(09-15-2014, 03:19 AM)Account1 Wrote: If so, could you please tell me why?
Edit: I don't mean to offend I'm just curious
(09-24-2014, 11:20 AM)ronontheocean Wrote: I no longer have the option of belief; faith having been replaced by experience.
It’s not exactly on topic, but personal experience of other kinds of “this stuff” does impact how one approaches the Ra Material.
My epiphany was reading Seth Speaks. One of the exercises in the book was to close your eyes, imagine dials to turn off your outer senses, and another set of dials to turn on your inner senses. I did this one night and fell into myself; i.e. my consciousness went inside me and it felt to me to that I (my cavernous external body) was as big as a universe. It was totally dark and very bright inside there at the same time. (I really cannot describe the visual sensory experience better than that.) It scared the pants off me at the time and I came back to regular perception with a racing heart. I repeated this exercise twice more that night with the same results, though for shorter durations. (It still scared the pants off me each time to be so “unmoored” inside my own body.) Experience.
I paid $100 to take a reiki class. Healing is bestowed by a ceremony. For the first time in my life, my hands and feet became warm. This state persists to this day 15 years later. I can touch people and take away headaches, minor aches and pains, reduce crying, etc. They feel hot hands which, when my healing touch decides it is “finished” turn back to normal temperature or “cold”, relatively speaking. They say to me, “oh, your hands just turned cold!” But I also know it is time to stop because at exactly that same time, my hands stop tingling. Experience.
At a meditation retreat, I communicated with the dead mother of the facilitator simply by describing something I was seeing in my mind’s eye (a bronze leaf) which made no sense to me so I asked the facilitator, “hey, I’m seeing this bronze leaf in my head, does that have any meaning for you?” Long story short, facilitator’s tears notwithstanding, the leaf was actually her mother’s favorite ashtray and the message was quintessentially her mom. I was stunned. Experience.
During a trip to Vegas, I played craps without rolling the dice. Instead I pushed energy (see reiki above) to the other rollers all night long. In the morning, I found an empty craps table and in the hour before the plane came, I rolled continuously for 50 minutes. I was a crappy dice thrower. I was also so astonished by the dice (I rolled doubles half the time) that I had to ask for a double bourbon at 9 am just to stop shaking. The dice flew off the table, I was that bad. I never asked for the dice back but just took another pair. The pit bosses were not happy with my display and there came to be seven of them all around me watching me play and trying to figure out how I was cheating. But the big thing was not the pit bosses, or the money (I was betting poorly and conservatively) but the fact that the run of luck lasted only until the one roll of the dice when I thought to myself, “this really just can’t go on forever!” and crapped out that very roll. Which, BTW, was actually what was supposed to happen in a You-Create-Your-Own-Reality world of intentional creation. Experience.
Standing on the outside deck in Portland Oregon one night, I looked up at the night sky and saw four orange red lights in the sky in a partial V formation. A helicopter formation? What a weird color! Then I watched as the first light zipped out of formation, did a loopy loop around the second light, then all four zipped out to the west at an unimaginable speed. Those were no earthy objects! Experience.
I read tarot cards. I do it for free as a party game. Other than the 5% of the time when I get a “garbage” reading (I can’t figure out what the cards even mean) every one of the people I give readings to are astonished by my accuracy. I stopped being surprised a long time ago. Experience.
When I had my epiphany (see Seth above) my entire chest area over my heart started thrumming and got hot. I would ask other people to touch the area and they felt the heat too. This lasted for eight months. I had never heard of “chakra” at the time, but I sure learned about it. Experience.
On three separate occasions, I have looked at a person (two people on TV and one an acquaintance) and have seen them as being gray, like there was a gray mist or fog around them. I had no idea what I was seeing and said nothing. All three died within days of various causes. I dislike this “gift” because I don’t know what to do with the information, but there is a 1:1 ratio of seeing the gray mist and the eventual outcome. Experience.
I could not, and did not, remain unchanged after all these experiences. But my former lawyerly objective scientific mindset was shattered. It took me a few years to reconstitute myself and now the universe operates differently around me. And I am no longer the least bit surprised by it.