Seato
Jedi Master
I vaguely recall some quote that seems relevant.
"We are not here to discover how to become superhuman, but to learn what it means to be human."
This would tie into karmic and simple understandings.
If anyone can recall the original quote and its source please share it.
The focus on physic powers and such whilst certainly interesting seems to have a rather materialistic in direction.
"We are not here to discover how to become superhuman, but to learn what it means to be human."
This would tie into karmic and simple understandings.
If anyone can recall the original quote and its source please share it.
William Chittick The Sufi Path of Knowledge p 263. Quoted in The Secret History of the World and How to get out Alive pg 7.Nowadays most people interested in the spirituality of the East desire the “experience”, though they may call what they are after intimate communion with God. Those familiar with the standards and norms of spiritual experience set down by disciplined paths like Sufism are usually appalled at the way Westerners seize upon and apparition from the domain outside of normal consciousness as a manifestation of the “spiritual”. In fact, there are innumerable realms in the unseen world, some of them far more dangerous than the worst jungles of the visible world.
So preserve yourselves, my brothers, from the calamities of this place, for distinguishing it is extremely difficult! Souls find it sweet, and then within it they are duped, since they become completely enamored of it.
The focus on physic powers and such whilst certainly interesting seems to have a rather materialistic in direction.