Yeah Scott Shell is doing some nice stuff, learning lots from him.
As far as the planes, I have read some stuff in some Theosophical literature about it, though I can't remember where. I've mostly just taken it from JMG and Fortune. I have seen similar divying up in unexpected places though.
I really need to get that Pollington book, that sounds very interesting. I was thinking also yesterday about all the English words for parts of the human. I mean, we have "soul", "spirit", "mind", "body", "memories", "thoughts", "feelings", "emotions", "consciousness", "awareness", "ego", "heart", "gut" and so many others, and how those seem to be more like the kind of divisions the Germanic peoples are making, but the Plane bodies are a different kind of ordering.
As far as mixing oil and watercolor, it is just a metaphor! And a metaphor about metaphors at that, though in a way, all words are metaphors...
I think it's right and good to have the fuzziest understanding of the spiritual, as that's the one that we can know the least about. Though in a certain way I think it is always present.
I think the breath is what keeps the "spirit", "consciousness", "soul" or "awareness" in the body. It's when the person stops breathing that they die. So in a way, it's physical, etheric and spiritual, though it is one of the few automatic bodily functions that can be easily altered by the will! I think that's why breathwork is so important in so many traditions. To me it is quite important that Odin is who gave us Ond.
I think Hamingja/Luck is definitely related to karma, but I think the Charisma/personal power thing is an important part of it too. I believe that doing practices such as banishing rituals, or being totally celibate for a time, or practicing exercises of the will, or many other sorts of things builds up a personal power that we might call "mojo", but could also be called "Hamingja"- but the term also probably has a deeper and wider meaning too. I'm trying to find ways to understand these terms using my direct experience. "Mojo" for instance has that meaning now in our culture, but previously in southern black culture it was a specific type of charm.
The thing about Wyrd, Orlog, Karma, Fate, is that in a certain way, they are dependent on the astral realm. Literally the stars. The sage is one who has gone beyond the stars. Beyond his fate. Of course, Odin couldn't alter his destiny, and this brings us to another oil and watercolor moment.
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Date: 2021-09-21 11:31 pm (UTC)As far as the planes, I have read some stuff in some Theosophical literature about it, though I can't remember where. I've mostly just taken it from JMG and Fortune. I have seen similar divying up in unexpected places though.
I really need to get that Pollington book, that sounds very interesting. I was thinking also yesterday about all the English words for parts of the human. I mean, we have "soul", "spirit", "mind", "body", "memories", "thoughts", "feelings", "emotions", "consciousness", "awareness", "ego", "heart", "gut" and so many others, and how those seem to be more like the kind of divisions the Germanic peoples are making, but the Plane bodies are a different kind of ordering.
As far as mixing oil and watercolor, it is just a metaphor! And a metaphor about metaphors at that, though in a way, all words are metaphors...
I think it's right and good to have the fuzziest understanding of the spiritual, as that's the one that we can know the least about. Though in a certain way I think it is always present.
I think the breath is what keeps the "spirit", "consciousness", "soul" or "awareness" in the body. It's when the person stops breathing that they die. So in a way, it's physical, etheric and spiritual, though it is one of the few automatic bodily functions that can be easily altered by the will! I think that's why breathwork is so important in so many traditions. To me it is quite important that Odin is who gave us Ond.
I think Hamingja/Luck is definitely related to karma, but I think the Charisma/personal power thing is an important part of it too. I believe that doing practices such as banishing rituals, or being totally celibate for a time, or practicing exercises of the will, or many other sorts of things builds up a personal power that we might call "mojo", but could also be called "Hamingja"- but the term also probably has a deeper and wider meaning too. I'm trying to find ways to understand these terms using my direct experience. "Mojo" for instance has that meaning now in our culture, but previously in southern black culture it was a specific type of charm.
The thing about Wyrd, Orlog, Karma, Fate, is that in a certain way, they are dependent on the astral realm. Literally the stars. The sage is one who has gone beyond the stars. Beyond his fate. Of course, Odin couldn't alter his destiny, and this brings us to another oil and watercolor moment.