Just a simple question... answer it however you like...
What do you know?
Nothing! :wink:
i know that in eternity every possible potential existed at some time in the past and at some time in the future , as the astral is without time anything you can imagine is real all the good and all the bad
right now you are captain of a starship and if you only try you will be able to use your imagination to connect you to the reality where its real
:NoY:
i know my reality. it's mine and mine alone. no one will ever know it.
granted, i don't know it intellectually.
but i know it in my heart, i know it in an indescribable way.
I know the proper PSI to inflate my car tire to.
We all know everything. The problem is we forget what counts.
I know that I will always have a lot more to learn. :-D
I know that I am.
I now know who I love, who I can trust. Who really loves me. I know he's never going to leave me. Its taken 33 years for us to get to this point but I know Im happy, truley happy. Knowing is just so good.
I thought I knew a lot... then I hit my middle thirties and realised that in the grand scheme of things I know relatively little.
I know my job... that's all I require to know to 'get on' in normal society but I'm just playing the game.
Excellent everyone. :)
Quote from: Stookie_ on August 30, 2012, 11:52:58
I know the proper PSI to inflate my car tire to.
That my good friend is a damn fine answer.
i vote that this is the best answer to the question.
I know that The Dalia Lama maintains that at a high level of awareness we realise that wisdom had no objective or inherent reality :lol:
I think therefore I am. I will never know everything, but I will always strive to know much more.
Now, the answers that you've given (they're all great btw!)... think about them (especially the "deep" ones... like Stookies! hehe ;))...
Ask yourself, do you know that with your mind (intellect, ego)? Or do you know it with your heart (your being)?
Quote from: Xanth on August 31, 2012, 10:40:50Ask yourself, do you know that with your mind (intellect, ego)? Or do you know it with your heart (your being)?
I gave the answer already. "Am" is a conjugated form of "be(ing)". :wink:
I'm pretty sure I know it with my heart. I never have to look it up in the manual.
Hee hee, looks like I got 'em both covered.
I know with all of my heart. It has taken time (many years in fact) for me to know 'he' loves me, wants me. I kinda always knew in my head but my heart is now telling me. And Im not letting my heart rule my head. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, no matter what that knowledge is. However - do not believe all you think!!!
Quote from: Volgerle on August 31, 2012, 11:29:27
I gave the answer already. "Am" is a conjugated form of "be(ing)". :wink:
Yes, but one can *say* it... and not really know it. Get it? :)
A lot of people lie successfully to themselves.
Quote from: ange.connell on August 31, 2012, 14:47:22
I know with all of my heart. It has taken time (many years in fact) for me to know 'he' loves me, wants me. I kinda always knew in my head but my heart is now telling me. And Im not letting my heart rule my head. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, no matter what that knowledge is. However - do not believe all you think!!!
Beautiful Ange. Very beautiful. :)
I know my job with my intellect and my being.
My sudden realisation that as I've grew older I know less, is when it dawned on me that my intellect really didn't mean anything to my being.
Intellectually I think I'm a know-it-all... but my being knows better and is growing stronger rapidly.
The world is a dark place.
Quote from: Everlasting on August 31, 2012, 22:16:23
The world is a dark place.
... in a happy, lighted way! :)
Hi,
Nice reply Xanth.
I hope this dark isnt the new light, in a fashionable way?
I thought this funny.
Quote from: Xanth on August 31, 2012, 18:52:12
Yes, but one can *say* it... and not really know it. Get it? :)
A lot of people lie successfully to themselves.
I'm lying to myself saying that 'I am'? Strange views you have. :-(
Quote from: Volgerle on September 01, 2012, 06:53:16
I'm lying to myself saying that 'I am'? Strange views you have. :-(
Nono, it wasn't a statement... it was a question for you to ask yourself.
The second line was a statement, but a general one not directed at anyone. :)
Get it? :)
Quote from: Xanth on September 01, 2012, 10:55:05
Nono, it wasn't a statement... it was a question for you to ask yourself.
The second line was a statement, but a general one not directed at anyone. :)
Get it? :)
Yeah, I see what you mean. Imv, this thread also is about sth which was not worded yet:
Intuition.
There is two kinds of 'knowing'. Intellectual knowledge which is mostly gained during every life, especially after you leave the 'trance'-brain state you naturally have as baby / toddler / little child, and then start to (re-)discover this physical world.
But then there is the deep knowing at a being-level (or heart leavel or intuitive level, however you call it). I am sure that it has arisen (or was there) much earlier in our lives and then has been pushed back more and more by the left-brain intellectual knowledge, be it by a natural process of acclimatisation to physicality or by societal indoctrination (or both).
Regressive hypnosis (and I read a multitude of transcriptions and accounts by now) shows that we as babies-toddlers do have this intuitive knowledge ("knowing"). It is NOT lost at birth as most assume. We are NOT a blank slate when we come here, at least not subconsciously. Maybe that's another reason why babies cry so much. It's not just their helpless un(der)developed bodies, but the "insight" that they must be giving up piece by piece of their inner spiritual knowing when "here".
Later as adults it is driven back into the subconscious, more and more, deeper and deeper. For some people it is buried deep, very deep so that they cannot find it during their entire life.
The "I am-was-willbe"-knowledge/-knowing is deep intuition for me. It was always there. I had this as a child although I cannot attest to it for my toddler years since I have not the memory anymore. But as a very young child I "knew" by intuition about certain things, which many other children seemed not to know or care about (possibly). I've written sth about this intuitive spiritual knowing a while ago here:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_metaphysics/bat_crazy_as_a_child-t35371.0.html;msg293804#msg293804
I have kept the child in me alive a little til this very day (we all should, this is also a general advice given by many spiritual teachers), so this is why I can say that "I am" and a few other things concering metaphysics or personal philosophy come from the child-like intuitve / being-level "knowing" (not knowledge as intellectual information gathering) "in" me.
There is no need for "skeptical" analysis or discussion actually in order to come to a conclusion to support this or that 'hypothesis'. I just "know". Some skeptics might call me delusional but this is what happens to people who "know" at a being level in this world. It is okay, we have to make friends with this. Maybe we even took this into account before we came here in the first place. Being constantly called "delusional" is a challenge in itself.
So, in a nutshell: This intuition / "knowing" just IS. It is not gained, it was there before and was kept alive at my core of being and will stay with me after this life's journey has ended and hopefully brought over to any other physical experience I might embark on in future times (provided I do).
Hi,
Nice post Volgerle, you just "know" things. No real idea how even if you come across something completely new. It's a fact that you simply "know". Words fail when asked how, it's almost instinct.
I would guess many on this site have this too. It may be part of our human evolution. You'd certainly make less bad decisions in a survival setting. Maybe its very old and explains why we are here today...
Interesting thought.