all I'm saying is that, basically, you need to get absolutely psychologically destroyed before you can comprehend reality
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this is what is meant by saying Hermes Trismegistus is "Thrice Born," because he pushed through two grueling series of initiations, each ending with the total eradication of his worldview and the grasping of enlightenment, with the first enlightenment being destroyed for a second
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Land's "Level Two" is similar in meaning to the Hermetic occult sense of being "Thrice Born," the mystical hermeticists believed that by participating in a series of initiatory rituals you could "brainwash" yourself and thus gain knowledge about the real limits of your mind
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one feature of the Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries, likely copied from Egyptian mysteries, is that the initiate is made to feel like they are really going to die, forcing them to confront death and themselves, and by this confrontation overcome their limits to be born anew
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