01-07-2012, 03:11 PM
(01-07-2012, 01:38 PM)Snowflower Wrote: I went to the Matthew website and have bookmarked it for further study. One thing common to all of them - from TLOO, to Matthew, to Drunvalo Melchizadek, to the Webbot - this is the year for the climax on the whole shebang isn't it? Whew! SO much to read, most difficult with eyes that tend to see double when reading long text passages. Sure do wish I could find this stuff in audio.
Not that you would have any reason to trust me- but I have already pored over all of these. In my limited view, as we are now in 2012 none of that really matters anymore. Though it all remains quite interesting!
Here is the way I have come to see it. Remember when those Voyager craft were launched back in 1977? From then until now, these craft have been traveling through the heliosphere. In one sense, we would tend to think of them as having traveled great distances from our Sun. However, in another sense, they have never left. So long as those craft are within the heliosphere, they are technically- and most correctly- speaking, within the body of the Sun.
As a point of possible irrelevance, there is a quote from the Bible that very much tends to be associated with monistic flavors of monotheism. Perhaps you are familiar with it?
Acts 17:24-28 Wrote:God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Neither is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. And He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also certain of your own poets have said, `For we are also His offspring.'
Anyway, back to the main point. As it turns out, those Voyager craft "just so happen" to right now- at this very moment- in a special borderline region called the heliopause. One could think of the heliopause as an electromagnetic membrane around the outermost reaches of the Sun's body. As you can further imagine, this membrane is permeable- thus permitting the passage of the Voyager craft- as well as changing in time. It is confined to a particular region, but is not precisely fixed at any particular location.
I have come to see our current planetary situation here in 2012 as a more metaphysical representation of this same process. And much in the same way- as we approach the point where we actually pass through this barrier to the other side, the less and less it makes sense to theorize about what is there on the other side.
Snowflower Wrote:I truly do sympathize about having a close friend who is suffering delusions, but actually, it sounds like your friend was suffering far more from a psychotic condition than a psychopathic one. I use these two specific terms because they are so easily misunderstood from each other. A psychopathic person does not suffer from delusions and is not mentally ill. A psychotic person has suffered a mental breakdown and is mentally ill.
The psychopath has a different brain function. It can be diagnosed definitively based on a brain scan test. When shown pictures of human or animal suffering, the psychopath will demonstrate no change in brain waves, no matter what their outward appearance seems to be. The psychopath is simply a person who feels no remorse for wrongs done and has no empathy for the suffering (or joy) of other humans. It is not mental illness at all.
You are totally right about that. I must have some neurons crossed there! Thank you for bringing this discernment to my attention!
Snowflower Wrote:A discussion about the religious institutions on the planet, and the wrongs committed by those institutions is actually appropriate to include a discussion about psychopaths, because psychopaths are attracted to any position of power and authority over other humans. Religious institutions offer such positions with far less accountability. So, if someone desires to be in a position to hurt others, one of the places they will gravitate toward would be religious institutions. This has been the condition on this planet for the past 5000 years at least - psychopaths who want to hurt use religion to do so.
What I find most curious is not that this has been occurring, but that so many people continue to be "shocked and amazed" when they find out about it. I had thought this much would be obvious by now.