Status Updates From Holy Daimon

Man, if this author needed a 4 week ascetic ritual that ended in him being "buried" in a coffin in order to find out the shite he found out, I'm very glad to be a Buddhist. Maybe this is just because the saturnine influences in my natal chart are strong, but the insights he discovered during the ritual is basically just common sense to me at this point. I guess I'm just not a ceremonial magician.

This author is now stating that he has contact with his HGA, but that he hasn't enquired into the nature of this being. Doesn't know its name, gender, if it's even a separate being, etc. He does claim that it's a great gift to be in contact with who/whatever it is he's contacting. So... That's great, but it makes me once more instantly skeptical.

I'm going to speed read through this one. I'm skipping the section about history because I'm already generally aware of the history of the HGA. I'm on the first page of the preface and it already contains the words "yogi" and "sadhu." This is why I'm generally skeptical about the merits of Western Esotericism.