Indulgate - it literally means: thoughts about thoughts

The meaning of the word "indulge" turns out to be very complicated and confusing. To explain it, a lot of knowledge is required. We are much more accustomed to a medieval indulgence, familiar from history, which meant "leniency", when a person can atone for his money, without repentance, his former, present and future sins. However, "indulging" is something else.

The personality of Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda is a man of Latin American descent who deliberately obscured personal information about himself. He introduced the word "indulgate" into modern language, the meaning of which we will consider below. Castaneda to such a degree mythologized his life, that we do not know when and where he was born, what he did before moving to the United States in 1951. At the University of California, he received a bachelor's degree in anthropology and managed to knock out a grant to visit Central Mexico. The result was a book that was written under the influence of his teacher-Indian, magician and shaman don Juan. It was published as a novel, which became a bestseller and brought the author a lot of money.

Reasons for popularity

In Western countries, where everyone rummages in his mind and subconscious and is accustomed to attending psychotherapists and psychiatrists, Castaneda's research was highly appreciated. He became a doctor of philosophy and professor of his Alma mater. For rational, healthy consciousness, which is brought up on Russian philosophical thought, this all seems delusional, for he knew the "supreme revelation", which he willingly shared with everyone in his subsequent works. In total, they accumulated ten. They are invited to abandon the usual perception of the world, perform ritual actions, take plant drugs. This is the path of true knowledge that Castaneda offers on the basis of his teacher's "knowledge", but he could not present the authenticity of it to anyone. The mysticator died quite naturally in 1998. He had liver cancer, and in recent years he refused not only from drugs, alcohol, smoking, but also from tea and coffee.

Esoteric world

Entering the shaky realm of mysticism and esotericism, we first of all pay attention to what he understood and whether he really understood what he himself wrote about the word "indulge." This means letting yourself feel sorry for yourself. In fact, there is a strong impression that this is just a set of words. How can you not spare yourself in the event that a close and dear person died? And then, then, you should not notice this real grief, but it is necessary to indulge. This is blasphemous.

What the spirit develops

The West is looking for "spirituality" in all the mystical teachings: carton-breaded exported Krishnaism, Zen Buddhism, which is wildly popular, finally, in the teachings of Castaneda, where indulging is to weaken one's will and condone its desires.

A worthy adult has long parted with his whims without the teachings of Castaneda. He lives by the principle that freedom is a conscious necessity. In this framework, which life itself has set, it acts: it studies, works, marries or remains a bachelor, leads children or does not start, not considering themselves to them either materially or morally ready. So the life of an ordinary, normal, drug-free person flows. He enjoys the sun and good warm weather in summer and a light frost in winter, blossoming tulips in the spring, a bright cluster of mountain ash in autumn, a cozy corner on a sofa in the evening with a book or in front of a TV. Is he condoning himself? We believe that no. It simply satisfies the natural human needs.

Adequate assessment of the situation

According to the teachings of Castaneda, the person himself, without his help, is not able to assess the situation in which he is. This refers to stress. You have to look at everything with the eyes of the "prophet", and everything will fall into place. Let's say that a person was fired from his job, and he naturally experiences, regrets himself and rushes in search of a new field of activity, or, conversely, dropped his hands and for the time wilted. According to Castaneda, this can not be allowed, although it is very human. After all, this is a living organism, and not an indifferent robot. The poor fellow does not need to know what it means to indulge. This will only confuse it even more. Not Castaneda will come to his aid, but the old Russian proverb: "everything that is done is for the best." After a while, which, as everyone knows, heals everything, a person will systematically and purposefully search for it. His internal resources will come to the rescue, which he did not think about, and also, perhaps, friends, if a person is inclined to accept their help. In this case, the person does not indulge in indulgence, but, on the contrary, stands on the threshold of a healthy reasonable choice.

We examined what it means to "indulge" and whether this concept is applicable in Russia.