Reddit reviews The Kybalion: Centenary Edition

It seems to me, reading your post, that you are facing some mental blocks of your own creation. You say you are a 'spiritual dipshit' with 'disillusions of grandeur'. You also convey much fear, over and over, about various aspects of your spiritual practice, and your relations with others.

I would suggest, that while you have obviously had genuine spiritual experiences, what you lack is a context of a guiding philosophy to make sense of it all.

You are not a dipshit; you are made in the Image and Likeness of the Divine - and with that comes power and responsibility. Power to control your thoughts and experiences, and responcibility to do so wisely.

As to the fear - this is an illusion, created by your own ego. Fear can manifest results in your experience, but these are only the shadows of your bloated nothingness; the reflections of your fear itself. A healthy respect, and patience is essential, but nothing will block you in this or any other venture more so than fear.

I believe it is time that you set aside the development of spiritual phenomena until you have formed, to your own satisfaction, a working philosophy of the Spiritual, Divine nature of things and your relationship with IT. From this standpoint, you will have more success. I have found great wisdom in these writings:

Words to the Wise: Manly Hall

Lectures on Ancient Philosophy: Manly Hall

The Kyballion: Three Initiates

Absolutely, my friend. I'm sure most of these can be found online for free but I have listed the Amazon links for familiarity (I prefer books as opposed to online).

Books

Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy

Baha'u'llah: The Hidden Words

Baha'u'llah: The Seven and Four Valleys

The Kybalion

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Michael Singer: The Untethered Soul

Wisdom of the Buddha

The Bible

Two powerfully insightful Youtube Channels (many more are similar):

Monadic Media

Gary Lite

Film

Inner/Outer Worlds

In the end, all of these (and much, much more) seem to confirm the truths we find and experience in psychedelics. I hope they bring you comfort and happiness.

:)

-Don Bo Byuti

Nobody But I

G9D

$70–110?! If you paid anywhere near those prices, you’ve been thoroughly ripped off. You can get the Centenary Edition, verbatim with the original 1908 edition, in hardcover from Amazon for $13.63.

That said, what you may learn from the book by studying it thoroughly is priceless. And if you do find such study profitable, then you may also enjoy “The Hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt: An appreciation of The Kybalion, and a short study of the hermetic footprints that lead to the Wisdom of ancient Egypt.”

https://www.amazon.com/Kybalion-Centenary-Three-Initiates/dp/0143131680/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kybalion&qid=1566792880&s=books&sr=1-1

The idea is that in extreme antiquity there was some kind of event that caused humanity to be cut off from the original source. In some traditions they see that in the Garden of Eden story. Other traditions see it as the Atlantis story. So a large part of mysticism and Occult/Esoteric practice is focused on re-establishing that connection that was severed. That is done with various techniques. For instance the study of Torah using Gematria to discover the hidden secrets that God encoded for humans. There are many similar techniques in many traditions. Ultimately if you talk with enough mystics of many traditions they will all tell you similar things about the nature of God and the universe. So there really does seem to be some universal current underlying all things and traditions. that is my view anyway. for further reading I suggest you check out : the kybalion

The Kybalion was first published by the Yogi Publication Society in 1908 and has been reprinted many times in several different editions and formats. The lastest is the centenary edition pulished this year by Tarcherperigee. This is verbatim with the original edition of 1908.

Amazon have it in stock, priced very modestly at under $15 for the hardback edition.

https://www.amazon.com/Kybalion-Centenary-Hermetic-Philosophy/dp/0143131680