The following are a collection of aphorisms that have emerged from self-reflection and encounters with various practices and traditions: judo, the Gurdjieff Work, the Temple of Set, and Carl Jung's analytical psychology.
I don't claim any originality for the aphorisms, with apologies to Robert Fripp, Friedrich Nietzsche, Don Webb and others who have played with this approach.
Path
▪ Each field can be a Path
▪ The meta-perspective of the Path can apply to all fields
▪ The opportunity for Initiation may be due to self-becoming, chance, hazard or others' actions (with intended and unintended consequences)
▪ Co-journeyers may be allies, mirrors, or initiates of another Path and/or Tradition
▪ All true initiation is self-initiation
Medieval Guild Model of Initiation
▪ Novice, Journeyman and Master stages differ in embodied being, initiatory challenge and cultivated awareness
▪ Novice and Master's "beginner's mind" are not the same although outwardly similar
▪ Ego inflation is a danger of the Novice
▪ The Journeyman may have to de-identify from the Novice-Master relationship as a liminal stage, and this will create conflict if framed in a Novice-Master sense
▪ The Journeyman may project their Shadow aspects onto the Master instead of integration
▪ A Master provides an embodied example for the Novice & Journeyman to assess their Understanding against
▪ A Master creates a Legacy through their work artifacts, their students, and the sociocultural trajectory of their work
Transmission
▪ A Master may enact a Transmission in different forms
▪ Transmission of "right understanding" is vital if you're in a Traditionalist framework (e.g. Rene Guenon, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sufism, most martial arts)
▪ The relationship between Novice and Master involves a subtle form of exchange or Transmission in which the Novice is "awakened" to their potential, and the Master re-experiences their own awakening through this unfolding process
Forms
▪ Attachment to forms may be necessary for learning yet can also lead to dead forms/kata, which may have to be destroyed or de-identified from Understanding
▪ Dead forms/kata become a barrier to emergence
Understanding
▪ Surface intellectual awareness of concepts can become delusion without the Master, school and practices as external reference points
▪ Embodied knowledge (Understanding) can be glimpsed but not integrated by surface intellectual awareness
▪ Acting without Understanding or awareness of Hazard can lead to disorder