Originally Posted by
CFTraveler
I think you and I see the world very similarly, at least how I understood what you said.
I think the modern Western mind has misconstrued most of what Hermetics teaches because of the cultural differences-as society has changed from the original writings and the language has changed we just understand the same words differently.
If you read some of my old posts (here and in the Pulse also) I'm constantly explaining that the term 'element' in Hermetics and Chemistry have different meanings, for example- so the misunderstanding is more of cultural context, it seems to me.
The research I was talking about was conducted on people who are epileptic, and had their corpus callosum cut to avoid the electrical activity of the brain to spread out (preventing seizures)- these were severe cases, but showed interesting things about the brain itself- the modern brain is equipped with redundancy and thus functions as two brains, sometimes with entirely different belief systems, which is the cause of all kinds of interesting effects. I'll see if I can retrieve the links to them. And I hate to tell you, most people are not aware of this 'doublethink' that happens all the time, except- guess who? Meditators. Meditators are more aware of how they 'really think' than most other people.
To answer your first question: I think the greeting is reflective of a view of the world that is more 'in tune' with my own views, I imagine that there is a cooperation and sense of community that is inherent to how they think. I wonder if modern Western Civilization can come to such a worldview.
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