Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.
If we take the audience in an esoteric environment, then it can be divided into two types: those who absorb knowledge and are transformed due to it - the yin approach. And the yang approach is when people run around and actively discuss magic, talk about magic, give information out. They read a book somewhere and ran to discuss the idea contained there. And all the time some books on magic are written, but few really valuable and new ideas are born. I have looked through quite a lot of magical literature, and it is almost always clear that there is some kind of idea that someone once showed, and then other authors take it and spin it in different ways, passing it off as some kind of innovation.
So, there are people who constantly discuss some esoteric ideas. They are especially inspired by themes on a cosmic scale, some high abstractions about the mission of humanity in the galaxy or the universal love of everyone in everything. A person read a book, resonated with some information, and it turned him on. The author gave out some model there. He runs to some esoteric school, reads, and there they not only haven’t heard about this model, but somehow they look at the world differently, and he immediately says to them: “But look.” Often this is all accompanied by such a struggle. People quickly try to introduce some information that has entered their head. Or they are trying to find those who will also resonate with her, in order to strengthen some kind of egregor into which they got involved.
It must be said right away that discussions in magic do not give anything to the person himself. I myself really don’t like all this talk. They periodically write to me with some proposals to discuss some idea, but it’s difficult to include me in such things. Not because I am against all these ideas. But because all this makes little sense to me.
The yin approach is associated with the fact that a person absorbs information and remains silent. There is such a thing as the practice of silence - it is a purely magical practice. It so happened that I am forced to give various lectures and present some information to you. And I always try to put energy and some of my experience into this information. Fill your words with energy. And these are some charges. And then they enter your consciousness. And then there are two options. Remember the game "Hot Potato"? When you get energy, what do you want to do? You feel an excess, and you want to pass this excess on. You want to share information, tell someone about it. And I always tell you: be silent. For what? Then this charge in you begins to do work inside your consciousness. He somehow begins to move you to a different position. It changes a person. Words, like energy, can do work.
The yin approach to learning and working with information is a position in which you are silent. And then some kind of transformation occurs. You are already performing some actions in a new position and gaining experience. And experience gives you a new stable state. And when you already have a stable state and experience, you can present it to people. In the meantime, if it’s not there, if you immediately transfer the invested charge, then that’s it – bye, charge. And it turns out that the work is not completed. You go to class, you listen, but you don’t change.
There are people who always want to talk about magic. And I myself periodically write to people that you ask us some questions - we somehow try to answer you. Why is this being done? This is a way to align these people with our school and give them a hook, an opportunity to get involved in what we do. Not because I have a need to discuss something with them, but because I have a goal to create attunement. What if a person comes and tries to fight us right away? Sell us some idea that he read somewhere, and is he trying to aggressively? Or does it require something from us? All this automatically becomes uninteresting to us. We simply do not have the goal of proving anything to anyone, converting them, or convincing them. A person should at least not resist and not create difficulties for attunement. And it is advisable to contribute to it. If a person is really interested in what we do and asks adequate questions calmly, then he will want to answer. And if there is some kind of pressure from a person, then he is unlikely to study, and there is no point in wasting time on him at all. This is a waste of resources. If I want to say something to everyone, then I write a post on this topic. But to deal with someone who is simply bored or whose character is so seething - no, I won’t do it anymore.
There is a certain stage at level 3.0–3.6, when these aspirations to fight at the level of ideas are at their maximum. Here the person has completed the 3rd caste, but it is strong in him. And he begins to move higher, and higher means using the brain, the mental. And he tries to think. But he himself does not yet feel anything, does not see. His only option is to listen to someone, read a book and think about it. And in the course of such thinking, he builds his own structure in his consciousness, and he says: “I understand.” But he understood what people already understood before him; he did not create a new idea. And he understands only what is already known, what is described in the book.
Remember, there is a description of the Essenes and Pharisees? The Essenes are, as it were, deviated from tradition. They see something that is not described in the holy book. They use some kind of meditative practices, feel something and work with what really exists. But the Pharisees don’t feel anything, they read the book, built a model, and everything that is not described in the book doesn’t exist. But it’s impossible to describe everything that exists in one book? Moreover, any book is written in some era, having some technological level and some conditions in which society exists. And any book becomes dead over time. It's like there's no life in it. This is simply a cast of reality, made by someone at some time from some position for some purpose.
And there is this eternal dispute between the Essenes and Pharisees, figuratively, when one read and understood something, and the other simply perceives something directly. And the first bothers the second because Vasya Ivanov, a famous luminary, did not describe this in his books, so there are many questions for you. And here the holy book can be anything: a religious book or 20th century physics - it doesn’t matter, the principle will be the same everywhere.
At a certain stage, a person must learn to process information. And since he just came out of the warrior caste, he does it in his own way. Hence there is a certain ethics for students. Because teachers absolutely do not want to waste energy on overcoming these militant urges of questioners. People regularly come to the group who, for some reason, believe that we should teach them, prove to them, answer all their questions. It’s like this position: everyone owes me. One of my friends described it as if he had borrowed money from everyone in the world and now everyone had to give him something. They don't try to be polite, balanced, they just run in, try to open the door with their foot and demand an explanation from us. Obviously, in the best case, they will simply be taken out the door and not allowed in again.
Any communication with a person is attunement. There are people who ask their question in such a way that in the process of reading I no longer want to answer it. I always ask you to ask questions briefly, without water and without details. If a person cannot do this, then he needs to go and think about his question. Often in the process of thinking the question disappears. They produce a large text, which, if you start reading and responding to it, will create a strong attunement. What is attunement? This is the movement of the assemblage point. Sometimes they no longer want to understand you, but for you to come down to them. They are trying to draw you in, to include you in a series of interactions. You answer them, they again ask a bunch of questions, but not with the goal of understanding what you are saying, but trying to unfix you. They are trying to tune in with you in this way, but in such a way that you drag them upward, and they will resist. This is the approach of the 3rd caste: you either lost the battle or won, and then: okay, I’m ready to rise to you. And it turns out that he uses attunement to change the position of the assemblage point, he tries to move and learn in this way. He feels good, no doubt. He moves upward, and at the expense of my energy, and at the same time he rests his feet. True, this resistance is not always obvious to them. Let's say, for me, as an airbender, people are earthy - by definition, they always resist. Earth people are people with extremely high detail, with many clarifying questions. People who, when asked “How are you feeling?” Your medical record is read out to you in every detail. It's always very difficult with them. And interacting with them is always such extra work for me. I feel a loss of energy at the same time. And this is called doing work - spending energy. In such an interaction, I need to apply additional energy to hold the position while he climbs up at my expense. And these are just some random people who decided that I or my students, the teachers of our platform are obliged to do this. If someone is ready to do this, I don’t mind. In any case, no work disappears without a trace. And if you somehow change a person, spend energy, do work, somehow it will pay off for you. By changing a person, you somehow change the world, albeit on a small scale. And the world will somehow react to this.
But I myself am not at all ready to do the work in the comments and educate people here. There are books, there is school, there is normal education. All conditions have been created. If you ask a question briefly and calmly, then I don’t feel like I have to strain now to answer it. And I do it with ease. And if there is an attempt to draw me into personal interaction with you, there is an engagement and an attempt to tune in, accompanied by “obstinacy” on your part, or the question contains more than 500 characters, then it is useless - I immediately avoid such things. I am now giving explanations to those people who previously tried to do all this, and to those who wanted to try in the future. There is a difference between dragging a person when he resists or tries to pull you towards himself, and when a person contributes to attunement and does not interfere with it. The work being done here is completely different.
Learning is about changing you as an object. Just reading a book doesn’t change you, and attending courses doesn’t change you. Certain information is embedded in you, and then it must do the work. For it to do work, your assemblage point must be close to the level at which this information was issued. Then you begin to feel it, and your attention falls on it. And then your attention works like a watering hose: from this information, like from a seed, something begins to grow. This something grows into your own personal experience. From knowledge comes experience. And experience already makes it possible to fixate on information and obtain a certain state, a certain way of life, opportunities. You must learn to work with information if you want to move somewhere.
