beauty, Virtue to be objectively real, I understand the dire situation in the world wherein most people now are pretty seriously evil and I assume this world will have to be wrapped up soon. It's hard to imagine asking God good questions without thinking within this proper context... but maybe that's wrong. <br /><br />And I was consciously an atheist with little/no mystical belief or experience. I have no history of showing any talent of a mystical sort. But it's definitely working now.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-70664671096252516022022-08-31T22:17:27.713+01:002022-08-31T22:17:27.713+01:00The way I understand it, to be given a clear visio...The way I understand it, to be given a clear vision/answer in response to “What should I do?” in general would promote passivity. For an active participation in the divine, we have to try, make guesses, make mistakes. Yes/no questions, or the playing a note and looking for resonance, is a collaboration rather than a one-way, passive “transaction.”<br /><br />As a father, I do not want my children to always ask me “What should I do?,” but to try and get some of the way there. It’s much like someone asking for the answer when learning mathematics. Just reading the answer, or being given the answer, does not teach one how to solve problems.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83065580999762885782022-08-31T19:44:39.775+01:002022-08-31T19:44:39.775+01:00but there are constant signs, things in my environ...but there are constant signs, things in my environment, synchronicities that seem to provide information<br /><br />sorry about the disjointed, multiple commentsbennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-4817453694684283972022-08-31T19:35:36.358+01:002022-08-31T19:35:36.358+01:00I remember asking two big yes-or-no personal quest...I remember asking two big yes-or-no personal questions at the same time, and half an hour to an hour later, receiving positive answers to both in one spectacular moment involving my physical environment and precise (unintentional) positioning of myself.<br /><br />Another time, I received an answer to a matter I'd been thinking about for a long time + information about the matter generally, but can't remember if I consciously asked at all, or had at least asked recently.<br /><br />But my autobiographical memory isn't top-notch.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11447133936284730552022-08-31T19:20:24.612+01:002022-08-31T19:20:24.612+01:00The "What should I do?" question, yes I ...The "What should I do?" question, yes I suppose I'm looking for an answer to that sort of question right now, in relation to something specific, to no avail.<br /><br />The "I want to know about X", I've actually had a lot of success with. But in relation to something very personal - I can't remember asking such questions about the world generally. My understanding of the world has arrived through a less conscious seeking. More like an attraction, to this blog especially.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57811600530436756392022-08-31T18:54:51.793+01:002022-08-31T18:54:51.793+01:00@ben - Have you also found yourself not able to at...@ben - Have you also found yourself not able to attain intuitions of the form "What should I do?" - or "I want to know about X". <br /><br />I think this is partly a safeguard against the tendency to try and seek intuition on demand, and in extreme detail; leading to a proliferation of error. <br /><br />This happened (a lot, IMO) with such professional clairvoyants as Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey and Edgar Cayce; as well as the more recent New Age channelers. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-36155964047766046832022-08-31T18:35:05.732+01:002022-08-31T18:35:05.732+01:00can confirm
who knew the world could be real agai...can confirm<br /><br />who knew the world could be real again? at least a littlebennoreply@blogger.com