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# Re: Digest Number 561

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Digest Number 561
- From: "Sarah Clark" <camille_9847@...>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:50:58 -0500
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    Hello All, I'm Sarah--currently reading through IIH, but have not actually
    started the process . I've been lurking here for about the last 2 months,
    and have liked what I've seen. At this point, events are conspiring that
    have made it evident that i need to reach a slightly more settled and stable
    point in my life before i start doing much more involved work than my daily
    meditation and T'ai Chi practice, but I hope to learn a lot from this group
    so that I can get off to a good start when I am ready, for I feel that this
    is the next major phase in my spiritual/magical life. Luckily, I have some
    good friends who independently discovered bardon about the same time as I
    did, and once all our lives calm down we may be able to formsome sort of
    informal working group.

    Anyway, I had to respond to something Chuck said:

    << I have been learning solid basics in my inner workshop by leaps and
    bounds, in peace, in the past week whereas before it was all a struggle in
    unanswered blind faith. 'In peace,' is a key phrase. When you really eat a
    morsel of nourishment it settles 'in peace' while being digested and after
    digestion you have the wisdom/experience that begins adding things up,
    matching this to that, to make pieces attach to other logically. This is
    what is needed to solidify our walk, to make it real and growing.

    This is the work, I know, and we are all to find our own ways, so trial
    and error is the only way. This is my point. Because I had stretched myself
    so thin in so many varying directions at the same time I couldn't really
    feed the hunger for a "solid" foundational bit of nourishment. I was eating
    only junk food that was not even being digested by my system, just
    expectorated right out of me. I had done it, but gotten little to nothing
    out of it.>>

    This is what I've been feeling the last few weeks as I've been settling into
    Bardon's theories, but I hadn't been able to put it into words. Thank you,
    chuck, for being so eloquent! the last 8 years (give-or take) have been a
    blur of spiritual treasure hunting, from zen to paganism to catholicism back
    to paganism to Ceremonial Magick to Taoism and on and on. It was a
    neccessary part of my spiritual maturation, and I learned things in the
    theological and magical schools of hard knocks that no book can impart. But
    I'm getting older. 30 is looming ahead in a few years (you may all laugh
    sarcastically now at a 20-something fretting about aging), and I just feel
    like the "seeking" phase of my life is drawing to a close, and the
    "building" phase has begun. I've found a lifemate, a wonderful city in which
    to live, a fulfilling career, and generally am starting to settle down in
    all the senses of the word. I've been seeking after Wisdom all my life in
    one form or another, and am starting to learn that Her deepest mysteries
    can't be found merely by running around sucking up knowledge, it has to be
    gained from a firm foundation of peace. That's what the next few years are
    shaping up to be for me, a process of building that solid foundation of
    peace in all the areas of my life, so that Wisdom may truly speak to me and
    enter all aspects of my life.

    My Solstice/new year's resolution will likely be to start the actual work of
    IIH, and I am sure I will have many questions then. But for now I'll just
    work on quieting my mind and perfecting my Snake Creeps Downward. Thanks for
    reading my ramblings.

    Sarah

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