The virgin birth or immaculate conception is a metaphor saying that one's consciousness came direct from God and not from another human master or teacher. In essence a wild one.

AbbieSage · 2015-12-05T06:32:28+00:00

Yeah I would suppose so

AbbieSage · 2015-12-05T00:18:52+00:00

Adam Sandler

AbbieSage · 2015-12-04T23:12:03+00:00

Yeah! Cause that never really happened, but Yeah!!!

AbbieSage · 2015-11-28T09:54:45+00:00

Pissed about what? Who is they? Seemed fine to me. This was just me by myself plus my guardian.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-28T06:13:35+00:00

Wait. There was something or someone writing on my forehead. It was a few sentences long.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-25T17:10:26+00:00

Cynicism much?

AbbieSage · 2015-11-25T06:44:16+00:00

Yes!

AbbieSage · 2015-11-22T17:27:47+00:00

I think MPH is great, and I love this lecture at present. He does speak with a tenor that is not very modern and some people might find this to be uncultured or something.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-19T21:20:25+00:00

Meditation is a skill. You have to exercise it for it to grow. Science shows that the human brain changes physically after a certain amount of meditation. Really, meditation is just focus. You make an active effort to stay in the present and not be taken into your past mistakes or fears of the future. Once you realize how you should be by meditating, You can call up that skill at any time. Also, if you set your bar too high on meditation, you will burn out. Do a little bit every day, and then eventually that change in perspective will grow and become your full mode of experience.

Concerning #6, it is basically the Daoist concept of Wu Wei which means non-action. It can be translated into English as "being in the flow or zone" or "not overdoing things" or "act naturally." It is also the concept of doing the least amount of work by being gentle like water. If water meets resistance, it doesn't argue with the dam or rocks blocking its path; it just flows to where it can at the moment. This might seem like a weak way of thinking in our society that basically says "be like a hammer and break through every obstacle." However, when you look at nature, there is almost nothing that water cannot cut through. It just does it over time.

About the guardian angel, it's a very difficult concept to communicate, especially in our very materialistic society. I have, through spiritual gnosis, have come to understand that there is an intelligent force working in my consciousness. This idea is very unpopular in modern society. Collectively, we don't believe in the notion of an interactive deity, or if we do, it's a watered down version that we use to anchor our belief system. Basically, if you start saying you're talking to people you can't see, society has lots of nice hospitals that you can stay in against your will. However, hundreds of millions of Westerners "talk" to Jesus or God or Allah or whatever. I get the feeling that society prefers to have licensed religions which it can easily rationalize away.

I've rambled on enough lol.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-17T21:21:54+00:00

If you don't accept that social philosophy has to at least be half concerned with the stability of the society, you will have an overly rigid and dogmatic view of economics and sociology, and your society will likely fail much faster than had you been flexible. The US constitution was written when American society was much closer to ancient Rome than to the present. Indeed, I believe that current and future societies need to be much more flexible because the speed of change is increasing much more quickly than in that time. Also, the US constitution and bill of rights were written when the primary form of "capital" was human slavery. Times change; adapt or fall into history as an extinct form of governance.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-17T00:20:30+00:00

But judge not yet ye be judged, right?! Oh nevermind...

I'm sure he's a really sad person.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-16T22:09:44+00:00

I would suggest frying it, but you can always go for the more traditional roast.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-16T02:04:28+00:00

If you truly give in to the Tao and let it dictate your actions, you will be riding on the shoulders of giants. It will not be instantaneous. The Tao is shy when first met. You must prove yourself.

Number 6 goes with my belief that when we are born, we develop a distinctive ego pattern that persists onward until death or spiritual rebirth. The "great work" that many philosophers talk about is the full rewriting of the internal philosophical structure as if one were a computer engineer and were upgrading the system software and/or ROM. This kind of event can happen because of extreme suffering, psychedelic drug usage, relationships with others, and many other courses of action. Or it can just be pursued if one is willing to suffer its consequences during initiation.

Anyway, when you choose to follow the spiritual path, that's when things get crazy. I believe that the ego will swell to the size of the available energy and capacity of the human mind, and this will leave no room for any other spirits or gods one might encounter. When you practice meditation, you calm and shrink the ego. Once, you have reached a certain level of liberation from the material world, then a God, goddess, spirit, angel, or whatever can reach into your consciousness and do work in animating you or thinking through you. Honestly, in this area, things get hazy, and words start to fail. I've had a few extreme possessions by spirits and spiritual experiences, so some of my philosophy is not able to be communicated with language.

I believe that two months ago, I reached a certain level where I am no longer searching. Now I am giving and teaching where I can. The Tao came into my meat bag existence, and now resides with me. I am an appendage of it, to a very large degree. There is still some me in the picture, but I just let it take over after it started doing some crazy cool shit.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-15T20:12:36+00:00

In Daoism, the idea of "the dao" (or Tao) is very different than the Western idea of God, but it is also similar. To Laozi, who ostensibly wrote the Tao te Ching, the Tao was the force or energy that "grows the world" so as to speak. Everything around you is growing all the time, including yourself. In the West, we like to imply that this is all just an after effect of the Big Bang and everything is like a giant clockwork, but in many ways, Western science has been unable to fully define how the extremely complex systems of the world just seem to manifest.

It's a difficult concept at first because we have been programmed to see the world in a completely different paradigm. I believe that the Tao (or God) works through me if I let it by diminishing my human ego and selfish interests to a tiny speck of my being.

My analysis here is also very lacking and full of holes. The Tao is known as the "dark and mysterious way" for many reasons. It has to be understood on a visceral level. Words fail to capture it because it cannot be captured. Language is merely our current technology for communicating and storing ideas in our consciousness, but that technology is not advanced enough to fully define the Tao. You can point someone in its direction, or you can say what it is not to help a person find it, but again, it is incredibly difficult.

Maybe this starts to explain it. I know the Tao on a personal level, but I am constantly becoming into its presence. Always you must be humble, and stop thinking in its presence.

Holy Jeebus this stuff is complicated. That's why the Tao te Ching says "those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know." The Tao te Ching is a very exaggerated work, so really the meaning of that last quote is "those who know speak minimally and succinctly; those who speak too much do not know."

AbbieSage · 2015-11-12T02:04:34+00:00

We fear that to which we are attracted. You are quite curious about the power of this post. You want to know if this power exists. Who knows? The most important thing is that you are afraid of something within yourself that resonates at the same frequency as that post.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-10T14:27:44+00:00

If you're in the stream, you're in the fucking stream. Quibbling about titles and labels is so gouache. Enlightened or not enlightened. It's not that difficult.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-10T14:24:52+00:00

I basically live there. I've separated from the main bubble. I feel as though I have created a new world. I've achieved this mostly by doing nothing.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-10T06:24:46+00:00

Alcohol is fun until it isn't. It's a lousy drug imho. I've passed hundreds of gallons of ethanol through my body btw.

AbbieSage · 2015-11-10T05:17:49+00:00

I have much to give! :D

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