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Originally posted by geo1066
reply to post by Tallsorts
Okay 'Tallsorts', interesting concept. You tie things together nicely but I have another question/thought for you or anyone else-
The soul or self energy; Is it created? or has it always existed.
If it's created, then we are nothing but a recipe to make a cake. So when we die, we would become nothing more than the ingredients needed to make the cake. If that's the case, who's the cook?
If the soul/self energy has always existed; Where is the warehouse that keeps the stock of these beings? What I mean is , let's say 10,000 yrs ago we had, say, 1 billion souls/energies on this world. Today we have what, 25 billion? Where were the other 24 billion 10,000 yrs ago?
This has always nagged me. I would love to hear what your thoughts or anybodies elses are on this.
Originally posted by nightrun
reply to post by Tallsorts
Trying to keep an open mind reading your posts there ..
Let's try this, Would 'keeping an open mind'( the mind being your soul/life-self energy) be part of reaching a higher plane of being? We all know of people that just 'exist' and their non-thinking abilities.
Yeah overall it sounds great but I just can't see how you could acquire any of this knowledge at all. Nobody knows what's on the other side, there just no way of knowing anything about before and after life unless you look into the bible and god theories which are all things created on earth by living people that like us, had no way of knowing before and after life.
I think this is the trick. Each indivisual(?) is in their own right a seperate entity.The teachings or theories as you stated above, are of one person's entity, which has devoted alot of time to being open minded and are just trying to help others to find themselves so to speak. Me personally, believe that you can't just take their word as 'gospel' as you become one of the sheep(followers) and have not aquired any of your own knowledge. ie-more thoughts or self thinking, the more energy stored in the mind. Not to say that these theories/teachings are to be ignored but to be used as 'food for thought' so to speak.
I like to think there are other dimensions, higher planes, etc. But until they fire up that Particle Collider we won't know for sure if there are dimensions, it's all just theory at the moment.
I think there is evidence of this but like you say cannot be proven. Some examples would be; deja-vu, that 'gut-feeling' that we get over some event or that 'awareness' of things around us. A simple experiment to 'awareness' is to go to some desolete area, stop, clear your mind of all of life's turmoils and just try to feel what's around you.
As for souls, I understand the concept of a Soul but there is no scientific proof of such a thing. I will have to research sometime on where the concept of a soul came from because there is hardly evidence saying we need one. At the moment, it sounds like a concept christians or religious followers created in order to explain what we are on the other side. But just like god, there's just no facts to grasp on to and no reason to believe in either of these things.
I totally agree with you here. With science, you basically have to think inside of the box, you have to have something that you can extrapolate(?) off. There are other fields such as quantum physics,string theories,para- psycology alternative medicine etc. but these are not acepted by the mainsteam science field because they have no bases to go off on.
As far as 'christians or religious followers' goes, let me say that I was raised a strict Catholic. I went to Catholic school for a while, was in CCD, CYO and even an alter boy. I have since given up on these mono beliefs. I look at myself as my own religion and 'christian' as I take in all beliefs and use them to better myself.
The word 'christian'-
dictionary.reference.com...
The word 'christ' means 'teacher or way shower'. This definition helped me quite abit on understanding one's self being.
I'm not trying to attack you or anything, all just opinion to opinion here so don't become offended..
Originally posted by KRISKALI777
reply to post by pluckynoonez
as far as the soul, now thats another entity altogether.
I'm sure you'll agree there's many beliefs on that one.
The ancient Norse said that there is a small part of the Memory/Ego that survives after death - they named this the LYKE. However, their belief was that we did not go on as what we imagine that we are; the mind we have, without this shell as the body.
the physical body is only the vehicle!
As to the OP, what then is your take on this 'LYKE'?
Originally posted by nightrun
I'm not trying to attack you or anything, all just opinion to opinion here so don't become offended.
Trying to keep an open mind reading your posts there. Yeah overall it sounds great but I just can't see how you could acquire any of this knowledge at all. Nobody knows what's on the other side, there just no way of knowing anything about before and after life unless you look into the bible and god theories which are all things created on earth by living people that like us, had no way of knowing before and after life.
Originally posted by geo1066
reply to post by Tallsorts
Interesting but I have another question for you. You state that the soul/being is created by 'Oneness' which we are all part of. In very simple terms, can we consider this 'Oneness' as another race of beings? And if so, do they give up their place in the multi demensional/universe to exist in our plane? And if that's so, what would the purpose be?
Another line of thought I have is where you state that we are trying to achieve oneness again. I'll try to grasp an idea that we're nothing but seeds from the 'Big Oak tree'. We're virgins so to speak trying to grow into our own oak tree and be part of the forest. See now I have gone back to the idea of a seperate type of 'Race'.
Can I get some more thoughts from you?