The Value of Information – Personal Vs. Authority

Last week, Ed, on the Tim Jantosz livestream on the rituals of the 5 nectars of the body in Hindu and Buddhist tradition , he was talking about how as soon as he reads about the five nectars as mentioned in those scriptures, the urine, feces, moon blood, semen and female orgasm fluid, he sees the six pointed star. Ie. The three nectars of man and the three nectars of woman (moon blood and orgasm fluid from the same source), forming the six pointed star.

He later took a small clip of just that bit and put it on his Instagram.

And he has other clips and posts etc.

Now that I am an Instagram outsider, Ed, who only gets to see like maybe a few seconds before the app hangs or the internet is cut, I can see things I didn’t before.

I could sense, Ed, from just scrolling, how people value posts that mention other sources and refer to other authorities, as compared to the personal spiritual vision or even experience of the author whose writing they are reading.

It’s as if, Ed, people believe that the closer to them the source of information or inspiration is, the less it is to be trusted. They’ll believe anything from far off China or Timbuktu more than the person in front of them.

And then there is the usual adoration of “scientific studies” (I just posted a post with those before this and I’m feeling a little 🤢 .) Yuck “expert information”.

But it shows, Ed, how we have such low self esteem that we’re programmed to even value Timbuktu as a higher authority because it’s far from us.

And I was looking at all the really genuine information that changed my life, that I’ve come across, Ed, and 90% of it was some person’s firsthand experience they shared.

The experts and far off people’s information hogs the brain, Ed, but the life-changing information is that unique information that’s personal, that a person gives us from their own instinct, own feelings, own life.

Who knows, Ed, what shifts can happen in our reality if we start picking out unique human personal experience as the most valuable, over other sources of information?