4: Plan of Salvation Pt 2 - Nature of God and the Kabbalah, Eternal Progression and the Movie Inception, Premortal Life and Karma

Gabe discusses how an elder on his mission later started a cult, and gives his thoughts on criticism of new age spirituality. We continue analyzing the Plan of Salvation from an esoteric perspective. We explore Joseph Smith's use of the Kabbalah in formulating his view of the nature of God, how eternal progression compares to Tibetan Buddhism and the movie Inception, as well as how the premortal life starts to look like reincarnation and karma.

Links:

Knights of the Crystal Blade cult - https://kutv.com/news/local/knights-of-the-crystal-blade-cultists-used-social-media-to-spread-doomsday-revelations

The True Nature Of Reality (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZWp0bnMBbM

New to the podcast? Make sure you watch Episode 2 or read it in on the Substack for the integrative narrative of Mormon origins:

https://youtu.be/5YBeMrR1seM

https://open.substack.com/pub/mormonsmysticsandmuons/p/mormonism-psychedelics-quantum-physics

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Chapters

00:00 Knights of the Crystal Blade Cult

09:18 How Guilt and Shame, Good and Evil, Complicate Integrating Mystical Experiences

10:58 Why Does Woo Trigger People?

20:40 Lucid Dreaming

23:48 Changing Others' Opinions vs. Catalyzing Change

28:55 Dreams

31:15 Why Some are Drawn to Doomsday Scenarios

37:48 The Plan of Salvation and Kabbalah

44:17 Polytheism vs Monotheism, The Rise of Yahweh, Eternal Progression

48:36 The Monotheism of Christianity vs Eastern Conceptualizations of God

50:54 Tibetan Buddhism, Stacked Dreams, Inception

54:19 Dream Yoga and Lucid Dreaming

56:55 Bernardo Kastrup, Dreams, Dissociation as a Model of Reality

01:01:31 The Buddha's Insight on Consciousness

01:04:09 The Fractal Nature of Consciousness

01:05:19 The False Distinction of Dreams as Fake and Waking Life as "Real"

01:08:56 Symbolism in Dreams and Reality

01:10:51 The Interconnectedness of Reality

01:18:24 Contextualizing Rather than Abandoning Frameworks and Perspectives

01:23:15 The Hubris of Thinking You've Arrived at Truth Instead of Pointers to it

01:26:00 Photogrammetry, Paradoxes, Relativism vs Absolutism

01:29:09 The Pursuit of Truth is the Integration of Perspectives

01:34:32 In Some Sense, Everything is Already Perfect

01:35:58 The Nature of God and the War in Heaven

01:38:26 Reincarnation or Multiple Mortal Probations and the Plan of Salvation

01:41:40 Saturday's Warrior and Mormonism's Overlap with New Age

01:44:01 The Recirculation and Refinement of Myths

01:48:04 Paradoxes

01:50:03 Myths on the Purpose of Existence

01:52:02 William Hamblin's Attack of Brent Metcalfe

01:53:38 Council of the Gods and Kabbalah

01:55:58 Non-Uniqueness of Mormon Concepts

01:56:47 Joseph Smith's Motivations

01:59:25 Closing Thoughts