“So what exactly were those two ‘presences’ which Robin experienced? I’m intrigued by what you say about dreamcatchers, Sue Ann. So they’re like positive and negative karma which we need to deal with? They’re kind of like splintered bits of us which need to be embraced? Is that what Robin encountered?
Or are these ‘presences’ simply down to some quirk of the brain, as Todd Murphy suggests?
From our present perspective, is it possible to know the truth?
It’s like this desk I’m sitting at. Is it possible to know the truth about that? Is it really composed of solid wood – or a quantum field which is principally empty space?”
Ever hear the story about the interns that were playing around with their hospital’s new MRI machine when one of them discovered he had been born with ONLY half a brain? rofl…I consider any one of us that is studying ‘brain’ in order to understand ‘consciousness’, as BLIND in addition to, CLUELESS. And add that it is “typical” as far as what we do when disconnected and ignorant of the role our subconscious plays in our lives.
What we call ‘conscious’ disappears at death. What survives, is ONLY our subconscious memory of it. What we call ‘conscious’ is limited to time and space, while our ’subconscious’ transcends it.
Within our subconscious is where we can access all the momentums of energy that as a Soul, we have set in motion. Past lives, future lives makes no difference. All that does, is the energy we have set in motion. For it, like the loaves cast upon the waters, will return to us to deal with.
For example, as you asked about Robin, on one side is *icky*. This *icky* is the energy of one of her past lives and until she embraces it AS herself, it will keep hanging around and undermining her life until such time as she claims it as her own. It is NOT some ‘other’ being. It is herself, as she has been sometime in the past. (and I’m not picking on Robin, it’s the same for the rest of us.)
On the other side is *pleasant*, this is herself, in the future, reaching out to help her heal from the past. Again, not any ‘other’ being but herself. The road to Wholeness and Complete and ‘returning to God’, is one of embracing ALL these fragmented parts of ourselves throughout time and space. Just like you have surmised…
One of our most retarding ideas is the thought that the purpose of “love & light” is to save us from anything unpleasant. When its PURPOSE is to embrace the ‘darkness’, revealing it never existed in the first place. All ‘dreamcatchers’ do, is block this process and our progress upon our Souls’ path to Glory.
Ponder it for a moment…
Did ‘Jesus’ CHRIST go around healing everyone? NO!
Did ‘Jesus’ CHRIST go around feeding everyone? NO!
Did ‘Jesus’ CHRIST create ONLY “positive” and “pleasant” experiences in his life? NO!!!!
Well… do we REALLY believe as a Living Master he was just *fucking* CLUELESS when it came to Understanding the Law of Attraction?
OR, have we simply misunderstood his message?
You *know* the story as well as I do. So just take a look at it from another angle. One of expressing and displaying the Divinity within him, the CHRIST, when it came to his emotional and mental “coping skills”, as he set about ‘doing the father’s Will, not his own’. “I am the Path; I am the Way; I am the Light.” He danced for us so that we could learn the steps and dance the dance too. He was a TEACHER, not a PREACHER.
We can be the fulfillment of the Law, just as he showed us he was.
As for ‘Truth’, it helps when we understand that the essence of Truth is TRUE. Always has been and will be. What this means, is that any ‘truth’ that does NOT encompass ALL situations in ALL places, is not TRUE. There CANNOT Be, more then ONE Whole Truth, for there to be more then one, nullifies the concept of WHOLE to begin with. This “Truth” transcends both time and space, as in, “Always embraces all ways” , just like there is ONLY One “Infinity”.
Believing in any other version of ‘truth’ is gullible on our part. If it doesn’t align with Spiritual Realities, then it’s an illusion of our arrogance and self righteousness.
As for your desk…it’s the same a my couch. WHAT experience are we getting from them? Are not all the little quantum packets coming together to create for us the feeling experience of being supported? How about the road we walk on? The ground?
Ever doubted about being UNconditionally supported by the universe?
Uh huh…..been there, done that. Think about it next time you sit in your chair and it feels supportive. Or the next time you find yourself walking down a flight of stairs and there’s actually one to place your foot on.
{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}
You always ask such GREAT questions!!!!!!
Thank you, my friend – and you give me such great answers! I guess I knew a lot of this already but of course it’s still important for you to tell me it, and for me to read it again tomorrow, and the day after that, and to keep on hearing it until I stop forgetting about it. I’m also wondering how it fits in with what I’ve just being blogging about. I suspect you’ll be letting me know!
You say: “Did ‘Jesus’ CHRIST create ONLY “positive” and “pleasant” experiences in his life?” I’ve literally only dipped into A Course In Miracles, but the one bit I came across (not by accident, I’m sure!) is that the significance of the crucifixion was that it was a lesson in acceptance. Jesus was saying: “Hey, if I can let *this* happen to me and be OK about it, then don’t you see that you can accept those little niggles that *you* have to put up with?”
Equally powerful is what you say about being supported by the universe, Sue Ann. Yes, we’re sitting and standing on empty space but it supports us. That really is a remarkably powerful thought! That’s really what’s happening. That really is. It’s only one of so many things to which we fail to attach their due significance.
By: Simon on July 28, 2008
at 1:50 pm
every time I think I have a clue, I remember it is only my spirit that is permanent, and darn, the spirit and I are not always on the same wavelength!
By: SurfaceEarth on July 28, 2008
at 4:04 pm
{{{simon}}}}
“I’m also wondering how it fits in with what I’ve just being blogging about. I suspect you’ll be letting me know!”
I suppose it’s time for me to write the next chapter in my Hercules story, huh?
It’s the one about the capture of the doe and while 2 demigods argue over who owns the doe, the REAL owner shows up an sets them straight.
I’ll just give one clue now…Intellect being driven by Instinct is no way to reach Intuition.
~smiling~
And btw…I’ve now got the entire series so far, under my pages on the sidebar.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on July 28, 2008
at 10:52 pm
Ohhhhh {{{SE}}}}
Are you getting a glimmer of an idea why I sometimes refer to myself as a “Complete Idiot”?
‘Cause I’ve quit trying to deny it. So long as I did, I was merely a half wit!
{{{hugs}}}
By: Sue Ann Edwards on July 28, 2008
at 10:55 pm
Making Sense of The World
At some point making sense of the world, and your place in it becomes the focus of all of your activities. Seeking Understanding in this or any world builds a momentum. Is there or has there ever been anything like Utopia on Earth?
You know you’re not happy, not really; you see the world condition; and at some point, even unconsciously, your own mortality begins to become part of the felt dilemma.
And then you try some things:
You become politically involved.
You become environmentally involved.
You try all sorts of therapeutic approaches.
You find like minded friends.
You meditate.
You investigate Eastern Philosophy or re-approach your born-with religious tradition.
You read books on Death and Dieing, or on After Life experiences.
Basically, you go inward or you move outward into the world with more intention. And sometimes you do both. You can spend your whole lifetime doing all of this and if you believe in it, you can re-incarnate into another life and start again.
Do any of these approaches to life, fundamentally change anything?
Or you tire of the whole thing and give the whole thing up to a life of conventional or extraordinary pleasure seeking.
How do you get beyond it all? How do you understand? Can you relax enough to feel the dilemma that mortality and your orientation to it represents?
You feel the mortal dilemma, but there is something else you are sensitive to also. Something simple and prior to all dilemma. You’ve Known that all your life. Right Spiritual practice seems to require sensitivity to both. This dual sensitivity has been described simply as the closed fist and the open fist.
Gu and Ru. Light and darkness. Occasionally mankind has seen the appearance of Men or Women who have know something about this. Some have lived alone and taught quietly by Being Who They Are. Others have been Master Teachers, Realizers, or Gurus, whose function is to embody and teach the Way to Perfect Freedom.
In the west, the tradition of Realizers, of Gurus is mostly either unknown or discounted, or even spit upon. And in the later part of the 20th century people have appeared, who called themselves Gurus and clearly were not.
What if such a one appeared now? How would you recognize him/it?
My Divine Avataric Revelation-Teaching takes into account the limitations of all of the first six stages of life, the limitations of all “religious”, Spiritual, and Transcendental traditions—East and West, Alpha and Omega. The Divine Truth That Is Reality Itself Is Prior to all of that—and, yet, the Divine Reality-Truth does not exclude any stage of life, any “one”, or any “thing”…. My Divine Avataric Incarnation here Is Prior to all—and My Divine Avataric Incarnation here Is For all.
Adi Da Smaraj
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By: steve on July 31, 2008
at 12:49 pm
Greetings Steve…
“Sense” is something that requires the use of Reason.
Reason is a process of adding ideas together WITHOUT creating any contradictions and conflicts in the process.
It is a function of Mind.
The World makes perfect sense to me. For I see it unclouded by any concepts of duality and polarity. I “see” no conflict, I “see” only cooperation, as one end of a rubber band cooperates with another.
I also ’see’ NO victims. Anywhere or anyplace.
The West has focused on our personality level to the exclusion of our spiritual level, where the East concentrates on our spiritual level to the exclusion of our personality level. Thus, as a collective, Harmony and Balance have been maintained.
Now we are in a time, a cycle of life, where all of us are symbolically taking one step towards the middle of the boat and learning how to integrate the aspects which have been ignored.
It hasn’t really mattered which half we choose to the exclusion of the other. Half is still half. Top half, bottom half, it takes both to be Whole.
What I have noticed in a lot of transcendental practices is a sterility of mind, focused on mental abstractions, which results in being cut off from what sensitivity would reveal. We need not divorce ourselves from the full range of human emotions nor wallow in them, but embrace them in understanding and accountability for producing them in our hypothalumus, as a result of the ideas we choose to entertain.
Where some of us meditate on World Unity, I insist IT already exists. It is simply most of us are too blind to see. But we will, when it is our season to do so.
Thank you for your contribution to my blog {{Steve}} !!!
Blessings to you this day!
By: Sue Ann Edwards on July 31, 2008
at 1:39 pm
yes and yes- every day I get that more.
Ah, sigh, you know Sue, we are hovering on the cusp.
Blessings.
By: SurfaceEarth on July 31, 2008
at 5:58 pm
Ohhhhhhh…..{{{SE}}}}
You are so right!
As a matter of fact, my senses are telling me we’re over the worst of the transitioning. This year has been wildly gyrating between old and new, up and down, etc. But we’re coming out of it!
We will discover many resolutions to our issues in August and by the end of September we will be on our way into those new directions we’ve all been desiring. Those directions that are aligned with our Soul’s passion.
Blessings to you, too!!!!!
By: Sue Ann Edwards on July 31, 2008
at 7:38 pm
Hi Susanne,
Reason and Mind and Sense
I know what you mean. It does seem as if in making sense of the world, mind or even Mind and reason are required. The Conscious Process, so to speak, where experience of all kinds comes up to be examined and evaluated, does naturally happen. We do what we can with those thoughts and ideas.
And at some point, the apparent contradiction on that plane will have to resolve Itself. The nature of the conditional world can not be explained away. It always is changing and we always seek to understand.
Beyond Seeking, at a fundamental level, where Divine Ignorance is the Felt Condition, that is the Final and always already the case lively Resting, where words and ideas and thoughts are mere appearances and You Stand Free. But any description of That, is just my description using words. Really, I need to just Be……………………………..
By: steve on August 1, 2008
at 12:25 pm
Our World has trained all of us a pattern of thought that is ALL conflicted. Contradictions and nullifications all over the place.
For instance, most of the religions throughout the world rest upon a foundation divorced from Principle. “Righteousness based on a presumption of wrongness”; “good” based on the presumption of “bad”. A supposedly “One God”, an “Absolute” that is lacking in Absoluteness. An impotent omnipotence, a limited unlimited.
None of it makes any sense and because it doesn’t, it cannot be integrated nor lived in Integrity.
Unity is a Immaculate Concept, undistorted by ANY idea of separation ANY WHERE. Instinct, Intellect and Intuition all fused and working in union.
The question remains when we just simply “be”, as to WHAT are we “Be-ing”?
Are we be-ing Understanding or Condemning? Are we be-ing Accepting or Rejecting? Are we be-ing Tolerant or Prejudiced? Are we be-ing Forgiving or Vengeful? Are we be-ing Loving or Needy? For however we sow, so shall we reap. How much do we Love Life? ALL of it or just the positive?
One of the biggest farces we’ve pulled on ourselves is that Willingness can be coerced, forced or manipulated in any way. For with ANY means of force, whether it is applied blatantly through the use of arms, emotionally, through the use of blame for our own emotional states, or intellectually, through the use of intimidation, then Will is not free. Capitulation through domination is what goes on when UNwillingness is present. When individual will is not being respected.
And Union, thus Unity, ONLY comes through WILLING cooperation.
We kind of remind me of the caveman that clubs the cave woman over the head and drags her by the hair back to his cave, then announces they are ‘married’.
Intellect may over rule Instinct, however, Intellect doesn’t come even close to the level of Intuition. Intuition is not a mental force at all. It is sensitivity, which opens our awareness.
Just as we, individually, go through cycles, so do planets and other “bodies” of Creation. Right *now* our planet is taking an Initiation and if we’re *here*, we taking it along with it.
There is also no contradiction on this plane of activity. External realities accurately mirror our internal ones. No SEPARATIONS exist between dimensional levels. They are all right *here*, right *now. “As above, so below.” “The outside reflects the inside.”
Eternal realities have to be grounded and anchored in our feeling level before they can be genuinely known and understood. Then lived in Integrity..,all levels Integrated. Many of our spiritual practices, most notably “Buddhism” ONLY represent a level of achievement of HALF THE WAY on the Path. And others, filled with categories, different aspects, different deities of separation, or purely mental abstractions aren’t even ON the Path.
Admiration is just a a love of our minds, where Love is the dedicated adoration and admiration of our hearts.
The POWER of the Universe is not a force. It is a cohesive energy of attraction. As quantum physics is now proving, “we reap as we sow”. If through our thoughts and subconscious, we are generating a negative field, then a negative pole will be what is attracted. Positive fields attract positive poles.
Whatever we judge as “wrong” immediately creates a negative magnetic field, which will keep attracting whatever it is we have judged, TO us, until we remove the charge.
Rocks and holes my husband calls it. Just like the rocks in his head fit the holes in mine.
{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}
By: Sue Ann Edwards on August 1, 2008
at 1:22 pm
“What this means, is that any ‘truth’ that does NOT encompass ALL situations in ALL places, is not TRUE.”
A classic example to consider is to consider a statement like “today is Wednesday” which is true on Wednesday but false on other days.
What you are saying is only true about the ultimate or the essential, most fundamental, most abstract truth.
But the thing is that, first of all, the division between the ultimate and relative is symbolic for one, and for two, relative truths are also important.
For example, many people start on a spiritual quest due to some relative truths, like feeling more stress than they’d like or feeling less fulfillment then they’d like, none of which are ultimately true. But as causes of one’s spiritual quest, they are still important and cannot be ignored.
It’s a tricky thing to talk about because there aren’t many types of truth. We subdivide truth into types because it’s easier to talk that way, but in reality the truth is not neatly divided into any kinds of types. If you think of truth as a spectrum, the relative spectrum of it is important enough that it shouldn’t be negated by saying that only that which is always true is true.
By: tealeaf on September 10, 2008
at 8:00 pm
Greetings Tealeaf!
One of the 1st things that I would comment upon, is that it would be to your advantage to get out of your head. For the thoughts rumbling around in it are based on limited thinking patterns.
I mean no offense, only to guide. There is ONLY “Now”. That’s IT. And it is ever expanding. The rest, is an illusion of ‘time’.
ONLY our subective truths, that are aligned and integrated with the ‘Greater Reality” encompassing the Absolute are considered ‘Real.’
The rest, of what many of us consider as true, may feel like truth for a while, but i subject to change and at the very foundation of ALL our illusions and what is called world glamour and maya.
Along the Path, Enlightenment and Disillusionment go hand in hand. As ever onward we seek the kind of Truth that Always Is and never changes.
It is often said that the ‘truth hurts’. It is also said that the ‘truth can set us free’. What this essentially means is that the Truth that sets us free, often hurts, because we have invested so much in illusions. That Enlightenment sets of free of.
Many of us set upon the path as a means of escapism. And eventually find ourselves in corners with no way to deny facing what we have been trying to escape from. That’s when the Real healing work begins.
Instead of escaping, we find ourselves learning some emotional coping skills. S there is no longer anything we feel the need to run away from.
Unconditional Love is an Immaculate Concept.
Undistorted by any ideas of exclusion, limitation, or condition.
Always Embraces All ways.
Each moment in Life is a Present, A Gift of experience, no matter if that experience if ‘good’ or ‘bad’, spent in misery or bliss. For most of us our Love for Life is limited. We ONLY know how to Love the ‘good’ part. A full cup is exactly that, Full, with experiences of both positive and negative.
I happen to Love ALL Life. For it is all one moment, The Everlasting Now. Which expands into Infinity.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on September 10, 2008
at 9:26 pm