/lit/ - Literature

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>What degree did you graduate with anon and why did you pursue it?
I'm a college dropout. I studied Business Administration and I hated it, but that isn't a result of my distrust for schooling rather a lack of passion for that subject.
>what made you so distrustful of universities, was it something specific
History is being used to make people hate themselves. It is torturing the youth with insecurites about their heritage, and it is creating the social problems unfolding today.
Everything we see going on right now(minus Covid) was my anticipated result of public school and university education systems.
>close-mindedness towards esoteric things?
Using the term esoteric as a form of allegorical, or symbological meaning - rather than as synonymous with occultism - I am certainly an esotericist. I am not an occultist.
The lack of ability from modern academia to read subtext is disappointing, but it does not effect me.
> In what way is it a religion for you?
>What is this religion to you and what do you benefit from it?
I am a form of monist, meaning I believe that all things are connected and instrinsically part of one greater body. While many cells of your body possess their own microbial DNA, and are not "you," they still are a part of you. In that sense, so am I to this planet, this planet to this Universe, etc. As a religious practice, my percieved kinship to everything fills me with respect and love. I'm not easily upset or disappointed in the ills of other people that I perceive, because I know their faults are also my own - and if I can work at them for myself then I have made some difference.
Beside this, there is a "noetic experience" which is referred to by many of these authors, a sort of revelation or enlightening moment where a person feels in communion with "god"(or whatever you may call it.) This was one of the desired results of the initiatory schools of ancients, and I have pursued that feeling for a long time. I feel I have reached that sensation, that spiritual feeling, but I cannot tell you more than that - because to do so regarding something beyond my understanding will necessarily misrepresent it and not be sufficiently true, it will profane the entire thing altogether. It is my personal feeling that people should keep their thoughts about those moments to themselves, or disclose them only with another close to them who has been there.
>what do you benefit from it?
I'm happy, and content, regardless of anything else which goes on around me. I love people despite their massive flaws, their hatred for each other and themselves. I may attempt to whisper good counsel, but I also know that they must voluntarily make changes for themselves if there's to be any lasting effect.
I've just kind of learned to let go of the stress of wishing to control everything - which is partly the problem with our current approach to inflict social change.
Everyone believes that the other person is always the problem, but...