In life, we face obstacles for a reason. They may not be obvious at first; with time, education, and carefully meditation on the Hermetic statement there are two sides to every event. The reason may become obvious.
While living in Liberia, West Africa from 1972 to 1976; I remember how concepts like magic, witchcraft, demons, ghosts, exorcism played a central role in people’s lives. Beliefs in these things were common. People lived their lives based on such beliefs.
When I arrived in the United States in 1976 at the age of eleven; those concepts were personified as characters on Saturday morning children’s television. Something for kids, not for educated aspiring professionals.
The Wizard of Oz, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories, Anansi the spider, Aesop Fables were all for entertainment. They were not something for educated people to believe in.
Immersed in “Popular Culture” from 1976 to 1998; I lived like there were no magicians, witches, ghosts, evil, good, demons. Things just happened. I was not taught in highschool or college to take them into consideration when planning my future. Therefore, they must not be relevant. The implicit message from their omission. The same with my professional life. Nobody talked seriously about interventions by supernatural forces in our daily lives.
It would take events from 2001 to 2011 to force me into reconsidering the philosophical foundation I had built my life upon.
It was too late to recover. I had lost everything I worked for in this world.
There were no clear path to recovery. Worst of all, I was being haunted daily to the point of being incapacitated and dysfunctional. My experiences have been shared through my postings on Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn and my blogs.
Through careful self-study; I came to understand the concept “Vail of Maya.” It started with a small book called the KYBALION from the Philadelphia Institution Library, 19th Street and Locust Street. I believe the year was 2011.
In these there is not the wonder and the might; the truths occult exist not for the mind of the ignorant. ~ RIG VEDA
I continued to read other books related to the principals taught in the Kybalion. This knowledge give me renewed appreciation for Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many other writers who’s works I previously took for entertaining stories.