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Oct 23rd, 2005 at 7:42pm
 
I started thinking - Justin posted on Edgar Cayce, and some posted on Elias.  People gravitate toward sources they believe are true.  Justin, I read your post, but I went to Cayce's advice on Lupus again, and I must say it was, on a physical level completely wrong.  The bowel in lupus has been studied under a microscope, and there is no trouble with bowel permeability or toxins.  All the modes of treatment would, without conventional therapy lead to the death of an ill patient with lupus in this day and age.  None of what was written makes sense medically - but it does make sense with what Edgar Cayce the man knew at the time.

As for Elias' statement that we have no path, no learning and are all perfect and only here to experience, I have stated on another thread that is only in part right, but I believe mostly wrong.

My main point in all this is not to debunk anyone's beliefs, but only to say, these sources are not perfect, so don't get caught up in the literal word for word interpretations as a "gospel."  Alysia put it best - take from them what is good, discard the rest. 

Zealotry is usually a sign that the conscious mind can not be open to all possibilities.  Justin, I sense you are open to more than Cayce, but he did channel useful information.

I think this is an important thread.  We are essence trying to understand and learn.  We need to explore many possibilities.

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Reply #1 - Oct 23rd, 2005 at 8:03pm
 
Hi Doc-
I fully agree with both your take on Cayce and zealotry.

But I wonder to what we might ascribe all of Cayce's successes. If we use the usual figure of 15% for placebo effect, and multiply that by perhaps two or three for "faith in the healer", we come out with a rate of 50% perhaps. For those who actually used his methods, my impression is that he was about 80% successful, which is darn good for a psychic.  On a few occasions Cayce also commented on the pyjamas people wore, or on the places in which he found them, and evidently was largely correct in that too.

Out of curiosity I tried his plantars wart removal idea, spirits of camphor and sodium bicarbonate, on some warts that were trying to eat my feet.  The warts turned into callouses, and are now dormant, but I grew tired of repeatedly putting mini-bandaids with bicarb on them, even though it did soften them.  Camphor looks like it might have antiviral capacities, but it isn't acyclovir, which was my first thought (and which didn't work). So I dunno.

Of note, Cayce was both an astral traveller, going through lower states until he reached access to knowledge in what he called the temple of the akashic records. But the being that spoke through him to do healings seems to have been a different personality.  (The name escapes me at the moment.) I'm not above the suggestion that  a specific set of otherwise pointless ingredients and activities might cause a change in a person that would produce a secondary healing effect.

Access to the inner psyche may be available on the astral levels, but thus far I have been unable to go there and look. This is a matter for meditation, obviously, to see if a meditator can duplicate the same trick. I have, however, sent others into the astral (by hypnosis) to ask how to solve their problems, and I've had very good results.

If you have a gaggle of chronic patients with minor impairments, that might make an interesting experiment. I'd be extremely interested.

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Reply #2 - Oct 23rd, 2005 at 8:48pm
 
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I started thinking - Justin posted on Edgar Cayce, and some posted on Elias.  People gravitate toward sources they believe are true.  Justin, I read your post, but I went to Cayce's advice on Lupus again, and I must say it was, on a physical level completely wrong.  The bowel in lupus has been studied under a microscope, and there is no trouble with bowel permeability or toxins.  All the modes of treatment would, without conventional therapy lead to the death of an ill patient with lupus in this day and age.  None of what was written makes sense medically - but it does make sense with what Edgar Cayce the man knew at the time.

As for Elias' statement that we have no path, no learning and are all perfect and only here to experience, I have stated on another thread that is only in part right, but I believe mostly wrong.

My main point in all this is not to debunk anyone's beliefs, but only to say, these sources are not perfect, so don't get caught up in the literal word for word interpretations as a "gospel."  Alysia put it best - take from them what is good, discard the rest.  

Zealotry is usually a sign that the conscious mind can not be open to all possibilities.  Justin, I sense you are open to more than Cayce, but he did channel useful information.

I think this is an important thread.  We are essence trying to understand and learn.  We need to explore many possibilities.

Matthew


 Hi there Matthew,

 Very much agree, there is no one single belief system which contains the whole of what Creation is, and even if you added up all the belief systems, especially on the points which correlated, then it would still not be enough.

 Yet i would say that perhaps there is only one path to Source--PUL?  And putting it forth every second of your life.  Sounds hard, and it is, but its our true nature, i believe.

Hi Dave,

 I would say that usually Cayce went past alll of the astral...  Astral is just "emotional" energies i think.  As i understand it, Cayce tapped into Source for the spiritual and Life Readings, and for health had various helpers, and did astral travel to check out their bodies.

 Btw--Matthew, if you could p.m. me with the case number of the Cayce Reading for Lupus, i would be interested in it.  I looked up Lupus in that Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing book i mentioned earlier, and the only Lupus it mentioned was Lupus Erythematosus.

 It says it is a superficial, localized discoid of the skin.  In the mild form of the disease, known as discoid lupus, the skin is characterized by red single or multiple plaques on the face.  Systematic Lupus may affect multiple organ systems and mainly occurs in you woman.  Symptoms are various and may include anything from fever, anorexia, weight loss, etc.  

 Cayce only gave one reading on Lupus erythemato, and the main cause was cited as a disturbance in the excretory system which caused a build up of toxins.  Also noted was incoordination between lymph circulation and certain cerebrospinal areas, which had produced irritating accumulations of fluids under the skin.

 She had a slew of all kinds of symptoms.  The main advice for healing was a form of electrotherapy to help empty the gallbladder and stimulate the kidneys...  and twice weekly osteopathic massages to help stimulate and improve overall circulation.

 She was given digestive aids, and was advised that if her poor eliminations persisted to have high colonics and she was given dietary advice.

 She was counseled to have a better attitude towards life, more positivity, be less anxious, etc.

 One month later, after following the suggestions in the reading, she reported general improvements.

 I dunno, what does the medical establishment say that causes this form of Lupus?  You can p.m. if you want, or not, whatever floats your boat.

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Reply #3 - Oct 23rd, 2005 at 9:40pm
 
I would have to say that all paths lead to enlightenment in the end.  I feel that there is too much debate over who's right and who's wrong. There is no right or wrong. There just is. There is truth in everything that everyone says be he Cayce, Elias, Seth, Monroe, Moen. I probably put this in the wrong thread, but, oh well.

This is beginning to feel, to me, like the different churches that say I'm right and they're wrong. I see no point in any of this except for egos being bruised. Wink

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I would have to say that all paths lead to enlightenment in the end.  I feel that there is too much debate over who's right and who's wrong. There is no right or wrong. There just is. There is truth in everything that everyone says be he Cayce, Elias, Seth, Monroe, Moen. I probably put this in the wrong thread, but, oh well.

This is beginning to feel, to me, like the different churches that say I'm right and they're wrong. I see no point in any of this except for egos being bruised. Wink

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Hi Mair,

For the most part i very much agree...  I especially agree that there is truth in all things, people, and belief systems.  But its relative because we are dealing with unrealities and illusions on the surface.  You're right, we shouldn't concentrate on these surface illusions...and i believe we should be more worried about how we treat our fellow souls.

Consider Yeshua and his time period, you've mentioned him at least a few times....

 When Yeshua was growing up, he grew up in a system where there much greed and corruption...hmmm not that different from our cycle in this respect..

 The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes had a strangle hold on the people and their teachings once full of truth, became twisted to suit ego purposes and spiritually dead and they were misleading many...

 Did Yeshua completely ignore this?  By no means, even though he wasn't political at all.  He oft spoke out against the corruption, especially of those spiritual belief systems which were blocking greater light coming through.

 This is happening today with the Churches and traditional and dogmatic religions...  Yet, the New Age movement has started to become dogmatic too, and in some cases a tool to mislead....

There is need for greater clarity if we truly are going to Ascend collectively...this, clarity, happens more so from living the life and being an example of truth...  Yet so many are caught up more so in their belief systems...

Now do we take the passive stance?  Or do we take the active stance that usually was Yeshua's way?  This is a very real concern to collective growth, and there are some teachings out there, mainly channeled ones which are convincing people to take the passive stance....

 This golden age is not just going to be handed to us... Why else would people like Bruce be running around like crazy and getting this important active info out there?  Not that Bruce either has the whole truth.  But there is a reason why so many of us are quite attracted to his energies overall---they are quite fast vibrating.

This cycle is just too important and momentous to just sit on the fence about stuff, or do we want a repeat of Atlantis yet again?

Your above advice seems to be very right brain oriented...  Yet do we not have a left brain too?  Are we not suppose to discriminate, use our intellects, and express what we think and feel to be truth?

 There are some belief systems talked about here that by their very thought form vibrations will lead others to a path of stagnation and spiritual death....   This is not desirable from a collective standpoint, we do not need the ego anymore emphasized than it already is in this western society of ours.

 But some will say, all is Love and Light, and working out to the better... Yes this is true, but we must still be active, and if everything was so pretty and hunky dory, then we wouldn't have any Souls who have destroyed their gift from the Creative Forces of being an individual who can know itself, yet be One with the whole...  Both Bruce and Cayce talks about these lost souls, and to me this is not desirable and no degree of anyone saying that its all just so great and hunky dory...

If your culture and western civilization wasn't so darn ego centered, we wouldn't have anything like "Lost Souls" happen, would we?  At the very least it would be even more rare than it is....

Mair, if you respect Yeshua, and i know you do, look to his ways and Teachings and you can't go wrong.  He came as the perfect pattern that all can follow and most (minus the lost souls who have experience true death) will eventually become like.

His way of service and less of self is very, very hard for those with much ego to follow, yet its the only type of living which leads to lasting joy, knowingness of Source, and eventually for transfiguration of the body-carnal to the immortal body-spiritual.  Many Teachers teach this to a greater or lesser extent, and specifially for me, i've always been quite drawn to the last Buddha too.

Some teachers come emphasizing a much different and sometimes very subtle ego way...  These are spiritual traps in a sense, and we really need to use both sides of our brains, especially in balance, to discriminate among the way of Source or of ego which is death and separation...

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Reply #5 - Oct 23rd, 2005 at 11:50pm
 
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Mair, if you respect Yeshua, and i know you do, look to his ways and Teachings and you can't go wrong.  He came as the perfect pattern that all can follow and most (minus the lost souls who have experience true death) will eventually become like.


I do Justin. I am very close to Yeshua. I was with him as Simon Peter 2000 years ago. And he is with me now whenever I need him. Wink

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Reply #6 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 5:12am
 
Thanks Justin,

That was the lupus article I read too.  The skin disease is just one manifestation - usually multiple autoantibodies are causing internal problems at the same time, although they did not know it at Cayce's time.  The bowel has been studied extensively under a microscope (not involved with permeability issues), and as I said before, the methods he described absolutely would have been ineffective for this condition.

The placebo effect of mind over matter is formidable. I do not doubt that the mind/soul can heal.  But if someone seeks to bring truth from beyond, it should stand up to scrutiny or pass the sniff test with respect to our reality.  Bowel cleansings aside.

If Cayce was correct even 50% of the time, that was amazing, and he deserves to be studied.  Just with everything else in mind.

We should all share, explore, compare notes, and try to understand this strange thing called life.

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Reply #7 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 6:06am
 
I posted this on Linn's in response to a thread Justin started regarding the difference between judging and perceiving.  As I read through the posts this morning I thought it might fit in with what has been discussed lately, especially when it comes to the paths we choose and why I think all paths lead to the development of individuality in Consciousness.  Anyway, these are my thoughts on this subject which I feel has much to do with healing or at least this is what I call it.

Judgment is when we come to a conclusion about something.  I think this is always based on what we believe in connection with an event.  It’s the way we give meaning to things.  Usually we judge something to be either good or bad, right or wrong, loving or unloving, etc. and this often results in conflicts within us because of our deep belief that one is ok and the other is not ok.  The only thing our judgments have to do with is self.  The question arises:  How do we know what is ok and what is not ok?  Here we must look to our experience of how self feels. 

Energetically speaking… we either allow our life energy to flow freely or we block it.  When our life force flows free we feel pleasure within self.  On the other hand, when we block it we create pain within self.  Throughout millennium we have come to fear anything that produces pain within us, so we will do just about anything we can to avoid or alleviate this pain.  When we block our life force that is the core essence within from flowing freely, then we are creating our own pain.  There is never anyone else to blame for creating our pain because only we can create it.  We are always responsible for what we create within us. 

All that we judge creates some kind of energetic consequence within our body.  This is how we have learned to distinguish between and judge various things.  This is how we created duality.  Duality only exists within self because of what self has come to believe.  It is in this way that we separated our self from God and all other things.  To me, this could also be called “original sin” or the “first cause” and so on.         

When we perceive something we are making an observation or noticing something and understanding it.  When we are an observer we are not making any judgments regarding what we observe, instead we are in a state of acceptance about it.  However, I think that we in the physical need to go through the experience of making judgments in order to understand that which we observe.  Once something is understood and is no longer judged, it then becomes an observation, which in turn counterbalances the judgment.  Energetically speaking… when we are in a state of acceptance we no longer block the flow of our life force, therefore, we no longer cause self-pain.

There are countless ways in which we have distorted self’s energy.  This is what I perceive to be Karma.  Karma is simply the way in which self distorted self’s own life force, which became a carryover factor in individualized consciousness and the collective consciousness and ultimately Consciousness itself because of our interconnectivity to ALL.

Healing is not something that is separated from self.  Healing is within each of us as we so choose.  Healing is simply moving from self-judgment to self-observation.  Energetically speaking… Healing is allowing the life force of our core essence deep within each of us to flow freely.  People judge ego as though ego is something that is not desirable.  Ego is simply the means by which we go through the process of judgment to become an observer.  Individual consciousness isn’t separated from ego.  When we allow our life force to flow freely ego becomes merged with our higher self-consciousness and higher self observes individuality. 

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Reply #8 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 6:45am
 
Beatifully put, Kathy.  Just beautiful.


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Reply #9 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 11:18am
 
Kathy, I am one witcha! lol. I was for a day or so attempting to word what u have here..so thanks! I can now be lazy! (well, I think too much)
You said: People judge ego as though ego is something that is not desirable.  Ego is simply the means by which we go through the process of judgment to become an observer.  Individual consciousness isn’t separated from ego.  When we allow our life force to flow freely ego becomes merged with our higher self-consciousness and higher self observes individuality.
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 speaking of my life journey here, I traveled through life in my younger day with a quite furrowed brow and they called me deep, but thats just another name for introverted and introspective. it does not mean to be deep u have the answer for another within judgment, and it does not mean you come to self realization in a speedier manner than another. it just means you have a furrowed brow. Cheesy
then I read ACIM and for a short while thought, hmm. the ego must be a very bad thing indeed! I must expounge myself from this item! for would I not want to desire to a loving individual to all and to also be receiving of love?  as time went on I realized there would be no getting rid of this sucker by sweeping it under the carpet! and you couldn't beat if off either.
then I read Bruce's books which are totally in line with ACIM, and came to see we all have egos which we work with, and that the ego is a bunch of intertwined "learned" belief system programs in the hard drive sometimes, or could even be seen as software we buy into to "try" out.
then I liked the way Bruce explained to me how to deal with these belief systems. simply have a little chat with them. how weird it seemed. ever have a chat with a belief system. it actually talks back to you!
Bruce said if there's a belief and as well two beliefs you hold and they conflict, then you are holding both, you have to decide which to one go with, or there will be conflict within and within conflict there is not peace of mind.  I assume, all would like to have peace of mind.
so you talk to it, see which one seems the more to you would like to go with, as neither one is right or wrong, just a choice, and your ego, or belief system will explain to you that it is protecting you from this or that, and that it is in your employ and so on and etc. and you say to it, oh, I see. you are protecting me..thank you very much, but now I do not need your services anymore, and you have served me very well, but now I am cutting you loose and choosing this other road, or thought, or belief. and its very simple that you reduce your conflict within this way, by choosing which belief you will go with. you don't even have to employ judgment when you accept all beliefs as valid, you just say that is another expression of life, but it is not my expression and so I do not wish to hold it within me.

so thank you Kathy. you have helped me to see the ego is not something I would wish to become egoless, but to gently work with it within discussion.
and I always resonated with your tag.

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Reply #10 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 1:34pm
 
 Hi Kathy and Alysia,

 Very much agree, disliking and attacking the ego does no good, and often makes it bounce back stronger...  Its simply a matter of focus and attention....

 I believe we need to merge it in with our True Selves which is Light, and the Light then washes away the darkness.

 There is a fine line between a "method" and actually accepting the ego as something ultimately good or desirable...  Is hate, selfishness, back biting, intolerance, manipulation, greed, power lust, etc, etc. good or desirable...?  Most would answer no, yet all these come from "ego" and not our true selves.....  This is what the Bible talks about when talking about the Anti-Christ, it's not referring to a specific person, but an attitude that would be prevalent to a huge degree in the days to come, before the changes...  This is why Yeshua said, "As in the days of Noah, shall be the days of the coming of the Son/Sign of Man (meaning both Aquarian age of Chirst Consciousness, and the individual body Yeshua).

 If we understand what the ego is and does, then its not much desirable...  It the only purpose it serves is to allow us to be in this cacophony of chaotic and powerful physical and espeically emotional energies of the Earth...  But we're the ones that created this problem to begin with...God didn't stick us here....and to say the ego is useful is to not understand that it did manifest these problems to begin with.  Relativity and First Causes....

 Say for a moment, if this Justin Guru Wink Tongue is accurate, then how is this aspect of ourselves which is naught but an illusionary shadow, desirable considering what we truly are and came from?

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Reply #11 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 2:55pm
 
Hi Justin,

I think you may have missed the whole point of my post which is in reference to the fine line between judgment and perception. 

As long as people judge ego to be undesirable or "bad" they will remain in the judgment process.

Perception which equates to being in a state of acceptance does not judge ego to be desirable or "good" either for there is no judgment when one is in a state of acceptance.  Things simply are noticed and understood.

Looks like threads where I have discussed ego disappeared with the board crash awhile back.  Here's one I posted on Linn's and there should be a few others as well.

http://www.spiritlinnusa.com/linns_forum/viewtopic.php?t=524&start=0

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Reply #12 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:10pm
 
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Hi Justin,

I think you may have missed the whole point of my post which is in reference to the fine line between judgment and perception.  

As long as people judge ego to be undesirable or "bad" they will remain in the judgment process.

Perception which equates to being in a state of acceptance does not judge ego to be desirable or "good" either for there is no judgment when one is in a state of acceptance.  Things simply are noticed and understood.

Looks like threads where I have discussed ego disappeared with the board crash awhile back.  Here's one I posted on Linn's and there should be a few others as well.

http://www.spiritlinnusa.com/linns_forum/viewtopic.php?t=524&start=0

Luv ya Mr. Guru Smiley




Oh, ok i see want you mean.  Thank you for explaining it more clearly for me.

  I've thought about the above, but i wonder if this is possible, not to place any value judgment on anything...?

  What always makes me think of this, is our Guides, Council, and the various Elders.  If everything was in a state of perfectness, then why we do we need advice and guidance, and why do sometimes they put it quite bluntly that we are off in our thinking or way of living.

Why does one bring suffering, and the other lifts it?

  How can we be off, if nothing is neither good nor bad, to use a better phrase, desirable or undesirable, healthy or unhealthy?  That there is a difference between suffering and joy is self evident to everyone...

  If this was the case in both the temporary sense, and in the Ultimate sense (where i believe it more applies) then why any advice at all from anybody?

  It would be more like Elias seems to say, we're just experiencing.

Do we fully know there is a difference between perception and judging?  What does perception actually mean?

  Well either way, i will reread your post a few times more to see what i get. 

Thanks Sis, always getting me out of trouble Roll Eyes Grin  Do very much appreciate it.
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Reply #13 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:25pm
 
  If there is a thing as spiritual progression or evolvement, then with the percieng of things as more purely a perception--thus we just accept, how do we move forward in our progression?

  Because we know that what we were doing before, wasn't bringing us joy, and acceptance...doesn't this somehow automatically contrast with our perceptions of what we should be doing?

  And if there is a contrast, what so wrong with giving it a language symbol which is what a word is, isn't it the feeling, awareness, and conditions that actually happens or brings more important?

  What i trying to say, is that calling something undesirable isn't necessarily judging something if you are coming from an expanded, more mental, and detached viewpoint.

  A word will not change your reality, how you live your reality will change it....yes, words do imply things...but all human language lacks in the ultimate sense and long run.

  If i say to myself in a detached manner, my ego (or any certain conditions) is not desirable, but i go out and extend PUL (Changing focus), will not my ego become less automatically after awhile just by how i live? 

  I've believed the ego was undesirable for a long time, and i started out a very suffering being, and now i am oft consistently filled with joy, and i oft serve others with little or no thought of self.

   And dare i say, i may reach completion this life, so why am i not being more held back by this believing in a detached manner, with my 6th Chakra perception, that ego is undesirable?   Though i may believe this, i'm not actively fighting against it, i just change my focus from ego to PUL in life....
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Reply #14 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:26pm
 
Kathy:

I read your post at Linn's forum, and like it. I first made conscious contact with my guidance this past winter, and much of what I've experienced is similar to what you've experienced.

How did you come to think of things in terms of seven bodies?
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Reply #15 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:48pm
 
  Another thought:  Say if i notice a bunch of people start to argue with me in various walks of life, and this is something i percieve...

   I can 1. choose to let it bother me, and take it personally, as if they are trying to "teach" me and i believe that implies i don't know as much as them, or something.

Or 2.  I can say yeah i percieve this, but it doesn't matter to me at least not in a way that brings up negative feelings and then i change my focus.

  Are both cases judging, or is 1. judging, and 2. just percieving?

  I'm asking honestly... I lean to the second case, that 1. is judging  and 2. is percieving.

Is this what you are trying to say Kathy?
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Reply #16 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 5:08pm
 
Hi Justin, don't know if I can describe this well, but will try.
I think we all have healing abilities, sometimes dormant, sometimes active.
I used to think I would promote faith healing as it's really easy, with the hands and had some success. then I noticed I was focused on healing others, but first I was focused too much on the illness. pretty soon the mind is looking to find the illness so I could do my practice. the real internal practice is to feel oneness with that person before you place your hands on them. to see them as God would see them, perfect. this was the way I did it anyway, and then PUL would flow between us naturally and would seem to come from outside of me.
but then I saw that I didn't know who to heal, where to go, or whether I was even supposed to be on this path. I really was a babe in the woods.
I more these days simply don't believe anyone is diseased. I don't see it as real, because I see everyone as perfectly expressing what they have chosen on some level. if I want to use the healing hands or do it through visualization same thing happens. PUL. I see illness "as not there."
how can it be there, how can it be real if we have never left the heart of God?
to heal or participate in another's healing, there must be surrender of a belief system which says that the illness is real because it "look" real. if just for a moment you "can see it not there" is when the miracle occurs.

I think perception is partial awareness, perception is like what the situation looks like, like trying to judge a book by its cover, you can't judge a book by its cover, you actually have to read at least the forward to see whats going on. judgment would be like being close minded or too conclusive to engender exploration within partnership or within that thing called PUL.
there is conditional love on this earth, based on rules and conditions
then there is a pul which is just free for all, with no conditions which flows. I think a good name for it would/could be called grace.

it's rare to find, even rarer to feel.
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Re: The trouble with one path to enlightenment
Reply #17 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 8:07pm
 
The idea that we are perfect is just another weird idea pulled out
of a blue sky. As we look around at our lives, the mistakes we
make, and the learning taking place, that is what is going on. If
we look at the divorces, the financial mistakes, the relationship
errors, the ordinary physical mistakes, there is no way that you
can describe what we do as perfect. And this is similar in the
afterlife also. People take mistaken beliefs into BSTs and keep
them. They also sometimes take poor attitudes with them, that don't
change without further learning.

To call us perfect is a misuse of the English language. If that is
supposed to be a description, it does not fit what it presumes to
describe. It is not the right word for the obvious situation.

Also to say there is no right or wrong, that is just a way to get
along in a controversial situation without too much rancor.
It is appropriate for a field like this where it is difficult to
establish more than a few things.

But those of us who are in pursuit of serious demonstrable
knowledge, there is such a thing as right or wrong.
We want to build up a professional body of knowledge, so that you
could teach it or write it up. We don't want to wallow around
forever in a great big mess of mere opinion.

Science has been described as a collection of corrected mistakes.
And when it is found out that something is wrong, it is just as
much a part of progress as is finding out that something is right.
A recent post was about the Vatican saying that the Bible may have
errors, that is progress. Finding errors has been for some years
for me, a key clue to evaluate sources. Once you see what you can
decide to your own satisfaction is an error, you can disentangle
yourself from what you can't make any sense out of.  When I was in
Ufology, all sorts of unbelievable things had to be sorted through.
When I found an error, that was a very helpful clue.

It was a breakthrough for me when a voice turned up in the Leslie
Flint material, which described that there where spirits out there
who wanted to be helpful, but they themselves were not enlightened
to the higher level. I now did not have to worry that much about
what they had to say.

I sort of grew up in the area of the paranormal on the idea that we
down here are intentionally limited, and those up there have the
real knowledge that is way beyond ours. Now, I don't think so. I
don't think that once you are dead, now you know better. I think
the gurus up there can be just as nutty as the ones down here. They
take their nuttiness with them when they cross over.

Also, I think that they can get into pockets of isolation, or
ghettos, just as we can down here. Like Berkeley, CA is a liberal
ghetto, and so is the academic world some kind of a ghetto. Down
here we now have the internet where we can check all kinds of
things. And I wonder how well knowledge is accessed up there. Can
they access knowledge in a few minutes, the way we can at a
keyboard?

We already know about BSTs where unenlightend ideas continue. I
don't think channeling necessarily comes from enlightened areas,
just different areas that may or may not represent better
understanding.

I am beginning to put a higher value on Earth life, thinking it is
not merely a temporary use of a body, but an important place to
develop knowledge and discuss ideas, and an augmentation alongside
of other conditions of the soul. I am wondering if the way we
collect knowledge in forums could sometimes be better than merely
flitting about the universe as a free soul.
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Re: The trouble with one path to enlightenment
Reply #18 - Oct 24th, 2005 at 8:07pm
 
re: one path
I think that judgement separates and perception expands...what we judge is what we often surprise ourself by becoming or forget that we have been in the past.

I think that we evolve by learning gratitude for all things and that change is our teacher.  If it is painful to change we will believe that we hate our teacher.  But it is our teacher nonetheless and we will remember the teacher later with love.

love, blink
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