There are four-pillars of Madzooks’ philosophy toward personal development that must be reconciled for a person to find the most complete holistic and individual process of their development. One of these important pillars of development and personal proficiency is spirituality. I have talked primarily about the cognitive pillar in these early blog posts. One of my priorities for Madzook is to evolve our online presence and to offer places of learning and discovery for those that choose to explore our outlets; YouTube, this blog, and our personal Instagram accounts.
The Instagram accounts will be primarily informal, mostly candid, and on location type of postings. The YouTube will consist of a professional channel where professional constructs are discussed, and a formal tone is the objective of the delivery process. We intend to post what will be called a legacy video (much of our work or travels that we captured over the years), and candid videos for entertainment, enjoyment, laughs, or social interactions, and our more professional toned video creations with depth and breadth of personal discovery as the purpose. The Blog, this blog, will post once a week with a discussion into one of the four-pillars each week. There will also be a word of the week posted each week on the blog randomly but sometime during the week.
With that said, I wanted to bring the topic of spirituality into this introduction for a recognition of the variety and contrasted or comparative potentials for exploring and exploiting one’s spirituality. I must mention that my personal spirituality is a detailed combination born of many constructs from esoteric origin; varied religious Dogma and beliefs, and personal participation in the multitudes of my own influences that create my individual spirituality. I do not advocate or represent to be speaking for any given form of spirituality and I fully advise and acknowledge two things here; religion is a spiritual vessel for many that hold a specific faith, and your personal choice for developing your own spirituality is yours to make – not mine to adjudicate for your merit or your purposes in holding such views or paradigms. The importance of increased or newly discovered paths for spirituality is vital for personal development and performance improvements as the pillar creates a wealth of discovery potential for ontology, epistemology, metaphysical phenomena, esoteric connections, sciences of earth and energy, Deity choices or Dogma mandates that touch or speak to you, and faith, fate, luck or self-identification with a meaningful purpose, all of which are empowering for anyone’s and everyone’s individual evolution and growth.
One thing that I would use as an example here is the synthesis of similar beliefs found within starkly contrasting paradigms and perspectives when it comes to any specificity of belief in a spiritual entity or a lack thereof. The World seems unanimous that there is a “good” and an “evil” the contrasts resting on the determination of which, is what, and for whom. The example I will use here for this post is within the stories of powerful darkness or evil in the form of a Demon or Influencer not of human entity.
Christians – Offer the story of the seven fallen Angels that had intercourse and bred children with human women. These offspring were known as the Nephilim and are in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Numbers. Said to be evil giants spawned from demonic etiology and the creators of the linage of demons.
Celtics, Wiccan, and Animism all hold stories of Demonic possession or summoning of darkness for power by invocation of a Demon or entity other than human.
Hindu believes in both good and evil in all things, and that those choosing to be evil are in fact not equal to a God but are destined to live by the works of their own evil acts (or change them).
Muslims have the Jinn, the Tir and the Dasim among several other entities not of humanity but filled with evil intent and actions.
VooDoo is notorious for the summoning and power of the Demons, the Undead and Devils not of this World.
Tao has the Ngai practitioners or “black magic sorceress”
I could literally list hundreds of other symmetries in beliefs of evil as an inherent construct, and the act of man and other Worldly beings as the foundational influences of the darkness in the energy or Spirit World in and of itself. The point is this, two-fold; Spirituality is both good and evil, and personal choice is the primary influencer of each action or decision that you opt to take or participate in, and before you adjudicate which belief is prioritized over another, perhaps understanding the synthesis of the teachings, and knowing the differentiations in as much detail as you can is a best case practice to undertake. Spirituality is important, and the way you approach it and receive it will have powerful impacts on your personal development capacity and pathways.
MadzookJoe, 2018