Our supposed ‘global meditations’ focused on displacement, in the name of a sterile ‘oneness’ are getting old.
I’m heading off and minimizing the destructive effects of this next one up front. I’m offering anyway. Bound to be a real looloo as our world gets ready to rock and roll. ‘Hey, Baby’, as Mike Meyers would say.
Here’s an exercise:
Perform it every morning and every night for a week and see if there isn’t a vast difference in your life. And if you find that you can’t do the exercise at all or feel silly doing it, then become AWARE of a very deep issue that is active in your life and undermining all your efforts.
Go to any mirror and look yourself in the eyes and say
“I Love You”, 7 times.
Smiling like a Cheshire cat…..
Happy Thanksgiving!
Isn’t it GREAT to BE?!
S.E.
KoraKaos
I am thankful your love exists. May it attract more and more love. That’s all...
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November 23rd, 2007 - 6:07 am
I’m going to do it!
Louise Hay’s has a similar exercise in her book, “You Can Heal Your Life”. Fortunately, I don’t have any problem with this one. There are other phrases, however, that I haven’t been as easy with. Thank you for this inspiration!
xoxo
OK…and I have to ask. “Oneness” has been sort of a thing with me in the last year. I’m sitting here scratching my head about the ‘displacement’ you mentioned. Could you elaborate on that PUH-LEEEEEESE?
Love you!
November 23rd, 2007 - 1:29 pm
I will certainly do my best! (winking)
There’s a lot of understanding circulating that’s not really much in the way of understanding, when it comes to what ‘Oneness’ is all about.
Personally, if the old paradigm desires to call down its own self destruction, then so be it. For everything there is a season. ‘Out with the old and in with the new’, as the saying goes. UNconditional Tolerance and UNconditional Acceptance are both facets of UNconditional Love.
But it sure is going to play hell on those of us seeking to transition to the ‘new’, that don’t have our feet firmly planted in it, yet. And for that reason, I decided I’m not going to be timid anymore.
{{grace}} Look into your Heart. Ask it for verification of what I am going to say.
The swamis and beyondananda-somethings spouting nonsense about an abstract “oneness”, have no Heart felt understanding of it. They’re giving themselves headjobs. Just like GW required Lady Liberty to kneel down before his neurosis and anxieties and give him a blow job.
The lies we sell are always those we believe in ourselves. And if the blind keep following the blind, then we’ll all end up like that archeological Dino pile, where one dinosaur after another just kept walking into the same hole.
I think we call it being a “lemming”.
Oneness is the experience of the Divine Union, the ‘Marriage made in Heaven’.
Lower self joined with Highest Self; ego fused with Divinity; ‘the two who are one’, as our ego fuses with our Soul, progressing onward to ‘the three who are one’, as the fused ego-soul fuses with our Spirit; becoming a Totally Integrated Human Being.
Now the ‘oneness’ being sold in ‘the East’ is nothing more then a *bs* abstraction. If I shared the image of cutting man in two, they’d be the top half. They’d be Eunuchs. Numbnuts. Cut off and in full fledge DENIAL of Creative Power. Sterile. Impotent. Inhibited in SELF Expression.
Is my meaning coming through clear? Just to make sure, I’ll say it another way…If it weren’t for cotton balls they’d have no balls at all.
Besides the fact that it is impossible to experience an Intimate relationship with a purely MENTAL abstraction, there will be NO magentization Power or drawing power to create any fusion. Can’t fuse a part you’ve already negated having.
You’ll notice little value being given to INDIVIDUAL Self Development. Suppose to surrender self instead. Imagine equating individual self to nothing. It being ‘karma’ and all that.
Well..I’m calling that a crock, being used to promote and maintain a heirarchy of false authorities.
The innate talents, skills and abilities of the people, you know, INDIVIDUAL people, is given NO importance or Value. Can’t be BOTH ‘spiritual’ and enjoy being human, too, in any of the beliefs of the East. Just the same as it has been in the West.
I don’t really know why those of us raised in the West imagined the East had any better version or understanding of anything spiritual. Because that’s a false assumption of inequality. Numbnuts and numbskulls go together like rocks fitting into holes. Two halves of the same dissected human.
If this is what is considered as ‘highly evolved’ somebody needs to raise their bar a bit.
Think about what it takes to bring a child into this world {{grace}}. Unlike these potentates, you’ve actually done it. It takes both sperm and womb. Sperm without a womb is worthless as it concerns birthing anything into our world.
Now look around at all the MALE potentates the globe over, swami’s, gurus, monks, priests…rabbis, etc. OK…there’s the ‘sperm’.
So where’s their womb?
Don’t have one, do they?
And THAT’s why they’re Totally INEFFECTIVE when it comes to actually Creating and Manifesting any forms that could or would improve the living conditions and the living standard of any of their believers or followers.
Divine Feminine, indeed. What? A Divine Mother that’s just as Infertile as Divine Father is Impotent?
Where are ANY children going to come out of that Union?
I might as well not be biased and just say what I’ve got to say in regards to the ‘peace’ and ‘balance’ being sold by many oranged robed fella’s.
Neutrality isn’t peace. Neutrality isn’t anything. It’s the ‘lukewarm and I spat thee out’, bit. Neutrality avoids the responsibility for decision making by making no decisions at all. It’s about accepting NEITHER.
And I’m coming from Unity, ‘Oneness’, a Wholly Integrated Being. I say BOTH, in place of ‘OR’ and ‘NEITHER’.
Neutrality or NEITHER, is cowardly.
What I mean by displacement, is instead of imagining ourselves being filled with loving grace, we’re displacing where it is needed and projecting our own darkness and blindness onto the world instead. It’s our perception of our world, of our selves and our place in it, that needs changing, that needs to be healed. And we keep displacing it. We keep saying the world needs to change to suit us.
Our projections always bounce back on us and when they do, they do it with a force multiplied 100 times from the way we sent them out.
What needs healing is us. Individual us’s. We need to heal ourselves and our relationship issues. We’re projecting our demons instead of claiming them.
I know it’s hard to fathom but our World really IS as those of us in it, choose it to BE. We’re BLIND to our own Ignorance and what we keep doing to ourselves.
The OUTSIDE is a reflection of who and what we are on the INSIDE. We cannot seperate ourselves from the experiences and circumstances in our lives and EVER hope to come to any kind of integrated understanding of our Creative Powers.
If we desire to change the face of our world, we’ve got to address the causes that are making it look the way it does. That means looking inside of ourselves and claiming our own demons, our own denials, our own errors of imagination and belief. Instead of like GW, demonizing the World.
“Virgin” means PURE, not sexless.
If it wasn’t for some kind of sex, we wouldn’t be able to get any ‘virgin’ oil, from any olive tree, because it wouldn’t HAVE any olives. Create/procreate, same energy of Creation. Same Creative Will in operation.
And it’s not something we’re going to learn nor understand anything about, listening to eunuchs.
Sitting on our asses and OM-ing a few bars is like trying to run a race on a treadmill. We expend a lot of energy getting no place.
A lot of us have lived our entire lives trying to emulate this stifled and inhibited example of self expression.
And it’s hurting us, deeply.
November 25th, 2007 - 4:18 pm
I’m more convinced by ‘old versus new’ than by ‘east versus west’. Certainly the ‘old’ traditional eastern teachings appeared to suggest that the dissolution of the self, the merging away and disappearing into Oneness, was the ultimate goal. But it seems to me that the message which is coming forward now – from all over the world, from east and west – is very much about taking that Oneness with us into the world, of using that awareness to experience life as our true selves for the very first time.
As for what you say about none of the various male ‘potentates’ manifesting anything to improve the living conditions of their followers, I was about to disagree with you and point to Sri Bhagavan’s 100 Villages Project, whereby the hundred plus villages around the Oneness Movement’s HQ in southern India are now apparently flourishing with a predominantly enlightened population, putting their awareness into action in the world. But I realize I am not really disagreeing with you at all, because the Oneness Movement is headed not by Bhagavan alone but also by his wife Amma. Both male and female energy are indeed present.
Not that that Bhagavan and Amma’s movement is the only force in the world which is seeking to facilitate a change in human consciousness. It is only one of many. And surely it is horses for courses? We all need to find what works for us. You don’t seem to think much of meditation, perhaps because you have outgrown it. But I find that it’s a useful way of connecting with What Is, of stepping outside the chatter of the human mind, which it seems to me is the first step in the process of change. It only becomes counter-productive if people start thinking that meditation is an end in itself and place undue emphasis on the minutiae of the process – it seems to me that this is the ‘old’ way of thinking. But you don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Oh yes, that exercise you suggest… Thank you! I thought I would find it difficult but I didn’t. Either I’m becoming vain or I’m making progress…
November 25th, 2007 - 7:07 pm
7 is my lucky number. : ) All is One.
November 25th, 2007 - 11:06 pm
Ohhh {{simon}}}, you are not vain. You are becoming aware and self realized. Take any cut that has been drawn to seperate us. ‘higher self’ from ‘lower self’, masculine from feminine, sperm from womb, and make either part, or element, or aspect, dominant over the other, in a play of dominance, is not a Union. It is not Equal.
What is of Spirit, Unifies. It’s a tone that encompases.
Of course a male isn’t going to have a womb. What each and every partriarch HAS done, though, is neglect loving our form nature, our physical self nature and, Valuing it, as much as our spiritual one. It’s always been a matter that to please one takes the denail of the other.
And what I’m trying to convey, is that Unity is based on Loving and Valuing every part, both part. Divine AND human.
You have a feminine side. Your e-motions. Like the light of the moon they are reflective of the Light of your Mind.
You asked me on your blog about ‘doing it ourselves?’
And my answer is that we are NEVER by ourselves. We are NEVER alone.
Many of us imagine that we need to progress something. Need to learn, like school.
I am saying that it not so. All we need do is remember. Re-member.
We don’t really learn anything new. We learn to recognize what’s always been around. What we’ve always been aware of. But we never realized exactly WHAT it WAS, IS, or means.
When you are as I am, you will know that the ‘you’ you are right now, is pure Spirit. Right now. And what the ride is all about, is your journey of self discovery.
Any fear or anxiety or trepidation you may feel at this time are ghosts. But you don’t know that. Sure feels real to you. It does to all of us.
What I’m trying to share is that our fears are groundless. We don’t need the maya. We really don’t. There is NO part of ourselves that is negated. The ‘new’ is new.
Parts coming together and merging. Instead of conflicting in plays for dominance.
Look at it like making a sword. You could say our human self is our base metal. Built out of subtance of the realm. In order for that base metal to be turned into a sword, it has to undergo a process. It is tempered. It is annealed. It is stuck in the fire, then hammered, repeatedly, then quenched.
It does no good if the sword is not made properly. If too brittle it would break, snap. If too soft it couldn’t be refined into a sharp edge.
So it is with our individual self development. We are all born with talents, skills and abilities. That if developed and used, are the source of our ultimate joy.
It’s Creativity that counts. Not what is created. It’s all Creation.
The Third aspect of ‘the Holy Trinity’, is the Holy Spirit, God in Self Expression. Love it all. Don’t discount any aspect of it.
And our physical world and everything in it, is that Self expression. So are all the other dimensions, mansions or whatevers.
Beauty Loves the beast, not kills it.
November 25th, 2007 - 11:13 pm
You bet {{talkingtonightlights}}.
When our ’7′ energy centers are balanced, then together they form a pillar of Light. This pillar of light, now activated, balanced and stabilized, form the foundation to begin grounding, anchoring, assimilating and integrating the next set of 7.
November 27th, 2007 - 12:00 pm
I’m not disputing anything you say about Eastern spirituality, but here’s my own experience with meditation. I started meditating several years before I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By meditating, I mean sitting quietly, noting. Noting breathing, noting pain, noting everything, not striving. Just being.
When I was going through chemotherapy, noting physical sensation was how I endured the pain. “This is the way pain feels.” It wasn’t something to be rejected, but something to be experienced and examined. Pain was merely sensations that came and went…or stayed.
I think there are a lot of Buddhists who would agree that what we are internally is what’s manifested in the world. They would also say (and I believe this) that everything is absolutely perfect every second of every day. I am exactly as I’m meant to be, moment by moment. Even when I’m angry or confused or guilt-ridden. It’s all okay. Even when I’m in enormous pain. It’s perfect and so am I.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful of your understanding, nor of anyone else’s. Just sharing. I trust you’ll understand.
November 27th, 2007 - 10:28 pm
Ohhh {{ggirl}}, {{Grace}} and I were saying the very same thing as you just said, in reference to “Simple Simon Said the Pieman”.
I called what you’re (we’re) doing Contemplation. It’s more interactive then Meditation, just like you have described. There’s a definite flow that can be sensed intimately.
No matter our pain, we remember we can feel it. Like Solomon said, “Straight stick, crooked stick, a stick is still a stick.”
If I’m alive to have it, then the Universe is supporting me in it 100%. I am Gifted. I have a Present.
November 28th, 2007 - 2:37 pm
Hi Sue Ann. You say “It’s Creativity that counts. Not what is created. It’s all Creation.”
I guess that’s really why I write. I enjoy the process of creation. And yet (to get back to this again…) if I write a book and I can’t get it published, it seems to have been a very incestuous process. It seems that for the process to have been ‘right’ and ‘worthwhile’, there have to be readers.
And yet… I guess if we are able to really ‘know’ that we are all One then the presence or absence of readers doesn’t matter at all. Hmm. That sentence makes intellectual sense to me, but I can’t *believe* it.
November 28th, 2007 - 3:52 pm
I’ve got one window open on my mail and have been responding there and, have been trying to keep up with responding to comments here at the same time. Not bad for someone who isn’t good at multi-tasking at all!
Of course your Soul already knows this, that’s why you CREATED a way I can respond to both at the same time! Thank you! Verry clever! Verry Creative! Very Loving!
The reason why your book hasn’t been published, has nothing to do with the book itself. It has to do with how you feel about it.
And I’d bet my ‘bottom dollar’ you have doubts about your story being ‘good enough’. So it is these doubts that are being reflected back to you.
I’d guide to write another. And another. Why?
Because YOU enjoyed doing it. ‘It’ being a by-product of Loving yourself, of enJOYing Creative Self Expression. That’s what all Creativity IS. Giving Birth to what’s in us.
You going to feel Guilty, like the God of the Old Testament, for being Virile? Going to stop it up because something might come out ‘bad’?
Then be a Purest, like Stephen King, make it really, really ‘bad’.
Look to the area of Self Expression and see how much it’s been shut up. I would bet the ole’ British cultural style of being ‘proper’, has had a great deal do to with repression.
Look at it like a movie. If the actors on the set enjoyed themselves, then this resonance will be a part of the movie. The audience will sense it and enjoy the movie, too.
Bake the cake because you enjoy baking it. Whether anyone else enjoys it, is the frosting.
The code we’ve been taught is ‘the good of others’. Now, there’s certainly nothing *wrong* with considering others. It has to do with part of the code is ‘the good of others AND not good for us’. It’s the negation of what serves US, that is the fundamental cause of our troubles. What serves US, our Joy, is what Truly serves others. For then we are sharing our Joy, rather then our lack of it.
Incestuous?
Provide a banquet for others while starving yourself?
If I don’t Love myself, why would anyone else?
I know, I know, it’s hard to *believe*.
Because it just seems to good to be True.
But it IS True. That’s my point.
It’s right on the end of our dunce caps.
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