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What's the difference between the wet and dry paths?

>> No.11564086

>>11564081
The dry path is safer but less rewarding

>> No.11564090

My dick is wet and your vegana is dry

>> No.11564096

nothing, if you are prepared

>> No.11564101

>>11564081
what is this avatar the last airbender bullshit?

>> No.11564359

The humid path is disordered, violent and evocative; usually trodden by mystics, antinomians and tragics. It explores various extensions of the human soul in its extreme and extravagant forms. Danger here is total psychosis, aberrant thought patterns and maladaptive personality traits. Release from the human organism is incidental.

The dry path is a strict application of order and knowledge toward a total control of the human organism and its non-human extensions. Unlike the humid path, it does not explore extrapsychic experiences. It is strictly a path of knowledge and requires initiation. The initiate usually takes as a basis some particular art, such as architecture, music, or geometry. He is expected to, whether he prefers visual or sonorous mediums, exhaustively understand proportions and harmonious associations in his art, which is usually provided by a secular tranmission of knowledge, and to transpose this knowledge in a personal way contemplatively and symbolically to realize states that are exterior to the human soul. The only part of himself by which this is 'effected' is that part of himself which is as universal and independent as knowledge itself. It therefore requires a contact with that part of himself, which if not possessed by an inborn capacity requires a prior initiation.

>> No.11564395

>>11564359
good post

>> No.11564422

Mud

>> No.11564999

>>11564359
This post is really exagerrated, sound like he's been reading too much Evola or something.

Basic "wet" or "humid" paths involve sentiment to a greater extent than "dry" paths. So bhakti is a wet path and jnana yoga is a dry path. There are also "left hand" varieties of wet paths that involve use of sex, intoxicants, and generally adharmic behavior. It's not a complex distinction. There are dangerous wet paths, but unlike what posters in this thread are claiming they aren't all dangerous. Also most spiritual aspirants do not follow a path which is exclusively one way or the other. Even Adi Shankara wrote literally thousands of devotional poems.

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11565251

>>11564081
about an inch of taint

>> No.11566600

>>11564999
This poster isn't wrong. I don't think my post is exaggerated. The dangers in the humid path are its lack of direction and its extrapsychic experience. Anytime the latter is involved there is a danger in delusion, more so when that person may not be doctrinally equipped to understand what he experiences.

>> No.11567638

>>11566600
There isn't a "lack of direction" in the humid path. You're equating mysticism in the pejorative sense with the humid path as such, which is incorrect. The humid path is justs as rigorous and initiatic as the dry path. You can't walk the humid path properly without initiation or a "guru". There are exceptions, of course, but the exceptions don't break the rule.

>> No.11567947

>>11567638
>>11566600
What about you guys start posting some /lit/ rec for both paths and true alchemy and let us decide by our consumption of knowledge?