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Originally posted by Schellol
Wow, very insightful! I've recently started working on learning my true self and enlightening myself spiritually for half a year now (not getting anywhere too fast though), and have had some issues with understanding what I really am. Your post has given me a new perspective on things now and helps a lot with that. I hope that can help speed things up for me! Although I know not to force anything to happen, just have to get myself on the right path and follow it. I do have a question for you though. Are you saying that consciousness must relearn itself through the human brain and the predetermined information that is built into that brain? To understand ourselves as consciousness we must learn through our human ideals? Or is it a duality where as we as consciousness must learn our humanness to understand ourselves, and our humanness must understand our consciousness to understand itself? I'm just a little confused and need some clarity lol. Thanks!
Originally posted by dizziedame
The seed and the tree is a perfect example that there is a Creator.
In my opinion the creator of all is God.
You seemed to be repeating your thoughts but does your realization cause you to believe there is a creator of all that is?
How does a wild animal know to suckle it's mom at birth? This, to me, is another reason to believe in a creator.
I am not an idiot. My IQ is impressive. I feel like I've been to hell and back several times in my life.
I've questioned the theory of a creator. I've studied all religions and there is no way anyone can ever convince me that God does not exist.
In my opinion, nature and science prove there is a God.
Back to your tree and seed. God created the tree and gave it the ability to recreate itself with seed.
I guess I am one of those weird people that believe every living thing has a spirit of some type.
I could go on but I might prove myself crazy so I'll stop now.
Originally posted by EarthquakeNewMadrid2010
Thank you for the positive reply we have a lot of common I have been on the long and dark road of finding self and I have realized how my thought on things whether they are positive or negative effect my own views of self. Now on to this issue you have brought up that consciousness does relearn itself through the human brain but it is only in so far as we are able to be free to experience our own reality.
We are able then to make positive constructions of ourselves by identifying our human ideals as being positively influenced through all nature and that we must lose some of our own human objectivity to be able to distinguish as conscious of our humanity. That is to say we must have a freedom or a positive experience with the phenomenon we experience.
We must see it having a purpose in self and that it is through ourselves that this purpose is manifested. We cannot ever know ourselves as purely anything the beauty of our humanity is not that we necessarily know it as we are conscious of it but that in freeing ourselves of conscious examinations of self we are allowed to expressed the authenticity of our humanity and then from there we are able to break it down and become it.
It is in our conscious observations in which we try to break down our humanity through a thing or the connectivity of our thought towards of a thing towards definition of being human that we lose all idea of our humanity. We see to be free from this and live free of self but always trying to become the self our individual possesses and express our potentiality to its fullest.
As humans we should not worry about losing our ideas of humanity or even the distinctions we have to make them but no that in acting upon our ideals we free our humanity to become one with our thought and free out thought for our individual self to observe
[edit on 14-5-2010 by EarthquakeNewMadrid2010]
Originally posted by Schellol
Originally posted by EarthquakeNewMadrid2010
Thank you for the positive reply we have a lot of common I have been on the long and dark road of finding self and I have realized how my thought on things whether they are positive or negative effect my own views of self. Now on to this issue you have brought up that consciousness does relearn itself through the human brain but it is only in so far as we are able to be free to experience our own reality.
We are able then to make positive constructions of ourselves by identifying our human ideals as being positively influenced through all nature and that we must lose some of our own human objectivity to be able to distinguish as conscious of our humanity. That is to say we must have a freedom or a positive experience with the phenomenon we experience.
We must see it having a purpose in self and that it is through ourselves that this purpose is manifested. We cannot ever know ourselves as purely anything the beauty of our humanity is not that we necessarily know it as we are conscious of it but that in freeing ourselves of conscious examinations of self we are allowed to expressed the authenticity of our humanity and then from there we are able to break it down and become it.
It is in our conscious observations in which we try to break down our humanity through a thing or the connectivity of our thought towards of a thing towards definition of being human that we lose all idea of our humanity. We see to be free from this and live free of self but always trying to become the self our individual possesses and express our potentiality to its fullest.
As humans we should not worry about losing our ideas of humanity or even the distinctions we have to make them but no that in acting upon our ideals we free our humanity to become one with our thought and free out thought for our individual self to observe
[edit on 14-5-2010 by EarthquakeNewMadrid2010]
I agree with everything you say there. I've been trying to live my life under my belief that everything that happens, happened because I am here to observe and experience it, not to judge it and develop self opinions on it. So I most definitely agree with you when you say we must experience it knowing it has a purpose for ourself and through ourselves that purpose is manifested. We have to lose the individual to understand the whole! But I think the individual self is important also to create the experience that we are here to observe and understand. Is it that through those experiences and our conscious understanding of them we may learn our humanity as a whole? Or do you believe that observing the self's understanding of those experiences would cloud the understanding of our humanity as a whole?