Re: Recovering from New Age Mumbo Jumbo
Date: April 18, 2013 02:44PM
i took me quite some time to get my mind back to straight after being into all this stuff lol one thing that could help me is to redig the true essence of monotheism, difference between 'true' religions and cults, is that religion advocate the principle that the universe is ordered, that god is a being animated by reason, that he doesn't act on wimps, and that his will can be understood by people, underlying in fact also the basic principle that lead to scientific discovery, on the premise that the universe is animated by rational eternal principle, opposed to cults who make it look like the universe is more made up of chaotic pattern of energy that obey strange rules, often that only new age guru can predict accuratly, based on weird method of thinking that has no rational basis, religion normally actually forbid that kind of things, even all the christian based cult and 'fake chrisitan' often have belief that are closer to witchcract and sorcery than actually being truly in tune with the essence of christianism as a monotheist religion, this kind of philosophy helped to put the piece back together between science, rationalism and spirituality, where actually there is no opposition between spirituality, knowledge god, and science and rationalism, all people who preted otherwise are sort of polytheistic, pagan or into witchract more than being into a monotheistic type of religion
also avoid anything that has to do with entrencing/dissociating practice, or thing that tend to impair your congitive pattern of thinking straight, and ability to predict the future, predicting the future can be stressing, if you remove the LOA and suggar coated positive thinking, and belief into wierd kind of entity, but if you remove this activity of predicting the future in a rational manner, you become quickly not much more than a lobotomized vegetable, and all the transe or dissociative state inducing practice are clearly impairing this ability to think rationally about the future
the catch is that there are also many element embeded even in the core of science that are not even truly rationalism, all the lot of what is called 'natural science', and newtonian science, they are not really rational thing, they are more already issued from metaphysic, from artistolian way of thinking more based on empiricism and metaphysic, newton had a big foot in alchemy and esoterism, and his system doesn't come from a rational thinking pattern, all the lot of natural science is not valid until you know the method used to construct the actual science, what matter is not the belief, but the way you use to construct the belief, on this the whole lot of sociratic method of questionning and raitonal analysis of belief pattern can help big deal to sort out what is irrational or rational in what you believe as true, don't be any bit of ashamed to put down all what you might consider beleving in, and analyzing it rationally and questionning the validity of the belief and what method you use to assert if the belief is true or not, what is the more important is to build up a very strong method to assert if a belief is true or not rather than learning natural science or being too much on the empirist/infferent reasonning type of things