a question.about journal keeping.
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For some of our orders that require a journal from the person seeking association. Suppose it was me, however I do not keep an active journal. But I do alot of writing and learning on the internet. And spend alot of time learning from others at the same time.
If a person was able to provide proof of such journalistic behaviour. Would this be considered an acceptable.journal and journal activities instead of pen and paper?? -
I'm not going to speak on the topic of "for initiation purposes" specifically, but I don't see why what I'm about to say wouldn't apply. I recommend you continue as you are doing but also recommend you keep one private journal (at the least) that allows you to express thoughts and feelings you wouldn't publicly post. This journal can include the very same things you post elsewhere (in fact, I'd even recommend it), yet it also shows other things - specific things - such as specific times and dates of specific workings, specific expressions of your perceptions at that time and times following, and anything else, mundane or otherwise, you might imagine as relevant to the workings. It doesn't matter so much the medium you choose (unless you meet with a non-computer savvy teacher whom you have to purchase a document reader for, then that becomes your choice). it doesn't have to be pen and paper, I use a digital journal myself but also I back it up on a memory stick and print it out periodically and hole-punch and put in a nifty three ring binder (where I add copious pen and paper notes too as time goes past).
The point of a journal, as you seem to have noted, is to measure your progress at learning. I like to read over my very old journals to enjoy my past self and past belief systems about this and that and make note of my changes. Ultimately, the journal is kept for your own benefit, not just the benefit of your teachers.
ps. the printing hard copy is just because I never know when my electricity is going to be unavailable. Maybe one day I'll want to return to my wilderness self and leave society behind again. Can't much use a computer if I do that.
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@Barrackubus said
"For some of our orders that require a journal from the person seeking association. Suppose it was me, however I do not keep an active journal. But I do alot of writing and learning on the internet. And spend alot of time learning from others at the same time.
If a person was able to provide proof of such journalistic behaviour. Would this be considered an acceptable.journal and journal activities instead of pen and paper??"They're unrelated. The type of journal you're keeping has as little similarity to a magical diary, whjich is mostly a precision instrument of exact types of information.
Go to <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thelema.org/publications">www.thelema.org/publications</a><!-- w --> and get the free digital download of Black Pearl. In issue 4 there is an article titled "Diaries & Dictionaries." Read that.