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Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by tgidkp
The is nothing stale about the jounrey of self discovery. It is what we are here for..
To OP the self aware universe by Amit Goswami I found very interesting and along similar lines with its own twists...
I use to rack my brain in all sorts of ways to suss life out. I no longer do so much because I dont think it can be understood with logic. I have started doing different types of mediation and these have opened different doors for me
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
"Life is a Mighty Joke. He who knows this can hardly be understood by others. He who does not know it finds himself in a state of delusion. He may ponder over this problem day and night, but will find himself incapable of knowing it. Why? People take life seriously, and God lightly; whereas we must take God seriously, and take life lightly. Then, we know that we always were the same and will ever remain the same.......the Originator of this joke. This knowledge is not acheived by reasoning.
But it is the knowledge of experience."
~ Meher Baba
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
What really motivates and inspires us, what satisfies the human heart fully and completely, in the space of nothing that is everything already always..? Isn't that the ultimate question?
Only when we take What is left, when every "thing" (particularized attachments) is taken away - can a new creation be generated or founded, upon this realization for the human being, as to his true identity, being and becoming as he is, a reflection (like Christ, and as the moon is to the sun) of the first father and the true Lord of Love who originally inspired this in the first place (original intent of the will to share, and be creative, and therefore, PLAY), and who is pleased ALREADY (eternally unfolding present moment, forever, since our true self in God never dies) to share his eternal kingdom of light and love with ALL his children. In truth we stand, as self realized beings, in the "holy of holies", and there God calls us his own (well done my son.. [tears of joy by me!]) and makes his home WITH us, as the living spirit of truth and love, and therefore as the simplicity on the far side of complexity. Because it works out the "kink" or the flawZ, right across the entire breadth of all being and becoming, as a first/last cause, it's not only generative or evolutionary, as a first principal of spiritual and psychological growth and well being, but best of all, fun, and joyful, even humorous, and fearless, and therefore very powerful in the face of "evil", which must flee from it's presence wherever it moves, and as a "process" it (we) are already MOVING, and here's the real kicker - by it's very nature, it's the only thing that really moves us in the first place!
That's the beauty of it all, that it contains imbedded within itself, as uncondtional love and acceptance, and forgiveness, the hand that pulls us from the pit of ignorance and then has the audacity to wipe the tears from our eyes, while sharing with us the joke of all ages, which was always at our OWN expense!. It's a type of alchemical fulcrum for the soul, calling us, choosing us first, from above.
I think that Meher Baba might be proud of my mystical evolutionary Christian understanding, and would agree with me about this, or he'd point out that his approval is not required, since God is already God no matter what anyone thinks of him! and THAT is very funny indeed! Good one!
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
set free in the truth which sets us free, but a freedom of such proportion, that it precludes the possibility of predation, by ANY power or principality, anywhere, and we already know that God is into sharing, and gathering, preserving all that is good, and has no interest in blind robbery, or "double bind" robbery, oh of course he has the power to do anything, but being a God of love, the only thing he binds and throws away, is that which makes no sense at all!
31 "How shall I describe this generation?" Jesus asked. "With what will I compare them? 32 They are like a group of children playing a game in the public square, who have to complain, 'We played wedding songs, and you weren't happy, so we played funeral songs, but you weren't sad!'
~ Luke 7:31-32
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Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Popcorn Break!
I myself first "popped" back in late December of '96. It's "no big deal" as they say, but it IS always a LOT easier when the other guy goes first, but please don't mention it! Thanks.
Originally posted by itsJUSTzo
One more simple question that really not that simple at all..
Do you believe that change is upon us?
That is all I care to know.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by itsJUSTzo
YES. I do believe so! It's in the air, in the sunlight, in the stars above, in the plants and animals, everywhere, big time change, if we can set aside the false, illusory world of ridiculous nonsense, it's there, the time has come. The door to heaven has been opened, the tree of life is coming down, and the water of the creative flow of eternal life is freely available to all who thirst. If you wish to see it, open your eys and your ears, forget everything you think you already "know" and tell me that there isn't a newfound "cuteness" or "playfullness" ah "going on", including playful signs and synchronicities leading the way, often defying time and causation itself, as God is talking to us in a new type of language of power and grace (love in action). Heaven is opened, and the spirit of the living God once again blows unhindered through the divided middle between the twin pillars of Justice and Mercy, leading us all across the apparent chasm between what is, and what ought to be. We are now the captain of our own ship of light, although we are not without a guide accompanying us on a new journey capable of bringing peace, feeding the starving, and eventually leading us to the stars. That said, since freedom reigns, we could still screw the whole thing up, and blow the opportunity of the ages..
Originally posted by itsJUSTzo
Do you have a link to your meditation music?
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."
~ William Shakespear, King Henry V
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
C) In truth, I don't have the faintest clue just what the heck is REALLY "going on", or even who or what I REALLY am! and so...
While the evidence, all around, might suggest, in no uncertain terms, that I (and by extension "we") are really quite something rather extraordinary and very "special" - because I know I know that I CANNOT possibly know what's REALLY going on, or who and what I (we) REALLY am, I just cannot bring myself to take myself all that seriously! LOL
Furthermore, and here's where the "fool" part kicks in, in earnest; because I am, on the one hand, acutely aware of a great mystery that I cannot possibly solve for the life of me, nevertheless on the other, I have absolutely NO interest, whatsoever, in being "normal" by most any human standard of "normalcy". Thus, in my mind, to proclaim that I am NOT a "fool" (I prefer that to the word "freak") ie: that I am "normal" and just like "the average Joe" represents a grave insult, in so far as the "average Joe" typically has very little if no awareness of any kind whatsoever, that there is anything extraordinary going on, either in regards to himself, his life, or the greater mystery within which he and his life are imbedded ie: he takes life for granted, which is something that I, for one, simply cannot do, not any more.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
I like the idea that we never left "source", but the configuration of "the matrix", isn't an illusion, just what source has evolved into through the eternally unfolding present moment. It is as the Jamaican Rastaman says "what it is mon, ire!". We are like a chip off the old old block, made by consciousness for consciousness. We can't look around and deny reality though, or suggest that we ourselves are projecting 100 billion galaxies we've never even seen, that's absurd. But we ARE a byproduct of the Godhead, and do reside at the very leading edge of an eternal cosmic evolutionary process, right now, and for all we know, being the last or most recent, we are the crowning glory of this evolutionary process, and may be closest to the Godhead whereby our true self our nature is the very same stuff of God, which is love. I am love.
Originally posted by itsJUSTzo
Absolutely beautiful thread.
Newageman you are phenomenal, as well as some of the other posters.
Please continue to talk about any and everything, please do not let this thread die, I beg you.
Please add more insight..
*some* people have read every word and have literally cried with some of it.