Initiation begins with the Inner Work of disconnecting and decolonizing your subjective universe from non-beneficial forces. It is a matter of taking what you have acquired by happenstance and re-designing your inner landscape as your own. It then moves towards applying your self-designed being to the transformation of your outer world.
Some have wondered why I am simply giving this material away. What I will post under the “sparks” tag constitutes a roadmap of the hazards you face by simply being a human. I recognize that some will benefit who are not of the disposition to become Setians or for whom an Initiatory environment like the Temple would be a poor match. While I feel the best peer group that exists to pursue these ideas is the one found within the Temple of Set, one need not be a Setian to benefit from this material.
Focus on your breathing for a moment. Feel how the breath flows in through your mouth and into your lungs. Then feel the lungs contract, squeezing the air back out the pathway until you need to take another breath.
What you just did is something presently thought to be unique to humans. You focus the mind on an unconscious process to turn it into a conscious one. You temporarily turned off your default operating settings to move it in a specific direction.
In the same way that your lungs breathe without your conscious awareness or attention, much of what you consider to be your thoughts results from a similar automatic system. Your mind “thinks” because that is simply what it is designed to do, and much of its “thinking” is of little consequence. It is on autopilot without calibrated instruments or any set direction.
Your mind is among the most adaptable and plastic things known to exist. It is also the key to the highest leverage transformations possible. A simple spark in the brain can be the start of the tremendous success that impacts the world or towards cataclysmic horrors that affect millions. The default settings of the mind created by happenstance are not empowering. They tend towards a grey average, with some good in one area and some bad in others. In no sense does this happenstance situation create a proper fit between what is in the mind and what external circumstances are required to create Victory.
When we expose ourselves to new situations and engage in new behaviors, we create new connections in the brain in a process called neurogenesis. To get the most out of this series, you should not wait before putting the ideas you find into practice. You will gain more by applying an idea half understood than you ever will waiting for complete understanding before action. The feedback from the application will inform your future application and allow for better integration of ideas by giving them something to connect with in your experience. Use what seems most interesting or scariest and try new behaviors to create tangible results.
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