Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00259)

Messages of Mar 22,

>Dear Bee,
>I am delighted to see your contributions to this
supposedly difficult and dangerous area, and your
>attitude, which I so much agree with, of pursuing by
personal experience those areas to which
>you feel drawn.  As you know I also have been drawn to
experiential exploration of channelling
>and mediumship, and am again in an ongoing group in
which such communications are routine.
>To my mind the climate of fear generated by historical
pronouncements is unhelpful.  I don't
>believe the statements by HPB etc are wrong, but that
they stifle the acquisition of perfectly valid
>firsthand knowledge.  More helpful to obtaining
understanding is the attitude of 'feel the fear and
>do it anyway'.  I believe that the techniques of
efficient emotional-level cleansing did not exist last
>century, and that competent practitioners of such
techniques were not available to anyone who
>desired safe access to the spiritual realms.  Given
that situation then, the injunctions to not
>explore because of the risk to one's equilibrium or
sanity make sense.  Now, however, it makes
>more sense to say to any person who wishes to explore
the spiritual domain, "go for it, but get
>rid of your emotional baggage first."
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter R. Calvert    | There are no second-hand adepts!
>pcalvert@hort.cri.nz | Joy Mills.  T.S.
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