12-30-2010, 04:00 PM
(12-30-2010, 10:19 AM)Eric Wrote: I'd like to fancy myself more objective these days. I guess it's worth noting that people such as us (meaning, those of us who accept the LOO as true to the best of our reckoning) can easily bend in the direction of 'true believer' simply by living in a society where such concepts as channeling are routinely laughed at. Channeling is the first thing you have to accept if you accept anything in the LOO. To me, the LOO philosophy is extremely elegant and beautiful, and I DO hold it close to my heart. So hearing people laugh at channeling, UFOs and other things that are related to it does hurt me a little tiny bit, and may contribute to my unconsciously moving in the direction of true believer / unobjective.I might have (privately) laughed at channeling. I originally didn't think it was useful and worth investigation. I grouped it with 'new-ager's enjoying spiritual experiences with their intuitions', and thought that it was mainly wish fulfillment by unworldly, unbalanced, hyper-intuitive individuals.
What do you guys think of that last train of thought?
However, later after reading quite a bit, having certain experiences, and understanding symbol, metaphor, and allegory I discovered that these too are legitimate and useful aspects of reality just like the more conventional historical and literal aspects are. In fact, I later came to understand that the symbolic or spiritual information that we perceive with our intuitions is of a higher order - offering not only vast creative potential, but connecting us to meaning and purpose.
One of the main reasons we tend to laugh at something is due to a reaction from fear. Fear is a distancing mechanism and with fear one can not learn. Fear has an opposite in hope, the ego's magnification mechanism. Can't learn with hope either. In between the two lies curiosity, where something can be seen without ego bias, and learning (or teaching) is possible.
I think it's remarkable that, although a wanderer may have experienced many millions of years evolving self, they can come to 3rd density and ignore learning potential. They are invariably biased to the more subtle energies (i.e. indicated by activity restricted to the upper chakras) and sort of get lost in some claustrophobic intimacy with 'higher realms', or become mesmerized, distracted in a state of spiritual pride or of hope or longing for something higher. They tend to put their spiritual nature on a 'pedestal', out of reach and not actually own, or examine or question what it means to them. Here, in 3rd density is an amazing opportunity to make things 'real' through actually determining our biases, but the opportunity is often thrown away in wanderers' 'la-la land' natures.
So it's a 'good thing' that channeling or new-age thought is ignored or even laughed at, because it often is not capable of offering anything of value to a lot of the development that takes place here. If the wanderers presenting the information never bothered to bridge their own lower and higher levels of understanding (i.e. not capable of reaching down), how can they ever expect their audience to include those who are 'reaching up'?
You can see this situation explained in the "Green valuing Meme" or pluralistic stage of Spiral Dynamics. Not an integral or holistic valuing level, "Green", with its inflated pluralism, completely ignores and rejects the actual conditions which practically serve to bring those centered at the lower levels (lower subdensities) higher.
So while the wanderer may be "lightening the vibration of the planet", at the same time, the service they could offer others by serving as a 'bridge' to this light - by becoming more fully balanced by including their 'lower natures' in their own development - is considerable. How can one be a steward of 3D life without appreciating the value of 3D life conditions here?