"My purpose is not explicitly “spiritual”, rather I utilise these things for the purpose of personal power. Which is a bit of different POV."
"So as far as I can see, the most important task there is can only really be understanding character and motivation."
"Shen" in Chinese and "Ruh" in Arabic are usually both translated as "Spirit " in English. But the Muslim Chinese scholars of neoconfucianism did not translate "Ruh" into "Shen", but into "Xing", which more has to do with personal power, character and motivation...!!!
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"Shen" is also the Chinese term for "gods", including "body gods" in Daoist health. In Muslim terms, "Spirituality" makes sense to remain as the valid world of the Jinn and the Unseen, but these Heavenly aspects are just the imaginal and "over" aspects of the Real and human. Influential and essential, but still only half of it.
In Christian terms, where the Heavenly and Unconditioned are all but always conflated, the Earthly can all but only be disparaged. So overcoming with no down-going is to be expected as normal in a Westernized mileau.
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As a father with a two year old currently in his lap, might I propose in a very Freudian way that Secret Kings are basically aspects of self stuck in development here? And the toxicity of the culture is precisely its lack of interest in raising any of us right, in order to get us to be (or abstractly appear) productive at its most profit/utility maximizing point?
Pity AND effective compassion then, for all muh Kangz, within and without.
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You wrote:
"My purpose is not explicitly “spiritual”, rather I utilise these things for the purpose of personal power. Which is a bit of different POV."
"So as far as I can see, the most important task there is can only really be understanding character and motivation."
"Shen" in Chinese and "Ruh" in Arabic are usually both translated as "Spirit " in English. But the Muslim Chinese scholars of neoconfucianism did not translate "Ruh" into "Shen", but into "Xing", which more has to do with personal power, character and motivation...!!!
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"Shen" is also the Chinese term for "gods", including "body gods" in Daoist health. In Muslim terms, "Spirituality" makes sense to remain as the valid world of the Jinn and the Unseen, but these Heavenly aspects are just the imaginal and "over" aspects of the Real and human. Influential and essential, but still only half of it.
In Christian terms, where the Heavenly and Unconditioned are all but always conflated, the Earthly can all but only be disparaged. So overcoming with no down-going is to be expected as normal in a Westernized mileau.
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As a father with a two year old currently in his lap, might I propose in a very Freudian way that Secret Kings are basically aspects of self stuck in development here? And the toxicity of the culture is precisely its lack of interest in raising any of us right, in order to get us to be (or abstractly appear) productive at its most profit/utility maximizing point?
Pity AND effective compassion then, for all muh Kangz, within and without.