04-14-2021, 02:43 PM
You guys are full of so much wisdom.
I used to have fantasies of leaving the material world and becoming a monk in a monastery so I wouldn't have to deal with people, lol. I still carry that fantasy to a point, I suppose.
But who needs the monastic life when I can get such savory gems of wisdom right here on bring4th?
An issue / challenge I am struggling with is that sense of identity. There is a sort of fear of obliteration by my egoic self at the notion of evolving to 5D and becoming a social memory complex. Am I still me in that world? I think that what I understand now is that the sense of the individual experience and thoughts are always available -- but why would you want to stay in that small mind when you can have access to the Greater Mind?
I recall how enlightened beings refer to themselves in the first person as "This one..." I always find it amusing. "This one is feeling hunger and needs sustenance."
On a cool note -- when I was a kid, I always referred to myself as "we". Growing up, one day I realized that I still refer to myself as "we" and just assumed that it is because my mind views my body as separate. So the mind "me" is one thing and the physical "me" is another. But perhaps the original "we" that I grew up referring to myself was the larger "We" of a social memory complex. Unfortunately I was cut off from that SMC to come here. Pretty neat. This is one of the many weird little realizations and synchronicities I am still experiencing day to day.
I used to have fantasies of leaving the material world and becoming a monk in a monastery so I wouldn't have to deal with people, lol. I still carry that fantasy to a point, I suppose.
But who needs the monastic life when I can get such savory gems of wisdom right here on bring4th?
An issue / challenge I am struggling with is that sense of identity. There is a sort of fear of obliteration by my egoic self at the notion of evolving to 5D and becoming a social memory complex. Am I still me in that world? I think that what I understand now is that the sense of the individual experience and thoughts are always available -- but why would you want to stay in that small mind when you can have access to the Greater Mind?
I recall how enlightened beings refer to themselves in the first person as "This one..." I always find it amusing. "This one is feeling hunger and needs sustenance."
On a cool note -- when I was a kid, I always referred to myself as "we". Growing up, one day I realized that I still refer to myself as "we" and just assumed that it is because my mind views my body as separate. So the mind "me" is one thing and the physical "me" is another. But perhaps the original "we" that I grew up referring to myself was the larger "We" of a social memory complex. Unfortunately I was cut off from that SMC to come here. Pretty neat. This is one of the many weird little realizations and synchronicities I am still experiencing day to day.
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