Oh cool, I thought you'd either love that or hate it, because the Course can be perceived as shunning physicality as lesser than spirit, whereas I'm seeing spirit and matter here as the same thing.
"I don't know where that came from,..." (Not sure what don't you know came from where?.. the reported epiphanies of mystics, maybe? That's the only thing above that I can think of that could be documented with a footnote to source material and isn't... I honestly don't remember where I read that, though, it was years ago. I was just ranting and that's so personal I don't really bother with footnotes most of the time hehe
Or maybe you mean what prompted me to rant.. aha! A thread in a friend's journal in which someone was slamming southerners, really as a generalizing reaction to fundie panning of northerners, and I guess my friend was offended by it, being a southerner. I think the real "enemy" to all of us is fundamentalism/territorialism/power-OVER (domination), which is in my view the "enemy factory.")
You inspire me too, in numerous ways and on several different levels and directions. In that meme that includes referring someone to a new lj friend, I sent redhuntinghat your way - first I had the strong intuition to do that, and then when it said to explain why, I thought of all the wonderful reasons and wrote just a couple of them down, there were so many. :)
Thank you for the kind thoughts and words ♥ Also, for the referrel of a person who seems very interesting.
I can only really keep focused for short amounts of time as my head pounds even through the 800 mg of ibuprophen. To be honest, the entire sickness is in my head and it doesn't feel natural. It feels manufactured. Only women seem to be getting it around me and it attacks a different area in each person. For me it is my lymph nodes in my neck and the lymph system in my legs. I have no snot or cough or sore throat or any of the normal flu stuff. If I don't eat I get this empty nausea that results in dry heaving. If I didn't just finish my menses I would think I were sick with something and pregnant.
I needed a sympathetic ear. Thanks. I know you won't think I am crazy for thinking an illness in my body has been manufactured by man. :)
I certainly don't think you're crazy for thinking that. The same thought/feeling crossed my mind (several times, kind of nagging me that it could be a possibility) a week+ ago when Jason and I got sick. A couple of days prior, we got up early and went out to do errands and a weird chemical smell was all over our area. I smelled it every time we opened a door to the outside. I saw a workman pulling his clothes up over his nose and mouth and thought, "he smells it too." Jason insisted he couldn't smell anything. It was nothing really pungent, more like industrial-smelling, and mixed with cold winter morning air. I listened to the news hoping to hear an explanation, and there was nothing. Jason thought maybe there was a wreck of some truck carrying something on the nearby highway, or maybe some water treatment plant just released something or whatever
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You know, I've become more and more convinced that physicality IS spiritualism. The primary trouble with the major monotheistic religions today is the core belief that man is beyond animal impulses.
I don't know, this is just personal, but I always feel closer and more connected to the universe when I am aware of my body. Most of the time, the "voluntary" actions of the body are just a natural result of thought, there's no real awareness of actually being there. Sometimes it seems like thought is a curse--there is so much more sense and intuition when it flitters away. Being truely in the place, time, and action gives a greater sense of the interconnectedness between this and every other place, time, action.
The planet is a gorgeous allegory to the unseen dimensions, and She/He/It is One Being. I invite you to drop your identifying labels, these lines drawn in the sand, that you are americanblackethnicwhitemalefemalesouthernofacertainreligionnorthernamerican and be no dogma, but be all people, all animals, all plants, all weather,
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My new friend massromantic has just posted a really cool breath meditation (huna/hawaiian stuff, they looove breathwork), and someone yesterday saw my merkabah icon pointed me toward this (breathwork) meditation: http://www.crystalinks.com/merkaba.html
I like to think of the tao as breath, too, waxing/waning, systole/diastole, a time to reap a time to sow, etc etc the ole "going between the pairs of opposites." I know a lot of people are anti-duality right now, and I think it's the same as being allowed to live Oneness and Multiplicity at the same time: I think duality is there only as a gateway to pass between, or two lovers to alchemize. So I never saw duality as this polar opposing thing of black and white, no grey - to me it's all ABOUT grey, which is really not shades of grey but rainbows, I think.
Gee it's a pleasure word-dancing with you, we've gone all over the map of stars, here lol
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"I don't know where that came from,..."
(Not sure what don't you know came from where?.. the reported epiphanies of mystics, maybe? That's the only thing above that I can think of that could be documented with a footnote to source material and isn't... I honestly don't remember where I read that, though, it was years ago. I was just ranting and that's so personal I don't really bother with footnotes most of the time hehe
Or maybe you mean what prompted me to rant.. aha! A thread in a friend's journal in which someone was slamming southerners, really as a generalizing reaction to fundie panning of northerners, and I guess my friend was offended by it, being a southerner. I think the real "enemy" to all of us is fundamentalism/territorialism/power-OVER (domination), which is in my view the "enemy factory.")
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I can only really keep focused for short amounts of time as my head pounds even through the 800 mg of ibuprophen. To be honest, the entire sickness is in my head and it doesn't feel natural. It feels manufactured. Only women seem to be getting it around me and it attacks a different area in each person. For me it is my lymph nodes in my neck and the lymph system in my legs. I have no snot or cough or sore throat or any of the normal flu stuff. If I don't eat I get this empty nausea that results in dry heaving. If I didn't just finish my menses I would think I were sick with something and pregnant.
I needed a sympathetic ear. Thanks. I know you won't think I am crazy for thinking an illness in my body has been manufactured by man. :)
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I don't know, this is just personal, but I always feel closer and more connected to the universe when I am aware of my body. Most of the time, the "voluntary" actions of the body are just a natural result of thought, there's no real awareness of actually being there. Sometimes it seems like thought is a curse--there is so much more sense and intuition when it flitters away. Being truely in the place, time, and action gives a greater sense of the interconnectedness between this and every other place, time, action.
The planet is a gorgeous allegory to the unseen dimensions, and She/He/It is One Being. I invite you to drop your identifying labels, these lines drawn in the sand, that you are americanblackethnicwhitemalefemalesouthernofacertainreligionnorthernamerican and be no dogma, but be all people, all animals, all plants, all weather, ( ... )
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I like to think of the tao as breath, too, waxing/waning, systole/diastole, a time to reap a time to sow, etc etc the ole "going between the pairs of opposites." I know a lot of people are anti-duality right now, and I think it's the same as being allowed to live Oneness and Multiplicity at the same time: I think duality is there only as a gateway to pass between, or two lovers to alchemize. So I never saw duality as this polar opposing thing of black and white, no grey - to me it's all ABOUT grey, which is really not shades of grey but rainbows, I think.
Gee it's a pleasure word-dancing with you, we've gone all over the map of stars, here lol
p.s. is this icon of yours from a faerie tale?
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