On energy work and meditation:
I think all meditations and energy work either break down into additive or subtractive. Like your either adding (developing, building, cultivating) or you are removing (letting go, observing, freeing).
The practices where you remove, you remove thinking, remove attachments, remove blocks, pain etc. This can include energy work which it more often [...]
My first true contact with shamanism and its values came through a print version of the trialogues between Terrence McKenna, Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake that I picked up four years ago (when I was 18). Fascinated by similarities between the validity of the experiences these ancient practices revealed and what I experienced while meditating [...]
This is the type of book I wish I had stumbled across many years ago. A guidebook to the history of the ideas of spirituality.
As a student of esoteric thought and spiritual development, I’m interested in the members of our species that have achieved a particular state of enlightened knowledge, a direct contact with wisdom. [...]