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One Seeker's Journey: Thoughts on Unexpected Spiritual Emergence |
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30 Aug 2002 @ 20:51 by bushman : Hmm. 31 Aug 2002 @ 01:16 by shawa : Hi, Craig! :-) And Welcome to the Newslogs! I´m glad you jumped into the brew! I´m one of these people who had a sudden (rough) awakening thirty years back - and following the breadcrumbs, I´m now a therapist in psychosynthesis! I HAD to explain the "event" to myself, or go mad! Instead of going mad, I went to ... *M*A*D (=*Make* *A* *Difference*!...) Have you heard about the Indigo Children ? I have two of them in my own home! (That led me (forced me, actually) into experimenting with alternatives for education). "Following the breadcrumbs" leads us to "change the world" - some "thing", up there, in us, - is leading us on towards the Light. Or maybe it is genetic ? Anyway - I´m looking forward to more posts from you. Have a nice day! 31 Aug 2002 @ 03:52 by istvan : Dear Craig, I am glad to see your post on this subject, for i feel this may be the most burning desire/mystery of all of us who have had glimpses into higher dimensions of the manifested world than those we are accustomed or forced to exist in. I hope you stay with it to collect data on occurences of what is commonly called enligtenment. I have rows of read or some unread books on this and a large desire to share the described experiences of the writers and of my own with these so called spiritual experiences of being who we are. Unlil we have some methods of true sharing of these experiences, better ways than words and mere phisical expressions, they remain beyond the weil, created by the mind for the protection from an inbalance of what is known as madness. I belive and sometimes knoww there are many enligtened beings on Earth, but have no way of communicating. More later. 31 Aug 2002 @ 05:30 by swan : Following the breadcrumbs can lead to a whole loaf of bread. My spiritual awakening began with a near death experience 18 years ago. I had a strangulated bowel, which is a condition that rarely occurs in a person of the age I was at the time. My condition was misdiagnosed and I was sent home from the hospital. The pain from this condition is likened to a gun shot wound to the abdomin. I won't go into all the gorey details here. It was three days before I was able to convince someone that there was something terribly wrong with me. By that time two feet of my intestine had alread died. Which required 8 hours of surgery to remove and repair. The important part of this story is that some higher force took over ( at a time when I was not very spiritually awake). I spontaneously started doing a breathing technique that I feel lifted me out of my body so I could bear the intolerable pain I was in. What it also did was shut down the elimination systems in my body and this is what I believe saved my life. Breathing, in a new way saved my life. I was open and vulnerable because of extreme fear and the opening allowed me to listen to something higher. My life was never the same from that point and I was awakened to my ability to spiritually connect to a higher place and create art. It has been a painful and joyful journey of awakening and I would not give back any of my experiences because they have been the compost that has brought fruits and flowers to the beautiful garden of my life. 31 Aug 2002 @ 05:35 by vaxen : Hi Craig... Glad you are here, too...My own journey started long ago in my Grand-mothers' house. She was a 'North Enden Witch' (Practitioner of Kelti Witta - a Wittani) thus the 'paranormal' was a frequent visitor in my life from then onwards. I've been to the depths and to the heights of this 'Magical Mystery Tour' we call life. Through many of the Earths best 'Mystery Schools' I've gleaned much. One thing I do know is that, concerning these 'matters' there is much to discover that is not evident from just a 'cursory' view. One must become 'initiated/inebriated,' so to speak, before the light 'dawns' in ones' essence or heart. I think probably we all share threads which have synchronistically interwoven themselves across the inner dimensions and multidimensions to bring us to a place where the concourse can meet that we might communicate the fact that we are not alone...even though sometimes it seems that way and that we are the only ones who've ever seen a disk or been contacted or contacted offworlders or things that go bump in the night. Glad you are here and I do look forward to more of your writings on these matters and to a more in depth communication.---Vaxen 1 Sep 2002 @ 12:04 by martha : UFO I'm uncomfortable with the connection of UFO and spiritual awakening. While I don't doubt some have experienced an awakening with a UFO experience the correlation, for me, diminishes the power of an awakening. It tends to put it in the unusual or "wow wow " area. A spiritual awakening can be as simple as holding your new born child or watching a beautiful sunrise. A spiritual awakening happens when you are ready to allow it in. Many people than equate what they are doing with the awakening. The activity or situation might trigger the awakening but one must be ready to let it in or it will not happen. The beauty of a spiritual awakening is that they happen when you least expect it. Since we are multi dimensional energy frequencies the ways and means that humans will have these awakenings will be as varied and different as there are souls on this planet. While I commend you to your seeking, the best advice I can offer is be is be open to all avenues. An awakening is simple, pure and inside you at all times. Martha CL Note: Martha, you make an interesting point. Emergence is different for each person. Since this is the case, each person's path begins somewhere. Mine began in UFOlogy. If this is uncomfortable for you I can certainly respect that. To me its a matter of perspective. One person's "wow wow" may be an important step on another's life path. Thank you for your comment. I wish you well. Craig 2 Sep 2002 @ 06:55 by istvan : Pointers I will be sending you some tid-bits you might be intredted in at your newslog as i find them. I rather do this here instead of e-mail since others might be interested.ZD ----------------------------------------------------------- [[[CL Note: Yes, great. Please do...]]] ----------------------------------------------------------- [ [link] ] I found this conversation in another chatroom i participate in, might be interesting to read.ZD --------------------------------------------------- Hi Tarika > > These are brain-functions, not consciousness in the way of being aware, being > > conscious of oneself. > ____________ > i wander sometimes, what use do we have of all this divisions. Use? No use, i find no use even in living. But that's just how things are. > As i see it Nature is Consciousness in manifestation. Yes, everything steem from the same consciousness, and everything is consciousness. this is how i see it too. But concsiousness takes on many forms, becomes even unconsciousness sometimes. And these many forms, have different names, different feelings etc. And i find it good to know what is what in this jungle im living in. > So how do you mean - that consciousness is not a part of your nature? No, nature is part of consciousness. Consciousness isn't partly, it is whole and contains all its parts. Nature is a part of consciousness. > It is your/our nature. Period. Yes, i know what you mean. I'd rather say consciousness is my source, my essence and being. My nature is my biology, instinctual and genetical constitution. > And your brain is part of you, and brain functions are part of your brain. Sure. > And consciousness being unaware or aware of itself in specific form of > nature (like in a tree, or a frog, a rat or a human being) just shows how > diverse the manifestation of consciousness is. > But it is still ... consciousness. Yes, and no. Is steem still water? Is the flower still a seed? It is abit boring seeing everything 'just' as consciousness, when it gives us such a rich variety of forms, colors, fragrances, textures, functions etc. > Consciousness is all there is. Its like saying the father is all there is in a family, not seeing his offsprings. Consciousness alone is not life, just unmanifest energy. Consciousness has to mate to become life. > we may grow into awareness, in understanding our nature (consciousness), > we may not. > If we do or do not - we may think it is because of our good deeds (lot of > meditation techniques, groups, spirit. books, being close to guru), or we > may think it is divine grace, or a combination of the two, or we may think > it because of "......" or we may not think of it at all. > Even that (our deeds and thoughts) is not in our control, if it was we would > all be grown long ago. > Consciousness is all there is, and everything is as it is. > Simple. Too simple. There is a lot you can do to open the door. But you cannot force the sun to shine through it. > > beyond the beyond...who knows where? the journey never ends...... > > it does for me, in vast & timeless here and now, > now where (or nowhere) to go ?! Good. I guess we can talk ad infinitum about our different ways of viewing our process and consciousness and such. I don't think i want to. Thanks. 3 Sep 2002 @ 17:22 by tdeane : And further... Isn't it the Cosmos who decides who is Enlightened? Isn't one of our fundamental problems that we have taken it upon ourselves to decide? Isn't deciding who is this and who is that what got us to this place to begin with?Love ~ Tricia 3 Sep 2002 @ 18:58 by craiglang : Tricia - right on Tricia, Thank you for our comment. One of the things that we most need to avoid, is judgement. The best we can do is offer unconditional agape: "The sun shines on the evil and the good". And while that's easy to say, and extreeeeemely difficult to do... 8^) The only thing we can know about our own selves is that we have progressed a little more relative to where we were. We can't gauge ourselves in relation to anyone else, or in terms of any "destination". All we can do is our best. Thanks again. -Craig 15 Jan 2007 @ 15:22 by Paul Donohue @82.39.44.216 : my own awakening Hello I would be very interested in sharing with you my very abrupt intense spiritual awakening that involves me and my twin brother its a bizarre tale. Other entries in Articles 17 Oct 2006 @ 02:40: A Symphony of Change 3 Feb 2006 @ 17:18: More spooky 9/11 stuff 24 Oct 2005 @ 20:57: The Republic of Vermont? 18 Jul 2005 @ 17:15: Seth Shostak's Glass House 16 Mar 2005 @ 22:10: Whitley on Armegeddon '2005, The Year of the Death Wish' 23 Feb 2005 @ 17:11: More by Richard Dolan 21 Jan 2005 @ 18:24: Controlling the Anger 30 Dec 2004 @ 16:39: 'Earthquakes in various places' 25 Oct 2004 @ 17:16: A Million Questions in the Eye of God 19 Sep 2004 @ 00:39: Sky Captain
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