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Drug Addiction and Why Spirituality is the Ultimate Cure

This speech is a great reminder that social integration is the key to diminishing crimes and addiction. Mind the choice of words: diminishing, not fighting. A drug addiction is a weakness and it is stupid to fight weaknesses, they need strengthening!
 
This clue leads deep into the spiritual nature of humans. Separation is the cause of all human issues. We get envious when we feel separated from the things we want. We get jealous when we feel separated from our loved ones. We fight people because we feel that we are separate organisms thrown into a competitive/inimical environment.
 
What Johann Hari’s speech doesn’t tell you is that we suffer from a horizontal separation as well as from a vertical separation. The vertical separation is that between our ego and our higher self and the Creator. We fear death because we are separated from our immortal soul.
 
The union with our higher self is the ultimate cure for the sense of separation and all issues that come with it. On the level of our higher self or soul, there is no horizontal separation. On that level, we were, are, and will be united. For spiritually awakened people, the soul is the drug – a drug without collateral damage.
Mind that the vertical separation is an illusion. We are not lost, we just think we are.
 
That’s why spiritually awakened souls don’t do drugs. Drugs take away clarity of mind and pull the mind down into the subconsciousness. Drugs sever the link to the higher self or soul. And when the trip is over, the sense of separation kicks in stronger than before.
 
Rarely do drugs allow a glimpse at that which is above. Even Carlos Castaneda emphasized that drugs are only used to induce a first vision of another reality. To give a proof and to establish faith. After that, the teacher takes over, who teaches the techniques that produce spiritual visions.

 

The Fountain of Youth

Spiritual scriptures – including the Bible – tell of things that happen inside us, not outside. The Kingdom of Heaven is inside and all other spiritual things too. How many religious misunderstandings could this truth put away with if collectively accepted…
Tony Wyss-Coray doesn’t surprise when he suggests that the Fountain of Youth is inside, but he made the thesis presentable at the court of science. How so? The Stanford lab found that ‘young’ blood factors can reverse aging. What are these factors? They don’t know exactly. They found one-hundred hormone-like proteins in the blood and they suspect that some of them keep the body young. Mind that hormones carry information from cell to cell, so cells are simply ‘told’ to stay young.
The reversal of aging is an ancient secret. Whoever knows it, can prolong his life as long as he needs in order to complete the Great Work in one lifetime. This secret has never been published, but there are keys scattered over the scriptures that allows those who are ready to connect the dots. These are the Biblical dots:
A) Mystical rivers like Jordan. They refer to the blood stream. Jordan shares its numerical value (264) with dam car, the blood of the lamb, which is the blood of Christ.
B) Allegories of intoxication and/or wine. These refer to the modification of the blood. The most obvious example is Jesus’ first miracle – transforming water (ordinary blood) into wine (spiritually enhanced blood).
What is needed to produce alcohol? Leaven. Now read Matthew 13.33: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
The Hebrew for wine means ‘blood of the grape’.
Now, read Matthew 20.1: “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. The first thing Noah did after the deluge was getting drunk in his vineyard.
Fermentation is the tenth stage of the Great Work, related to Capricorn and the Renewing Intelligence.
Though the Fountain of Youth can reverse aging and prolong our bodies life, it is not the culmination of the Great Work. That is the spiritual body and though the physical body is its seed, the physical body cannot be evolved to it. Jacob Boehme: “The old Adamical flesh of death cometh not to the heavenly flesh: No, it belongeth to the earth, to death; but the eternal flesh is hidden in the old earthly man, and it is in the old man, as the fire in iron, or as the gold in the dark stone. This is the noble stone, (Lapis Philosophorium), the Philosopher’s Stone, which the Magi find, which tinctureth nature, and generateth a new son in the old. He who findeth that, esteemeth more highly of it than of his outward world…
He who hath it, and knoweth it, if he seeketh, he may find all things whatsoever are in heaven and in earth. It is the Stone which is rejected of the builders, and is the chief corner stone; upon whatsoever it falleth, it grindeth to powder, and kindleth a fire therein. All universities seek it, but find it not by their seeking; sometimes it is found by one that seeketh it rightly. But others (that seek it in self, and for their own gain), despise it and cast it away, and so it remaineth hidden still…
In this Stone there lieth hidden, whatsoever God and the eternity, also heaven, the stars, and elements contain, and are able to do: There never was from eternity anything better or more precious than this, and it is offered by God, and bestowed upon man; every one may have it that doth desire it; it is in a simple form, and hath the power of the whole Deity in it.”

 

A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

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Why a crash course in a subject that could fill libraries? It’s true, one could talk about spirituality forever, but one could also sum it up in one word: Love.
We can also describe it by refusing to do so – Lao-tze did that.
These days, many religious minds hear the spiritual call. Maybe it’s our fast changing society. Maybe it’s the dawn of the Aquarian Age. Maybe because religion is too old school. Hence the need for a crash course. The spiritual landscape is fragmented, obscure, sometimes weird. Modern people need something concise. Hence, the need for a modern course.
Most spiritual scriptures are ancient. At that time, people thought differently, felt differently, and they used language differently. It’s high time for some modernization. Hence, a modern crash course.

Intuition Goes Beyond Reason But Not Without

In Tarot, the Emperor (reason) comes before the Hierophant (intuition). Intuition goes beyond reasoning, but not without. What does that mean? The thing is the Hierophant doesn’t answer questions the way we do. He answers by giving us the correct principle needed to solve our problem. He conveys the key archetype of our problem.
If you ask the Hierophant, “What’s my problem?” his answer will be as general as your question and hence useless. We have to ask the right question and that’s where the Emperor comes in. We need to reason the right question first.
That kind of reasoning has four stages: First thing, get the big picture. The Emperor is in a good position to get the picture since he sits on a higher plane that allows him to overlook the mind’s stream of thoughts. The Hierophant sits in a confined space, the inner temple.
Second, make order inside the big picture. Measure your knowledge. What is what and what isn’t what it seems to be?
Third, relate your bytes of knowledge to each other and to the big picture/context. That’s understanding and yes, reasoning has a female side. ;-).
Fourth, measure your ignorance. Where are the blank spots in your big picture? After you identified those blank spots, zoom in on one of them and ask the right question. Then, the Hierophant can give you an answer concrete enough to make use of.

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Khamael – The Patron of the Peaceful Warrior

Geburah is the most dynamic and forceful of all the Sephiroth, but it is also the most highly disciplined. Indeed, the military discipline, presided over by the god of war, is a synonym for the sternest kind of control that can be imposed upon human beings. The discipline of Geburah must exactly equate with its energy; in other words, the brakes of a car must bear a relationship to its horsepower if it is to be safe on the road. It is this tremendous Geburah discipline which is one of the testing points of the Mysteries. We speak of an iron discipline, and iron is the metal of Mars.

The initiate of Geburah is a very dynamic and forceful person, but he is also a very controlled person. His characteristic virtues are an even temper and patience under provocation. It is well known on the sports field, which is the play aspect of the god of war, that a loss of temper gives the game away. Every boxer knows that if he gets angry and starts fighting instead of boxing, the odds are against him. The initiate of Mars is essentially the Happy Warrior, the initiate who has passed through the grade of Tiphareth and gained equilibrium.

He fights without malice; he spares the weak and wounded; he does not set out to destroy the law but to see to it that it is properly fulfilled. He is the corrector of the balance, and as such he is always the defender of the weak and oppressed. He is never a god that is found on the side of the large armies, although he says, “With the froward I will show myself froward.” He takes that two-headed giant of the Qliphoth, Thaumiel, the Dual Contending Forces, knocks his heads together and says, “A plague on both your houses! Keep God’s peace or it will be the worse for you.”

When a soul is at that stage of development when the only way it can learn is by experience, Geburah sees that it shall not be disappointed when it goes about looking for trouble. Geburah is the Great Initiator of the swollen-headed.

– Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah, page 186

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The Inner Sanctuary

You need something sacred in your life, something that can’t be defiled, something you can return to in difficult times, something that gives you solace and inspiration.

It could be a place, but better if it is inside you. It could be an idea or belief, but better if you choose a part of yourself. Choose your heart or soul, that which wasn’t born and won’t die, which isn’t affected by experiences. Choose your beautiful part, that which is always happy, that which loves everything.

Treasure your inner sanctuary!

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The Karmic Spring

Manipulations create karmic imbalances. It’s like winding up a spring. Karma will try to re-establish balance and undo our advantage. Any effort to maintain our advantage will further wind up the karmic spring. A good example: lies breed lies. Inevitably, the moment comes when we can’t wind up the karmic spring any further. From there on it’s only a matter of time until we fatigue and let go. Then, the karmic spring unwinds all the way and dismantles our advantage until none remains.

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