Jinnistan wrote:

(Lots of these technocratic pseudomystics like to reference Gnosticism and Hermeticism, as exotic superficial substitutes for actual conceptual depth, but few really understand what they're really referring to - aka the 'Jordan Peterson Fallacy'.)

And this leads to endless frustration, but hopefully some constructive clarification.

If I were so wooed to woo, I might even consider this some kind of psychic serendipity, but I'm not so I won't.  Shortly after that last post, I soon learned about the latest moon-cooch bullshit from Candace Owens, where through her invocation of "intuition" and "dream interpretation", she believes that she is receiving some kind of truth regarding her antisemitic theories.  I feel a need to draw a strict line between how this language which I've been referencing, alluding to specific spiritual practices, can be and is being abused by such charlatans as Candace Owens trying to cosplay Miss Cleo in richbitch-face.

A helpful reminder from the last post:

Jinnistan wrote:

I will allow that it is a belief, rather than a fact, as to the benefits of such subconscious interrogation, but it also happens to be a fact that any such perceived benefits are limited to one's individual mind, and become quickly diminished outside of one's experiential sphere.

It's quite easy to spot such a charlatan as soon as they promise benefits beyond one's experiential sphere.  Like fortune-telling nonsense, the esoteric heritage of symbols and jargon has long been appropriated by, hence associated with, such carnival weasels.  Esoteric literally means "within", and it is here and here only where it has value.  Just as one cannot outsource one's subconsciousness, one should not project one's subconsciousness, and in fact the very value of interrogating one's subconscious shadow, and to align it with the superego ("as above so below"), is to avoid being deluded by such instinctual subconscious projections.  You cannot learn anything about another person through the mental disciplines of such an alignment.  Whichever introspective discipline, whether prayer or poetry or dreams or dhyana or psychoanalysis, the purpose is singular to one's self, to study and identify one's psychological tendencies, patterns and habits and once identified (illuminated) more consciously, willfully direct them.  Prophecy is learning how to determine the future.  Consider the work that term is doing there.

But unfortunately, this subconscious projection is what Owens mistakenly calls "intuition" by framing it in the garb of Jungian dream interpretation.  Political conspiracies - being about as opposite of esoteric concerns imaginable - are completely inappropriate applications of the type of hermetic art which Owens insists on flirting with here.  It's no great revelation that Candace Owens is a fraud.  She says "space is fake".  Does she think that?  Does it matter?

I've engaged in a few examples of etymological semantics over some terms, showing the gulf between common and incompatible meanings ("magic" - pertaining to 'image/imagination' rather than impossible physics; "supernatural" - unknown nature rather than anti-nature, etc.) but it's worth emphasizing that nothing in the understanding of spirituality should be construed as unscientific.  Even the term "miracle" (seasonally appropriate) literally means "wonder", it's a description of the emotional effect, the awe.  A miracle is not a defiance of nature.  It is the perception of grace.  It is a humble reminder in the face of nature.

There's a common interpretation of the Gospels that Jesus would urge his disciples and followers not to speak about his performing miracles, because it would arouse the attention of the hostile authorities who would seek to persecute them.  But that doesn't quite comply with the notion of Jesus boldly accepting his persecution, does it?  Maybe Jesus didn't want people talking about his performing miracles because Jesus himself did not believe that he was actually performing miracles, and thought this impression was distracting from what he was really trying to say.  Which is that life itself, and its flower of mind, is the miracle.