51. Spirit tells me that

Until the age of cellphones, it wasn’t considered polite total to oneself.

Now, who can ever know if we’re communicating long distance with a friend, or a shorter distance with our inner self.

It might take practice.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 14

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51. Spirit tells me that

Our future can never be anything that our past didn’t have the potential to become.

“There’s nothing new under the Sun.”

Who said that?

And now I suddenly understand what it means.

We each and all are becoming what we may always have had the potential to become.

And now the question arises – what do I have the potential to become?

How is it possible to know?

It’s much easier to accept what I have no potential to become – graceful, at least not physically.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 13

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53. Spirit tells me that

It’s you or me, Honey.

No offence intended.

We each strive to survive and thrive.

Invasive plants in my little garden.

Who but a gardener could ever consider that beautiful Iris plants have a natural tendency to invade … or do they only need to expand beyond their present limits?

Hosta is feeling the pressure from its neighbour.

And yet, Hosta too expands if it can, though not with the same speed or force that Iris does.

We each have our own nature.

How can we grow without expanding?

Is human territory much as a garden in that respect?

We may threaten our neighbours without any conscious intention to do so.

Or they may threaten us, if they seem to be expanding in our direction.

It’s an easier problem to resolve in the garden than in the world of humanity.

I’ll simply dig up and transplant the Iris roots (and plant) that’s moving too close to Hosta to allow for a healthy relationship between them.

The world (or garden) of humanity – does it work the same way?

And who is to do the digging up and transplanting?

And the question arises, sooner or later, how long can we play this game within the limits of a small garden (or world)?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 12.

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54. Spirit tells me that

Any possible situation can only exist as a result of a continuous stream of earlier interconnected situations.

A continuous stream of earlier interconnected situations have created the illusion of the so-called here and now.

Someday, historians and psychologists, not to mention scientists, will look for clearly defined, or not so clearly defined patterns of response that will help them to predict the future.

What’s happening today that hasn’t happened ten thousand times or more before?

Or are we each and all, slowly or more so, moving on with our life and developing a future that wasn’t here before?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 12

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55. Spirit tells me that

A personal spiritual philosophy of life – is it possible?

Is it practical?

Is it necessarily a reality, whether we’re aware of it or not?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 10

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56. Spirit tells me that

An old political slogan –

“Know there is a fence.

Know which side you’re on,

And know who’s there with you.”

Could it equally apply to any field of thought, or emotin?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 10

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57. Spirit tells me that

Together we stand, until … When does a collective of specifics become a a specific …?

Today is Canada Day, and being a dedicated Canadian, my little patio lets the world (or at least anyone passing by) know that I’m celebrating being a specific of a particular collective.

And yet, all over the world there may be billions of little people like me doing the same thing, without even knowing (or perhaps even very much caring) that we’re each and all a human within humanity.

small groups of people within ever-larger groups of people …

How to retain our individual identity as a “ME” and still be part of a “WE”?

Does the problem start with any one-to-one relationship?

Is it a problem of exclusiveness vs inclusiveness?

How to solve it in the best interest of all concerned?

Are wars no more than a frustrated outcome of a failed attempt at togetherness?

Or is it necessarily always a power play?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 1

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33. Spirit tells me that

It’s nothing personal, and yet it’s as personal as it can get.

Energy attract, or …

Flowers and blossoms attract bees, and yet they may also attract other insects, for different reasons.

And so it may be with people, among other things.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 1

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34. Spirit tells me that

How can we ever know how much is beyond our ability to do, until we try?

When does accepting the illusion of absolute control of any situation serve as an excuse for not testing the limits of what we can do?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 30

35. Spirit tells me that

Whatever happens, you and I and everyone else are co-creating a future.

We’re cocreating a future humanity.

How does it feel?

What an awesome opportunity and responsibility.

Can we ever separate these two potentials?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 20

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36. Spirit tells me that

Our emotions are forces beyond our control, unless we choose and are able to …

Unless we choose and are able to develop will power to control the emotions that would possess us, if they could.

Is possession too strong a term to describe emotions?

Some people seem to have a potential to feel qualities and strengths of .emotion that some others are not able to feel.

I have a neighbour who, now and then, seems to spiral downward into a dark area of mind.

She can become destructive and dangerous.

And yet, at other times, and fortunately most of the time, she’s harmless.

What makes her descent into darkness more dangerous is the high power of her personal energy.

We don’t all possess that high power that can lead us to positive or negative expression of what we physically do to the world around us.

Do our leaders necessarily possess that powerful personal energy?

If so, how to know how they would use great power?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 29

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37. Spirit tells me that

It made sense and felt right, and then it didn’t.

Haven’t we all been there?

Life as a continuous series of learning experiences?

Can we also take time out, now and then, to enjoy the journey?

After all, even schools provide for creative physical and social activities

“All work and no play makes John a dull boy.”

Who saiad it?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 28

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29. Spirit tells me that

Life is a one-way street.

There’s no going back, but we can look and learn, or pay.

So many things we’ve done wrong along the way, both individually and collectively.

How can we co-create a loving and sustainable future?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 28

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30. Spirit tells me that

Wherever we each may be, we’re here and now from our unique perspective of time, place, and situation.

So, as some say, it’s always now.

Why don’t they also say that it’s always here, and in this particular situation?

It might require them to rethink their position in time and space.

Perhaps we can only claim to be here and now if we can describe what we see from this particular here and now.

Then, what is the general perspective?

Chaos?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 27

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31. Spirit tells me that

It may be impossible not to love everyone, more or less.

What a difference a word makes, and the difference is clarity of expression of thought or feeling,

Consider a simple word such as “some,” when used to alter the meaning of a sentence, depending upon exactly where in that sentence it is placed.

I have always claimed to love everyone, more or less.

Never again.

Now, and from this moment on, I will share my feelings, at least in this respect, more accurately and more clearly, simply by saying that I love everyone, some more and some less.

Love is a variable and yet so very many people seem to give it an all or nothing at all kind of meaning.

Perhaps they need to relax their hold, not only on the word itself, but on their capacity to love.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 26

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23. Spirit tells me that

If we can claim inspiration, then why can’t anyone else?

Our leaders included.

“What if I told you that your leaders have inside information that guides them, if they care to listen, in how to interact with each other?”

Leaders don’t get to be leaders by following the crowd, and yet they must listen to … who?

Or what?

Are they more in harmony with their so-called enemy leaders than they are with their own people?

Are leaders playing a game with each other, and the rest of us are only spectators, or victims?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 25

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24. Spirit tells me that

Here and now can come and go, but there and then are forever, unless, of course …

Things are not always as they seem.

Once upon a time may never have really been at all.

What if it was all a dream?

Or a nightmare?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 23

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25. Spirit tells me that

A very healthy sign – the ever-higher price of advertising.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

Was it Abraham Lincoln?

The ever-higher price of basic advertising seems to support that it now takes more and more effort (and money) to fool us into believing what our common sense (such as it is) tells us that it just isn’t so.

There’s hope for humanity yet, whatever happens.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 22

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26. Spirit tells me that

If not me, then who?

I’m in no shape to do battle, and yet … somebody has to stand …”

A tenant issue, and I’m a tenant.

And yet, so are all the others.

I’m the oldest one in the building, and I was active, many years ago.

Now, surely it’s someone else’s turn to stand up for the benefit of all, or for anyone who really cares.

That’s the ticket – who really cares?

A tragic situation.

Not the little issue that should be a non-issue, but the seeming reality of indifference to a sense of community.

Is that where we’re all heading?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 21.

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27. Spirit tells me that

A paint brush.

A paint brush is not a skateboard.

You can do things with one that you can’t do with the other.

Is it all about skills assessment?

Have we been trying to become what we never had the potential to become?

Is that the future of psycho-therapy?

I remember school counselors helping us to accept our potential to follow certain career paths that we seemed to have a natural ability to succeed in, even though we might enjoy some other.

I enjoyed dancing, and yet I had no sense of balance.

So it was with singing.

I love to sing, and yet, pity those who must listen to me.

I would never have succeeded in a dancing or singing career.

Is life that simple?

Accept our natural skills and work with them?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 15

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28. Spirit tells me that

From where we each are in the world (or energy field) of expanding awareness …

We each express, in our own way, the Timeless Wisdom that expresses itself through us, as well as it can, all things considered.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 13

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29. Spirit tells me that

1. Spirit tells me that

Rays of sunlight are as living streams of creative energy.

Count them, if you can.

Can you imagine each of us humans as being one of those streams of living, creative, loving, and intelligent rays of light from an unknown and perhaps unknowable source?

Perhaps there are more than seven billion blends of creative, loving, and intelligent, more or less, unique human energy that we each express.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31

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2. Spirit tells me that

We serve our leaders as well as we can, even knowing they’re not perfect, but …

There may never have been a perfect leader, one who was all things to all people.

Like us, they’re flawed.

Can we accept their flaws and still see that they may be the best of a less than perfect choice of options?

“A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest.”

Who sang that song?

Millions seem to see something that you do not.

Which doesn’t deny the reality of what you see, but we each see from a different perspective, from our personal state of awareness.

We can’t make others see what we see, and those who share what they see with the largest group of seers get to choose who runs the store.

We might all blame our childhood, or that of some others, for how we choose to live as adults.

The reality may be that we were born with a unique personality that social conditioning may cover up, but what is always within us will come through, if only now and then, until we intentionally seek to discover our more-or-less original nature, if we choose to take the path of individuation from the masses.

What Jung didn’t seem to be concerned with is the reality that our true nature may be severely flawed.

Not everyone will notice.

Why?

They may be as flawed in their thinking as the rest of us.

What hope for a just society?

It’s going to take time.

It takes money, a lot of money, to rise very far in our so-called democratic societies.

Perhaps we’re not as democratic as we might claim to be.

Advertising is expensive, and the media is controlled by a few who have a preference for whom they advertise.

Our choices are limited.

Real democracy is extremely limited.

It may necessarily be limited to our ability to live in a truly democratic community.

And, what would a truly democratic government look like?

Some ancient empires were (or considered themselves to be) democracies, and yet they waged war with every nation they could that resisted their control of world trade and power.

How far have we come in the last two thousand years?

Some might say, “We need well-balance humans who have a heart and mind.”

The good news is that we do have well-balanced humans who do have a heart and mind.

They’re just not as popular as those who express a drive to succeed at whatever it is that they choose to succeed at.

We admire that energy without being aware of the price that some others might pay for it.

Can we ever lose our soul?

It’s part of what we are and, possibly it’s our potential this time around.

We each may have a guiding energy who is working through us, to express itself in physical form, and to experience a particular human experience.

We might choose to play a villain, or a powerful leader, or possibly a savior, whether or not we have what it takes to really be successful in that role.

Planetary evil is being exposed and yet, only to those who have eyes to see it.

Planetary love is also evident to those who see it.

Hopefully, there are some who can see the worst and the best that humanity is capable of, and still have faith in the future psychological evolution of humanity.

Most of us can only see the surface of what we do see.

And words are limited in what they can convey of the insights of those who share deeper awareness with us.

We take their words at surface level.

What is referred to as dead may only seem to be dead.

We’re still alive when we’re sleeping, and yet …

We’re still living in the material world, even when seemingly lost in a dream.

“The living dead” can refer to people who don’t seem to be very aware of what’s going on around them.

And yet, they may each and all possess the potential to “wake up.”

How am I?

Perhaps as most.

Fine, and if I’m not, then I don’t know about it yet.

And what does fine mean?

Satisfied, more or less, with how Life is presenting itself.

As to vampires and other monsters, perhaps they warn us of possible degrees of exploitation.

“Buyer beware.” is a wise warning that can cover so much more potential life experience than shopping.

The good news is that we may all have to travel through the valley of The death of soul” to discover the ten thousand ways that we can misunderstand Timeless Wisdom.

Sooner or later, we each and all will develop deeper and more expanded awareness of why it was all necessary.

It’s only a matter of time and enough experience.

We may each and all, even now, be spiritual, more or less.

We simply need to develop more, and there may be nothing we can do to hurry the process more than to believe in ourselves as being basically spiritual in physical form.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31, 2024

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3. Spirit tells me that

Confession is good for the soul, they say.

And yet, perhaps it’s wiser to share it only with your soul.

Otherwise, you risk someone exploiting your moment of weakness.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31

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4. Spirit tells me that

Everyone plays Charades.

It’s the In thing to do.

We express thoughts and emotions, consciously and with intention, or otherwise, with everything we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts May 31

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5. Spirit tells me that

Blue is blue and yellow is yellow, and yet, … individuality is not independence.

Most everyone can notice the difference between blue and yellow until they blend together into variable shades of green.

Do blue and yellow cocreate green?

Or, does green contain them both?

And is it the same with individuals and communities?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 30

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6. Spirit tells me that

Understanding why doesn’t change anything, but it might help us begin.

Understanding why we are the way we are, or why we do what we do, doesn’t change the reality of anything, and yet, if we’re not satisfied … dissatisfaction itself might be the driving force of change.

And yet, change doesn’t necessarily result in improvement.

I may change my hair style without being satisfied with the result.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 4

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7. Spirit tells me that

Would it be the same – if we didn’t care for humanity?

Could we still be spiritual?

If humanity is a physical expression of Spirit, then what quality of Spirit do we express, individually and collectively by caring for each other individually and collectively?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 3

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8. Spirit tells me that

What’s in a name?

Energy and Matter vs Spirit and Matter – is energy intelligent?

What a scientist calls energy might be spirit to a believer in such.

If we’re spirit after we die, then perhaps we were spirit before we were born.

And, if we’re spirit before and after, then why not now, behind the scenes of a material experience?

That’s how I see it, for now.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 2

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9. Spirit tells me that

Consciousness expands into the unconscious, or does it dissolve into it?

And, do Ego and Self/Soul play the same game?

Is it a game, or just the way Life is?

Individuality and Community?

Male and Female?

What other so-called polarities merge their identity?

Day and Night?

It takes both the material and spiritual worlds to harmonize with each other in order for most of us to understand what it’s all about.

The good news is that we each and all contain (or are contained within) a blend of consciousness and unconsciousness, ego and self, male and female, and all the so-called polarities. We’re each somewhere, experiencing Life from a more or less unique perspective.

Psychology and spirituality are not necessarily at odds with each other, and perhaps are very much part of each other.

Psychology seeks to understand how and why individuals develop their more or less unique outlook on the worlds they live in.

Psychology is very much more grounded in physical reality than is spirituality, which is almost always in danger of losing itself in mist while seeking to understand the mystery of Life.

As for the content and functioning of the unconscious, for all we know the collective unconscious may be the sum total of all that the collective mind of humanity has ever known or achieved.

If that’s so, and it very well might be, then the personal unconscious would be all that the individual mind has ever known or achieved, perhaps from countless pervious lifetimes.

We read about the Akashic Records.

Their existence may be more real than myth.

A historical library of Life?

Who would want to know?

I seem to need to know as much as I can about what it’s all about, and why?

An inner voice tells me that I’m asking the wrong questions, and that I should be asking How?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 1

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10. Spirit tells me that

We each must learn to follow a leader until we can learn to follow ourself.

We each must learn to follow before we can learn to lead.

Students learn to see the world through the eyes of their parents and teachers, until they can see directly what their parents and teachers see, or something else.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 1

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11. Spirit tells me that

Time moves on – to reshare a three year old photo of me holding up “Spirit teaches a simple seeker – The Art of Timeless Wisdom – Book Three.

How could I ever know that I would become an author to a series of little Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books?

It’s an awesome experience that I could never have dared to even imagine would fill my later years with such pleasure.

“The Art of Timeless Wisdom – Book Three” is one of a set of three little books that may have been meant only for me, as a personal learning experience.

Someday, when money becomes available, I hope to retitle them to express this possible reality, with “Becoming Me.”

They served me very well, to prepare me to share the first of a second series, titled “Letting Go.” Letting Go went to press (Balboa Press) just before the end of 2023, so that it would qualify for this year’s “Celebration of SFU Authors.”

Now, the second book of the second series is just about ready to share. “Spirit teaches a simple seeker – Boundaries – yours, mine, and ours”

It’s an incredible experience to be part of it all, whether or not they’re ever financially successful. I’m in it for the long haul, win, lose, or draw.

“Spirit teaches …” books, (soft cover and eBooks) ae available on Amazon, Balboa, and a few other places.

I’ll possibly be dead and gone before the world discovers them as a foundation for a new and simple philosophy of life that blends philosophy, psychology, science, religion, and spirituality into one.

They each teach the same timeless wisdom from a unique perspective.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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12. Spirit tells me that

A walk in the Park.

The path of expanded awareness is never a walk in the park.

Parks are usually maintained by experienced gardeners, for the purpose of providing visitors with a welcome respite from the realities of daily life.

And yet, our beautiful parks can help us recover from daily struggles.

How?

They offer an alternative view of Life.

We could never struggle for a brighter future if there wasn’t a grim reality to recover from.

Without witnessing and/or experiencing the devastation of war, what value would peace offer?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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13. Spirit tells me that

Law and order are basic needs of any society.

Love and duty take second place.

Without law and order to control us, we seem to slip into a situation of gang rule, with competing gangs fighting to become the source of law and order in their community or country.

And, when the gang leader does achieve legitimacy as ruler of whatever society, then the temptation is powerful to expand that control into the lands of neighbouring societies.

Is that where we are, today?

Do our most powerful leaders attempt to become world leaders?

Has it always been that way?

Is it human nature?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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14. Spirit tells me that

The video game called Humanity.

How real are our leaders, or any of the rest of us?

Welcome to the world of illusion, when toy characters believe they’re real people.

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way when the toys are lured into believing that they are creating toys that act real.

Are unseen forces playing with us, and with our leaders?

If so, does it matter who wins and who loses?

The winners today may be losers tomorrow.

If unseen forces are only playing with us, with no betting allowed on the outcome, then it’s all in the name of learning how to play the game, as well as they can.

And we may do the same by focusing on what we’re learning from playing the game than what is happening within the game.

Can we look at our personal life with that same outlook, beyond the day-to-day events?’

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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15. Spirit tells me that

As with cookies, so with humans.

The basic recipe is the same – Head, heart, ego.

“It’s a small, small world….”

Who sang that song?

And, isn’t it curiously so?

Wherever you go, people look the same, more or less.

We talk in different languages, but we say the same words.

And they each and all express thoughts and emotions.

And we each do what we do, whether we’re told to or not.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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16. Spirit tells me that

All trees reach toward Heaven, and yet, only because their roots reach toward Hell.

Jung used this idea to support his claim that he’d rather be whole than good.

Why did he not explain, or share, if he was aware, and he likely was, that the difference between those trees that reached higher did so because of their strength and flexibility, and more – they firmly held their ground without rigidity.

Willows bend to the wind, but Poplars resist the wind, and suffer for their inability to bend to it.

Nature can teach us so much about human nature. if we would only open our eyes and minds.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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17. Spirit tells me that

Blowing in the wind – are we each and all as no more (nor less) than one of the ten …

Picture if you can, and care to, ten thousand or more leaves reaching out from twigs that are reaching out from branches that have spread out from the trunk of a tree that has grown out from roots that are firmly, or not so firmly, planted beneath the surface of the ground, in the darkness of a life that is beyond our view, but reaching down and out to absorb, as well as they can the moisture and nutrients that the soil provides them with, as well as it can.

We, as leaves, may be oblivious as to the source of our very being. and yet we each reach as far as our energy allows us to, while still restricted by the twig that holds us as firmly as it can.

We blow in the wind, but not by personal choice.

The wind blows us about, and we, as well as we’re able to, adapt to the forces of Nature, including rain.

What choices do we have?

Perhaps the greatest possible choice available is to choose to be aware of what’s happening to us, and through us.

We’re not bystanders.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 13

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18. Spirit tells me that

Witness testimony may be necessarily flawed, and yet personal experience may be, too.

Any and all witnesses to whatever event must necessarily see from a unique perspective in time and space, including the mental space they’re in.

And yet, the same can be said about participants in any event.

How to learn what really happened, and how?

Asking why may be less helpful.

Why may invite a judgment call?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 12

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19. Spirit tells me that

Advanced intelligence is not artificial.

It’s our future.

Blame the machine, not me.

Kids today are generally so much more advanced in technical skills and computer understanding than their grandparents are.

I needed to ask a fifteen year old kid how to get my new computer mouse to work.

“It’s easy, Grandma, just remove the USB from the battery compartment of the new mouse …”

“A USB in a mouse’s battery compartment?

I had never seen one there>

But, I followed his advice and, Lo and behold, in a tiny slot on the edge of where the battery fits in, and touching it with my fingers, I was able to slide out this tiny little chip.

“Okay, now what?”

“Install it into the back of your desktop computer.”

Amazingly, I found another so-called USB stuck into a tiny slot.

I took it out and replaced it with the new one, and WOW!

I’m back in the saddle again.

My computer began to work for me.

How blessed we are, or at least those who are, to have young people to teach us how to live in this new world that they are creating.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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20. Spirit tells me that

Whatever it is that we’re doing, we’re not doing something else.

Did we choose?

Where does necessity fit into the picture of freedom to choose?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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21. Spirit tells me that

Expanded awareness?

Enlightenment?

And, of course, Jung’s Individuation – to separate from Mass Man, or Mass Mind.

Can it be done?

How separate can any of us be from anyone else?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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22. Spirit tells me that

Struggles of life as exercise, and some pay big money to do it.

We face our inner demons alone, if not now then later.

But, sooner or later they must be faced, so why not now?

Only fear prevents us, and what is it that we fear?

Defeat, and lack of courage to dare to risk defeat, and lack of faith in our ability to deal with them.

But what if we knew that there was no battle waiting for us, and that our inner demons were on our side, and only testing our faith in ourselves?”

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 10

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23. Spirit tells me that

93. Spirit tells me that

Feeling is a blend of emotion and thought, and yet it has a cause that is neither.

Something happens that we respond to, depending upon how we feel about what has happened.

If we welcome whatever, then we respond with a blend of positive emotion and thought.

On the other hand, if we don’t like what has just happened, then we feel a negative blend of emotin and thought.

People who feel distressed have a reason for feeling that way.

Something has happened to cause them to respond stressfully.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 23

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94. Spirit tells me that

How far above Middle C have we come as a civilization?

As a country?

As an individual?

Have we moved at all?

Are we meant to move?

Or are we designed to discover our own personal note, and to refine it as much as we can?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 24

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95. Spirit tells me that

The good news is that the world not only turns, it also moves forward, and so do we.

It would be so easy to think that we’re not going anywhere.

It’s an illusion.

We can’t not move.

It’s part of what we are.

Of course, speed is optional.

Or is it?

Perhaps, we each have our own inner control system that determines how fast or how slow we develop; physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.

And there may be no need to rush.

Who sang, “Let’s take it nice and easy…”?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 22

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96. Spirit tells me that

Healing our way to spirituality is the only way to go.

We must let go to reach out.

There’s so much mumbo-jumbo being offered as a way to spirituality.

Even meditation is useless if we’re still holding on to what no longer serves us well.

Release it all, as an old love song goes, “Please release me, let me go … and let me love again.”

We can love the life we live if we live the life we love.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 28

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97. Spirit tells me that

A satisfied mind has found its personal comfort zone.

How many of us have reached it?

There may be no short-cuts to achieving a sense of peace with ourself (or with our Self).

So many distractions, dead-ends, detours, and promises of contentment lure us, if they can, as long as they can, from accepting the reality that our peace of mind doesn’t come from somewhere out there.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 28

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98. Spirit tells me that

A Sunday morning vision.

Picture, if you can, Life as an endless loop of fine energy.

Can you picture Life as an endless loop of fine but powerful energy that weaves into and through each of us, and everything that is?

If that fine thread of Life energy is refined (or contaminated) by who or what it passes through, then it could be as our blood system.

Our blood system carries nutrients to every cell in our physical body, but it also carries any contaminatnts that it picks up along the way, and shares them.

Comments: Note: It isn’t so. Our blood system delivers nutrients to all of our physical body cells. The veins pick up the contaminated air (carbon dioxide) and deliver it to the lungs to be breathed out.

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 26

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99. Spirit tells me that

Stars don’t shine their light at us.

They may not even know that we exist.

Stars shine because it’s in their nature to shine, and so do we, more or less.

As with stars, we are light and only need to trust in our own light, and let it lead us along Life’s way, along the way that Life designed for us, alone.

Sure, we can see brighter lights, and may choose to blend our own with that of some others, but we might also choose to light our own way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 25

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End of Book Nine

Social conditioning at a primitive level – what would it look like?

Different from …”

We’re each and all necessarily socially conditioned from the minute we’re born, if not before.

societies can’t exist without some form of organization 0 generally accepted rules of order.

How are we socially conditioned in a way that would be different from a primitive society?

Or … is it necessarily the same?

Cookie and a stick?

Or have we developed enough intelligence to actually understand the necessity of learning to get along with each other, and willingness to compromise our individual interests for the benefit of group interests?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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89. Spirit tells me that

It’s got to be this or that..

Either we open to our unique future, or slip back into our …

The world turns, and we turn with it, if we do.

It’s go forward or slip back.

No other options are available.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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90. Spirit tells me that

Sitting in a cafe doing Jungian research. – observing unique blends of human energy.

We each and all are unique blends of human energy, and when we necessarily interact with other unique blends of human energy, with each of us influencing and being influenced by everyone we connect with, whether directly or indirectly, and since energy flows continuously, we must necessarily influence and be influenced by everyone, everywhere, perhaps from times past and into the future, if that’s possible.

I so enjoyed the latte.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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91. Spirit tells me that

Ego and Spirit are as Matter and Energy – one is the other, more or less.

Ego gets such bad press, and yet, how else can we express the quality of our Spirit?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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92. Spirit tells me that

1. Spirit tells me that

A battlefield may always exist between concrete knowledge and active intelligence.

What we know, or believe we know, is one thing.

What we might yet know, or believe we know, is, or might be, something else

Do we struggle to hold on to what we think is so, or do we relax and open our mind to what might be so?

Some call this battlefield Ray Four – a struggle for harmony.

A struggle for harmony suggests that it doesn’t have to be an either/or situation.

What we now believe is true may always be true in some situations.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 2

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2. Spirit tells me that

Where we focus our attention makes a difference.

Self-interest has power of its own.

Self-interest has a power of its own, and yet to focus our attention on it can, and at times does, give it more.

More to self-interest is less to the common good, on a sliding scale.

Or, is it possible for each to benefit equally?

After all, we’re each part of the community that we are a part of.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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3. Spirit tells me that

Awareness doesn’t come in variables of strength and/or flexibility.

20-20 vision, or …?

How clearly aware are we of …?

for me, it’s more like playing the old game of Snakes and Ladders.

I climb up and up, and … I hit a slippery slope, and I’m back where I began, more or less.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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4. Spirit tells me that

The difference between prayer and meditation – communication with a higher …

If we seek answers from a higher level of awareness, then we pray, if we do.

If we seek answers from a higher level of our own awareness, then we meditate, if we do.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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5. Spirit tells me that

Something old, something new – each so-called new year developed out of the past.

“There’s nothing new under the sun.”

Who said that?

Even our individual way of life developed out of an earlier way of life.

Why did it develop the way it did?

Everything seems to change, but not in the same way.

Why?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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6. Spirit tells me that

What’s it all about, and why?

We’ve each been given a clue, or two, or three, or four, or more.

Philosophers and scientists, and some others, share their clues with those of similar mind, and together they develop ever-greater insights into Life.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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7. Spirit tells me that

I always wanted my heartW and head to be in the same place, but one would have to …

One would have to move up, or the other down, and each seemed to wait for the other to make the first move.

Intuition and reason in place of heart and head?

I would suspect that it’s instinct and intuition that learn to harmonize with each other, as with Yesod and Da’ath on The Tree of Life.

It’s Yesod (feeling) in the next Higher World, that resonates with Da’ath (knowing) in the next Lower World).

They interact and connect as Kundalini rises.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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8. Spirit tells me that

All spiritual teachers are guided by the Universal Law of Triage.

All students, and would-be students by their very unique nature, fall, or slip, into one of only three groups: 1. Those who will develop a higher state of awareness with or without any assistance from a physical teacher.

They are well on their way, with a personal inner guidance system to help them.

2. Those who are beyond hope/

They are trapped in a world of illusion, for now, and

3. Those who, with support and encouragement, can develop a higher level of personal awareness of their oneness with all.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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9. Spirit tells me that

Awareness as salt, sugar, flour, oil, etc.

It comes more or less refined.

My vision isn’t 20-20 any more, if it ever was, and yet, I can now see some things, and some people, in a way that I never could, before.

I’m more aware?

Or, is my awareness more refined, with experience and intent?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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10. Spirit tells me that

The Shadow side of the Middle Way – as we move toward the light, or the dark, it also moves toward us.

There is no absolute and clearly defined Middle Way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

11. Spirit tells me that

In the beginning of our physical life, we’re soft, weak, and flexible of physical body and mind.

At the end of our physical life, we’re soft, weak, and flexible of physical body, but not usually of mind.

Our thinking has become rigid, like our bones.

Social conditioning can’t change the color of our skin, but it can change how and what we think, if we let it.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 8

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12. Spirit tells me that

Ego therapy is needed so very much more than Self-therapy ever was, is, or ever will be.

Why have psychotherapists got it so wrong?

Unless, instead of self, they mean individual.

What I call Ego – our own nature and the confusion around it.

We have been born with a programmed role to play, and yet we have each been born into a particular society that programs us, as well as it can, to fit into and contribute to that particular society.

And then there is the personality that is the result of an ongoing attempt to harmonize differences between predisposition and learned responses to lived experiences and situations, not to mention all the people with similar (or different) mixed-up personalities.

How to harmonize them all, collectively and individually?

I studies psychology and other topics, in a formal setting when I attended University for twelve years or so, in mid-life.

What drove me back to the so-called Halls of Wisdom?

It was the memory of caring for newborn babies, several years earlier.

They each had a personality of their own, and individual ways of interacting with the world around them.

I was well aware of the concepts of Nature and Nurture, but there was something else going on, and I needed to understand what that something else was.

Alas, academia is structured in basic ways of looking at and understanding the world we live in.

It’s either this or it’s that.

We don’t get into spooky thoughts of unseen forces directing our traffic.

If you can’t put it on the table and look at it, it doesn’t exist, at least according to academia.

A future psychology?

Perhaps the day will come when even talk of Spirituality, or so-called spirituality, is history, and we all come to use more realistic terms such as Higher Mind.

We’re all aware that we’re becoming more and more aware of the world we live in, and of the one who is living in it, and seems to be trapped within a physical form, at least for now.

I always admired Freud.

He wanted to see clearly what some others dared not question.

Higher Mind may someday replace the concept of Spirituality.

Why?

Because, Higher Mind suggests clearly defined (fore or less) stages of mental development.

It takes all kinds to make a world, and as far as being a realized being, or a so-called realized being, we can only be the unique being that we each are, so no two so-called realized beings will necessarily be a mirror-image of the other.

We’ve each developed, if we have, in our own way and through unique life experiences, or even through the same or similar experiences, our individual pattern(s) of response was/were developed over time and personal experience.

I may have misled you re Ego.

Ego is a thing, even if a non-physical thing.

Ideas and emotions are things.

We can’t put everything on the table, to inspect.

Try putting your emotions for whomever on the table, unless it’s a non-physical, mental table, where they can work out their differences.

“There’s something there that wasn’t there before.”

We come into the physical world to experience and learn from it, and to contribute to it, if we can and care to, to the future development of it and all others.

This energy being that we are is different when we leave than when we arrived.

The difference is Ego.

We could call it by any other name.

Freud and Jung (who studied with Freud, for a time) both understood that the human spirit has an infinite potential to develop, but can only do so through personal experience.

We leave our physical body behind us, but what we learned from the experience of physical life has made a difference in our state of awareness.

Ego.

Three plus two equals five.

If we were at level three when we arrived, and left at level five, then the increase in our awareness (20 is our Ego, which is absorbed into our Self.

We’re more than we were before.

Next time we’ll develop another Ego, and it, too, will dissolve within our developing awareness.

So, perhaps we can put it all on a table and look at it.

A grade five child has developed from a grade three chld.

Call the difference what you will to.

Ego is as good a name as any other.

It’s easy to criticize someone else’s idea, and yet there is a danger when you do that.

We’re claiming that we’re right, and he (or she) is wrong.

The truth may lie somewhere in between.

We each understand what others say in ways of our own, based on our personal understanding of the topic, and our personal interpretation of what the other is saying.

We each may be partly right and partly wrong.

Bob Dylan sang it well (or as well as he did sing it) with “You’re right from your side and I’m right from mine.”

We can learn from each other, if we care to, and we can disagree, again, if we care to, or if it’s in our nature to disagree with anything that doesn’t make complete sense to us.

I’ve always been notorious for doing that.

I’m finally learning, after many years, to re-read, again and again, what has been said, and to try and find common ground.

It’s there, if we care to look for it.

We’re never likely to agree completely with anyone on any topic, but we can come to a consensus, if we care to.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 4

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13. Spirit tells me that

All life is woven from the same limitless potential, and so it is with our stories.

Your life story is woven into my life story, and into everyone else’s.

And so it is with my life story.

We’re not connected to each other,

We’re woven into each other.

It’s the same with communities and nations.

Our leaders are of the same fabric as the leaders of all other nations, more or less.

So, how do differences arise?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 6

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14. Spirit tells me that

Expectations are as prevision of the results of our efforts.

Some are realaistic.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 5

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15. Spirit tells me that

Forgiveness has a place, but not on a level playing field, with equals.

One is up.

I’ve struggled with the concept of forgiveness for many years, as many of my friends are only too well aware.

It must have driven them … and it did drive some of them to express annoyance with me.

“Hive it up.” they just as much said.

They seemed to believe that, without forgiveness, then we had to be hostile toward those we didn’t forgive.

For me, it was a totally different issue.

Up and down, and I seemed to need a level, eye to eye acceptance of each other as equals.

Now I can accept that equality is an illusion, other than the reality that we’re each equally human.

After that, differences develop.

So, where am I now?

I forgive you all for not understanding my immature concept of reality.

Utopia?

Perhaps, someday, but for now we’re all in some ways different from each other, at least some of the time.

Is it something to forgive?

Or just accept?

Or both?

Or more?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 4

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16. Spirit tells me that

War can serve our will to survive.

Need is one thing – will is more powerful.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 15

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17. Spirit tells me that

We each attract thoughts and emotions, both from the physical world and the world of mind.

Some attract more from one than from the other.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 14

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18. Spirit tells me that

Everything that happens has a reason

Everything we do has a cause.

Or is it the other way around?

Does everything that happens have a cause, and everything we do have a reason?

What reason would I have for tripping?

Could it have been an unconscious reason?

It did change my life, at least to some extent.

Is thee a danger of giving the unconscious credit?

Could it be as a slippery slope?

It could excuse me for carelessness.

“My unconscious mind made me do it.”

When I was a child, some would say, “The Devil made me do it.”

Does our unconscious get more credit now than the Devil ever did?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 13

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19. Spirit tells me that

We can’t adapt to everyone and still be what we are.

Yellow and Blue? Green.

Adaptation has its limits.

When to compromise?

When to stand firm?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 13

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20. Spirit tells me that

Do we need to be well grounded in old ways before we can imagine the new?

“If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.”

And yet, even if it still work, something else might work better.

We’re well grounded in confrontation, and yet a more mutually respectful approach might work better.

Commens:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 10

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21. Spirit tells me that

We each are channels, one and all, sharing what has been shared with us, by Life.

Intentionally or otherwise, we can’t not share what we have become.

Our original nature has been covered over or changed by the experiences and our responses to them, as well as to intentional social conditioning.

We’ve also struggled to make sense of lived experience, and this too has helped us become the person we now are.

Many so-called psychotherapists seem to focus on ego-centric issues such as what happened to us in early childhood, and who done what to us.

In the future, perhaps they’ll help us to understand what might have happened in the life of those who helped to make us the way we are, now.

Like us, they also were a product of their environment, more or less.

How much more?

How much less?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 10

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22. Spirit tells me that

Anger never hurt anyone.

It’s angry people who may do harm.

Emotions express feelings.

Feelings are inner experiences.

How we choose to respond to our inner experiences may do grea harm, or great good.

It’s our will to act on our thoughts and emotions that can result in harm or good.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 17

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23. Spirit tells me that

We each were born with a self-developed, more or less, personality.

Self – within.

Social conditioning comes from without.

That sounds simple enough.

So why should self-development be so difficult to understand?

And yet, it’s never an either/or situation, as far as our personality development goes.

We’re each a blend, or mix, of developmental forces.

Blends are smoother than mixes usually are.

Perhaps a healthy personality (Ego?) develops from harmony between inner and outer energies/forces.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 17

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24. Spirit tells me that

Sooner or later, new ways become old ways, and move into the past to make room for …

To make room for even newer ways that the future sends back to us in the here and now.

Change is the only thing that doesn’t change.

We need to learn to adapt, again and again.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 16

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25. Spirit tells me that

Survival is the foundational need of all possible worlds.

In Maslow’s Hierarch of Human Needs, our physical needs are the foundation upon which we build all of our other needs, both as individuals and as collectives.

Survival comes first, and then kundalini rises.

Jung was into being “whole.”

He and Maslow were both close to Freud, at least for a time, and they shared and developed ideas with each other.

“I’d rather be whole than good” Jung said, or words to that effect.

Goodness can be seen as static and rules based.

Wholeness expresses awareness of one’s personal comfort zone, and acceptance of it.

Jung and Maslow, and some others, may have personally experienced what Freud may never have, or, if he did, he rationalized it all.

I do that myself, sometimes, but it doesn’t work for me.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 16

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26. Spirit tells me that

You were right from your side and I was right from mine.

Adaptation can only come from different perspectives moving closer to each other.

How do they do it, if they do?

They find common ground – a middle way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 20

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27. Spirit tells me that

Not everyone can play Hamlet, or the president, equally as well.

We each have …

We may each be playing a role on the stage of Life, and yet, perhaps, not as well as some others might play it.

Why are we playing whom we are, in this lifetime?

Is it a learning experience?

Or have we something unique to offer a needy world?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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28. Spirit tells me that

Is that what Kundalini is?

An inner awakening to an ever-expanding world?

As we answer the wake-up call of Kundalini, our awareness of Life expands from the physical world to the worlds of feeling, and then to emotion, thought, and then to higher worlds of mind that some call spiritual, while others call scientific, and then beyond even these worlds to the awareness of mystics.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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29. Spirit tells me that

Kundalini rises.

Everybody knows that.

Where did they get that idea?

Wise ones.

So, why have the wise ones, or some of them, taught us for thousands of years that kundalini rises, when we all know that it’s not possible?

The light from within each of us does rise, and yet at the same time expands.

There can be no rising of light (awareness) without at least an equal expansion of it, unless, of course, it’s within a box.

Is social conditioning as such a box, that allows us to develop the light of awareness, but only within strict (more or less) limits?

How much are we allowed to know?

How much are we allowed to grow?

And, for all we know, it may be necessary for the benefit of our community, for us not to know too much.

Plants draw from below, and yet, unless there is sunlight and fresh air, not to mention moisture, from above, the plant has no hope of activating energies from below.

Kundalini may be a two-way street, as pressure gradients are.

There is an ideal harmony between forces from within and forces from without that culminates in the highest possible state of development.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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30. Spirit tells me that

Who doesn’t struggle?

Is struggle the foundational experience of existence?

We struggle to survive, unless everything is handed to us.

Can there be wise struggle, and not-so-wise struggle?

What would determine how wise our struggle is?

Do we choose our struggles, or do they choose us?

Or, does someone else decide it all for us?

And we just go along with it?

For whatever reason(s)?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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31. Spirit tells me that

Is an apple still an apple after we’ve taken a bite?

Or sliced it?

Or mashed it?

Is spirituality still spirituality after we use it as self-therapy?

Is mysticism no longer relevant in a scientific community?

Is it now as a philosophy of life?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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32. Spirit tells me that

Spirituality as self-therapy – dressed up?

A banana is fruit until we add ice cream.

Fruit is nutritious and yet, it might not appeal to you.

However, if I cut a banana lengthwise, put three scoops of ice cream between the two pieces, smother it with whipping cream, and add a cherry on top, it could look like a tasty dessert.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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33. Spirit tells me that

When the here and now was the past, and the present was the future, how many …

How many of us open to what the future can teach us?

We seem to focus more on the past and get stuck in it.

Meditation and imagination are ways and means to open our mind to what the future might offer us if we are willing to cocreate with it.

There is only one past, and yet possibly countless futures.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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34. Spirit tells me that

We each serve our God, our Country, each other, and ourself, more or less.

No options.

There is no option to serve or not to serve.

It’s how knowingly, willingly, and how well we serve, where we get to choose, more or less.

It has to be more or less, until we become aware of how well we’re serving whom or what.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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35. Spirit tells me that

The positive side of greed – it oils the wheels of evolution, and war.

Where would humanity be without greed?

War may be a necessary part of life.

The problem is that we’ve taken it to extremes.

We can blame our leaders all we like, but it isn’t like in the old days when the masses were almost as slaves, and could be pulled into an army by the rulers of their land.

Today, the majority of men in uniform are probably killing because it’s something to do with their life, and get paid for it.

Not much different from a video game, where young kids are killing people, and loving it.

It’s unreal so there’s no guilt about doing harm.

Wild animals kill others of their kind to defend their territory, or to claim the territory of some others.

Humanity, so far, has not risen all that far from the beast.

It’s going to take time and experience before we find a better way to live together.

There is a time and place for each of us to become aware of personal responsibility for awakening to what it is that we are contributing to our society, which is as a part of a greater, more inclusive society.

We will wake up, one by one, sooner or later.

Perhaps there’s no hurry.

How many lifetimes have we been working on the improvement of the quality of humanity?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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36. Spirit tells me that

Common sense is neither thought nor emotion, but a blend but a blend of each at its finest.

Could common sense be as a modern term for timeless wisdom?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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37. Spirit tells me that

We are as children playing video games.

Greed and war are as virtual reality.

We watch the news and hear of all the horrors that are happening in so many places in our world.

Then we meditate and thank the Universe for being as one with all.

Artificial intelligence?

Or artificial emotions?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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38. Spirit tells me that

A word of caution that came too late.

“Once you begin to open your mind, there is no way you can close it.”

“So, why did He bother telling me, after the fact?

My spirit teacher.

Do we each and all have an inner voice that would lure us into deeper understanding?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 29

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39. Spirit tells me that

“You know what you know, and I know what I know.”

My teacher’s gentle scorn.

It’s so easy for us to get caught up with what we know, or think we do, that we’re apt to lose sight of the reality that some others may claim a different knowing.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts

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40. Spirit tells me that

The scientific method has a place of honor in spiritual (or higher mind) studies.

There is no understanding without awareness, and yet we may not always understand what we’re aware of.

What comes before why, but not everyone bothers to ask why.

Scientists do, and so do serious spiritual seekers.

Diversified experiences can benefit us all.

It can teach us humility to become aware that there are possibly many more ways than one to experience the same reality.

The scientific method values consistent results from different fellow scientists performing the same experiments using the same methods.

Spirituality is a different pursuit, and yet it could learn by paying attention to the close attention to detail that is part of the scientific methos.

We’re each following a path of our own into the unknown, as are dedicated scientists, even when they attempt to replicate the results of some others.

They know that they are not the “some others.” but are interested enough in what their fellow scientists have claimed to discover (or to prove false) that they personally test the outcome claimed by those others.

Can we spiritual seekers dare to personally test the outcome(s) claimed by so-called knowers of truth?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 30

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41. Spirit tells me that

We shall overcome.

How well?

How quickly?

If we’re intentionally flawed, …?

So, you might ask – why would we be intentionally flawed?

Some might say, “With one hand tied behind my back I could …”

If we’ve developed awareness, skills, and a unique style over countless lifetimes, then where’s the challenge to improve?

But, if we’re made to forget (or agree to forgetting) just how great we are at whatever … how quickly and how well would we rise to our former greatness, such as it was?

And, while we’re recovering, we might also develop humility and compassion for those who have not yet developed as well as we once did and are now remembering.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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42. Spirit tells me that

Evolution is predestination with an open agenda.

Flexibility makes a difference.

Water flows downhill.

Everybody knows that.

And yet, if the pathway down becomes blocked?

Plan B comes into action.

Build up against the block until it’s washed away or submerged.

Or a path is found around it.

Do we each instinctively have an inner Plan B?

If we dare to listen to it?

What would it be like?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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43. Spirit tells me that

Mutual attraction means that we’re attracted to each other for our own reasons.

It’s a natural, complementary process, not one were two of the same come together.

Unless, of course, it’s like magnetism, where the less is more attracted to the more than the more is to the less.

We can gather together for a mutual cause, which isn’t quite the same as coming together just to be with someone like ourself.

We share something beyond.

We may, or may not, be equally attracted to each other, and we may be attracted to something about the other, while the other is attracted to us for some other reason.

Birds of a feather flock together – some to lead and some to follow, and some for safety, and some simply enjoy the company of their own kind.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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44. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance as a slippery slope?

Recognition is one thing but acceptance is as okay?

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change …”

Such serenity might bring peace of mind and allow one to stop struggling to change what can’t be changed.,

And yet, how can we know what can’t be changed, and what might be changed, with a little more effort?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 4

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45. Spirit tells me that

Birds of a feather flock together, some to lead and some to follow and some simply to enjoy the company of their own kind.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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46. Spirit tells me that

Spirituality is more than, but never other than religion, and you can’t have one without the other.

You can’t have one without the other, more or less.

Spirituality rises up out of religion, if it does, and it does, slowly or more slowly.

It’s like the Kundalini.

There must be something for it to rise up out of, as energy emerges from form, or dissolves into form.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook posts – Feb 7

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47. Spirit tells me that

A calling is not a career, or is it?

We consciously choose our careers, if we do.

Callings seem to choose us, if they do.

And yet, the calling can become a career.

Would it then lose the unconscious directive?

How to harmonize calling and career?

Is it a case of harmonizing the unconscious mind with the conscious part of that mind?

Oh, the questions that could be asked.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 7

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48. Spirit tells me that

Humanity as a Tree of Life, with our conscious mind interacting with thoughts and emotions, both individually and collectively.

Modern technology, not to mention timeless wisdom, didn’t come from nowhere.

Some of us seem to be more open to receiving different kinds of information than do some others.

Scientists and philosophers each open to particular types of ideas, and these particular types of ideas are attracted to those minds that are open to them.

Inventions usually develop in more than one area of our world at one time.

Particular ideas may be more highly developed at certain times during history, and there are receptive minds in many more places than one.

Meanwhile, most of us benefit, if we do, from the work of a few dedicated people who follow their hunches, or their dreams, and are willing to put in the time and effort required.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 6

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49. Spirit tells me that

Knowledge and knowing are not the same.

Knowledge is information from someone.

We read a newspaper, listen to a teacher or friend.

They share information with us.

How true is it?

But when we personally experience something, that’s a different kind of knowing.

Even then, we might choose to deny what we know is so, if we’re not yet ready to accept its reality.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 6

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50. Spirit tells me that

Can there be consciousness without conscience?

An inner dialogue?

One way?

“Let your conscience be your guide.”

Do we each have a personal mental comfort zone that can manifest as a voice of reason?

Do we, or can we use it as a wall to bounce ideas off?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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51. Spirit tells me that

The fundamental things apply as time goes by.

We each seem to claim personal power.

We each seem to claim as much personal power in our outer world as is possible, within the limits imposed by powers beyond our control, for now.

Is it the same situation within the confines of our own personal mind?

Our thoughts and emotions interact with each other to attempt to create a sense of self-satisfaction, within the limits of what seems possible, for now.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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52. Spirit tells me that

Respond and react are not the same.

Response is situation specific, while …

Reaction is a repetition of an earlier response.

It had to have been situation specific at some time in the past, but has now become a habit.

How much of what we do in our everyday life is original?

Is it all a repetition?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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53. Spirit tells me that

Evolution and transcendence are not the same.

One adapts to change.

The other …

What does the other do?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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54. Spirit tells me that

Feelings are forms of communication – the language of conscience, personal and …

Personal and collective, we each have a unique (more or less) conscience that speaks to us in feelings that we understand as clearly as if it spoke in our first language.

I call my conscience, Spirit, and I dare, with all due respect, to talk back to Him, and question what He seems to tell me.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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55. Spirit tells me that

When going back to correct earlier mistakes would keep us from going forward to create new ones, then it may be best to let the past mistakes lie where they are, in the past.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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56. Spirit tells me that

Three is a powerful number.

A very few have changed our world forever, while …

The rest of us, the 97% of humanity, have adapted, if we have, to the changes that the few have brought.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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57. Spirit tells me that

That’s Life.

Diversification and unification – breathing out and breathing in.

It’s as simple as that – or could be, if we let it be.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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58. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance follows resistance, or it has no lasting value.

As an old song goes, “If I didn’t care, would it be the same?”

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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59. Spirit tells me that

No other option, but we choose how willingly we move into the future.

Tomorrow will come, whether or not we’re around to witness its coming, but if we’re going to be around, what difference will we make to anyone?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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60. Spirit tells me that

How to share light to a blind world?

How many artists and visionaries have tried to share their gifts to a world that doesn’t care see or hear them.?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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61. Spirit tells me that

Do we choose our pleasure?

Or do they choose us?

Is it the same with our wills?

“I will do it if I can.”

Why?

Are wills and pleasures the same?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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62. Spirit tells me that

Is that our motive for passive acceptance?

Not to please, but to avoid offending?

Is there survival value to passive acceptance?

At what praice?

Selfj-esteem?

Or do we just slip into a habit of not wanting to make waves?

After all, who wants conflict?

Especially with someone more assertive and potentially aggressive.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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63. Spirit tells me that

Cosmic energy trapped within human form.

Is that what we are?

“Now see what you can do.”

What can we do if we’re a unique (more or less) blend of creative cosmic energy trapped within a unique (more or less) human form?

We can, or might, attempt to discover just how creative we can be within the unique (more or less) limits available to us.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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64. Spirit tells me that

A closed past vs an open future – Religion vs Spirituality?

Revelation is sealed?

Or is it?

There’s nothing new under the Sun, and yet there may be worlds within worlds beyond the Sun.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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65. Spirit tells me that

Everybody’s doing it.

If walking our path is living our way, then …

Everybody’s doing it.

Walking the walk and talking the talk gets such high press, and yet, it’s simply doing what comes naturally.

We couldn’t possibly not be walking our path and living our life our way, whether we follow a leader or not.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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66. Spirit tells me that

How to be me?

By staying within my comfort zone.

Comfort zones get bad press, and yet the can serve us well.

Social conditioning can try to smother our natural tendencies, but it can never totally remove us from them.

We are what we are and we’re not what we’re not.

The problem arises when we resist becoming more than we now are, not other than we now are.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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67. Spirit tells me that

We’ve come so very far without seeming to have moved at all.

Is Life moving while we …?

Are we simply watching the show?

Our life, or at least my life, seems to have a life of its own, with me as a spectator.

Who is directing it all?

I’ve just returned from an outing with two young people who seem to genuinely care for me.

How can it be?

It blows me away to experience it.

Our outing did not achieve what it was intended to achieve, and yet I came aware so very much in awe of how blessed I am to have Akari and Bill in my life.

Where do such people come from?

Why are we all not like that?

How to become as they seem so naturally to be?

Spiritual awareness is one thing, but a lived reality beyond belief is something else.

I want it.

The danger in experienced being cared for is the awareness that anything and anyone in our life is only here while they are.

And then what?

Perhaps some hesitate to open to being cared for, for fear of possibly having to deal with its future absence in their life.

Perhaps care is there for us, whether we’re aware of it or not.

Perhaps, for most of us, it seems to have been so very missing, so much of the time.

Were we simply unaware?

I now accept that it might always have been there, whether expressed or not.

Our inner essence has reasons of its own.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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68. Spirit tells me that

It’s a mystery, my son, at least until we understand.

Everyone seems to know that we’ve come from past generations of people.

Both religious and spiritual people can fall into that same trap, believing that something is a mystery

It’s a lazy way of thinking, unless we accept mysteries as simply something that we don’t yet understand.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Feb 12

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69. Spirit tells me that

Social conditioning is never an option.

It’s a matter of more or less, and by whom.

Social conditioning is an unavoidable, evolutionary experience.

It’s never an option, but a matter of more or less, and by whom or what, and for what purpose..

Purpose is always the driving force of any evolutionary experience, including intentional social conditioning.

And yet, there is always the potential for unintentional social conditioning.

Learned helplessness can be the result of having been cared for beyond the point of serving us well.

When someone does something for someone else that that someone could very easily do for themselves, perhaps with a little help and training, then the recipient of assistance may learn, or choose, to depend on some others to do what they might be able to learn to do for themselves.

Young children usually have a powerful enough need of selfj-direction to protest against being treated as helpless beings.

Some seniors, and some others, not so senior, may choose to let others do for them what they could do for themselves, with a little assistance and/or training.

They might even learn to play helpless just to get special treatment.

This is self-destructive in the long run, for they then become less and less able to do things for themselves.

Where to draw the line?

Perhaps we’re expected to harmonize the outer and inner influences.

Social order at the physical level of existence would not be possible if everyone was allowed to follow their own conscience.

Social conditioning may be necessary for the first half of our lifetime, for the sake of social stability

After that, becoming aware of a more expanded inner awareness can benefit us as individuals without causing chaos to our society.

Whatever our inner voices may tell us to do, we’re still subject to the laws of our society.

How to harmonize them without rejecting either source?

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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70. Spirit tells me that

Without boundaries there is no relationship.

We express our value of each other by respecting each other’s comfort zone.

It may be nearer or further for each of us, and depending upon … what?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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71. Spirit tells me that

Anything that happens anywhere might also happen anywhere else.

How to prepare?

Change and adaptation to change – is that what life is all about?

The same principles might apply within each of all the worlds we live in – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual (as higher mind), a scientific world (if such there be), and whatever other worlds or dimensions we might live in.

We change because we must, one way or another, for our world is changing around and within us.

We adapt, if we do, or the worlds go on without us.

It’s as simple as that.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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72. Spirit tells me that

Do we write the books, or do they write themselves through us?

“Letting Go – Here and Now.”

One more in a series of “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books that has been accepted for this year’s Celebration of SFU Authors, to be held April 4, 2024.

Four little books in four years.

How long can this aged author keep it up?

Already, next year’s book is in the making.

It’s theme?

Boundaries.

Are boundaries a necessary reality of life?

Do we set them, reluctantly, only after our personal comfort zone has been invaded?

So many questions will focus on personal struggles, as has been the case with all the earlier books this simple seeker has been a part of.

And yet, what an awesome feeling to be part of it all.

I hope some of you choose to read some of them, and report back your experience(s).

Spirit, or my higher self tells me that the books have been written before I was born.

If so, then perhaps it’s true with all literature, technology, and science.

It’s all been on the drawing board of Life, waiting to be pulled into human consciousness.

We writers, artists, scientists, and inventors of whatever, may just have been in the right place at the right time, and thought a particular thought that pulled in a stream of information beyond anything we might have, or possibly could have, expected.

If we have ancestors – generations of the past, then perhaps we also have them of the future.

Life is curious, eh?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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73. Spirit tells me that

I’ve changed, and so have you.

And our changing changes the world we live in.

I Ching tells us that change is the only constant.

What does that mean?

It means that everyone and everything is constantly changing.

We’re not the same as we were even a minute ago.

We’re now a minute older, and so is everyone and everything else, in one way or another.

And as we change, and we do, we change the world we live in, for better or worse.

What will it be?

We choose.

What an awesome responsibility, eh?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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74. Spirit tells me that

It’s a mystery, my son, at least until we understand.

Everyone seems to know that we’ve come from past generations of people.

Both religious and spiritual people can fall into that same trap, believing that something is a mystery.

It’s a lazy way of thinking, unless we accept mysteries as simply something that we don’t yet understand.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 12

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75. Spirit tells me that

Is it possible that we don’t learn anything until we need to?

For whatever reason?

Evolution – another word for education?

We learn what works, and what doesn’t.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 18

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76. Spirit tells me that

We’re never singing solo, though it may seem that way.

The rest of the group are scattered around the globe.

Keep on singing.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 17

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77. Spirit tells me that

Whatever happens is Fate, unless it’s your Destiny.

Fate is flexible.

Destiny is not.

It may be our destiny to face whatever challenges fate presents us with.

So, we’re an acorn, destined to become a strong and straight Oak tree, unless …

It wasn’t by accident that we were born to whom, and where, and under what situations, or in what condition, or so I’m told by a usually very reliable source.

We each chose, if we were capable of choosing, a particular life situation to develop an understanding of.

Different people, depending upon their level of development, will respond to different situations in different ways.

In Spirit we can think ang plan, and yet we need physical existence to actually discover our skills development.

A practicum?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 17

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78. Spirit tells me that

With no intent to offend Freud, Jung, and some others, the day will come when the concepts of conscious and unconscious mind go the way of the Dodo bird – total extinction.

How did we get pulled into thinking that we possessed two minds.

Our so-called conscious mind is as the tip of an iceberg. with the greater part of the iceberg being beneath the surface of the water.

Oh, correction. Freud didn’t use the term unconscious mind. He recognized it as subconscious, which is closer to reality and allows for integration.

We’re not consciously aware of anything beyond our personal experience(s), and yet the Universe moves on., or as Bob Dylan sang it, “Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you.”

Local and non-local awareness would surely be easier to understand.

We’re only aware of what we’re aware of, and yet we have the potential to become aware of much more.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 16

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79. Spirit tells me that

Have we become what we are simply because we could never have become …?

Could we ever have become anything other than we are now?

Anywhere along the way, could we have taken a different path?

Or, were we destined to be here and now, and as we now are?

How much flexibility …?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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80. Spirit tells me that

The endless loop of life, or, what goes around comes around.

We’ve been there.

With vegetation, there is a natural and endless cycle of development and decay.

Why would it not be the same with humanity, individually and collectively?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 23

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81. Spirit tells me that

If the five physical senses are each a unique but limited expression of awareness, then ..

It could solve the problem of what happens when our physical body disintegrates.

I had worried that I would no longer be able to see, hear, touch, smell, or feel anything beyond myself, after so-called death.

I mean, what’s the point of being around if we’re not able to witness what’s happening around us?

Perhaps the only thing we’ll not be able to do is to do whatever.

In physical life we can do things, if we choose to, and if we’re able to.

So,, what is it that we’re now able to choose to do, if we’re able to?

To live a physical life.

Spirituality must never forget physicality.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 23

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82. Spirit tells me that

We can never think outside the box of our mind, but the edges are flexible.

Not only are the edges of our mind flexible, and perhaps infinitely expandable, but within the edges of our mind there is, perhaps, limitless potential to see and understand more and more clearly, if we choose to.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 22

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83. Spirit tells me that

Response is all there is.

We respond.

We’ve always responded and we always will.

So, what is it that we’re responding to?

Life situations.

It’s a never-ending game.

You say or do whatever, and then I respond, but whatever you say or do is itself a response to some earlier event.

How did this response game begin?

In the beginning was the word, and word was GO.

After that, we each and all .responded in one way or another, and we’ve never stopped.

Is it possible to stop responding?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 21

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84. Spirit tells me that

Whatever we feel is real, whether it is or not.

Feelings are never rational, and yet …

Feelings come from lived experience.

Rationality is a mind thing.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts 21

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85. Spirit tells me that

We cheer for our own.

They may not be good guys, but they’re our guys, and we …

What parent ever cheered for the team that their child was playing against?

Is it the same with love and war?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 22

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86. Spirit tells me that

If our flaws unite us with each other, then why do we strive for perfection?

Most of us may have more flaws in common with more people than we have perfections.

Actually, we may have no perfections at all, and yet we keep on trying, if we do, to continually improve ourself, instead of just accepting ourself the way we are.

Would it suggest a defeatist attitude if we stopped trying to improve ourself in this way or that?

Would it be as stepping onto a slippery slope?

Would it attract more people to us?

Would they be the people we would want to be attracted to?

Oh the questions that could be asked.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 20

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87. Spirit tells me that

My Last Duchess

Who has read the poem?

Who wrote it?

A beautiful description of …

My mother was a schoolteacher until she married Dad, which didn’t give her many years to teach, since she married at 25.

When I had to study the poem “My Last Duchess” Mom shared with me how eloquent her teacher had read it and shared the beauty of the picture it described.

She loved the sounds of words, it seemed to me, so much more than what the words described.

I felt so emotional about the situation expressed in the poem.

Mom saw only the beauty of words.

How far have so many come?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 16

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88. Spirit tells me that

Experience is our teacher, and yet, if we don’t listen, we don’t learn.

Every physical and non-physical teacher we might have during our lifetime is an experience, and they are sharing their experiences with us.

Our children and pets can be as teachers, for they share with us what they need from us, and if we care for them, and if we are able to provide what they need, we do.

And, our own personal needs can be as teachers.

The danger of teachers of all kinds is that they may have their own reasons for teaching us whatever.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 25

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89. Spirit tells me that

Everybody’s doing it?

Doing what?

We’re each and all awakening from illusions.

That’s what evolution of consciousness is all about.

And, we’re each and all awakening in our own way and in our own time, from self-created illusions.

Why are they all self-created?

We chose to believe whatever, because we seemed to need to believe it was true, whether or not it was.

And it wasn’t.

Now, with no intended offence to ourself, or any other, we’re strong enough to face the truth, or at least a little bit of it, until we’re brave enough to face more.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 25

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90. Spirit tells me that

Life is an endless series of experiences wherein we each and all struggle for …

Is it all a struggle for a feeling of satisfaction?

How satisfied do we need to become before we stop and just take it nice and easy?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb. 24

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91. Spirit tells me that

We are social beings – individual social beings, unless …

How to live within a group, as a member of that group, and still remain an individual?

Can we have it both ways?

Yes.

How?

Meditation with intent.

What intent?

With intent to develop a closer connection to our own individuality.

We can only contribute to any group as an individual if we care enough about our individuality to protect it from becoming trapped within mass thinking.

It’s a slippery slope, either way we look at it.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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92. Spirit tells me that

Starting at the bottom, or thereabouts, those who have more inspire those who …

Another version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, to account for human greeds?

Those who have more inspire those who have less to reach for more, and so the human pyramid of wealth club develops.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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93. Spirit tells me that

The scientific method of spirituality – awareness gets high press – observation?

In spiritual language we speak of expanded awareness, and ever-expanding awareness.

How can that be any different from the scientific approach of observation and … closer observation?

Can observation be expanded?

Why not?

We witness something, and yet, anything we witness is never an island unto itself.

We see the red light, and yet, we also see the intersection and the environment and activities in the neighbourhood around that intersection.

The red light is never (or not necessarily) seen as an island.

So it is (or may be) with inner awareness.

We can focus our attention or expand it.

The choice is ours.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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94. Spirit tells me that

In an inner allotment garden of Mind, what would you plant in your private area?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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95. Spirit tells me that

We start low and go slow.

How skilled (or not so) have we become on the stage …

If humanity is as a stage of life, and we are each and all actors in training, then that would help to explain dreams.

In our dreams we participate, more or less, and are more or less aware of participating.

How to develop acting, or any other experience.

Practice, practice, practice.

We cocreate the world we live in.

We cocreate with energies and forces beyond our control.

We learn to cooperate with them, sooner or later.

And, as we learn to cooperate, we develop personal skills that contribute to the show.

Each and all of our world leaders has developed a personal style of expressing personal skills and powers.

We’re no different than any of them, but they have also developed a powerful sense of self-confidence that we can only admire and envy, if we do.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 1

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96. Spirit tells me that

If we only knew – our personal problems are anything but personal.

It’s so easy to believe that we have personal problems when they’re anything but personal.

They’re social constructs.

Anything that could happen to anyone could also happen to many others.

And yet, do we learn from witnessing what some others are doing that seems to be counter-productive?

Not a chance.

We’ve locked ourselves into a little world we call our own.

We’ve put up boundaries around our so-called personal problems and claimed them as our very own.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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97. Spirit tells me that

From the ashes of disaster, sense arises from nonsense.

We learn from mistakes.

So, how do we manage to slip back into old patterns of living that proved, time and again, to be unproductive and self-destructive?

Nonsense may not possibly be without any sense, but only less sensible than it might be.

If so, then perhaps everything that makes sense to us today, will (or might) at some time in the future, seem to have been as nonsense.

Evolution of mind?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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98. Spirit tells me that

If our conscious mind is as the tip of an iceberg in its relationship to our so-called unconscious mind, then we’re as one with it.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28 (shared from a post from one year earlier)

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99. Spirit tells me that

Life is an endless series of experiences wherein we each and all struggle for …

Is it all a struggle for a feeling of satisfaction?

How satisfied do we need to become before we stop and just take it nice and easy?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 24

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End of Book Eight

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1. Spirit tells me that

Prophets and teachers come and go, but the collective unconscious is here always.

“Let your conscence be your guide.”

Haven’t we all been drilled with that advice?

And yet, perhaps our conscience is a socially conditioned inner self that may or may not always be in harmony with an inner knowing, our personal awareness that psychologists know call our personal unconscious mind., which is a part of the collective unconscious mind of humanity. Can they be in harmony with each other? Not always.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Oct 31

2. Spirit tells me that

An elderly gentleman engaged in the agricultrual pursuit, or an old farmer.

Are we now developing a less than sophisticated way to describe the people in our lives?

Is anything lost when we dare to speak more clearly?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 3

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3. Spirit tells me that

If it’s a human situation that we call political, for reasons of our own, then ..

Then what would be our reasons?

And, if all human situationtions can be called political situations, is it a collective cop-out?

And, if we each are a unique blend of human energy, then why can’t each and every situation that preents itself to us also be a unique blend of situaton energy?

Are situations created?

Or, did they always exist, in one form or another?”

Something to think about, eh?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 2

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4. Spirit tells me that

Compassion is a variable – more or less. Forgiveness is not – it’s either/or.

Language makes a difference.

The words we use to describe our feelings can express honesty, or pretense, possibly without our even knowing it.

Forgiveness would be globally disastrous to us all.

We lock our doors to protect ourselves from those who might enter and help themselves to whatever they choose.

Rule of law does not forgive thieves.

So much nonsense has been pushed at us about forgiveness being holy and sacred.

“It’s madness.

Compassion serves us much better, for we can understand what circumstances may have driven someone to commit whatever crime, and yet accept that justice must also be served.

You do the crime – you pay the time.

Forgiveness may have been introduced by the Church, for, since nobody can really forgive, it makes them feel guilty, and in need of confession and forgiveness.

Confession (not of the crime, but for not being able to forgive it), and the compensation.

Feed the Poor Box.

How much of what goes into that Poor Box actually goes to the poor?

Only the priests know for sure, and other Church employees.

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5. Spirit tells me that

Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.

Perhaps everything does.

Was it Plato who told his wouldj-be students that before they could enter his school, they had to study Math?

Basic mathematical principles apply to all fields of life, even spirituality.

Awareness develops, not on its own, but on measuring the results of our everyday rejsponses to situations tht present themselves to us.

People, places, and things come together in situations.

Perhaps situations can be seen as relationships between us and everyone and everything else.

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Ref: My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 5.

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6. Spirit tells me that

What shape is your triangle?

Emotion, thought, and awareness expand or shrink.

How aware of our emotions and thoughts are we, and who’s on top?

Perhaps emotins and thoughts interacting with each other create sensations.

Thoughts and emotions are not awareness, and yet, perhaps they each and all are aware of being what they are.

It’s possible that we can each only so-called awaken to a unique degree of such.

We each are what we each are, a unique blend of all possible qualities and types of human energy.

And yet, we may each have much more potential to open to awakening than we now are aware of.

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Ref: My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 4

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7. Spirit tells me that

We remember, if we do, some people, places, things, and situatons.

Can situations be considered as relationships that pull some poepl, places, and things together as one memory?

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8. Spirit tells me that

Response is what it’s all about in all life situations.

Response is all that we have any control over, if we do.

We may have simply developed a pattern of response to all similar situations, until we learned that they just didn’t fit this particular situation with a pleasant outcome.

Are all relationships as a game of tennis?

A series of practices responses?

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Ref: My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 4.

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9. Spirit tells me that

The so-called unconscious mind as AI at its finest?

We feed it with all we do, and then ..

Timeless wisdom teachers always encouraged us not just to use our mind, but to develop an ever-expanding awareness of it.

It is as a universal library of all that has ever been.

And more.

It’s alive – as alive as we could ever hope to be.

And all that lives is creative, more or less, and in one way or another.

And so, if we’re not directing our own future, the unconscious will.

Should we call it Self, Soul, or Hal?

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Ref: My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 8

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10. Spirit tells me that

Energy Moves. Reading the future may never become an exact science.

But, everything that is happening now has potential to develop into someting else.

What something else?

It can chanage direction, or, even with a car racing 90 miles per hour down a dead-end street, there is a chance that it will run out of fuel, have some other kind of breakdown, or the driver may choose to slow down or even stop. Slowing down would reduce impact, while stopping might prevent it.

How does that relate to how we’re living our lives?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 10

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11. Spirit tells me that

If everyone knew that how we dressed expressed the quality of our Ego, then …?

How would we dress our Self?

The Tarot Major Arcana card “The Star” shows a naked woman, under the light of a starry sky, pouring water from two jugs, one on to a small pond and the other onto the ground.

Spirit tells me that her nakedness expresses transparency.

My possibly prudish response to that is that it might just as easily express a pretense of transparency.

If our naked body is as our inner Self, then how to dress it to express it?

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Ref: My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 10

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12. Spirit tells me that

“20 Leagues Under the Sea.”

How to measure unconditional love?

Shallow?

Sure, we all care for whomever and/or whatever cause, but just how much to we bloody well care?

Shallow? Deep” Or somewhere in between?

Infinite degrees of every variable?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 11

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13. Spirit tells me that

No other option is available.

We’re moving into the future, willingly or otherwise.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 3

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14. Spirit tells me that

Our personal energy comfort zone could never be ours alone.

It exists with or without us, or we could never return to it.

And, we didn’t create it, though we’re part of it, but may have cocreated it with all souls, past, present, and future, who share it with us, when and while they do.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 12

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15. Spirit tells me that

We each have a life to live, and so has everyone else.

How to keep in our own?

It isn’t possible.

We interconnect?

How to move beyond traffic that seems stuck?

We’re guided from within, if we can release the illusion of self-control.

Some might suggest that we can indivdiualize and live according to our own, personal divine truths and desires.

Where did we get these so-called personal divine truths and desires?

How original are they?

Is it possible for any of these to be self-created?

Is it a personal choice we make?

Some deep thinkers have generously shared their ideas with all who cared to listen, and yet, some others have shared different ideas.

Also, we each have a personal, more or less, inner source of understanding, if we care to listen to it.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 12

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16. Spirit tells me that

Letting it be is not the same as letting it become.

We make a difference to what happens in the future.

It’s too late to change what now is.

Where do we go from here?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 13

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17. Spirit tells me that

We each have reasons of our own, until we become aware that we share them with all …

We share our personal reasons, each and all, with most everyone else.

How is that possible?

We’re each and all human, and humanity shares a limited variety of patterns of response to any possible situation.

It’s much like language, in that respect.

Not all human languages share all the sounds of all other human languages, and yet no one human language possesses sounds that no other human language can.

There is an exact limit to all possible human sounds.

So it is with human responses to whatever situation might present itself to any one of us.

We differ from each other in that we speak and respond from a unique perspective that is anything but unique.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 15

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18. Spirit tells me that

Everything we say, think, feel, or do, or imagine saying, thinking, feeling, and …

A pattern is being created, unless, of course, our thinking, feeling, doing, or imagining is following a previously created pattern of thinking, feeling, doing, or imagining.

Is a baby’s first cry an original response to a new experience?

There are cries and there are cries, but do we each begin with an original cry of our own, and then adapt it to the response it gets?

Do we play that game throughout our entire life?

And, if we do it with one form of response, …

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 14

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19. Spirit tells me that

Heart and Head as Yin and Yang?

With Self (or Soul) as Tao?

Ego could be Illusion.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 17

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20. Spirit tells me that

Is that what habits are?

It’s so easy to get stuck into responding the way we’ve always responded to whatever type of situation or relationship.

And, perhaps, relationships are situations that exist beyond time and space.

Is that what habits are?

Patterns of response to life situations, developed over time?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 17

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21. Spirit tells me that

War is a natural condition of Life.

There is no Life without war.

We choose our wars.

“War is a natural condition of Life.”

Who said that?

When it comes right down to the bottom line, is it a matter of life or death?

Do we pretend that we’re not at war with humger?

Do we pretend that we’re not at war with disease?

We intend to survive, at whatever necessary price.

It’s as simple as that.

What would it be like to stop fighting Death?

To stop caring for ourselves?

To stop caring for some others?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 17

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22. Spirit tells me that

We are now leaving the past and entering the future, with every breath we take, or stop taking.

Now is trapped in space and time, between an endless past and an endless future.

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My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 19

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23. Spirit tells me that

“This little hand is a good little hand, and this little hand …

Are self and ego like that?

Each …?

How many remember the child’s verse for self-care that goes, “This little hand is a good little hand, and this little hand is his brother. They each stay clean and fit to be seen, for each of them washes the other.”

Self and Ego can play that game.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Capacity expands into potential.

Does, or can, Ego expand into Self?

Is it like conscious and unconscious?

Each a part of the other?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 19

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24. Spirit tells me that

We’re each and all human, if we are.

Differences don’t cancel out similarities.

An Oak, Maple, Pine, and Spruce are as much a tree as any of the others, and yet they each are unique in their own way.

So it is with us humans.

Can we teach our children to dare to recognize differences, and become aware that they usually only exist, if they do, at a surface level.

We each and all have the same basic needs and desires.

One human forest.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 17

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25. Spirit tells me that

If our individual conscious minds are unique expressions of the collective unconscious, then, as we consciously absorb material from our personal unconscious minds, does our conscious mind (Ego/Personality) ever lose its uniqueness?

The uniqueness is in the combination of unconscious materials interacting with the conscious mind.

Then, doesn’t it necessarily follow that we each and all are unique blends of the conscious and unconscious?

With, perhaps, the awareness of the variable of oneness determining, or expressing, how expanded our awareness is?

The air in a balloon expands the physical form of the balloon as more air is blown into it.

Also, as a natural consequence of the balloon becoming more expanded and lighter, since the form is expanded (as is elastic) and allows the balloon to rise higher into the atmosphere.

The conscious mind could be seen as a balloon, with content from the unconscious allowing/causing it to rise and expand.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 17

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26. Spirit tells me that

We are the way we are because that’s the way we have become.

It could have been …

It could have been different.

Or could it?

If we are the way we are, now, then we may always have been the way we were, whenever.

Is it only with each response to each situation in our life that we determine what we will become in the next minute?

Do we develop and then decline?

Is there a peak moment for each of us, whether sooner or later, when we reach the furthest point of development, physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually?

Waves rise to their ultimate height and then collapse.

Fruit ripens until it reaches the highest point of ripeness, and then begins to rot.

Individually and collectively, where is humanity, now?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 21

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27. Spirit tells me that

Self-care can co-exist with care by and for some others. It’s not a substitute.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 21

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28. Spirit tells me that

Science and I Ching tell us that we are both the observer and the observed.

And, if we can be both, then we may also be each at many levels of each.

Whatever is observed may also be observing something or someone who is also observing something or someone who … infinity?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 21

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29. Spirit tells me that

The power of attitude – it not only colors the world we live in – it cocreates it.

Why does psychology seem to ignore the power of attitude?

Are we each born with a certain predisposition to respond to life situations in a unique way?

Sure, we can blame mass media and fake or distorted news for helping us develop certain attitudes toward some people, places, and things, lifestyles, etc.

And yet, we may each have been born as a unique perspective or attitude.

Is it possible to be a perspective, or do we simply have one?

It makes a difference if we hope to change someone’s perspective or attitude.

Who ever cares to change their own?

And is there any difference between perspective and attitude?

If so, then what?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 23

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30. Spirit tells me that

Life feeds on life – a basic law of evolution, physical, emotional, intellectual and s …

Can it be any different with spiritual development?

We feed on the wisdom of earlier teachers who learned from earlier teachers, who …

How aware are we of how we’ve become the person we now seem to be?

Who did we learn from?

Or what experiences did we learn from?

Or fail to learn from?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 22

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31. Spirit tells me that

Vibration doesn’t exist separate from anything else.

It’s a kind of movement.

Dance steps are patterns of movement.

So is vibration.

Thee may be infinite variables of vibrational movement.

Everyone and everything may vibrate/move in different, but fairly consistent patterns.

Everyone breathes, and yet some breathe more deeply than do some others.

And yet, we each and all breathe.

Some of us talk and think slower, and talk louder, and yet these are patterns of movement that vibrate in and out at slower, quicker, deeper, more shallow, softer, more forceful, …

The list goes on.

We each create a unique vibration for those who can sense our energy.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 22

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32. Spirit tells me that

Another Murphy Law?

Time expands to fill the space available?

Eternity and infinity?

“Work expands to fill the time available” is an old Murphy Law.

So why not time playing the same game?

How to measure eternity?

How to fill infinity?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 28

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33. Spirit tells me that

Can our ancestors be seen as a living part of the collective unconscious?

Can there be anything but living unconscious?

Not behind me, but within me.

My ancestors tell me they are walking with me.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 28

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34. Spirit tells me that

How can we know how far we can go until we’ve gone as far as we can?

Age can be measured in years.

Distance is measured differently.

We develop skills and understanding over time.

And yet, time is not the only factor involved.

The intensity of our interest in learning whatever also has a powerful affect on how well we learn whatever.

Unless, of course, we’re very intent on learning whatever, but have no capacity of inborn potential to develop the skills we desire.

I was a total failure at music and art, and yet I loved them both, and seemed to believe that if I just hung in there long enough … Is it the same with an aging mind?

Can we know when we’ve reached our capacity to learn anything new?

Or, is it only some others who become aware of this?

Do we simply hang on as long as we can?

Now that I’m 89, I think that I’m allowed to ask such questions.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 28

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35. Spirit tells me that

If we can feel sad instead of angry that whatever negative situation developed, then how would it change our physical response to whatever?

If compassion could become our primary response to all negative situations, then …?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 27

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36. Spirit tells me that

I held on to 39 for so long that I forgot how old I was – nearly 50 years ago.

Will I play that same silly game with 89?

Will I even get the chance?

Yet, here I am at 89.

Imagine that?

How did it happen?

I guess we just keep going as long as we keep going.

Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes.

May you have a wonderful day and a wonderful life.

And do may everfyone else.

I love you all.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 26

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37. Spirit tells me that

When Ego is Yin, must Self be Yang?

If so, then must a Yang Ego have a Yin Self?

It would make sense for the seeming polarities to struggle together.

It can’t just be me who seems to have to deal with a so-called complementary inner power.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 25

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38. Spirit tells me that

The power of attitude – it not only colors the world we live in, it co-creates it.

Why does psychology seem to ignore the power of attitude?

Are we each born with a certain predisposition to respond to life situations in a unique way?

Sure, we can blame mass media, and fake or distorted news for helping us develop certain attitudes toward some people, places, and things, lifestyles, etc.

And yet, we may each have been born as an individual perspective or attitude.

Is it possible to be a perspective, or do we simply have one?

It makes a difference if we hope to change someone’s perspective or attitude.

Who ever cares to change their own?

And is there any difference between perspective and attitude?

If so, then what?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook posts – Nov 23

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39. Spirit tells me that

we owe our allegiance to our own kind, at least as long as they are our own kind.

Who are our own kind?

How to measure ourselves with some others?

Who do we feel more at one with?

And, why?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 23

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40. Spirit tells me that

A unique human recipe – a little more of this and a little less of that makes me, or …

Bob Dylan sang it well with “I’m not different than anyone.

Talking to me is the same as talking to you.”

Well, maybe not quite the same.

We each seem to have a unique capacity to understand different things from different perspectives.

The problem arises when we claim to own the perspective, as if it was more than a variable of all other perspectives.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 24

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41. Spirit tells me that

Pain is unavoidable.

Buddha said that.

So is fear.

I said that.

Are they the same?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 1

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42. Spirit tells me that

The stakes are high – the collective soul of humanity.

We play the cards we’re dealt.

An old song tells it well, “It’s what you do with what you’ve got.

Never mind how much you’ve got.

It’s what you do with what you’ve got that pays off in the end.”

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 1

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43. Spirit tells me that

I am the way, and so are you.

We each are the way, not the destination.

How we live …

We’re a work in progress.

How far do we progress in any one lifetime may determine our starting point for the next lifetime.

Unless, of course, we’ve learned all that we care to about the life we have lived, and prefer to try something else.

Next time – mountain climbing?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 1

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44. Spirit tells me that

They wouldn’t fit in.

If we had taught our children what we now know about life …

Our children live in a different world than we grew up in.

We gave them what we could to help them live in a world beyond our knowing.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 1

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45. Spirit tells me that

Some of us are called while some of us may simply be on call until someone more …

Until someone more capable and willing is available.

How to know if we’re just filling in for someone else, and if so, where are they?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 1

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46. Spirit tells me that

Compassion vs forgiveness.

Does it have to be an either/or, or can they blend?

Compassion is a state of mind that connects us with another.

Forgiveness seems to separate us into two sides – one is the victim/forgiver and the other is the wrongdoer, the forgiven.

Compassion accepts that justice must be done.

You still must pay the price.

How could you send anyone to jail for something you had forgiven them for?

I see forgiveness as being taught.

Nobody can teach compassion.

And compassion, being a state of mind, isn’t directed at any one person or situation.

It’s like unconditional love – it expands from within.

Usually, forgiveness is a decision that relates to a specific person or problem.

Do so-called forgiven people forgive others?

Or, are there some who forgive and some who seem to need to be forgiven?

We each have our own nature.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov. 17

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47. Spirit tells me that

The need to be in control does get such bad press, and yet, an attribute of Life?

If the need to be in control is an attribute of Life itself, and we each are a unique blend of all aspects and/or attributes of Life, then it may be a matter of only more or less control that we each seem to need over our own life and, possibly, if we can, over some other people, places, things, and situations.

If so, then are leaders born to be leaders if they possibly can become leaders?

Do all leaders recognize this quality in themselves and in the other leaders (not to mention potential leaders) whom they must interact with?

Is politics necessarily a Big Boys Club that the rest of us pretend includes us too?”

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 4

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48. Spirit tells me that

Movement is a Law of Life – here’s a push and pass it on.

Resistance is a variable.

And yet, what or who can move without moving everything else in its way?

Is it only forms that move?

Not a chance.

Energy moves, and emotions and thoughts are forms of energy.

So, one pushes another.

And yet, the world stays together, more or less.

Is that a miracle?

Or, is there another force at work?

One that pulls us together even as we’re pushing each other away?”

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 4

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49. Spirit tells me that

From birth to death, we’re each and all, a never-ending story, as a dream or movie.

It might be different with a dream or a movie, for they seem to be able to start and end where the director chooses them to do so.

For most of us living our own stories, we didn’t choose, or if we did, then we’re not usually consciously aware of having done so.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook posts – Dec 3

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50. Spirit tells me that

Life feeds on life. whether physical, emotional, intellectual, or sjpiritual.

Physical beings need physical food.

So it is with emotions – they feed on each other.

Thoughts play the same game – one leads to another.

So it is with spiritual development – we expand our awareness of oneness as we expand our awareness of oneness.

It’s as simple as that.

Or is it?

So, some might ask, how do we expand our awareness?

Or, how do emotions feed on each other?

Or thoughts?

Mystery may be part of the game?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 3

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51. Spirit tells me that

Abuse of power may always be a human potential., and yet – an option of choice?

We’ve still got a long way to go to clear our hearts and minds from our addiction to hostility to solve problems, whether personal or between nations.

When will we learn that it doesn’t work, at least not long-term?

And yet, there may never have been a time in history when nations have attempted to resolve conflicts by gathering together to talk about them.

And by sharing resources to care for people in need, as happens now.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 2

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52. Spirit tells me that

Believing is accepting someone else’s claim to knowing whatever.

What do we know?

We know that rain is wet.

We can feel its wetness.

We know that the sun is warm and bright.

We can feel the heat, and the brightness can sometimes make us feel the need to shield our eyes from directly looking at it

We don’t need to believe that the rain is wet and/or that the sun is warm.

We feel the truth of these claims.

Dome of us have had a personal experience of a physical, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual type, and yet there is no way we can share our knowing.

It has to be a first-hand experience.

But, we can choose to believe that what someone else tells us is true.

Our life may, at times, depend upon it.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook posts – Dec 2

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53. Spirit tells me that

While most of us watch the show, the leaders of our world, and some others …

Our leaders, political, business, academic, etc. and social activists can get such bad press at times.

And yet, they’re the ones who are cocreating humanity’s tomorrow while the rest of us adapt to whatever happens or complain.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 5

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54. Spirit tells me that

If the physical world requires everyone and everything to be physical, or to pretend to …

Can the worlds of emotion and thought play the same game?

After all, every game has rules.

I need my mind and my ego.

May they be with me to the end.

Ego may be Self (or Mind) personified in our physical world, which would allow for both an individual ego and an expanded variety of collective egos.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 8

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55. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance goes beyond compassion, and far beyond forgiveness, to unite diversity.

Whatever has happened has possibly happened for many more reasons than one.

Whatever anyone has done, or may seem to have done, has possibly been done for reasons beyond our knowing and/or understanding.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 9

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56. Spirit tells me that

Do all of the so-called New Age gurus, teachers, psychologists, philosophers …

Have they each been given (and share) one piece of the seeming mystery of Life?

It just is?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 8

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57. Spirit tells me that

Mysteries and miracles serve us well if they help us try to understand how and where …

“Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could.”

An old song tells it as it is.

But where do so-called mysteries and miracles come from?

Do we attract them to us when we have developed our mind to open to them?

What if they’re out (or in) there, somewhere, and waiting for us to welcome them?

And, if it’s a case of opening to them, then how?

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 8

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58. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance releases resistance.

They can’t co-exist together, except as variables of …

As we learn to accept that much of our resistance to different people, places, things, and situations has been the result of social-conditioning and/or self-conditioning from habitual responses to past experiences, we can, if we will to, develop a more relaxed attitude to differences between the people, places, things, situations, and ideas that present themselves to us.

We can become more flexible in our thinking, and yet still prefer our own way (if it is our chosen way) of living in the world.

We don’t have to be like everyone else, or like anyone else, to learn to live in harmony with each other.

Mutual respect can do it every time.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 8

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59. Spirit tells me that

Whatever song she sings, and whatever uniform he wears, a singer is a singer.

A singer is a singer – someone who sings.

A poet writes poems.

A soldier is, or has been, trained to fight against other soldiers wearing different uniforms than his own.

Hockey players do the same thing – they’ve been trained to play hockey against other teams wearing different uniforms.

Did the ancient Greek leaders invent sports as an alternative to war?

“Bring out your best.”

It’s so much less destructive than the way we do politics today.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 8

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60. Spirit tells me that

Nobody speaks language.

I learned that in linguistics.

We each speak a language or …

Language is as an idea, concept, or archetype, and contains all possible human sounds.

It’s the same, in some ways, with table, religion, or spirituality.

There may be an infinite variety of them all.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 13

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61. Spirit tells me that

How to love in a safe way?

Safe for us and the loved – a skill we came to learn?

Love is a risky business.

It’s not for amateurs.

Is it the original creative skill?

Of course, love is also an emotion that has infinite variations of strength, flexibility, and endurance.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 13

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62. Spirit tells me that

Expanded awareness doesn’t necessarily mean a loss of flexibility in response to …

Whatever situations present themselves are as a stimulus to response, and seeing the larger picture doesn’t restrict our response.

We might still have to stop a charging animal with the most effective means possible.

As in ‘whatever it takes.”

Compassion for whatever triggered the charge doesnt’ require us to be victims of it.

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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 12

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63. Spirit tells me that

Any religion is better than no religion at all.

Heart and head have developed union.

All individual human societies have shared a common religion.

Is it a necessary evolutionary development of human consciousness?

The problem arises when societies have come in contact with othe societies whose members share a different religious belief system.

How can they both be true?

Perhaps the time has come in human evolutionary development when we can become aware of each and all being true from a particular social perspective.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 12

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64. Spirit tells me that

Perhaps we’re each and all doing okay if we consider our lifetime as just a day in …

If “a day is as a thousand years” then perhaps it depends on how we look at it..

Morning, noon, evening, and night – as with a day, so with a lifetime?

If our physical being is as Ego (or personal consciousness) and our Self (or personal unconscious)) as the real me, with our Ego consciousness express itself in physical form, but given a time limit. kis5t om case it lost interest in letting it all go at the end of the day.

Perhaps that’s why our body tires out at the end of the day, and we sleep, not because we want to, but because some higher inner power pulls the plug and tells us, Good Night.

Comments:

Ref. My 2p023 Facebook Posts – Dec 12

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65 Spirit tells me that

Isn’t it curious that the so-called conscious mind is unconscious of the so-called …

Has there been an imaginary role-reversal? Children play Mommy and Daddy, but they know that they’re playing a game.

How aware are we that we’re doing that same thing when we pretend (or possibly even believe the lie) that the unconscious mind is not conscious, not only of itself, but of the so-called conscious mind, which may only serve as a bridge between two worlds – the world of Mind and the physical/material world.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 11

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66. Spirit tells me that

How far has science come when we believe in aliens, but non-physical humans?

No way.

And yet, even some physical humans seem to be more or less dense than some others.

As in form – so in substance?

What does it mean to be human?

Could there be infinite variables/dimensions?

If so, then can we discover them?

And then what?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 13

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67. Spirit tells me that

Self-proclaimed humility, surrender, and sacrifice – arrogance in disguise?

Can it be a public confession?

And yet, confessions usually relate to negative actions.

After all, who confesses that they’re doing everything right?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 13

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68. Spirit tells me that

We’re each on a path of our own, to a common destination – Self-discovery.

What will it look like?

What will it feel like?

Will we recognize it?

Will it really be a final destination, or simply a stepping stone to …?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 12

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69. Spirit tells me that

A seamless world of time and space.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow woven …

Our human body ages in the same way, and so, why not human development of conscious awareness and understanding?

We can never again be as we once were.

Could we have imagined and planned for how we now are?

Is it possible to imagine and plan for what we might yet be?

We do plan for tomorrow, one day at a time, or from one season to another, but only in a limited way.

We plan what to do more than what to become.

Unless we’re studying how to become skilled in one thing or another.

Some people have a greater or more-focused imagination than do some others.

Some of us are more or less intelligent and/or ambitious than are some others.

And yet, again, these qualities qualities come in infinite variations of each other.

How do we all manage to live as peacefully with so many different people as we do, more or less?

Is it a mkiracle?

Mystery?

Or is it just a seamless blend of energies woven together and expressed as unique (more or less0 human forms?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 13

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70. Spirit tells me that

“Nothing personal, but …”

Haven’t we all heard that opening line at some time?

Who was it who said, “Everything is personal.”

Or, “In as much as you’ve done it to these guys, you’d do it to me.”

Or words to that affect.

Whatever anyone can do or say to anyone else, they’re capable of doing or saying to us.

Something to think about when we see horrible things being done.

“Know thyself”

And, if we know ourself well enough, then we know that we’re more like everyone else than we are different from them.

We each and all struggle with some emotions and thoughts, and call them our own, even knowing, or strongly suspecting that everyone else can be as more or less attracted to and by the same emotions and thoughts that seem to hang around us, while they do.

Feelings are as a foundation for emotional and intellectual development.

They raise us above basic animal drives and instinct.

The animal within our nature isn’t threatened by evolutionary development of emotions and thoughts, nor or instinct and intuition, or, for that matter, spirituality.

We simply become more complete when our different qualities of energy learn to harmonize with each other.

I wasn’t always able to understand that truth.

I seemed to be caught up in an either/or perspective and attitude.

It took a long struggle with a dedicated teacher.

How I survived, I don’t know.

Social conditioning may be a blessing in disguise, for it gives us the opportunity to prove the value of that conditioning, or to dare to move beyond it.

It’s not possible to move beyond social conditioning until we first become aware that we have been socially conditioned.

Even awareness is not enough to change anything.

We need to then accept what seems to be so.

Even acceptance is not enough to change anything.

We must go beyond awareness and acceptance to understanding how and why it all developed.

Then, and only then, can we begin to develop skills, if we choose to, to go beyond our conditioned state of mind.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Dec 15

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71. Spirit tells me that

Understanding may follow awareness and acceptance.

Then skills may develop.

Is that the order we learn in?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 18

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71. Spirit tells me that

A possible duplicate? From Nov 5?

“Nothing comes from nothing.

Nothing ever could.”

Perhaps everything does.

My youngest grandson is having problems with Math.

How to inspire him to give it all he can?

Math may be the foundation of reality.

Zero, or nothing, may be seen as the nothingness that mystics might call infinite potential, from which everything develops.

Was it Plato who tole his would-be students that before they could enter his school of philosophy, they had to study Math.?

Basic mathematical principles apply to all fields of life, even spirituality.

Awareness develops, not on its own, but on measuring the results of our everyday responses to situations that present themselves to us.

People, places, and things come together in situations.

Perhaps situations can be seen as relationships between us and everyone and everything else.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Nov 5

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72. Spirit tells me that

Asking our self why expresses awareness, acceptance, and curiosity.

Scientists all?

The problem arises (if it can be considered as a problem) when our self responds.

We can begin to talk to our self, and then our self develops of sense of individuality, and projects itself as an actual being, and a more superior one at that.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 18

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73. Spirit tells me that

Awareness is never enough., but it is a first step.

We need skills to help us adapt.

What skills will help us adapt to a changing world?

What skills have helped us adapt to the world as it now is, which once was out of sight?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 17

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74. Spirit tells me that

“Still I seek to find a reason to believe.”

Who sang that song?

“Still knowing …”

“Still knowing that you lied …”

Are we still personally responsible for what we believe about other people, places, and things when we know that our sources of information (and disinformation) have a vested interest in deceiving us?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 14

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75. Spirit tells me that

We each are Tao, with Yang and Yin expressing the bi-polar qualities within us

Assertive and Yielding cannot exist without the other.

Without someone or something yielding, there is no asserting.

And, without someone or something asserting, there is no yielding.

War and Peace need each other to exist.

so, how to live in peace when war is part of our natural existence?

Our way of life.

Is there a compromise?

Acceptance and adaptation may be the answer.

Are these qualities as minor versions of war and peace?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 14

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76. Spirit tells me that

The difference is that AI is acceptable, and yet non-physical human intelligence …?

It’s possible that everyone hears voices that nobody else seems aware of.

“It’s all in your head.”

Of course it is, or do these voices come from around our head?

We can wear ear buds that connect to music and other sounds that are generated through a small metal device we might carry with us.

Nobody else hears what we’re listening to, and yet most everyone seems to accept that we’re listening to human sounds or AI produced human sounds.

PR can make a difference in what we believe.

Given enough promotion and we can believe almost anything.

So why hasn’t there been any large scale promotion of higher levels of human intelligence than we physical humans seem capable of?

Or is there a game going on that calls for Hush Hush as far as the general public is concerned?

After all, how can there be mass social conditioning if everyone is listening to their private authority?

Chaos.

With Ai it’s different in that physical human intelligence is in control, for now.

Or is it?

Something to think about, eh?

An answer to it all just slipped into my mind.

There’s big money in the future of AI.

How can anyone exploit people following their own individual authority?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 27

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77. Spirit tells me that

They never trade places with each other.

Essence is essence and form is form.

They never trade places and yet neither can exist without the other.

Somewhere along a continuum, one is always more or less of the other.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 27

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78. Spirit tells me that

If life is energy and life comes in forms, does that mean that energy also forms?

Life and energy as the same reality?

If so, then since life is aware of itself, then is energy also aware of itself?

Why do we use two words to mean the same thing?

I am a form of life and my form contains energy, or at least as much as it does contain, while it does.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 26

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79. Spirit tells me that

Consciousness develops out of unconsciousness.

It doesn’t work the other way.

It’s the same with ego and self.

It’s not a chicken and egg game.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 23

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80. Spirit tells me that

Repeat after me, I am different things to different people.

What about to me?

Can we be different things even to the same people, at different times and in different situations?

Isn’t it also the same with how we look at our self?

We’re not likely consistently the same at all times and in all situations.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 23

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81. Spirit tells me that

My life is a story that can only be true to me, if it is.

If truth is a continuum …?

Is every so-called truth no more than a more or less truth?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 22

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82. Spirit tells me that

I’d rather be a shadow than a puppet.

Try putting a shadow away in a box, eh?

Puppets can be disposed of when they no longer serve a desired purpose.

Shadows cling on till the end, and tell a story for those who can read it.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 22

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83. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance and understanding can teach us self-defense.

Forgiveness?

A loser’s game.

Why is forgiveness a loser’s game?

It sets us up for future abuse adn self-abuse.

For, if we encourage abuse, then we are abusing ourselves.

We don’t usually forgive a tiger for not being a dog.

We know that tigers can be dangerous.

It’s in their nature to be aggressive.

Nothing personal.

There’s no point in getting angry with them for being what they are.

And yet, knowing (from experience) their nature, we can protect ourself from it.

Not to do so is self-destructive.

It’s as simple as that.

Don’t be an easy target.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 22

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84. Spirit tells me that

Is psychology the study of the personal history of human mental evolution?

How?

We each are the way we each are, and yet, how did we get this way?

Experience was a powerful contributing factor, and yet we each may respond to the same experience in a more or less unique way.

If psychology is the study of mind and behavior, then whose mind? Whose behavior?

We may each and all be part of a collective mind, and collective patterns of behavior.

And yet, we have each developed a mind of our own (more or less) and a more or less unique pattern of behavior, and patterns of response to the behaviors of those around us.

Knowing this can help us develop conscious awareness of how and why we act the way we do, and how we might be able to change the way we respond to the world we live in.

Is that study now called anthropology?

Someday, there’ll be acceptance of blending between many now separate fields of study.

Is there only one field?

Awareness is the ticket to understanding how integrated all life, and all possible life situations are.

Our awareness expands, perhaps not exponentially, but certainly infinitely, as we open to it.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 29

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85. Spirit tells me that

Not all relationships are as level playing fields.

Some seem more as rocky ground.

And then there are slippery slopes, and swamps.

Can you name a few other types of relationships?

I always seemed to need a level playing field.

When will I ever learn?

A voice of wisdom tells me that “The only level playing field is artificial turf.”

And still I seem to need to try to level it all out.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 29

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86. Spirit tells me that

Social conditioning is self conditioning when we do what we do for approval.

Is it part of human nature to seek to satisfy, if we can, what some others might seem to require of us?

Individuals live in collectives.

Is it possible, or even desirable, to live totally isolated from any other human?

Perhaps this self-conditioning that we prefer to call social-conditioning is no more than a price we choose to pay to be accepted into a community.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 28

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87. Spirit tells me that

Creation is what we do best.

We’re each and all creating a unique way of living.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 28

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88. Spirit tells me that

There is only one source of inspiration but we call it by different names, depending …

What determines the name we use to describe the source of our personal inspiration?

Do we play it safe and claim a muse?

Is it dependent upon our social conditioning?

Or, does it depend upon how we hope our readers will respond?

What other sources and/or reasons are there for claiming such are there?

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Dec 30

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89. Spirit tells me that

Mercy vs forgiveness – which comes more from the heart than the head?

Is it mercy?

That’s where I’m at, until someone can persuade me otherwise.

And, I could have asked, can there be mercy without compassion?

And, if there’s compassion, then what purpose would forgiveness serve?

Oh, the questions I could ask.

Oh, the questions that an inner source seems to ask of me, beyond what I’m able to respond.

Head is where our thinking is centered.

Can there be feeling without thought?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 30

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90. Spirit tells me that

Is it human nature to resist adapting to new situations?

How to hold on to tr4aditional ways of feeling, thinking, and doing whatever, and yet open to alternate an possibly more efficient and self-serving ways of doing whatever?

Resistance and rejection are not the same.

An agnostic is not an atheist.

Undecided.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 30

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91. Spirit tells me that

Awareness takes observation to a new depth by including the observer.

Observation is a step in the so-called scientific method.

And yet, the observer is outside of what she observes, unless she is aware that she is part of any situation that she might observe.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 30

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92. Spirit tells me that

Rumi’s field does not exist in space or time.

It’s a field of awareness.

We’ll meet …

“Beyond all thought of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

Can we come together in awareness?

Is it a matter of choice, or is it an evolutionary state of consciousness?

If so, then we each will reach that place in mind in our own time, and in our own way.

So much for negotiations,m eh?

In the meantime, we may have to accept differences.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 30

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93. Spirit tells me that

Daring to ask ourself why we do what we do expands awareness, and then …

Why do I do what I do when I do it?

What’s the payoff?

And, there’s always a payoff in mind.

Nobody does anything for nothing.

So, follow the money, or whatever.

If I can be true to my questioning nature, and ask myself why I do what I do, then I will perhaps at least expand awareness of what it is that I’m questioning myself about.

Awareness has transfer credits.

Expanded awareness of why I do this may inspire me to question why I do that.

Change can only happen after we have become aware that something is in need of changing.

Of course, it does take a bit more than awareness.

That’s only one step to ch;ange.

We need to develop intention, and that can only develop if there’s a payoff in mind.

What’s in it for me?

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 19

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94. Spirit tells me that

Will the day ever come when we value simplicity in language?

Why do some people use complex words if they intend others to clearly understand what they’re saying?

Is it a coverj-up for not really understanding themselves?

A shovel is to a spade what enlightenment is to individuation.

Jung created a language.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 29.

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95. Spirit tells me that

If we each have potential to access higher levels of mind, then why not lower?

Don’t we all know someone who can suddenly, or not so suddenly, sink into a deep and dark mindset, as if someone had pushed a wangy button?

Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde.

Psychologists, or some of them, might call this mental change bi-polar. and yet bi suggests a horizontal move, when it can be a verticle one.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 31.

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96. Spirit tells me that

“If you care, you share” has been downgraded to imply giving money.

There are so many more ways than one to express how much we care for the world we live in.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 31.

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97. Spirit tells me that

What we are is of higher value than anything we might believe, for now.

We are what we have become over a lifetime of experience, both outer and inner.

Beliefs usually come from a source other than our own, and can be changed much easier than we can choose the life we express tot he world, if we express ourself as we are.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 31.

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98. Spirit tells me that

We each are a story that could be told, if anyone cared to listen.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 31.

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99. Spirit tells me that

Two different worlds is one thing, but too different worlds is something else.

The value, or necessity, of boundaries may only be learned through experience, and some of us seem to need more experience than do some others.

I’ve always been a slow learner when it came to setting boundaries.

I simply wasn’t playing fair to those who abused their privilege.

If I had set limits away back when, would it have changed anything?

I don’t know.

Comments:

Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – Dec 31.

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End of Book Seven