#5. Spirituality -non linear time,reincarnation and past trauma
revised 22 Sept 2011
Non linear time.
Eckhart Toll and others maintain everything is in the "Now"
Well I think "Now" implies time and is a bit self defeating -I prefer:
Everything is "This".
I have said before
"Put the past in a cup and show it to me!"
All of one's memories of the past exist in one's mind.
The fact that one sees one's slippers under the bed where you left them yesterday is no proof.
It's all smoke and mirrors.
How do I and others justify that time doesn't exist -when it clearly isn't true? lol
There are at least two points of view here.
We all are familiar with the time line - China invaded Poland and started World War 2 and Mona Lisa painted herself smiling -this is History :)) ...and your mother phoned and said if you do that again she won't invite you to another cheese and wine.
So linear time does exist.
But only when viewed from our point of view as people running around , catching buses and paying the bills. Beings living as separate identities,separate from the Whole -oneness.
I mean living as 'not oneness' the time line and linear time ,tick-tock, is very real.
Kindly consider God's viewpoint.
She (lol) sees Everything.
An Infinite Being is able to do this.
Everything that has happened,everything that is happening and everything that will happen.
And probably:
Everything that could have happened,it is possible to be happening,and could happen.
But God is seeing ALL of this, right now.
That's what the 'infinite' in Infinite Being means.
All the possible chess moves are played out and visible to the Infinite Awareness.
The trouble is we are part of God/Infinite Awareness/the Universal Mind/The Tao/The Big Cheese.
And we have an infinite potential.
And we have access to the data.
Some call it The Akashic record.
So from this expanded viewpoint , from out higher selves or looking deeply into our subconscious minds that connects to all the other subconscious minds (whatever) ...time and linear time goes a bit wrong.
"The future? Been there - got the T shirt!"
"The past? I should go there and buy the Sex Pistols T shirt!"
There's a film called "Sliding Doors" it follows two time lines. One where the woman catches the train and another where she just misses it.
Sooo, if you fancy reincarnation ; at what point on all these possible time lines will you reincarnate?
But just sticking with our known history and our time line -one could reincarnate anywhere along it.
Tell me it isn't possible!
There's a lot of science fiction about time travel and the conclusion seems to be if you go back and change the time line all hell breaks loose. You kill some one's grandfather and poof -they disappear!!!
It's a belief system and has power from my hypothesis: "Spirit is the law and that's the only law there is."
If you believe in these dangers of time travel then pray no one does it or you may make yourself disappear!
But fear not -having watched your body and all the history of it vanish without a trace you probably will remember what happened and be somewhat bemused.
I suspect leaving a (dead) body is a very enlightening experience and frees one of a lot of limited thinking.
So now we can say 'time doesn't exist' cant we?
It depends how you look at it.
But time does exist, so I prefer to restate it thus:
All possibilities,all possible times, all possible outcomes are available to view.
Past trauma.
Most people have got something mildly catastrophic lurking in the past.
A bad childhood. A horrifying incident as an adult. A misdeed that haunts them with guilt and regret.
These things are no joke and can ruin some one's enjoyment of an otherwise perfectly groovy life.
NLP- Neuro Linguistic Programming is amazing stuff and I wouldn't like to define it.
But I have watched about 20 hours of Dr Richard Bandler's stuff on Youtube and on DVD and I have read some of Dr Paula McKenna's books - a man who has described Dr Bandler as his mentor.
I would dare to summarise one part of it by saying they encourage a person to take control of the pictures of the past and pictures of imagined scenarios that they have in their minds and adjust them to be less traumatic.
Fear of spiders or flying -no problem - they can sort that in about 20 minutes.
Severe past trauma can take longer. But they can fix it.
I tend to agree with Dr Bandler - I think 20 minutes of NLP could save an individual $100,000 in psychiatric fees.
My big epiphany from NLP was:
"I am in complete control of my mind. I made it -I control it."
If you believe you are not - God help you!
As an aside, Dr Bandler is alarmingly violent to those that offer him a 'hypnotic suggestion'.
"You are seriously ill"
"You will never..."
Some meditation techniques set you up first with such a hypnotic suggestion:
"We are trying to tame the ramblings of the mind -the incessant mind chatter"
Eeeek!!!
NLP,
And hypnotism.
And belief systems.
Bandler, you are a martial arts expert, be 'assisted' to the nearest hospital.
And watch out for the predictions of some medical doctors -you could make yourself seriously ill.
In fact any suggestion made to you that doesn't offer complete mental and physical health is a lie.
Neither will I tolerate the suggestion of increasing infirmity with old age !
Nope -that's my business.
The point from earlier is that the past trauma, the troubling part of the past, (which sort of doesn't exist) is just sitting there as picture in one's mind. Where else is it?
From NLP we can make these pictures black and white , or smaller ,or play the Benny Hill show (funny) music in the background -stuff like that to take the sting out of them.
But with the new view of the past -that it's a flighty thing and somewhat insubstantial:
Why not change your past?
Something occured a while ago that should really trouble me. You had to be there but it messed me up for a couple of years. The whole incident exists in my mind as a video,a movie.
But I created it as "not my past"
It doesn't matter that eye witnesses are living today -it wasn't me!
Tell me I cannot do this?
Consider : I had a dream, a day dream about a complete stranger who got beaten by his father.
How upset are you about this? It doesn't bother you at all! Certainly not as much as if it happened to you. This is the idea.
Whether you can rewrite your past convincingly is up to you.
But the more I think about my traumatic incident - it just doesn't seem to fit now. I really wouldn't have done that - It would have been totally out of character -that's just not me.
Knowing what we know about spirituality,God , the universe and everything.
I say again:
Tell me I cannot do this!
What I have actually done is to change my viewpoint of my past.
Other viewpoints can be adopted to reduce horrific trauma in general.
Imagine yourself as your higher self compassionately viewing your life.
See yourself from the view of a friend -would you encourage your friend to have this guilt or dwell so badly upon the incident?
The view of a dead relative - how would they want you to continue with your life ..."It's not important -look forward" etc
See your whole life like you're watching a movie -
"Ooo, here comes the nasty bit . Ouch! That's gotta hurt!!!" -and there is lovely coke and popcorn -is the popcorn too salty? I think it usually is.
In fact a few years ago I decided that I had enough access to my 'past lifes' that I needed to have a good look at a lot of them . It still feel anyone can do this -just sit quietly and see what pops up. But some spiritual practitioners and belief systems tell us this is a very traumatic thing to do. And again I would repeat that one's mind is a dangerous as you give it that power. The memory of a tiger is not a tiger.
So I spent ages recalling life after life in this physical world and some from before that.It got pretty boring -there is only so much crying and pain and twin sun sunsets one can look at !!!
After many days it was "Oh yeah, all my children are dead -yawn" which may be a bit unreal but perhaps you could try a horror movie marathon sometime ,or 24 hours of non stop romance movies.
I can assure you I got pretty bored with a lot of it -but some of it was and is totally amazing :))
I discovered a bunch of memories in there that were not mine - a bunch of pictures that I had taken from another person to ease their suffering. (this was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away)
And a funny thing happened.
1. I noticed that the pain I felt was mine -even though this wasn't my time line and
2. That as soon as I realised these were not my pictures all the whole thing de-traumatised(?) and became just a movie.
3. AND..and...if I side stepped owner ship of all MY pictures and time line thus (it wasn't me).
ALL the pain emotion and 'crippling' decisions and everything all VANISHED.
My whole time line became a very long movie.
Gone was all the grief and whatever - poof - and phew...
I felt like a great weight had been released and all that stuff (crap) had finally been dumped.
I had changed my viewpoint to - 'it wasn't me"
For people that think this is a downright lie and something I have typed for dramatic effect I can honestly report these memories as as clear in my mind as the delightful lunch I have just enjoyed in a charmingly secluded village in Essex. Perhaps both are in my imagination especially as the past seems currently only available as memory -as I have said. The fact that the amicable waitress could be interviewed to confirm my feast ,when suspicious past lives rarely (!) can be authenticated has no bearing - it just proves that my memory is accurate ...lol.
The same could be said for some solitary activity -did it really happen?
Besides -this argument is the limited world of deductive rational thought.
What do you feel ?
Am I telling you what is true for me?
Advanced students (lol) should be able to feel my mind - we are all connected remember?
Re past trauma :-
Incessantly creating the horror of the past is a self betrayal.
Self blame is a betrayal of self also.
Guilt is a betrayal of self.
Regret is a betrayal of self.
PATIENT Doctor, Doctor. It hurts when I do this.
DOCTOR Stop doing that!
So here's some methods to reduce past trauma:
- one realises the trauma is troubling only as memory
- one accepts that this memory is one's own manufacture
- then one disassociates oneself from it by changing the character of the memories (and uses ALL the methodology of NLP)
- and one can change one's viewpoint of it.
- and one can examine associated beliefs, concepts and expectations...
...For a past trauma that is severe or fails to dissolve, one must feel one's way into other concepts one holds on the subject:-
"This 'should' upset me - others have been upset with incidents"
" My [religious leader] says I should be guilty"
"It won't go away - I can't get it out of my mind"
"No matter what I read or think or help I get - this will always be there -it's not going away"
Self sabotaging beliefs like these can screw you up -but the good news is they are your creation - you can stop doing that!!!
By the way : if your Religion, that is True, tells you to suffer and you believe that, you are screwed also -until you dismantle the "God is punishing me" or "Life is suffering"crap.
You're destroying yourself - no one else an do it!
Don't forget all your beliefs are "true" - you see them in the world and experience them yourself.
Imagine your belief as changing your world ,which I have argued they do - if you start now to believe 'Bananas Run The World' this will become more and more real to you and evidence and experience over a period of time will manifest !!!
If I find a concept that seems innately "true" I ask myself:
'Is this a belief?'
The 'body-mind' is in the habit of looking for evidence and drawing conclusions - but we are looking from a different perspective namely :
First came the belief, then the evidence, experience and perception of it as 'true' and then the judgment in the mind, the deductive conclusion - 'this is true, this is the way things are'.
A traumatising belief could be as simple as:
"This incident upsets me"
I am regarding these beliefs,the expectation of the future as things. Things that we are making now, in present time. It's like me making a cup of very hot tea ,walking around with it and complaining that the handle is burning my fingers!
Why not ..er... put it down - stop making the errant bothersome belief?
If I were to argue that the handle has always burnt my fingers and will continue to do so especially as I am making another cup of hot tea as we speak -you might think me crazy !
"I get flashbacks of the incident -thoughts that won't go away - it's always in my face"
Is this a belief?
...Is this a belief?
......Is this a belief?
.........Is this another hot cup of tea?
...and there's plenty of people that have been through similar incidents and are not still traumatised.
The mind, your mind is under your control. You made it - it's yours.
If you think you didn't make your mind, or someone or something (advertising?) is controlling your mind, or you don't feel in control of your mind or worse 'your mind is dangerous' -God help you.
If so, change your beliefs and concepts you hold about your mind- your expectancy of your mind's function ; and rather rapidly!
An examination of our beliefs shows that the belief came first then the 'deductive reasoning' !
To think endlessly is often to chew around one's beliefs.
When Aston-Martins "are the best cars in the world" what's the point of finding more evidence to support the belief, by thinking?........[this true btw ....lol]
So don't think -just feel!
I had a feel for my potential as a creator.
I had a feel of linear time and non-linear time.
I felt myself as Infinite with a load of beliefs layered on top of that.
Limiting beliefs perhaps that make me a person from the Infinite source.
But the Infinite is still there !
And my beliefs are just things !
Here endeth the 5th lesson.
Love always,
Paloma Porta
1st September 2011
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
#4. Spirituality -Expectancy
#4. Spirituality -Expectancy
revised 22 Sept 2011
Intro
I have presented 3 hypotheses thus far:
1. What we hold in our minds manifests in the physical world. What we experience is a result simply of what we hold as true. We get what we believe.
2. A person's consciousness is part of a limitless awareness. We all are in the "mind of God". The person we think we are is connected to this Tao or universal mind and within that we define ourselves as limited to being a person. But to define limits in the infinite is to have a limitless capacity -as limits can be removed and our full potential can again be realised.
But the Universal Mind or Infinite Awareness is not just a spiritual metaphysical concept:
It is Everything. The trees, the stars the physical world ,any astral planes one fancied one has visited,our dreams, our thoughts ,humanity, the dog and the "Nibbles" the goldfish.
The Universal mind has Everything in it.
I have thus hypothesised we all have an infinite potential
3. 'Spirit is the Law -and that's the only law there is.
That covers my bottom line here.
If one is looking for a boss in the world I suggest you, me and The Infinite are sitting behind the desk.
And also,as I will go on to 'explain' - If one is looking for a boss in this world or any world -look no further than yourself !
An expanded view
Together these can be a bit of a mind bender as one is trying to squeeze this concept into the everyday world to which we have become accustomed.
It's like explaining the 3rd dimension to a 2 dimension audience and indeed myself -I live here too !!
Perhaps if we start at the beginning.
God (You) is saying:
"Let their be light and chocolate and chocolate chip ice cream"
-and lo, it came to pass.
Then what follows ,the entire Creation is Your Dream -God's Dream...populated by people and things.
But it's all You, all Us.
- ever dreamt you were someone else? and felt what that's like?
That's the idea - God in different points of view as people and trees and whatever experiencing an expanded Creation -
For myself as one of the 'dream-people'; I wonder if I would want to return to Godhead. It sounds like a blissed out state of inactivity. Perhaps I prefer worrying where my next meal is coming from!!!
Everyone is familiar with the film the Matrix. The physical world certainly when viewed impartially from outside is a very entertaining construct. It's got bodies and jobs and relationships . It's got this linear time going on ,tick,tick,tick where things seem to change with time and there's lots of stuff to get done.
I am sure there lots of realities out there. Some that don't have a lot of time in them -just 'a while' maybe. And some dimensions that don't have bodies that die and some that don't have bodies or time at all. But "The Matrix", the physical universe does seem to offer the a most amazingly fun complexity and probably makes the other universes look like a simple chess game.
So You , You from that start here have created or spawned a big complicated Reality.
It's all a game,entertainment by experiencing a reality from different points of view.
But it is a Matrix, a fabrication, a dream or excercise in imagination existing in Your mind. Everything in it, planets , stars, rocks, plants, humanity and kangeroos is built out of the same thing. Everything is linked -it's the same stuff. This is why we there is telepathy and all the other metaphysical phenomena that seem to occur. To look at a rock is really to see something built out of the same stuff that we are - and also it really is part of us,because we are part of the whole.
In an earlier article I suggested and tried to proof that even the rocks have consciousness - this is another entrance into that idea.
Everything is made from the same stuff - 'God-particles' ...The analogy that is most offered is an ocean of water that has different shapes in it - but it's all just water. Waves in the ocean... Sand castles in the sand.
One has to purge the 'Separateness' of day to day thinking out from one's mind to get this.
And to do that, it is easiest if one views everything as the You , Good God Almighty, The Creator.
So what are we left with? My feelings on this.
Consider : Expectancy
For me to hold these above conclusions I have worked backwards from my feelings.
I find myself as a creator with all the potential of God Almighty -but I feel I have limited myself to play this game here.
To be honest sometimes I feel that the whole world is my creation and that people are just actors playing out the roles I expect of them. Especially because how I imagine things and the world seem to manifest that way.
Everything I perceive seems to follow my expectation.
When I think ,(think ,think, think) about it things seem to be outside of me.
But when I feel (feeeeel ) things -everything seems either within or under my absolute control.
For myself: you can have your world and I can have mine! - for me this presents no conflict in 'celestial' logic.
You can have your dimension and I can have mine -and they can overlap.
Your 'Postman Pat' can be quiet and mine can be loud. And Postman Pat himself can be sick in bed that day -in his dimension.
It all just co-exists.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could argue with me all day long in my world and simultaneously be sweet as a lamb to me for hours in your world !
..it's conjecture - but I feeeeel it's more subtle than that - I feel that our individual worlds, our individually experienced realities are closely linked physically but our ideas about them vary.
But your world is your world
Again :- Your world is your world.
If you see the world as one manifestation of co-creation with pollution and long holidays where real people act with independent free will, then so be it. So mote it be.
This is your world.
This is true for you.
Don't forget : I have argued that our "truth" merely follows our expectation, our beliefs.
We each follow our expectations.
We each mold our world with the concepts and beliefs we hold.
It's totally bonkers isn't it?
The "sky's the limit".
None of this is set in stone - everything I have written here can be a complete load of cobblers for you - believe what you want!
Spirit is the Law, and that's the only law there is.
I love you and chocolate.
Namaste
Paloma Porta
31st August 2011
revised 22 Sept 2011
Intro
I have presented 3 hypotheses thus far:
1. What we hold in our minds manifests in the physical world. What we experience is a result simply of what we hold as true. We get what we believe.
2. A person's consciousness is part of a limitless awareness. We all are in the "mind of God". The person we think we are is connected to this Tao or universal mind and within that we define ourselves as limited to being a person. But to define limits in the infinite is to have a limitless capacity -as limits can be removed and our full potential can again be realised.
But the Universal Mind or Infinite Awareness is not just a spiritual metaphysical concept:
It is Everything. The trees, the stars the physical world ,any astral planes one fancied one has visited,our dreams, our thoughts ,humanity, the dog and the "Nibbles" the goldfish.
The Universal mind has Everything in it.
I have thus hypothesised we all have an infinite potential
3. 'Spirit is the Law -and that's the only law there is.
That covers my bottom line here.
If one is looking for a boss in the world I suggest you, me and The Infinite are sitting behind the desk.
And also,as I will go on to 'explain' - If one is looking for a boss in this world or any world -look no further than yourself !
An expanded view
Together these can be a bit of a mind bender as one is trying to squeeze this concept into the everyday world to which we have become accustomed.
It's like explaining the 3rd dimension to a 2 dimension audience and indeed myself -I live here too !!
Perhaps if we start at the beginning.
God (You) is saying:
"Let their be light and chocolate and chocolate chip ice cream"
-and lo, it came to pass.
Then what follows ,the entire Creation is Your Dream -God's Dream...populated by people and things.
But it's all You, all Us.
- ever dreamt you were someone else? and felt what that's like?
That's the idea - God in different points of view as people and trees and whatever experiencing an expanded Creation -
For myself as one of the 'dream-people'; I wonder if I would want to return to Godhead. It sounds like a blissed out state of inactivity. Perhaps I prefer worrying where my next meal is coming from!!!
Everyone is familiar with the film the Matrix. The physical world certainly when viewed impartially from outside is a very entertaining construct. It's got bodies and jobs and relationships . It's got this linear time going on ,tick,tick,tick where things seem to change with time and there's lots of stuff to get done.
I am sure there lots of realities out there. Some that don't have a lot of time in them -just 'a while' maybe. And some dimensions that don't have bodies that die and some that don't have bodies or time at all. But "The Matrix", the physical universe does seem to offer the a most amazingly fun complexity and probably makes the other universes look like a simple chess game.
So You , You from that start here have created or spawned a big complicated Reality.
It's all a game,entertainment by experiencing a reality from different points of view.
But it is a Matrix, a fabrication, a dream or excercise in imagination existing in Your mind. Everything in it, planets , stars, rocks, plants, humanity and kangeroos is built out of the same thing. Everything is linked -it's the same stuff. This is why we there is telepathy and all the other metaphysical phenomena that seem to occur. To look at a rock is really to see something built out of the same stuff that we are - and also it really is part of us,because we are part of the whole.
In an earlier article I suggested and tried to proof that even the rocks have consciousness - this is another entrance into that idea.
Everything is made from the same stuff - 'God-particles' ...The analogy that is most offered is an ocean of water that has different shapes in it - but it's all just water. Waves in the ocean... Sand castles in the sand.
One has to purge the 'Separateness' of day to day thinking out from one's mind to get this.
And to do that, it is easiest if one views everything as the You , Good God Almighty, The Creator.
So what are we left with? My feelings on this.
Consider : Expectancy
For me to hold these above conclusions I have worked backwards from my feelings.
I find myself as a creator with all the potential of God Almighty -but I feel I have limited myself to play this game here.
To be honest sometimes I feel that the whole world is my creation and that people are just actors playing out the roles I expect of them. Especially because how I imagine things and the world seem to manifest that way.
Everything I perceive seems to follow my expectation.
When I think ,(think ,think, think) about it things seem to be outside of me.
But when I feel (feeeeel ) things -everything seems either within or under my absolute control.
For myself: you can have your world and I can have mine! - for me this presents no conflict in 'celestial' logic.
You can have your dimension and I can have mine -and they can overlap.
Your 'Postman Pat' can be quiet and mine can be loud. And Postman Pat himself can be sick in bed that day -in his dimension.
It all just co-exists.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could argue with me all day long in my world and simultaneously be sweet as a lamb to me for hours in your world !
..it's conjecture - but I feeeeel it's more subtle than that - I feel that our individual worlds, our individually experienced realities are closely linked physically but our ideas about them vary.
But your world is your world
Again :- Your world is your world.
If you see the world as one manifestation of co-creation with pollution and long holidays where real people act with independent free will, then so be it. So mote it be.
This is your world.
This is true for you.
Don't forget : I have argued that our "truth" merely follows our expectation, our beliefs.
We each follow our expectations.
We each mold our world with the concepts and beliefs we hold.
It's totally bonkers isn't it?
The "sky's the limit".
None of this is set in stone - everything I have written here can be a complete load of cobblers for you - believe what you want!
Spirit is the Law, and that's the only law there is.
I love you and chocolate.
Namaste
Paloma Porta
31st August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
#3. Spirituality -deeper still and what am I ?
Spirituality -deeper still and what am I ?
FIRST DRAFT
Preamble.
I am trying to hold a series of concepts in the mind of the reader at the same time -to provide an overall concept. Thus to my mind this article seems repetitive and some what scruffy in it's logical progression.
I am spinning plates,like the circus act -sometimes I harp back to an earlier subject.
I am trying to convert many years of spirituality into words -
I have written other articles here on this blog (website-under construction) that have reported the compelling evidence that we can, under some circumstances, change our world by thought and thought alone.
The evidence exists within the spectrum of human experience: as researched by the perhaps lesser known scientists and indeed by the better known scientists in the sphere of quantum physics,and from the 'supernatural' testimony of alarming number of individuals -perhaps including yourself.
My arguments have suggested in conclusion that we are perhaps all linked in that we are all part of a whole. And I have suggested that we have an infinite capacity.
I can offer ideas but it is for the individual to concur - only you can determine your own truth.
The key here is what does the individual perceive? If it's true for you then this is the only truth one can support. If I propose an idea with which you do not agree or is not in your experience - that's just the end of it!
So I would ask that the seekers of truth or those who like to think they are on a path or journey may do their owns investigations.
But I propose that one should look within oneself for validity only. Otherwise one is in the sphere of religion or cultural indoctrination-
Why believe what someone tells you to believe?
And again - importantly - why believe me? :))
Looking beyond the five perceptions.
I want to offer another method to gain data in your studies,in your search for truth ,in your path or perhaps for only for your amusement.
Any self respecting Guru will tell you not to try too hard and let the ideas flow in a relaxed manner.
But this is the exciting bit for me!
One can read a whole library of philosophy ,be fully fluent in Kant, Platonic constructs and the endless dialogues of Socrates concerning good,bad,right,wrong and virtue.
I propose that the concept of reason and the intellect alone has limits.
There are other perceptions-there is more data available.
One perceives thus everyday. We see a tree and wonder at the spender of it. Our breath is taken away by a spectacular sunset or we gaze lovingly into the eyes of a loved one.
Where is the reasoning mind here?
These things can often have dramatic and life changing impacts on our lives.
I suggest that the true earth shattering moments in our lives are not found hunched over a book written by a bespectacled academic, but here in the emotions and feelings.
I have had these mind held, rambling thoughts !
"It's a bird -I hope it doesn't poo on my car - looks like a black-headed gull -I saw one like it last year in Great Yarmouth"
"I wonder where it's going -I don't think seagulls migrate -maybe I should google it...etc...etc"
On and on and on -thinking ,thinking, thinking!!!
Let's try another approach.
We want more data on this meaning of life thing don't we?
Try this :-
I want you to feel.
I want you to feel life around you.
I want you to see the bird and try to imagine it's life floating up there in the sky looking for winged bugs!
Try to feel it. Try to feel the bird you see.
(if you must think -think this - some very clever quantum physicists say everything is connected)
Have a go at it!
Feeeel something!
When you meet someone what did they feel like?
Does the grass feel happy?
Can you feel any chemicals in the water you are drinking?
Can you feel your body as separate from you?
Or does it feel part of you?
Or somewhere in between.?
Does the big oak tree give you any impressions or messages?
But don't try to convert these concepts into words.
The whole idea is to transcend the physical world here.
What do I mean exactly by "feeeel"
It won't go into words accurately.
You will have to feel what I mean by "feeeel" :))
"Feeeel" means perhaps something like : Getting into something maybe / or being one with it / or mentally projecting oneself inside of something.
Some people call this "Opening up the third eye".
I dunno.
But have a go at it!
Feel something -anything or anyone and see what impressions you get
The Shamans talk often of matching vibrations or resonating vibrations.
Try to feel the vibration of a fox or cat or flower and match it and see what happens.
But you don't have to bother with the vibrations -not really -just feeel.
Possible difficulties
"I tried it and I get nothing -I just look at things and see them as objects -no messages -no impressions nothing -just shapes and colours "
This is a self defining belief !!!
A person creating this argument is correct!! They cannot 'feeel'.
If they want to change their belief then this 'feeeling' might be possible.
Try:
"Others report spiritual and metaphysical experience - why not me?"
Others may not want to 'feeel', reasoning that the whole thing is stupid .
That's okay.
If you define yourself thus as 'unfeeeling',
Try to resist the temptation of saving us from the error of our ways.
By your own creed:
Please do not presume to know what I or others feel.
If I feel a wooded enclosure and feel much happiness in the trees there - how can anyone say I am not feeling this?
And to know for sure I am deluding myself one would have a certainty on life and monopoly on truth that many would question.
Feeling is pretty wild stuff!
It can really go anywhere.
Just let go -put your rational and culturally indoctrinated mind on hold and see what ideas impressions or concepts pop into your head!
Having felt things and done the Shaman thing -what now?
If you get somewhat unusual feedback with this you have now got more experience and data to work with.
Has this changed your slant on life and what you are?
Or are the results leading to a new confused state of mind -namely :-
What is the truth here ?
Am I imagining all this or is it actually real?
Is this another dimension and set of perceptions co-existing with the "Scientific" material world?
Or have I regressed into earlier civilisations that carved and painted images of stuff on cave walls?
Well -you have something new to play with!
Is it real?
If you felt the thirst of a plant,happiness in a home,or worry surrounding a stranger at the shops- are these impressions valid and true?
What do you feel-were they?
Creation and perception.
Once you've done this for a while or better, lived this for a few years, you will decide that these perceptions have a measure of validity at least.
But you may discover that you can project thoughts onto things and have then feedback that very same concept.
eg
Look at someone and label them as a prostitute!!!
See how they act now -looking around and all loaded up with a businessy sex vibe !!! lol
Now make the same person a virginal saint who does charity work at the weekends and loves to give all their money to the needy.
The very same activities they are engaged in seem somewhat holier now with the new virtuous label.
The thing is, often the person themselves respond to one's label !!!
They seem to change characteristic and to replicate and mirror the new label one gives them!
Try it with yr friends and acquaintances -give them nicer labels.
Maybe start with strangers and as you get more adept work up to changing your kids!!
But are these people really changing?
Or are they just changing in their relationship with you?
Note: the Salesman with the positive mental attitude makes more sales - she changes the world out there and this isn't a theory either - ask the top sellers!!!
She is relabelling people and things
"This company urgently needs my product"
Re labelling things - hmmm - I have written of one beliefs manifesting. Try relabelling your car.
"OK, it's not the newest car on the road -but it's a faithful servant and is reliable"
- even if in the past the car has been a complete nightmare and you currently would like to have enough money to ritually burn it in your back yard!!! Did the car get better?
Perception and creation. I think they are linked.I actually think they really are the same thing.
But that's a bit of a mind bender if one imagines that Everything one perceives - one creates.
But that may well be what's actually happening.
Feeel some things
Feeel some things differently
Feeel some ppl differently
Feeel yourself as an immortal spiritual being that is really just a set of beliefs in the mind of God....try that!
Soooo,we got our "third eye" opened...Take a look into my world!!!
I have stated earlier
"Spirit is the Law - and that's the only law there is"
Imagine now everything hinges on what we hold as true -and the physical reality merely is a shadow , a follower of our thoughts. Things manifest only because we hold them as so.
One visits the Doctor or Healer. He imagines wellness in the patient. The patient imagines wellness following the visit. In the middle are a lot of pills or some warms hands and soft music! The patient gets well - the pills worked or the healer has power - but beneath this we perceive our expectation as the real cause of wellness.
Here we have redefined our body.But what of ourselves , the spirit.? Can we redefine that?
We can improve our mental health also.
We can get happier ,more relaxed and less stressed without changing our environmental constraints or situations.
A happier life can be attained with a visit to a mental health practitioner be it psychiatrist,doctor,witch,healer,gypsy lady,mother,sister or even the latest popular self help book.
But in my world we are just redefined ourselves. I suggest things or people cannot change us - we change ourselves by adopting a new concept about who we are.
- - we change ourselves by adopting a new concept about who we are.
This is my mechanism -
When the environment suggests concepts to you and if you like them or resonate with them you take them on board and redefine yourself.
eg" Eat sh*t - a billion flies can't be wrong!!!"
You rejected that idea I hope! Eating poo doesn't resonate or 'ring true'
eg "People with positive attitudes live happier lives -so spin a positive slant on things"
This sounds better - and though basic basic has changed peoples lives.
Positive people feel they have redefined themselves as seeing the best in things and consider all set backs and suffering as the "seed of an opportunity" and so forth.
eg "You're an idiot"
This could go both ways - rejection or acceptance!!!
So to adopt an environmental suggestion - it has to resonate.
Then one refines oneself.
That's the mechanism where oneself is the source of who one is.
But what of these new groovy metaphysical perceptions?
"I see ghosts"
"I seem to be able to bless water"
"I am learning to be a Shaman"
"I got a feeling that this tree doesn't like the lawnmower"
"I feel 'Spirit' "
One is really saying " I am now able to perceive or do these things"
One has redefined oneself.
What am I?
We define ourselves.
But to do that why presume a limited capacity?
Especially as our new investigations into feeling people and things with "our third eye opened" suggest that we may be creating everything as we go along.
It has been said one's life is a mirror of what one thinks -the concepts one holds as true.
Are we making it all up as we go along?
There's an Irish statistician that has correctly predicted the numbers and repeatedly won the National Lottery there.
I wonder if he did this because he is the most brilliant mathematician in the whole world -or because he thought he could?
You may also feel that the world out there is somehow inside yourself.
The Buddha looked inside himself and was amazed at what he saw.
I think he saw Everything there.
Conclusion What am I ?
You have read all the books on evolution.
You have read a lot of philosophical arguments.
You have may have rejected the dogma of major religions.
You feel you stand alone now as your own counsel - at least I hope you do.
But now you have begun to feel some other perceptions that are the domain of Gurus and Shamans.
Perhaps you have been psychic for years or you may be new to this spiritual world or expanded perception.
What have you concluded - thus far?
You may discover that you define yourself.
In which case:
You are what you define yourself as!
The whole concept brought together and summarised.
I am trying to convert many years of spirituality into words -
.Spirit is the Law and that's the only law there is
.We experience what we hold as true.
.We can perceive groovy metaphysical things by feeling and suspending the judgements and thoughts sponsored by cultural indoctrination
.Try "talking to the animals"
.The more one feels in this way -the wilder it gets.
.Try relabelling things -ie changing one's beliefs about them -did you find the person or thing changed to match the new belief?
.Try it for a few years.
.Suddenly one may see life as a complete mirror of one's thoughts.
.Creation and perception -they may seem to be the same thing. To perceive may sometimes feel like the act of creation.
.And one defines oneself using these all powerful concepts concerning oneself.
.You can be : happy, sad, nice, a timeless being, a green witch, a confused young man, deeply traumatised by an event, existing in 'the now' only, outside of linear time, a very sexy man-magnet(!) , a creator of time itself, a definition within oneness...etc etc etc
.
We have an infinite capacity -especially if one feels (feels) one is creating the whole world as one goes along.
.That's who you are !! Whatever you define yourself as being !!!
But don't think about it -you have tried that ----feeeeeeel
It's all good.
Love
Paloma Porta
30th August 2011
FIRST DRAFT
Preamble.
I am trying to hold a series of concepts in the mind of the reader at the same time -to provide an overall concept. Thus to my mind this article seems repetitive and some what scruffy in it's logical progression.
I am spinning plates,like the circus act -sometimes I harp back to an earlier subject.
I am trying to convert many years of spirituality into words -
I have written other articles here on this blog (website-under construction) that have reported the compelling evidence that we can, under some circumstances, change our world by thought and thought alone.
The evidence exists within the spectrum of human experience: as researched by the perhaps lesser known scientists and indeed by the better known scientists in the sphere of quantum physics,and from the 'supernatural' testimony of alarming number of individuals -perhaps including yourself.
My arguments have suggested in conclusion that we are perhaps all linked in that we are all part of a whole. And I have suggested that we have an infinite capacity.
I can offer ideas but it is for the individual to concur - only you can determine your own truth.
The key here is what does the individual perceive? If it's true for you then this is the only truth one can support. If I propose an idea with which you do not agree or is not in your experience - that's just the end of it!
So I would ask that the seekers of truth or those who like to think they are on a path or journey may do their owns investigations.
But I propose that one should look within oneself for validity only. Otherwise one is in the sphere of religion or cultural indoctrination-
Why believe what someone tells you to believe?
And again - importantly - why believe me? :))
Looking beyond the five perceptions.
I want to offer another method to gain data in your studies,in your search for truth ,in your path or perhaps for only for your amusement.
Any self respecting Guru will tell you not to try too hard and let the ideas flow in a relaxed manner.
But this is the exciting bit for me!
One can read a whole library of philosophy ,be fully fluent in Kant, Platonic constructs and the endless dialogues of Socrates concerning good,bad,right,wrong and virtue.
I propose that the concept of reason and the intellect alone has limits.
There are other perceptions-there is more data available.
One perceives thus everyday. We see a tree and wonder at the spender of it. Our breath is taken away by a spectacular sunset or we gaze lovingly into the eyes of a loved one.
Where is the reasoning mind here?
These things can often have dramatic and life changing impacts on our lives.
I suggest that the true earth shattering moments in our lives are not found hunched over a book written by a bespectacled academic, but here in the emotions and feelings.
I have had these mind held, rambling thoughts !
"It's a bird -I hope it doesn't poo on my car - looks like a black-headed gull -I saw one like it last year in Great Yarmouth"
"I wonder where it's going -I don't think seagulls migrate -maybe I should google it...etc...etc"
On and on and on -thinking ,thinking, thinking!!!
Let's try another approach.
We want more data on this meaning of life thing don't we?
Try this :-
I want you to feel.
I want you to feel life around you.
I want you to see the bird and try to imagine it's life floating up there in the sky looking for winged bugs!
Try to feel it. Try to feel the bird you see.
(if you must think -think this - some very clever quantum physicists say everything is connected)
Have a go at it!
Feeeel something!
When you meet someone what did they feel like?
Does the grass feel happy?
Can you feel any chemicals in the water you are drinking?
Can you feel your body as separate from you?
Or does it feel part of you?
Or somewhere in between.?
Does the big oak tree give you any impressions or messages?
But don't try to convert these concepts into words.
The whole idea is to transcend the physical world here.
What do I mean exactly by "feeeel"
It won't go into words accurately.
You will have to feel what I mean by "feeeel" :))
"Feeeel" means perhaps something like : Getting into something maybe / or being one with it / or mentally projecting oneself inside of something.
Some people call this "Opening up the third eye".
I dunno.
But have a go at it!
Feel something -anything or anyone and see what impressions you get
The Shamans talk often of matching vibrations or resonating vibrations.
Try to feel the vibration of a fox or cat or flower and match it and see what happens.
But you don't have to bother with the vibrations -not really -just feeel.
Possible difficulties
"I tried it and I get nothing -I just look at things and see them as objects -no messages -no impressions nothing -just shapes and colours "
This is a self defining belief !!!
A person creating this argument is correct!! They cannot 'feeel'.
If they want to change their belief then this 'feeeling' might be possible.
Try:
"Others report spiritual and metaphysical experience - why not me?"
Others may not want to 'feeel', reasoning that the whole thing is stupid .
That's okay.
If you define yourself thus as 'unfeeeling',
Try to resist the temptation of saving us from the error of our ways.
By your own creed:
Please do not presume to know what I or others feel.
If I feel a wooded enclosure and feel much happiness in the trees there - how can anyone say I am not feeling this?
And to know for sure I am deluding myself one would have a certainty on life and monopoly on truth that many would question.
Feeling is pretty wild stuff!
It can really go anywhere.
Just let go -put your rational and culturally indoctrinated mind on hold and see what ideas impressions or concepts pop into your head!
Having felt things and done the Shaman thing -what now?
If you get somewhat unusual feedback with this you have now got more experience and data to work with.
Has this changed your slant on life and what you are?
Or are the results leading to a new confused state of mind -namely :-
What is the truth here ?
Am I imagining all this or is it actually real?
Is this another dimension and set of perceptions co-existing with the "Scientific" material world?
Or have I regressed into earlier civilisations that carved and painted images of stuff on cave walls?
Well -you have something new to play with!
Is it real?
If you felt the thirst of a plant,happiness in a home,or worry surrounding a stranger at the shops- are these impressions valid and true?
What do you feel-were they?
Creation and perception.
Once you've done this for a while or better, lived this for a few years, you will decide that these perceptions have a measure of validity at least.
But you may discover that you can project thoughts onto things and have then feedback that very same concept.
eg
Look at someone and label them as a prostitute!!!
See how they act now -looking around and all loaded up with a businessy sex vibe !!! lol
Now make the same person a virginal saint who does charity work at the weekends and loves to give all their money to the needy.
The very same activities they are engaged in seem somewhat holier now with the new virtuous label.
The thing is, often the person themselves respond to one's label !!!
They seem to change characteristic and to replicate and mirror the new label one gives them!
Try it with yr friends and acquaintances -give them nicer labels.
Maybe start with strangers and as you get more adept work up to changing your kids!!
But are these people really changing?
Or are they just changing in their relationship with you?
Note: the Salesman with the positive mental attitude makes more sales - she changes the world out there and this isn't a theory either - ask the top sellers!!!
She is relabelling people and things
"This company urgently needs my product"
Re labelling things - hmmm - I have written of one beliefs manifesting. Try relabelling your car.
"OK, it's not the newest car on the road -but it's a faithful servant and is reliable"
- even if in the past the car has been a complete nightmare and you currently would like to have enough money to ritually burn it in your back yard!!! Did the car get better?
Perception and creation. I think they are linked.I actually think they really are the same thing.
But that's a bit of a mind bender if one imagines that Everything one perceives - one creates.
But that may well be what's actually happening.
Feeel some things
Feeel some things differently
Feeel some ppl differently
Feeel yourself as an immortal spiritual being that is really just a set of beliefs in the mind of God....try that!
Soooo,we got our "third eye" opened...Take a look into my world!!!
I have stated earlier
"Spirit is the Law - and that's the only law there is"
Imagine now everything hinges on what we hold as true -and the physical reality merely is a shadow , a follower of our thoughts. Things manifest only because we hold them as so.
One visits the Doctor or Healer. He imagines wellness in the patient. The patient imagines wellness following the visit. In the middle are a lot of pills or some warms hands and soft music! The patient gets well - the pills worked or the healer has power - but beneath this we perceive our expectation as the real cause of wellness.
Here we have redefined our body.But what of ourselves , the spirit.? Can we redefine that?
We can improve our mental health also.
We can get happier ,more relaxed and less stressed without changing our environmental constraints or situations.
A happier life can be attained with a visit to a mental health practitioner be it psychiatrist,doctor,witch,healer,gypsy lady,mother,sister or even the latest popular self help book.
But in my world we are just redefined ourselves. I suggest things or people cannot change us - we change ourselves by adopting a new concept about who we are.
- - we change ourselves by adopting a new concept about who we are.
This is my mechanism -
When the environment suggests concepts to you and if you like them or resonate with them you take them on board and redefine yourself.
eg" Eat sh*t - a billion flies can't be wrong!!!"
You rejected that idea I hope! Eating poo doesn't resonate or 'ring true'
eg "People with positive attitudes live happier lives -so spin a positive slant on things"
This sounds better - and though basic basic has changed peoples lives.
Positive people feel they have redefined themselves as seeing the best in things and consider all set backs and suffering as the "seed of an opportunity" and so forth.
eg "You're an idiot"
This could go both ways - rejection or acceptance!!!
So to adopt an environmental suggestion - it has to resonate.
Then one refines oneself.
That's the mechanism where oneself is the source of who one is.
But what of these new groovy metaphysical perceptions?
"I see ghosts"
"I seem to be able to bless water"
"I am learning to be a Shaman"
"I got a feeling that this tree doesn't like the lawnmower"
"I feel 'Spirit' "
One is really saying " I am now able to perceive or do these things"
One has redefined oneself.
What am I?
We define ourselves.
But to do that why presume a limited capacity?
Especially as our new investigations into feeling people and things with "our third eye opened" suggest that we may be creating everything as we go along.
It has been said one's life is a mirror of what one thinks -the concepts one holds as true.
Are we making it all up as we go along?
There's an Irish statistician that has correctly predicted the numbers and repeatedly won the National Lottery there.
I wonder if he did this because he is the most brilliant mathematician in the whole world -or because he thought he could?
You may also feel that the world out there is somehow inside yourself.
The Buddha looked inside himself and was amazed at what he saw.
I think he saw Everything there.
Conclusion What am I ?
You have read all the books on evolution.
You have read a lot of philosophical arguments.
You have may have rejected the dogma of major religions.
You feel you stand alone now as your own counsel - at least I hope you do.
But now you have begun to feel some other perceptions that are the domain of Gurus and Shamans.
Perhaps you have been psychic for years or you may be new to this spiritual world or expanded perception.
What have you concluded - thus far?
You may discover that you define yourself.
In which case:
You are what you define yourself as!
The whole concept brought together and summarised.
I am trying to convert many years of spirituality into words -
.Spirit is the Law and that's the only law there is
.We experience what we hold as true.
.We can perceive groovy metaphysical things by feeling and suspending the judgements and thoughts sponsored by cultural indoctrination
.Try "talking to the animals"
.The more one feels in this way -the wilder it gets.
.Try relabelling things -ie changing one's beliefs about them -did you find the person or thing changed to match the new belief?
.Try it for a few years.
.Suddenly one may see life as a complete mirror of one's thoughts.
.Creation and perception -they may seem to be the same thing. To perceive may sometimes feel like the act of creation.
.And one defines oneself using these all powerful concepts concerning oneself.
.You can be : happy, sad, nice, a timeless being, a green witch, a confused young man, deeply traumatised by an event, existing in 'the now' only, outside of linear time, a very sexy man-magnet(!) , a creator of time itself, a definition within oneness...etc etc etc
.
We have an infinite capacity -especially if one feels (feels) one is creating the whole world as one goes along.
.That's who you are !! Whatever you define yourself as being !!!
But don't think about it -you have tried that ----feeeeeeel
It's all good.
Love
Paloma Porta
30th August 2011
Sunday, 28 August 2011
#2. Spirituality -going deeper -creating miracles
Spirituality -going deeper and creating miracles
I think we can take as a 'given' that there is more going on in the world than the convenient view that we are animals running around on the third rock from the Sun.
The problem with the meat-bodies-on-earth view is what people have perceived.
Some have witnessed all manner of groovy metaphysical manifestations including angels,ghosts,telepathy,deja vu, remote viewing, out of the body (OOB), unexplained cause over machinery and physical objects, outrageous serendipity, and all manner of psychic phenomena. But not all of this has been convincing and it seems that no where even for shocked scientists is there a consistency of proof.
Perhaps one bridge to spirituality is the placebo affect.
The placebo -giving someone a sugar pill and telling them its a cure always has some affect. The results are quite entertaining!
One can give a person a 'downer' tell them it's an 'upper' and watch them bounce off the walls.
Placebos often work well - where the person's ignorance of the wonder drug is used along with the ethical issue of the doctor lying to or withholding information from the patient.
Furthermore if the prescribing doctor is hoodwinked also,perhaps by a delivery mix up and gives a drug placebo in error the patient often recovers twice as well as when the doctor is unconvinced.
For placebos:
Caplets work better than pills
The colour of pills make a difference.
Injections(saline) are more effective than pills
Operations(fake ones) are better still !!!
These are scientific facts -but they don't seem to work all the time. And for scientific minds this presents a problem of proof and validity.
A + B sometimes = C hmmm.
Surrounding the placebo is a theory that they are actually 'hypnotic suggestions'. Where clearly it's not the placebo drug or pill presenting the idea to the patient but the whole concept that he is given or holds in his mind-the suggestion of wellness associated with the placebo.
Thus to tell a patient in the gravest and most professional tones that she has less than a month to live is arguably a very difficult position from which to recover, even if one is actually by some unlucky fluke perfectly well!
It's the suggestion.
And its called 'hypnotic' because it seems to dwell somewhere in the root of a person and has a power that some believe or want to believe.
It's common knowledge some people seemed to have convinced themselves they were cancer free and have recovered well. And some tried and failed.
I wouldn't want to be the Doctor that told his professional hypnotist patient he had a month to live - the Doctor would get a broken jaw!!!
Hypnotists and healers daily witness the power of the mind.
For myself I once decided to quit smoking -something clicked in my mind ...ENUFF!!! lol...I awoke the next day free of the need of them. What happened to all the endless data we have about ciggies being addictive ? I felt no cravings having instantly stopped a 30/day habit . (it wasn't 60/day or 80/day -it was 30 - no exaggeration)
What the heck is going on here ?
Us pink and fluffy spiritual types talk of accessing the 'higher self". Some pray to Jesus (equally valid) others to Whatever (ditto) and some tap their 'subconscious minds' (more dittos).
My summation of these phenomena is that these people:
1. changed their point of view
2. and thus their beliefs
3. and made a decision
1. He decides he will use the new miracle drug or pray or ' program his subconscious mind' or see the hypnotist. Now he has a different point of view -one of the possibility or assurance of wellness.
2. He believes this has the power to cure.
3. He decides he is well.
But it's not 1,2,3, it's all mixed in together as a concept. A new healthy concept !
But this works! Every time. Not some of the time!
Recovering patients speak of 'certainty', 'a deep knowing', 'a 100% conviction'.
A+B=C hooray!!!
Certainty.
Certainty of the truth of an idea.
Certainty of the physical manifestation of an idea.
Certainty that the mind controls the physical world.
Eeek!!! Hahaha :)
If someone can be sent home from hospital to die and the doctor thought that at their age it best not to worry them with it -and they fully recover because they thought they were cured...
"It's been three years!! She is still alive???"
There is plenty more compelling evidence of mind power in scientific researches and a gazillion other people and areas.
Have we not established and witnessed the power of thought ? Can we move on?
Where do we go from here?
We find ourselves in a world that sometimes bends to our will or at least behaves in a way one would not normally expect.
But which expectation is in error? The Culture of a fixed separate Reality or that thought is senior to the physical world?
I would say; the expectation in our culture that considers Reality as separate and fixed is in error - some people have got it wrong!
I feel that most people live lives that follow their core-beliefs.
The ideas that they believe deep down.
"This always happens to me"
"I needed more money to be happy and now I got it, I am all smiles"
"I don't care anymore -what people think or what happens- I have let go"
"I love my kids -but the eldest is a problem"
Most people see these things as a deduction, a conclusion from the experience of their lives
But given the power of the mind -could these things be started by thought first?
The egg (thought) has preceded the chicken(experience) and we conclude that the chickens (life)we have, is just the way it is!
I would encourage anyone to have another look at the Real World.
How do they walk across those hot coals? It's not all sweaty feet !
Have a ponder at the negative concepts one holds close to oneself.
What if you took a leap of faith and decided they were not so?
What if one decided that the way one sees the one's life is the way it is?
What if one decided everything was in one's mind?
...and then changed one's mind? :))
These new points of view would not be true for all your friends -they may disagree.
But they would be true for you !!!
If people can do things that others would maintain are not possible; then each of us must be working independently of one another.
It doesn't matter that:
.a person disagrees,
.society says 'this is not so',
.very educated people are sure it cannot be done.
But we do also act as a collective consciousness inasmuch as people look to others in the world to establish their beliefs and thus by my reasoning their collective experience. (The belief creates the experience)
.eg: global warming. "Yup, it's getting worse"
.eg: "A spiritual awakening is ongoing - exciting times :))"
Creating Miracles
Is there a practical technology here?
So to do something 'miraculous', one has to opt-out of the collective thinking (or the collective vibration) .
But how does one do this?
For me the answer is simple -one changes one's mind !
One creates the 'miracle' as now perfectly possible and cheerfully and expectantly awaits the physical manifestation.
One is changing the viewpoint,the belief and making a decision (1,2,3 above) ie creating a new concept in the mind or one's consciousness.
But we are looking for 100% certainty (from earlier) to be successful -is this the stumbling block?
It doesn't work unless we truly deeply believe it?
But that's only another belief !!!
Can we not manifest those things we want anyway? Smiling at our most overwhelming doubts,chuckling to oneself in the face of incredulous friends and laughing at the unaware educated naysayers.
Somewhere in here is Faith. Pick one ! :-
Faith in the Lord.
Faith in Lourdes (France).
Faith in the 'new' medical treatment.
Faith in one's Higher Self.
Faith in the 'God-self'.
Faith in the Healer.
Faith in the Shaman.
Faith in my witchy spell cast at the New Moon
Faith in the Gypsy lady
Faith in the Tao.
Faith in one's intellectual reasoning to reach a conclusion that is true -even though one doesn't fully believe it,
or my preference:- Faith in one's infinite self.
Perhaps Faith is the key to the 100%certainty we are looking for.
But I would encourage anyone to 'beat the system' with this new concept thus:-
"I have Faith in [add the thing here]."
"I know that even my deepest darkest nastiest mind-overwhelming doubts are of no consequence."
"I could even loose my Faith and it would not matter"
"All will be well for me"
"I will get my new Aston Martin Vantage in that lovely grey colour and black leather interior...lol"
To stretch out the it's-all-happening-in-our-minds thing
Am I living in my own dimension? ("Yes Paloma you bloody well are" ..lol)
Maybe things happen in my world that don't happen in yours.
It's only a thought - hehehe
Infinity and beyond !!
love
Paloma Porta
Sun 28th August 2011
I think we can take as a 'given' that there is more going on in the world than the convenient view that we are animals running around on the third rock from the Sun.
The problem with the meat-bodies-on-earth view is what people have perceived.
Some have witnessed all manner of groovy metaphysical manifestations including angels,ghosts,telepathy,deja vu, remote viewing, out of the body (OOB), unexplained cause over machinery and physical objects, outrageous serendipity, and all manner of psychic phenomena. But not all of this has been convincing and it seems that no where even for shocked scientists is there a consistency of proof.
Perhaps one bridge to spirituality is the placebo affect.
The placebo -giving someone a sugar pill and telling them its a cure always has some affect. The results are quite entertaining!
One can give a person a 'downer' tell them it's an 'upper' and watch them bounce off the walls.
Placebos often work well - where the person's ignorance of the wonder drug is used along with the ethical issue of the doctor lying to or withholding information from the patient.
Furthermore if the prescribing doctor is hoodwinked also,perhaps by a delivery mix up and gives a drug placebo in error the patient often recovers twice as well as when the doctor is unconvinced.
For placebos:
Caplets work better than pills
The colour of pills make a difference.
Injections(saline) are more effective than pills
Operations(fake ones) are better still !!!
These are scientific facts -but they don't seem to work all the time. And for scientific minds this presents a problem of proof and validity.
A + B sometimes = C hmmm.
Surrounding the placebo is a theory that they are actually 'hypnotic suggestions'. Where clearly it's not the placebo drug or pill presenting the idea to the patient but the whole concept that he is given or holds in his mind-the suggestion of wellness associated with the placebo.
Thus to tell a patient in the gravest and most professional tones that she has less than a month to live is arguably a very difficult position from which to recover, even if one is actually by some unlucky fluke perfectly well!
It's the suggestion.
And its called 'hypnotic' because it seems to dwell somewhere in the root of a person and has a power that some believe or want to believe.
It's common knowledge some people seemed to have convinced themselves they were cancer free and have recovered well. And some tried and failed.
I wouldn't want to be the Doctor that told his professional hypnotist patient he had a month to live - the Doctor would get a broken jaw!!!
Hypnotists and healers daily witness the power of the mind.
For myself I once decided to quit smoking -something clicked in my mind ...ENUFF!!! lol...I awoke the next day free of the need of them. What happened to all the endless data we have about ciggies being addictive ? I felt no cravings having instantly stopped a 30/day habit . (it wasn't 60/day or 80/day -it was 30 - no exaggeration)
What the heck is going on here ?
Us pink and fluffy spiritual types talk of accessing the 'higher self". Some pray to Jesus (equally valid) others to Whatever (ditto) and some tap their 'subconscious minds' (more dittos).
My summation of these phenomena is that these people:
1. changed their point of view
2. and thus their beliefs
3. and made a decision
1. He decides he will use the new miracle drug or pray or ' program his subconscious mind' or see the hypnotist. Now he has a different point of view -one of the possibility or assurance of wellness.
2. He believes this has the power to cure.
3. He decides he is well.
But it's not 1,2,3, it's all mixed in together as a concept. A new healthy concept !
But this works! Every time. Not some of the time!
Recovering patients speak of 'certainty', 'a deep knowing', 'a 100% conviction'.
A+B=C hooray!!!
Certainty.
Certainty of the truth of an idea.
Certainty of the physical manifestation of an idea.
Certainty that the mind controls the physical world.
Eeek!!! Hahaha :)
If someone can be sent home from hospital to die and the doctor thought that at their age it best not to worry them with it -and they fully recover because they thought they were cured...
"It's been three years!! She is still alive???"
There is plenty more compelling evidence of mind power in scientific researches and a gazillion other people and areas.
Have we not established and witnessed the power of thought ? Can we move on?
Where do we go from here?
We find ourselves in a world that sometimes bends to our will or at least behaves in a way one would not normally expect.
But which expectation is in error? The Culture of a fixed separate Reality or that thought is senior to the physical world?
I would say; the expectation in our culture that considers Reality as separate and fixed is in error - some people have got it wrong!
I feel that most people live lives that follow their core-beliefs.
The ideas that they believe deep down.
"This always happens to me"
"I needed more money to be happy and now I got it, I am all smiles"
"I don't care anymore -what people think or what happens- I have let go"
"I love my kids -but the eldest is a problem"
Most people see these things as a deduction, a conclusion from the experience of their lives
But given the power of the mind -could these things be started by thought first?
The egg (thought) has preceded the chicken(experience) and we conclude that the chickens (life)we have, is just the way it is!
I would encourage anyone to have another look at the Real World.
How do they walk across those hot coals? It's not all sweaty feet !
Have a ponder at the negative concepts one holds close to oneself.
What if you took a leap of faith and decided they were not so?
What if one decided that the way one sees the one's life is the way it is?
What if one decided everything was in one's mind?
...and then changed one's mind? :))
These new points of view would not be true for all your friends -they may disagree.
But they would be true for you !!!
If people can do things that others would maintain are not possible; then each of us must be working independently of one another.
It doesn't matter that:
.a person disagrees,
.society says 'this is not so',
.very educated people are sure it cannot be done.
But we do also act as a collective consciousness inasmuch as people look to others in the world to establish their beliefs and thus by my reasoning their collective experience. (The belief creates the experience)
.eg: global warming. "Yup, it's getting worse"
.eg: "A spiritual awakening is ongoing - exciting times :))"
Creating Miracles
Is there a practical technology here?
So to do something 'miraculous', one has to opt-out of the collective thinking (or the collective vibration) .
But how does one do this?
For me the answer is simple -one changes one's mind !
One creates the 'miracle' as now perfectly possible and cheerfully and expectantly awaits the physical manifestation.
One is changing the viewpoint,the belief and making a decision (1,2,3 above) ie creating a new concept in the mind or one's consciousness.
But we are looking for 100% certainty (from earlier) to be successful -is this the stumbling block?
It doesn't work unless we truly deeply believe it?
But that's only another belief !!!
Can we not manifest those things we want anyway? Smiling at our most overwhelming doubts,chuckling to oneself in the face of incredulous friends and laughing at the unaware educated naysayers.
Somewhere in here is Faith. Pick one ! :-
Faith in the Lord.
Faith in Lourdes (France).
Faith in the 'new' medical treatment.
Faith in one's Higher Self.
Faith in the 'God-self'.
Faith in the Healer.
Faith in the Shaman.
Faith in my witchy spell cast at the New Moon
Faith in the Gypsy lady
Faith in the Tao.
Faith in one's intellectual reasoning to reach a conclusion that is true -even though one doesn't fully believe it,
or my preference:- Faith in one's infinite self.
Perhaps Faith is the key to the 100%certainty we are looking for.
But I would encourage anyone to 'beat the system' with this new concept thus:-
"I have Faith in [add the thing here]."
"I know that even my deepest darkest nastiest mind-overwhelming doubts are of no consequence."
"I could even loose my Faith and it would not matter"
"All will be well for me"
"I will get my new Aston Martin Vantage in that lovely grey colour and black leather interior...lol"
To stretch out the it's-all-happening-in-our-minds thing
Am I living in my own dimension? ("Yes Paloma you bloody well are" ..lol)
Maybe things happen in my world that don't happen in yours.
It's only a thought - hehehe
Infinity and beyond !!
love
Paloma Porta
Sun 28th August 2011
Saturday, 27 August 2011
#1. Paloma's Spirituality Argument - added to June 2014
Paloma's Spirituality Argument - added to June 2014
This is copied from my Second Life notecard which doesn't have italics
[note: ITALICS (caps) is used for italics,for emphasis. I could have used *italics* but I think CAPS is easier to read ]
Paloma says
"Let's go back to the basic premise that so many hang their hats on,namely:-
The real world exists.
But does it?
And in what form?"
Reconsider Rene Descartes 'dreaming argument'
Which goes roughly like this..if my memory serves:
.The dream world seems real - is RL (and SL) just a dream?
.and that perception can be deceptive -don't trust things that deceive
.and thus ...for all I know the earth, sky, colours and all the external world could just be the work of an evil genius to ensnare me
"The brain in a vat"
The skeptic invites one to say" For all I know,I am a brain in a vat and there is no external world [prof Jennifer Hornsby - Birkbeck College]
The Matrix Movie
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. ...
Down at the Pub - there's always someone who kindly offers to punch the sceptic in the face and ask -
"Did that exist?"
One arises spitting teeth and contemplating a trip to the local hospital or revenge -but after the pain has gone or killing the combatant -one is still not convinced that reality exists!
If it's the brain -what does the brain see?
The eyes run messages to the brain's visual cortex where they are seen as images -this we "know"
The proof of course is that scientists witnessed this using their visual cortex !
No proof at all!
So how do we expand on "the world may only exist in my mind"?
The first thing for me is to consider the 5 perceptions..yawn -they are there- we perceive the world or something that seems like the world.
But what about all the other perceptions ppl DO feel?.
"My aunty saw a ghost". "The room went cold" . "I felt the presence of an angel and we were saved" "I remember my past lives " "I had a deja-vue" and the Shaman's everyday experience - "There is consciousness in everything - a lake has thoughts -so do the rocks, the grass, a tree, a bird -one only has to feel them or listen"
These 6th , 7th and 8th etc perceptions ARE real -in that ppl report experiencing them. Furthermore I strongly suspect less ppl report them than actually occur -one doesn't want to be refused a drink at one's local pub because one is a "nutter" ie social constraints encourage biting one's tongue.
And what of time?
Where is the past -put it in a cup and give it to me?
So with the possibility of 'life is a dream' and 'brains in vats' and 'The Matrix movie' as theoretically possible -
Time also only seems to exist in our minds.
I have a memory of breakfast - I see the evidence,the dirty pans and dishes.. so it happened ?
More doubtful is : "My mother and I still remember and laugh about the time I lost my hat."
Even more doubtful is - "I spoke alone with the man on the train - I don't know his name and never saw him again"
Did these things actually happen in a 'real world past' or is the evidence only in our minds?
So with regards to time the next sceptical argument could be:
'Everything could have started just now. Everything that happened in the past is just there to explain ones current situation.Linear time doesn't actually exist -it exists only in our minds.
The fact that one sees ones slippers under the bed where one left them in the past, has no validity -its all smoke and mirrors.'
I put it to you that we are running around in a probable-truth of a world.
It's a convenience to run our daily lives with the car,the husband,friends and 'Nibbles' the goldfish definitely being there, and linear time ticking away merrily in the background.
We have compelling evidence that the real world exists , linear time exists and also, lest we ignore, that many see other dimensions or have a variety of "6th" senses.
So to expand upon "the world may only exists in my mind".
I would like to offer-
The world responds to our minds ...or better-
The world responds to and manifests the ideas held in consciousness(the awareness of being aware)
This IS science. The MPD (multiple personality disorder) person awakes as an astonished Beryl in Croydon and worries what Randy has been doing there! She can often turn on and off diabetes/have or not have malignant cancers/change eye colour/ and instantly sober up!
Scientists too have their reputations to consider(cultural pressure) and do not comment upon these things or feel they should ridicule and dismiss them for job and social self preservation.
Surgeons will anonymously confess that they ask anaesthetised patients on the operating table to move their blood away from the incisions and nasty bit -this often dramatically reduces blood loss.
Some quantum physicists maintain everything is connected because they have witnessed these tiny sub atomic particles behave together at great distance, seeming to communicate faster than the speed of light . And because Einstein says such communication is not possible they conclude that these 2 sub atomic thingies are actually the same thing!
From here and the holographic model the world seems to follow, they wonder if everything is all connected really?
I maintain there is no 'truth',no understanding. No understanding, because the world we perceive seems to follow the ideas held in consciousness.
More specifically; what we hold as true is true.
What we experience is from what we believe.
Experience is based on a belief -to conclude truth from it is to presume we did not create the experience in the first place.
eg "Life is a bitch, I've seen suffering and real hardship and that's the truth"
- I would encourage anyone to change that belief.!!! One will discover to ones astonishment that life becomes easier or one has more 'good luck'(self created).
But I can only speak for myself because I see it this way!!
If others do not, it doesn't invalidate my position
From the Matrix movie:-
Commander Lock: Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
Conclusion...does the world exist? Here's my answer
There is plenty of evidence that we make it all up as we go along. I think there is more evidence that the world is a malleable playground than a fixed world of separate obstacles that you bang your knee on.
Newtonian physics is being overrun.
Cause: the apple was too heavy for the tree and gravity took over -
Effect: it hit Newton's head.
Myself and many Quantum Physicists would say:-
Cause: Newton believed sitting under apple trees gave him an outside chance of being hit on the head by an apple, he believed in the reality of the world out there, and gravity, and his body, and the being-there-after-lunch-sitting-down-under-the-tree thing.
Effect : ouch!
I have implied that we and Newton have an infinite potential - I am suggesting he created the whole world for the apple to fall on his head.
Our person in the Pub would argue:-
"That's totally ridiculous -how can I create all the World, all of Reality?? Reality just IS !!!"
LOL - it does sound a bit like "Let there be light" doesn't it?
I feel there is lots and lots of scientific and metaphysical spooky stuff as compelling evidence that we have a potentially infinite capacity
And to be infinite in potential is to be Everything really and believe one is not Infinite.
Where Everything is in 'the mind of God'
(infinite awareness/the universal mind/The Tao)
The persona or identity -the Jane Doe would be a belief system - a creation within the whole, possibly just for the fun of it!
This is called 'oneness' atm. We are 'waves in the sea' . 'Bubbles within infinite awareness'
(....The mathematical analogy is 'we are sub-sets of God'.)
added June 2014
One of the first things us spiritual types discovered was that the world can be made mutable and plastic by thought. Thoughts are things and these things can physically change the world. If you are "successful" in your life you will almost certainly agree. I have spent time in the company of the very wealthy and they seem most odd in their inherent positive expectancy. One man seemed to have an elastic band tied around his waist and the other end was nailed into his goal or desire -it was only a matter of time before he got there. The penny fails in the slot machine arcade game and it may bounce around hitting numerous pins for a while or it may go "pling, bing, plunk" and drop almost straight through - this is the way the successfully minded seem to conduct their lives -their expectancy made their desire only a matter of time. I don't think all of them understood the process or cared, but one fellow would often marvel how the "little people" (ouch) were so negative. The classic negative and positive thinking does seem to have a direct and statistically significant correlation to getting what one wants. Successful artists, musicians , painters and so forth and athletes also employ this method and the process here is more interesting as while their starting idea manifests in the physical world, they often spend the creative time without a thought. Odd. It becomes less odd when one invesigates where all creative thoughts come from and where, the creative and successfull person are, as it were, "dwelling", during their ...magic.
This is currently called "The Law of Attraction" should you wish to pursue it - and it is a good place to start though it really is the Theory of Attraction as it does not represent the complete view that it sometimes claim it does, in my humble opinion - which is why when used as a desire manifesting tool doesn't seem to work all of the time. Is anything likely to be a complete view -The Truth?
Though these things have been understood by the ancients and earlier primitive and backward (!) collections of humanity, it was deleted from group consciousness or social acceptable average common sense in the 19th century. Science and Philosophy decided that the world was a dead artifact created by chance and Darwin. And they decided this with the certainty and arrogance that only, ironically, God should have. Even the Theologians decided God was something separate from themselves. All of this is a polite way of me saying "you have been indoctrinated". That's actually the good news because being aware of this possibility we can re-educate ourselves or at least ask "what do I really know?" and begin afresh, along a line of personal enquiry.
So when a Zen monk tells you "All is mind" you might hit the pause key and wonder whether his ideas might at least be understood before being rejected. Otherwise people become "Meditation? Never tried it - Don't like it".
Thus there is a danger with rational thought! How much of our day to day judgments are socially pressured or conditioned? Things that are "obvious and obviously true" to us nowadays would not be if we were born in another time. So what is The Truth , The Timeless Truth?
Only a few of us can be bothered to look for a Timeless Truth. And while we do all we ask is that those not looking have the decency to keep their 21st Century regurgitations directed elsewhere. Or help us and add! Due to the peculiarities of the world often the most unlikely become really successful in a spiritual pursuit.
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Final conclusion: Paloma's Spirituality Argument
The truth people hold is often just a version of belief systems held in that Century as fashionable. Currently; religion is out and God with it and Newtonian physics is in -though spirituality is having a dramatic come back and sits at the humble start of the geometric explosion it is sure to have. Some of Einstein's more "alarming" spirtual outbursts, for example, are being pounced upon by Quantum Physicists who have found some extremely non-Newtonian things. The "cause and effect" model of the world is being questioned and attacked with increasing confidence and ferocity these days, and from all corners.
My most favoured mantra has been and remains "What is your truth?".
Please do not accept anything that is not true in your experience, including everything written here by me.
Research for yourself , should you wish to, and belief anything you like but let it be true for you and not from an "authority" or "expert" which or who after all, is only as wise as the elevation you assign them.
What is your truth?
What other truth is there?
Below , I use the word 'Spirit' as the consciousness of myself and others within this Infinite Everything Thingie
Spirit is the Law - and that's the only law there is.
What is your truth?
Huggerliewuggerlies
Paloma Porta
PS Having written all that -it's tooo much thinking -one must feel
26th August 2011
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