This comment is still ringing in my mind. Thanks for introducing me to the term loosh.
I think you make a good point about the Presence too.
I just get so distracted by my own mental turnings. I’m perpetually skeptical, even of things that I am ostensibly the ultimate authority on like self-evaluation of my meditation abilities or my gut c…
This comment is still ringing in my mind. Thanks for introducing me to the term loosh.
I think you make a good point about the Presence too.
I just get so distracted by my own mental turnings. I’m perpetually skeptical, even of things that I am ostensibly the ultimate authority on like self-evaluation of my meditation abilities or my gut check on wisdom arrived at via intuition and connection to source.
“Is this gnosis? How would I know this is gnosis?”
Yeah. I think a modern pathway in the right direction is the idea of "embodiment", which is popping up everywhere nowadays (and a good thing, too). Our minds are so wonderful and seductive, but they are simulation apparatus. They always *represent* something with something else — and so it is easy to be lulled into the sense that we are experiencing, when we are actually living inside the simulations of our different mental states. The more time you spend in non-mind-centered states (non-mind-dominant?), it shifts the mix so that it no longer looks like the mind is everything. I.e., go for a walk, pet a cat, ... ;-)
This comment is still ringing in my mind. Thanks for introducing me to the term loosh.
I think you make a good point about the Presence too.
I just get so distracted by my own mental turnings. I’m perpetually skeptical, even of things that I am ostensibly the ultimate authority on like self-evaluation of my meditation abilities or my gut check on wisdom arrived at via intuition and connection to source.
“Is this gnosis? How would I know this is gnosis?”
Yeah. I think a modern pathway in the right direction is the idea of "embodiment", which is popping up everywhere nowadays (and a good thing, too). Our minds are so wonderful and seductive, but they are simulation apparatus. They always *represent* something with something else — and so it is easy to be lulled into the sense that we are experiencing, when we are actually living inside the simulations of our different mental states. The more time you spend in non-mind-centered states (non-mind-dominant?), it shifts the mix so that it no longer looks like the mind is everything. I.e., go for a walk, pet a cat, ... ;-)
Good advice!