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To me, the meaning of life is that you get to decide what it means to you. But if I had to name the values I consider most important, they would be truth, compassion, humility, peace, love, equality, and integrity.

These two are great! Highly recommend to study with them if you are interested in Magic. This one is also great! I Love her! (Platonically) Personally I have tried magic and had some success but i don't really care about powers. I am more curious to use it for spiritual growth.

This is what I found most convincing. He’s a Native American guy, really cool and friendly. He talks a lot about Native American spirituality, and I find their perspectives on supernatural phenomena very interesting. Personally, I once saw a blue ball of light fly out of an apartment building and disappear into a dark forest. It could have been ball lightning, but I honestly don’t know.🤔😁

I agree that survival instincts and society influence our behavior, and that we should question the systems we benefit from. But I disagree that everyone is equally evil. Having the capacity for selfishness doesn't mean everyone acts equally selfishly or causes equal harm. Comparing an ordinary person to someone who commits rape or murder is a false equivalence. A child stealing chocolate is not morally equivalent to someone who deliberately destroys another person's life. Empathy may have evolutionary roots, but that doesn't prove every act of compassion is ultimately selfish. Sometimes we feel another's suffering and simply want to help. I believe morality exists on a spectrum. People can choose to help or harm, and they can learn and change. We are connected, even though we are individuals. When we recognize that connection, harming others becomes harder to justify, because what we do to others affects the whole we are part of.

@Leo GuraI do agree with you, but I also think there are people who know that what they do is wrong and enjoy it. They embrace it. They welcome all the depravity and malice. Not everyone, of course, but there are definitely some people like that. And I also think that even those who believe they’re doing good have that little voice deep down inside that tells them otherwise.

@kavaris There are deeper depths to uncover 😁

@enchanted indeed ☺️👍

He is so great! 😁❤

My Spiritual & Creative Work I've been a member of this forum for many years, and I've recently decided that I want to start documenting a very personal part of my journey here: my creative work and how deeply it is connected to my spiritual path. Lore Quest is a major part of my spiritual work, and there are several reasons why I am creating it. First and foremost, it is an offering to Hekate. I am a devotee of Hekate, and creating this story is one of the ways I choose to dedicate my work to her. I want the time, effort, creativity and personal growth that go into this project to be something I can offer in her honour. But Lore Quest is also my shadow work. When I write and draw, I often discover things about myself that I wasn't consciously trying to explore. The story has become a way for me to look at my own fears, flaws, desires, strengths and darker aspects of myself. The story is happening both outside and inside of me. The characters often represent different aspects of myself. The antagonists can embody the parts of myself that I struggle with — fear, pride, anger, selfishness, ignorance, or other things I need to confront. The protagonists and other positive characters can represent the qualities I want to develop and strengthen. In a sense, they are all fighting for the same thing. They are fighting for my heart. Lore Quest is also my life's work. I have another story I want to create in the future called Seekers, which I currently consider an even more ambitious project. Because of that, Lore Quest is also teaching me how to become a better writer, artist and storyteller. I don't yet know whether I will eventually publish Lore Quest. If I eventually feel that the story has reached a level where I'm proud of it, I may publish it. But even if I don't, the process of creating it is already meaningful to me. There is also a fourth reason that is perhaps the most important one. I want to create something good for the world. I don't want my work to exist only for my own enjoyment or personal development. I hope that if people eventually read Lore Quest, they can get something meaningful from it. I want the story to make people think. I want it to make people question themselves, question what they believe, and perhaps see themselves or the world from a different perspective. I hope that some of the ideas and themes in the story can encourage people to grow as human beings. If even a few people become a little kinder, wiser, more courageous or more willing to seek truth because of something I created, then I would consider that worthwhile. In that sense, my personal growth and the story's purpose are connected. I am trying to become a better person through the process of creating it, while also hoping that the finished work might help other people grow in their own way. One of the central themes of Lore Quest is the search for truth. That is also one of the central themes of my own spiritual journey. I want to understand myself better. I want to question my assumptions. I want to confront uncomfortable things rather than hide from them. And I want to become more willing to seek truth even when the truth isn't necessarily comfortable. This is why creating Lore Quest has become such an important part of my spiritual practice. I don't expect every part of the story to have a one-to-one symbolic meaning. Sometimes I'm simply writing a fantasy adventure because I enjoy doing so. But I have noticed again and again that my own struggles, thoughts and spiritual questions find their way into the story. So this journal will be a record of that process. I'll probably talk about the development of Lore Quest, the characters, artwork, writing, worldbuilding and story structure. But I'll also talk about the personal and spiritual thoughts that emerge while working on it. I don't know exactly where this project will ultimately lead. Maybe Lore Quest will become a finished story that I eventually publish. Maybe it will remain primarily a deeply important part of my creative and spiritual development. Maybe it will be both. For now, I'm simply going to make the story, learn from the process, and see where the path leads. 😁

This is enlightenment. Symbols speaks deeper than many words.

I think of manifestation as an thought that is brought into reality. I manifest everyday. Everyday my thoughts and imagination becomes into reality through my work. My art is my manifestation. Those ideas and thought take a physical form. That is how I see it. But I don't think me sitting and visualizing will ever bring it to reality. I cannot just sit and think about it. I must also act.

Evil is Collective unconsiousness. A formless spirit that has infinite intelligence. We create it and it creates us. Or better would be said that we feed it and it feeds on us. Evil can only live in the world through us. And also when you go near these malice and miasma filled beings... You will feel like your body is burning. That is how evil feels like. I am not some arbiter of absolute truth. This is just my current understanding. 😅

@Mellowmarsh I understand what you mean, but I see it differently. To me, rejecting morality altogether can lead to immoral actions because it removes the principle that tells us why certain actions are wrong in the first place. I'm not moral simply because there is some external rule telling me what to do. I want to be moral because I believe it is good for everyone. I believe that treating others with respect and compassion is inherently valuable, not merely because society tells me that it is.😄

@Joseph Maynor Yeah I have noticed 😅 but he does have good personal development stuff! His personal development course is very good and helped me alot 😄 It's the spirituality that is bit twisted in my opinion.