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Re: Slipping from the astral to lucid dreams
Reply #75 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 3:58pm
 
Berserk2 wrote on Jan 16th, 2013 at 3:01pm:
recoverer,
Your question begs the question in this sense: the concept of parallel incarnations is based on alleged past life recall, which seems better interpreted as mind merger or possession by discarnate spirits.  How this mind merger works was demonstrated by ES's guides, so that he could correct his aarlier reincarnational interpretation.  Or do you want to say that ES's guides were deceiving him in this matter? 
Secondly, the concept of parallel incarnations is a belief rooted in an ambiguous sense of astral timeless realms.  It must first be demonstrated that the illusion of past and future is cognitively meaningful.  ES's explorations  establishe not timeless realms, but a different experience of time that is relative to how similar the core desires of separate beings are.

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  Just to point out that there are different levels of guides and guidance.  Any kind of real guide is not going to deliberately deceive anyone, but it may be like a friend who is on a similar wavelength or developement as yourself or a bit more expanded than you, they might give you limited or not fully correct information based on their own limited current perspective. 

  The kind of guides and guidance levels we tune into, tend to act on the "like attracts like" principle, and so, the more intune and developed an individual, the more they tend to connect and communicate with a more expanded level of guidance. 

    Specifically asking and intending for specific level of help, helps as well.  Which is why i often ask for help and guidance from the most Source and Christ attuned Consciousnesses (and sometimes the most expanded level of my own Disk too--easier to perceive usually). 

   So it may be that Swedenborg was at times communicating with real guides who were not deceptive, but slightly ignorant as compared to say someone like Jesus who is fully merged with PUL and Source and so has access to the whole entire data bank of info and therefore will have the most accurate, clear, and balanced perspective. 

The "problem" with Teachers like Jesus though, is that they won't always give you direct or full answers because they know learning in an experiential way is usually more helpful and valuable.  You just might get hints, nudgings, or the like to help you on that path. 

   This is not even talking about translation issues!  That's a whole nother can of worms.  It's not particularly easy to translate nonphysically based info well into physical and human terms.  Those who can do so on average very well and accurately, are akin to gifted musicians like Mozart and the like.  There is not many of them, though all of us can improve with practice and experience (and occasionally some of us will reach that level of talent).

  But then again, just more opinion from the Ghetto i suppose Wink
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Re: Slipping from the astral to lucid dreams
Reply #76 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 4:22pm
 
carl wrote on Jan 16th, 2013 at 12:42am:
rondele wrote on Jan 15th, 2013 at 10:30am:
Carl-

Since this board falls so short of your expectations, why not just leave instead of continuing with your insulting posts?

The thing is, this board is unlike so many other conversation boards on the net where people compete to see who can flame each other with demeaning and rude comments.

Therefore, since this obviously isn't the venue for you, let's just say goodbye and then both you and we will be much better off.

R


No Rondele!..You insult me!, and the majority of posting members of this forum! Less than 5% of registered members will ever post a message on forums, and that's only a fraction of those who read the posts on this forum, as it is(posts)freely available to the public to read without registering.

This whole forum/website is based on Bruce Moens "imagination" method of contacting the dead and travels into the afterlife. There is Zero verification of this method of  afterlife exploration. And this includes you! If not, just 'imagine' where the next earthquake, tsunami, and major earth disaster will happen?

After all. All you have to do is to 'imagine' these scenarios will happen in whatever country you 'imagine', and it will happen in our physical reality! Is this not what the "Grand Poobah" teaches you? Talk to your dead relatives also! Don't forget to tell your living physical relatives about your contact!???

You Insult Me, and probably 95% of those who read posts on this forum. Get Real and Get Honest Girl! Carl.

    


  Hi Carl, I will go out somewhat on a limb.  I see it as very probable that a very large and intense Solar event is going to happen sometime between latter 2013 to mid 2014.  I have not been given an exact date, and perhaps can't because of fluidic nature of the future and time.  That and perhaps people aren't supposed to know the exact timing, because frankly some are meant to be caught off guard. 

Anyways, what i have seen is that this Solar event will knock out electricity around much of the world, and will cause severe climate, geological and health issues.  But, it's the downing of electricity which is going to be the biggest issue since in so called developed countries so much of our life and living is based on electricity and so many of us don't know how to survive in direct connection with the land anymore.  We have become so dependent on technology, and that technology is much more fragile than we realize or would like to think.   A large solar flare knocked out electricity for a bit in Quebec a couple of decades or so ago.  Well the flares we may see (very probable so i've been told) will be much more intense and direct. 

  When this event first starts to happen, it will be very noticeable because the skies will appear as quite Red pretty much everywhere.  I recommend finding and hanging out for awhile in a cave if you see that. 

  I see a lot of people dying, and a lot of challenge for at least a few years, but after that i see a probable, and quite a positive transformation process.  Some of the people you disparage on this site, for example, will be part of this positive transformation process.  They will help to co-create healthy--spiritually and ecologically based communities where the emphasis is on helping one another and the Earth.  Real farming, meditation and prayer, music, healing, psychism, and above all Love will become the greater emphasis.   I see a collectively joyous, peaceful, and truly healthy humanity being born.   

I've gotten this info from a combination of dreams, meditation, and synchronicity with others who likewise have received similar info. 

  It's possible it won't happen the harder way, but it's very probable that it will, and i think America is going to have it rougher than most of the rest of the world. 
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Re: Slipping from the astral to lucid dreams
Reply #77 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 5:44pm
 
Berserk2 wrote on Jan 15th, 2013 at 11:49pm:
Yes, I know; I've read all 3 of RAM's books, and what he claims about his own past life recall is in my view self-refuting--cartoony absurdities like his memories of fliying a machine, while dodging spears thrown by primitive aliens on another planet.  Please reread his 3 past life claims and make the case that they are plausible.

Yes, they are plausible.
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Reply #78 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 7:18pm
 
Don:

Put it this way.  Jesus said things such as "As you sow so you reap" because if he said things about energetic levels people from his time period, for the most part, would not have understood what he was talking about.

It could be that the people who lived when Swedenborg lived would not had been able to understand something such as the disk concept. Therefore, Swedenborg was instead told that Souls share information with each other and end up mistaking this information for past life information.

In a way this is true, because if information comes from other disk members, soul group members, and beyond, a case of past life misidentification might take place. There is an identity connection in the sense that "all disk members are one," "all Soul Group members are one," and "all Souls are one."

It doesn't make sense to me that a Soul is going to limit itself to just one incarnation. Once it acquires a lot of experience it isn't possible for it to incarnate all of itself into an incarnation. Therefore, it extends a small part of itself, and in the end, going by what I understand, allows this small part to continue as a unique entity/Soul. I believe it is possible that such an extension will incarnate a limited number of times.

Some people have had NDEs and such where they found out about disk-like reincarnation in a way that is beyond the confusion and deception Swedenborg wrote about.

When I experienced about 12 incarnations at once I felt like I was this large spacious being that is capable of much more than what can be stuffed into one little body. Yet, I was still me. When I make contact with such a higher level of being it seems like too much for my body.

Regarding the Ian Stevenson reincarnation case/possession possibility, I brought it up because you've brought it up before. There may be cases where a child has memories that seem to be past life memories but instead they come from an earthbound spirit that has attached to a child. The parallel incarnation examples Stevenson provided suggest otherwise, because what is the likelihood of the spirit of a still alive person possessing a child?

Regarding the time factor, a disk can send out more than one incarnation during the same time period.




Berserk2 wrote on Jan 16th, 2013 at 3:01pm:
recoverer,
Your question begs the question in this sense: the concept of parallel incarnations is based on alleged past life recall, which seems better interpreted as mind merger or possession by discarnate spirits.  How this mind merger works was demonstrated by ES's guides, so that he could correct his aarlier reincarnational interpretation.  Or do you want to say that ES's guides were deceiving him in this matter? 
Secondly, the concept of parallel incarnations is a belief rooted in an ambiguous sense of astral timeless realms.  It must first be demonstrated that the illusion of past and future is cognitively meaningful.  ES's explorations  establishe not timeless realms, but a different experience of time that is relative to how similar the core desires of separate beings are.

Don

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Reply #79 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 7:33pm
 
Sometimes it seems as if Robert Monroe took things to literally. There were occasions when he could've considered the possibility that something was being communicated to him in a symbolic way.

Natives throwing spears at a plane he flew might be a way of saying that he used to live on a planet where technologically advanced people lived wth non-technologically advance people. Considering what takes place in this World, this is a possibility.

I'm prone to think in the way described above, because I've received a lot of information in a symbolic way.  I would really limit the communication process if I didn't allow for symbolism to take place.

For example, sometimes I'm shown people riding bicycles. This doesn't literally mean that people are riding bicycles. It is a way of saying that people are moving in the direction of Christ consciousness.

This symbolism might not make sense to others, but after a while you understand what various symbols mean.



PauliEffectt wrote on Jan 16th, 2013 at 5:44pm:
Berserk2 wrote on Jan 15th, 2013 at 11:49pm:
Yes, I know; I've read all 3 of RAM's books, and what he claims about his own past life recall is in my view self-refuting--cartoony absurdities like his memories of fliying a machine, while dodging spears thrown by primitive aliens on another planet.  Please reread his 3 past life claims and make the case that they are plausible.

Yes, they are plausible.

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Reply #80 - Jan 16th, 2013 at 10:17pm
 
  Sort of along the lines that Albert earlier wrote.  Say you were exploring the nonphysical, say you were Swedenborg.  You come upon a particular "Disk" or Total Essence, and out of that Disk comes several very distinct individuals with their own unique characters, traits, tendencies, etc. 

   You might say, oh, these are separate "Souls" as i perceive them as individuals.  In a very real sense, they all each lived their own physical lifetimes and survive as distinct personalities in the nonphysical.  It wasn't that one personality and self was born, lived, died, experienced the nonphysical and then was born again. 

   If one saw such a thing, one might surmise, "reincarnation is bunk".  But if you understand the Disk concept, you can understand that these selves are very much individual, freewilled, and unique beings, but are also so very connected to each other and really are part of one larger self. 

  This is a microcosm process and reflection of what Source/The Creator did in the beginning.  It projected unique, individual, freewilled parts of itself out.  These parts are different, unique, etc. but they are not separate from the Source they came from. 

  What the Creator did with creating our Disks, is what our Disks did with creating "probes". 

  But again, i've found that direct, literal, traditional reincarnation can and does happen, but it seems much more rare than the other kind. 

  Also, it's true that sometimes we may think we were a certain person because of either an inphysical or nonphysical association with another.  There is a interesting case of this in the Cayce work.  A man was convinced he had been Judas Iscariot in another life--some visions of his had seemed to confirm it.  A friend of his, asked for this man about this issue.  They were told that in another life, that he was very closely associated with Judas Iscariot and that was part of the reason of why they believed they WERE J.I., but that they weren't actually. 

  While this can and sometimes does happen, it may not be very common unless in cases of more well known people.  A  person who had been a close confidante and friend of say Cleopatra, might in another life think that she was Cleopatra because of related memories.
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Reply #81 - Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:24pm
 
Swedenborg does encounter what might be called the group soul pheonomenon and interprets it as a merger of like-minded separate souls, not a soul Disk of souls with many parnllel incarnations.  So this iis an interesting test case of similar experiences costrued differently.  But Swedenborg's interpretaion strikes me as preferable for 3 reasons:
(1) His verifications are far superior.
(2) He has no axe to grind with rival interpretations.  There was no equivalent of New Age reincarnationism in his day.
(3) Unlike New Agers, he carefully considered  the possibility that he might be wrong about his past life memories and allowed a guide to correct his misinterpretation by demonstrating how unconscious soul mergers can create this false impression.  The intruding spirit's memories are confused as one's own.

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Reply #82 - Jan 17th, 2013 at 4:40pm
 
Berserk2 wrote on Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:24pm:
But Swedenborg's interpretaion strikes me as preferable for 3 reasons:
(1) His verifications are far superior.

Are they?

A. He believed in the Last Judgement Day. Smacks of religious stupidity.
B. He thought The Last Judgement had already passed (in the year 1757). Cartoonish, isn't it?


Berserk2 wrote on Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:24pm:
(2) He has no axe to grind with rival interpretations.  There was no equivalent of New Age reincarnationism in his day.

He really ground his axe with the idea of Trinity, as he cut it down and rejected Trinity. Praise the Lord! Hallelujha!
More unsubstantiated religion and sort of ES first denial of the existence of the Disk concept. :)

Perhaps an indication why his view on incarnations was different than Monroe's?


Berserk2 wrote on Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:24pm:
(3) Unlike New Agers, he carefully considered  the possibility that he might be wrong about his past life memories and allowed a guide to correct his misinterpretation by demonstrating how unconscious soul mergers can create this false impression.

Your assumption is wrong when you paint all non-Catholics the same.

Don, if you believe so, why are you here? On a Moen/Monroe site, when
you think Monroe and Moen are wrong? Why aren't you on one of the
many Swedenborg forums or in his New Church?
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Reply #83 - Jan 17th, 2013 at 7:17pm
 
PauliEffectt wrote on Jan 17th, 2013 at 4:40pm:
[quote author=7C5B4C4D5B4C550C3E0 link=1220647330/81#81 date=1358450676]But Swedenborg's interpretaion strikes me as preferable for 3 reasons:
(1) His verifications are far superior.

Are they?
I'll ignore your mistatements of his theology, which, by the way, I also disagree with.  The point I raised was his verifications about which you are apparently ignorant: e. g. his routine ability to visit discarnate souls on demand, retrieve detailed verifiable information from them about which he was ignorant, and then later confirm this information with surviving friends and loved ones. 


Berserk2 wrote on Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:24pm:
(2) He has no axe to grind with rival interpretations.  There was no equivalent of New Age reincarnationism in his day.


[Pauli:] He really ground his axe with the idea of Trinity, as he cut it down and rejected Trinity.

Irrelevant to this issue under discussion.  You are apaarently incapable of sticking to the point at issue.

[Pauli:] More unsubstantiated religion and sort of ES first denial of the existence of the Disk concept.

Incoherent gibberish!  ES was never exposed to the Disk concept.  He lived in the 18th century!



Unlike New Agers, he carefully considered  the possibility that he might be wrong about his past life memories and allowed a guide to correct his misinterpretation by demonstrating how unconscious soul mergers can create this false impression.

[Pauli:] Your assumption is wrong when you paint all non-Catholics the same.

Duh, the Catholic vs. non-Catholic distinction is not under discussion. Swedenborg was not a Catholic.

[Pauli:] Don, if you believe so, why are you here?
Because I'm interested in the discussions here.  Why are you here?

[Pauli:] Why aren't you on one of the many Swedenborg forums or in his New Church?

Because, as you know and I have repeatedly said, I think Swedenborg's biblical interpretation is misguided.  I'm interested in what he leqrned and verified by direct astral experience.
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Reply #84 - Jan 17th, 2013 at 7:30pm
 
Berserker, get your quotes right.
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Reply #85 - Jan 18th, 2013 at 4:52am
 
Hi Don,

I would like to ask you 2 questions:

1. How would you define a 'new ager' ?

2. Given that Van Dusen says in 'The Presence of Other Worlds' that ' Proof for Swedenborg appropriately rested on how well what he had to say fit with human experience and biblical revelation.These are internal or spiritual evidences.These little miracles, though very curious, are not really proof of anything ' (p.157), what objective basis do you have for the claim that ' his (Swedenborg's) verifications are far superior' to those of the 'new age' (whatever that phrase means ! ) ?
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Reply #87 - Jan 18th, 2013 at 12:36pm
 
Berserk2 wrote on Sep 5th, 2008 at 4:42pm:
Whether astral travel, OBEs, and NDEs are experienced by Christians, New Agers, secularists, and others, one fact stands out as a serious problem of credibility: as a whole, these experiences are riddled with inconsistencies demonstrating that many of them are bogus or that the spiritual being contacted are deceptive or mistaken in their claims.


All this substantiates is that people perceive through inner senses that are at different stages of development. I would neither call that bogus nor would I suspect deception from the entities encountered, to me it is a bit more akin to what happens in a game of Chinese whispers.

I welcome all of this activity for what it really is - the development of inner senses by many people. It is not about accuracy, nor about developing a skill of niche relevancy like validated accounts. There's no guarantee that because a person makes an accurate account of one thing (that does not conflict with their belief system) the person would still not mistranslate another information (that they happen to have problems with for whatever reason). Nonphysical communication is never a transfer of words. All the words given to describe an experience are best effort attempts at trying to translate an energy into a truthful account. Experience and exposure help develop it, beliefs and desires distort it. There are notably few so free of rigid beliefs that they can bring through information of high accuracy.

These verifications in my opinion do not help the process that really matters: spiritual self-discovery. Spiritual self-discovery is (to me) about discovering those inner senses and through them the values we want to live from. It is not an intellectual exercise as such. The divine nature that we seek is not hidden to someone because they may lack a certain kind of mental prowess, or because they do not follow a certain process or chose a given path.

Exposure to that kind of experience is what matters. The lithmus test for me is not the material a person brings through, that dubious "information." People show their mettle through their behavior towards self and others. If the experience helps in transforming a person it will show in how they treat others and self. And this will in the long run also show the quality of the energy and beings they have been in touch with.
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Reply #88 - Jan 18th, 2013 at 2:53pm
 
O wrote on Jan 18th, 2013 at 12:36pm:
Exposure to that kind of experience is what matters. The lithmus test for me is not the material a person brings through, that dubious "information." People show their mettle through their behavior towards self and others. If the experience helps in transforming a person it will show in how they treat others and self. And this will in the long run also show the quality of the energy and beings they have been in touch with.


   That is a very good point, the fruits matter the most.  But, i would also say the information itself does matter.  Everything is information, Consciousness is vibrating information in it's essence.  Since all information is interconnected, information of any kind can and often does have an influence on us in some way.  No information is truly "neutral"--it's either relatively expanding, or contracting in nature.  Expanding is "good" or rather freeing, and contracting is limiting in nature.

   To what extent we are influenced by information seemingly outside of ourselves, varies depending on different factors, our awareness, experience bank, strength of will, level of spiritual maturity, balance between our physical, mental and Consciousness levels, etc.   However, outside information often has more influence us than we may consciously realize or give credit too.  Hence, information itself can and should be discriminated, along with the sources of same if we are serious about our consciousness growth (the very reason why all of us our here, both for ours and others).   Sometimes it's helpful to be mislead for awhile and may even be prechosen as part of our life path, but ultimately, we are going to more helped or facilitated by more accurate, helpful, balanced, and expanding information.  Naturally, sources which are themselves more intune, balanced, constructive are going to have the tendency to give such information. 

   It's far, far, far from a black and white process. The fruits of a source definitely are very important, but so isn't the source itself and the "vibratory field" it radiates, aka the information it communicates with others.  It all has potential influence depending.   
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Reply #89 - Jan 18th, 2013 at 4:13pm
 
Related to what Justin just wrote, if you read a book that comes from a particular source, it is very possible that you might make an energetic connection to that source. The degree of influence will vary according to each person's discrimination level and spiritual strength.
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