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Originally posted by applebiter
Originally posted by son of PC
And to the OP, with all due respect, you don't have a clue as to what you are up against. Take care --------PC
*sigh*
You may be right. In the past few hours I have received "signals" from other places indicating that I should cease and desist. It would be preferable to get a man to man communication; something that felt like a respectful request. I'm a patriot. I can do "for the greater good".
It's the being treated like cattle part that chaps my ass.
Originally posted by applebiter
reply to post by Jeremy_Vaeni
Sure, it's possible, but we've run into a wall because of the restrictions of language and our sense of temporal and spatial localness. I suspect that there are a very few primitive universal informational constants, and that matter has grown up around them in escalating complexity via involution. In other words, maybe we and the aliens are locked into the same situation Dr. Martin Luther King described. "I can't be at my best until you are at your best."
Originally posted by emsed1
... people (probably most people) get a glimpse of this 'higher consciousness' and sense of oneness at some point in their lives. Whether your team kicks a game-winning field goal in double overtime at the Super Bowl, a rousing movement of spirit at a tent revival or a near-death experience it seems that there is indeed something 'more' out there beyond what we see, hear and feel.
I'm not suggesting that a football game is going to create universal peace, but evidence certainly suggests that people tend to change their behavior and begin to focus externally rather than internally when they have a 'divine' or 'spiritual' experience.
Identity and materialism are hard habits to break though. I think the only way people will start turning away from these habits is if they can be taught how to access this 'higher consciousness' easily and consistently.
Great thread!
Originally posted by applebiter
I'm trying to "get bigger" on the inside and deeper, too. There have been moments of clarity, but they are ephemeral. Hopefully, I can kill my person permanently one day, and he'll stop resurrecting.
Originally posted by liamoohay
I would like to touch on a few experiences that relate to the OP.
First I have seen a UFO as well as other phenomenon that I can clearly say where not any part of my (for lack of a better word) subconscious.
I had an experience when I was about 25 that I still have remnants of today.
For whatever reason be it internal or external, chemical or physical, I began to see the world in a different light. The closest thing I can compare it to was a Jesus experience, now I am not religious so I do not want you to take what I am saying out of context so I will describe my views at the time, please keep this in mind as you read on. I was feeling love as an overwhelming aura taking over my life. I would look at the newspaper headlines and cry out of compassion, I would literally look at people and feel that I could see what they were thinking, I would even see a spark of light coming from inside their heads. I came to realize that the majority of people did not know what love really meant. I found myself saying weird thimgs like "the higher you are the better you can see" whatever.
Anyway that feeling for the most part has left me but i still strive to attain it.
A little after this experience a good friend of mine was explaining Godhead to me and I came to the conclusion that Jesus and others whom follow that path get stuck there. We all have that capacity but It is hard to move on from that place(not that you have to).
I thought this was interesting so I wanted to relay it but for now I got bills to pay.
Oh yeah anybody ever read "Be Here Now"? Great book.
[edit on 7/10/2008 by liamoohay]
Originally posted by applebiter
reply to post by rawsom
You've made allusions to my own work being close to some other work... care to point me in that direction?
Originally posted by applebiter
reply to post by observe50
I'm sorry, but it has been made clear to me that I shouldn't go forward with Part III at this time.
Look at it this way... what have you lost?
[edit on 11-7-2008 by applebiter]
Originally posted by applebiter
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Let's talk about the "abduction" phenomenon in this post. Remember what I said about there being a unifying consciousness that directs individuals from "on high"? This is crucial to understand what is going on during "abductions". As I said before, there are different spiritual traditions and circumstances which can precipitate the "we are all one" experience. For a very long time, there have been people who practice ritual magic (or magick, as the Thelema traditions spells it). These traditions rely on a kind of deception that engages the imagination and the rational mind with rituals and formulas, while the busy work is going on at another level of awareness. You might look up "memetic reprogramming", "OTO", or "Aleister Crowley" if you are interested in digging this.
It's really quite funny how deception can be used for good purposes. Take, as an example, a person who wants to smite an enemy and takes up membership in a Magickal order so that he might learn how to use "magic" against them. The practitioner is engaged in many exercises and exposed to many ideas, and even if the source of his burning desire to learn is due to his evil will to harm an enemy, he soon finds himself losing interest in doing others harm, as he is too busy performing "purification rituals" to make the elemental intelligences accessible to him. By the time a practitioner really begins to believe, and sees evidence that there is, in fact, a higher-order consciousness to which he can gain access, his attitude has changed about wishing harm on others... because he realizes that he and others are part of the same organism. Sometimes people are seeking higher truth but are turned off by the Church. Satan worship fills this gap. In order to be a Satan worshipper, you have to first buy into the whole idea of God vs the Devil, and you are really learning the same lessons in reverse. Later I'll discuss the problem of be stuck in dualism; of dividing the world into opposite pairs.
And this is the point, after all. The kundalini and other yogic traditions use a more straightforward path. They let you know up front that you are part of a greater consciousness and they do not describe the higher-order awareness as "external", in the form of angels or elementals. But the iconography doesn't really matter, at the end of the day.