I thought I'd just take a moment to say this. Please continue posting until you feel you have exhausted all knowledge to share! Your contents are much help for a lot of people, including me. +I enjoy listening to you!
I remember reading through the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra for the firs t time. The translation by OSHO. He mentions this.... The notion that we think the world revolves around us. Since childbirth everything has to be done for us, so in a sense the world DID revolve around us. But it's a foolish childish notion to continue thinking so.
Armed with the knowledge I give you, the ritual work becomes increasingly effective. Yes. Does this mean that meditation is unnecessary? Yes. However, you will very likely seek out meditation when you get an inkling of what is actually going on. You more than likely won't be able to resist deepening your practice with meditation.
The talk about fear/desire reminds me of Alan Watts. He said something along the lines of "It doesn't mean you won't jump when it goes bang. But it means you won't be overtaken by it. Or you won't be overtaken by fear itself."
Word gold! The new perspective can be seen with the mind's eye and does not feel like a wet towel is trying to wash my brain. This resonates at such a subtle, though acceptable, frequency. Thank you for this!
Thank you for sharing this. This seems similar to Jesus walking on the water in the storm. Damien Echols has explained that doing the Middle Pillar can bring about an experience like Jesus walking on water. How he was still in the storm, but not swept up by the currents of the ocean. I'd compare the current to Karma.
I like that metaphor. I also see the Jesus/walking-on-water episode as an astral experience. Flying, levitating, walking on water, walking through walls, teleportation, etc.--these are things that we do on the astral plane. If we sink while walking on water in a dream, it is because the karma (the conditioning) is taking over, convincing us that the dream world is going to behave the same way the "material" world behaves.
Excellent explanation. Thanks for sharing! I can see how someone might twist your words to mean life doesn’t matter, or that they don’t have to consider the consequences of their actions or inactions. If someone finds comfort in that I would think their motives were in question. I imagine that would set them up for more delusion as it is yet another form of escapism.
I am thinking a lot about cycles lately and how it relates to the physical body and brain - body connection, especially with things like depression or anxiety. They sort of continue perpetuating themselves and it’s hard to break those cycles. I broke my ankle several months ago and had to re-learn how to walk. I have been reading and listening to a lot about trauma being stored in the body and how the nervous system works kind of like a mirror. So exercising your non-broken ankle can greatly improve the healing of the broken ankle, even when it’s in a cast. Also how the body shuts off the brain pathway to the injured area long before the muscles begin to atrophy. So re-learning how to walk is also very much mental as well as physical, telling your brain it’s time to turn that pathway back on. Once it’s back on it sort of effortlessly continues that cycle of being on but turning it back on once it’s turned off is very hard. Thinking about chakras being described as “wheels” I’m wondering if this is connected to how the body works in “cycles” and how it’s sometimes prone to being caught in trauma/anxiety/depression cycles including with physical injuries. Perhaps this is kind of an explanation for how the body is designed in general? Just wondering if you had any connections with this wording of chakras being wheels.
Think about the chakras spinning, like each one is a snake chasing its own tail. Trauma is a scenario that asserts itself over and over, as though it's spinning in a cycle.
Dion Fortune wrote some great things about karma, especially in her book "Practical Occultism in Daily Life". One of many great quotes: "Karma must not only be accepted as inevitable, it must actually be welcomed as a scholarship in the school of life. When we have arrived at this attitude towards our karma, it’s working out has begun."
This reminds me of the devil’s description of hypnotic rhythm from Napoleon Hill’s *Outwitting the Devil.* It also reminds me of Devil’s Snare from the first Harry Potter movie. Hermione seemed to be the only one to have the sense of mind to remain still and pass through the Devil’s Snare. The danger seems to be in what happened to Ron during that scene. The more you struggle to free yourself, the deeper you sink into its web. I reckon at some point it might just rip you apart completely - and not in a good way. The metaphor gets even juicier when you consider the “Light” spell Hermione casts on the Devil’s Snare to save Ron. Lumos Maxima!
Without introducing a practice like the LBRP, it might be disastrous to reveal to people how something like karma, or hypnotic rhythm, or devil’s snare really works. Of course they’ll struggle to free themselves not realizing that that’s how you sink yourself deeper. I never recommended *Outwitting the Devil* to people for this reason. Napoleon Hill failed to provide an effective means for side-stepping the hypnotic rhythm he introduced in the book.
I have another comment. I sort of struggle with this myself. Its been tricky for me to find the right balance between watching my karma play out on the view screen, and making conscious efforts to improve my life and attain different results. I guess my struggle to accept my reality for what it is. I’m still trying to be somebody and getting wrapped up in various personas.
Thanks for this video!!!! I like the approach of using the banishments to literally create space between you and the play of your life, it's so empowering , instead of of using the banishments to protect you from the evil entities that lurk around..... turning you in to a victim of the "outside" world. Thanks for this!
Once again must say I'm really blessed you've started this channel and I've come across it so timely. One danger I see is that you could become disjoined ... you are either so good at sidestepping your negative karma or you could say you develop a "resistance" to the pain of your Karma, so you can cause so much and not care where it splashes. Something like our cultural archetype of a psycopath? (I don't want to risk being judgemental about those with that actual disorder, which I'm ignorant of) I also see a trap; that you can be engaging with and continuing your Karma, while thinking that you're alchemizing or uprooting it. *Desiring* to come across it it isn't really any different than *fearing* to come across it. I've gone through periods since I've started this....magical mode of thought ... where I really welcomed some drastic happenings because I thought it was a sign I was getting psychic work done haha. (perhaps I was? But I'm certainly not certain it was "necessary" except that apparently I'm an idiot that has to learn the hard way sometimes.) I think this is a phenomena with all sorts of "do-gooders" and strong egos -- after all what can feed the story of an ego better than a good story? Or are we then just a really ripe grape for the wine, like Rumi says? I dunno.
Karma can’t be stopped. The key to “sidestepping” it involves disidentifying with it. It continues, but you can simply observe it as it plays out and exhausts itself, feeling compassion for all people who find themselves caught up in the flypaper of its drama. It has nothing to do with what you really are. Yes, a psychopath (or narcissist) SEEMS to be able to do this-but that kind of heartless disidentification is the danger. Psychopaths exist in a kind of “hell realm,” only able to proceed based on past programming. They cannot love and appreciate who a person is in the present moment. Each person, to them, is simply a means to an end. A means for maintaining the ego, a fake, superior persona determined by past conditioning. They are stuck perpetually in salesmanship mode.
Great explanation Lyam, resonates with my experience. One suggestion for a video: can you talk about the physical body? Specifically what significance things like posture, imbalances, tensions, can affect the flow of energy. In my practice I feel that there is an ideal physical body "way of being" that one can achieve, which doesn't fight against gravity and stores tensions, basically a "perfect" vehicle. Don't know if that sounds clear, but I would love a video on the physical body.
great talk...thanks! I expected something else with that title...I thought it would be another talk trivializing and dismissing karma - which I believe is important work. Your perspective is very insightful and helpful.
I've heard that karma is not real and that it is a matter of attunement. It's been tough to untangle that concept, but your video has helped me gain a deeper understanding. Thank you for this
Very much like the way you explained Karma. The way I understood Karma is Newton's Third Law of Thermo Dynamics. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, not that it is moralistic, just that... when you drop a rock in a body of water, a splash will be the consequence of that action. Not so much that the rock is against the water, just that is the karma of that action.
I really enjoy the way you simplify and illuminate these concepts so a general audience can understand at some level. I guess my criticism or question would be if we do not feel as great of sting from the negative karma, does it mean we will not feel as great an embrace while experiencing positive Karma ?
Yeah, while I was talking, I was noticing that I view all karma as negative. Uh-oh! This is mainly because karma is the tendency of a false view, or an obsession, to perpetuate itself. Our fear and desire in regard to pleasure and pain keep reinforcing themselves. This is a non-dual interpretation, of course. To understand what I mean, you might consider revising the way that most people tend to look at the Tree of Life. Most people see the three pillars on the tree as active, passive, and "in-between." Well, I would suggest seeing the outer pillars, both, as passive. Or as reactive. Only the central pillar is active, determining what the outer pillars are going to fuss about. The tendency to divide karma into good and bad is part of the danger I was talking about. The point is to recognize oneself as unbound by karma, not to get pulled into its merry-go-round of the addiction to pleasure and the depression of withdrawal. In this light, the pleasure of positive karma is also a kind of suffering (!)--in that it keeps us identified with a thing that needs good stuff to happen and needs to get away from bad stuff.
One of the great questions I continue to come back to and pretty sure I'm not the only one is: Why am I able to for example see the value in your book while pretty much the rest of the globe would think it's crazy. Why am I " spiritually awake" for lack of a better description, who am I or what did I do in perhaps previous lives to deserve to be what you would call "the select few", why is so much of the population in this robotic unconscious state, just completely run by the ego created as a reaction to trauma and social conditioning, unable to wake up from it... Did I resolve lots of karma already?
The danger? Perhaps we do not have a full awareness of the depth of our dilemma. Hopefully we can withstand the potential horror show! I have some work to get back to😂
Great insight in this video thank you Lyam! Whilst I can affirm that my experiences of life definitely reflects this perspective of Karma especially in my youth, I struggle to reconcile situations in which people are exposed to significant trauma/pain and in some cases death. Is it their own undoing? Their own choices? Edit: After rewatching, I see it could have been a momentum of something that was started in a previous life.
I’m curious if your concern is that people will misconstrue this to avoid taking accountability for what’s happening in their life, and sort of dissociate and not be an active participant in making the changes they need to make in life? IDK… just guessing. I finally stopped dissociating from a big issue & faced a big ass dragon and feel a great sense of relief.
Yes, many people might intuitively sense that the universe doesn't really punish the wicked, but they will still cling to that belief so that karma can keep them well-behaved. If the universe doesn't punish me, does that mean I will now start lying, stealing, gossiping, etc.? Of course not. There's a whole new level to morality that transcends the need for rewards and punishments.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Authenticity shines brighter than even love, it has so much to give to the world and each individual. Nobody really needs to lie steal and cheat when there is such a deep never ending reservoir of source.
Haven't done one, but from the outside it seems to suffer from the scorekeeping fallacy. I should do an all-day weekend intensive to put in the time? To make up for the fact that I don't engage in a spiritual practice every day?
If someone's side-stepped their karma and it's playing out away from them, does this mean that the experience is still happening to them or is it playing out to someone near them? For example, I've known people who seem to be in lots of car accidents. If they side-stepped their "car accident" karma, do these car accidents continue to happen to them or do the car accidents happen around them instead but to other people?
Can you give your opinion on antinatlism? Antinatlism doesn't always comes from total nhilism its seems on the surface as a legit solution for suffering.. if you want to check out some modern ideas regarding it you have David benatar arguments and maybe tomas legotti as well (although tomas is the more traditional pessimistic individual) i whould love to hear a genuine practitioners perspective on david benatar ideas (they come from compassion mostly)
Seems to be the result of taking the initial, outer-order teachings of Buddhism literally. To gatekeep his teachings, the Buddha declared that "Life is suffering." That turns many people off--that is, those who are not yet fed up with their own futile attempts to extract joy from the world. Let them keep trying until they grow tired of it. When we take the Buddha's initial pronouncement literally and refuse to look any further, we draw the conclusion that we're better off remaining disincarnate. But the Buddha's statement merely acknowledges the futility of trying to extract joy from circumstance. That's all. Our mistake, of course, is that we would believe joy to be something that must be extracted. Period. And if joy is not something we can extract, then what is it?
@@lyamchristopher2393 benatar arguments is the a simmatry between pain and pleasure in the world, he said no sane person whould choose 1 hour of pleasure for 5 minutes of pain.. his book is very based in its arguments, i find it very hard to answer and im not a pessimistic person or even a nhilist myself
I've been reading your book, trying to piece together working on the rather lengthy list of activities and projects. I started doing LBPR maybe 5 months ago, then shortly thereafter expanded to include MP. One thing that I noticed is that I learned pretty quickly how to visualize to a much, much more profound degree. I have leaned into this pretty hard. I experiment a little bit make a few little changes here and there. For example, I like to include a 3rd line shooting horizonatally straight through tiphareth so that my Kabbalistic Cross is 3 dimensional (and I am the coordinates). You tend to poopoo deviation at all in your book. Why is this? Also, it's super weird to hear you talk about disengaging karma without forcing it. I have altered many 'bad' habits since I began this process, and continue to work on them with vigor. There has been at least one very persistent bad habit that more or less just fell away with ease. Somebody is rude at the store, I get annoyed, but then it just passes right through me and it doesn't ruin my day the way it used to. I don't understand how any of this stuff works, but it does indeed work.
Good to see it's working for you. The rule for "no deviation" comes about because the curriculum in the Kabbalah Magic book doesn't come with a teacher. In the absence of a teacher, it's best to assume that the student is not yet capable of teaching him or herself or of directing his or her own progress.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Thank you for your response. I have another quick question. In your book you state that a ceremonial dagger should be symmetrical. Why is this the case? I ask also because (before I started your book program) I had started using a dagger but it is curved, and to be frank, I'm a little attached to it for this particular use.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I suppose because its preferable that it minimize assymetry for meridian style rituals like Kabbalistic Cross and MP. Makes sense, but I feel like I DO have symmetry in one plane but not 2 is still not bad. I suppose the other possible reason is because you want to aim your magical powers like a wand. Pure conjecture, and that's all I got o this question.
I thought I'd just take a moment to say this. Please continue posting until you feel you have exhausted all knowledge to share! Your contents are much help for a lot of people, including me. +I enjoy listening to you!
This lines up with Eckhart Tolles description of karma and the pain body.
I'm quite the fan of Mr. Tolle, as you can probably tell from *Forbidden Realms.*
“The universe isn’t punishing you, you’re not that special” humbling, necessary 🙌🏾
I remember reading through the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra for the firs t time. The translation by OSHO. He mentions this.... The notion that we think the world revolves around us. Since childbirth everything has to be done for us, so in a sense the world DID revolve around us. But it's a foolish childish notion to continue thinking so.
The fact we can draw symbols in the air and say words and it can have such profound effects never stops blowing my mind.
Armed with the knowledge I give you, the ritual work becomes increasingly effective. Yes. Does this mean that meditation is unnecessary? Yes. However, you will very likely seek out meditation when you get an inkling of what is actually going on. You more than likely won't be able to resist deepening your practice with meditation.
@@lyamchristopher2393 One might even say that you can only truly meditate when you see that is unnecessary.
Ha! Yeah.
The talk about fear/desire reminds me of Alan Watts. He said something along the lines of "It doesn't mean you won't jump when it goes bang. But it means you won't be overtaken by it. Or you won't be overtaken by fear itself."
Right! The fear won't possess you (like demon might possess you). You are not its bitch. It is yours.
It's like my daughter says: "don't try to escape dad, you will get abstracted."
Profound!
Wow, I just realized that you are talking about shadow work and emotional processing. Thank you.🙏🏽
Word gold! The new perspective can be seen with the mind's eye and does not feel like a wet towel is trying to wash my brain. This resonates at such a subtle, though acceptable, frequency. Thank you for this!
So good to hear, Thrice. Thanks for the comment.
You make more sense than anything I've heard or concived on the subject of karma. Thank you for sharing your understanding 🙏
Thank you for sharing this. This seems similar to Jesus walking on the water in the storm. Damien Echols has explained that doing the Middle Pillar can bring about an experience like Jesus walking on water. How he was still in the storm, but not swept up by the currents of the ocean. I'd compare the current to Karma.
I like that metaphor. I also see the Jesus/walking-on-water episode as an astral experience. Flying, levitating, walking on water, walking through walls, teleportation, etc.--these are things that we do on the astral plane. If we sink while walking on water in a dream, it is because the karma (the conditioning) is taking over, convincing us that the dream world is going to behave the same way the "material" world behaves.
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Amazing. Great yarn.
Excellent explanation. Thanks for sharing! I can see how someone might twist your words to mean life doesn’t matter, or that they don’t have to consider the consequences of their actions or inactions. If someone finds comfort in that I would think their motives were in question. I imagine that would set them up for more delusion as it is yet another form of escapism.
Good points! :)
Brilliant 💎
You just fixed my life. Many, many blessings. Can’t thank you enough
I am thinking a lot about cycles lately and how it relates to the physical body and brain - body connection, especially with things like depression or anxiety. They sort of continue perpetuating themselves and it’s hard to break those cycles.
I broke my ankle several months ago and had to re-learn how to walk. I have been reading and listening to a lot about trauma being stored in the body and how the nervous system works kind of like a mirror. So exercising your non-broken ankle can greatly improve the healing of the broken ankle, even when it’s in a cast. Also how the body shuts off the brain pathway to the injured area long before the muscles begin to atrophy. So re-learning how to walk is also very much mental as well as physical, telling your brain it’s time to turn that pathway back on. Once it’s back on it sort of effortlessly continues that cycle of being on but turning it back on once it’s turned off is very hard.
Thinking about chakras being described as “wheels” I’m wondering if this is connected to how the body works in “cycles” and how it’s sometimes prone to being caught in trauma/anxiety/depression cycles including with physical injuries. Perhaps this is kind of an explanation for how the body is designed in general?
Just wondering if you had any connections with this wording of chakras being wheels.
Think about the chakras spinning, like each one is a snake chasing its own tail. Trauma is a scenario that asserts itself over and over, as though it's spinning in a cycle.
Dion Fortune wrote some great things about karma, especially in her book "Practical Occultism in Daily Life".
One of many great quotes: "Karma must not only be accepted as inevitable, it must actually be welcomed as a scholarship in the school of life. When we have arrived at this attitude towards our karma, it’s working out has begun."
there is potential for misinterpretation, but I think you explained it well enough to avoid the majority of that. great video.
This reminds me of the devil’s description of hypnotic rhythm from Napoleon Hill’s *Outwitting the Devil.*
It also reminds me of Devil’s Snare from the first Harry Potter movie. Hermione seemed to be the only one to have the sense of mind to remain still and pass through the Devil’s Snare. The danger seems to be in what happened to Ron during that scene. The more you struggle to free yourself, the deeper you sink into its web. I reckon at some point it might just rip you apart completely - and not in a good way.
The metaphor gets even juicier when you consider the “Light” spell Hermione casts on the Devil’s Snare to save Ron. Lumos Maxima!
Without introducing a practice like the LBRP, it might be disastrous to reveal to people how something like karma, or hypnotic rhythm, or devil’s snare really works. Of course they’ll struggle to free themselves not realizing that that’s how you sink yourself deeper.
I never recommended *Outwitting the Devil* to people for this reason. Napoleon Hill failed to provide an effective means for side-stepping the hypnotic rhythm he introduced in the book.
Great insights!
I have another comment. I sort of struggle with this myself. Its been tricky for me to find the right balance between watching my karma play out on the view screen, and making conscious efforts to improve my life and attain different results. I guess my struggle to accept my reality for what it is. I’m still trying to be somebody and getting wrapped up in various personas.
Thanks for the comment, Retro. :)
Will be chewing on this for a while, thank you!
Thanks for this video!!!! I like the approach of using the banishments to literally create space between you and the play of your life, it's so empowering , instead of of using the banishments to protect you from the evil entities that lurk around..... turning you in to a victim of the "outside" world. Thanks for this!
Once again must say I'm really blessed you've started this channel and I've come across it so timely. One danger I see is that you could become disjoined ... you are either so good at sidestepping your negative karma or you could say you develop a "resistance" to the pain of your Karma, so you can cause so much and not care where it splashes. Something like our cultural archetype of a psycopath? (I don't want to risk being judgemental about those with that actual disorder, which I'm ignorant of)
I also see a trap; that you can be engaging with and continuing your Karma, while thinking that you're alchemizing or uprooting it. *Desiring* to come across it it isn't really any different than *fearing* to come across it. I've gone through periods since I've started this....magical mode of thought ... where I really welcomed some drastic happenings because I thought it was a sign I was getting psychic work done haha. (perhaps I was? But I'm certainly not certain it was "necessary" except that apparently I'm an idiot that has to learn the hard way sometimes.)
I think this is a phenomena with all sorts of "do-gooders" and strong egos -- after all what can feed the story of an ego better than a good story?
Or are we then just a really ripe grape for the wine, like Rumi says? I dunno.
Karma can’t be stopped. The key to “sidestepping” it involves disidentifying with it. It continues, but you can simply observe it as it plays out and exhausts itself, feeling compassion for all people who find themselves caught up in the flypaper of its drama. It has nothing to do with what you really are.
Yes, a psychopath (or narcissist) SEEMS to be able to do this-but that kind of heartless disidentification is the danger. Psychopaths exist in a kind of “hell realm,” only able to proceed based on past programming. They cannot love and appreciate who a person is in the present moment. Each person, to them, is simply a means to an end. A means for maintaining the ego, a fake, superior persona determined by past conditioning. They are stuck perpetually in salesmanship mode.
I laughed so loud so many times listening to this but in a cheerful way. The escaping in itself is the karma hahaha
The essence of humor involves us laughing at wasted effort.
@@lyamchristopher2393 indeed, thank you for your service
thank you lyam
Great explanation Lyam, resonates with my experience.
One suggestion for a video: can you talk about the physical body? Specifically what significance things like posture, imbalances, tensions, can affect the flow of energy. In my practice I feel that there is an ideal physical body "way of being" that one can achieve, which doesn't fight against gravity and stores tensions, basically a "perfect" vehicle.
Don't know if that sounds clear, but I would love a video on the physical body.
Interesting idea.
great talk...thanks! I expected something else with that title...I thought it would be another talk trivializing and dismissing karma - which I believe is important work. Your perspective is very insightful and helpful.
Click bait! 😉
I've heard that karma is not real and that it is a matter of attunement. It's been tough to untangle that concept, but your video has helped me gain a deeper understanding.
Thank you for this
Is imagination real? Yes, as a display of drama and imagery, it is quite real. Just not real in the way you think it is when you’re dreaming.
My breath disappeared I don't need to breath much it's very subtle and soft
Very much like the way you explained Karma.
The way I understood Karma is Newton's Third Law of Thermo Dynamics.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, not that it is moralistic, just that... when you drop a rock in a body of water, a splash will be the consequence of that action. Not so much that the rock is against the water, just that is the karma of that action.
Also that even positive actions have deeply negative consequences like a mom who doesn't discipline her child
@@bricktea3645 Like me not walking away from my gf's toxic abuse....
for me, Karma is just the interplay between the universal polarities that are continually seeking balance
When there is a balance observed, what determines where the fulcrum gets situated?
I really enjoy the way you simplify and illuminate these concepts so a general audience can understand at some level. I guess my criticism or question would be if we do not feel as great of sting from the negative karma, does it mean we will not feel as great an embrace while experiencing positive Karma ?
Yeah, while I was talking, I was noticing that I view all karma as negative. Uh-oh! This is mainly because karma is the tendency of a false view, or an obsession, to perpetuate itself. Our fear and desire in regard to pleasure and pain keep reinforcing themselves. This is a non-dual interpretation, of course. To understand what I mean, you might consider revising the way that most people tend to look at the Tree of Life.
Most people see the three pillars on the tree as active, passive, and "in-between." Well, I would suggest seeing the outer pillars, both, as passive. Or as reactive. Only the central pillar is active, determining what the outer pillars are going to fuss about.
The tendency to divide karma into good and bad is part of the danger I was talking about. The point is to recognize oneself as unbound by karma, not to get pulled into its merry-go-round of the addiction to pleasure and the depression of withdrawal. In this light, the pleasure of positive karma is also a kind of suffering (!)--in that it keeps us identified with a thing that needs good stuff to happen and needs to get away from bad stuff.
One of the great questions I continue to come back to and pretty sure I'm not the only one is: Why am I able to for example see the value in your book while pretty much the rest of the globe would think it's crazy. Why am I " spiritually awake" for lack of a better description, who am I or what did I do in perhaps previous lives to deserve to be what you would call "the select few", why is so much of the population in this robotic unconscious state, just completely run by the ego created as a reaction to trauma and social conditioning, unable to wake up from it... Did I resolve lots of karma already?
It's a mystery, isn't it?
@@lyamchristopher2393 Yes and mysteries are part of the experience, thank you Scorpio.
Bad habits dissolve when getting light.
The danger? Perhaps we do not have a full awareness of the depth of our dilemma. Hopefully we can withstand the potential horror show! I have some work to get back to😂
there's no escape from Karma, the real escape is from identifying with the self trapped in the wheel of Karma.
Bingo, and by then you don’t want to “escape” it anyway. It’s time to get on stage and play your heart out.
(: @@dustincaldwell2354
Great insight in this video thank you Lyam! Whilst I can affirm that my experiences of life definitely reflects this perspective of Karma especially in my youth, I struggle to reconcile situations in which people are exposed to significant trauma/pain and in some cases death. Is it their own undoing? Their own choices?
Edit: After rewatching, I see it could have been a momentum of something that was started in a previous life.
Does it help to know “where it came from”? Usually not.
In your experience, could you expand how knowledge, acceptance and knowing/"forgiving" Self can sidestep or "correct" Karma?
This is essentially the same thing as demon summoning. Yes, I think I can get around to discussing this some more.
I’m curious if your concern is that people will misconstrue this to avoid taking accountability for what’s happening in their life, and sort of dissociate and not be an active participant in making the changes they need to make in life? IDK… just guessing. I finally stopped dissociating from a big issue & faced a big ass dragon and feel a great sense of relief.
Yes, many people might intuitively sense that the universe doesn't really punish the wicked, but they will still cling to that belief so that karma can keep them well-behaved. If the universe doesn't punish me, does that mean I will now start lying, stealing, gossiping, etc.? Of course not. There's a whole new level to morality that transcends the need for rewards and punishments.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Authenticity shines brighter than even love, it has so much to give to the world and each individual. Nobody really needs to lie steal and cheat when there is such a deep never ending reservoir of source.
Would you recommend Vipassana retreat?
Haven't done one, but from the outside it seems to suffer from the scorekeeping fallacy. I should do an all-day weekend intensive to put in the time? To make up for the fact that I don't engage in a spiritual practice every day?
@@lyamchristopher2393 to learn how it is done and apply it on the daily life
@@lyamchristopher2393 to learn how it is done and apply it to the daily life maybe
Or another way to put it, we don't truly know what's in Pandora's box until we open it.
A comment even better suited to the video on godforms. 😮
@@lyamchristopher2393 never assumed a god form. Done the 4 fold body. Maybe it's time.
My dumbass just imagined you as a knight riding a horse throwing fireballs. Yes.
Ha! In D&D, a Haste spell is much more powerful, in the long run, than Fireball.
Yup people have had karma all wrong amd i think its on purpose, its a self fulfilling prophecy.
The saying "Shit happens" has a lot more wisdom than is generally realized.
If someone's side-stepped their karma and it's playing out away from them, does this mean that the experience is still happening to them or is it playing out to someone near them? For example, I've known people who seem to be in lots of car accidents. If they side-stepped their "car accident" karma, do these car accidents continue to happen to them or do the car accidents happen around them instead but to other people?
The sidestepping is figurative, not literal. The karma still persists with the body, but the personal suffering disappears.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Thanks, Lyam. Good to know. I'm relistening to your video as I think I'm not understanding karma quite yet.
Can you give your opinion on antinatlism? Antinatlism doesn't always comes from total nhilism its seems on the surface as a legit solution for suffering.. if you want to check out some modern ideas regarding it you have David benatar arguments and maybe tomas legotti as well (although tomas is the more traditional pessimistic individual) i whould love to hear a genuine practitioners perspective on david benatar ideas (they come from compassion mostly)
Seems to be the result of taking the initial, outer-order teachings of Buddhism literally. To gatekeep his teachings, the Buddha declared that "Life is suffering." That turns many people off--that is, those who are not yet fed up with their own futile attempts to extract joy from the world. Let them keep trying until they grow tired of it.
When we take the Buddha's initial pronouncement literally and refuse to look any further, we draw the conclusion that we're better off remaining disincarnate. But the Buddha's statement merely acknowledges the futility of trying to extract joy from circumstance. That's all. Our mistake, of course, is that we would believe joy to be something that must be extracted. Period.
And if joy is not something we can extract, then what is it?
@@lyamchristopher2393 benatar arguments is the a simmatry between pain and pleasure in the world, he said no sane person whould choose 1 hour of pleasure for 5 minutes of pain.. his book is very based in its arguments, i find it very hard to answer and im not a pessimistic person or even a nhilist myself
I've been reading your book, trying to piece together working on the rather lengthy list of activities and projects. I started doing LBPR maybe 5 months ago, then shortly thereafter expanded to include MP. One thing that I noticed is that I learned pretty quickly how to visualize to a much, much more profound degree. I have leaned into this pretty hard. I experiment a little bit make a few little changes here and there. For example, I like to include a 3rd line shooting horizonatally straight through tiphareth so that my Kabbalistic Cross is 3 dimensional (and I am the coordinates). You tend to poopoo deviation at all in your book. Why is this? Also, it's super weird to hear you talk about disengaging karma without forcing it. I have altered many 'bad' habits since I began this process, and continue to work on them with vigor. There has been at least one very persistent bad habit that more or less just fell away with ease. Somebody is rude at the store, I get annoyed, but then it just passes right through me and it doesn't ruin my day the way it used to. I don't understand how any of this stuff works, but it does indeed work.
Good to see it's working for you. The rule for "no deviation" comes about because the curriculum in the Kabbalah Magic book doesn't come with a teacher. In the absence of a teacher, it's best to assume that the student is not yet capable of teaching him or herself or of directing his or her own progress.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Thank you for your response. I have another quick question. In your book you state that a ceremonial dagger should be symmetrical. Why is this the case? I ask also because (before I started your book program) I had started using a dagger but it is curved, and to be frank, I'm a little attached to it for this particular use.
I should ask you that question. Why should the dagger be symmetrical? @@palmereldritch_6669
@@lyamchristopher2393 I suppose because its preferable that it minimize assymetry for meridian style rituals like Kabbalistic Cross and MP. Makes sense, but I feel like I DO have symmetry in one plane but not 2 is still not bad. I suppose the other possible reason is because you want to aim your magical powers like a wand. Pure conjecture, and that's all I got o this question.
@@palmereldritch_6669 You are rationalizing. 😉You have the directions, and of course, you are free to do as you choose.