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Post by elijah on May 5, 2008 13:29:57 GMT -5
What you speak of here is ego temperance. Michael Presumably when I am myself I don't think at all, I am nothing, I do not exist, I am not aware. I have nothing to think of or about. In fact the level of my success was made evident when it was catergorically stated to my face that I had nothing inside my head!  Only when ego temperance surfaces is when I aM aware of soMething at the back of my Mind. |
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Post by George the 3rd on May 6, 2008 9:06:22 GMT -5
The biggest "Ego" in the universe would be that which refers to itself simply as "I Am"! If, as I believe, I was created in Its image I find no problem with my embracing my own ego. It is only when my ego attempts to overshadow, suppress, diminish or control another ego that it is a negative force.
I cannot accept that this life/existence that I call my own was brought into being for the sole purpose of being terminated at the end of life nor was it intended to dissolve into some unconscious, unidentifiable "Super Mind-Soup".
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Post by Frater G on May 6, 2008 12:11:16 GMT -5
How about a conscious identifiable mind soup....
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Post by elijah on May 6, 2008 12:11:21 GMT -5
I cannot accept that this life/existence that I call my own was brought into being for the sole purpose of being terminated at the end of life nor was it intended to dissolve into some unconscious, unidentifiable "Super Mind-Soup". It is a very lonely concept and somewhat claustrophobic but it is inevitable and becasue you are still conscious and aware of your ID/EGO/IAM-ness, the termination of existence is awesome. But it happens and is a fact that on dying you become Nothing but a memory. But I believe that if you become Nothing before you die, the transition between life and death must be rather like walking from one room to another. It is not really what to expect when you die, but how to live before you die and how to die that are the crux of the matter. Being "brought into being" is a very reasonable and human thought. If you were unconsious of being reasonable and were not human, a goose for example, I wonder if you would care or stop to think that "the only reason I was brought into existence was to become paté de fois gras."  |
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Post by elijah on May 6, 2008 12:19:37 GMT -5
How about a conscious identifiable mind soup.... If the consciouness were still identifiable after death you might not be dead, but comatose  |
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Post by Frater G on May 6, 2008 13:40:37 GMT -5
Can the spirit mind ever be free? Intent isn't derived from a doctrine. Isn't the spirit mind always free?  Yes indeed! How about a conscious identifiable mind soup.... If the consciouness were still identifiable after death you might not be dead, but comatose Comatose huh....not so cool.  Spirit is not born,
therefore dies not.
It is individualized
not as a whole,
but as a part
of the Infinite One.
Each soul
possesses
an atom
of the
Supreme
Consciousness.
This atom possesses
the power to attract
other atoms to itself.
Inasmuch
as the outward body
is a matter of growth
and development,
so also the inner body,
or that which becomes
the envelope of the spirit
after its transition
from mundane life,
is made up out of
emanations from
the thought life.
Spirit
is a segregation
of divine atoms.
These atoms
never lose
their relationship
to the Infinite One.Wisdom of the Ages, by George A. Fuller, [1916] |
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