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Question by The Iron fist of justice: Wolf: why do so many pagans answer question directed at Heathens?
not that I mind or anything many have great input, however others make fools of themselves by speaking of something they know nothing about.

on another post someone even called me a christian… I’m sorry but that was funny to me(and sorta insulting but still funny)

your views?

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Answer by Jewbear
if you ask me the whole thing is paddywhackers.

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Question by transmutted_gnostic: one question of Buddha?
DId buddha (siddhartha gautama) use sexual magic to reach enlightenement?
because samael aun weor says you need sexual magic to reach it.

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Answer by AM Toxic
No he gave up all material desires

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Question by Psychedelic Panentheist: Long question, aimed at material atheists?
I saw some geezer answer a question about love with this quote
“Love, along with all of our other emotions, is just a chemical reaction that takes place in our heads”

I do not see the rift between science and spirituality. When expressed correctly, they both are about not presupposing anything or laying reality with some metaphysical grid work, but instead just letting our experience come to us naturally, and based on that experience, then deriving provisional ideas about how best to understand and interact with phenomena.

The scientist would say spirituality is not about that; spirituality is about believing in unseen realties, forces, gods, and powers. The spiritual person would say, no….my professed sense of the reality of spiritual matters comes from my direct experience. Whether I had a near death experience, ingested an entheogenic substance, practiced deep meditation, or I just had this experience at random one day while taking a walk. It seems obvious that the brain is capable of producing a state of consciousness that many people, after they experienced it, equate with ‘god’ or this mystical state of union with all the energy in the cosmos. The scientist would say that these experiences are just mere physiological chemical reactions in the brain. I as a spiritual person, who has had experiences like this, would respond by saying, yes…that is perfectly true, but that misses the point of what the experience meant, as it was experienced. People who have had a spiritual experience, that certainly has a correlate in the brain, no longer interpret it as just a mere a physiochemical aberration or malfunction, they see it as the most meaningful experience of their entire life. Somehow eternity comes out in between time. Like, someone would have grown up normally in the world and adopted their rational outlook and common sense that everyone believes and shares with one another, then had one of these experiences, where they are completely removed from all that conditioning, language, and emotional baggage that shape them as a ‘personality’ in space and time. They are taken out of that and shown the eternal unconditioned reality.

The sense that everything reduces to matter and material is laying that metaphysical grid work over reality. The scientist has no experiential or empirical evidence for asserting. We can’t assume science is about giving us a one objective truth about the world, neither can we say this about spirituality.

So, my question is… why is love and all our emotions considered just chemical reactions that takes place in our heads’? What are we really learning by measuring brain chemistry? How are we sure that it is not the act of loving which causes the change in brain chemistry? Maybe consciousness effects matter, just as much as matter affects consciousness. Why do materialists reduce everything to mechanism and matter?
I do not need to test it, its been done, if someone if deeply depressed their brain chemisty changes
Who is to say that “each of us is born brand new without a collective memory”. Carl Jung would disagree with this and so would I. Where is the evidence that supports this?

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Answer by Truth Chick
Dude, I am at work and I just did a big report. I aint reading all of that.

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