«Hekhalot practitioners and shamans experience an initiatory disintegration and reintegration in which they are killed and brought back to life as beings filled with spiritual power. Both concern themselves with control over spirits, and this aspect of their practices is the linchpin that holds their offices together. Both also use their powers to serve a human community.» — Davila cierra la lista de semejanzas con el chamán: la desintegración y reintegración iniciáticas, el dominio de los espíritus como eje del oficio y el servicio a una comunidad humana; la frase arranca en la plana anterior
Hekhalot
What does this tradition say about experience, knowledge and transformation? We approach these questions with consciousness as our centre, listening to the language of each source.
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
1 · Listen to the sources
How these passages were chosen: from the works assigned to this tradition, in alphabetical order, the first passage of each whose quoted words name consciousness, awareness, soul, spirit or knowledge (in English or Spanish); one per work, up to four. The choice is by vocabulary only: a passage may agree with our reading, disagree with it, or leave the question open.
2 · Ask what each source declares
Who knows, and what is transformed? Is the relationship between inner experience and the world declared, disputed, or left open? Let the passage determine the answer before bringing it into dialogue with our reading.
Explore documented argument maps →3 · Return to the centre
For us, these paths meet in consciousness. Which passage converses with that reading, and which qualifies or contradicts it? Save it with your own note.
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