07-27-2013, 01:00 AM
The article does not resonate with me, personally.
The author of it seems to have a very negative orientation towards what she perceives as "magical thinking", however, there is such a thing as real magical principals at work. I have had plenty of direct experiences of my thoughts manifesting in my experience, with no external action offered whatsoever. But then, the division between "internal" and "external" is the ego or self, and the division is ultimately arbitrary.
Focus really does generate all realities.
Having said that, the people who insist on sitting on their couch and trying to manifest their material aggrandizements have missed the boat. Action is not to be abandoned (virtually no one on this plane is at that level of adeptness anyhow). We sometimes forget that in the oneness of all things, one piece of the whole need not bow in sacrosanct submission to another part. That would amount to distorted kind of "controlling", rather than a positive sort of "cooperation with the indwelling creator". The parts are all equal. Thus, if we were to conceptualize the universe as one unified body and the hand of this body were trying, figuratively, for whatever reason, to connect with another part of this body, like, say, the hand, on the external side of things, this hand could conceivably wait for the other hand, to come to it, but it would be far more efficient for them to meet in the middle.
And so, from this perspective, we can see that our "outer self" functions as one of the components of the universe. However, it is just an appearance. On the inner side of things, we are all one Being. When you are functioning as this one Being, it is an irrelevant matter whether one component is controlling or "manifesting" the other component. From that framework, ALL components are cooperative components. And they work together to manifest the needs of the whole. And this involves a lot of what "appears" to be external action, and also involves a lot of, usually unacknowledged, "action at a distance" or "magical" organizing of events and circumstances. Everything is a coalescing of components to match whatever the vibrational offering is.
Form arises out of the formless.
Hopefully that was intelligible to someone.
The author of it seems to have a very negative orientation towards what she perceives as "magical thinking", however, there is such a thing as real magical principals at work. I have had plenty of direct experiences of my thoughts manifesting in my experience, with no external action offered whatsoever. But then, the division between "internal" and "external" is the ego or self, and the division is ultimately arbitrary.
Focus really does generate all realities.
Having said that, the people who insist on sitting on their couch and trying to manifest their material aggrandizements have missed the boat. Action is not to be abandoned (virtually no one on this plane is at that level of adeptness anyhow). We sometimes forget that in the oneness of all things, one piece of the whole need not bow in sacrosanct submission to another part. That would amount to distorted kind of "controlling", rather than a positive sort of "cooperation with the indwelling creator". The parts are all equal. Thus, if we were to conceptualize the universe as one unified body and the hand of this body were trying, figuratively, for whatever reason, to connect with another part of this body, like, say, the hand, on the external side of things, this hand could conceivably wait for the other hand, to come to it, but it would be far more efficient for them to meet in the middle.
And so, from this perspective, we can see that our "outer self" functions as one of the components of the universe. However, it is just an appearance. On the inner side of things, we are all one Being. When you are functioning as this one Being, it is an irrelevant matter whether one component is controlling or "manifesting" the other component. From that framework, ALL components are cooperative components. And they work together to manifest the needs of the whole. And this involves a lot of what "appears" to be external action, and also involves a lot of, usually unacknowledged, "action at a distance" or "magical" organizing of events and circumstances. Everything is a coalescing of components to match whatever the vibrational offering is.
Form arises out of the formless.
Hopefully that was intelligible to someone.
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