Do You Believe In Yourself? Don’t Ask Me
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Advice and asking others for answers seems to be the theme of the week for me. I sometimes visit a forum called Our Ultimate Reality. The subjects on this forum get pretty wild and abstract sometimes. This week one discussion has been about the origin of the universe. The discussion got into the void and randomness and order from chaos, etc. As I was reading a reply I said to myself Do I need an answer? Then it went to, why do we humans always need answers? Why do we ask questions? Why do we seek others advice? Is it to satisfy the mind’s need to box and categorize thoughts and concepts? The thread then changed to the subject of why we are constantly asking questions.
In 2003, after devouring any book or channel on spiritual awakening and enlightenment that I could find, I decided that was enough. I didn’t need any more validation that this stuff was real for me. As I have said, the message was always the same, just said in different words. It felt like my questions were answered and I had no need for any more answers.
This was a reply I made to another on the forum who had given me a theory about the origin of the universe.
Thanks for the interesting perspective. The vacuum effect creating energy. Well?
Like you say questions?
You know, I was reading that and I said to myself why do I care about this? What difference can it make to me or my understanding of anything.
It might a fun mental exercise but that’s all it is. A mental game and mental games for me are just that, games. I guess that’s what the human brain loves to do. It’s like any verbal communication or discussion on any concept, we seem to feel the need to satisfying the mind’s need to categorize, label and “make sense” of things.
The human mind loves to have the answers. Is there really answers? Why do we feel the need for them? The mind begs for a time line and a “how to” process to be satisfied, which as the questions get more abstract, the harder it is to do.
Like your story of you, the enlightened child, who dared to ask the tough question of Who made God? and got brushed aside because there was no answer that the priest could give.
We keep asking. I guess we just love the game huh?
Will we get to the point where we quit asking or feeling the need to have the answers?
I say yes.
Seth
This was a response to my post from Darrell, a person who has a perspective that I enjoy. He hit my theme of the week perfectly.
Hello Sethg,
Yes, we reach the point that we say - enough already.
I do love to learn new things though. I revel in the new dimensions of science’s ability to see deeper into our biology and farther into the Universe. I spend many hours reading and watching video’s of all this.
But as for spiritual books and such, I have had my fill. Being brought to the realization that I was spending my life learning how to live it, and thus, not living it at all.
Like the observer - they miss the point of their own life in the observation of others.
A dear friend of mine just recently wrote a book on spirituality, and she was very happy - yet when I read it I was left with the feeling ” how many times can we keep writing the same things? ” I read all this over thirty years ago.
Yes - there comes a time when we just need to get out there and feel it all and not care how - why - or if it is correct or not.
WithIN Love
Darrell
I just watched this video and it fit my theme. Buddha had some interesting things to say about advice and who to believe.
The answers are within us but we lack the trust in our ability to know that they are right for us. We love to give our power away to doctors and lawyers and counselors and spiritual gurus that we believe “know” so much more than us. Then of course we also give up our personal responsibility for the outcome.
It’s our mind’s thirst for answers combined with our lack of confidence in our power to have them already that keeps us asking. Who knows what’s right for us other than us.
How can I give you advice? I haven’t lived your life. I can’t know your feelings. Only you can. You have the answers within. We just have to listen and trust. When we incorporate that trust in our being then the need to ask someone else for the answers.
This was my last reply.
“Living instead of learning” Yes Darrell, I think it is a natural progression when we harmonize the aspects of self, when the mind relinquishes it grip on constantly “needing” to have the answers, that it will bring the end to our incessant questioning and seeking answers outside our selves. Or the need to question at all.
And then the whole concept of need for every part of life just fades away.
Seth
It’s is time for me believe in myself instead of needing advice from others. Time to end the constant seeking for truths and answers and live the ones I already have.
Now it is on to the next theme. “What is a real man?”
Stay tuned …
Another post I read yesterday that added to my “theme of the week.”
It’s from NAB - Oprah Was Wrong
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Taking The Woo-Woo Out Of New Age Talk
Many who hear or read New Age concepts will quickly tune out, change the channel or click away. I know because I used to do it. I could have cared less about the great shift for humanity or the next step in our evolution or any other hocus pocus mumbo jumbo. Still here? I am going to attempt to explain “logically” what spiritual enlightenment and our shift to the next level of consciousness means in the simplest terms that I can so maybe more of us will understand that there may some “realness” to it. This will be from my pseudo scientific perspective for all you people from Missouri.If you’ll stay with me I need to go over a few terms that are commonly used in New Age discussions.
Unity Consciousness
All things evolve and are in a continual state of change. The only constant is change. Plants, animals, stars, suns, the entire universe and of course humans. We evolve together as a species. Humanity has lived in a consciousness of duality. In simple terms this means that we all buy into the same reality that there is good and evil or right and wrong or black and white or even male or female. It’s always in groups of two and opposites. That’s why it is called duality. A component of this is the belief that we are all individuals and stand alone separate from each other and everything. We have in the past all agreed that this is reality.
What new-agers are saying is that we are changing our reality right now. That we, as a species, are evolving into a new consciousness called unity consciousness or Christ consciousness. That’s why it is called the new age. It is the creating of a new reality that behaves from the knowledge that we are one with all things. That we are all made up of the same stuff. That is the reason for the name “unity.” We have preparing for this change for a long time. Buddha, Mohammad and of course Jesus Christ along with many aboriginal cultures have given us these messages to help us transition into a new way of being. That is why some call it Christ consciousness. Some organized religions have chosen not to interpret these masters words from this perspective probably for reasons of power and control.
Whether you believe that this shift in consciousness is happening or not you may be able to concede that some kind of change in our species is possible. I won’t go into any more detail about it here. If you are interested in what changes in human behavior this shift may bring you can check out my N.P.E. series.
I want to get into a explanation of what I believe is happening in real terms to our bodies and minds when this shift or ascension happens. Ascension is another new age term that simply means a step up into the next level of consciousness.
Enlightenment and Vibrations
To explain these new age terms, I ask you to think of the different states of matter. The body is matter. In the first state matter is solid. By adding heat (light) it turns to liquid and with more heat it becomes gas. The human body has two basic components. Biology or put another way a solid carbon mass floating in water and an electro-magnetic field. The elements that make up the universe and everything in it are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon.
Some of the characteristics that describe a solid are unmoving, separate, un flexible. In our present reality these terms can also apply. We feel we are separate. We have our truths and we stick to them. The molecules of a solid move very slowly creating a lower energetic vibration. Energy or electricity doesn’t flow as well through a solid as it does through a liquid or a gas.
Light is also described as love or warmth. When we awaken to the knowledge that we are one with all things the feelings of unconditional love fill our bodies. We are adding heat. we transform or evolve into a more liquid like state and like a liquid we melt into one. We are no longer separate. We are going with the flow. We become more transparent or honest with ourselves and others. We become more reflective or self examining. Energy flows much easier through a liquid. Less resistance. More allowing. The molecules of a liquid are vibrating faster producing a higher vibration. We are simply allowing more light into our bodies. Becoming en-lightened. Literally emitting a higher electro-magnetic vibration.
Can you hear all the new age terms?
Are we evolving into more fluid beings? Some say that we originated in water. Our planet is mostly water. Our bodies are mostly water. Whales and dolphins who, as some believe, are the highest evolved beings on our planet. The symbol for Jesus was a fish. Are we returning to our true form?
I’m going off on a tangent. Don’t want to lose you now. I’ll save that topic for another time.
All these grand concepts about human evolution that I and others like to toss around can really boil down (pun intended) into simple grade school chemistry. That is the beauty of the universe. Simplicity. There is a mathematical term called Occam’s razor which states that all things being equal the simplest theory is likely to be true.
There’s no mystery to new age spirituality. There is no mystique reserved for the chosen few. We are all in this together. Yesterday’s woo-woo can become today’s reality.
Ok, so this is still pretty woo-woo. I can’t believe you made it to the end of this post! Well done. There are lots more new age terms to discuss.
To be continued …
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