(01-08-2012, 03:22 PM)Icaro Wrote: Why is it you feel Ra gives a deadline? My understanding sees no deadline within an incarnation's length of time.
Well there's debate on that. Whether harvest is gradual or sudden, Ra emphasizes that time is short and that people who don't evolve will be left behind. This is echoed in every other religious teaching. The concept of being left behind is inherently anxiety provoking - not that anxiety is bad.
I suppose part of my conflict is that my training in psychology emphasizes "becoming more fully human" as the ideal of mental health, and yet spiritual teachings (aside from zen Buddhism) tell us to strive to become angels.
They say the path is straight and narrow but it's certainly not lit, for me. One of the only things that really makes sense to me is to try to live sensibly and reasonably and to see the creator in everything, including the muck. Do I even want to enter into a 4d illusion anyway? illusions within illusions, where is reality? The only reality seems to be onenes, but this vision causes gnashing of teeth for me. So I just hope that my path of pain and muck is leading me deeper into reality rather than deeper into delusion.
(01-08-2012, 04:33 PM)ShinAr Wrote: So what we find is that regardless of which side of the outlook we sit upon, the only real way to get through it while we experience it is to find that balance between the two extremes.
That is what this entire existence is all about; balance. The Ancients have known this and taught the ways to achieve it for thousands of years. From that first second of creation when dark and Light were forced to coexist, when male and female aspects became the design of the universe, and when matter and spirit became separated by the veil between the worlds, life has been a balance between these extremes, and every other extreme that we face as we try to survive the experience of awareness and consciousness.
But you propose a balance that is biased toward the light. Is that true balance, or is that failing to see the creator in the darkness?