Ian Stormcloud

[Superwizardsearch]

Ian Stormcloud is especially concerned by the mass stupidity of humans at the present time. The number of stupid ideas and actions is such that the very survival of human civilization is in question.

Ian believes that there is a massive amount of knowledge and wisdom out there that we could access through meditation and various practices, but we fail to be able to see. We have somehow placed parapsychicological curtains between our human mind and that vast expanse of compassionate wisdom and knowledge.

His recommedation is that we start watching ourselves as we function in the here and now, and especially look for those blinders and how to remove or look around them to see that vast expanse of compassionate wisdom and knowledge which could help us solve our many problems, and help us to reach a happier state. Notice that for a state to be truely happy, it has to be what that particular individual wants, and all beings are different from one another.

Jim

[Madmartigan]

That's pretty interesting! Do you have any links for more reading on this subject?

This information that you're referring to, that we can't see because of the blinders that we have around us - this sounds to me like something I've heard described as the Akashic (sp?) Records...supposed to be the collective memory of the human race that can be accessed through deep meditation. Pretty much anything that one is going through at any point in time, someone has gone through before in one way or another...and you can find your solution by accessing these Records and gaining wisdom through the experiences of others. Is this more or less what Stormcloud talks about?

I'm interested to hear more...post the links if you've got them! Thanks,

[Ben Gruagach]

Seeing that this thread is in the Paths section, does this mean that Ian Stormcloud is leading his own particular tradition or denomination?

That raises the question of whether a tradition or path counts as a tradition or path if it really relies on a particular charismatic person. Will the tradition survive that person's death? Is it all about the tradition, or is it really all about that person having followers?

[Madmartigan]

Hm. Well, I did a Google on Ian Stormcloud and all I could find was a guy who sings in a band, and another guy, maybe the same one, who is into White Wolf storytelling...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Ian+Stormcloud+&btnG=Google+Search

If that's all there is out there then this would appear to just be a (albeit creative) random post by an individual, not really a path.

[Superwizardsearch]

Hm. Well, I did a Google on Ian Stormcloud and all I could find was a guy who sings in a band, and another guy, maybe the same one, who is into White Wolf storytelling...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Ian+Stormcloud+&btnG=Google+Search

If that's all there is out there then this would appear to just be a (albeit creative) random post by an individual, not really a path.

[Superwizardsearch]

Things called me away for several days so I haven't been able to come to the forum until now. My apologies for not having replied immediately.

The replies raise interesting questions. For example, what do we mean by a path? Do we mean an organized group and tradition, or do we mean the actual path that individuals take. If the latter, then everybody is on a different path because no two people will ever be exactly the same in everything.

Thus with each discussion, the question arises of whether we are talking about a group tradition, or an actual path followed by a real person.

Ian is eclectic and very much an individual, but he seems to have a lot of wisdom and knowledge. The point of bringing this up was to make possible a discussion of the idea, and probably most people have ideas worth looking into further.

The idea of stupidity or ignorance being an active process, not just a lack of information, is also found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Western mystical, and other traditions. The general background for the idea is that all consciousness in the universe is connected, so anything remembered by or experienced by one person can be accessed by everyone else if they have the necessary skills. Of course, we are talking about a higher level of skill than is usually found on earth, but if this is possible, it is a goal towards which we lesser minds might move.

I'm not absolutely certain this is the situation, but there are a lot of hints that indicate that all the wisdom and knowledge we need is out there ready to be accessed if we can remove our blinders/curtains. At first glance, this might look like something that would need billions of years of practice, if it is necessary to build up the skill bit by bit. It is one thing to be aware of something in the mind of somebody on earth, and another thing to become aware of something in a being's mind in another galaxy.

But the possibility of obtaining the skills needed just by removing the curtains implies that this could be done in only a few decades, or less. Actually removing the blinders is another matter however. I have obviously not been able to do this because I am not telepathically aware of what is happing in other parts of the universe. I've tried to remove the blinders and duality in a number of ways without success. However, perhaps discussing this will lead to someone coming up with one or more suggestions that would be very helpful.

This is also something that can be part of Pagan research. It would be helpful if many people could work on the problem of finding a way to quickly remove the blinders.

A large Pagan research community to work on problems like this could be very helpful. A really effective Pagan research community would have to support people so they could work full time trying to make various helpful discoveries. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to endow such a Pagan non-profit organization, and for the most part, others in the Pagan community don't have much money either.

Nevertheless, perhaps there might be some Pagans with more money who would like to create such a Pagan non-profit research community.

Jim

Hm. Well, I did a Google on Ian Stormcloud and all I could find was a guy who sings in a band, and another guy, maybe the same one, who is into White Wolf storytelling...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Ian+Stormcloud+&btnG=Google+Search

If that's all there is out there then this would appear to just be a (albeit creative) random post by an individual, not really a path.