Very interesting spiritual worldview! If you don't mind, how did you come to these metaphysical conclusions and why do you choose to not follow any one religion? I find your posts very interesting.
I think that religions can be useful tools but in modern world they are all corrupted, and thus vary in usefulness. It's better to just extract the spiritual truth a religion is meant to be founded on and just follow that rather than follow an institution. But I'm not necessarily against religions either, if someone wants to belong to a religion that can be fine. As for how I came to my conclusions a lot of it was just what I discovered after many years of prayer and meditation. Bhagavad Gita, Bible, paramhansa yogananda, evola, guenon, schuon, sri Dharma pravartaka Acharya, and Plato, and lots of European Mythology make for good reading. But reading is really just a supplement and a source of fuel for the life of prayer, meditation, and asceticism. The truths that enlighten us must be spiritually revealed in a personal way for them to really matter to us and be transformative as they ought, it's more than just a matter of reading books... but books not necessarily bad..but I often think of how many people read so many books but never live differently .. may God and the gods bless you friend.
Thanks for the reply! I still have a long way to go in my understanding of religions outside of Christianity, though currently I am learning about Buddhism. I would be interested to know what you define as an ascetic life in the terms of the modern world. Good luck on your journey of discovery.
I stayed at a Buddhist monastery for 2 months once. Best part of my whole life so far, they let me do all the things with them.
Modern world keeps us bogged down with enervating pleasures and distractions... these chain our spirit to low levels of consciousness. By fasting, cold showers, abstaining from internet, going prolonged periods without alcohol or other inebriated substances, we exercise greater command over our flesh which makes our spirit stronger plus we clear out obstructions to the higher realms of consciousness. As well we all have bad Karma blocking the way to enlightenment from our past lives and asceticism helps to clear that away. A real spiritual life has asceticism has a normal component. Most spiritual people are nervous to say that though all ancient spiritual traditions have fasting from food for periods of time and other types of abstinences as regular parts of their religion though in modernity due to degeneration of human species these are always downplayed.
I also believe that physical exercise if done with the intention of clearing out bad karma and honoring God is precisely effective as an act of Asceticism.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I agree that abstinence from all sorts of things (internet, food, drugs, women) even just on the physical level sharpens the mind. I'm glad to hear you had a good experience at a Buddhist monastery. I am traveling through SEA right now and I am considering doing the same.
I have spent about 3 years of my life undecided and confused about my faith between Christianity and Paganism. Such an internal struggle drove me further away from God than I like to admit.
I have prayed to Him to receive the truth, as I submitted to His will and came across your writing within the same day.
Needless to say, you have masterfully written everything which I instinctively understood, without being able to put words on it. You sir, are godsent and a gift to truth-seekers.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ! May God bless you !
This is a great article. You have done a great job with this and also "On Spiritual Beings" bridging a gap for me personally, feeling that there is virtue in the christianity that I grew up in but it misses some key element, the metaphysical approach you tease out here. Well done, much to ponder and consider.
I remember mentioning something to a friend some time ago, after we had both really awakened to our racial consciousness and realized modern spirituality was a bit off kilter. We really felt a sense of loss and confusion about what is true spiritually, or which god was true. The conclusion was: I have a *sense* of a Law written into my heart and conscious being, I cannot gain it from scripture, although there is wisdom in many kinds of scripture that have connected with this inward Law. When I listen to the voice inside that compels me to follow that Law, that Dharma, I live with more virtue, and life comes easier, even with suffering. Seeing that summed up with the concept of Aryan Dharma very much connects with that sense in me, even though I really didn't have words for it before.
Very interesting spiritual worldview! If you don't mind, how did you come to these metaphysical conclusions and why do you choose to not follow any one religion? I find your posts very interesting.
I think that religions can be useful tools but in modern world they are all corrupted, and thus vary in usefulness. It's better to just extract the spiritual truth a religion is meant to be founded on and just follow that rather than follow an institution. But I'm not necessarily against religions either, if someone wants to belong to a religion that can be fine. As for how I came to my conclusions a lot of it was just what I discovered after many years of prayer and meditation. Bhagavad Gita, Bible, paramhansa yogananda, evola, guenon, schuon, sri Dharma pravartaka Acharya, and Plato, and lots of European Mythology make for good reading. But reading is really just a supplement and a source of fuel for the life of prayer, meditation, and asceticism. The truths that enlighten us must be spiritually revealed in a personal way for them to really matter to us and be transformative as they ought, it's more than just a matter of reading books... but books not necessarily bad..but I often think of how many people read so many books but never live differently .. may God and the gods bless you friend.
Thanks for the reply! I still have a long way to go in my understanding of religions outside of Christianity, though currently I am learning about Buddhism. I would be interested to know what you define as an ascetic life in the terms of the modern world. Good luck on your journey of discovery.
I stayed at a Buddhist monastery for 2 months once. Best part of my whole life so far, they let me do all the things with them.
Modern world keeps us bogged down with enervating pleasures and distractions... these chain our spirit to low levels of consciousness. By fasting, cold showers, abstaining from internet, going prolonged periods without alcohol or other inebriated substances, we exercise greater command over our flesh which makes our spirit stronger plus we clear out obstructions to the higher realms of consciousness. As well we all have bad Karma blocking the way to enlightenment from our past lives and asceticism helps to clear that away. A real spiritual life has asceticism has a normal component. Most spiritual people are nervous to say that though all ancient spiritual traditions have fasting from food for periods of time and other types of abstinences as regular parts of their religion though in modernity due to degeneration of human species these are always downplayed.
I also believe that physical exercise if done with the intention of clearing out bad karma and honoring God is precisely effective as an act of Asceticism.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I agree that abstinence from all sorts of things (internet, food, drugs, women) even just on the physical level sharpens the mind. I'm glad to hear you had a good experience at a Buddhist monastery. I am traveling through SEA right now and I am considering doing the same.
I will never thank you enough for this article.
I have spent about 3 years of my life undecided and confused about my faith between Christianity and Paganism. Such an internal struggle drove me further away from God than I like to admit.
I have prayed to Him to receive the truth, as I submitted to His will and came across your writing within the same day.
Needless to say, you have masterfully written everything which I instinctively understood, without being able to put words on it. You sir, are godsent and a gift to truth-seekers.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ! May God bless you !
This is a great article. You have done a great job with this and also "On Spiritual Beings" bridging a gap for me personally, feeling that there is virtue in the christianity that I grew up in but it misses some key element, the metaphysical approach you tease out here. Well done, much to ponder and consider.
I remember mentioning something to a friend some time ago, after we had both really awakened to our racial consciousness and realized modern spirituality was a bit off kilter. We really felt a sense of loss and confusion about what is true spiritually, or which god was true. The conclusion was: I have a *sense* of a Law written into my heart and conscious being, I cannot gain it from scripture, although there is wisdom in many kinds of scripture that have connected with this inward Law. When I listen to the voice inside that compels me to follow that Law, that Dharma, I live with more virtue, and life comes easier, even with suffering. Seeing that summed up with the concept of Aryan Dharma very much connects with that sense in me, even though I really didn't have words for it before.