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How do we negate the effects of our inevitable desires that produce karmic consequence?
We put our animal nature on the back-seat, and let our Inner Mind** take the wheel.
**NB - I dislike the phrase 'Higher Mind' because it has been abused so much by charlatans in recent decades, damaging our spiritual progress much in the same way that the force-fed 'Free Love' phenomena of the 60's pretty much knackered our chances as a race of progressing in the way of true sexual maturity.
FlyInTheOintment
Those who neglect the opportunity on Earth to progress from their imprisoned and negative ('fallen') condition, to a more enlightened and balanced/ resonant existance, will inhabit the realms where light cannot be seen, where the eyes are turned to focus on something else, which is rarely of importance, but which to that person has become the Object of their Will and their Reason for Existence..
Nurturing the pointless endeavors that they strived at during Earthly life, such may spend a long time groping around in the ephemeral darkness, before being drawn back by Universal Compassion for another chance upon the Earth. Perhaps there are many other Lower Worlds, or 'Prison Planets' - varying levels of spiritual intensity maybe, and as the ascension progresses, an exponentially greater set of spiritual, magical, technological, communal and political freedoms will develop.
FlyInTheOintment
And for that matter, I would also like to address those that attempt to communicate and deal with 'extra-corporeal' entities of all stripes; isn't your Holy Guardian Angel enough? We have all been given personal 'Daemons' (your 'Nous' or 'personal genius' sometimes called 'genii') that are just dying to help out. Why would anyone want to look elsewhere?
Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions and fantastic imaginings or living,
Originally posted by Frater210
reply to post by FlyInTheOintment
And for that matter, I would also like to address those that attempt to communicate and deal with 'extra-corporeal' entities of all stripes; isn't your Holy Guardian Angel enough? We have all been given personal 'Daemons' (your 'Nous' or 'personal genius' sometimes called 'genii') that are just dying to help out. Why would anyone want to look elsewhere?
edit on 23-5-2011 by Frater210 because: Loose this morning...
If it has a limit in it's perception or ability why would you not want to experience other entities? Why would you limit your experiences? For safety? It isn't in my nature to sacrifice experience for safety. Always good to be cautious, perceptive, and intelligent, but to sacrifice an experience completely for safety is the epitome of fear and the OLD ways in my opinion.
Is pert of this about grabbing onto the old Hermetic and other beliefs and constructs or is it about taking those constructs and expanding and growing from them?
In my opinion if the old ways had the answer the would would have already changed. It is obvious to my mind they have lacked many important elements and were held back by their fears.
It is the job of the modern thinker, the Noonaut I would dare to say, to take the old knowings and grow them. To take what was and expand it into something new. If the goal here is to reclaim an old construct and not break down the barriers they instituted then we will die. More true than any prey running from a predator is the truth that that which does not grow will die.
Well, for power, for gaining the hypothetical edge in life and in death.
I dare ask, Why are we here? Why do we exist?
We are aware, we know we know, and notice that we can feel, we are "magical" by nature, mysterious by design of the same Unknown, I cannot dare to judge its actions, of course they would appear "negative" when observed by human eyes, but there are other ways to perceive and interpret the inputs of CHAOS we seem to organize in our heads.
I mentioned earlier the "loosing the human form" while dealing with the Infinite, we as social creatures have learned and internalized a given set piece of "codes" that are now almost completely unrecognizable from "our basic primordial instincts" (anger, happiness, sorrow, joy,etc.) Knowing and channeling our efforts can indeed help us to somehow "suppress our basic human limitations" and act as "pure beings of energy", armed with the knowledge that everything is after all an energetic manifestation of life, then human "moral set pieces" become inoperative, after all the same sunlight has shone upon massacres, orgies, beatifications, miracles and everything else imagined.
Now dont get me wrong I´m not condoning or praising it friend! All I´m saying that the same "stuff" can take any shape, form, or alignment we desire, some"inorganics" are just conscious fields of energy, just like your "guardian angel", just like us! Of course "out there" and "in here" the predator will chase the prey every time it gets an opportunity to get an "input" of energy, freebies are a delicacy, as there is no effort wasted, nor energy to increase ones power, one must always be prepared, and be capable of changing our fixations from prey to predators.
They do it, why shouldn't we?
They overlap our world as we can overlap theirs
its a matter of willpower and personal strength
If I really wanted to hunt a lion, well, I would set a trap, by first studying and knowing every single aspect of my game and increasing my chances, always knowing that at any moment I could also be stalked and hunted, its all a game friend! with rules not set in stone, some winning conditions we can change if we will it!
Originally posted by Frater210
reply to post by TheOneEyedProphet
Hey, Man...
Well, for power, for gaining the hypothetical edge in life and in death.
What kind of Power, exactly. I would like for you to please explain to all of the Noonauts exactly what kind of Power you are talking about here. I think that a lot of folks would just like to have the Power to balance their checkbooks, Love their mate and deal effectively with those that would sap thir energy. All that Power can be gotten from ourselves. So please do tell, what is this Power that is so wonderful.
Also as far as gaining an advantage in Life and Death. Do you mean like in a physical engagement? Because I, for instance would not, say, engage in bunch of occult practices to make my right cross more effective. I would just go to the boxing gym and work harder.
William James, father of American psychology, tells of meeting an old lady who told him the Earth rested on the back of a huge turtle. "But, my dear lady," Professor James asked, as politely as possible, "what holds up the turtle?" "Ah," she said, "that's easy. He is standing on the back of another turtle." "Oh, I see," said Professor James, still being polite. "But would you be so good as to tell me what holds up the second turtle?" "It's no use, Professor," said the old lady, realizing he was trying to lead her into a logical trap. "It's turtles-turtles-turtles, all the way!"
Don't be too quick to laugh at this little old lady. All human minds work on fundamentally similar principles. Her universe was a little bit weirder than most but it was built up on the same mental principles as every other universe people have believed in.
As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover. The Thinker can think about virtually anything. History shows that it can think the earth is suspended on the backs of infinite turtles or that the Earth is hollow, or that the Earth is floating in space, comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non- existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe—among many possibilities. As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
To take a notorious example from the 1960s, there was a point when three research groups had "proven" that '___' causes chromosome damage, while three other groups had "proven" that '___' has no effect on the chromosomes. In each case, the Prover had proved what the Thinker thought. Right now, there are, in physics, 7 experiments that confirm a very controversial concept known as Bell's Theorem, and two experiments that refute Bell's Theorem. In the area of extra-sensory perception, the results are uniform after more than a century: everybody who sets out to prove that ESP exists succeeds, and everybody who sets out to prove that ESP does not exist also succeeds. "Truth" or relative truth emerges only after decades of experiments by thousands of groups all over the world.
Huh?
This is just a bunch of 'Don't look behind the curtain' mixed together with 'it's gonna be OK because you are a mighty being of light'. This is really the Hallmark of Newage (rhymes with Sewage) and The Secret and this is the reason I began parsing your posts in the first place. I just don't have the receptors in my nervous system for this garbage anymore. Sorry this unit is broken and cannot understand you.
People wishing to become full-fledged Human Beings do not need to engage in these types of Gymnastics. It is beneath us. We are in quarantine and must solve our problems on our own. Why would the jailors have any interest in helping us?
I should not even answer this. But I will. Actually I won't. OK. Because we are not them. We are Human Beings. We are above them. You should know this unless you have been erroneously convinced of something else.
This is not our world. We have been imprisoned in these meat sacks and placed on this Prison farm. Not our world. We are not of this world.
If you are using this for an occult analogy then this is the kind of nonsense that I am hoping to spare people from. Does anyone really want to spend their time engaged in this kind of madness?
Thanks for the whetstone.
I know
That I know
Nothing
We are given these amazing bodies made of light, that are capable of so much, that have the capability to climb the tallest mountains, to break free of the atmosphere and explore beyond any human natural limits, we are not made for space and yet we try it and succeed, of course death awaits, but it waits everywhere, under my bed, on the headlights of the out of control car heading towards me, on the radiation from Japan...