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Relevant chapter: Initiation and accelerating personal transformation
um for how we should live, what is [music] good. And the the final piece here is that for me, initiation in a true hermetic ultimately theoric current is what catalyzed all these realizations and changes for me. And I think for it's that is the way that other people I think eventually are going to have to go um because it expedites karma. If we want to do this [expletive] quick, you get on the path of initiation. But you don't do it, you know, you don't just jump on like very light-hearted or, you know, without
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Relevant chapter: Initiation and accelerating personal transformation
thinking about it deeply and making sure that it's your life path. But to me, I see it happening more and more and more and there's all these different species of initiations happening outside of orders and just in the public sphere. But in [music] the initiation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, just on a final note, you undergo the alchemical outer order which is a salv coagula. You are oified, taken apart. You examine the constituent elements of your psyche, put them back together
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Relevant chapter: Alchemical process of inner transformation
under the opaces of spirit [music] and you then you undergo these these spiritual and visualization exercises which are tantamount to energy work that quote unquote rectify your sphere of sensation which make the little microcosm, the little universe in your little aura, [music] you who you are more like the macrocosm out there, more like you, you become ordered in accordance to natural patterns. >> Yeah. And on just bouncing back on that note of the the truth, my truth thing, just to address it, I I do I agree with
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Relevant chapter: Alchemy as universal transformation principle
psychological being cognizant of the alchemical formula can only help you because you're going to be aware of these processes and you can even use the symbolic elements of air, water, fire and earth and the quintessence spirit you know azot ends whatever it is to to sort of awaken these things in their due season and proport proportion within your sphere of sensation. You can bring them to activity and that in your in your subconscious and conscious mind. This is what Jung wrote about. You know, he
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Relevant chapter: Alchemy as universal transformation principle
didn't he definitely realized that it was spiritual, but he just couldn't write about it that way because he would have been, you know, out out the door. But, um, I think that that's super important. That's the way to, uh, to go about it. >> Yeah. I'm so happy and grateful that you're out there doing what you're doing, being a solid and articulate representative for these sacred currents, if you will. We need you, I feel. Um, are there any additional Yes, absolutely.
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Relevant chapter: Interior transformation over exterior systems
we need to very very minutely, carefully, and persistently address what the necessary interior situation is, >> if that makes sense. >> Yeah, for sure. And I'll just I'll go negative for a minute and I think it'll be particularly fun to paint a picture of what in my mind I don't rule out a very real potential a a sort of reality tunnel uh you know that can kind of illustrate this sort of negative path like like one reality the dark reality potential. Uh if you allow me to kind of go a little
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Relevant chapter: Etheric Theory, Levity, Gravity, and Form
seed. The image expands from the from the pinpoint to be reproduced on the screen inside the chamber just as the seed expresses its form in the subsequent growth of a plant. It is these forms of analogy that interest spiritual scientists in particular branches of mathematics for instance projective geometry wherein transformations and projections of forms are expressed through passing through passing at different angles through a point. One of the pioneers of this form mathematics was the great 17th century
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Relevant chapter: Transformation Through Initiation
They don't go there. It's not like going away to college because they're coming back talking about the, you know, they're not like they're not discussing the Dow, you know? I mean, like like the NASDAQ, you know, like they're not talking about like like mundane horseshit. They go there and they come back talking about the [ __ ] wheelwork of the universe. So, it's way more than just this vocational uh training. It these men are being taught there. it. What is being installed into their brain
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Relevant chapter: Premature Teaching & Lack of Experience
they're doing really good academic work that synthesizing it's amplifying the spiritual stuff if you know you need to be con like fluent fluent in both you have to be fluent in the spiritual stuff you have to have experienced it and I'm not talking about masonic ritual you know I'm talking about I I would say daily regular regimented practices that lead you to a gnostic experience um and some form of of awakening that includes the complete or at least significant transformation of everything about you.
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Relevant chapter: Meaning of temples, symbolism & inner transformation
principles. They could be energetic points. They could be having associations with sacred springs, potentially astronomically aligned landmarks. Um you had mentioned the experience that you had kind of arrived at um you know that sense of wanting to create this inner temple something along those lines. I I wonder what do you feel like after visiting a lot of these temples, what what was it that what were some of the indications for you that allowed you to arrive at that conclusion? >> Well, I'll simplify this to a temple
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that everybody in the world knows, great pyramid of Giza. The way that it is designed when you go in it, it is like has three chambers. You have the rough chamber at the bottom, which is subterranean. It's all full of rubble. And then it starts to get a little bit polished up at the top when you visit it. You go in the middle chamber, that's called the queen's chamber. Um, that's a little bit finer. And then there's the king's chamber at the top. That's the one that has the
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Relevant chapter: Meaning of temples, symbolism & inner transformation
granite sarcophagus in the center of it. And when you enter the the um the pyramid itself, I've obviously when you study Egypt, it will take you in a million different directions. And I've been to Egypt twice and it just leaves you with more questions. But when you walk in these structures, they all are built on the principles of awakening rather. It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter what you believe. You're going to have a feeling when you're in these spaces.
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They're aligned with certain planets that have certain energies whether you believe it or not. Okay? I could put anybody in the pyramid and they're going to have some sort of feeling. Um you go in it when you go into the king's chamber it's a small hole. You kind of got you got basically I'm tall so it's like you're basically kind of crawling into the room like the the act of crawling is the act of submitting your ego in a sense right. So then you're awakened into the room, but
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there's a there's a box there. Um you can possibly get into the box and do sound healing there and you will feel an energy that um is nothing short of physical magic is I guess the term is the uh you'll have this sense that exists like not just in your mind but your body. You'll feel a different way. And the pyramid when you're walking up the Grand Gallery, it's at so many different angles. It's always attacking your senses. So you're being taught to recognize your senses all throughout
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life. That's what I take it as, right? So to be aware of your senses and to be aware of the senses being tied to your emotional state, maintaining that balance of your emotions is really the purpose of these temples. I believe that's my commentary, you know, but each temple I've been in and the ones that are on the same alignments as some of these temples, whether like you said, sky being close to water, all temples are close to water. They all have to do with, you know, the you have water, you
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have air when you're going in the Great Pyramid, all the shafts when you're in it, it sounds like it's breathing. I remember telling my my my wife, I was like, "This temple is breathing. This is a living thing. In that moment, I immediately knew I was like, "This is the built. This is like ancient stonemasons or whoever built it. Built it with the intent to it's that they say it's an energy source." Like everybody talks about it being an energy source. And they're like, "Oh, for power." And
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they want to power [ __ ] light bulbs. I'm like, "No, it's to power yourself. is to teach you to power your own ability to create source which is through your emotions through being p being present all these kind of things tied into it and when you research all the uh the material that has been left by the Egyptians whether it was the Greeks that basically these sites and they figured out thing that I love to talk about the Greeks were so such beautiful um poet and they were so poetic and allegorories
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of the spirituality of ancient Egypt. Whereas if they went into the temple and they were basically writing what they were describing how they felt if you look right because none temples in Egypt ever had [ __ ] bodies in them bodies of these pharaohs are buried on the backside of the valley of the kings. So even the valley of the kings these tombs these are initiation places for deep spiritual um practices like you know resurrection ceremony I mean you look at you go into Egypt you know the story of
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Horus said Isis it's a story of resurrection everybody's it's kind of been convoluted in this idea it's like oh this is just you know this is their burial ritual like no this is living resurrection living resurrection is the transmutation of material to ritual in my mind right so you'll see that in all of these different temples you can go into a dharma temple um in India and same idea resurrection resurrection the resurrection of what is removing yourself from the material and
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turning it into ritual in a sense the present just being alive and enjoying what you have in front of you and balancing your emotions to navigate whatever [ __ ] comes your way, good, bad. Yeah, I think I think that's um there's a couple of really good points there going back. I I mean having been to you know a lot of temples particularly in the you know the that whole ancient Mediterranean area inclusive of Egypt and and North Africa but just the broader Mediterranean um you do get certain feelings. I will say the I've
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Relevant chapter: Threshold Moments & Personal Transformation
where you were either transformed and or realized there was no way to turn back even if you wanted to." >> Do you ever have any of those moments, Sky? Have you had them yet? >> I have. I mean, I have a few different ways of responding to this in different uh so one of my questions when reading this was divine defining threshold moments I guess or defining that but I I have ways that things that came to my mind about like >> maybe uh just some personal revelations or moments of clarity
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Relevant chapter: Questioning Beliefs, Authority & Programming
uh some maybe gradually unfolding, others more immediate. Um I don't know if this is like really applicable, but I guess I could just speak to like a gradual sort of revelatory uh transformation of sorts, but I feel like it might be kind of mundane. Like I feel like most people do have this sort of thing in their life. So I don't know if it's anything unique, but in terms of just becoming aware of how programmable we are and how programmable and susceptible I myself personally am and
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Relevant chapter: Trauma, Death & Initiation Through Life
long time on things that were very very bad for my health. >> Yeah. >> Uh and then the big transformation was initiation that that is that's the threshold experience. Um but the thing is you know life is the initiator. My best I I've told this story a bunch of times. my best friend died of of an overdose on my 30th birthday and uh I was touring in a band and I decided I came home for the funeral um came you know was shortly after my birthday and uh I went back out and I got lost all my
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Relevant chapter: Life Changes vs Formal Initiation
telling ourselves these trying to teach ourselves these lessons. But that was that was a that was the the the transformational moment because in the in an initiatic order, you can walk away anytime you want until that doesn't mean you're not going to be like, let's say for instance, you go through the Golden Dawn and you make it to the theoricus grade, you know, air. If you leave in that grade, you're in that grade for the rest of your [ __ ] life. You know, you're in air for the rest of your life.
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