>>40941798
This anon nailed it. OP Everything is a LARP to some extent. Unless there's actually writings from the prophets of that religion and even then, almost all of them used poetic and hyperbolic tones to embellish and paint a beautiful picture of the teachings they were trying to convey.

Gonna effort post here since I have resonated so strongly with Western hermetic and occult practices that intertwine and stem a lot from Golden Dawn material. I spent thousands of hours n Buddhist meditation and was able to obtain Janic concentration and insight states. I did multiple solo retreats and practiced 1-2 hours a day for years. I learned a lot and highly value Buddhism but it didn't cut it for me/ was too slow of a process to cut through my own bullshit and mental patterns that no matter how much meditation and practice I put in I could not shake. Eventually I wound up at Vajrayana Buddhism which maybe if I would have stuck with long term would have gotten me the same results but Eastern practices and legends/writings just didn't resonate with me the way Western Occultism and Angel/High Magick did.

Roughly 2.5 years ago I went full fledged into High Magick reading all sorts of authors (most stemming from Golden Dawn material) and after daily practice (1-2 hours a day, I didn't miss a single day for the first year) it has gotten me results I believe would have taken a decade to achieve with Buddhism.

I've accumulated a large enough networth to quit my corproate wagie STEM job a few months ago, have come face to face with complexes and thought patterns that held me back for years, have experienced such intense synchroneities it would drive 90% of the population mad, wrestled with deep despair/dark night of the soul territory, had dreams and visions straight out of the Chymical Wedding of C.R., and am now in a better place I've been since perhaps when I first experienced what Buddhism might call the Arising and Passing away event that really kick started it all.