The Soul: Mortal and Immortal

Where does it begin?  Where does it end?  What makes sense in logic and reason?  If we begin with the premise of Love as the deciding factor in our equation, then logically and rationally what follows may not be what would follow if we choose something else.  Yet to believe in Love is not necessarily the belief you would find in the world in general for few truly do.

Existence is something that proves itself.  Life does not need an explanation to exist.  But death demands an explanation because it is a finality.  It is the end of a life.  This is why death is the heart of philosophy.  Death is what demands an answer, not Life.  

It is in death that we truly are faced with the facts of mortality and immortality.  In endings there is fear.  No one knows what lies beyond, so terror comes as well.  Philosophy would cease to exist if the political machinations of the dialogue of Life itself as it is lived in the world were to make the decisions of what is possible and what is not.  And so there is resistance to the idea of death being the end in philosophy.  It is abhorrent to believe otherwise.

From this arises two forms of thought police.  The first seeks to destroy philosophy in order to end the dialogue of possibility that life after death exists (see the life of Socrates as the example).  The second seeks to destroy the idea of death itself being the ending.  From this war can only arise two different viewpoints on the nature of reality.  The first would call itself realism and would be atheist in nearly all instances.  The second would call itself spiritual and seek to preserve the logic and reason of the individual in the face of death.

Idealism would die by the hands of the realist, so romantics must preserve it.  This is a question of Justice, the Justice of Truth that lies at the heart of the idea of immortality of the soul.  For without Immortality of the Soul, the whole of Life shall become meaningless.  And of course, it would appear to be a great injustice against the created.  Death cannot be the end of the soul even if it is the end of body.

While this common dialogue goes into the beginning of a nearly endless debate about what is real and what is not real about Life, the most important point I would prefer to make is that all ideas must be grounded in fundamentally provable hypothetical arguments.  An example of this is that the end of the soul is unjust or the end of the spirit is unjust or the end of the being is unjust.  Each of these three related arguments speak to a simple concept that is itself provable by reason of hope.  

Hope provides the final argument.  Of course the being will live on in whatever form, and the spirit and the soul will live on unless they are evil.  This sort of argument requires no physical proof because the proof takes the form of a spiritual cause and effect question.  Nearly everyone can agree to the idea because it must be so if Love or God/Goddess are real.

What about the individual?  The individual is singular in their nature connected to all others by all their relations.  As such the individual is within a divine network of relational grid patterns linked by light line logic.  Their entire reality spiritually is that while the majority of their experience on the Earth is controlled by the dark, the absence of the significance of the light in day to day interactions with people who see them as something other than what they are.

There are a series of arguments that follow proving every Truth there is about every individual.  Logically the arguments exist.  Logically all the relationships also exist.  What follows is the reason for why.  Why what you may ask?  For why Love is eternal.  The bounds between individuals are their relationships.  All relationships will perfect in time.  Reincarnation provides for the opportunity to correct the relationship.  Everyone ultimately wants to correct their relationships when they understand.  All relationships are eternal and in a state of perfecting.

These Truths also do not require physical proof.  These Truths are part of spiritual proofs.  Alternative ideas fall under one lifetime and atheist concepts of reality.  An atheist may believe in all this just not in any ultimate Goddess.  Such an atheist would be called a spiritual atheist.  The proof is in the romantic nature of the idea.  Death may kill us, but it cannot kill our the consequence of our Faith acted upon before we die.  What we choose to believe is what we choose to believe.  This is the romantic glory of idealism.  We die, but we believe.

It is a mathematical perfection the logic and reason of the gridwork, the map of all my relations.  Understanding it is easy.  If you understand that you are here on Earth doing work because you must work for the perfection of creation, then you also understand that the ultimate perfection of creation is displayed in our relationships to those closest to us.  Those relationships and their state of perfection are a reflection of what stage of spiritual development the individual soul is at.

I could continue with this dialogue, but I have merely wished to reflect on the true state of ideas and what is real and what is not.  I measure my temple in Innocence, for all true answers will respect Innocence as the final solution.  I judge my temple by Love, for Love is the essence of all.  For if it is true, then all my relations are favored by the will of my own hand to perfect them for eternity.  This standard is the standard for right action.  Let hope guide your philosophy in the days ahead even as we remain uncertain as to what shape those who protect ignorance over Justice will take.  It all winds up the same Truth in the end.

Is permadeath fair?  No.  There are no other possible answers.  Is Love fair?  Yes.  What rules the cosmos?  Love.  The argument has ended.  Romance wins.  Do we still have to die.  Yup.  Is that fair?  We don't know.  And that's where the other argument starts.  For another time perhaps.

The Dreamer and the Dream

Imagine for a moment and you have imagined for a lifetime.

You are the dream, the dreamer, and all that has been dreamed.  

And you are those who are in the dream and all they have dreamed.  

Infinity is the holy grail of possibility.  It lies at the heart of imagination like a burning ember filled with the light of every hope conceivable.  And it would be what we are but for the accident of our birth.  There are those that say that that accident is planned and of necessity to a divine plan.  And there are those that say there is no plan.  The dreamer will dream none the less.

Everything that is resistance is already in resistance.  Everything that will be said has already been said.  Such is the way of eternity.  Imagination can only offer more of that eternity.  So it is wise not to get lost in it.  The imagination is a bottomless pit.  It can be more addictive then drugs and more destructive than guns.  And yet it cannot be stopped in any ultimate sense because it simply is.  The dreamer will dream.

The dream is what makes our world bearable.  The dream is what makes new ideas possible.  The dream is everything that isn't here right now that you wish to the bottom of your soul was.  It's the soul of desire, the ultimate longing for eternity and all it represents.  Anywhere but here is it's secret siren song whispering to your desperate ear.  Make me more than what I am!

The dream is the power to change the reality you see.  With it comes a terrible responsibility for the dreamer could become the world.  And if he or she does so, turn the world upside down.  So we learn to chain our dreams in secret safe spaces in our minds.  We choose to keep the dreamer kept underneath lest he or she burst out and reveal the true measure of our light and the true measure of our madness.

Who are we?  Do we even ask anymore?  Do we even care anymore?  But surely the dream will run none the less even if we can't say for sure.  It is at the heart of everywhere.  It is at the core of everything.  And who or what dreamed us into being?  Those questions are perhaps far too much for a mortal race like ours with a short lifespan and a limited attention.  But one day, the answers to the questions of the dreamer will give birth to a real civilization that is built on the truth.  Await the dreamer then and behold.

The Rights and Rites of Mystery And Whatever

The rights of mystery shall not be infringed.  And so it was that the world was bound to it's own fate by it's own choice.  None understood it, not even those who called themselves magical, for why would anyone choose a fate full of darkness?  But it was not darkness that was fate, but it's very opposite, the light.  Still few bothered to ask the silence for better answers.

Such was it that this website and others like it became increasingly barren.  No one wanted to be part of the easy way to do things.  They all wanted instead for a free lunch.  Guess what?  The free lunch is a myth.  The game is over as my mentor has made clear.

What began as the hope of a perfect plan realized in an instant became the disappointed realization that life on Earth was going to be hard because people make it so.   No one listens, everyone argues, and most are only interested in maintaining their fat accounts or their masquerade of superiority.

Enough though.  When the plug is pulled on the illusions of our systems there will not be anything left of all that.  Everyone will be accountable for who they are.  Everyone will have to justify their own existence the same way those of us who have been working for a better tomorrow do.  That is by hard work both internal and external.  Work is the real commodity of the future that everyone should get used to.  Building the systems necessary will be hard work with many sacrifices and quite a few unavoidable destructions added in.

Why is this the choice of humanity?  Humans are stupid, they are stuck in a rut, and they have been trained to destroy one another for far too long.  It's far easier to give into the impulse of hate than it is to give from one's heart completely.  The sad fact of the matter is that hate is equal to humility in this regard.  The choice made in the heart is the only difference between one and the other.  The only reason I know this so easily is because I had a cheat sheet from someone who knows the answers.  But, even with that, it still ain't easy.

The rights of mystery are the rights of keep mystery.  Only the worthy may.  And so much of what I have written that is now no longer here is about mystery, the metaphysical side of our nature.  That part is not meant for people who aren't prepared for the responsibility and difficulty of the rites implied within.  To honor all means to honor the rites of the dark as much as the light.  That is a responsibility almost no one wants.  It is like holding the keys to heaven and hell in your hands.  It is being forced to see the fate of the world.  No one like being psychic, that's how you can tell the fakes from the real ones.

And being psychic isn't exactly a good description either.  Knowing in knowing.  Knowledge is proven by what happens.  Knowing isn't knowledge, only the getting of it half way.  Much of what I wrote was the getting of it half way.  But of course it was all fiction.  And that's the rub of it.  There can be no secrets.  And yet there must be.

Reality is a two way street where contradictions exist that bewilder those unwilling to conceive of the existence of those very contradictions.  Therein lies the difference between a person and an adult.  A person doesn't have to responsible and doesn't have to think about contradictions.  An adult does and must find a solution to them.  It's driven me crazy several times holding those contradictions myself.  The rites of mystery are not something dealt with lightly or easily.   Just ask the Pope, as he plays one such role in our collective zoo.  We only make it look easy, the pain of the world though makes it not so easy.

And so it is that this website slowly reaches it's final statements of reality before we move on to something a little less difficult to digest.  I will continue to practice astrology and continue to help people as I meet them.  Astrology is like an umbrella.  A wheel is shown to you that looks precisely like one.  One then could say that Astrology is the umbrella, but of course that would be ridiculous.

Astrology offers people the choice as part of the rites of mystery to know themselves by what the stars and planets tell them.  The existence of Astrology thus proves that our lives are planned and that accidents don't happen.  This violates Occam's Razor, but there it is.  You choose to believe or you don't.  Either it is possible to interpret something using astrology or it is not.  I have used Astrology all my life as a predictive tool and have found it to be frighteningly accurate.  The key to Astrology though is consciousness.  There is a time, a place, and a mindset necessary for someone to be ready to receive it.  That's who walks through the door.  That is the nature of Mystery and it's necessity.

You could technically cast a chart for a mouse, but it wouldn't tell you what that mouse would do as a human being.  That's then true of a tree.  Astrology doesn't go as far as that, but is useful for those who are ready who are being guided on their path by what we roughly refer to as the higher mind and higher self.  That's it's use.  That's also it's limit.

For those who want to believe in that, astrology is available to them.  For those that don't, eventually they will make the practice difficult.  Yet that is a fundamental choice of humanity that cannot be erased.  With that right to silence comes with it the karma of the silencing.  Before this article disappears as all truth must in dark times, remember that.  Don't dwell on it, but remember that karma is real.

I made it a point to teach that truth because it is something I fundamentally believe.  It is also something I fundamentally feel as though I should not have had to know before my time (like 60 years old plus).  I feel that the failure of the teachers was to give me a choice not to do this.  My main teacher has never made that mistake with me.  Those that did are bound to the karma of the error of sabotaging my and other people's lives.  Hence the rights of Mystery include the rights of karma.

Karma's not so bad once you get to know her.  She only offers more life.  Not that bad, right?  Oh.  I mean on Earth.  Now you're all screaming to get out of the room I'm sure.  Oh no, we have to love the planet and it's people again and have real relationships that work and work really, really hard.  Oh, the horror of it all.  People are such douches.  The worst penalty in the universe is to live, learn, and love again?  What is your people's problem anyway?   I alone apparently was excited by the idea of getting to live again and doing work again with Mother Earth and my family of 8 billion weirdos.

In any case, whatever is whatever.  The mystery is whatever.  The rights are whatever.  The rites are whatever.  I am whatever.  And whatever whatever.  If that doesn't make any sense I can point you to someone who make more sense of it if he or she wasn't busy messing up his or her life.

None the less, being a generous sort of individual, I have accepted the whatever, whatever those of you who have managed to whatever your way to whatever.  So whatever.  Or as a good acquaintance of mine used to say it is what it is whatever.  That's a goddamn fact.

Please note the use of the term whatever may or may not constitute a gratuitous thought crime depending on your location and point of view in time and space.  This may or may not constitute a lack of humor or your part or on the part of the system which may or may not be in agreement.  Whether or not this will or will not cause problems depending on whatever.  Whatever is is whatever does.  And whoever wants to disagree can go and whatever themselves to whatever the hell they think is a good idea.  Good luck or something.

Astrology is cool because whatever it tells you can be useful.  Good interpretations are vital, but the rights of Mystery must include the right of people who practice badly to practice until such time they are caught and sent back to astrology school or something like that depending on whatever.  Whatever happens may or may not be reversible depending on what and what not.  Astrology is cool though still.

So it is I will continue to practice astrology and many of the other arts.  A new website will be created for this.  And the Cosmic Fool will continue his journey there.  Sorry some things just can't be left to chance.  And that, is whatever it is about whatever it had to be.  Peace be with you if you can't find it, and eventually you will.

My last post is coming soon.  I have enjoyed this website and presenting the ideas contained within them to others.  It will remain up mostly to help spread the science and philosophy.  But don't count on it.  Copy and paste articles if you find them useful because the links to them as PDFs already are gone.  That's my only advice for my true fans and followers.  Don't worry just going to a new page.  Thank you all for reading, and I hope my presentations have been enlightening. 

My last point is that Mystery matters because that which is sacred must be protected from you all who are bad, the people who would destroy it or misuse it for your own deviant purposes.  Behind the veil, the divine feminine must wait.  You will not see Her naked before the world, and if you do only destruction will reveal Her for destruction proceeds the unveiling of that which is truly divine.  It is not for the eyes of the savage, hateful crowds gathered to tear Her to shreds before She arrives.   This will not happen.  And so we move on.

And to the rest of you who are part of all that I have only one word.  I think you've got that by now.

Whatever!

It's Now or Never, Light Lines Forever

When it began
A long time ago
We were just not
Then we were so

But then so went
Till we forgot
Our beauty between
Every cruel thought.

Time makes us for fools.
Lovers who want to break the rules.
Truth be ever told
That it's not a lie.

You and I.

But before I found you
There was another I knew
That other meant more
That other was me.

So then I love gratefully
Forever in the sea
Of thoughts that make themselves real
Beyond the eyes of indifference.

Look upon the face of creation
Who is it that it's inspired for?

But you'd spend your time waiting
Forever waiting for something more.
There isn't more.
This is all there is.

What do you believe?

How can you conceive?

What do you know?

Who runs the show?

And most importantly of all, who gives a shit?

That answer has been proven to be no one.

So then why have a person who knows the answers?
Why have someone who can answer when no one asks any questions except about what they want?

A curiosity of creation.
By myself celebration.
Waiting for the myth of others.
I believe.

Oh I believe..
I believe..
I believe..

Music's like dancing ever so sweet.
I rather answer in music now because it's more complete.
Except for certain technical scientific blahs.
I'd just rather sing an answer out.

Oh, lovers true, where are you?
Nowhere to be found but within.
Love yourself you should
Because no one else can
When you forget who you are.

There's not alot of room for advice.
These things have had a long time to brew.
If it was easy to find
Now it seems harder to know.

Attitude bears a burden.
Lies bear a shame.
And all the things that are dark
Come forwards to be seen!

It is the question...
It is the answer..
It is the moment..
To know..

Forever is as it does.
Forever never cares.
Forever's been there and back again forever.

It's now or never!
Light lines forever!!!

I see them everywhere
I seem them everytime.
Everything that ever was.
Is just a lightline of thought.

Thought and romance make a scary combination
Think and feel together till you're one.
It's not to think we try very hard to do.
Everyone's in a hurry for the empty screw.

And they miss it all...
They miss it all...
In the darkness..

Well my few readers true.
What do you think it's time to do?
I've taken down most of my thoughts
Except those that shouldn't be forgot.

Let that be a lesson for you.
Make a copy!
Make a copy!

Unless it really doesn't matter all that much.
Thinking, oh!, thinking is such fuss.
And without it what would we be?
We'd be singers you fools!
We'd be dancers you fools!
We'd be actors you fools!
And the world would be improv.

And that's the way it should be.
For now.....

Echoes of the Secret

There's a song I'd like to sing
But I don't know the words.

It goes something like this
Nobody knows how it is.

It's a place between philosophy
And everything that you can't see.

It's lovers and thoughts
A million years.

What would you say
If you knew.

You'd not know what to say
It's a secret on the wind.

You'd not know what to think
It's a mystery no one knows.

Oh umbrella, you open for me
Oh umbrella, show us what you see.
Oh umbrella, bind you and me.
To a show that goes on for eternity.

It's a stream that can't be found.
But for the one's who it's meant for.

They see the stream in the hearts
And it carries them to the worlds.

Home!  Home!  Home!
Have I found you?
Have I seen you?
Have I been you?

Do you know?
Do you know?
Do you know?
Do you know?

The Human Aura

If everyone could see auras (I personally do not though I am very sensitive to emotions and thoughts), the world's problems would probably be solved relatively quickly.  Auras are a field that surrounds people which are visible to a small percentage of the population and essentially consist of various color lights and shades of darkness.  Years ago I read a book describing what the colors of the aura meant.  That book was by William Walker Atkinson published under the pseudonym Yogi Ramacharaka called Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism.  It's really too bad the new age wasn't built off his works rather than the more speculative works of Helen Blavatsky and the even more speculative works of later new age writers who turn the entire psychic phenomenon of the human experience into a phony party show with nonsensical superstitions.

The ability to see auras is actually quite real, I having met several people who could do it.  I even tested a friend of mine's abilities years ago with a blind scientific test to see if Ramacharakas descriptions of what the aura colors meant were accurate.  I would know my mood and what color I should be but told nothing to my friend about what the colors were supposed to mean.  He then gave me 100% accurate readings of the color of my aura which always matched the mood as Ramacharaka descried.  I did this probably a couple of dozen times with complete accuracy proving Ramacharaka's scholarship on the subject.

There are deeper levels of the aura that are even more complex.  I have met one person who could see into this layer of the aura and it's much more intense and complete energy field.  The aura is probably divided into several layers.  The layers Ramacharaka descried are most likely the lowest level of the aura and just give you the mood information.  Real psychics see at least this level and the really good ones see the deeper layers.  I believe there are at least three main levels to the aura around a single person.  I generally describe these layers as the etheric, astral, and causal auras currently.

A proper naming of levels of information concerning what can be read through psychic perception would include the primary levels of activity in terms of what can be known about an individual.  There should be seven layers altogether that can be accessed.  The etheric, astral, and causal (formally I called this the mental) correspond to the those three planes.  Above them must be, as I currently understand it (my most recent ideas), the kabbalistic (formally buddhic), angelic (formally atmic), and archangelic (formally adi).  These three levels of the aura would be more akin to what I call gridwork, a field of fractal psychic information available to those who have the patience to focus on it.  The gridwork is built of light lines, that which connects objects and fields in and through planes through the planes of interaction effect I have described in a few of my works. 

I don't recommend anyone really train in these areas of development unless they are born with the abilities concerning the layers beyond the causal.  They are frightening complex and the higher one goes up the chain of being and reasoning the more difficult it gets to read properly without some heavy negative energy.  Even the causal layer is difficult to deal with as it contains essential limitations of a human being within it.

As someone who is sensitive to feelings and thoughts (clairsentience/claircognizance) , it feels to me like layers of pressurized thought and resistance surrounding a person.  A human being's basic state of consciousness is very evident when one is sensitive.  People bring with them everywhere they go their built in attitudes, thoughts, and biases.  This stuff literally surrounds someone immediately telling you what they are really like internally.

Those internal attitudes are visible as colors and hearable as sounds to those who have the clairvoyant and clairaudient gifts.  The visible aura is the one described by Ramacharaka.  The more of these abilities one has activated, the more difficult it is to stay focused when in the presence of others.

According to what I have learned the aura reading ability can be activated by various means.  Yet one's life must be balance to do this.  The safest way to activate the aura according to those I have learned from or read about is to do fasting and focusing until that ability activates.  It is best to do so in a group of those of like mind about it and of good naturally happy dispositions.  That is a difficult thing to find at this time in human history unfortunately.  Yet if the more sensitive among us do not activate ourselves at some point, the world will be left in the hands of the politicians and those who are completely blind to this facet of human experience.

Since the human aura to me is a scientific and physical phenomenon (related to both the human magnetic field and dimensionality (planes of consciousness created by transdimensional physics)), one does not even have to believe in God/Goddess in order to have the experience of any psychic phenomenon really.  Perhaps it is best proven in this way that indeed there is a greater reality than one would wish to believe in.  It is probably more rewarding that way as well.  But the truth is that one has to be open minded to really see what is real and what isn't.

Conventional thinking interferes with the unbiased truth reflected in the aura.  We are taught to divide our thoughts and feelings with opinion.  We are told to form biases from an early age.  We are taught to analyze everything.  Part of this is the problem with our scientific education.  It encourages us to look at the world through the lens of language and to see the world as a series of parts.  The more we look to analyze the world, the less we see of what is intuitively already there.  It's as if we were taught not to look essentially.  Then we are taught to label everything, and our entire social system does this constantly.  Everything has a label with a meaning attached. We are taught to hate certain groups and like other groups.

Every time those messages get in our head we forget a little more of the real fact that humans are fully capable of reading situations using their natural born gifts if they are activated.  If we all saw what was is in each other, then the ability to lie would vanish.  Yet to do so would require everyone to be open to the possibility of actual being seen, heard, and felt as they really are, not as they wish to project.  This would be very difficult for the vast majority of people to deal with as their attitudes would be on the table.  And as long as they identify with those attitudes and not with the possibility of being part of something more, the ability to see those auras and live as we were meant to be will be a distant possibility of a future that no one knows.  But of course, one day it all has to come true.

Listenening: The Protocols of Honor

By the deepest concepts of culture are we made whole.  But to get there we must find out first what culture is and why it matters.  From the point of view of the primitive, culture is irrelevant.  That is the problem with primitivism which is the state of nature as it exists in the minds of humans that live without any notion of honor or ritual.  This is the essential difference between that which is primitive and that which is cultured.  A cultured individual has a protocol and honors that protocol.  A primitive has no protocol and honors only his or her whims. 

Here I must state the fundamental basis of all protocol for the record of the collective that requires it.  Protocol is based on principle. Principle is rationality through sacrfice by means of deference to any Ideal, Virtue, person, or thing, but specifically it is the grounds of one's argument.  When any philosopher speaks of principle they usually are referring to ideal principle. Ideal Principle is the perfect image of an abstract principle fully conscious as a platonic form.  Virtue is most often the emotionally centered reality of any principle in action through the changes it induces in others by it's transformational capacity as a living essence surrounding a single actor (she or he that acts), most specifically a person from our point of view.

There is, as I have stated before in my Philosophy of Knowledge notes, a natural hierarchy of prioritization which exists that influences the deliverance of conscience through values, desires, principles, duties, virtues, and even conscience itself.   That hierarchy is constructed by individuals naturally in the course of their lives as they discover what it is that motivates them to take any actions.  As such it is primarily the ground of reasoning of Formal Moralism and used by Formal Moralists to justify their own actions as part of the accounting of personal argument.

But beyond this reasoning lies the other, who is or is not aware of any of this.  Communicating with the other requires that one understand that all just communications are based upon the notion of Transactions of Honor.  Roughly stated a transaction of honor in the field of communication is the idea that one listens in return for the right to speak and vice versa that one speaks with the intention to listen to the response. 

Here we must get into the nature of honorable communications and just honoring of the other and the self.  Listening is followed by listening.  A speech is worth a speech.  A thought is worth a thought.  This natural transaction of experiences and minds is the basis of the protocol of honor.  Since everything begins in communication, we begin here for those who wish to participate in Honor Culture which is the culture of true wealth. 

The self is revealed in stages to the other based on interest.  Questions and answers form the basis of the transaction of relationship.  Actions taken are the measure of the value assigned to the relationship.  Each action is met with an equal and opposite reaction until full intimacy is achieved.  That full intimacy is one of friendship, the true measure of all intimacy.

Not all want to participate in this transaction as they would prefer to only think or talk of themselves or spread rumors.  As such the world is divided between those that practice honor and those who do not.  There are commandments unwritten that govern the entire cycle.  Beyond this stage, there is living in the moment to total connection with the stream of conscience that surrounds us at all times.  

This is a very short introduction to a very complex and elaborate truth about perfectly honoring the experience we are having as people specifically with relation to ourselves, other people. the planet, and by extension the universe.  Honor culture does not end at people and things.  It extends into the honoring of any tradition of communication with any hypothetical reality one has heard of.  As such one's relationship to ideas, methodologies, and hypothetical non physical beings are included.  Included in this is one's relationship to skepticism and doubt as well.  Honor is a very, very complex beast. 

Very much of our extended lives are tied to what we honor in ourselves and in others.  The subtlety of existence is defined by that experience internal to ourselves.  While the majority of our experience is the honoring of our gross selves, the body and it's needs, the rest of our experience collectively is determined by the nature of how we honor everything else about everyone else including the abstract notions of being and beyond that, for those that have it, the psychic perceptions of the those gifted of conscious subtly in it's many various forms.  The set of all the possible combinations of this conundrum is the basis of formal study of Mystery, Art, Music, and Kaballah. 

The essential question is what makes us different from each other from the point of view of the universe or Goddess and God depending on your point of view.  When we try to understand someone we look at the whole of their experience, the whole of what they know, the whole of their choices, the strength of their conviction, the strength of their character, and the physical strength of their body.  Their identity determines their viewpoint.  Their potential and their intention determines what the Oracle can and can't tell them.  The choices they are offered are a part and parcel of those offering those choices and their stories as well.  As you can see to honor all of that is something truly magnificent and time consuming for those doing the honoring.  As such we honor those closest to us.  Such is the way of things.

Again there is one road deeper than this that I have learned from another further along the path than I.  This road takes us into the emotion itself as experienced through the whole of the breath into the lifestream of consciousness as it is lived.  Here, the protocols of honor still exist, but they become secondary to the experience of an inner guidance that is beyond what is normally experienced.  Here listening becomes a skilled fused with full human consciousness honed to create an experience called Natural Synastry,  A person who has this experience is free of the need for formalism and becomes the living embodiment of the Virtues for others.  Jesus was the greatest of these examples of those who truly managed to see past the need for transactions of honor to arrive complete honoring through pure consciousness through embodiment.

But the need for honoring remains to the extent that it is necessary to consider the perspectives of all.  The world cannot avoid the full honoring of every other and simply jump into Natural Synastry.  Before Natural Synastry is the astrologically timed Unnatural Synastry as well which is the honoring of the cycles of existence as interpreted through astrology.  Some elements of Unnatural Synastry can also be found in lesser forms of divination such as tarot.  But the problem of character emerges when these interpretations clash with the Natural Synastry of the awakened person who will not simply allow an interpretation to be the decider of their fate.  This is a tricky ground for the reader and the querrant (the person getting the reading) alike.  

Protocols of honor extend to all these fields of endeavor.  Perfecting them allows one to read or interpret perfectly.  Failure to create a protocol of honor in the absence of the necessary psychic and/or mental gifts necessary for Natural Synastry creates disturbances in the consciousness of the self and others.  Further refinement is always required.  Perfect readings lead to perfect outcomes.  It is possible but requires learning and an acknowledgement of imperfection.  Yet this is all part of the greater picture of honoring choice and honoring methods of ordering action.

Who is it that one must follow when one is not sure?  This is a great question of both the advisor and the advisee.  We all wish to speak with an authority on this matter, but at times we find ourselves puzzlingly enough as the authority seeking advice from others on the question of our own authority to decide.  Most don't care enough to test their own limits, to ask themselves where they should stop and seek the advice of others.  But as luck would have it sometimes they stumble upon someone both competent and honorable to the art and the other person alike.

A massive subject is this thing we call honor.  Honor is not a perfect measurement of our selves, but an acknowledgement of our imperfection without the other.  There are limits of course, for honoring one's self is required as part of the idea of honor or honor itself is destroyed by it's opposite dishonor.  The balance is delicate and requires experience to teach us the limits of this methodology of culture.  But as long as civilization exists and as long as there are those who wish to remain civilized, we'll be hearing a great deal more about honor in the years, decades, centuries, and millennia to come.