1. Spirit tells me that
Rice fields prepared for the coming season are as an uncondiitonal commitment to the future.
There is no guarantee of a successful harvest, and yet, without preparation, there will be no harvest.
Life is like that.
We do what we can and hope that our efforts will be rewarded.
And yet, as the song goes, “That’s the chance you take.”
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Ref. My 2023 facebook Posts – May 16
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2. Spirit tells me that
Social conditioning protects society from the chaos of extreme individuality.
Is social conditioning our primary school of Life?
Does eveyone graduate and go beyond?
What is beyond that can build on what our early childhood caregivers and teachers have taught us about Life?
Do we then seek to learn from true elders of society?
How to find them?
Or, do they find us?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 18
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3. Spirit tells me that
Electricity and magnetism as thoughts and emotions?
Each as the black hole that the other …?
You can’t have one without the othe because each may be an expression of the other.
Or is each of the pairs as a black hole that the other emerges from?
Reality is amazing, eh?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 18
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4. Spirit tells me that
Beyond all sense of diffeence, there is a field of energy.
I’ll meet you there.
Actually, if the truth were known, we each and all are there, now, in a comfort zone that we may think is our own.
And yet, we each and all are part of coutless fiels of human energy.
Sometimes we feel more comfortable within a field of musical activity, and sometime if a field of relative silence.
Wherever we are, within our mind, we’re never alone.
We’re attracted to each other for many more reasons than one.
Like attracts like.
When we’re distressed about whatever, we don’t feel comfortable within a group of happy people.
So it is when we’re feeling happy?
Unhappy people then seem to pull us donw.
We’re just moving within some energy fields more than within some others.
But, we’re always moving.
It helps to know where we are, and why.
We may not be able to will to be somewhere else, but we can will to be something else – we can will to be more sad, happy, aware, unaware, etc.
Can we will to be alive or dead?
Perhaps, only physically, and only for a time.
If we are human energy, then we’ll be back, for better or worse.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 18
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5. Spirit tells me that
Awareness comes before acceptance, or rejection, if only in point of time.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 14
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6. Spirit tells me that
Are we as intelligent at 19 as we’re ever likely to become?
As the twig is bent ..
As the twig is bent, so will the tree grow.
And yet, not all twigs are equal in strength, size, or flexibility, or density, for that matter.
Is it the same with human minds?
Do we just gatherf more information as we age?
And, is the very kind of information that we gather throughout our lifetime, long or short, of the same quality and t ype as we gathered at 19?
Is it possible for us to change our way of thinking, or living, after we’ve reached middlee age?
How many of us older people are much different thatn we were 30, 40, or 50 years ago?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 22
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7. Spirit tells me that
Could we possible be any different than we now are?
And yet, we might not always have been as we now are.
What might we yet become, with a little imagination and intention?
Was Popeye aware that his personality was the signature statement of his soul?
“I am what I am” says it all.
Perhaps, next time, I’ll develop a different personality, one in keeping with the situation.
For now, I find myself echoing Popeye.
“I am what I am.”
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May21
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8. Spirit tells me that
Once upon a time, in a land far away, we were much different than we are today.
Some call it progress.
Others call it evolution.
We were there, and then, and now we’re here, wherever here may be.
The past moved us into the present, and yet we’ll not likely stop here.
Life is movement, constant movement, and we’re heading into the future, whatever it may be like.
If the past created the present, then we’re collectively creating our future.
What will it be like?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 21
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9. Spirit tells me that
Why do some speak of a so-called now that isn’t here?
Where else could it be?
Then isn’t now and thee isn’t here.
Time and space come together, now and here.
It’s like some doomsayers who claim the world will end today.
That’s just not possible.
It’s alwready tomorrow, in Japan.
And, for all I know, it might still be yesterday, somewhere else.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 21
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10. Spirit tells me that
If human energy fields can be negative or positive, can we change our status?
How?
How would a psychically advanced therapist assess the general situation of human relationships int the world, today?
What might she recommend that would be feasible, to achieve a more harmonized intra-movement of our energies?
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Ref. My 2023 facebook Posts – May 22
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11. Spirit tells me that
A collective warehouse of imagination.
Is that what the unconscious is?
Haven’t we all evied the skills, style, or shape of some others?
Why can’t I be like that?
Or, why can’t I do that?
Or, why don’t I look like that?
The list goes on, and yet if we could all do, be, or look as everyone else, then it wouldn’t seem very special.
We usually all have feet, and yet some of us have more graceful looking toes.
The luck of the draw?
DNA?
And, if everyone else had whatever we have, then we wouldn’t likely consider it to be all that special.
We want what we don’t have, or more of what we have, if what we have is other than what everyone else has.
Is that just part of human nature?
And, how did I wander away from the collective unconscious?
Or, did I?
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Re. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 22
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12. Spirit tells me that
The songs we sing may express our philosophical state of mind.
They tell it …
The thoughts we think and the songs we sing – how different are they from each other?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 23
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13. Spirit tells me that
We don’t all follow a leader.
Some of us , perhaps even most of us, follow a crowd.
Do most of us follow a few, who follow a few – is that how crowds are developed?
Is that how leaders develop their following?
Gather a few who gather a few who …
Whatever happened to that lofty individual attitude expressed by, “I see a goal.
I reach the goal.
I see another goal.”
One man could never do the evil that Hitler is given credit for doing.
It took millions of men and women to do that, as it does, even today.
Our leaders represent us, and we give them the credit or blame for leading us where we want to go.
We can then pretend that we’re innocent of the evil we do.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 23
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14. Spirit tells me that
Membership by invitation only.
Could we pretend that ideas that come to us …
Ideas come to us, at times, from out of the blue,
They can totally blow us away with the depth of love and wisdom.that is being shared (?) with us.
Could we pretend that we belong to a secret cult, and claim our secret guru as the source of it all?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 24
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15. Spirit tells me that
We feed AI with thoughts, and yet, thoughts have a life of their own, and attract …
The Universal Law of Attraction.
We feed our children with thoughts, and yet, they develop a mind of their own, more or less.
How can it be different with machines?
The problem arises when machines are limited to the types of thoughts we feed them.
So, according to the Universal Law of Attraction, it is this limited quantity, not to mention quality of thoughts that the machines will be attracting from the air around them.
How safe are we humans from an AI revolution?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 24
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16. Spirit tells me that
Giving to the needy doesn’t make them less needy.
It creates a dependency.
Low pay.
Skills development and a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work might inspire most to … what?
Who is going to do the work to grow the food for everyone? Who is going to build the homes, and make the clothing? When I cook a stew, it’s for me and my family. They’ve earned it by contributing to my way of life. Nature doesn’t provide anything for free. “Rain falls on the just and the unjust.” Sure, but when I water my garden, I have to provide it with double what it needs because a certain big tree is going to help itself to at least half of whatever falls on the garden. Does it have a right to what was meant for the garden? It doesn’t give a damn about rights.It has power to claim what it wants.
Marx gets bad press in a capitalist society, and yet he speaks words of truth that can apply to any society. What words? “From everyone according to his ability to everyone according to his need.” Nature doesn’t separate the flowers, fruit, grain, and other food products from weeds. Humans have to do that job on their own, or at least some humans must, or the weeds will invade the planted garden. That’s why farmers spend many hours of many days out there in the fields, tending to their work. It’s also true for domestic animals. Wild animals would invade and eat the domestic animals, who are not powerful enough to protect themselves. We need to learn to work togethr for the benefit of all. But, all those who are able to, should contribute to the best of their ability. It’s so easy, today, to avoid doing, and simply claim to be unable, when they might just be unwilling, and yet still demanding that someone do their share for them. We can’t build a caring society that way. Those who are unwell need swpecial carae to help them become as well as they can be, for their sake and for the sake of society. Those who are unskilled need to be taught skills that will help them to be as independent as they can be. For the elderly, they’ve earned, if they have, a time out from work. They’ve given to society and now it’s society’s turn to give back.
The avarice of politicians and others who hold power is no different than the avarice of the average person. Some just get to develop it a little more than do some others. But we each and all have the potential to be greedy, or not so greedy.
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” Does your brother have to give a damn about you? We each and all accept a social code that gives traffic a chance to flow smoothly, by taking turns at the crossroads. And, there are many more crossroads in life than at the intersection of roads. We each affect everyone else by everything we do. It’s only a matter of degree and intent.
All political systems can be a scam, if we let it happen. We’re each and all part of the system we live in. It couldn’t happen without us. We are responsibile for how we respond to the world we live in (or under). It’s our collective sense of responsibility (or irresponsibility) that creates society. We take advantage of each other. Some are just more aware and intentional of that reality than are some others.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 28
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17. Spirit tells me that
Why do some speak of a so-called Now that isn’t here?
Where else cojuld it be?
Then isn’t now, and there isn’t here.
Time and space come together, now and here.
It’s like some doomsayers who claim the world will end today.
It’s not possible.
It’s already tomorrow, in Japan, and for all I know, it might still be yesterday, somewhere else.
Does the mind have a structure?
Perhaps everything does, and yet, there are structures, and there are structures.
A spider’s fine web is a structure, and so are clouds, and yet they move into and out of existence, or seem to, and they can become dense and dark, or flimsy and light.
Can structures have the capacity to dissipate (or seem to) and then reappear?
Or seem to come from nowhere?
Perhaps their essence (and the essence of ideas) has always been in existence, and needs only a certain condition to give it rebirth.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 28
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18. Spirit Tells Me That
Meditation is a doorway that opens to the unconscious world, and as the personal consciou mind is as the tip of the iceberg of the personal unconscious, so it is that the personal unconscious is as the tip of the iceberg of the collective unconscious, which, for all we know may be, and likely is, as a tip of the iceberg of a greater, univeresal mind, which … to infinity and beyond?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 31
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19. Spirit tells me that
If abuse is a socially conditioned response to stress, then it must work, or …
The Law of Evolution (yes, it is a law of Life) teaches us to adapt to whatever situation presents itself tous, and to exploit that situation to serve our presnent and/or future needs, whether they be physical, emotional, or intellectual.
Are abusers caught up in a self-destructive (not to mention other-destructive) patterns of response to stressful situations?
If so, then how to help them free themselves and/or their victims from such a soul-destructive pattern of response?
They can’t possibly be happy campers.
Something is eating away within them.
Or are they, or some of them, or at least some of them, addicted to the feeling of power over at least one, or some others?
How to break free of that need to abuse, or the seeming need to be abused?
Of course, with the abused, they may believe they have no acceptable alternative but to suffer abuse.
Why?
Society may only now be offering alternatives.
Even so, the abused must choose to break free, for even being abused may have become an unhealthy response to some else’s stress.
Awareness is the answer.
The experiences of life teach us, if they do, that we each and all have the same potential, more or less, as anyone else, to express both the abused and the abuser.
Why?
To eventually teach us that it’s a mutually destructive experience.
We need to take our attention from the individuals involved and focus more on the destructive relationship, and ask ourselves how to step away from it?
Abusers can’t abuse if would-be abused did not consent to be abused.
Some will defend the abused with claims of their helplessness to prevent the situation.
And, these claims are justified, sometimes.
The good news is that in today’s society there’s help for those who are willing to accept it and pay the price – learning to be more independent and self-confident.
Playing the victim is soul-destructive.
I’ve been there.
Children can be used as a hostage, or as a reason, or excuse.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 31
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20. Spirit tells me that
You’ve got to have a dream, or a vision, or a plan, or a feeling of hunger for …
We grow from the inside-out, and from the bottom-up, but we can never grow or create alone.
We cocreate our lieves with all the energies and powers that flow within, through, and around us.
We feed on these energies, and they feed on us.
It’s a law of Life.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 30
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21. Spirit tells me that
Experience is the lesson we learn.
How to experience different situations and relationships, and discover which are more satisfying.
Where did we go to school?
Planet Earth.
What did we learn?
How to live and die.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 29
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22. Spirit tells me that
If self-awareness plays a double role – the observer and the observed , then …?
How to measure our level of self-awareness?
We necessarily measure our own intelligence and awareness, and that of those we come in contact with, if only from a general and possibly distorted observation. We measure (some say judge) the quality of the produce as we shop. We want the best we can get for the price we’re willing or able to pay. Anything scientists do, we can do, and do do, only at a less scientific level. We don’t usually weigh our measurement with instruments, other than the level of our own intelligence and awareness.
Sure, it feels good to enjoy the company of beautiful people, and yet they each and all are unique in some way from anyone else. Experience teaches us how to measure beauty, both in othe people and in ourself. How much experience do we need? As much as it takes to teach us what beauty really is.
When milk goes sour, we can tell by the taste. So it is when a relationship does the same thing. It has somehow lost what may never have been there, except in our own mind.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 29
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23. Spirit tells me that
Ten thousand experiences – the way of Life.
The path we walk through life, and we all walk our own individual path, is a path of experience.
One experience follows another, as surely as the seasons follow each other.
It’s a learning experience.
What do we learn?
We develop awareness of the ten thousand ways that Life can be lived.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 29
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24. Spirit tells me that
Attachment doesn’t express clinging.
Nails can be attached to walls without intent, at on the part of the nail.
How did the term attachment ever get into spiritual thinking?
It doesn’t adequately express the concept of emotionally clinging to people, places, and things.
Detachment is neither possible nor desirable.
We’re each and all connected to everyone and everything, and yet it isn’t emotionally healthy to cling to people, places, and things.
We need to learn to relax into whatever relationships we have in the world we live in, and enjoy them while they are with us.
Everything changes and moves into the past. but we move into the future.
Clinging to the past causes stress without rewards.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 31
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25. Spirit tells me that
How unique are we each?
Or are we each unique at all?
Social conditioning can only do so much to try to make us like everyone else.
Isn’t it amazing that we each stay the same as we began, more or less?
Our unique personalities are variables of qualities designed from inside out, or …?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – May 31
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26. Spirit tells me that
What can abusive people teach us?
If those in need can teach us compassion, then …?
Are there abusive people?
Or, are they no more (nor less) than people who have developed an unhealthy (not to mention anti-social) response to stress?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 1
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27. Spirit tells me that
History never dies, and she leaves clues for future archeologists, and some others.
The Akashic Records are considered by many to be a myth.
For some others they are as a Universal Law.
Everything we feel, think, say, and do is recorded as a living feeling, thought, word, or action, and is alive and lives forever, in one form or another.
We’re each surrounded by waves of energy that have built up from within us.
Those who have eyes to see can read our energy field, to help us better understand why we do what we do and how to bring peace to ourself, whatever we call it.
Now the question arises, if our past is written in energy, then what about our future?
Is it possible that the future has already been created?
If only as an outline on an unseen drawing board?
If so, then what decides whether it comes into the present time and makes its way into the past Akashic Records?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 1
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28. Spirit tells me that
Now and then there’s a fool such as I am – but if we can see our dream character is acting foolishly, then perhaps we have moved beyond.
Can we only see differences.
Or, can we see what we are?
If the character I play in my dreams is my real hidden self, then what a fool I am.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 4
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29. Spirit tells me that
People are people, where ever you go.
Some are fast and some are …
Why?
Have you ever stopped to think why it is that we’re all so very much like everyone else?
We each are a blend of any and all possible qualities that anyone else has.
We’re human.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 4
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30. Spirit tells me that
The collective unconscious mind – some scientists seem aware that it contains all that the collective conscious mind can become aware of.
And yet, we’re each and all a unique blend of the collective, and with more or less capacity to explore the unconscious.
How to develop our awareness of all that we’re unaware of?
Curiosity is a prerequqisite.
So is experience.
What drives curiosity?
Desire.
Some call it love.
Some use other names.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 9
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31. Spirit tells me that
If the present is moving into the past and the future is moving into the present, …?
Then, is our future already created before it arrives?
We create our future, or does it create our present?Or, is there a different kind of two-way traffic involved, wherein each interacts on the other?
Nature now knows tomorrow’s weather.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 8
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32. Spirit tells me that
Some who don’t seem to know much at all do a lot of talking.
And some, especially advertisers and politicians, intentionally pretend to know more than they do, and to encourage us to believe what isn’t true.
Why?
Follow the money.
“Those who know don’t talk and those who talk don’t know.”
Who said that?
Lao Tzu.
Everyone knows that, or do they?
And does Lao Tzu (wherever, whomever and/or whatever he may now be).
Perhaps, and perhaps not.
We know what we know,and yet there are always things we think we know, and we do not.
But what does this well-known statement really mean?
And, was it taken out of context?
And, why do we allow it to stand out alone, without closely analyzing possible depths (or shallowness) of meaning?
Why would we not talk about what we know?
Perhaps Lao Tzu is suggesting that we don’t know what we’re tgalking about, at the best of times.
We may each have developed a more or less false understanding of whatever.
If so, then perhaps talking and sharing our personal perspective would help us to develop a more accurate understanding by exposing our views to others who may know more than we do about whatever.
Nothing is learned by closing ourselve off from critical comments of others, or even from our own inner questioning self.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 7
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33. Spirit tells me that
“Not one man in ten has a satisfied mind.”
Feeling relaxed and at peace with who and what we now are
Self-confidenced?
Or self-satisfied?
Can we be satisfied without being confident?
I can.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 11
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34. Spirit tells me that
Maslow’s hierarchy of awareness – expressed as human needs as a cover-up?
Maslow would very likely have been very aware of the Kabbalah, and its teachings of developing awareness, as expressed on the Tree of Life and the Ladder of Light.
As a source of timeless wisdom, the Kabbalah teaches us that we rise above our focus on survival issues only when these have been satisfied.
Of course, we each may have our own idea of when whatever needs are satisfied enough to move on and reach for higher life goals.
Symbolism must necessarily be flexible, and that’s what any hierarchy of ideas must be, flexivle.
It’s only when we humans categorize with firm boundaries that which is basically a quality of energy that we mess up.
Energy moves, as do our needs to satisfy whatever seems to be needed to be satisfied, at any given time.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 11
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35. Spirit tells me that
Some call a spade a shovel.
So it is with enlightenment and expanded awareness.
What’s in a name?
If different names of Gods, etc. help different peple to live a good life, then it’s okay with me.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 11
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36. Spirit tells me that
It’s more than a correlation.
As within, so without refers to a state of harmony or …
If we’re not at peace with our self, as in feeling comfortable in our own skin, then we’re not going to feel at peace with anyone or anything else.
It has to begin within us.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 10
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37. Spirit tells me that
Is that what it’s all about?
Thinking was designed for a purpose – to satisfy physical and emotional needs.
Or, does thinking satisfy our need to think?
Oh! It might still be satisfying an emotinal need.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 12
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38. Spirit tells me that
Some who don’t seem to know much at all, do a lot of talking.
And some, especially advertisers and politicians, intentionally pretend to know more than they do, and to encourage us to believe what isn’t true.
Why?
Follow the money, or the votes.
“Those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.”
Who said that?
Lao Tzu.
Everyone knows that, or do they?
And, does Lao Tzu (wherever, whomever/whatever he may now be)?
Perhaps, and perhaps not.
We know what we know, and yet there are always things we think we know, and we do not.
But, what does this well-known statement really mean?
And was it taken out of context?
And, why do we allow it to stand alone, without closely analyzing possible depths (or shallowness) of meaning?
Why would we not talk about what we know?
Perhaps Lao Tzu is suggesting that we don’t know wht we’re talking about, at the best of times.
We may have each developed a more or less false understanding of whatever.
If so, then prhaps talking and sharing our personal perspective would help us to develop a more accurate understanding by exposing our views to others who may know more than we do about whatever.
Nothing is learned by closing ourselves off from critical comments of others, or even from our own inner questioning self.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 11
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39. Spirit tells me that
Attraction and Repulsion – a two-in-one Universal Law?
Are all Universal Laws dual?
We’re attracted to or repulsed.
Some people, places, and things turn us on.
Some turn us off.
Is it an individual experience?
Or have we been socially-conditioned?
Or is it partly one and partly the other?
Some people are afraid of heights.
Some get a negative, physical reaction to heights.
Psychosomatic?
Or …?
Is it a matter of each of us finding our inner comfort zone to whatever situation?
How to know if our feeling of comfort or discomfort is inborn, aquired through experience, or socially-conditioned?
It takes intention and self-reflection, that some call meditation, to help us discover why we feel the way we do about whatever or whomever.
Why bother?
We’ll be rewarded by learning where our personal comfort zone is.
We’ll feel it, and it’s a good feeling.
Everyone desires to feel good about herself.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 12
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40. Spirit tells me that
Is sprituality no more nor less than a higher than aaverage human evolution?
Then, how could it possibly be taught to anyone?
Other than by personal example.
Monkey see – monkey do, or at least some monkeys (and humans) see and do what they see and do.
If that’s the case, then perhaps all this talk of enlightenment and/or indivdiualism is simply elitist talk for human evolution of our mind?
And yet, great thoughts come to some and not to some others.
Meditation, study, and intent to understand and/or create skills and works of art, etc. require desire as an incentive.
Does desire and incentive also qualify as being evolutionary?
It seems to be generally accepted that some people are born with higher levels of potential to become this, that, or the other than do some others.
Do they bring their level of human psychological developmen with them from an ealier lifetime?
We bring our physical potential with us from our biological ancestors.
We didn’t bring modern technology from the past.
Or did we?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 12
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41. Spirit tells me that
They are what they are and they ain’t what they ain’t.
Confucius said, “No blame.”
“Don’t it always seem to be …” as a song goes, that we don’t know what we’ve got until we accept that we never had it?
I can’t be the only one who seems to create an image of someone that doesn’t fit, and then it distresses me that they’re not as they never were.
And possibly never could be?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 17
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42. Spirit tells me that
We were all born as humans.
Is that as equal as we started with?
Now what?
Some of us were born healthier than were some others.
Some were born with different cajpacities to develop health, skills, and goodness knows what else.
And, we were not all born into the same culture, race, socio-economic, not to mention power environment.
Is it a case of doing what we can with what we’ve got going for us, from day one?
And, as a spirit teacher asked me, why do we measure the leangth of our lives from the day we were born, if we were born alive?
Where did our life being?
Or, is that a devisive topic?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 16
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43. Spirit tells me that
Imagine no thoughts or emotions, simply thought and emotion as variable qualities.
Variable qualities of what, you might ask.
Of consciousness.
If we are each and all sparks of Life, then we are aware of feeling thought and emotion of variable types and strengths, at different times and in different situations.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 16
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44. Spirit tells me that
If the props have been designed, and the script has been written, did we apply …?
Did we apply to play our role in the story of human life?
Could anyone else have done it any better than we do?
Knowing we’re playing to an audience, would we do it any differently?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 18
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45. Spirit tells me that
When a new way becomes a now way, it may be time to move on, or stagnate.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 18
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46. Spirit tells me that
“Five different worlds, we live in five different worlds …”
Who sang that song?
So, you might ask, what five different worlds do we live in?
We each and all live within a physical body within a physical world.
We each and all also live within an emotional world, a thought world, a world of intellect and creativity, and within a spiritual world.
Each or these worlds is composed of its own quality of energy, and we each are a blend of each of the qualities of each of the worlds we live in.
Do we each seem more comfortable in one world than in another?
Can we learn to blend our five different worlds together?
Perhaps that can happen only when we’re alone, in meditation.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 18
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47. Spirit tells me that
They are what they are and they ain’t what they ain’t.
Confucius said, “No blame.”
“Don’t it always seem to be …” as the song goes, that we don’t know what we’ve got until we accept that we never had it.
I can’t be the only one who seems to create an image of someone that doesn’t fit, and then it distresses me that they’re not as they never were.
And, possibly, never could be.
It works both ways, too, or must.
We likely come across to some others as being other than we really are, if we only knew exactly wht we really are.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 19
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48. Spirit tells me that
Is that what everyone is?
A unique (+/-) individual within a unique (+/-) society?
Are we each and all only more or less different than anyone else?
If so, then is that also true about the societies that we each and all live in?
We gather together, if we do, in groups that are , or seem to be, at the best of times, in harmony with ur own inner natures.
“Unless, of course, we were born into or somehow drifted into a particular society, large or small, and felt comfortable enough within it to adapt to the differences between it and our own personal comfort zone, if we’ve discovered it.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 19
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49. Spirit tells me that
Imagine the material world as a sandbox in which we play at creating a human life.
Emotions and thoughts can be as scoops and spades.
Using them we gather thoughts and design them with emotions to create our castles and roads in the sand.
Do we play that game in real life?
Or, in life as real as we can imagine it to be?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 21
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50. Spirit tells me that
Turn left into heavy traffic, from a side street.
YIKES!
Don’t trust that GPS.
In today’s world, it’s just too easy to trust technological devices.
We were born with a PGS, a personal guidance system.
Call it instinct, intuition, or your conscience, or common sense.
Whatever you care to name it.
As within – so without.
Anything that can be created has a human equivalent.
Perhaps nature is what all inventions were inspired by.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 21
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51. Spirit tells me that
For better or worse, we are what we’ve become.
So, where do we go from here?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 24
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52. Spirit tells me that
What and Why are companions for Life.
Neither is far from the other, and yet, neither may be the cause of the other.
They may each simply be a reflection of the other.
All whats have a why, and who can ask why without referring to a what?
Curious.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 24
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53. Spirit tells me that
We will never be free from our personal struggles until we face and claim them.
And then comes a battle of our own choosing, to overcome them as well as we can, if we can.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 22
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54. Spirit tells me that
What flavor is your personality?” an inner voice asked.
“Lemon? Banana? Strawberry?
Isn’t it cur4ious that particular flavors asre associeated with particular colors.
Can the rainbow express inclusiveness?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 22
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55. Spirit tells me that
If, for whtever reason of our own, we were born to become as we now are, then why …?
Why do so many of us seem dissatisfied with who and what we now are?
Is it peer pressure or social conditioning that makes us feel that we should be different than we now are?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts June 22
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56. Spirit tells me that
Isn’t it curious that we’re more impressed with something that is said by someone ..
When someone whom we are impressed with is quoted as saying something that makes sense, then it makes much more sense to us, and more. It’s safer to accept it as true.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts June 27
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57. Spirit tells me that
Yin and Yang as traffic signs – pointing in opposite dirctions from anywhere?
East and West play that same game, so why not Yin and Yang, pointing in opposite directions from anywhere on a round plante?
Being more Yin to some may seem to be more Yang to some others.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebooi Posts – June 27
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58. Spirit tells me that
If we develop skills from one grade to another, then imagine from one lifetime.
Have all the rulers in today’s world necessarily been rulers in past lifetimes?
Or rulers in training?
And yet, some who were high in earlier lifetimes may choose to experience what it’s like down here with the rest of us.
Can there be greatness hiding among us?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 25
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59. Spirit tells me that
Imagine the material world as a sandbox in which we play at creating a human life.
Emotions and thoughts can be as scoops and spades.
Using them we gather thoughts and design them with emotions to creat our castles and roads in the sand.
Do we play that game in real life?
Or, in life as real as we can imagine it to be?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 22
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60. Spirit tells me that
Lest we forget – our personal freedom of choice is necessarily limited to our power ..
If we haven’t the power to make that choice then freedom to do so is an illusion.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 28
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61. Spirit tells me that
A potentially bottomless fountain – the collective unconscious?
Is that what scientists, thinkers in all fields of study, and deeply spiritual people open their minds to, or have their minds opened to?
Are we each and all more or less open to receiving ever-expanding and ever-deepening understanding?
Are receivers from the great depths of wisdom chosen?
Or, did some of us almost accidentally stumble upon an open channel of timeless wisdom?
Or, do new ideas, as with the beginning of the industrial revolution, or more recently with the technological revolution, be shared with some few, from scatterd parts of humanity, at or about the same time?
If anyone can think of a new idea, then perhaps anyone else can, or some others can also think of the same idea.
How to protect potentially dangerous ideas from spreading like a virus among all peoples of the world?
Controls may necessarily have to be imposed. But, by whom?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 28
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62. Spirit tells me that
The temptation beyond all others, and the fatal flaw of all religions, so far.
The teacher and not the teaching holds us captive, and restricts our independent evolutionaly development of mind.
Students are much more likely to identify with their teacher than is the teacher with students, and yet the power of, or The Law of Attraction can pull us into a need to relate at a personal level with those who would guide us out of the depths of unawareness of the realities of Life.
Did Buddha and Jesus fail their followers?
Or did they do the best they could to keep their followers focused on developing a deeper understanding than is possible when a one-to-one attachment develops?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 28
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63. Spirit tells me that
If for whatever reason of our own we were born to become as we now are, then why?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 21
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64. Spirit tells me that
“for whatever reason or purpose …”
Does reason point to the past while purpose …?”
We have a purpose for doing whatever we do, or do we?
What if we’re locked into a habitual pattern of response?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 30
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65. Spirit tells me that
Thoughts and emotions express each other, but only if the thoughts are subjective.
Happiness is a thought that we can feel, and yet objective thoughts seem to stand alone, or reqjuire emotional responses.
Mountain is an objective thought and may inspire the emotion of admiration or fear.
Perhaps objective thoughts clearly express which comes first, the thought or the emotion.
With subjective thoughts there’s more of an interconnectedness involved.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 29
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66. Spirit tells me that
A scientific look at illusion.
It’s not what we see that’s na illusion, but how …
So many well-meaning spiritual students misunderstand the meaning of illusion.
The physical world we live in (and are part of) is real.
We can see, smell, touch, and even hear it, sometimes.
We hear birds sing.
We hear people sing, and talk.
But we may misunderstand what they are saying, and why.
And our misunderstanding may be intentionallyly planned to deceive us.
How to protect ourselves from created illusions of reality?
We need to develop skills that help us understand the difference between what is real and what is false, or a covering of what is real.
.We don’t always cover our body with clothes to deceive others, but to keep warm, or because we have een socially conditioned to cover it.
And yet, we may choose to wear clothes that we think will appeal to some others.
The clothes we choose may ejxpress our personality, or they may be chosen to express the personality we hope will appeal to some others.
We play dress-up.
We’re real, and the clothes are real, and yet …
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 29
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67. Spirit tells me that
A chela and teacher – is that what we each are?
Ego and Self in one personality?
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
Has the teacher always been part of us, without our awareness?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 2
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68. Spirit tells me that
Love and respect play a different game.
One flows down while the other reaches up.
Love is an emotion and seems to flow down from above.
Respect is a thought and reaches up, and never down.
And yet, can they each move outward and blend with each other?
“Love your enemies” some of us have been thought.
And yet, perhaps we can love them if they are not as powerful as we are.
Otherwise, we might be wiser to respect them and prepare to face them in battle.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 3
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69. Spirit tells me that
The temptation beyond all aothers, and the fatal flaw of all world religions, so far …
The teaching, and not the teacher, holds us captive and restricts our independent evolutionary development of mind.
Students are much more likely to identify with their teachers than is the teacher with students, and yet the power of, or The Law of Attraction can pull us into a need to relate at a personal level with those who would guide us out of the deptsh of unawareness of the realities of Life.
Did Buddha and Jesus fail their followers?
Or, did they do the best they could to keep their followers focused on developing a deeper understanding than is possible when a one-to-one attachment develops?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 28
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70. Spirit tells me that
“For whatever reason or purpose …”
Does reason point to the past while purpose …?
We have a purpos for doing whatever we do, or doe we?
What if we’re locked into a habitual pattern of response?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – June 30
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71. Spirit tells me that
Change hapens when we accept that what we thought was so, isn’t.
What changes?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 5
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72. Spirit tells me that
My Middle Way may be more left or right than yours is.
No blame.
No up or down.
How can there possibly be a higher or lower level of awareness when awareness expands in all directions?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 4
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73. Spirit tells me that
Everything we believe is true or we wouldn’t believe it.
That sounds simple enough.
The problem arises when someone insistst that what is true for them is necessarily true for everyone else.
It isn’t necessarily so.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts July 11
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74. Spirit tells me that
Some people seem to walk the walk while knowing little or nothing of the talk.
Why?
And then there are others who talk a good talk, but don’t walk their talk.
Perhaps it’s as that old song goes, “Folks are dumb where I come from. They ain’t had any learning. Still they’re as happy as can be, doing what comes naturally.”
Is it possible that with or without any study, we’re each and all just acting according to our own nature, as it has evolved over time and through experience?
I’ve always needed to study, and yet it hasn’t made me any different, as far as I know , than I’d always have been if I didn’t study.
I know much more about this and that than I would have, and yet, I’m still me.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 11
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75. Spirit tells me that
Situations come into our life.
Where do they come from?
Where are they going?
Do we respond to the situations or to the people who seem to cause them?
The same situation could be caused by any of a number of people, places, or things, but we may need to focus on an individual (or group of) and miss the cause.
How we respond to whatever situation expresses where our focus is.
Is it out there or somewhere within, and if so then why?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 11
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76. Spirit tells me that
Spirituality (as religious philosophy at its finest) and science will harmonize more and more as time goes by.
Spirituality and science are working together to improve the future quality of life for everyone.
Spirituality point the way and science develops ways and means to get there.
How blessed we are to live in such a time and place as here and now.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 11
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77. Spirit tells me that
While experiencing a dream that doesn’t make sense, why do we not stop and ask why?
We’re so caught up in the nonsense that we become part of it, until we wake up.
Is so-called real life like that?
If so, then what does it take to wake us up?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 11
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78. Spirit tells me that
We develop skills.
The same wind blows but not all sailboats move at the same speed.
.And not all sailboats move in the same direction.
How we trim our sails makes a difference, and so it is with where we point our compass.
Are humans as sailboats, I wonder?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 10
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79. Spirit tells me that
How to recognize a slippery slope before you’ve stepped on to one?
Freedom as one?
How much so-called freedom can we give to our children, pets, friends and neighbours before we’ve lost control?
“Make yourself at home or you might as well be home” my Dad used to say.
And yet, he would never have allowed visitors to help themselves to anything they cared to.
He would never have allowed …
So, where did I go wrong?
I’ve been too soft with some guests who seem to …
It’s a wake-up call.
I’m going to be more careful whom I welcome into my little home.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 9
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80. Spirit tells me that
Take away the dollar sign and ….?
Modern spirituality as big business?
Why?
Was it inevitable?
Perhaps nothing went wrong and that’s just the way human life is.
Opportunities to rise above the crowd and be a leader, and a well-paid one, at that.
It’s so easy to point fingers at religions for pulling in money, or for schools of psychothrapy eager for their share.
Are we all capitalists?
Even when we pretend not to be?
Squirrels go for all they can get.
Is it instinct, and beyond our control?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 14
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81. Spirit tells me that
If dream-making is a group effort, then do each of us have our own team of creators?
Why chooses and/or designs the situations we find ourselves within in our dreams?
Are they pulled from a shelf?
Or, created specifically for a one-time performance?
I give my directors and actors high marks (usually) for a job well done.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 14
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82. Spirit tells me that
“You know a lot that isn’t true” an inner teacher tells me.
Knowledge vs awareness?
Knowledge is knowing about this or that from outside sources.
We’re told this or that is true, and yet, how can we know that whatever is true until we have experienced its truth?
Even with early childhood math, our teacher can tell us that two and two are four, and yet, until we practice hands-on work with two sets of blocks, sticks, or whatever, we’ve only absorbed information that may or may not be true.
We can learn that rain is wet, but we’re not aware of its wetness until we feel it, until we experience it.
We don’t experience news unless we live at the scent of the news we’re told about.
And yet we seem to need to trust that what we’re told is true.
After all, we can’t be everywhere and experience everything.
Awareness as an inner knowintg that only experience can teach us?
With learned information we need to learn to use our reason to judge how true it likely is.
It’s such work, and so it’s easier to accept what a seemingly reliable source tells us is so, at least until experience tells us otherwise.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 14
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82. Spirit tells me that
Good guys and bad guys – Can the same actors play both roles equally convincingly?
Some situation seem to call for a bad guy to take top role.
Do we sometimes focus our attention on the person in that role more than we do on the sitjuation?
Could the same sitaution develop with other people playing the bad guy?
And, could the so-called bad guy also play good-guy roles in so-called real life?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 13
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83. Spirit tells me that
Do we resist receiving unconditional love?
Are we socially conditioned, or self-conditioned, to suspect a set-up?
Why would anyone love us unconditionally?
Unconditional love is as a one-way street, and yet so much more.
It flows, as do the rays of the Sun, outward and in all directions, as if scattering seeds to the wind.
And also, unconditional love can do what the sun cannot do, penetrate all barriers except for one, our resistance to receiving such a priceless gift.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 13
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84. Spirit tells me that
Philosophy is the search for truth, and yet knowing it is one thing, and learning to live it is something else.
Psychotherapy helps us.
Is that what psychology really is – the practical application of philosophy?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 12
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85. Spirit tells me that
We defend what we have, while reaching for more.
We claw our way up the Trees of Life.
“Is that what it’s all about, Alfie?”
Who remembers that song?
I may never forget it.
It caused me to wonder why we do what we do.
Is there a Middle Way to living a satisfied life?
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Ref. My 2023 Fecebook Posts – July 12
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86. Spirit tells me that
Shared DNA, Beliefs, or Values – which type of relationsip has more power over us?
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Ref. July 14
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87. Spirit tells me that
Is that what philosophy is – the study of timeless wisdom and how it relates now?
What’s so different about now and then?
If we’ve developed as a species, then we’ve built our knowledge and understanding on what we knew before.
We’re moving up in … just what are we moving up in?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 16
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88. Spirit tells me that
Take a blueberry, or any other fruit, out of the fruit salad, and it’s still what it was, only individuated from the others.
Separation isn’t necessarily improvement.
Virtue as a non-issue in Jungian psychology?
That would explain the emphasis on “individuation from” and not “rising above” the seeming norms of mass thinking.
We can claim, or even believe, that we are separate from most others, without requiring of ourselves a higher (more ethical and inclusive) personal standard of ethics.
Jesus claime to be “the Way” but His way was to rise above the base level (the common denomination) of the mass and their focus on self-interest, not to simply separate from them.
Jung did say that he’s rather be whole than good.
What he meant by whole is for him to know and for the rest of us to guess.
Perhaps everything is already growing inside and we simply have to learn to become aware of that reality.
Eastern philosophers have ways of their own, and Jung, for one, was dedicated to finding a so-called Western path to that same place, without denying the foundations of Western society.
East is East and West is West.
They can each meet and blend without a trade-off of either/or.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 16
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89. Spirit tells me that
Just by being what we are, we contribute more or lesss to whatever cause we serve, and we each and all serve a cause of our own choosing, or of someone else’s.
What a guilt trip, eh?
So I ask, without bing sure of whether or not I want to hear the answer, “What cause do I serve?”
His respnse? “Yes, what cause do you serve?”
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 16
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90. Spirit tells me that
The musical chairs of time game.
Tomorrow moves into today’s place, but from where?
Tomorrow, today, and yesterday may be exact portions of time, but it’s not the same with the future, present, and past.
Tomorrow comes from the future but is only a small portion of it.
And the past is a collection of all the present times that have been replaced with future times in our lives.
If the universe moves in cyclical motion, as the signs of the Zodiac express, then does time itself revolve in such a fashion?
Will we, in time, relive all the old memories?
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Ref. My Facebook Posts – July 116
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91. Spirit tells me that
Forgiveness as a defense?
It protects us from compassion and understanding?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts
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92. Spirit tells me that
“Red Rover, Red Rover, Let Jean come over.”
Does anyone remember that old game.
It was a childhood playground game, and we were on one of two teams facing each other, about ten feet apart, and with each team’s hands linked together, but standing abojut three feet or so from each other.
We’d choose whom to call over from the other team, to try and break through our line of defense.
If the one we called did break through then the other team automatically won the game.
So, of course, we’d call the one we thought was least likely to break through.
I must have been seen to be unable to push my waay through.
Was it a lesson we were learning as children about adult relationships?
We size people up?
For the person called had to choose where to break through enemy lines.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Postgs – July 16
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93. Spirit tells me that
If there is only one game in town, how many sets of rules can there be?
Is it human nature to develop our own rules of life?
Ways and means of getting what we want for the least possible effort?
And yet, there seems always to be some others who have different ideas of what works of what works for them.
And, what works for one, or some, may not be in the best interest of some others.
I guess it’s unavoidable that we have to learn to compromise and develop generally accepted rules of order.
Or, do we seek to do that only after we’ve failed to do what we want to do, and in our way?
Is that how civilizations develop?
Grudgingly cooperative?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 19
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94. Spirit tells me that
Is Life a never-ending story, with all characters recycled for the next episode?
Do we choose the roles we play?
Or are they chosen for us depending upon lessons we might learn from them?
Are we asked, or do we vow, to serve the character and the play?
What if we know that we are other than what our society seems to expect us to be?
Conflict.
How to please bothe?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 12
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95. Spirit tells me that
Here and now is all we have, at least for a little while.
Every other time is then.
Not only is the past and future then, it’s also there, even if in a different direction from each other.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 17
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96. Spirit tells me that
It’s all about status, and not about power, wealth, race, whatever, and yet …
And yet, if each had the same amount of power and wealth, and we were each accepted as having the same race, then where would be the special status?
We need differences, if only to play the game of “I’ve got something that you don’t have.”
We played that game as children.
It’s such an ego thing.
When will we all grow up?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 17
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97. Spirit tells me that
We’re not a what and a who but where and when.
Energy in time/space/situation.
Can it be true that we’re each the very same energy being expressed in different situations, and from different perspectives?
What purpose would be served?”
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 17
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98. Spirit tells me that
The hoizon of our life can never be reached.
The journey is all we have.
Awareness and acceptance of the realities of limitations, and yet intention to do what we can within them helps to create a satisfied mind.
How can we know how far we can go until we’ve gone as far as we can?
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts – July 17
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99. Spirit tells me that
Timeless wisdom is not a belief system.
I’t s based on personal experience.
A well-fed baby has a better chance of becoming a healthy child than a baby who is not fed well.
A well-educated and well-trained child has a better chance of becoming capable of providing for him/herself as an adult, than a child who has not been educated or helped to develop survival skills.
Our past experiences can preparae us for future experiences, or we can simply keep repeating past experiences that didn’t lead to any satisfying results.
Eventually we learn to learn from past experiences.
How well we learn is vital to our future.
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Ref. My 2023 Facebook Posts
End of Book Four
Simple Seeker Society 