Whether the ascent of the Tree proceeds along one of the Pillars or along the Way of the Serpent, it constantly implies the differentiation, integration, and transcendence of binary pairs.
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Successful passage through the intermediate state, the bardo, depends largely not only on the state of the elementer’s mind but also on the karmic burden it has accumulated.
The Threshold between “actual” and “potential” reality is essentially conventional and resides solely in the perceiving flow of the mind.
If the humanity of Midgard — having once already endured a schism, likewise bound to a descent into dependence on technologies — fails to draw the lessons from Svartalfheim’s lamentable fate, it risks repeating that fate in an even more desolating guise.
Knowledge of one’s own set of such ‘indispensable external elements’ is as vital a condition for preserving the integral health of the self as a microcosm as is attention to one’s physical or energetic limitations.
It is important to study the afterlife; although this topic can be frightening and uncomfortable, that discomfort is nothing compared with the horror experienced by a creature torn from life and the familiar world.
Studying foundational Myths like the one considered is an important worldview, psychotherapeutic, and psycho-evolutive practice.
If the Osirian literature were as extensive as the account of the Voyage of the Bark, perhaps more souls would have successfully navigated their afterlife and thus come into a new birth bearing fewer debts and less destruction.
Counter-intellectualism creates ideal conditions for the manipulation of people, for it diminishes the importance of critical thinking, devalues the role of experts, and undermines systematic learning as a whole.
The ‘inside-out’ reality changes in parallel and in mutual interconnection with the manifest reality.
A successful Magus must be able to command both currents of his perception, much as a good programmer must understand both the frontend and the backend of their product.
If left without due attention, religious and magical objects can readily become a source of evil and destruction.
We face a choice — remain a free biological species that governs itself, its environment, and its technologies, or finally become a weak-willed “raw-material appendage,” fit only for producing tonic pneuma that feeds the Empty spirits of the Interworld.