Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00443)

Gerry:
You write:
<<<Astral traveling, or what is today called Pathworking, is very popular
today, and I was trying to show that Blavatsky’s model can also be
pathworked. Most Theosophists will fear to TRY (Quest, for example, not
only wouldn’t publish it, but they refused to even read it for
consideration), but I really didn’t write the essay for Theosophists anyway.
My goal is to make Theosophy practical and more acceptable to more people.
Only time will tell if I am successful.>>>

You say most Theosophists will fear to TRY. How do you come to this
conclusion or know that? Just because folk don't want to do something,
which it sounds by the way you write, that you feel they should want to do,
doesn't mean they don't do it because of fear. Theosophy means divine
wisdom. The person may feel, mistakenly or otherwise, that astral
travelling is neither divine nor wise, but surely that isn't the same as
fear?
It also seems odd to write something specifically not for theosophists, but
to try and get what you perceive to be a theosophical publisher, to publish
it.
You say your goal is to make Theosophy practical and more acceptable to more
people. Isn't that, just what so many have already attempted to do, but in
that attempt distorted it. What we perceive to be "our" goal is just the
very thing that gets in the way.
To give an example, reading your article in "Fohat", and then in the
following issue the letter from the Pacific Rim Theosophists, it would be
fair to say that they perceived your article to be a distortion of what
H.P.B. wrote in the S.D., and they made a strong case by giving examples
from the S.D. to support that view.

Tony


Brigitte,

Thanks for the kind words. We all go through the sleep and death cycles, but
unconsciously. Using my interpretation of Blavatsky’s model as a practical
map of the inner territory, we can consciously go through the cycles that I
outlined, consciously. The objective here is to allow us to consciously
undergo these normally-unconscious cycles. The higher cycles require a good
deal of meditative expertise, but are there for those who can use them.

Astral traveling, or what is today called Pathworking, is very popular
today, and I was trying to show that Blavatsky’s model can also be
pathworked. Most Theosophists will fear to TRY (Quest, for example, not
only wouldn’t publish it, but they refused to even read it for
consideration), but I really didn’t write the essay for Theosophists anyway.
My goal is to make Theosophy practical and more acceptable to more people.
Only time will tell if I am successful.

When we learn about reincarnation, it remains a theory, or perhaps an
intuitive feeling that we have. But when we use meditative pathworking, we
can consciously go through the death and rebirth process. At first this will
likely be pure imagination, but imagination itself is an expression of
divine creativity, and when done properly over time, one will eventually
actually be able to undergo the death, after-death, pre-birth, and birth
experiences and feel exactly what happens. This helps eliminate fear (I find
birth to be much more fearful than death) as well as ignorance, and will
allow us to consciously control our rebirth. Understanding the reincarnation
cycle also helps us to develop compassion for others who do not understand
what is happening.

Jerry S.

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<<<<Thank you Jerry for your verry interresting mail, that at least for
me, completes the picture much more. I asked this question becouse I have
read your essay on Pathworking the Gupta Vidya Universe Model. (anybody can
make a free download by the way on the bottom page of
http://www.schuelers.com/Theosophy/index.htm, it is really like a book, and
it turns its own pages !)
I have actually started to experriment with these "pathway's within HPB's
structure, and like to ask Jerry if you could explain more about
particularly the sleep cycle,the death cycle, the causal cycle, and the
initiation cycle,as it is described in your on-line booklet, from a
practical experiental viewpoint, also in connection to
your "My views" and your "Reg. to Steve"
Thank You,
Brigitte

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