The God Of Wisdom Options

After much introspection, thought and meditation, I've come to the conclusion that wisdom is the highest virtue. I define wisdom as knowledge of what is most beneficial / correct / effective in a particular situation. I realize there are other definitions, but this one suits my thinking best.

Regardless of whether or not you agree (that wisdom is the highest virtue), what Spirit or God would you suggest working with if you wanted to tap into wisdom?

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Contemplation of any given idea, though, is as simple as sitting down quietly somewhere and allowing your mind to wander, let it spiral downward into the unconscious, and allowing the material there to 'coagulate' you might say, around the point of focus, in this case, the concept of the griffin.

That's more or less what I'm going for. I think that's the best approach to something that hasn't been encountered before. After that comes more involved workings.

To have a mythological animal as a potential totem, to me, first suggests more of an interest in stories than in the actual world. What I mean is that, philosophically, it could indicate more of an interest in theory than practice, or in the perception of the world rather than the world itself. If that makes sense. The man who reads about the world, rather than going out and exploring it.

Don't you think you may be assuming a bit too much? I'll admit that I'm a bit naive to the concept of totems and spirit animals, what they mean, and how they interact with us spiritually. But hey, I'm going to find out.

Don't you think you may be assuming a bit too much? I'll admit that I'm a bit naive to the concept of totems and spirit animals, what they mean, and how they interact with us spiritually. But hey, I'm going to find out.

Possibly, but consider the symbolism present in the nature of the experience. Real animals represent actual, present, ongoing experience in the real world. They occupy a place in the scheme of things, they are a working part of the system. An actual cog in the machine, if you will. Whereas mythological creatures are not actually present in that system, but exist only through the expressions they have in the imagination; in stories. If your spirit animal, if that is the case here, is an imaginary creature, then what does that say about the nature of your spirit?

Having an interest in stories and in theory above the actual experience - the theory of the machine rather than the cogs - isn't a judgement against you or about you. Its a configuration. There's a spirit of everything, so I've not a shred of doubt there's a Griffin spirit present in the psychic and spiritual worlds. Whatever qualities it might house, cunning, courage, valor, nobility, etc., it houses because it has been manufactured by human idealization. But in looking at the nature of these things and how they are expressed both in us and in the world around us, it isn't just the symbol itself that you consider in isolation. Nothing is isolated, everything exists in context, and that context is part of it's nature. You can't just pull a cog out of the machine to know how it works, you have to look at what it does in the machine.

There are dreamers, storytellers, idealists, and such, who are all just as valuable to the human spirit as the 'practical' folks who get their hands dirty in the daily grind.

You'll find out regardless in your own way and in your own time. These are just my own observations and contemplations.

peace