The Pagan New Year is almost upon us. The SMPBI has an outlook which encompasses the old spiritualism which the global religions have attempted to displace. We also have a strong focus upon matters of Culture.
This year has seen the SMPBI site publishing daily, with an unbroken run of 245 days (starting on the 27th February, counted up til today). This run is scheduled to end at the end of this year, counted as ending on the 31st October, Samhain. We are restructuring our internet activity, bringing in a dedicated cultural blog, to commence on the first day of the next year, the 1st November.
More will be revealed imminently. Suffice to say, the sister blog will be a place for Working Class Art, Poetry, Short Stories and for news of Cultural Events. Get in touch with David Parry to contribute. Socialism is an ideal which encourages healthy cultural pursuits, and stands opposed to the degeneracy of liberal extremism. If you need a place to post your artistic work, the new blog will be ready to welcome you!
"I am not suggesting, therefore, that your individuality is something to be lost, thrown away or superseded ... I am saying that the individual self must become aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. You are poised, in your terms, on a threshold from which the race can go many ways. There are species of consciousness. Your species is in a time of change. There are potentials... not as yet used. Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the race, and bring it to levels of spiritual and psychic and physical fulfillment. If some changes are not made, the race as such will not endure. This does not mean that you will not endure, or that in another probability the race will not endure – but that in your terms of historical sequence, the race will not endure."
ReplyDelete"Ego consciousness must now be familiarised with its roots, or it will turn into something else. You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeologies, or other disciplines."
"Man’s ‘unconscious’ knowledge is becoming more and more consciously apparent. This will be done under, and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness, that can organise the heretofore neglected knowledge – or it will be done at the expense of the reasoning intellect, leading to the rebirth of superstition, chaos, and the unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge.”
SETH, ‘The Unknown Reality’ Vol. 1, Jane Roberts
Quoted in 'Tantric Wisdom for Today's World' by Peter Wilberg
Those who advocate a return to pagan symbolism, rituals and mythological children's stories miss the point - and only serve to restore the "unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge".
As for our 'ancestors', not only are they not just dead bones. They are alive and well in the afterlife, where their own PRESENT and direct experience of trans-physical or 'spiritual' dimensions of reality has long since TRANSCENDED all the atavistic PAST 'traditions', rituals and symbol systems that we identify them with.
As, quite literally, our FORE-runners, their own present, symbol-free knowing has already RUN FAR AHEAD of our own. It is therefore up to us to catch with their PRESENT knowing - both now and in the future - not to look for it by resurrecting symbols systems of the PAST that they themselves have long gone beyond - and freed themselves from.
Some of them will also have reincarnated - precisely in order to help FREE US of the limits of all those traditional symbols on which they USED to rely - and instead give us both a direct symbol-FREE experience of what lies behind them - and a more refined conceptual understanding of it.
And that is the point - to get behind and move beyond the symbols on which religions, pagan and otherwise, have for so long relied.
"You are poised, in your terms, on a threshold from which the race can go many ways. There are species of consciousness. Your species is in a time of change. There are potentials... not as yet used. Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the race, and bring it to levels of spiritual and psychic and physical fulfillment. If some changes are not made, the race as such will not endure. This does not mean that you will not endure, or that in another probability the race will not endure – but that in your terms of historical sequence, the race will not endure."
ReplyDelete"Ego consciousness must now be familiarised with its roots, or it will turn into something else. You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeologies, or other disciplines."
"Man’s ‘unconscious’ knowledge is becoming more and more consciously apparent. This will be done under, and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness, that can organise the heretofore neglected knowledge – or it will be done at the expense of the reasoning intellect, leading to the rebirth of superstition, chaos, and the unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge.”
SETH,‘The Unknown Reality’ Vol. 1, Jane Roberts
Quoted in 'Tantric Wisdom for Today's World' by Peter Wilberg
"The Pagan New Year is almost upon us. The SMPBI has an outlook which encompasses the old spiritualism which the global religions have attempted to displace."
Those who advocate a return to this "old spiritualism" bound up as it is with pagan symbolism, rituals and mythological children's stories miss the point - and only serve to restore what Seth calls the "unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge".
As for our 'ancestors', not only are they not just dead bones. They are alive and well in the afterlife, where their own PRESENT and direct experience of trans-physical or 'spiritual' dimensions of reality has long since TRANSCENDED all the atavistic PAST 'traditions', rituals and symbol systems that we identify them with.
As, quite literally, our FORE-runners, their own present, symbol-free knowing has already RUN FAR AHEAD of our own. It is therefore up to us to catch with their PRESENT knowing - both now and in the future - not to look for it by resurrecting symbols systems of the PAST that they themselves have long gone beyond - and freed themselves from.
Some of them will also have reincarnated - precisely in order to help FREE US of the limits of all those traditional symbols on which they USED to rely - and instead give us both a direct symbol-FREE experience of what lies behind them - and a more refined conceptual understanding of it.
And that is the point - to get behind and move beyond the symbols on which religions, pagan and otherwise, have for so long relied.