From the glossary in my coming PDF version of my (free, online) Magickal Battle of the World course:
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From the online originals at https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2015/12/bpm.html, https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/balanced-positive.html, and https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/10/maturity-non-physical.html.
This is a shorthand notation for Balanced Positive and Spiritually Mature.
Balanced Positive :
In Stuart Holroyd’s magnificent book “Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth”, he describes contact with a group known as “The Nine” (who crop up in a few other places as well). They have some interesting views on a range of matters, one of which is that we should be aiming to be “balanced positive” – i.e., not negative, but not “holier than thou” extremist (fanatical?) versions of spirituality.
For the opposite of Balanced Positive, I use nonBPM, or for the more actively evil, anti-BPM.
Subsequent to writing the above definition, I have started developing this into a philosophical approach to living, which I am terming 'Balanced Positivity'.
Spiritually Mature :
I am going to leave the concept of physical maturity to the biologists to argue about, and confine this definition to non-physical forms of maturity - emotional, psychological, spiritual, and any others that may apply.
In that context, maturity is represented by the ability to function independently - and healthily so.
Our time as children is marked by our dependence on our parents : our time as adults marked by the lack of that - but it must be so in a healthy way.
Someone who can only function emotionally by propping themselves up on others, is not healthily independent. Someone who can only arrange things by whining or blackmailing others into helping them, is not functioning with healthy independence.
On the other hand, someone who is stubbornly independent to a fault (like me, some would say :) ), would also have trouble, perhaps, claiming to be healthily independent.
This definition of maturity is NOT related to chronological [1] age. Some people in their 80s would count as immature under this definition, and some young people in their teens may count as mature, or mature in some aspects. I personally do not count an individual as physically mature unless they have moved out from the parent's/carer's house/home - or an institution, if they have been raised in an orphanage - and are financially supporting themselves. Someone who does have to work for a living may not meet my definition of maturity.
Spiritually, someone who is dependent on a religion or a priest or someone else is someone who is possibly not functioning independently, and thus may be immature.
There is a further subset of this topic, or perhaps it is a related topic, one that many people conflate [2] with maturity : the topic of Old or Young Souls - or as I term them, Mature or Immature Souls.
My definition of a Mature Soul / Old Soul is one who is spiritually and generally mature, according to this definition, and ALSO living - or attempting to live, to the best of their ability - with the principles of Balanced Positivity, which is, according to according to my interpretation of Brendan Myers’ course “Clear and Present Thinking”, a form of Virtue Theory (Wikipedia discusses this as “Virtue Ethics” [3] – and it is actually worth reading that link, particularly for the criticisms … well, it was worth reading it as of 25th October, 2014). The course describes this along the lines of :
A vice, according to this doctrine, is a case of manifesting too much or too little of the particular quality that a situation calls for; And a virtue is the ‘right amount’ of the quality which the situation calls for; Courage, for example, goes between rashness or recklessness (which is too much courage), and cowardice (which is too little.)
All of which goes back to the work of Plato [4] and Aristotle [5] , who, interestingly, are discussed in Chapters 11 and 13 of Mr Myers’ book on pagan philosophers : “The Earth, The Gods and The Soul” [6](which I bought and read as part of my preparation for my interview on “Harmony in Diversity” [7] ; Pub. Moon Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78099-317-1).
A Mature Soul / Old Soul behaves - particularly spiritually - appropriately, in a way that is balanced, and fundamentally (or overall) constructive.
An Immature Soul / Young Soul behaves in ways that cause real - not perceived : no grumbling about alleged problems such as rudeness etc. - problems for others, or themself.
As with the topic of maturity generally, this has nothing to do with chronological age.
[6] Pub. Moon Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1780993171, Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Gods-Soul-History-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B00G3MU2FM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0.
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Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider:
- there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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