11-30-2011, 12:01 AM
Diamond Unicorn wrote:
quantumshaman wrote:
scout1 wrote:
Castaneda s books are toxic. Spiritual toxin.
Real life or fantasy woo-woo.
Torres s book is much better. The books are prose, fairy tales.
The only things I've encountered in this world that are spiritually toxic are religion and politics.
...and Materialistic science.
But religion and politics are not all bad, perhaps perception is skewed due to humanity as a whole right now are still at an immature level of civilization... religions can be good or evil, dont look at only the negative aspects and pronounce it so
(also some simply have a stigma attached to the word 'religion' and do not use a less biased definition)...
All politics and most religions are essentially tools of the foreign installation, so by a sorcerer's definition, they're certainly not good. For the record, I would define "religion" as anything that encourages someone to place their "faith" in an extant deity, in the hope/belief that it is going to magnanimously "save" them. Most religions do have aspects that are inspirational, but by and large any ORGANIZED religion is rooted in Man, not in "god".
And, yes, I would agree with you that materialistic science is just as fundamentally detrimental as politics and religion.
quantumshaman wrote:
scout1 wrote:
Castaneda s books are toxic. Spiritual toxin.
Real life or fantasy woo-woo.
Torres s book is much better. The books are prose, fairy tales.
The only things I've encountered in this world that are spiritually toxic are religion and politics.
...and Materialistic science.
But religion and politics are not all bad, perhaps perception is skewed due to humanity as a whole right now are still at an immature level of civilization... religions can be good or evil, dont look at only the negative aspects and pronounce it so
(also some simply have a stigma attached to the word 'religion' and do not use a less biased definition)...
All politics and most religions are essentially tools of the foreign installation, so by a sorcerer's definition, they're certainly not good. For the record, I would define "religion" as anything that encourages someone to place their "faith" in an extant deity, in the hope/belief that it is going to magnanimously "save" them. Most religions do have aspects that are inspirational, but by and large any ORGANIZED religion is rooted in Man, not in "god".
And, yes, I would agree with you that materialistic science is just as fundamentally detrimental as politics and religion.