The Esoteric and The Exoteric - Explained

You may find this exposition of the difference between exoteric and exoteric useful. I find it significantly less than prefect, but also a useful beginning for understanding meanings and differences. To begin simply, esoteric refers to the more difficult to understand and to communicate. The exoteric is the more easily understood and communicated. The core meaning of exo is out or outer while that of eso is in our inner.             

                        rcs

Odin Knowledge

Odin of Pre-Christian Europe:

Sorting "Odin" as used by a variety of people in a variety of  cultic ways. Some of these people may have been members of warbands. Odin has been seen as a god, a wise ruler, Woden, a source of knowledge and poetry. He has had a contradictory history, but we can believe that the reality of the man can be approached.

With No Student There Is No Teacher

Esoteric to Exoteric: Teacher and student

 

            A teacher arranges data, facts, information, and knowledge for students as an aid for them to do the same for themselves and for others, a teacher helps students to use logic, definitions, and analysis.

              A good teacher's words are like tiny seeds which may be held in the most work-worn or the tiniest hands, and are pregnant with meaning. A simple utterance such as "The beginning is half of the whole" may confuse a man for a moment, but may serve him well at the most difficult times of his life. A teacher's words may be dangerous, but a good teacher offers them as tiny easily controlled sparks which in time may come to make the the smith's fire look small.

             To be a truly good learner or disciple is to be heard by the teacher. The teacher is a reacher. She wants to extend herself to the learner. A good teacher wants to be prompt to hear and listen effectively, but first the disciple must speak. Disciple and master both desire to better retain and preserve in memory that which is heard. All interpret.

            A good student dismisses nothing which is taught until it's  rudiments are entirely mastered. It may seem like trying to swallow the configuration whole at first, but try it you may like it. Consider making a framework of the whole yours, than as life goes on you may have a useful place to attach, some say hang, new information and understandings among, or even connected to, information and understandings of a similar nature.

            Thank you for reading.

                                                                                rcs

 

A Brief Intro to Awareness

Esoteric to Exoteric: attempted with the word "awareness"

 

Awareness:

~ We may experience changing states. One change of state we may notice from time to time is an opening of awareness.

~ Early awareness could include an identification with appearances.

~ Another awareness may lead  to noting an individualizing process.

~ One may note a gradual awakening.

~ One may come to note turning consciousness to the "levels" upon which one actually lives and functions. 

 

                The word "awareness" comes from the word, aware. "Aware" comes from the word "ware" which we hear little these days. It means watch, be on one's guard, and take care; so, has to do with consciousness. "Aware" means having knowledge, perception, or realization. Check out some of its synonyms. Additional meanings include having knowledge and cognizance. It is much about having knowledge and understanding. But it may refer to a process and more.


                                                                                        by Richard Sheehan