what inspired Buddha to reject his princely life in search of Enlightenment what motivated him to sit on the immovable spot for 49 days and nights and overcome all the Demons of the underworld or die trying what motivated Alexander the Great to conquer the entire Known World and overcome all the tragedies and adversity associated with that what inspired mellin to explore the ends of the Earth at the cost of his own life in that out of his crew tremendous impulse a Will To Power so vast most of us Mortals can't comprehend it and spiritual folk completely
missed this these days the fact that Buddha and Alexander the Great were cut from the same cloth their main Instinct was to conquer yes Buddha learned to conquer himself through non-attachment and non-resistance and Awakening but he never would have founded the Buddhist path if he didn't have the burning will to become Superior to this world this is the nature of higher men that is so often shunned and misunderstood in the modern day is higher men go forward and this heroic impulse used to be universally celebrated in fact heroism and victory were the foundation of all
true spiritual practice in the ancient world for almost a decade now I've been fascinated with esoteric spirituality from yoga and taism of the East to the religion and hermeticism of the West in fact I once had a YouTube channel dedicated to these studies and extra credit for anyone who can comment it down below from these investigations my main takeaway is modern spirituality has been feminized and watered down into feel-good rituals that are far removed from the heroic Transcendence that was originally taught all of our Traditions have been reduced and inverted to be more palatable for
the masses for instance when did nothingness and Enlightenment get confused one is a regression while the other is an elevation to quote Julius AA in the doctrine of Awakening Awakening is the Keystone and the symbol of the whole Buddhist acesis to think that Awakening and nothingness can be equivalent is an extravagance that should be obvious to everyone I too got confused by all the emphasis on love compassion peace and tolerance that is preached in modern New Age spirituality and yeah it feels nice but it's missing the substance the original depth that actually created that teaching
quote the ancient world elevated the individual to God made every effort to unbind him from Passion to adapt him to Transcendence with free air Heights in contemplation as well as in action it knew traditions of nonhuman Heroes and Men of divine blood Julius evah The Cult of the hero was once Universal from the Nordic myths to The Iliad to the Aon aads the heroic ideal was the lifeblood of All European peoples the essence of spirituality was not meekness and dissolution before God but becoming God's heroic Avatar the former represents the spirituality of slaves and peasants
the latter represents the spirituality of aristocrats of the Soul authentic spirituality according to tradition is wholly concerned with actualizing the superior World in Your Body Mind and Spirit the heroes and spiritual leaders of the past all shared in the same mission of becoming a living embodiment of transcendence although they called it different names it was from this Quest that Buddha was born it's almost pointless to even State this fact because those who know no and those who aren't connected to Transcendence will never understand yes there's many paths to tread and I know I could take
myself too seriously sometimes especially on this topic but the principle remains and that is to hone in on your deepest Essence on the deepest nature of your being and bring it forth heroically to actualize the Superior part of your being in this life that is the essence of spirituality and everything else is a deviation or a secondary consequence from there quote qu life like a bow the mind like The Arrow the target to pierce the Supreme spirit I once read that meditation is not passive it is active it is aspirational and that is always stuck
with me a successful meditation to me is a being truly intimate with myself being real B disciplining my mind and C orienting my whole being upwards as it says in the corpus hermeticum fire ascends onto fire while Earth descends into Earth and this means is that when man's mind is oriented upwards towards God or towards the ideal the ideal pulls him upward after years of meditation I still face resistance to meditating every time but when I do harmonize my breath and my body into Stillness and I come into the realm of being something usually ignites
inside me I call it the warrior Spirit and the war your spirit is striving to bring Transcendence into my reality in fact my most powerful prayers and meditations they're never Meek or coming from a place of weak feeling they're always coming from from a place of strength or power they are the expression of transcendence rather than a plea for it part four self-overcoming and heroic action quote The Blood of Heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful I believe this idea of transcendence is the center point
of all spiritual and physical life in fact n our favorite philosopher here thought that it was rooted into the biology itself he said that life ever seeks to overcome itself to express its Will To Power this is something you can easily relate to upon any reflection is self-overcoming and expansion is where the highest Joy comes from the feeling of progress and the expansion of our powers or relationships is the driving force of life and is where healthy people derive their Joy from but the issue is is life is freaking hard and unfortunately community and the
heroic myths that once inspired our personal and spiritual Quest into life have vanished hence most men wrestle with shadows in isolation in a world that tempts them without any nurturing support or Community this is a tragedy and this is why we need the heroic ideal more than ever because you are the only person who can save yourself and become a leader of a new wave of culture that is what this channel is dedicated to as well as my book the psychology of slaying dragons the thing about courage and self-overcoming is when you need it is
usually in your shittiest and hardest points I've struggled with so much insomnia and fatigue in these past past years and before that chronic substance abuse illnesses heartbreak and just tragic loneliness man I was on a really Rocky Journey there for a while and at many moments I've had to take a hard look in the mirror and go do something that absolutely terrifies me and along this journey I've realized that all true transformation comes from one thing and that is heroism because every step on the path to the solar ideal is loaded with challenges Temptation scream
from all sides pain breaks your heart fatigue assails your body and resistance and doubts whisper in your mind trying to keep you in your comfort zone hence the heroic myth is the foundation of all ancient religions and spiritual practice in fact spiritual attainment and victory used to be basically synonymous j j j the yogis Proclaim before every meditation and practice victory victory victory they called their enlightened teachers and gurus the Victorious ones the Regal goal of spirituality is universal it is to become a living son to embody the higher spiritual energies here on Earth this
is how Buddhas are born how Christ was crowned and how melkisedek became a priest king forever and ever becoming an embodiment of transcendence is the perennial or Everlasting philosophy that once guided all of men's lives of course there's many different degrees of initiation and many different manifestations of transcendence but the goal was the same now bringing it back down to earth here is I'm not always on fire with will or passion or motivation in fact quite the opposite and I get it life is so different and difficult and like tempting today and we don't have
a lot of inspiring Community around us that holds us to Excellence in fact my life goal is to build a school a real Academy for flourishing and if you want to support me in that dream please subscribe to this Channel and come join the men's Academy you can come talk to me about this idea about spirituality about building Community every Monday and Tuesday en jooy an awesome Brotherhood who are probably similar and like-minded to you so I'll see you in there all right back to the video one thing that's really served me is I worship
the ideal in the sense of my whole being is oriented upwards and I think this is what helps me you know for instance delete Instagram from my phone and take a walk listening to an audiobook instead and one way that I do connect to that ideal is that at night I go outside and I look at the stars and I tend to meditate for 10 or 15 minutes and in that meditation I am breathing in and charging my body and mind with higher spiritual energy I think of it as embodying my Superior self and I
think that the more we can reclaim that heroic energy in our lives the more we laugh at at the trivial that blocks us up like not wanting to write an essay you know not wanting to get out of bed in the morning scrolling on the phone going through these like minor challenges and relationships it's literally beneath you when you're rooted in Transcendent self I think this remembrance of the heroic ideal is essential to connect with individually and collectively it is heroism that lifts us upwards towards the man or woman we could be and it is
authentic spiritual practice that binds Community together and if you two want to bring Beauty and greatness back into the world all I could say is connect to your hearts Orient yourself upwards and go win go win my friends Soul Invictus come join the cult of vict ictory and if you want to go deeper into the traditional philosophy of Eva you can click here for a deep dive or on this video for a deeper dive into spirituality and religion thanks for watching this is wisdom Warriors my name is Christian peace
