Just a DMH-practices update
Sep. 1st, 2020 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temporaryrealityFirst, non-DMH related, I haven't gotten much farther into The Well-Trained Mind, having sort of just jumped into finding my first reading materials for the actual study-project.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helpingdfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).
I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helping
dfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
