Post by Ishtahota on Jul 3, 2013 10:34:26 GMT -5
I use to hear some of the elders talking about getting answers by standing between worlds. Then somewhere in my life I learned to get information from spirit and my higher-self as I went to sleep and as I woke up in the morning. There is this period of time where I make a shift between what I call my conscious mind and my dreaming mind. It seems that I can use both at the same time for a little amount of time. As time went on and I kept going to ceremonies I started to understand what they were doing. It is this in-between state of consciousness that these ceremonies help to bring about.It is also another way to see and describe non-duality as it is experienced by another culture.
A lot of people have tried to take non-duality teachings and make them another do nothing, be responsible for nothing, work on nothing excuse, just like what has been done to the Christ teachings which are in fact at the core non-duality teachings. Wrap it in love and light and it will go away was the same kind of do nothing, work on nothing, be responsible for nothing, that became the New Age movement.
The point is that it takes work to expand this time when both parts of our consciousness are working together. The elders that I have learned from do not teach like we do in the white world. Real life and interaction with others at ceremony is that teaching. Most of what we need to learn has to be experienced in real life before we can fully comprehend it. They have learned long ago that giving someone knowledge before they can comprehend it is just a waste of time. Ceremony and interaction with other people can bring our stuff up. Pain and suffering is our resistance to dealing with our crap when it comes up. A lot of the time our un-delt with crap is what clogs up our connection to the spirit world and our higher-self.
A lot of people have tried to take non-duality teachings and make them another do nothing, be responsible for nothing, work on nothing excuse, just like what has been done to the Christ teachings which are in fact at the core non-duality teachings. Wrap it in love and light and it will go away was the same kind of do nothing, work on nothing, be responsible for nothing, that became the New Age movement.
The point is that it takes work to expand this time when both parts of our consciousness are working together. The elders that I have learned from do not teach like we do in the white world. Real life and interaction with others at ceremony is that teaching. Most of what we need to learn has to be experienced in real life before we can fully comprehend it. They have learned long ago that giving someone knowledge before they can comprehend it is just a waste of time. Ceremony and interaction with other people can bring our stuff up. Pain and suffering is our resistance to dealing with our crap when it comes up. A lot of the time our un-delt with crap is what clogs up our connection to the spirit world and our higher-self.