Approaching Infinity said:
It's possible that one can clean their machine without an explicit awareness of the process in terms of 'spirit release'. For example, perhaps there is something to Gurdjieff's ideas of 'little Is', or Jungian 'integration'. Perhaps the are different names for the same things. The result is the same.
This has been more or less my thought on the whole thing, and the reason why on the one hand, the notion of being able to have my questions answered by some All-Knowing source appeals to me, but when I think about it properly, I'm not so gungho about doing things the "spirit board way." Laura has said more than once about having to go through, what was it, 2 years? of nothing but dead dudes and thought loops. And I think: wouldn't the "material realm counterpart" of that be 2 years of working on yourself?
Laura has remarked that
possibly the whole Cassiopaea thing was a narrative cooked up by her subconscious to explain things that were going on in the/her world. Maybe the "spirit world" is a nice Jungian narrative for things that are really going on, and by that I mean: maybe the spirit attachment you got after a physical injury is the "spirit world counterpart" (the "spirit explanation") for all the "material realm" mechanisms. And yet, maybe there is some undeniable independent reality to the "spirit realms" in the sense of higher densities and all that.
So I think, can't I just face my own demons by working on myself, and not have to literally do that via a spirit board? (And how helpful is the "spirit world narrative" anyway? If your own issues find incarnation in a very clever demon named Melchizedek, doesn't that kinda draw attention away from "facing yourself" and put you up to having a grand old dissociated fantasy time? Unless if the "real work" is being done through energy dynamics and the form that it takes isn't important, but still...)
And it's nice to think that if we work on ourselves and resolve our issues, even without the board, we might similarly "make contact" with our own "Cassiopaeans." (And that is saying in "spirit world" terms - who knows how that would show up in "real life" mechanisms.) Although, does something have to happen in the heavens for contact to break through? Does Shoemaker-Levy have to impact Jupiter for Peter to meet with a Source of breathtakingly apt, insightful, intelligent answers? But then again, lots of things are happening in the heavens these days, so maybe I don't need to worry about that sort of thing.
It would be interesting to know if "the ancients" used some form of automatism as a means of self-development.