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30 Aug 2007 @ 02:44, by swanny. Spirituality
CARE OR DIE
August 29, 2007
Earth
Wednesday
Evening
CARE OR DIE
Care or die!
I don't think it can be put any more simpler. If we don't care and care enough about the things that need caring for and pretty soon or now, then we and a lot of species will simply die and become the remains of a ruined planet. So unless we have a burning death wish I suppose we better start boning up on our caring muscles. How much time ? Well this was a fairly wacky weather year don't ya figure. I mean unless you're in a cave or on the space station, the weather was pretty.... well .... I mean really why beat that dead horse any more. Are we asleep or awake I suppose is the real question. Do we care or don't we and ...
etc. etc.. It starts with caring and then caring leads to actions and habits and behaviours and then things gradually change.
Care or die?
Care though not because the alternative is death but care because it is the logical and right thing to do and remember once you did care until the pain of love and life sucked that care out of you. Caring is the natural thing we do as humans. Not caring that is not natural. Or kill yourself cause living with out caring is about the same as being dead or half dead anyway.
I care or try too most of the time.
Its tough to care but its mostly the right and natural thing to do.
Don't do it for me though, do it because its the human thing to do.
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28 Aug 2007 @ 16:21, by solomoreno. Spirituality
“Yes, sire.” One may be familiar with this form of address, which usually took place when a servant interacted with English royalty. Implicit within the address is an acknowledgment of the supposed divine nature of the royal personage, as the word “sire” means heavenly body or star. It’s in this way that the word “desire” means, at least etymologically, ‘away from heaven.’ If one posited that heaven was some vague refuge of pleasure, then this etymological ‘discovery’ offers little insight. However, posit that heaven is this case signifies Wholeness and the word “desire” becomes a key that unlocks truths about life and the pursuit of happiness.
Games are created through desire. One has to want the goal; one has to want to win for there to be a game. If one did not care in the least, no game would ever be created or played. And one cares because there is a lack. One has to be in some sort of a state of unwholesomeness to conjure the concern or desire that a game demands. Geoffrey Filbert once told me that with anything there is the positive and the negative…and then there is how much one really cares. In other words, there is the goal, the anti-goal and desire.
Is one innately deficient? To put it another way, does one have no choice but to care? One idea that may prove otherwise is the notion that a restricted state can only originate from a state of greater freedom. Ibn ‘Arabi, a Spanish Sufi, spoke much about the fact that determined things can only originate from non-determination. With this in mind, it could be said that one is actually innately Whole and that one creates deficits for oneself in some effort to participate in game play. From a certain perspective then, any belief that one is in any way deficient, and that one is need of anything, would amount to a LIE. This may explain the recent findings that Max Sandor published on his blog at sandorian.us. Max writes: “In short, ANY ATTACHMENT to a desired object will result in that object to go AWAY, and NOT to be attracted.” Perhaps this is because one’s Higher Self will not tolerate such a lie, the lie that one needs anything. Max goes on to mention a “winning strategy.” He writes: “Relinquish attachment to the positive pole and resistance to the negative and ACT as if the result wouldn't matter!” One ‘acts’ as if the result wouldn’t matter because the result really doesn’t matter! At least, it doesn’t matter as far as one’s eternal happiness is concerned.
It’s been my experience that whenever I find myself attached to something, there appears a Voice that demands my flight from it. It’s as if this Voice will not tolerate such a substandard condition as being in need; it seems it cannot stand my harboring such a false belief in the face of Reality, the reality that I am Whole. Hate may begin to come into play as hate becomes a propellant. One may begin to hate that to which one is attached, as a means to better achieve a “freedom from” and thus ultimately a “freedom to.”
It seems everyone is engaged in the pursuit of Wholeness but it’s this wrong belief, the belief that it’s what’s “out there” that will bring one wholeness, that prevents them from truly achieving what they ultimately already have and ultimately already are. Deciding that heroin, sex, procreation, wealth, etc., will bring them everlasting happiness, they pursue these things of the world with uncontrollable fervor. Yet the most they can hope to achieve is temporary wholeness, a brief pleasurable union as they fall back and as the chase begins once again. In the Pali Canon, someone once asked Siddhartha Gotama why anyone would want to achieve Nirvana. He said essentially it’s because people shun woe and embrace weal. So once a person comes to fully understand that it’s no object of the world that will bring them true weal, and that there is a path that bears the potential to do so, they can shed their false ideas and look to that which may actually bring them eternal wholeness. But there is no reason why they couldn’t enjoy the temporary pleasures of the earth in the meantime!
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25 Aug 2007 @ 21:28, by a-d. Spirituality
A MESSAGE OF PEACE,
and a call to help support a new film "The Shift of the Ages!"
~ Aluna Joy Yaxk'in
You can find this article (see below), plus much more on this link:
[link]
On July 8th, Grandfather Alejandro came to speak in Sedona, Arizona along with his wife, Grandmother Elizabeth, as well as a young, rising star film maker, Steve Copeland, acting as writer, director and producer. Their path to produce a film has not been easy. It has required hard work on a limited budget, and doing without creature comforts and luxuries while traveling around the world with Grandfather Alejandro.
I was blessed to see Grandfather Alejandro speak with Grandmother Elizabeth as his translator. It was good to see them both doing so well. Grandfather Alejandro has softened with age. I could feel his open heart and could feel that he knew time was short to get his message out. Because of this, he spoke eloquently and to the point. He confirmed many things and also straightened out many misconceptions.
Grandfather Alejandro had a unify message and shared that we are all brother and sisters, and flowers of the Earth. He said that the Maya prophesies are for all people; not just the Maya. They are for everyone everywhere. Even though the flowers of the earth are different, they all bloom for the Creator. The one SUN shines on all equally, and we all drink the same water, and breathe the same air, and live on the same earth . . . and when we die, we all return to her womb. More >
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 17 Aug 2007 @ 21:11, by jhs. Spirituality
to make clear where we stand in relation to the other trends in Ifa worldwide, Heloisa and I drafted the following manifest:
Manifest of Hermetic Ifá
Recognizing that every Being in the world is a unique expression of the collective soul of the Universe with an intrinsic value and a special contribution to this world and all its Being therein, we:
- consider the freedom of a person only possible in the absence of dogmas, judgment and prejudice, superstitions and false mysticism, and consider this freedom achievable through the knowledge of oneself and one's relations to the other Beings in the Universe;
- remember that we have spirit, mind, AND soul and that this enables us to perform as witness and actor on the great stage of life;
- work towards the integration of the Human Being, its spirit, soul, and mind, seeing this very integration as the grand scope of the drama of the Universe;
- realize that the premise of "the end justifies the means" was at the root of the downfall of the Great Beings and all major civilizations;
- are aware of the always present danger of a philosophical or social system being turned into a religious cult and thus losing its inner integrity and functionality;
- nevertheless respect the traditional religions as cultural expressions in which many deep truths are embedded even if they are being abused to enslave Beings instead of liberating them;
- strive to distill the truth from the knowledge of the past and use the best of it while avoiding merging paradigms;
- aim at cristalyzing the basic truths of this Universe instead of adding to the complexity of existing thought systems, realizing that the very same basic laws govern all of the Universe;
- do not pretend to know what we do not know for ourselves, do not relay altered or uncertain information as true, do not disclose any truth that would harm and not heal, and do not pretend to converse with the essence of the All (Olodumare);
- do not pressure or coax anyone to be part of any philosophical system, and do not tolerate patriarchical nor any other autoritarian structures, mutulation or punishment, including fasting;
- recognize the three worlds of above, below, and the middle, considering anyone stable in all three of them as a genuine "Trismegistus";
- live as a true friend ("Awo") to all living Beings, as true philosophers ("Friends of Sophia"), the cosmic principle of Odù and its polarities, and as dedicated students of Ifá, the knowledge of Fá which is beyond truths and lies. More >
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14 Aug 2007 @ 15:38, by robertal. Spirituality
Review: The Final Freedoms/©free
On the horizon appears an approaching religious [and scientific] furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side,a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear.
The first wholly new interpretation for 2000 years of the moral teachings of Jesus the Christ is on the web. It focuses specifically on marriage and human sexuality, overturning all natural law ethics and theory. At stake is the credibility of several thousand years of religious history and moral theology and will undoubtably impact many fields of intellectual inquiry. More >
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13 Aug 2007 @ 00:12, by a-d. Spirituality
Over The Rainbow
(Arlen-Harburg)
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
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I was compiling Rainbow Warrior site today on the Net, hoping to find enough for everyone here to find their own site among these.
This is (one of ) my favorite/s ( from this link:
[link]
Do you know what a rainbow is ??
Yes, a beautiful bow of colors in the sky.
Do you know what a warrior is ??
A warrior is a brave person.
One who has courage instead of being afraid.
Now let me ask you a question.
Do you love animals or hate animals?
Do you love trees or hate trees?
Do you love people or hate people?
Do you love the rainbow or hate the rainbow?
Well, if you love animals and trees, people and
rainbows, then maybe you are a
"Warrior of the Rainbow".
[link]
http://www.geocities.com/manuela_standing_woman/Warrior_Rainbow.html
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http://www.manataka.org/~manataka/page174.html
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http://www.rainbowwarriors.net/global/rw_contct.html
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http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/about/work/where/ships/Rainbow-Warrior
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http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/rw/pkhist.html
[link]
http://home.earthlink.net/~heartofthelotus/id14.html
[link]
This is a fun one; you can see beautiful photos of real Rainbows in the Sky! : )
[link]
Some of these sites are just beautiful and some have very important info and all invites us to join Life from a new perspective -as does the Rainbows in the sky! : ) More >
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11 Aug 2007 @ 10:47, by vector8. Spirituality
"Life moves pretty fast… If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- : Ferris Beuller
There are some films I watch over and over again and still find joy in them: Ferris Beuller's Day Off is one such film. I watched it again on television last night and I love it.
Ferris Beuller is a teenager in his final year at school and about to graduate. He wakes up one morning and decides it's too beautiful a day to be in school so he tells his parents he's not feeling well and he would like to stay home. They leave him tucked up in bed. More >
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3 Aug 2007 @ 21:51, by craiglang. Spirituality
(Adapted from article on my Yahoo 360 blog site)
This week has been a helluva week - and beneath it, I sense a very meaningful chain of synchronicites. More >
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1 Aug 2007 @ 22:30, by negby. Spirituality
Angels; Hospitality: Sharing
A Lecture given by
The Kabal Barak Negby
February, 1998
It is written in the Book of Genesis, chapter 32, 3:
"Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the Seir range of the Edom country ".
Apparently it seems to be a peculiar phenomena: Man sending angels.
We are used to refer to angels as God's messengers rather than man's servants.
They either bring or take something from a person or they tell man the word of The Lord meaning being sent by divine powers.
Thus each messenger is really an angel in his true meaning. More >
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  23 Jul 2007 @ 08:37, by feecor. Spirituality
Panoptic was the Word of Yesterday. Is it possible to have a comprehensive, coherent "all-seeing" from a high stand to see the context and have overview? As our society believes in specialisation and ignores the potentials of being both, specialist and generalist ways or constructions are shown to share positions, issues, and perspectives and their combination. The essay reviews the possibility of not only having single, a caleidoscop of images, but to agree upon a coherent unifying generalisation in order to find orientation and see and share contexts, overlaps, and common patterns, and proposes to study the combination of elements or signs forming the "whole" of "all" of panoptic endeavour. More >
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