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Carl, never argue with a fool. They will drag you to their own level and then beat you by experience.


Have a good day,
Mogenblue

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Congrats Mogy, your keyboardian expression has attained multi-dimensional proportions, irony wise.

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Pretending to be light is wholesome fun, but it's a plateu of complacency. The roads lead onwards towards balance.

Crossbow,

With respect to conscience I would like to refer what Kathy said before:
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It is the intent with what you do anything that matters.

If a spirit of light would have sex with a lower spirit to enable that lower spirit to have sex in a more elevated way, to experience more warmth and other higher emotions in sex then I think that higher spirit is actually doing a good job.

I think the higher spirit is then serving and loving a lower spirit. The lower spirit may benefit from this by experiencing that it is possible to have sex in other ways as well. Perhaps even in ways it has never experienced sex before.
Thus it may try to find ways to make that way of loving and having sex it's own. To internalize that wisdom and those capabilities, and to make it fully their own.

It is all about the intent.



Frits

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Thanks Bob.
Yeah, funny about that, coz I've been "thinking" about this forum for a week or two, and about you Bob, and others too.
Well then the other day I goes an gets the idea in me coconut to blow in and chew some fat with ol' cobbers.
So here we all is, and about three years wiser too. 
I'll answer that query later, after I've thought about what not to write.
In the meantime I would like to read your thoughts on the same questions.

crossbow
 

It doesn't matter so much the choices you've made in the past, so much as where your consciousness has evolved to in the ever present.  If your actions were hateful, but you have seen the light, and changed to act out of love (spontaneously, without prompting) that is all that matters.  The notion of karma is funny to me.  Because it is a real force as long as we are on the see-saw of it.  Once we realize our divine nature and act in and out of love, we are off the karmic wheel - through love. 

One should never act out of fear of being punished in a hell or not getting to a heaven.  Because fear is the opposite of love, and "acting" good, is not the same as understanding deep down in your core/being that love underpins all of us.  So letting love shine, and acting right because it is the only sane way to act is my ultimate goal. 

I tend to somewhat ignore retrieving aspects of oneself.  Why?  Well for me, this unnecessarily complicates the situation.  We are really one with God and the universe.  We incarnate into a body to experience a "separate" existence.  Now you would ask me to split myself again into 1000 shards, and look for any lost pieces through a retrieval?  I don't think so.  I would rather work toward a global/general level of expressing love, and let those little shards or pieces of me melt away when they finally realize that they were not separate at all.


M

I would like to ask a general question. How does mental illness go along with these ideas? Perhaps you know someone who has or has had a type of mental illness...a depression, a bipolar illness, some other kind of disorder which affects that person's thoughts, emotions and behaviors. For some people it might be temporary and for others it might be a lifelong struggle. That person might do something to harm others after a mighty struggle with themselves that would seem herculean to you. Where does the line start? A small illness, a larger illness...how can a person possibly even begin to judge themselves or others without a much more profound understanding of our motivations than we currently have?

Sometimes it seems to me that we speak of all kinds of "karma" and "levels" when we can barely understand why we do what we do. I find it puzzling, after a long time on this planet.

It seems to me, yes, the self-searching can be a good thing, but in the end, I hope to find an afterlife which includes those sorts of beings who have a fuller understanding of all of "this" than I have found here on earth.

Hi Seagull,

If we are consciousness, and I think that we are, then this means that our consciousness is not "stored" in our brain.  The brain then becomes the means by which consciousness is constrained.  Someone with depression, bipolar, etc. simply has more constraints to work through than someone without these illnesses.  Bottom line is your intent when interacting with others and the environment.  This is what changes our inner being for better or worse.  Just because someone has a mental illness, including severe mental illness doesn't mean that they cannot choose loving intent over a fearful intent.  It may be more difficult to do so, but in my opinion these souls in most cases have chosen to make things more difficult for their own reasons based on what they feel will benefit them the most in their own personal evolution.  Though I imagine that may not always be the case.

Upon death, our consciousness is no longer constrained by our brains.  That doesn't mean that we know everything there is to know, but the limitation of the mental illness would no longer be present.

Not sure if this helps or not, but this is currently my understanding.

Kathy