Doug Fisichella...
Douglas Fisichella is a Student of the Arcane School founded by Alice A. Bailey and a life long student of the worlds religions
Why do you need to know all that stuff?
This is a question posed by my mother in law to my wife, on more than one occasion. It is actually more of a statement about her own consciousness than a real inquiry into Louise’s motivations. I think that is probably true in most cases and it is something that I will look for now that I have become conscious of it. There is a statement I have been aware of so long that I can no longer say where it came from and it is; “The quality of your life is largely dependent on the quality of the questions you ask yourself”. I have found this statement comes up again and again in my mind as I study things like the effects of positive mental attitudes and the constitution of man. It also relates to the laws of attraction and repulsion, and resonance.
I have, at this point become so intent on knowing “all this stuff” that I find I have an irresistible desire to share it as well, and that is why I have started to teach. In some cases the only way that you have the opportunity to do this is to live a life of example. Most of the people I know will not be attending any of the classes I am teaching so they will not allow themselves to be exposed to the theories or practices involved, but they will not be able (as hard as they may try) to avoid seeing the results. I almost said end results, but this is a process that will not be ending too soon, I hope. I am hooked. I want to know everything and it is as difficult for me to understand the attitude presented in the question that originated this piece than it is for my mother in law to understand my need to know. Once the door is opened how can one suppress the urge to walk through? Why would anyone want to suppress such an urge? Perhaps that is why they do not allow themselves to be exposed to it in the first place.
If you are reading this your attitude is probably closer to mine than that of my co-workers (and yours as well, I assume). Even to the level of my diet, which is a fairly undisciplined form of veganism, refusing meat and most of the time any animal products, I am an oddity in those surroundings. I am the token vegetarian I guess, and the good thing is that now they have actually met one. It leads to questions like “are you allowed to eat this or that”? My reply is usually something like “I eat anything I want to, I just don’t see some of the things you eat as food”.
To my apparent advantage I have a very 5th ray concrete mind. I am an Esotericist living in an empiricist’s body. This makes it easy for me to explain in rational terms why I do some things that others may be doing for purely emotional reasons. Esotericism is a science, not a religion. It happens to deal in a scientific way with many seemingly purely religious issues because people lump the spiritualism at the core of religion with the distorted expression of that spiritualism that religion has become. That is partially the result of intent on the part of religious organizations to stop the questions that arise in one’s mind when some tenet is presented that does not make sense. “God moves in mysterious ways” is the answer used to stop the question, but my nature leads me to the next question. “Really, what are those?
Having been raised in a household which was not stuck in a particular religious dogma, something I believe is probably quite rare, I did not have my questions rebuffed. I may not have liked or understood the answers, but that is still better. Life is a series of lessons and if we are paying attention we are learning the whole time. I read a book called “The Variety of Religious Experience” in which the author posited that. Thought is always in motion, and belief is thought at rest. Think about that a moment (unless you already believe it). The attitude of most so called religious people is that their church has already answered those questions. They are relieved of the need to think because they already “believe”. I don’t believe you should believe anything. I work more in the realm of working hypotheses. This works more like; “If that is true than we may be able to justify thinking this as well”. We build upon things that make sense to us and we don’t get stuck believing things that don’t fit. I think this is a much healthier way of looking at the world. The problem for some is that we will never be “done” if we proceed in this way. The only way to finish this type of pursuit would be to lose any semblance of intellectual curiosity, or to die. I am putting both of those possibilities of as long as possible.
Namaste,
Doug
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