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Post by Peter on Jan 31, 2024 4:53:18 GMT -5
On and off for the last few years when doing meditation I have been experience a fear during meditation. This fear is now coming up alot more. The fear is in response to a sense of loss of individual self in meditation. Yeah, that's the edge right there, that's super interesting. I've let go of a lot of ideas over the years - let go of my identity as a Man, as a Scot, my Family name, ideas of Success, Being Good, Intelligence, but that 'me' is a tough one. What would be left if I stopped being me? Would something else come in and be 'me' instead? I feel like I don't have a fear of death, because in some way I'm confident that I'd still exist. But to not be me? That's True Death. I've hit that fear also, sitting on my stool, and wasn't able to let go of self. My sense was that Enlightenment was on the other side of it, but I wasn't ready to stop being me. I haven't had that fear for many years though...I'm thinking about why that might be... I think perhaps I've got more of a feeling of being personally welcomed by 'something' in my meditation these days. Would it be helpful to look for a flavour of personal connection, even if just briefly, earlier on in your meditation? Perhaps a sense of unfolding into a wider you? |
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Post by Peter on Sept 26, 2023 5:28:45 GMT -5
However, that’s not the case here; there’s only a single timeline extending from the past into the future. This timeline cannot be altered because we are intrinsically part of it. Well that's taking a very narrow view of things, Gopal. I suspect you're not a big science fiction fan. I think most people have got their heads around the double slit experiment showing that there are many possible 'nows' of which we experience only one, but the suggestion that this could extend back into the past as well is not something I imagine many people will see. Hawking was big on this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_cosmologyHo ho, narrow view.  <-- double slit humour |
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Post by Peter on Aug 18, 2023 7:28:23 GMT -5
Open appeal to ZD or Peter. Sorry, I've been away in Plum Village and then a couple of weeks on the island of Corsica. Do I need to read the whole thread, or does the requested intervention just relate to the deliberate literal interpretation of an abstract analogy and ensuing attempt to hold the author up as an object of ridicule? Love your profile pic by the way. I bought a framed picture of the I Ching for my Dad a couple of years ago, to hang in his study. |
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Post by Peter on Aug 18, 2023 3:44:26 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I'm new here. My passion lies in delving deep into the spiritual significance of life and everything around us. I created a internet platform as a space for like-minded individuals to share, discuss, and explore the myriad facets of spirituality. Welcome Elephantic. Nice website, very stylish, modern. I took one of your quizzes; interesting questions. Best Wishes, Peter PS "Menu" not "Menue" |
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Post by Peter on Jan 3, 2023 13:11:56 GMT -5
I'm working my way to the end of "Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul" which is just... well it's like a life handbook really; I feel like I'm internally going "yes, that's how it is" for every chapter. Which does concern me a little that I'm not being sufficiently discerning, but long story short, I'm really resonating with the material.
I was looking to see if there was some sort of Seth Study Group meeting in the UK but I didn't find one. There does seem to be activity in the US, but not over here.
So if anyone is aware of such a group or would like to discuss directly, please do let me know. Thanks!
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Post by Peter on Jun 14, 2022 10:08:34 GMT -5
Helping them was the hardest thing I've ever done in life, for that length of time, that was almost 3 years total. There were some times with Daddy when I had to pick a time to walk for 45 minutes. I'm sorry that you had to go through that SDP. Thank you for sharing it with us. |
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Post by Peter on Nov 29, 2021 7:20:56 GMT -5
- the Forces of Adversity will block a man on whatever level his being is on
This one interests me. Does the book give a reason for this blocking occurring? |
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Post by Peter on Apr 27, 2021 4:03:34 GMT -5
Ha yes, great bit of TV. Did you watch the whole series? www.imdb.com/title/tt8694364 There's a speech the Gran gives in the last episode about how we got from there to here and, for me, it felt that that speech was the first thing the writer put down and the rest of the show grew around it Interesting that the BBC would broadcast something like this, at this time. Well it's a couple of years old now - May 2019. Written and produced by Russell T Davies who was the show runner for Dr Who, so he's given the future a bit of thought. were they told by someone to write this down as some sort of blueprint By someone or something?  " As though this object in hyperspace throws off reflections of itself, which ricochet into the past, illuminating
this mystic, inspiring that saint or visionary. And that out of these fragmentary glimpses of Eternity we can build a kind of a map of not only the past universe and the evolutionary ingression into novelty, but a kind of map of the future." Terence McKenna |
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Post by Peter on Apr 26, 2021 6:13:00 GMT -5
Ha yes, great bit of TV. Did you watch the whole series? www.imdb.com/title/tt8694364 There's a speech the Gran gives in the last episode about how we got from there to here and, for me, it felt that that speech was the first thing the writer put down and the rest of the show grew around it: |
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Post by Peter on Apr 1, 2021 3:10:17 GMT -5
I always thought he [Rush] was an alarmist, a drama queen, going on and on about how the "left" wanted to "destroy America" and "shred the Constitution". I was the one that had to open my eyes about that one over the last few years. And where did you get to with that, Laughter? What do you think The Left are trying to achieve? |
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Post by Peter on Mar 18, 2021 4:31:34 GMT -5
Storage is the bugaboo, not lack of "free" energy sources. Can't put sunshine, wind or tides in tanks. batteries is what I'm hearing  If you use spare electricity to pump water back up into a hydro-electric reservoir then yes you could literally put energy into a tank. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity |
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Post by Peter on Mar 2, 2021 4:02:19 GMT -5
my personal experience with Christianity is that my conceptions of it didn't survive direct encounter with it's practitioner's. As in you thought it was a tool for controlling the masses and found that the practitioners actually had genuinely touched something spiritually, OR that you thought it was a teaching about love and found its practitioners to have missed this point entirely? |
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Post by Peter on Jan 25, 2021 4:28:59 GMT -5
I'm 99% sure I won't ever vote again. That's if there IS another opportunity to vote again Why not go Green? |
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Post by Peter on Jan 19, 2021 5:31:18 GMT -5
I'm grappling this week with the appearance that a large number of republicans in the US have formed themselves into an alternative reality in which they believe they are in the majority and the only possible way for the democrats to have won the election is for nefarious forces to have rigged it. And presumably (because the democrats won the popular vote also in 2016) that the previous election was also rigged, but 'They' just failed to rig it sufficiently in key states.
This is not particularly a spiritual matter, but it has a parallel. We're all here (I hope) attempting to see What Is. What is true. What we have here is an opportunity to examine at a macro level, the motivations and mechanisms for a denial of reality (small r). The filters of selecting things we like and discarding the things we don't like until a world view is formed.
Well I guess people have always believed what they want to believe and/or take on the beliefs handed to them by their parents. And then taken that view, identified the opposition as 'Other' and 'Evil' and kill them for it. But when it was just in the realm of religion it was one unprovable belief against another unprovable belief. In the political sphere though, we're saying there are facts and that they can be proven.
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Post by Peter on Oct 29, 2020 4:31:59 GMT -5
Well, the people who have a lot to say, say a lot. It's difficult to say how many people are participating here without saying a lot, on account of them not saying a lot.  |
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<-- double slit humour
