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Stookie:
I'm groovin' on your post, I completely agree.

Sarah:
not butting in, silly... the best is when you go invisible with the writing and in order to read it, you have to highlight it to decode the secret messages.. hee hee like here!!!

Bosco I'm groovin' on your post too but have some questions  
You say:

We crave for existence, permanence, security, peace. Our mistake is that we think the source of peace and security is "out there", but "out there" is impermanent, we can never have peace and security by attaching to things that are constantly changing. As soon as we grasp something and hold it we lose our grip and start falling, so we grab onto something else only to lose our grip and fall again, an endless cycle of grasping. This is why we have no peace, we cant have peace like that.

Thanks!  This makes sense to me.  It's funny because as I am responding to your post, asking questions, my awareness is changing and I have had to retype several times because as I have typed the words, the questions have answered themselves.   My attachments have been a way for me to hold on to my identity, the things I associate with myself.  I have ideas of who I am and during the past year, I have attempted to rid myself of my beliefs, my entire belief system... because I know that the belief system is what keeps me from self realization.  

Rather than allowing myself to flow (as Stookie points out) I resist (we all do) and cling to my self identity.  When I do this, something comes along and either nudges me towards something greater or rips the thing, person, attachment away from me.  This is usually met with resistance.  The more forceful the thing is taken from me, the greater the resistance I have had to letting it go.  (this might be a good lesson for our world goernments to learn) But, when I finally do let go, I feel completely liberated and wonder why I resisted the thing in the first place.  

When I am mindful, I just AM but I also do things from the point of view of Kerri, not someone else... but when I try and please someone else, or when I do something because I feel someone else wants me to do it, (as seeming separate other) that is when I am not authentically me.   I try to please others (seemingly separate persons) by doing what I think they would want me to do.  this seems to be when I form attachments, through expectation that if I do something, for another, I will receive something in return. (hmmm... never quite thought of it that way before)

I do, however, feel like I know I exist.  Do you think you might be able to go into that a bit more?  Is it the existance as a separate self and identity that we cling to?  Is it existence in general?  Do you think when we are finished with this dream, we melt into nothingness and unite as one?  As one mind and one being without any sense of self?  Thanksmuch!

Kerri

Mirror mirror on the board... lets look at that little post and read it as if the poster were talking to himself... what might we find out about the reflection Nay is showing the PissedOffMystic?  :think:

Way To Go...

Thanks  :thumbsup:

I hate to sound like an internet ignoramus but WTF is WTG?  


thanks, I like it too

:evillaugh: Don't you mean, wench?

Nay :headbang:

Speaking of wench...  this is a little off topic  :mrgreen:  but you remeinded me...  

I recall a time when I couldn't figure out whether to call someone a wench or a wretch... so I ended up calling her a wrench.    Hee hee

Okay now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

In order to combat your fear, you need to look it in the eye and have a startedown.  If you run away from your fear or pretend it doesn't exist, you only keep it in place.  By running AT the train, it disappears.  Nay posted this in another thread, here's the thread and the quote:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21828&highlight=

I wasn't scared, infact now that I think about it, I wasn't scared at any point...just really...focused. Next thing I know, he is flying at me at a great speed, jumps on me, pulls me to the ground, gets on top of me and holds me down. He gets my mouth open, but without using his hands. Take that however you want to, cause I'm not even sure....I've never had it happen. *shrugs*

I then know he is going to attempt to bite my friggin tongue out. His head comes down and he clamps down on my tongue, I felt nothing and I actually questioned that in my mind, for a split second. I can't explain this...but it's like I'm thinking so fast, yet I'm not thinking at all and just reacting... does that make sense?? But I digress. He was going to pull back his head, with part of my tongue in his mouth. You see, it wasn't quite bitten off completely and he knew this.

Here's the funny part...well, at least to me it is. I took my right hand* grabbed the back of his head and pressed it even harder to my mouth. He couldn't get away and at that very moment the tables were turned. His fear was instantaneous... I couldn't see squat because of his face right on my face but I could just imagine his eyes popping out of his head!  He attempted to pull away a few times. At this point, he melted away and I popped my eyes open and was looking at my ceiling.

Experiences in the astral or in our dreaming state are no different than in our waking state, only they happen more rapidly.  WE are making it all up and if you have a fear you are not addressing head on, it will keep coming back to haunt you until you do.  There is nothing to fear because we are making it all up, it's a big dream we're living in so may as well make it a good one.

Kerri

I mean you are certainly not the first person that claims this and I for one think it may be likely that you are right, but really how can we realize that? I wonder if you have truely realized what you say? Cause if you do, then you must be completly free and happy I suppose (this is not meant ironically). So would you say you are completly in peace and happyness all the time?

I think there are so many believe systems holding us down that it is virtually impossible to overcome them. The only thing I could think of would be meditation. Completly still the mind the breakthruogh the illusion.

So what concretely would you counsel?

Warm regards Tom

Tombo,

I have not yet completely broken through the illusion, but I have been chipping away at it for a long time.  Sometimes I feel as if I am the luckiest person alive because I have some very good friends who ARE Self-realized who work with me towards realization just about every day.  (kinda like my own personal guru network)  I know that I have come  long way and am much more free now than I have felt in the past.  What I do realize is that I truly am making it all up though and the illusion is mine to play with, whether I choose to have fun in my sandbox all the time or not is a different story.  Sometimes I get a little nervous because kids come around and I think they'll wreck my castle and I become quite controlling and protective of what I feel is mine.  

I have had insights that the illusion is an illusion.  Last night for example, I was talking to a friend who has been working with me through koans or riddles, I realized that when I falter with the riddles is when I become self-conscious and rather than just state things as I see them, I become aware or conscious of how other people see me.  Whenever I become aware of "others," I reapond from a place of dis-unity and start communicating from a place of seeking acceptance rather than a place of just speaking my own truth.

Self consciousness is very tricky and it propogates the illusion that there is "another," or that we are "separate."  When I started trying to please my friend with my answer, that is when I faltered.  My friend told me that becoming aware of when I am self conscious is the first step of breaking through the illusion.  Staying in a mindful state is one way keeping focus where it belongs, in the present.  When we stop seeing ourselves as separate entities, we then start seeing more clearly.

Kerri  :color:

Thanks Moogle!!!
:boredom:

[BIG YAWN?!?!]

Why don't we have an emoticon with a BIG YAWN?!?!

Kerri

Yup!  Pretty cool stuff huh Heather?  What is it about HELLISH YEARS that makes one take up journaling?  My year was pretty hellish last year too and that's when I started.  Now I am not journaling as much but when I feel confused, I find it beter than mere meditation, it helps me to figure out which "voice" is which.

Coolio Girlie!!

:woot:

Love,
Krri

Tayesin,

   How does one merge with there higher-self, and why would someone want to do that?

Hi!  I'm not Tay but I know what he is talking about so you can get an answer from both of us.

Your Higher self is who you really are.  It is the Love you are, it is your Truth.  It is the You who is one with everyone and everything.  When you merge with your higher self, you act spontaneously and in accordance with what is right and good for the benefit of the Whole which is what you are.  

Merging with your higher self means that you no longer act from a place of fear and separation, rather you act from a place of wholeness, Unity and Love.  This may look much different to many people because Love is not always fluffy bunnies and people don't always understand your motivations in your interactions, that would be because you have no motivations, you just act spontneiously from your Truth and according to your intuition.  Why would you NOT want to merge with your higher self, that is also the part of you who will lead you to the fulfillment of your greatest dreams by trusting yourself to guide you.

Any time you restrict your actions or you feel challenged or fearful and act out of anger, jealousy or fear, you are acting from your ego which is what distracts you from knowing your Higher self.  

The way I got in touch with my Higher self and started being able to differentiate the two was to start journaling.  I would write down my highest and greatest ideas of what I wanted to happen in my life and wrote only from a place of love and nonjudgement.  After a while, I noticed that my conficence started building in knowing my Truth and little miracles started happening that I noticed throughout my day.  

So my suggestion to you is, start journaling and or meditating.  Find out the truth of who you are and ignoe the daily bullcrap that you see becasue it's not real.  Any time someone throws you off center, before reacting go to your journal and write down and ask yourself wuestions about the Truth of the situation (this is a toughy and may take time so don't beat yourself up if it takes a while to train yourself not to immediately react.)  Eventually, the every day bull will seem silly and mundane and you will no longer be bothered by the egoic nonsense other people fill their days with becasue you will be more centered and you too will merge with your higher self.


Kerri

Hee hee... Okay.  I concede.

We're living in a big gigantic dreamscape, called life on Earth... When we wake up, the dream is over.

So...anything would be possible? If I wanted to make a loved one who is dead be alive again, would I be able to? I'm not saying I would ever want to do that, but how is that possible?

Jesus did it, so can we.  We all have that same spark of Divinity.  The only difference was, ol' JC Knew who he was and trusted in that Divine spark within him that he called Abba, we don't.

LOL!!! Welcome to the club.  It's all downhill from here.  :welcome:

Still could be.  She ws telling me yesterday that she couldn't get the angel sparkles off of her hand, that they kept staying on her hand.  I think they play with her.  Don't put God in a box, it's all God... and so are you.

In my humble opinion you're right about pointing out resistance, but it would be better to break down that "resistance" concept. I mean, there're different types of resistance:

1. Physical: your body is not able to support a new vibration tone, maybe because it would die or get hurt once filled with new energy.

2. Emotional: buried emotions, experiences or the like could scape from the profoundness of your subconscious mind, leading you to an unstable mind state.

3. Mental: your logic mind is not prepared to digest what is comming. Some people see an inexplicable event and they spend many years convincing themselves with scientific arguments, or just forgetting it all.

4. Spiritual: for sure, karma. If, my all means, you're not destined to do something you won't do it.

So see blockages as new oportunities to improve. If they are to dissapear, give them time to do so, if not, that'll be some test the stars are putting in your way.

I always say: if there's some obstacle in your mind, do ask your mind to deal with it in order to unblock the problem.

True for all of the above... yet I also found that it doesn't matter what you "do."  The resistance will take care of itself eventually and all the menturbation in the world won't help it to go away, it needs to just go and our job is to let it.

Although, I'm not really down with the whole karma thing, I feel like Karma is just consequences based on choices and if those choices go against our true nature, we will experience waht we call "karmic debt" but that's a whole different thread.  

Kerri

There's a relationship, quite tight, between all the planes which conform the whole existence. The pulse on any of them affects the other in some manner. Increase the frecuency of your etheric body and your physical one will be affected (also the astral one)..

I would agree with this.  If there is a blockage, it will start affecting your entire energy body.  The best thing to do is find the resistance and like a stopper in a bathtub, once the resistance is removed, stuff will flow.

kerri

sounds like resistance to me.  I did a kundalini raising energy program and every time any of us would have physical symptoms, it was because we were resisting something and we would "blow up" in some big emotional outburst.. the next day everything was peachy keen.  What are you resisting (don't answer that here, this is for yourself) that needs to get out?

The brow chakra corresponds with the following: Extra Sensory Perception, all of the inner senses corresponding to the outer senses, which together are considered spirit-to-spirit communication. These include, for example, clairvoyance (inner sense of vision), clairaudience (inner sense of hearing), clairsentience (inner sense of touch), etc.

Are you resisting anything that could relate to any of these?  If so, the release of the emotional discomfort and resistance will also release the physical discomfort.

Kerri

You could say that    but I have found it to be true for me.  It doesn't have to be true for you or anyone else.  Whenever I feel frustrated, angry, hopeless, etc and I allow myself to look at things from a different perspective, (usually proceeded by great resistance  :protest: ) that different perspective comes at me like a hurricane and just about bowls me over with Love.  I'm not talking fluffy bunnies like one of my friends likes to say :rabbit: , I'm talking about Freedom of spirit which is another way of saying Love.  When we free ourselves from our beliefs that confine us and hold us down, what remains is all that's real...  which for me, translates to Love.

Kerri

Tombo,

I felt like this was going to start taking over Gandalfs thread and sending it in a direction that perhaps he didn't intend so I decided to start a new thread under Spiritual Evolution for the purposes of where I think this is leading.  here's the link
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=185648#185648

Kerri

[How does one reach that realization?]

Gandalf started a thread "Possible 'focus 4' related Experience" and I didn't want to take over Gandalfs thread so I decided to continue this discussion in a new thread because it might be moving the thread off topic.  to view that original topic, go here, http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21677&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

I have recently recognized that everything here, everything we see, touch, taste, feel, sense is all an illusion.  I have had a little help from some friends in realizing this, one of whom is a member here and if he decides to join this conversation, then great!

What I mean by it is all an illusion is that we are all united in consciousness and consciousness is all there is.  Everything that is not pure consciousness (The absolute everything/nothing) is based on our belief systems or our individual and collective ideas.  All things, relationships, events, etc are based on the illusion.  Since everything we experience in the physical universe is an illusion, and creation is based on our individual and collective ideas, creation is also an illusion.  Everything we experience is the creation of our own imaginings.  Our life is a blank canvas and we create the painting of our lives based on our thoughts.  I figure since we are making it all up anyway, I may as well have fantabulous thoughts... but the question is: How does one reach that realization?  That question is the purpose of this thread.

here is the last exchange on Gandalfs thread:

Tombo wrote:
Do you have any idea/knowledge as why we choose to create this illusion.
And: Do we really have a choice? I mean I'm not aware of the fact that I create my world therefore It seems kind of odd to me to say I/We choose it to be that way.

Lighthouse wrote:

It's the only game in town. When we realize we are making it all up, then we can start having fun with it.

Tombo Wrote:
lol! And how can we truely realize it?

My answer; diligence, persistence, patience (and the help of a few good friends never hurt either   )
Most of us have beliefs systems that are handed to us from other people, religions, philiosphies, doctrines, family members, teachers, guru's society, etc.  If we listen to the way of other people and try to follow that, we are living according to the truth of someone else.  

In freeing ourselves from our self imposed belief systems, meaning every rule, regulation, social norm that is used as a control tactic by ourselves to force our beliefs upon others is an obstruction to knowing the Truth of our being.  The Truth is we are Love and Love is all there is.  Everything we have in place to control each other is based on fear which is the opposite of Love.  Once we get to the point where we recognize that Love is all there is and there is nothing to fear, we can then know ourselves as the creators of our experience.  the question then remains, How do we get to that point?  That is the purpose of this thread.

Fire away

(and Gnukie, can you please help me out here?  Thanksmuch!)

Kerri

Thanks Sarah, it's good to be back.

This thread is hilarious!!!  Thanks Hee hee hee. :laughing4:

[LOL!!!]

LOL!!!

:downtoilet:

My 6 year old sees them all the itme, she says they are angels (I have shown her pics of orbs and she says these are the angels she sees)  Maybe your spiritual/meditation or whatever practices are causing you to be more sensitive to the non-physical realm.