I wrote this reply to an older post by @thetanster, and wanted to share with you. I do recommend Pockets of the Future Youtube channel, despite his flaws.
We are all flawed.
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I agree with a lot of what you say. But I can defend him only with this: as with all [lower level] initiates of any esoteric art, he comes off as preachy to those outside of his circle of knowledge. I must stipulate that being outside of this circle isn't a negative thing. What is in his mind is just different from what you have learned, is all. No one is better or worse here, that's not what I'm saying. There's value in all knowledge. Please do not think I'm preaching to you, because I'm not. Perhaps I am simply sharing my insights about him, as someone similar to him.
Paul Romano's heart is in the right place and he has a lot of balance in his being, but there's times he rubs me the wrong way too, especially when he gets a little weird and goofy about 666 and devil things. For example, I know that 666 is the cryptographic representation of NERO meant to send a message to others in the know, and it's a message encoded to tell those back then AND we in the present to look out for "those people like Nero in the apocalypse". Apocalypse means "unmasking" or "revealing" by the by. I think Paul gets this wrong. There's some nuanced and highly delicate differences here that come about by a lot of thought, and Paul for all his big heart and quirky humor, doesn't appear to be someone who contemplates for hours on end.
I mean he does make 50 youtube videos a day. That takes up a lot of time that could be spent in philosophical contemplation.
However he is dead on about the Q people. In that they are completely off their rockers and so desperate for a hero to save them. They have been rendered powerless, truly, by this terrible myth and hero worship. This is a similar phenomena to Guru worship, which you have pointed out in his comments section.
He shows reverence to hinduism in the same way that I do; I recognize that it, as a spiritual tradition overall, with its thousands of different schools, besides the natural distortions of time's passing and linguistic challenges, it is less perverted by those who wish to seek power –more on this in a bit, as hinduism is not completely free of such deliberate perversions. There is built into the Vedantic philosophies a recognition that all sincere paths to God are valid and lead to the same ocean, therefore all paths must be preserved and left untouched for any Sanyasi.
They have even preserved the "lost" teachings and life of St Issa, whom we now know as Jesus, and these preserved texts detail the missing years of his initiation which I believe was deliberately omitted from the bible. His story is beautiful and there's no doubt in my mind after reading both about St Issa and about Jesus in the bible that they are not only one in the same, but he was the most Loving being to ever have walked this earth.
There is indeed a Bramin class-- a "Priest class" if you will, that has occulted information in order to control the masses and live like wealthy gods upon this earth. We see them all around us today, we see them on television, and on the internet. They are in our movies, in our halls of justice, and the most powerful of them are in the shadows, or they give the appearance of being dreadfully boring that we don't pay them any attention.
Some of these Bramin do terrible things in the shadows of society, things of which you are certainly aware. They utilize this occulted knowledge to their advantage, willfully keeping people ignorant while they inflict the world with "black magic", which is a misnomer. The majority of what we might call magic is neutral, it is the person's will behind it that can make it "black" and harmful. And most of the time this "magic" wielded by these perverse and completely ego driven individuals is a psychological trick and not True Magic at all. That is something else, and it is always subtle since it is in the realm of the Subtle alone.
There has also been an occulting of certain information, such as the secrets to the rich wine of Soma, so that it may not intoxicate. Sort of like keeping a gun out of the hands of a very young child before it is capable of proper training, so is the labrynth deliberately built up around such information with the purpose of instructing and ensuring the seeker has the proper disciplines in place before drinking such a potent beverage.
Otherwise, you get the new age "woo-woo" navel-gazing types, and I don't believe I have to tell you that they are annoying. My neighbor is one and I find it difficult to converse with him at all. I usually just smile and nod ;)
Blessings, dear one. May all your days be bright, wholesome, and fearLESS. <3