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RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Jade - 04-25-2017
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RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Diana - 04-26-2017
(04-23-2017, 10:56 PM)Lyssak127 Wrote: I am struggling with leaving my current situation because of love for myself and for my bf.
I have been with him 7 yrs. We love each other but we are not happy anymore n i have lost myself. I don't see our relationship changing n I've given it 7 yrs. nothing changes yet I stay n grow more unhappy because of my fear of being alone, and my limited income.
I feel stunted in my spiritual growth because of my current situation n unhappiness. I need to be where I can grow n shine n love. With like minded people.
But where is that? I know no like minded person.
Anyone get any of my rambling? Plz let me know.
I suggest you concentrate on growing, shining, and loving. To be with like-minded people is to have expectations. It's setting up conditions—which will likely be frustrated. Acceptance is the key, as then one let's go—relaxes the grip on—an idea that something outside of self is the answer.
If I were you, I would focus on better ways to support yourself. Then you will have more choices available and you won't feel as stuck.
Perhaps, as you say you love each other, you can part friends and maybe he would help you with support until you can make it on your own? In any case, honesty from the heart with your partner would be a great starting point to create movement and change in a positive direction.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 04-27-2017
Lesson #???? of the Creator of Itself: Everything is understandable. Have faith or figure it out, your choice Creator....(▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) ..♪~ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ....../╲/\╭( ͡° ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ͡°)╮/\╱\...
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - AnthroHeart - 04-27-2017
Today we bought groceries, my mom and I. And the total came to $44.44 exactly. I had started a new study, so this tells me to keep working hard at it.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Infinite Unity - 04-27-2017
(04-23-2017, 10:56 PM)Lyssak127 Wrote: I am struggling with leaving my current situation because of love for myself and for my bf.
I have been with him 7 yrs. We love each other but we are not happy anymore n i have lost myself. I don't see our relationship changing n I've given it 7 yrs. nothing changes yet I stay n grow more unhappy because of my fear of being alone, and my limited income.
I feel stunted in my spiritual growth because of my current situation n unhappiness. I need to be where I can grow n shine n love. With like minded people.
But where is that? I know no like minded person.
Anyone get any of my rambling? Plz let me know.
Calm yourself. See what is there to see. There is skill in flinging open the curtains of the soul, and letting light in. And rising up hope. It is the very stuff we ponder here. Magic : is the ability to cause change in conscience at will. If you are all things....Then what cant you change? Change comes through realization, as the self is the base of all knowledge. Now the pool of life is a reflection of ones being, and think about that as you move through your day. Be aware of your thoughts, and how they trickle down the precipous into negativity. The more divided you feel, the more you will fuel the division he feels, and vice versa. The universe is reciprocal, and the mind the seed layer. The soul the captain. When you allow your focus to rest or react within the range of hate/separation. You will lay seeds of hate, and one day awaken to fields/experiences of hate. Which are just lessons of your identity and true nature.
Pay attention to your thoughts, notice what you think it is that he is doing, that bothers you so. And follow the string back to where it originates. The One and Only Self. The Mystery Clad Macrocosmic Being. Accept who you are.
Also I agree with Diana on finding better ways to support ones self. However a lot of times instead of adding workload, just subtract what is not needed.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 05-06-2017
The attitude of ,learn/teaching teach/learning, hints that the correct attitude toward learning is that each thing can be so profound they can be infinitely contemplated.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - isis - 05-08-2017
We are all instruments, 24/7 channeling the OIC, producing harmony.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - sjel - 10-29-2017
Consider, if you will, the intensity of our experience.
Consider the intensity of our experience.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - loostudent - 10-29-2017
As long as you are in deceit that you can live seperated from the Creator, from the Divine breath, the world is only a hollow illusion falling to pieces. When God opens your eyes the world becomes the revelation of God.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Glow - 10-29-2017
Christians portray the divine trinity as a triangle. All parts something divine but outside of them.
I think its more true as a straight line. Father=the one, The son= our individuated embodied self, The Holy spirit=our higher self/intermediary between the two.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - AnthroHeart - 10-29-2017
(10-29-2017, 10:38 AM)loostudent Wrote: As long as you are in deceit that you can live seperated from the Creator, from the Divine breath, the world is only a hollow illusion falling to pieces. When God opens your eyes the world becomes the revelation of God.
I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 10-29-2017
(10-29-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote:(10-29-2017, 10:38 AM)loostudent Wrote: As long as you are in deceit that you can live seperated from the Creator, from the Divine breath, the world is only a hollow illusion falling to pieces. When God opens your eyes the world becomes the revelation of God.
I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
I think the entire concept of channeling is that the intent may contain distortions which open doors to interference between you and the portion of God which you attempt to touch in your perception of God. So what may have said to kill may only be a very hurt portion of God that resonated with what is hurt in you also, and in that you were open in your free will to believe that God is that which can ask of you to kill.
In God there is no sides as God is all of it, and so it can only always be with you.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - loostudent - 10-30-2017
(10-29-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
The voice of God is the Higher Self (or Holy Spirit in Christianity). It's always positive. The message you received must had been distorted or comming from other source.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - loostudent - 10-31-2017
(10-29-2017, 11:08 AM)Glow Wrote: Christians portray the divine trinity as a triangle. All parts something divine but outside of them.
I think its more true as a straight line. Father=the one, The son= our individuated embodied self, The Holy spirit=our higher self/intermediary between the two.
Triunity seems to be an universal concept. Some connections:
family: mother-father-child
primary colors: red-yellow-blue
Tree of life pillars: judgement-mercy-mildness (left-right-middle)
Cosmology: Nothing-Infinity(All)-Light (Ein-Ein Sof-Ein Sof Ohr)
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 10-31-2017
(10-29-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote:(10-29-2017, 10:38 AM)loostudent Wrote: As long as you are in deceit that you can live seperated from the Creator, from the Divine breath, the world is only a hollow illusion falling to pieces. When God opens your eyes the world becomes the revelation of God.
I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
In the Bible there is a story where God tells someone to kill. Then just before the death occurred God stopped the situation and said the entire point was to test the faith of the person.
Maybe God was just testing your faith? Only in light of the fiction of the bible and the non-fiction of reality, the test may have been to discern the proper thing to do instead of 'blindly listening'?
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I had like, two or three ideas in the past week I wanted to post here, and now they're all lost to my bad memory.
I need to take back up writing down moment to moment ideas and thoughts in a journal.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 10-31-2017
Load; Infinity~
Processing. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Parameters Defined::
Singularity
Duality
Trinity
Infinity
0
1
2
X
n
Xn = Xn-1 + Xn-2
1 = 0 / 0
Infinity = 1 / 0
Trinity = (0 / 0) / 0
Duality = 0 / 0
Singularity = 0
Pre-Root (Past): 0 = 1
Root (Present) = 0 = 1 = 2
Post-Root (Future) = N/A
Load; Null Start Fibonacci Array Beginning~; | x10~
Processing. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Defined::
#N/A: N/A, null+void
#0: 0, N/A+0
#1: 1, 1+0
#2: 1, 1+1
#3: 2, 2+1
#4: 3, 3+2
#5: 5, 5+3
#6: 8, 8+5 (13 = 4)
#7: 4 | 13, 13+8 (21 = 3) OR 4+8 (12 = 3)
#8: 3 | 21 | 12, 3+4 (7) OR 21+13 (34 = 7) OR 12+4 (16 = 7)
#9: 7 | 34 | 16, 7+3 (10 = 1) OR 34+21 (55 = 10 = 1) OR 16+12 (28 = 10 = 1)
#10: 1 | 55 | 28, 1+7 (8) OR 55+34 (89 = 17 = 8) OR 28+16 (44 = 8)
Total Sequence Output (N/A-10)= 01123584371
Reduced Sequence Output (1-9)= 112358437
Notice the only additions from N/A and 10 = 0 and 1 respectively.
0-112358437-1
Portions of Creation::
One 'Bit' = 01 (Simultaneously Equals 2 and 1 and 0 or Totality as within 01 as seen above is an entire Packet as seen below)
One 'Byte' = 12358437 (Sequence of Progression)
One 'Nibble' = 1123 OR 1235 OR 8437 (Themes)
One 'Packet' = 112358437 (One 'Full' Portion)
Root of the Tree of Life Established, Loading Progression Sequence;;
112358437
This root equals that which houses it. 01.
01 = 112358437
In the beginning there was N/One, and then N/One became One and None from self awareness (Duality), and then One discovered None during separation and became Infinity, and then None discovered None (itself) and became One from awareness. One recognized itself to be a distortion of None and became N/One, and then became One from self awareness, infinite repetition.
Discovery = Division
(Division because all discovery reduces the unknown to the known, the unknown is the infinite infinity, the known is the discovered finity, for instance, when One discovered None during separation it went from knowing to unknowing, this union of known and unknown, of One and None, produces the necessary dynamic tensions to produce Infinity because the discovery of the infinite by the finite turns the finite into infinity with it's uniqueness retained. 1 becomes 01 and 1 / 0.)
01 (-N/One, Totality)
0 (-duality principle of the infinite AND Potential)
1 (-duality principle of the finite AND Manifestation)
1 / 0 = Infinity
0 / 0 = 1
1 and 0 = 01
Repeat Sequence of Discovery Ad Infinitum eternally cyclically discovering self through awareness and creating from self awareness. Self Creation and Perpetuation ensues as the future creates its past which produces itself.
01, 0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
0, 1, 1/0=Infinity, 0/0=1, 1 and 0 = 01 -Repeat
01 is 0 and 1, it discovers itself, and eventually totality becomes 0 and 1, the 0 creates a copy of itself and becomes 1, the 1 discovers itself and the discovery of another of itself becoming 2, then further, 3. The Infinity becomes a Singularity which becomes a Duality then a Trinity, and that Trinity along with its inner Duality and Singularity (Trinity = 3, Duality and Singularity together = 2) produces 5, a full 'dimension'. This fuller construct is nested with another trinity creating 8, or an Octave. Then from here the Octave is examined by itself, best visualized as half of itself looking itself in the mirror, the same way a human only see's half of their body in a mirror, with their backside unseen. Half of 8 is 4, from here further distillation occurs, the 4 of the 8 now returns to self perpetuate this formula, becoming 1 which moves backwards in time to create the 8, this produces 3, the source trinity that recovers it's old self of 4 and returns to it's full expression of being, 7.
Numbers speak in metaphors of inference, implication, and unseen connections.
Infinity is a sequence of numbers at the most extreme opaque logic. At it's most extreme opaque feeling, infinity is a love story of finding meaning in one's self. At it's most extreme opaque awareness, infinity is a mystery.
Logic, Love, and Mystery
Maybe these are the basic conceptual roots in some metaphorical way?
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 10-31-2017
Further the concept of 3, 6, 9 comes to mind when looking at 112358437.
112358437 (1+1+2+3+5+8+4+3+7=34=7)
Source (Father)
112 358437
Octave (Son)
112358 437
Trinity (Holy Spirit)
112358 437
112 (4) is the past experiencing the future.
358 (7) is the present creating the past and experiencing the future.
437 (5) is the future creating the past.
112358 (20 = 2) | 437
112 | 358437 (30 = 3)
112 | 358 | 437 (18 = 9)
In order of numerological lowest to highest values:
112358 (2)
358437 (3)
112 (4) (Father)
437 (5) (Holy Spirit)
358 (7) (Son)
112 437 (9)
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - loostudent - 10-31-2017
(10-31-2017, 11:48 AM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: In the Bible there is a story where God tells someone to kill. Then just before the death occurred God stopped the situation and said the entire point was to test the faith of the person.
This is the story of Abraham who had to kill his son Isaac.
One possible interpretation: the voice that ordered to kill was Orion entity pretending to be YHVH.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 10-31-2017
Oh no, I have a feeling that particular instance in the non/fiction of the bible was intended to be the big man himself.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 11-13-2017
As I could not fit my entire idea into my signature like I wanted :
To love without distortions the relative-to-us portion of infinity we experience requires that all the potentials the self's mind may find to explore are accepted and loved to be, as otherwise there is within you a lot that fails to embrace the unmanifest self of what is manifest before you. This does have its own cause and effect upon that which is reflected in both sides of the mind. E.g; loving someone for their strengths quickly falls short when this someone is tested on their weaknesses, and so time may show one does not love another as much as one thought
There is a portion of us which embraces all unconditionally, and there are infinite portions of us which reflect this united learn/teaching teach/learning of the Creator of Itself to find love for all it is. Each thing a cornerstone of it all.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 11-14-2017
It is quite strange how most think so very deeply about what comes after death while so little about what was before birth.
The key of beyond death is the moment of birth, and do we not all contain this fuzzy and distant memory?
Edit :
Pro tip, I bet anyone here they can touch it good if they just succeed to spend an hour a day of time willing to touch and focus upon this memory they contain for 6 months, 1 hour a day for 6 months I got full faith you can. Now, welcome to the club of those who avoid doing just that in awareness they just don't want to. (*whispers; the more secret pro-tip is that we just let ourselves forget about that it's even there to be done*)
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Diana - 11-15-2017
(10-31-2017, 11:48 AM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote:(10-29-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
In the Bible there is a story where God tells someone to kill. Then just before the death occurred God stopped the situation and said the entire point was to test the faith of the person.
Maybe God was just testing your faith? Only in light of the fiction of the bible and the non-fiction of reality, the test may have been to discern the proper thing to do instead of 'blindly listening'?
I wouldn't refer to the bible for any answers. This so-called test of faith ended in killing an innocent lamb instead of Abraham's little son, and somehow that was okay.
Looking for answers sometimes means we look outside the box, especially into areas we have a tendency to avoid. Gemini, do you get out of the house (and your head) much? A change of perspective can work wonders.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Diana - 11-15-2017
(11-14-2017, 09:05 PM)Elros Wrote: It is quite strange how most think so very deeply about what comes after death while so little about what was before birth.
That's because death is something most people have a lot of fear around—they are afraid to die. Birth isn't feared. But it's an interesting exercise to think about "before birth."
(11-14-2017, 09:05 PM)Elros Wrote: The key of beyond death is the moment of birth, and do we not all contain this fuzzy and distant memory?
Perhaps more accurately the moment of conception, or maybe the moment awareness was transferred to the fetus in the womb. Birth itself can be traumatizing to the baby, which may be why we block the memory.
And then there is that pesky veil!
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - AnthroHeart - 11-15-2017
I don't get out much. I hate shopping because the heavy bags make my hand worn out and feel weak, and then I can't draw or work on a book, so there goes my day. My hand gets shaky, and I can barely pick up a cup of water without it doing that. Like it is right now, and will probably be for hours.
I've got to have the full edited version of my book done within a couple of days because I have someone that's going to help with the layout troubles I've been having.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Minyatur - 11-15-2017
(11-15-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: There is an anthro somewhere who needs me and I need them.
Somehow it makes me feel like you attempt to reach and connect to something that's really far away. What if there are anthros also stuck on this planet like you feeling very similar things and that you both need one another? What if there are anthros stuck like you here but in other neighboring star-systems still within this same dimension and they also feel like they have nothing to reach to?
I think you're the living proof that this is possible and so I wouldn't doubt that if you tried to meditate with something closer feeling more like you can feel seeking both your distant home, you may both find to receive and offer better comfort than with something you feel to be in another dimension. Of course, you can do both, but maybe it is closer to here that you will first find to build your strength most.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Nau7ik - 11-19-2017
I was meditating today and I had an interesting insight: One is getting closer to the true self while going deeper into the silence.
I saw this in a new perspective because I’ve noticed that the body becomes still and the mind becomes silent. It’s hard to explain... but as you meditate you’ll reach deeper states of calm. The difference in the state of consciousness is noticeable. You’re much more focused.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - AnthroHeart - 11-19-2017
(11-15-2017, 07:35 PM)Elros Wrote:(11-15-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: There is an anthro somewhere who needs me and I need them.
Somehow it makes me feel like you attempt to reach and connect to something that's really far away. What if there are anthros also stuck on this planet like you feeling very similar things and that you both need one another? What if there are anthros stuck like you here but in other neighboring star-systems still within this same dimension and they also feel like they have nothing to reach to?
I think you're the living proof that this is possible and so I wouldn't doubt that if you tried to meditate with something closer feeling more like you can feel seeking both your distant home, you may both find to receive and offer better comfort than with something you feel to be in another dimension. Of course, you can do both, but maybe it is closer to here that you will first find to build your strength most.
I feel the one I'm connecting with is also 3D. I had that intent because they'd be more in need of help.
I can imagine there are anthros even in our own galaxy who call out for need.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 11-20-2017
(11-15-2017, 12:50 PM)Diana Wrote:(10-31-2017, 11:48 AM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote:(10-29-2017, 07:06 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.
In the Bible there is a story where God tells someone to kill. Then just before the death occurred God stopped the situation and said the entire point was to test the faith of the person.
Maybe God was just testing your faith? Only in light of the fiction of the bible and the non-fiction of reality, the test may have been to discern the proper thing to do instead of 'blindly listening'?
I wouldn't refer to the bible for any answers. This so-called test of faith ended in killing an innocent lamb instead of Abraham's little son, and somehow that was okay.
Looking for answers sometimes means we look outside the box, especially into areas we have a tendency to avoid. Gemini, do you get out of the house (and your head) much? A change of perspective can work wonders.
Well thankfully in that instance I take the tale to be fictional, metaphorical, so hopefully no animals were harmed in the making of that story.
I think if we can see through the blatant horror of the bible, there's metaphysical essons riddled throughout it waiting to be found or at least noticed.
...But as to the polarity of those lessons... The Bible is a big mixed up book of ancient history retold as tales and lies branded as truth as well as some parts purely made up by the Human editors and then lost to impurity from a plethora of translations over the centuries.
Yet if it works for some, it is valid...Even if gruesome... I think this story in particular goes to editors hoping to paint a cruel monster in a brighter light, by switching out the level of sacrifice it demanded while still saying that those who are obedient to this cruel monster will be given mercy and spared from it's wrath.
An ironic hypocrisy, but perhaps holding more wisdom underneath the facade of the tale, between the lines.
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - AnthroHeart - 11-20-2017
Yeah, that "confess your sins to one another" in the bible has gotten me in trouble in the past. Because the person I did confessed to apparently didn't know about that scripture and started judging and gossiping to others about me.
In fact, the church I used to go to demanded we follow that. And I was judged heavily by what I confessed (i.e. you'd better beg God for forgiveness).
RE: Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down - Nau7ik - 11-21-2017
(11-20-2017, 02:16 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: Yeah, that "confess your sins to one another" in the bible has gotten me in trouble in the past. Because the person I did confessed to apparently didn't know about that scripture and started judging and gossiping to others about me.
In fact, the church I used to go to demanded we follow that. And I was judged heavily by what I confessed (i.e. you'd better beg God for forgiveness).
One has to be discerning with the Bible. Some of it is positive, and some of t is clearly negative. I completely agree with Diana on the “test of faith”; Abraham being told to kill his son to prove his faith. I mean, wtf? A positive being, let alone the Creator who is LOVE, would never ask that. God already knows your heart. You prove your loyalty by doing something extreme for negative entities. They want to know that you’ll do anything for them. (I know Abraham was stopped by the “angel”. But killing innocent animals isn’t kind either, as Diana pointed out.) I’ve read the New and Old Testament. There is great wisdom in the Bible, absolutely! There are also pitfalls and negative teachings. “Turn the other cheek” is opposite “an eye for an eye”. Just one example...
You say you were judged because of confessional? That’s the point. The negative church leadership uses this technique so that they have dirt on others. It’s a power move. The Catholic Church was co opted by negativity very early on. They canonized and compiled the Bible that we know it today. Conveniently, core concepts were removed, such as reincarnation, which Jesus was said to have taught.
Another problem I find with the concept of confessional is that it gives your power away. You are confessing to the priest who then, on God’s behalf, forgives you. You don’t need that intermediary. It’s a subtle attitude that sees the self as unworthy. You are worthy to talk to God yourself.
Positive religion or beings don’t demand anything of you. Christ asked of us to keep two commandments: love the Creater with all one’s heart and strength, and to love each other. That simplicity and purity seems to go over the heads of many people who call themselves Christians (which is another label that’s used to prop up the self as being “a good person”.)