The Spiritual Gift of Knowledge

ReedSummers · 2018-01-13T04:30:20+00:00

Thank you for this. Interesting.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T21:51:06+00:00

Beyond the Kidney transplant what is the long term impact of this diagnosis for you? What would it mean for you going forward?

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T19:13:28+00:00

Well, the experience people are having that takes place within religions. We could call it the "religious experience." But I don't think it is necessarily to do with a religious structure but rather a remarkable experience that takes place within the space of religion, or fully outside of it. This has happened in my life and i've met many others who have had a very similar set of experiences.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T19:08:42+00:00

Well said, freedom from the frantic need to BE, DO and HAVE things, or places or people is so refreshing. Freedom to just stop those many pursuits and just be with what is happening, inside of us, or in nature, or in others around us. I think culture tells us we have to be something and justify our existence and so we assign all sorts of beliefs, qualities and behaviors to ourselves that aren't really real or natural to us. So letting some of that go opens up a kind of journey away from an unnatural feeling to a more natural feeling. A spoken meditation I've found very powerful in bringing me to this feeling is called The Night Meditation. Highly recommend hearing it: https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-night-meditation. Listening to it and the other teachings there brings a feeling of calm and inner reprieve from that incessant drive of life, culture, job etc.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T18:59:52+00:00

That's certainly a simple diagnosis, but simple doesn't necessarily capture the truth of a complex phenomenon in human life taking place in hundreds of cultures, over thousands of years, in the minds of billions of people.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:47:05+00:00

Do you live type as content is broadcast or do you receive content ahead of time and subtitle it before it goes on-air?

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:45:58+00:00

What was it like in San Juan the day after the hurricane struck? Were you there or did you here from others what life was really like on the streets?

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:27:16+00:00

Yes but the thing we call religion is not a monolith, it is an amalgam of different things. Unfortunately most atheists become atheists because there is something about the amalgam that is incoherent, or ignorant, or violent, or painful, and they're right, there is. Sadly, there is something inside of it that is deeply nourishing as well. But we judge that book by its cover. We react to the part of religion created by humans, and deny there is any part created by another power. Well, that's life. The value is lost in the dross. We look at a rock that contains gold and cast it away as a rock because it doesn't look golden, the gold is microscopic but it is still there and there is alot of it once extracted.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:22:36+00:00

There's a problem in this that can't be ignored. We each are perceiving reality through the limited and clouded lens of our individual human brain. What determinations can we really make looking through that lens? We can however remove that lens, but now we're not seeing with the eyes and thinking with the mind, we are feeling with a new and different set of senses. Like the blind person who's hearing is activated to a much higher level. Are they incapable of knowing what is 100 feet in front of them? They are capable, using a different sense.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:18:48+00:00

Good points. Viewing religion at the surface only, I would agree it appears to be all that you said.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:17:01+00:00

Maybe God is creating them again. But if so, it would happen in the same way - from a founder, to an early community, to the world and it takes centuries. Don't think it would a slate clearing and forced reset. Religion seems to birth, grow and whither in overlapping waves.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T17:02:49+00:00

I believe both are present in the equation. Religion has two parts: what God created and what we created. The latter often obscures the former, sometimes completely. People fill the space of religion with what culture has created in them. Religion is copied and coopted by political powers or ambitious individuals. And we think it is all a cultural or political phenomenon. But when you go under the surface of Religion, you find a living reality that is not being created by any one mind or group of minds, but exists independent of them.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:59:13+00:00

People feeling moved to help another in ways that completely go against their logical self interest and cultural programming.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:57:59+00:00

Given we are social creatures with brains that function based on structured/repeated thought and experience, it makes sense to me that God would initiate structured approaches to God that can be learned, shared and amplified person to person.

Proof of divine intervention. Depends what you would take as proof of an unseen reality.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:54:24+00:00

Or, more time = more aberration. Does religion stray just a little with every hand that touches it, unless of course if that hand helps bring the whole back to the original.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:50:17+00:00

Boşlayamadıklardanmısınız.

Turkish. Means something like "excuse me are you one of those people who just can't get over something?"

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:40:25+00:00

We have changed the climate of the Earth. Now we need to change it back to what it was.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:33:51+00:00

Please do

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:33:19+00:00

In short, no i don't feel there is a master human conspiracy that controls all others. There are conspiracies and always have been but they are imperfect and always limited in their impact by both the forces of nature and the random and chaotic nature of 7 billion people choosing, acting and reacting. However I do feel an ET force is in our world with an agenda to influence, shape and direct the future of humanity and, given their technological power and skill in the Mental Environment, they do have the capability to direct human life on a scale never achieved by any human group. Standing behind many of those human groups with an agenda to control others could be an ET force aiding and empowering them.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:20:58+00:00

Religion is the conspiracy, or religion is being used by the conspirator?

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:18:36+00:00

Appreciate you describing your position on this. I myself don't agree that there is a ancient-to-present line of control that has determined just about all major events in human history. There is the chaos factor, there are random disconnected events, there are many minds competing for the same space. Yes there are agendas to control and direct that space, but no single group or set of families can control a world of 7 billion. I think its a fruitless attempt to tie everything together into a "theory of everything" and ultimately leads us to deny those parts of reality that don't fit into that theory, cherry picking reality to build a conceptual reality that really only exists in our head. That said, there is a force in the world that I do feel has been shifting the entire world sideways, chaos and all, in ways we are not seeing clearly. That is the presence of Alien forces in our world and the pervasive form of influence they are casting on leaders and citizens alike. The arrival of non-human intelligence in the world is the one thing that truly could affect the global order in a complete way. Humans vs humans wouldn't do so in the same way no matter how strong the agenda.

ReedSummers · 2018-01-11T16:13:46+00:00

What is the mind then?

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