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# Re: Doubts about the path

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- Subject: Re: Doubts about the path
- From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 04:10:18 -0000
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    Rawn,

    I guess I would also like to reiterate and elaborate on my resistance
    to the Bardonian path based on the overwhelming amount of
    information. It has certainly not been easy to grasp many of the
    concepts and I suppose I have been under the misapprehension that
    learning should be easy.

    It is just that I don't quite have a sense of what and how much I am
    supposed to know, in terms of theory, at any particular stage.
    Amongst the beginning pages of IIH, there is the picture of the
    Magician tarot card, for instance, and several pages later a listing
    of the different parts of the body and their magnetic and electrical
    aspects. As a beginner in the Bardon system, with no prior
    background in tarot or any other aspect of Western esoteric
    traditions, what am I supposed to do with that? Is it information I
    should memorize? Is it something I should set aside because
    understanding will naturally come as I explore later steps? Is the
    text something I should pore over and meditate on to get a deeper
    understanding? If so, is it implied that this is something that I
    will do on my own as I progress, though not laid out explicitly in
    the steps?

    I know for instance that I have gained a clearer understanding of the
    four elements from doing the soul mirrors. But I didn't actually
    know that I would get a clearer understanding until I was doing the
    soul mirror exercise. It was helpful to read Rawn's commentary
    suggesting that the student not worry overmuch about getting exactly
    the right elemental categorization at this stage, but overall I kind
    of feel like I have been thrown into a pool at the deep end without
    knowing too much about swimming. It gets worse when people talk on
    the message boards about the Qabala. I guess I become worried about
    what I should know but don't, because being fresh out of the school
    system (and poised to jump back in in a couple of years), I am used
    to having my education structured and externally guided.

    So can somebody just tell me to figure it all out for myself, just so
    I KNOW that's what I have to do? :) Or give me some pointers or
    resources?

    Thanks,
    David

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  - Re: Doubts about the path
    - From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>

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