Some speculative metaphysics on the Three Souls.
I have been revisiting my notions and feelings and assumptions about the three souls, in consideration of what and how I want to teach about them.
I was thinking about the metaphysical process of conception and ensoulment… although “metaphysical” seems like the wrong word here since we’re talking about living things: what would a better term be, “ ( Read more... )
I was thinking about the metaphysical process of conception and ensoulment… although “metaphysical” seems like the wrong word here since we’re talking about living things: what would a better term be, “ ( Read more... )
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I scanned the news but you always seem to know more than they do anyway. Is there new fire news or a new fire? Livermore is dark again, despite forecasts for sun, and my allergies are off the chart.
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I think we just are getting ordinary clouds from the marine layer because it's unseasonably cool. I dunno about the allergies. I guess there could be remaining smoke in the valley that isn't enough to be visible, but is enough for you to feel.
Also, particulates like smoke can attract water vapor and make more clouds, even if there is not enough of the smoke to be visible. Could be part of it.
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Kabbalists typically translate nephesh, the equivalent of Fetch, as “animal soul” and assert that animals have this-but don't have ruach, equivalent to the Talker of Feri. Interesting, some Kabbalist sources assert that the neshema, the Godsoul, is something that is created through spiritual practice ( ... )
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Well, that would be not be surprising in a tradition steeped in Abrahamic religion, eh? The belief that humans are special and separate from the rest of creation, by virtue of having some form of soul that base animals lack. It was asserted all over again in medieval Christianity. I don't claim to have any certainty about the metaphysics of this, but I will say this: Whatever it is that endows us with language, culture and cognition, is unique to humanity only in degree - not categorically. I don't see how one could assert that humans have a Talker, but bonobos or ravens don't have any ( ... )
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Transpersonal psychology folks like Ken Wilber like to talk about spiritual enlightenment as being psychological developmental stages that most people just never get to. You might want to have a word with Thorn about the Godsoul being created through practice; it's a supposition she's been chewing on for a while.
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Well, call me a Luddite. The picture painted by authors like that is what I would call dystopia. And escapism. I am, I'm afraid, not at all curious whether computers can have Godsouls. In any case, it seems like a moot point since regardless of how much intelligence we might be able to put in them, we can't cause life force to arise there.
(Hey. Is there a Feri word for dharma? There ought to be!)
You're right! There ought to be. I shall have to investigate.
If you look at stuff like pathworking or discursive meditation (e.g., stare at this tarot card 'till you go loopy), you can argue that it's All In Your Head, but when these techniques succeed the results strongly suggest that you're getting information from an experience Out There. Would you call that “travel”? It seems analogous to information that you can get from “travel” that we just attributed to Fetch ...No, I don't think I'd call that soul travel. What you describe seems more a meditative delving into a ( ... )
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I've come to regard Deep Self (the name I prefer, because the deepest part of our Self is everything including the self. We are, in essence, everything. Talker is just the "I" of everything speaking through us...kindasorta. *All* of us is God) as one in the same with the Blue God -- but I'm not sure if Vanthe works it that way... *shrug ( ... )
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Nope, we didn't "do" the Blue God. Crazy, I know. They passed on some of the lore to me, in the context of "Here is some stuff that Victor and/or Gabriel got into later on and we're giving it to you because it's getting passed around as part of the tradition so you might as well have some idea what it is." It was lore that came into Vanthe "sidways", I guess you might say: not passed down via the initiatory lineage, but shared by other initiates. So no... equating Deep Self/Godsoul with the Blue God is definitely not in my experience! Not arguing with the idea, just answering your implied question. :)
I've been using Earth for Fetch, Moon for Talker, and Sun/Star for Godself. I can see those you described working really well too though.
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That said, I'm no longer sure that the (Sticky One) Fetch corresponds to the (fylgia) Fetch. The fylgia can be inherited (even loaned out!), and it seems to have a fair amount of independence and agency. I'm starting to think it may be more like the God Soul.
But like I said, I'm quite new to all this . . .
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blessings,
Oli
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