Search:

Type: Posts; User: TraineeHuman; Keyword(s):

Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4

Search: Search took 0.07 seconds.

  1. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Two things I should clarify about "being a process" are as follows. Firstly, it doesn't mean bending so much that you sabotage your own integrity. Bend only in order to die to some piece of misery...
  2. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    There is a huge gap between an idea of a process-as-existing-totally-embedded-in-actuality versus the (frozen and ridigified and "politicized") c o n c e p t that supposedly "corresponds" to that...
  3. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Hello, folks. I've been in hospital for a few weeks and haven't managed to post ant of my responses.

    A process always absorbs and incorporates, and goes with and gets changed by, anything that...
  4. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Ernie, here's Thich Nath Hanh's translation of most of the Heart Sutra. I hope it gives you some notion of why (from my experiences) I value emptiness (and hence the "fluidity" and "unfixedness"...
  5. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    The more we can learn to see ourselves as deeply being a process rather than a desire-dominated self, or as being naturally quite caught up in such a giant process, the closer we (our soul) will be...
  6. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Well, Ernie, I would say understanding (and insight), in its fullest sense, is such a broad and fundamental topic, it defies being properly covered by any discussion or book. In traditional Eastern...
  7. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Well, Ernie, I agree that meditation is based on in some way instantly and continually wiping away the conscious mind and emptying its contents. To me, though, talking of one's "story" seems to me...
  8. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Well, in Yoga/Vedanta the soul is the highest grade of the mind in its purest and clearest form. So there's no clear dividing line between the soul and the mind, and yet the two are different though...
  9. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Ernie, I would emphasize that we are souls, and we are not mind or minds. It's important not to confuse soul with mind.

    Certainly, though, the seeking of ever greater or better knowledge of...
  10. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    What is "mind" really? I suggest it's certainly quite fully beyond any scientific explanation. The proof that this must be so is simply that the scientific method always presupposes that there is an...
  11. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    It's a mistake for anyone to say the mind isn't important. The mind is one part of our being human, so we all need to face and embrace and integrate that fully. We are beings with many sides to us,...
  12. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    There's a major reason why I brought up Whitehead's philosophy that everything that's real is ultimately a process, and not a thing or an object. That notion that everything is ultimately a process...
  13. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    It seems to me that talk of the infinite versus the finite is largely irrelevant to the topic here, Ernie. That topic being, how Whitehead's "processes" provide an account of what reality actually...
  14. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    The Spirituality section of this Forum primarily presents, inevitably, of course, just ideas or thoughts or descriptions about spirituality, rather than any actual direct spiritual experiences....
  15. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    In all forms of meditation, the primary instruction is to attempt to (in effect, by one means or another) empty one's present conscious awareness of all, or nearly all, of its prima facie content. ...
  16. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    I'd like to offer a few brief reflections about what the nature of Divine Mind might be like.

    For starters, I consider it's important to think of Divine Mind as something much more like a verb...
  17. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    Well, Vedanta quite explicitly espouses an "it's all in the 'mind' of God" view very similar to yours, I believe, Ernie. That includes the view that really it's the one same consciousness operating...
  18. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    The Egyptian-Jewish-Muslim-Christian worldview presupposes that there is a kind of super-ultra-gigantic, quite insurmountable gulf between God and man/woman. On the other hand, the worldview of...
  19. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    There's something potentially quite deceptive about anyone's trying to mature spiritually just through reading or listening to material -- such as on the internet. Real spiritual growth comes...
  20. Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs

    I'd like to offer some reflections regarding the (to me) surprisingly popular notion that the universe is altogether a computer simulation of some sort (and assuming such a notion even 100% makes...
Results 1 to 20 of 100
Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4