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.
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The Threshold between “actual” and “potential” reality is essentially conventional and resides solely in the perceiving flow of the mind.
The Great Confrontation of Ragnarök is a conflict of life and death, of cosmos and chaos, and therefore only living warriors can fight on the side of the gods in it — and these are the hero-einherjar.
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.
Maternal” forces may manifest at various stages of life and the afterlife, ensuring the flow of inwardly integral currents endowed with a will to manifestation.
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.
For a Magus who strives for the most complete and adequate account of the levels of reality available to him, it is simply impossible to “ignore” reality’s discontinuity.
The study of the Ethers, Aeons, and deities of the interspace becomes not only an important and enthralling quest preparing the mind for the afterlife journey and helping to avoid loss of energy in dreams, but also an additional instrument of development, awareness, and holistic vision.
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.