Thank you Geoffe. I totally agree about the Great All and the absence of self, our identity being a mental construction helped by our ego. Nevertheless, what about our soul, that part of the Great All we are? I believe, and that’s what I have experimented with my 2 guides who’s energetic patterns are very different, souls are all the same as being part of the Great All and yet all different in their mission. Our souls are here to expand and experiment but not in the same way, they chose to incarnate into specific lives for their specific purposes. Somehow, this makes each soul, with all its knowledge acquired in different lifelines, very unique, don’t you think? Lots of love.
Yeah I think they’re simultaneously true, even if it’s a bit paradoxical: all soul and all form is one thing, *and* each incarnating soul is a unique facet of that all.
Not bad. Matches this particular meat-puppet's experience. As a very crusty Zen adept once said, "you've reached the bones and heart of the great teaching. But can you express the marrow?"
My brain hurts a bit, but on some weird 'All' level, I get this and I feel it. Except...can't I please pick and choose the All I'm derived from? Does it have to include an orange He Who Must Not Be Named and anyone that thinks he (it, whatever) is a viable source of...anything?!
Soooo tricky. In my opinion you’re authorized to claim whoever and whatever you want as a part of your Us. If your Us has a Them, that must just be part of your journey. Far be it from me to try to argue against you, a perfect manifestation of Source expressing through matter!
For me, I generally believe what I damn, damns me back. To put anything outside of the light of Source, I feel that I’d have to drag it into the darkness where god doesn’t exist. Then I’m in the darkness too. And in that dark place that is in denial of god, I can do other things that are in denial of god (like start a civil war against that pesky Them).
On a good day, you’ll catch me believing that everything is part of The All. How could anything be outside of The All? It’s everything! So it must be perfect, because what else could it be? It must be good because it’s god, because again, what else is there?
On a medium day, I make allowances. No absolute statement can be right 100% of the time. Everything is on a fractal spectrum. Maybe 95% of people are Good and 5% are possessed by the demons of narcissism and psychopathy. Maybe we are right to exclude those people.
On a bad day, it’s the demiurgic parasites of narcissism and psychopathy that are feeding on our loosh and ruling the world.
Tricky indeed. Loving All is true enlightenment--of that there is no doubt. I doubt I will ever be there in this lifetime, I have too much hurt and anger to be able to not attach. I am also not a god person, but more of an energy/elemental/connection person. There is energy I want to desperately keep out of my life, because it brings me down, and if it is not made of love than it doesn't do anything for the rest of Us or our planet, either. It's destructive, and self-destructive. It simply exists. So I think empathy for people that absorb and weild that energy is about all I can muster. I do believe As Above, So Below. One can not exist without the other. So there is the constant struggle to be human! :-)
I thought you said you were not “good” person (and that was why you’d not reach Loving Everyone enlightenment) 🤣
I wasn’t a god person until very recently. The only way I could swing it was via a very esoteric definition of “god” as simply everything there is. It’s like another word for all the matter in the universe, all the interior, spiritual experiences of the systems that matter self-organizes into, and all the relationships those entities have with one another.
God is just another word for All. And for whatever reason, I’ve become convinced that one of the properties of that all that contains everything is infinite, unconditional love, acceptance and abundance.
In some ways I still find a lot of value in using the conceptual and metaphysical model of elemental forces. And I honor your hurt, your sacred fury and your right to protect yourself and those you love.
Empathy is PLENTY in this struggle we find ourselves in 💜
Thank you, Geoff--you're the Best! We just keep evolving as best we can! And, as to the original reason for you post, I honor your choice to identify as non-binary! I see you! XO
I spotted that in your recent piece about plastic surgery! Fun synchronicity, and yeah it was an amazing book that hit me at exactly the right time in my life.
Thank you Geoffe. I totally agree about the Great All and the absence of self, our identity being a mental construction helped by our ego. Nevertheless, what about our soul, that part of the Great All we are? I believe, and that’s what I have experimented with my 2 guides who’s energetic patterns are very different, souls are all the same as being part of the Great All and yet all different in their mission. Our souls are here to expand and experiment but not in the same way, they chose to incarnate into specific lives for their specific purposes. Somehow, this makes each soul, with all its knowledge acquired in different lifelines, very unique, don’t you think? Lots of love.
Yeah I think they’re simultaneously true, even if it’s a bit paradoxical: all soul and all form is one thing, *and* each incarnating soul is a unique facet of that all.
Not bad. Matches this particular meat-puppet's experience. As a very crusty Zen adept once said, "you've reached the bones and heart of the great teaching. But can you express the marrow?"
Crunch crunch chew. 😎
Hell yeah, I love a good osso buco! 😅 Thanks for the encouragement to keep going deeper.
My brain hurts a bit, but on some weird 'All' level, I get this and I feel it. Except...can't I please pick and choose the All I'm derived from? Does it have to include an orange He Who Must Not Be Named and anyone that thinks he (it, whatever) is a viable source of...anything?!
Soooo tricky. In my opinion you’re authorized to claim whoever and whatever you want as a part of your Us. If your Us has a Them, that must just be part of your journey. Far be it from me to try to argue against you, a perfect manifestation of Source expressing through matter!
For me, I generally believe what I damn, damns me back. To put anything outside of the light of Source, I feel that I’d have to drag it into the darkness where god doesn’t exist. Then I’m in the darkness too. And in that dark place that is in denial of god, I can do other things that are in denial of god (like start a civil war against that pesky Them).
On a good day, you’ll catch me believing that everything is part of The All. How could anything be outside of The All? It’s everything! So it must be perfect, because what else could it be? It must be good because it’s god, because again, what else is there?
On a medium day, I make allowances. No absolute statement can be right 100% of the time. Everything is on a fractal spectrum. Maybe 95% of people are Good and 5% are possessed by the demons of narcissism and psychopathy. Maybe we are right to exclude those people.
On a bad day, it’s the demiurgic parasites of narcissism and psychopathy that are feeding on our loosh and ruling the world.
😅
Tricky indeed. Loving All is true enlightenment--of that there is no doubt. I doubt I will ever be there in this lifetime, I have too much hurt and anger to be able to not attach. I am also not a god person, but more of an energy/elemental/connection person. There is energy I want to desperately keep out of my life, because it brings me down, and if it is not made of love than it doesn't do anything for the rest of Us or our planet, either. It's destructive, and self-destructive. It simply exists. So I think empathy for people that absorb and weild that energy is about all I can muster. I do believe As Above, So Below. One can not exist without the other. So there is the constant struggle to be human! :-)
I thought you said you were not “good” person (and that was why you’d not reach Loving Everyone enlightenment) 🤣
I wasn’t a god person until very recently. The only way I could swing it was via a very esoteric definition of “god” as simply everything there is. It’s like another word for all the matter in the universe, all the interior, spiritual experiences of the systems that matter self-organizes into, and all the relationships those entities have with one another.
God is just another word for All. And for whatever reason, I’ve become convinced that one of the properties of that all that contains everything is infinite, unconditional love, acceptance and abundance.
In some ways I still find a lot of value in using the conceptual and metaphysical model of elemental forces. And I honor your hurt, your sacred fury and your right to protect yourself and those you love.
Empathy is PLENTY in this struggle we find ourselves in 💜
Thank you, Geoff--you're the Best! We just keep evolving as best we can! And, as to the original reason for you post, I honor your choice to identify as non-binary! I see you! XO
Nice! I quoted Invisible Monsters, such a great book.
I spotted that in your recent piece about plastic surgery! Fun synchronicity, and yeah it was an amazing book that hit me at exactly the right time in my life.
“Yesterday, I quoted Invisible Monsters”* lol was what I meant to write.