Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Occult #295: Why I Was a Satanist, and Why I Left Satanism" video.

  1. Three shelves of religious books! Wow! That's a lot of NOISE! hahaha...There's a well-entrenched academic arrogance that downplays what it disparages as "merely anecdotal" personal individual EXPERIENCE. Conventional philosophers spend a lot of time comparing their own ideas to those of other philosophers (i.e. reading books). What I almost never hear is a description of the individual philosopher's personal experience USING his ideas! "Ideas aren't for using; they're just for looking at..."...Ok, your beautiful ideas have perfected your understanding! Now what! Can you USE them?!
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  2. Any cogent, coherent system will "work". But elements of one system don't necessarily complement any other system; I mean, "comparative religion" is an analytic framework meant to facilitate study; it doesn't indicate comparative equivalence. Some elements may be held in common, while the systems themselves remain incompatible with each other. There is a COMMON ORIGIN, though: all spiritual systems address the same fundamental concerns of the individual human being.
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