This Tooth is called Freedom. It is the vertical central path in the qabalah, with Artemis above it and Luna below. In the hyperqabalah it is called Lehe. Its feeder node is Rahimaot (Mithras) whilst preceding it on the circuit is Lytwyth and after it Daagolenyfo (Twilight and Eskatology respectively) Freedom could then be seen as a mystery that emerges from a twlit world yet leads us to the end of all things.

Do Buddhism, western Qabalistic magick, Sufism, the fourth way, Toltec sorcery, Shamanism (a non-exhaustive list) all lead to the same place? The idea is often portrayed that these systems do the same thing through different routes. I am not convinced of this. Shamanism is clearly a dodgy item to put on the list as it can hardly be said to cover one set of practices or end games. The others may occupy something related, but is it really the same?

It seems there are regions that can be accessed by humans with either a certain facility and or training. These regions are similar, they require some form of cessation of mental activity to be achieved. The ways of achieving this are not identical, thoughts may be required to stop, or simply to pass through. Either way they are not attended to. There will be ways of bypassing/removing/working with the various layers of the personality/ego to reveal some form of inner being.

But is the ‘inner being’ that is accessed the same? Because of the region travelled, maybe when the layers are removed these practices take us to different places, each one of which is so ego defying and powerful that it appears like an ultimate state. Hence Buddhism (or at least some aspects of it) can pass judgement on other systems that utilise self-remembering. But if self-remembering succeeds in a different form of liberation that is self-sustaining then how can we judge which is superior? What has the Shaman become that they are so empty, they are inhibition free and travel thoughtlessly into other realms? Is this inferior to Sufi?

Here we do not pass comment on the ontology of what is going. The agnostic disjunction shows that the strangest phenomena experienced will inevitably be sucked into a potential rational interpretation which fights to control them. No side can win this fight on pure reflection/philosophy/appeal to current science. So the experiences as differently spiritual (the realms visited/beings interacted with) may just be different cultural projections, indeed even if the magickal interpretation is true this is likely the case. Whilst we would not take this as any reductionist proof as to the non-reality of any strangeness, it would be interesting to if there are any significant differences in the neurology of any of these different kinds of spiritual/mystical interaction. It seems likely they would all share the high gamma wave rates, but there may subtle pictures that differentiate between them. These different pictures would be the brain wave correlate of the thesis of different end spiritual regions.