A world of illusions created by us and imposed on others
Everyone involuntarily believes in that
Who is the most presumptuous.
Goethe
There are two types of illusion: one that comes from within, from one's own fantasies and suspiciousness, and one that comes from outside. The first is relatively harmless, and can only irritate others. It is necessary to understand that if things happen in the world that are somehow caused by providence, higher powers or magical actions, then they do not exclude situations that are caused by an accident or as a result of a simple action of ordinary people.
“She saw a bruise on my leg and inquired about its origin. I said I hit the corner of the bed last night.
- Do you remember how you pissed me off yesterday? So I jinxed you! You will now know how to argue with me!
And try to prove to her now that I constantly did not fit into this turn in my room even when we did not know each other, and that the cause of the bruise is not the evil eye, but the laziness and inattention of a person who is not going to make a rearrangement so that this corner no longer got in his way."
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Once a woman wrote to me, Let's call her Anastasia. She complained of a headache and asked that it was a curse, or that there was some entity living in the apartment that caused pain, and what to do about it. Of course, she had her own version about the culprit of the situation, who cursed her or sent a demon, such a culprit, according to her, was a rejected admirer.
At that time I did not position myself either as a healer or as someone else from this area; I have always considered myself a researcher, and if I did "work for the result" - it is quite rare. Nevertheless, word of mouth informed Anastasia that there is such a person, he once carried out an exorcism of the premises, and this is not even a pop with a censer, which for some reason she did not like. As a result of this kind of rumors, her appeal to me was. Fortunately, Anastasia and I were in sufficient territorial proximity to each other, and we could meet.
The first thing that caught my eye when we sat down at the table was the pose of my "patient". I asked her questions about this, this - about her life, about the young man she suspects, and Anastasia readily answered me. Among all the information that I received from her then, only two facts were useful to me - that the "patient" has exclusively sedentary work and hobbies, and that in the process of sitting (which I continuously observed the whole conversation), her posture was not so much in shape question, and the letter "G". I might not even feel her field in the neck area to find a physical clamp there, but I did it for the sake of decency. Finally, I gave an interpretation in the style of "you sit in the wrong posture throughout the day, this is osteochondrosis" and thus caused an extremely negative reaction. How is it that Anastasia sees her situation as exceptional, and this charlatan proves to her,what is it ordinary osteochondrosis? But I’m not a neurologist or a massage therapist, and I’m speaking bluntly if I see that the problem is not within my competence.
Of course, Anastasia didn’t go to a neurologist or a masseur, she went to “another magician,” which she did not fail to inform me in writing about, noting with gloating joy that he had helped her. I can well imagine how that "magician" could help her - temporarily relieving the pain. This is akin to the action of analgin, the sensation of physical suffering is stopped, but the reason remains, and soon the pain will return again. When this happens, such Anastasias turn to none other than the "magician" who was able to help them last time. The "magician" replies that yes, the poor sufferer was once again damaged, and again carries out a procedure that acts akin to analgin. This is how an unscrupulous healer gets a client for many months, or even years. And the client is happy, because he comes into contact with the otherworldly, with witchcraft and magic, he is interested in it,it makes him feel exceptional.
Often, such healers, whose advertisements are posted on almost every corner, do not come close to magicians in the traditional sense of the word, that is, subjects with such great personal power that it is able to influence physical reality (in our case, the patient's health); the same charlatans who play on the "Chumak effect". Academician Kruglyakov commented very well on this effect: "… faith in the miraculous possibilities of healers ends sadly for patients, since the disease is triggered and that basically it is a short-term relief, which is associated with the mobilization of the patient's internal resources as a result of faith in treatment, faith in authority" …
These imaginative illusions can be devastating to one person; but much more dangerous are illusions of the second kind, those that actually come from outside, to mediums and other esotericists.
A beginner adept has little energy, and even less experience. He begins to receive the first results, they delight him, and it is not surprising that the adept begins to accept the visible at face value and the "ceiling" of what can be achieved. But, due to the lack of energy and knowledge, the adept receives false visions, and if he comes into contact with the astral world, then these are essences of the lower astral.
Larvae live on the lower level - disembodied parasites, restless souls and other negative entities. Hence the vision of ghosts and the vision of various black entities. All these entities, of those that are more or less intelligent and come into contact, love to lead practitioners into illusions. Hence, thousands of teachings, frank sects, and no matter what teaching you dig into - they are all dictated by angels, gods, and all contradict each other.
Visions can be harmless and without consequences, as in this excerpt from another person's recollection: “At intervals of three years, in August, the ghost of my grandfather rises from nowhere on my grandmother’s bed, clearly embraces me, asks“Well, they don’t offend you ? " and disappears."
… And they can carry large-scale consequences. This is how Joseph Smith wrote down the words of “the prophet of Mormon,” which led to the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to which about four million people count themselves. So Aleister Crowley wrote down the words of "Angel Aivaz" from the words of the medium Rose, giving rise to the doctrine of Thelema, a kind of fusion of the Egyptian pantheon with the Western occult tradition, and not only. Crowley himself, as an adherent of the Buddhist worldview, at first did not accept the "Book of the Law" he wrote down, but over time it dragged on it, like many other people who followed him as a preacher of Thelema.
The actions of the mediums from the above examples have entailed both harm and benefit to society. At the dawn of its emergence, Mormonism led to two wars - in Missouri and in Utah, but now the Mormon community is one of the most well-behaved in the world. Crowley organized orgies in the "Abbey of Thelem", but his writings led to the popularization of the ritual approach, and therefore to the establishment of more adequate ideas about magic in society. Read into one of the main principles of Thelema: "Do what is in your will, let it be law", but you should not forget to draw a mental separation between Will and desire. If we consider this thesis not from a mystical, but from a philosophical point of view, it still sounds worthy for every person to apply this principle in his life. There would be far fewer unhappy people from lazy resignation to fate.
Much more often everything happens much less rosy. Ron Hubbard, according to his son's testimony, worked under a drug, and his sound ideas (tone scale, superiority of reason, and others) are drowned in a sea of ufological fantasy like stories about the alien lord Xenu. It is impossible not to notice that the main goal of the creation of Scientology was the pursuit of financial well-being, but commercial goals are not always not good ones. However, this does not apply to the doctrine in question. Numerous cases of grievous bodily harm, including suicide, which arose through the fault of the Hubbard Church, have been confirmed by official court proceedings.
It is not necessary to look for foreign examples. Maria Devi Khristos (Victoria Preobrazhenskaya), whose activities developed mainly on the territory of Ukraine and Russia, "received a revelation from above" during her clinical death. In 1993, members of the white brotherhood Yusmalos, organized by her, attempted a terrorist attack - the seizure of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, and, if you trust the sources, intending to set fire to the temple along with them. Members of the brotherhood were arrested, and Maria Devi Christ herself disowned Yuri's closest associate, accusing him of betrayal (probably disappointed that the end of the world predicted by him did not come while both of them were under investigation).
So, the sect is not the sect. One may be unambiguously destructive, the other may have a positive grain. This also applies to official religions, which, fortunately, are mostly related to the second case. But how can a thousand people believe in Reptilians, while another thousand believe in galactic empires, and a third thousand believe in the nth coming of Jesus Christ (especially since there are at least several dozen such self-proclaimed Jesus on the planet)? How is the truth about the coming of Christ more equal for these people than the truth about thetans from outer space? How can the truth about the Hindu god, as manifested in many gods, be more equal than the truth about the Wiccan God and Goddess, or about strict Christian monotheism?
And if the position of a person who adheres to any religion from early childhood can still be understandable, since his consciousness is so used to it and does not want to analyze anything else; then the position of those who, for example, having been born into an Orthodox family in Moscow, suddenly strikes Hinduism or begins to pray to Horus and Isis, is difficult to understand. Why exactly Egyptian paganism, and not Wicca, Asatru, Shinto or the Tengri cult? You can write off the unexpectedly awakened love for Horus as much as you like by the fact that in one of his past lives this person lived in ancient Egypt, well, well, after ancient Egypt, has he never incarnated in another culture with another religion? No one has the courage to admit that the reason for this is fashion or aesthetic interest.
“In ancient times, people did not communicate with each other and did not know their neighbors. Therefore, I have founded different religions for each race, according to their customs. 5 branches of the Great Way - humanism, spiritualism, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism were created by I. At the present time, people began to communicate with each other and learned about the customs of their neighbors. But because of this they did not begin to live in harmony because of the diversity of their religions. Therefore, I now appeared to them in order to unite all religions into One and return them to their original unity”- from a message received in 1926 by the Vietnamese medium Ngo Van Thieu during contact with the spirit (the first contact with this spirit was in 1920.). In 1925, the spirit declared itself God, and Ngo Van Thieu became the first patriarch of the Caodai. Now several million people consider themselves to be this religion, the exact number is unknown. Howbeit,Kaodai is a positive phenomenon for the world, because it tries to some extent to pacify chaos in the heterogeneous world of religions. In some ways, Bahaism is similar to the Kaodai, in its attempt to unite Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
It's time to go to the square and declare, like Mahatma Gandhi: "I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am a Jew, I am a Christian, I am a Buddhist!" Any other reasonable person who understands that all the Prophets tried to convey one idea, the idea of love for the world and acceptance of one's neighbor, will say so, and not a set of rules such as how many times you need to hit your forehead in front of an icon.
But while some are trying to reduce entropy, others only inflate it, coming up with more and more new religious trends, more and more sets of rules and rituals. Is it not at least from the very fact of the abundance of modern “sacred books” that none of these books is sacred? All of them, as one, are either the fruits of the personal creativity of the authors, or are dictated by outside entities, and it is good if this entity is a little more than the ghost of a late philosopher poisoned from unhappy love. At the same time, in the case of "authorship from above", the scribe begins to fanatically believe in his revelation, no matter how absurd it may be, because it really came from somewhere else, he did not come up with it all out of his head; which means that for him the information received really seems sacred. It is with this fanaticism that the newly-minted prophet ignites those around him, and even faster than the pragmatic science fiction writer who worked solely for commercial gain.
The above is not unfounded, I felt it on my own experience. I confess that at some point I was ready to declare myself almost a prophet, having in my hands the materials of the next sacred scripture.
M. Markell