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Post by michaelsees on Jan 30, 2011 15:54:56 GMT -5
This is how I would look at this. The more burning the closer you are for a breakthrough.
All that is happening is happening for this reason only for your own awakening.
The spoils are yours if you stick with it.
Michael
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Post by bruppy on Jan 30, 2011 16:25:17 GMT -5
It should be taken seriously. What have you got to loose, considering you are gong to die. As Jed would of said, I think somewhere in that book.
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Post by sallyw on Oct 29, 2011 16:56:04 GMT -5
Jed McKenna is RicJed Bach. It seems obvious to me. From a very quick scan Jed's first book there are many hints. For example Jed is a teacher from Iowa, Donald Shimoda is a Messiah from Iowa. Jed skydives, Richard Bach and Donald Shimoda fly planes. The writing style is also so similar to RB. I personally don't think the writer of Jed's books is an awakened being, but someone who has grabbed a hotchpotch of awakened being experiences and comments (esp Adya) and woven them into an entertaining story - as Richard Bach he did in Illusions. Either way go to the real enlightened beings for guidance - not someone who hides behind a mask of anonymity.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 28, 2012 22:05:10 GMT -5
......bumped for Jasun........ On the process of awakening- "Here's a simple test. If it's soothing or comforting, if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy; if it's about getting into pleasant emotional or mental states; if it's about peace, love, tranquillity, silence or bliss; if it's about a brighter future or a better tomorrow; if it makes you feel good about yourself or boosts your self-esteem, tells you you're okay, tells you everything's just fine the way it is; if it offers to improve, benefit or elevate you, or if it suggests that someone else is better or above you; if it's about belief or faith or worship; if it raises or alters consciousness; if it combats stress or deepens relaxation, or if it's therapeutic or healing, or if it promises happiness or relief from unhappiness, if it's about any of these or similar things, then it's not about waking up. Then it's about living in the dreamstate, not smashing out of it. On the other hand, if it feels like you're being skinned alive, if it feels like a prolonged evisceration, if you feel your identity unravelling, if it twists you up physically and drains your health and derails your life, if you feel love dying inside you, if it seems like death would be better, then it's probably the process of awakening. That, or a helluva case of gas" |
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Post by Jasun on Jan 29, 2012 19:31:18 GMT -5
thanks; my search for JM didn't bring this up, for some reason.
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Post by tomas on Jan 30, 2012 22:43:51 GMT -5
I personally don't think the writer of Jed's books is an awakened being, but someone who has grabbed a hotchpotch of awakened being experiences and comments (esp Adya) and woven them into an entertaining story. Sallyw, I'd suggest checking out the fuzz in your own navel before judging Adya. I cannot understand how you'd make a comment like that if you know his background, have sat with him, or listened to him. |
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Post by sallyw on May 10, 2012 5:17:43 GMT -5
tomas, I have sooo much fuzz in my navel it's embarrassing. Anyway - in my post I wasn't meaning that Adya's stuff was hoowee. I've listened to him a reasonable amount and I think he is great. I actually meant that I thought that Jed had grabbed stuff from genuine teachers like Adya and regurgitated it... Buuuut, now that I'm actually reading the Jed books (yes my previous comment was from a quickish scan of his books and because he wrote under a pseudonym - grimace - sorry Jed). I now actually think that some of the current teachers have taken some inspiration from Jed for some of their teachings. Jed certainly explains being awake 'different' than what you hear about elseware. He has a very different spin on the stuff. But me likely now as he is very focussed on 'how to get awake' vs what most other teachers do which is to just describe what it’s like to be awake. He waxes poetic about some things even more than other teachers (what is with the universe being like a playful puppy analogy? - too deep for me at the moment) but then stabs other sacred cows in the heart. Jed is RB - but that is a nice secret to have all to myself ;-)
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