HailVictory88 said:
Thank you for your reply, HP.
I am not a Xian and I'm not considering doing some thing where I give things up for the sake of giving them up. What I would like to do is just a type of "functional" seclusion, for the goal of practically obtaining power. I just feel like I have so much nonsense that takes up my time throughout the day. I would rather get enough independent wealth to stay home and meditate and do RTRs. Also, I find the aesthetics of living in the woods by myself and meditating to be attractive, so I was wondering if there was some Satanic tradition behind this, which modern Xian monasticism perverted.
But I see your point on not dropping out of society, renouncing power, etc.
What you describe here is hardly 'seclusion', or actual 'asceticism'. You just want a life without many time consuming drainers and that's it, in a place with considerable amount of the ability to be alone in order to advance.
Asceticism and monasticism and all these terms are way 'heavier'. Regardless, none of the above are necessary to attain highly spiritually.
The reality of this situation aside what everyone else says and the idyllic aspect of it, is that knowledge is the big gap that people do not have, so they believe that "More" of that, or "Asceticism" is going to achieve a lot for them spiritually somehow.
You will have to ask those who spent 20 or more years to accomplish nothing spiritually as I cannot really answer these questions, and those that believe these people to be holy or knowledgeable.
A lot of weird stuff has been clothed on a spiritual perspective because of misappropriating (For centuries literally) what is legitimate spiritual practice and what it is not. This comes from the fact that most people have no clue on these matters.
You asked for a SATANIC perspective, and I gave that perspective. If we are now to converse about what every imbecilic lifeform has done through 'spirituality' on the subject, we can quote from Dalai Lama the rotting corpse to jews, and get all sorts of different opinions on the subject.
Now, if we are to say of the Whatever Perspective of every equation between crap and gold, and every sort of failure, yes, maybe you need to close yourself in a cell for 40 years to reach a baseline or frail type competent level of power. Maybe they need to?
For all I can see, they do too much drama for literally nothing of any spiritual value.