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9 Mar 2008 @ 13:08, by erlefrayne. Spirituality
Let me articulate at this juncture the last of the 7 Ray Lessons that I wish to stress: Serve God and His Creations! I will begin with some reflective notes on the sociological ‘law of reciprocity’ which the masters made known to us through the ‘golden rule’. I will incorporate in the discourse the reflective notes on libertosophy that I elaborated in my book Libertosophy and Freethought: The Path of Illumination for Libertarian Freethinkers.
Sociologists and anthropologists alike discovered the ‘law of reciprocity’ across cultures. In philosophical sense, this law is an axiological standard and is at the core of ethical teachings. On the positive sense, it is stated: “Do for others what you want others to do for you.” In the negative sense, it is stated: “Do not do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you.”
In libertosophy, I outlined three core principles regarding the liberation project: (1) to be able to attain liberation, one must liberate others; (2) only the free can set other people free; and, (3) liberation must be done within the context of the social world (never in isolation from people). They are all inter-connected and mutually reinforcing. More >
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 21 Feb 2008 @ 01:20, by letecia. Spirituality
Thanks to Genevieve Vaughan and Heide Goettner-Abendroth for drafting and circulating this pledge:
Here is a pledge against racism in the Goddess Community. If you want to add your name please click below or e mail me genvau@aol.com. Please also send the pledge on to others.
If you prefer you can also just print it out and sign it personally, as an agreement with your own spirit.
We will send the pledge with signatures to Goddess publications and events.
Please let me know your comments or suggestions.
Blessed Be
Gen
Pledge of the Goddess Community on Racism
As a member of the group of human beings who honor the present and past images of female divinity, I pledge to include in Goddess conferences the indigenous people of the locality or territory where conferences are held, and to reference and honor their deities. That is, I myself will make every effort to invite speakers and participants of the people indigenous to the area and of other ethnic groups. If I am not an organizer of the event myself I will work to ensure that the organizers invite them. Given the economic injustice in our society, I will promote special stipends for speakers of color and sliding scale or free access to conferences for any participants of color or other participants who may be economically oppressed.
The multiplicity of the Goddess is expressed in the variety of humanity and in the many kinds of ritual and worship. Racism dishonors the Goddess(es).
Signed in good faith
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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... More >
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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... More >
 
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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
End quote... More >
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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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