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the limits we impose ourselves only come from our reluctance to let go of the fear, fear of loosing the "stuff"
Beliefs in good vs evil, angels vs demons, the only place where heaven and hell clash is in our heads.
Everything is energy, neither good nor bad, forever flowing to equilibrate and compensate, how can we impose our minuscule ideals to the Infinite Unknown?
How can anyone have so much hubris to declare to know the whole truth, or to categorically state what one thing "is" over the others, alas we have all made the same mistakes and fallen on the same steps, after all we are human, and understanding that the only limitations we have are hypothetical.
Its almost 10 minutes to 12, its a good idea to let the medieval ideals behind, its time to deal with power with knowledge. There is nothing wrong in feeling fear, after all properly tuned, its a tool that our body possesses, and can let us know if what we are facing will put us to the test. But as you may all know, fear is a feeling that can be harvested if properly nurtured.
The true adept does not give in to anything, forever in search of truth and freedom, leaving fear behind, taking calculated risks, not carrying more than they are capable, helping out but accepting that everyone is wherever they have placed themselves, that all we need is a moment to gain or loose everything we can imagine.
When an animal's brain has concluded that death is at hand and there's no reasonable level of survivability, the entire experience becomes very tranquil and the inevitable plays out. If you watch a cat that has a mouse in its clutches, the mouse is pretty mellow with the whole situation. Even if the cat toys with it for a while, it's not as if the mouse is actively resisting. That level of agreement between predator and prey exists at all levels in the wild - once the chase is over - and there's generally little drama.
Of course, that's not how it goes for human beings, who battle for every tiny bit of longevity they can grab. Even layers of cancer can't pull a person from the corporeal realm until there's very little left of the person that used to wear those clothes. The difference between us and the rest of what crawls around on this rock is that we aren't immediate creatures, and the reason that we aren't immediate creatures is because we're not corporeal in the same way that the rest of the skin wearers are. Yes, our bodies and brains are corporeal - made of matter/particles - but the fully developed human being is not a corporeal being. It's brought into physical existence by that corporeal matrix, but that's its only real connection to the corporeal realm.
Once that body/brain system dies, the human being is born into the eternal realm. This difference is pretty significant, and it definitely affects how we handle the corporeal phase of our gestational development. It does cause us to be a bit "out of sync" with the rest of the skinwearers (skin, scales, feathers, what-have-you), and it results in our constant focus on issues that have nothing to do with maintaining the survivability of our bodies - unlike every other mammal, fish, bird, insect, reptile or single cell thingy that this planet hosts. It "works" when we're finally born.
We're like airplanes that are trying to drive to the store on local roads. This isn't our world anymore than our mothers' wombs were our world. Still, we each have further development, and the better we manage that development, the better our ability to manage our real world will be when we finally leave here.
Love, curiosity, honor, honesty, integrity; these are achievements that translate into strength and capacity for the human being within the eternal informational realm. Fear, hatred, rigidity, disinterest; these failures are crippling maladies, and the less these pollute the whole of the person, the better for that person.
I know that you guys get into trying to transcend this necessary phase of human gestation, but that's like a fetus clashing with the corporeal gestation process. That ends up in birth defects for the newborn, or (more often) miscarriage. It's a good thing that fetuses can't decide to agree with the gestation process that they're engaged in. They certainly wouldn't have the knowledge to make a good decision, and most would emerge in a variety of malformed states as a result. Basically,how you handle this 2nd stage of gestation is your call, and there's the rub. Too often, it doesn't turn out as well as it could've.
Originally posted by Frater210
I hope by 'calculated risks' you do not mean dealing with these entities in some kind of exchange. If so folks should know that there is absolutely nothing worth having or that you need that is worth or demands exchanging anything with these things.
Whadda ya think?
the limits we impose ourselves only come from our reluctance to let go of the fear, fear of loosing the "stuff"
I don't think people are as attached to their stuff as one might think.
This statement and others like it seem to be suggesting that there is no supernatural evil that people should be concerned about. I personally believe that it is dangerous to lead people to believe such a thing. Is that what you are saying? Just wanted to be straight with you on this.
See above. Am I sensing some defeatism here. This seems to go back to what you seem to say concerning Man only being a man. I like to think that we are much more. In fact we seem to be the center of the whole show. I think we would all be surprised at what we can impose.
Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies
"This new Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures in never-before-seen detail," the Institute said in a statement.
"Astronomers observe only one out of a million galaxies in the nearby universe in the act of colliding. However, galaxy mergers were much more common long ago when they were closer together, because the expanding universe was smaller."
The color images, available online at hubblesite.org/news/2008/16, are a look back in time. It takes hundreds of millions of years for galaxies to merge and the light from their stars has traveled for hundreds of millions of years across space.
I think it is dangerous to tell people that their only limitations come from within. It is not the whole truth.
I hope by 'calculated risks' you do not mean dealing with these entities in some kind of exchange. If so folks should know that there is absolutely nothing worth having or that you need that is worth or demands exchanging anything with these things.
Originally posted by TheOneEyedProphet
reply to post by Jinglelord
Hilarious, and above all true, we have crap all over the place, crap where we eat, sleep and love, there is no end to the quantities of crap we amass, and still, many believe that crap is all there is to life.
what about piss?
edit on 18-5-2011 by TheOneEyedProphet because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
We all fall from love someday, its not that we are bad, but that we are looking to a hall of mirrors at different parts of oursevles, we may look at something and not like what we may find, this is not meant to fear or harm, but only as a tool. Run away from people who make you feel that kind of fear, even if it means what I just said or you or anyone. It doesn't matter because you are just looking into them, and its showing you what they are, stay away from those kinds of reflections. I hope you understand its time to understand and let go. Becuase everything even you have to let go of, becuase you are, not what you thought. DIscretion Discretion, dont fall and if you do go right back the other way, I fell, I did too, we are not looking at ourselves, in these times, unless thats what we choose to be. Its in these times that we must SEE and understand that it is NOT ME, and not you, or anyone its just a reflection and must be dealt with as such, all just a reflection of self, nothing more, nothing less.
You must not let the reflection take over and control.edit on 18-5-2011 by DarkCyrus because: (no reason given)
I had thought this thread would have garnered a few more responses. It makes sense though, as I think deep down people already feel who is to blame for their fear. It's facing that fact and overcoming it that is the difficult climb. It was not easy for me, or I should say is not easy for me as the mountain of fear is rather steep.
OF course there are channeling sessions where the beings appear like love and light, well those feed on love energies, very nourishing as well, but instead of leaving a sense of loss and despair leave with a feeling of peace and completeness.
Heroes are the product of the growth of ideas...
Reformers come when the time for reform is ripe....
...the characters that appear on the stage of life are the products of previously existing ideas - external life is merely a shadow picture, representing on the wall of matter the picture contained within the magic lantern of the mind.
Ideas are everything; personalities, if compared with ideas, are nothing. Persons are only useful if they are instruments for the execution of ideas...
...a person who is not a vehicle for an idea is merely a corpse.