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19 Feb 2008 @ 13:20, by vector8. Spirituality
As more and more people are realising their spiritual nature, there are all these fine and wonderful ideas being shared in books, on the Internet, and floating in the ether. How come people are still experiencing fear? Is it possible the ideas are stuck in the ether i.e. subconscious and not being released into the conscious mind?
As I see it, as long as life seems to be working perfectly, there's no incentive to live out these principles; until there is an emergency situation when you really get to demonstrate whether you are truly a spiritual being or blowing hot air. More >
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19 Feb 2008 @ 09:48, by johnjoseph. Spirituality
Freedom and Identity
As we have seen, the most free part of us is our spirit, then out psyche. Then our economic behaviour. As we move up the levels of society, through groups to politics and finally military force, we become less and less free.
And of course, the thing about us that is free, our spirit, is characterised by individuality. And what comprises our essential unique individuality is the million and one different aspects and identities that make us what we are: the colour of our eyes or skin; our race or ethnicity or religion; our age or physical and mental (dis)abilities; our gender or sexual orientation and literally thousands more characteristics.
If our society is to attain to freedom or enlightenment and we with it, then our spirit has to be realised. And that means in the form of the celebration of great diversity in human individuality and the uniqueness of each identity. In the unfolding of this freedom and celebration it is obvious that minority groups have a huge part to play.
Conclusion: SpiritMind over Matter----- Matter Undermined
This summing-up and conclusion pertains to the whole project I undertook just before the millennium to update the views I held on the subject of alienation and civilization. Theories of civilization are not rare, even radical and deep theories. Yet to get a theory that combines depth, plus wide-ranging knowledge and erudition, plus a mystical and artistic display worthy of a master or mistress, one has to look at someone as remarkable as Edward Carpenter.
Karl Marx produced a radical if somewhat fragmentary and partial account of civilization, and even wrote poetry as a young man. Yet he was no mystic; indeed a materialist. One prejudice he shared with the vast majority of his contemporaries, will help eventually to render his theories obsolete, just as much as faulty notions of surplus-value or the State (dictatorship of the proletariat).This flaw in his theory is the lack of understanding of the importance of identity and particularly sexual identity.
Edward Carpenter, though born only 25 years after Marx, was a visionary and mystic and was indeed 100 years ahead of his time and in advance of what Marx saw. Edward Carpenter was homosexual, at a time when it was considered a heinous offence and social deviancy. Yet he realised the importance, as no other, to the freedom project of the issue of identity and particularly the centrality of sexual and gender identities. He was one of the first to write about what we would today term the minorities question.
Identity is important because it links spirituality with individuality. Yet our sexuality links our spirituality with our physical body. Spirit with Nature. It is part of our innermost, intimate identity. If spirit itself is alienated, as it always has been, in the form of our Egos thinking we are separate, lonely and cut-off “individuals”, then it was only when this alienation, or Ego, affected our relationship with surrounding Nature and our own gender and sexual identities, that society left the tribal, community path it had been on for countless millennia, and undertook the ”Great Separation”, as the Taoists call it.
This is the path of alienation and ultimately civilization on a global scale. The whole of modern history is not just the evolution of the spirit of freedom, as Hegel claims, but the reclaiming of our whole identities in all its richness and variety: our religious, racial, ethnic, gender, sexual and particularly our identities as part of Nature.
Matter is being supplanted gradually by Spirit. Matter is being interpenetrated and gradually suffused by spirit. This may be what Teilhard de Chardin termed the “Omega Point” Nobody who has witnessed the bizarre events of the last few years, such as the flooding of New Orleans, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, or the earthquake in Kashmir, can doubt that matter’s reign over the world is coming to an end. Nature, while a form of matter, is also a form of spirit.
Mindspirit over matter----matter undermined.
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19 Feb 2008 @ 02:34, by owenwaters. Spirituality
The Inspiration of Humanity
by Owen Waters
The universe is designed to be reflective. Whatever you put out comes back to you. This is called the Law of Action and Reaction, the Law of Karma, or is simply referred to using the phrase, “What goes around comes around.”
However, in spiritual work, there is a way to increase what comes around. What goes around can actually come back as more than you gave, and this involves a paradox.
In your spiritual practices, you can generate a deep feeling of peace and inspiration; one which brings a wonderful sense of spiritual upliftment. For example, in your meditations, you may become inspired with a vision of a future world filled with peace and freedom for all.
You may see, in your mind’s eye, a future world where everyone on the planet is safe, and where you can travel to anywhere on the planet with ease. In this future, you see that everyone is consciously aware of their heart’s connection to the hearts of each and every other human being on the planet. In this supportive environment, everyone has complete freedom to express their unique creativity as their contribution to a loving society.
As you breathe deeply of the clean, fresh air in that vision of the future, you feel your connection to the Mother Earth and to the life-giving Sun which shines ceaselessly upon our world. Then, you send your love and gratitude to the Earth and the Sun, and wait in quiet anticipation as those great, conscious beings send their love and inspiration to you in return.
While in that state of deep inspiration, it occurs to you that most of humanity desperately needs this type of upliftment; that most souls on this planet today are starving in a self-created, spiritual wilderness. This brings you to the realization that you have the opportunity to be of service to humanity through an act of self-sacrifice; through an act of giving up that which you have in order to help others who would not otherwise be helped.
While in this state, the sense of unconditional love that you have for humanity virtually begs you to help those who are not yet equipped to do this for themselves. If you now give that state, that energy, that feeling of inspiration away to the group consciousness of humanity, then you have created a vacuum within yourself.
By the law of action and reaction, that vacuum must be filled. However, an act of self-sacrifice in service to others has a side-effect: It raises the frequency of your consciousness higher than it was before. So, when the vacuum becomes filled with inspiration and upliftment from the universe, it is filled with an even higher frequency of consciousness than before.
Because of that, you will have become more inspired and more uplifted than ever before. By the act of sacrificing that which you had, you will actually gain more than you had before. Such is the paradox of love in action.
It is also the basis of the ancient path of Karma Yoga – the pathway to God through action and service.
By giving spiritual energy to mankind, you tread a pathway of spiritual action. This powerful pathway of giving what you have, in order to inspire others, is one that leads you to continually higher states of inspiration along your own spiritual path.
Owen Waters is the author of Infinite Being Insight E-Books at:
Infinite Being Insight E-Books
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 17 Feb 2008 @ 22:34, by jewel. Spirituality
you came to me again from a new possibility - the sacred hi desert mohave land - and when i walked on your soil and drove in a sacred spiral - laying lay lines throughout the southland in that ethereal space time between christmas and new years... lax to brentwood heights - to palm springs arts festival - to letecia's family gathering - to amara and thomas' return to sell their sacred wares - to their home in yucca valley - 3 nights visioning with priestesses / sisters/ keepers of the eternal visions, letecia and amara, and then the time on amara's untouched land with the earth crust unbroken, the Vision came, the mind map revealed for 2008: a return to the city of angels immediately for me, and a new home life for chantal and i .... then sunday 30th december we drove via glendale - to ojai - and had sacred spring renewal, celestine prophecy awake dreaming... new years with jay and cynthia meeting the hilarious dog archetype / oracle game... and then new years day dinner with jennifer in la and drive to la jolla .... meeting on the beach 2nd jan with he project 8 production team.... slept 2nd back in brentwood then 3rd in santa barbara with allen the golden hearted new keystone for my perfume business remergence in la.... and then back to ojai to collect tecia and land on the 3rd at marigrace's new home old sacred space centre... to an incredible climax with marigrace and letecia on friday the 4th.... spent the whole day 5th jan at lax writing new names for s'amuser... the eternal muse..... i am grateful for the huge VISION this trip gave me, the mind map i have on my wall here in glastonbury and the KNOWING that this is all UNFOLDING now, and that the new life in the city of angels will be fulfilled immediately. i am grateful for he knowing that if i put forth the dream, the plan and feel the worth of this in my cells, that doors will open and it will be realized in flow ease and total abundance for ALL. om shanti om.
i am grateful for the Vision - for the Sisters - for the Support - and for always and forever the Love...
 
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 15 Feb 2008 @ 17:18, by jewel. Spirituality
I have been wanting to write and create a gratitude journal for some time. I have a few zillion journal entries written on my heart....
Today is the moment I've been waiting for. I am grateful for the child before me, your innocence trust and ability to feel deeply in your cells and atoms and dancing molecules. I am grateful you were sent to me to bless and uplift my life. I am grateful incredibly for the honour of raising you and showing you a magical wonderful world. I am grateful for the fact that you might not fully know all the activities and haunts of the insane 'i's that collapse from the Shared Space of the Eternal. I am grateful for your presence in my life, and that it reflects purely the essence possible and awarded to me by the angels. You are a gift to Life, to me your mother and to all our kin. To our blood family and the Aquarian family that has stayed in sacred union and touch even if we are far apart. I am grateful for the opportunity to cherish you and nourish you and protect you and to teach you that Life supports you. I believe this FOR you even when I forget it for my small self. I am eternally grateful that I believer in THAT reality being created for you, by me, through our small 'family' unit.
I am grateful for all that Chantal brings to my life and the world. I just look at you, touch you, engage with you --- and I remember - everything! More >
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12 Feb 2008 @ 15:41, by vector8. Spirituality
There's been a lot of focus on the "Law of Attraction"; some have even called it a "secret." The "Law of Attraction" is no secret. Solomon, King of Israel, made this realisation thousands of years ago:
"For as he thinketh in his heart so is he." -- Proverbs 23: 7
In other words, one attracts what one believes or thinks about the most. Here are a few examples of the Law of Attraction in my life experience.
Yesterday evening while I was at the bookshop and enjoying the tranquillity, a man sat next to me. He took out his mobile phone and made a phone call. He had a booming voice. For a split second I wondered why I had attracted that experience then I remembered how much I love listening to the Italian language. My friend beside me was speaking fluent Italian just for me. I probably would have taken offence if he was speaking English. Haha. More >
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11 Feb 2008 @ 13:40, by vector8. Spirituality
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We had noted during all our journeys with these people that none of their clothing became soiled. We had remarked about this a great many times but had received no reply until this evening when, in answer to a remark made, our friend of the records said, "This may seem remarkable to you but it seems far more remarkable to us that one speck of God's created substance adheres to another of God's creations where it is not wanted and where it does not belong. With the right concept this could not happen, for no part of God's substance can be misplaced or placed where it is not wanted."
Then, in an instant we realized that our clothing and bodies were as clean as theirs were. The transformation, for to us it was a transformation, had taken place instantly to all three alike while we stood there. All fatigue left us and we were as refreshed as though we had arisen from bed and had our morning bath. -- The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 1
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8 Feb 2008 @ 10:46, by erlefrayne. Spirituality
Asian Seekers, behold the Light coming forth from your inner spaces!
I know that you’ve been looking everywhere for teachers or gurus or ‘not-so-usual’ people who can perhaps help you ascend the heights of your Path, but few are available in your own backyards or so it seems. Believe me, there are many teachers in Asia, even in your own country, but they make their presence in so non-descript or low profile a manner that you may not even realize they are gurus when you encounter them face-to-face.
Please note the differences in styles and methods of teachers from the East and West owing to the cultural differences they’ve been exposed to. In the Philippines, as in Asia, the sayings goes that “mas malakas ang bulong kaysa sigaw” (whisper is more powerful than shout). This is the opposite in the West, where people are accustomed to articulate what they think and feel in a rather ‘noisy’ or highly noticeable manner as much as possible. More >
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7 Feb 2008 @ 14:02, by vector8. Spirituality
Life is a dream.
Whether I'm having a "pleasant" or a "painful" experience it's still a dream. Naturally, I prefer to experience wonderful dreams of love and joy and wonder.
Now the problem with dreaming is I can get so caught up in a dream that I can forget that's it's only a dream, which can be changed or dissolved at any moment. This leads to my thought of today with a little help from my friend, William Shakespeare.
To dream or not to dream? That is the question. More >
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2 Feb 2008 @ 13:50, by vector8. Spirituality
It's all very well wanting to bless others and be a blessing to the world; I believe that the greatest blessing I can offer to the world is to both bless myself and recognise that I am blessed at all times.
Quite recently as I was lying on the sofa watching television, I felt my right foot seizing up. It felt like I was about to have a cramp not only on my foot but around my calf. I wasn't looking forward to it at all. Then I had an idea: why not simply thank your leg and foot for doing such a grand job? So that's exactly what I did. I thanked my feet and legs for always supporting me. Then I thanked my body for being the perfect tool to express myself. The moment I did the symptom dissolved and there was no cramp. More >
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