Alchemy revisited/Liberation and mirrors

[Regina]

No: HPFGUIDX 71335

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ivan Vablatsky 
<ibotsjfvxfst at y...> wrote:
> 
> On April 21 I posted message 55793. In this message I said that the 
epic of Harry Potter is an alchemical formula symbolic of the path of 
human liberation. From what? From all limitations; from death, from 
disease and from suffering; from this time-spatial universe. 
> 
> I received three beautiful responses from people who took this 
seriously. However the vast majority of members totally ignored this 
message. I'd expected a few positive responses and possibly lots of 
howlers. I did not expect my theory to be totally ignored by 99% of 
members. So could I ask all you please to let me know what you think 
of my theory? Please don't be afraid to hurt my feelings; great 
things are issue and my feelings are not one of them. Please tell me 
whether I'm a loony Lucy, a raving idiot or whether this is all 
Double Dutch. Is this theory above your head or beneath contempt? 


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Hans, I've been reading your posts and am finding the way you are 
interpreting the books fascinating. It also is opening my eyes to the 
brilliance of the material. I, too, find it wonderful that people are 
inspired to discuss the way this book is affecting them spiritually. 
I also think a group list dedicated to this subject would be really 
nice.

I have a few comments in response to some of the thoughts I've heard 
you express. You mentioned not many people have responded to your 
theory of April 21. I assure you it's not that it isn't a brilliant 
theory. But don't you think the books are causing you to define and 
discover more deeply who you really are?

My own theory about the books is not that they are a path to 
liberation secretly encoded in brilliant writing (which people may or 
may not have to decipher) but they are practically the thing itself. 
That is to say, they are as close to a perfect mirror into your own 
Self as has been invented. Have you noticed, people are reading into 
these books the things that are nearest and dearest to their own 
hearts? Using them to express what's deepest inside them? Because 
each person is a unique expression of God, they are seeing very 
different reflections in the books, so perhaps your theory will not 
resonate with many people, because we all express God in so many 
different ways. Everyone must work at and through their own level. 
And I do believe we work up through levels. But the books are 
brilliant because they speak to all the levels. And though it is nice 
to find someone with whom we resonate, we mustn't doubt, because we 
don't find people who think like we do, our own true way of God-
expression.

By the way, one of your comments caused a reaction in me, and, well, 
I will just come out with it—at one point you made it sound a little 
like liberation is some unpleasant pill which must be "encoded" 
or "diguised" in a ripping story so that we will swallow it. That 
implies that it is something that must be imposed upon us from the 
outside. The author herself says the lessons that are in there 
are "grown organically". And that's how it feels to me—she's growing 
the story from the inside out, and that's why they touch me so 
deeply. I read them because I notice the fire in my heart grows 
hotter when I do. The deepest troubles of the human condition and 
yearnings of the heart are being explored and exposed through Harry's 
experiences, and instinctively that's what everyone wants. She does 
not gloss over fear and anger and hatred and death, and everyone 
instinctively wants that assurance that if they follow the deepest 
instincts in their hearts, these tensions of the human condition will 
resolve themselves. It's not that there's something in the books 
which is going to liberate me. That beauty and power is in me 
already, and these books hold up the mirror to it, and I recognize 
it, and know that the true self which I've been (maybe dimly) aware 
of all along has been right all this time! and that's what causes the 
fire to burn hotter. 

I must say I am grateful for all your comments, because they are 
helping me to see things more deeply. Isn't this fun!:)

Regina