Imagination Is Closer To Truth Than You Think | Tom Cheetham

Hindu Sat, Chit, Ananda made clear here. In opposition to thousands of comments that can be reified: sat, the being itself, and chit, the consciousness itself, but still not illuminating Ananda in western rationalistic mind, the first two are forced into periphery and in fact to disappear completely. Ananda is seen as anti-reified and present womb of the basic space of phenomena without losing the point of it. The trinity is the aspect of oneness. Wonderful.

"Keep precious things inside of you", said the emissary to their master.

I enjoyed this a lot and had read 'All the World an Icon' previously. I agree with Natalia, we needn't abandon the emanationist cosmology of Corbin & Ib Arabi, it's still the truest description of reality to me. Jonathan Pageau does a good job of relating with how we interface with reality and how it presents itself through us in a hierarchical manner in his iconography. That said I like how Tom is a fundamentalist about his own experience and really appreciate his work.

The Tao can be talked about but not the eternal Tao

Materialism sent us to a horrible dark age that we never truly left not even after the Renaissance. Luckily people like Donald Hoffman, Tom Cheetham, Eben Alexander, and Bernardo Kastrup are lights leading us out the cave

Tom Cheetham. From Dewey, Cheetham & Howe.

This show has some interesting characters, however being from the modern digital gulag of the deep southern US and having no book to sell, my observances might rival these colorful chiaroscuro souls from a better more realistic light! You don't need to read books or write them to find your way to the potentialities of truth. It only takes self awareness and sincerity. Cheetham reminds what it be like to meet Newton and not necessarily a good thing as occulted history has dimly shown, in the shadows, on at least four occasions

A lot of rituals throughout history have been induced near death experiences.
It looks like snake venom's were used, they had antidotes.
A dangerous process and may explain some of the deep secrecy around the rituals.
Shamans, oracles, auguries, a designated girl child in the family, to talk to the ancestors,
All of these sought information from a realm that seems to have a very different perspective on events, than we do. It should be obvious to us, that this realm, perspective, is, almost as completely
subject to the changes made by individual imaginations, acting in the world.
No one ever succeeded, by listening to advice from unseen realms, did they?
The ego maybe is to teach us to make a boundary, to contain our creative power.
To learn to trust ourselves, make decisions ourselves.

What is the name of the Brazilian ceremony group , can anyone one go and how often do they have the ceremonies

This guy knows