hello mr g,
yes i agree that the athiest position is faith/assumption based. it is funny and amazing how and person can tally up their life experience, then think "i am the one who knows the reality of the universe". to be honest, the faith of an athiest or and religious or and spiritual seem to be faith in their own importance. not so much the thing they belief in is great, but they are great for being one of the ones who have figured out what is right.
mr surely, yes you have it correct. meaterialism vs dualism. i am not against dualism, i would like it if that is the way things are. as an meat popsicle, i am frozen in place, stuck in materialism due to it making sense in an way that cant be argued with. if i am meat i am 1- sensible, and most importantly - 2 not like all those crazy people who are absolutley convinced they are definatley more than meat, such as victor sanchez. i am so very cautious of peering beyond the meat curtains and accidentaly belifing in something that is not in anyway real.
the meat thing is of course and bit tounge and cheek, but the idea is the same. what is one dualism idea that we can verifiy, and solid truth that is not mere fantasy like the bulk of the new age.
mr j,
i have said it before and i will say it again, i am and slow reader. in full transperancy - i have only read half of chapter 8. if eye rolling lead to major injuries, that half would of sent me to an hospital.
how you can take him seriously i do not know, so i am assuming you are somewhat like him, or the culture that spawned him. i wont offend you by calling you an new ager, but you must be fairly deep into dualism to read those pages and nod youre head. this is not an critic but and observation.
castas don juan path was an world were you opt out of society. sanchezes wirrakia world is an society. even though he follows the standard nazgul formula of not supporting casta but using casta to prop up his views, his mexican shamans and castas super shamans have nothing to do with each other. it is not the same, and sanchez trys to force the idea it is the same. do you think, if castas don juan was real, he would wear traditional clothes and an funny hat, as an fundamental part of his identity ?
toltecs of the new millenium, published by well know enablers bear and co. 1996 new age vintage. shamanism/mayan studies. it reads like an checklist of new ager ideas, perfectly acceptable vague nothings that can be interpreted to have meaning that is not there.
how deep do you want to go down this rabbit hole. i am okay with breaking it down page by page, despite the effort, but i really dont think you could defend him for long until you move onto youre other suggestion.
he talks about disregarding mental and emotional obsessions, he is also and known egoist who is obsessed with his own righteousness.
he uses casta terminology to make his case, he is known for knowing better than casta. (standard) casta was against sanchez.
he is extremely interested in himself.
the adventure to the mexicans he pretends are toltecs, the door opening and closing, is completely and only restricted by his own made up obstacles. no need for an sign. at all.
"we had achieved and compact group of participants who met, step by step, the demands of the various workshops during the past thirteen months."
isnt that amazing, there are actually, according to the spirit magic of the universe, an set amount of required workshops, in order to meet some mexicans. you even get to pay for them ! praise the sun.
he speaks of only being able to see special worlds if you have a true life, and strong life. victor sanchez knows if youre life is true or not. pretty amazing. he also knows if you are energetically good or bad. he checks twice before going to the door. energetically. knows.
grandfather fire tatewari is not something castas don juan would of been into. its nice sanchez has some magical friends, but it is so very forced.
"such experiences, by the way, turned out to be highly substantial, since they allowed us to know much about the world and about ourselves. many fundamental techniques, in particular those favouring the connection with the awareness of the earth, were developed there."
that is many words to say nothing. classic new age filler speak. they learnt so much about their very interested selfs. "i didnt' know i liked cilantro, until i went on and spirit journey !"
they learnt much about the world, not in an figured out faster than light travel way, but in an realized the desert is hot kinda way. they learnt how very interesting they personally are. they realized, very deeply, they are on earth. they developed many fundamental techniques to realized you are on earth and lime goes with everything. those people with and proper life and right energy.
i could go on, and on, and on. i will finish reading that chapter and maybe some more, but sanchez is and grade a nazgul.
best try your other suggestion.
mr x.
