u/Excellent-Raisin1817

Hello everybody,

Thank you for this wonderful resource!

I come from a background in Mahayana Buddhism (years ago) and several years of study of the Advaita Tradition, which I find very rich and subtle, albeit frustrating in its account of Maya.

I am in the process of reading The Secret Supreme, following the indication found on this sub.

It is certainly a complex system! And it looks like that book is merely scratching the surface.

Anyhow, I was reading about the adhvas, and the Author says :

"The word adhvan means “path.” Here, path has a twofold meaning: it is either that path on which you tread, or that path which you must dispose of, must discard. You have either to tread on the path or discard the path. You can dispose of this path only by the grace of your Master. And when you dispose of this path, you reach the state of Parama Śiva.

There is no question of realizing God through treading on this path. You may tread for centuries and centuries and still you will be treading. So you must discard this path, dispose of it. When you do dispose of the path, that is also called adhvan. Disposing of it, however, can only be done by the grace of the Master, who is the embodiment of Parama Íiva."

What is meant here with "to discard?" I thought that this was ampping of the metaphysical layers that form reality itself, can they be "discarded" at all?

The the text proceeds explaining that there are three of these adhvas:

Bhuvanādhva, which I understand comprising any material universe in existence, as the complete aggregate of all the objects and laws allocated in space and time.

Tattvādhva, which, to my undertanding, comprises the gross elements constituting the Bhuvanadhva and the pre-phenomenal chain of cuasation that gives rise to manifested reality

kalādhva, here I start to get seriously confused: this is said to be formed by a set of "enclosures", applied to the Tattvadhva, and the text proceeds to describe which encloseres encompasses which tattva. What I don't understand is what these enclosures are for. For example

" In pratiṣṭhā kalā you find the twenty-three tattvas from jala tattva, the element “water,” up to and including prakṛiti tattva."

what is the significance of this grouping? The text doesn't seem to elaborate on this.

Thank you!

Or is that market dead

So yeah basically, is that ok if I do the whole thing in the aztral but like just as a stick figure in a white space?

And then I imagine the spirit as bigger stick, figure will it work?

Any future bound course of action is goal oriented, but this goal setting is inherently bound to a set of values, which are spooks.

Is a form of complete compelte immersion in the now, almost zen like immediatism the only form of truly pure egoism?

Hello, I am on the older side (Xennial), I sued to be very active in the squat party scene years and years ago, mostly psytrance stuff.

I wanted to get back into going out but struggling to find parties.

I am not looking for info about partis directly on here btw, but in your experience, would you say there is a fairly active scene?

And by that I mean, something or other every weekend?

What's the situation?

I normally close my eyes, relax, then imagine a copy of mejust floating above my body, after a while I can feel a tingling sensation, as a flow of elctricity is going through my body, I can feel my consciousness shifting into the vessel...and that's it.

I don't "take off" so to speak, I am kinda stuck there and after a while, keeping focus becomes hard and I just sink back into the body.

Anybody has experienced and overcome something like this?

Heya,

So I graduated ages ago (2008), Japanaese Literature, went well.

Life happened, and for years I have been barely funcitonal. I am basically comingo back into the fold of society (I was on heavy meds and coming in and out of wards).

But things did get slowly better.

I would like to try and not being stuck forever in temporary roles serving tables, so I thought I may get some further education, where I live they offer bursaries for an MA if I hadn't done it before. I can't ask for BA as i already have one.

The thing is, all my professors are either retired in some remote Spanish Village, or dead, or have no idea who I am.

Professional references are not great either, as I said, I am 40M. I feel like that any application i could possibly cook up would look like a sore, and not sure how to get around it.

Anybody who works on the admission side of things with some suggestions? Or somebody who had to return as a mature student?