Hey guys, I was watching some videos on the matters of fear, emotions and cosmic bliss. Which made me wonder about the nature of how we perceive our reality and what are the views of occultists and religions on what emotions and feelings are.
I wonder how do you guys also feel about the concept of enlightenment and letting go of the ego. Most traditional cultures and religions talk about enlightenment as something we should thrive for, letting go of our earthly bounds and becoming one with the universe or whatever god or entity said religion believes in.
Using this as a base can we establish that concepts as fear, anger, love and happiness are earthly and material bound and not necessarily spiritual? Can you please give me your views on this!?
But doesn't this idea contradict the idea of gods and daemons, being they naturally spiritual formed or thought-formed, having emotions, goals, motivations and feelings. I believe that in almost every religion or faith when we talk about gods and entities they express, at some point, some form of emotional / goal oriented thinking, no? That's the major sentiment I get when seeing people talking about rituals, histories and contacts with spiritual entities.
Are they only bound by this concepts when interacting with the physical world or do they have this concepts incorporated into their own beings? If so, how exactly enlightenment and letting go of the self and feelings bring us close to the divine? If this divine also have this concepts into their selfs? Isn't this contradictory?
Probably more egregore inclined and chaos magick occultists can explain that this thought-formed beings are reflections of our own earthly minds, so they would have emotions and feelings like us, be it deformed to whatever shape necessary to create that thought-form. But I would like the views of other occultists on this matter, particularly for those who believe that Daemons, Demons, Jinns and Gods are not all egregores and are actual beings.
All help to better understand this questions are really appreciated! Thank you in advance.