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
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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
