Volu wrote on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 1:57pm:Seraphis1,
"that link was the complete story, that coupled with the two other stories connected with the situation shined a great light of clarification on the whole thing.."
I checked out aunt from the link - the so called soup-group incident and others of her postings on astralpulse. That's what I meant by river of confusion. The topic spurred a mild curiosity, but that's as much time I'm going to spend on this. Frank's work is not a bible for me (the bible itself neither).
I think it was worth the effort to get a fairly clear picture of the FK saga… but, to get a more reliable answer one might try Robert Bruce, himself with a carefully crafted yes or no questionaire… he is accessible enough to reply up to a point, I believe… but, I am satisfied I know the definitive story. And have moved on.
Volu wrote on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 1:57pm:"but you can get fooled 'once' that is the fault of the perpetrator... just don't get fooled twice..."
There are so called nigerian money scams going about. And the one's falling for 'em are responsible for making THEIR poor decisions. They are not forced to agree to sending some money to supposedly get a gazillion dollars as far as I know.
Pardon me if I suggest this is comparing apples and oranges… the Nigerian scam is ‘too’ obvious and ridiculous for people with a modicum of common sense… there are mentally incompetent people who might get hooked by that scam (also known as the ‘Spanish prisoner con’… there are people who will buy anything a high powered unscrupulous salesmen coerces them into buying…
The world of spiritual seeking is entirely a different animal. The mentally challenge will always have a problem and provide an income stream for the unscrupulous… but, even the astute and mentally capable have a serious problem parsing ‘spiritual truth’… because of this reality:
What the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieveThe astral sphere is extremely malleable a mind can create almost any reality out of it… as long as it believes… that is a huge problem… because one cannot easily distinguish reality… read Michael Largo’s ‘God’s Lunatics’ and you will see just how deadly this ability of the mind is… for a spiritual seeker… it is the reason Buddhist teachers tell students not to get tangled in ‘siddhi’s (powers) they are not real…
Volu wrote on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 1:57pm:"so there is a dark side one wants to avoid...
All you can do is decide if you are on the side of 'light' and follow that course... I choose 'light' and Love... I side with Monroe... their is no darkness it is an illusion... there is only an absence of 'light and love'.."
Monroe has stated darkness is just an illusion?
Yes, I can’t point you to chapter and verse because neither Monroe nor moen provided an index in their books…but if Moen is reading this… he can verify that this is the underpinning of the whole of the truth that they have discovered about the universe…
Volu wrote on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 1:57pm:There's a dark side one wants to avoid, yet there is no darkness. That's one of that side's entrapments. Becoming blinded by light, and meanwhile one's darker side is left unchallenged and thus not dealt with, since it's not really there. For dark shamans like castanedea it's business as usual, cause they're just run-of-the-mill shamans. The shaman has just helped one trip, gets bad but not really since it's an illusion, and the shaman's consequent huge smile just means a good mood dropped by for a visit.
One does not challenge darkness… it is an illusion and is not real… one merges into the light and becomes one with it manifest and unmanifest all at the same time… the is no darkness, there is no void [the void is the unmanifest (a potential)]
That is the whole of the absolute truth as I know it and my goal is to merge into it.
S.