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Post subject: Your Profession vs. Your Practice.
 Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 08:27 AM
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The simple question being as follows; Does your career reflect your more 'esoteric' interests?
For example, I know of a few people who have made their career a reflection of their path: Practitioners of eastern medicine (acupuncture etc), yoga instructors, psychotherapists, artists of all mediums etc.
I know many others who would rather keep the two strictly *polarized.
Working 9-5 office jobs or working freelance jobs that enable them to pay the rent and take care of those basic needs ensuring a solid foundation to continue the 'great work'.
What is your profession?
Does your career directly reflect your more esoteric interests or would you fall under the more polarized category? Are you happy with the juxtaposition of the two? How does this relationship reflect your Thelemic viewpoints and/or other philosophies?
Personally I am a college student taking things slow, exploring heavily in my own time whilst gradually trying to tie the more esoteric and the more traditional education together.
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Post subject: Re: Your Profession vs. Your Practice.
Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 04:50 PM
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93 Analgesic,
An interesting and important topic. Each of us has our own Will, and each requires a means to support, sustain and secure the accomplishment of that Will. The ways available are many and diverse but, certainly, the closer the Will and the way are in proximity, the better. Otherwise, our time and energy are divided and, to some extent, diverted, dispersed or distracted from the object of the Will itself. This seems a necessary evil, in many cases. Crowley himself is perhaps an example of someone who mostly refused to compromise, as he saw it, and thus was often without adequate material resources to accomplish the various stages of his Great Work. He had few 'day jobs,' unless they were directly related to the primary function of his Will. This might be an interesting thread.
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Post subject: RE: Re: Your Profession vs. Your Practice.
Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 07:24 PM
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93!
Okay, I'll be first: My career does not reflect my esoteric interests. I also don't have some 9-5 job that pays the rent and sustains my family. I simply love my job, although it is pretty time-consuming and full of stress at times and definitely slows down the progress of initiation, which sometimes is really annoying, but I am in no hurry. I am working as a movie title designer and digital compositor since 1988 (of course back then I was an "optical compositor") which was also about the time my interest in Aleister Crowley and Thelema arose. Who knows what have happened if Crowley had come much earlier? As a drummer and "painter" I might have chosen a different professional path. At work (I am self-employed) I have constant high-speed access to the digital realm which is great for research. Sometimes it is possible to use my esoteric interests on a fantasy or magic themed project or to hide some hints for insiders on other projects (I just finished work for a pretty big movie where I had to create a "newspaper headlines sequence". For copyright reasons all the surrounding articles had to be created by myself, so amongst others an editor named George Archibald Bishop will appear on the big screen and guess what person I selected for a "quote of the day" section?). Okay, there are days I am still dreaming of a career as a screenwriter which would give me the chance to combine my interests, but the time has not arrived so far. But overall, no: I have my job, I have my family, I have my esoteric interests. They do not mix a lot. And if one of the three would ever demand to quit one of the others, the one demanding would have to go...
And what's most important: I am still young!
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 03:34 AM
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| I'm a college student, which I suppose is my profession/career (at least currently) and I try to sync my esoteric interests into my academic work. Example, for two papers I've written I chose to identify Sylvia Plath's occult interests in her last collections on poems "Ariel", which I still haven't actually finished yet (I did "officially" finish it for the class). I also wrote a response to a Yates poem through a historical lens, so I obviously had to include information on the Golden Dawn. |
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