Most of the nation is not only shocked by today's outcome of the lengthy and drawn out case against Casey Anthony, but emotionally drained as well. Some are downright sick of hearing about it, and some people are very angry that justice was not done for little Caylee Anthony. Rather than becoming emotional or angry or pointing fingers of blame, what can we learn about ourselves from the Casey Anthony trial?
What metaphor do you think this might reflect within ourselves?
Many metaphors can be derived from this, involving the concepts of truth and justice. In black and white, the most prevalent thing I see about the situation itself is that it represents a child, an innocent, being abused and killed and there is no accountability or responsibility being taken.
If the events of the outer world are energetic ripples of our inner state, what is this case in particular showing us about our inner states?
I know there is a part of myself that neglects and abuses the innocent child that exists within me. It happens over and over, yet never do I take responsibility to realize this abuse and stop it. It continues on and I keep GETTING AWAY WITH IT. It happens every time I cut myself down or degrade myself in little ways. Every time I lose faith in myself or fail to see my worth, when I don't feel I deserve something or when I feel I need to stop fantasizing and grow up. I deny the child, silence it, and keep it in a dark, enclosed place.
Can you think of any ways in which you might be abusing your inner child? Have you denied him/her? Have you pushed the child down into some unseen place or forgotten him or her? Are you currently punishing this child for some reason?
Are too many of us doing this without even realizing or caring? Can we begin fixing this? We need to get our minds right. Everything starts from within. "As within, so without".
The world is sick. It needs healing. Let's start within ourselves.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Love and the Paranormal
What is love? Maybe love is God.
I've often paralleled the idea of proving the existence of God or the paranormal with the concept of the feeling of love.
Love is a socially acceptable ghost, in a way. How can you prove the existence of love? Unlike belief in God or ghosts, no one seems to doubt that the feeling of love exists. Yet, you can't really prove that it does. We believe in it.
Sure, one can examine the chemical reactions in the brain, and what happens biologically when one experiences the sensation of love. One can prove the psychological factors involved in why someone might "fall in love" with a particular kind of person. But can you PROVE the feeling? Can you prove that it exists? How would we define the feeling?
What are the many ways to prove love? This doesn’t mean proving to someone else that you love them, but proving the feeling. Proving that the feelings exists.
What happens when you feel love? What do you do? What happens around you? Are there any ways of documenting it? Can you take a picture of it?
We are all very arrogant about tearing down each others’ ghosts--criticizing the beliefs of one another. Why are so many people skeptical when it comes to the spiritual and paranormal, yet are not skeptical of the existence of love? It is a subjective experience. There is no evidence that it exists, but yet we don’t doubt the feeling of love. People don't seem to question the existence of radio waves and microwaves as they place their food in a "magical box" that cooks their food. Even though we cannot see them, we know they exist because they have a practical application. There is scientific proof through an application that people can use.
Maybe our belief in love is due to a very orthodox form of mass hypnosis, known as "education". The concept has been ingrained in us and we accept it and believe in it. IT‘S A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE GHOST. Our parents all talked about it and we were told that “love” is what put us here. Our parents “loved” each other and made us. God “loves” us and made us in his image. Our society talks about it all the time and no one finds it unusual, but yet ESP and spirits are “weird” and not normal.
Maybe we do not REALLY know what love IS. We obviously haven’t mastered it yet. We humans are not always very loving beings, are we? Perhaps we should focus on learning how to truly LOVE... and then maybe everything else will fall into place. Let's start with ourselves. Then maybe we'll find God.
"Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God." --Edgar Cayce
I've often paralleled the idea of proving the existence of God or the paranormal with the concept of the feeling of love.
Love is a socially acceptable ghost, in a way. How can you prove the existence of love? Unlike belief in God or ghosts, no one seems to doubt that the feeling of love exists. Yet, you can't really prove that it does. We believe in it.
Sure, one can examine the chemical reactions in the brain, and what happens biologically when one experiences the sensation of love. One can prove the psychological factors involved in why someone might "fall in love" with a particular kind of person. But can you PROVE the feeling? Can you prove that it exists? How would we define the feeling?
What are the many ways to prove love? This doesn’t mean proving to someone else that you love them, but proving the feeling. Proving that the feelings exists.
What happens when you feel love? What do you do? What happens around you? Are there any ways of documenting it? Can you take a picture of it?
We are all very arrogant about tearing down each others’ ghosts--criticizing the beliefs of one another. Why are so many people skeptical when it comes to the spiritual and paranormal, yet are not skeptical of the existence of love? It is a subjective experience. There is no evidence that it exists, but yet we don’t doubt the feeling of love. People don't seem to question the existence of radio waves and microwaves as they place their food in a "magical box" that cooks their food. Even though we cannot see them, we know they exist because they have a practical application. There is scientific proof through an application that people can use.
Maybe our belief in love is due to a very orthodox form of mass hypnosis, known as "education". The concept has been ingrained in us and we accept it and believe in it. IT‘S A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE GHOST. Our parents all talked about it and we were told that “love” is what put us here. Our parents “loved” each other and made us. God “loves” us and made us in his image. Our society talks about it all the time and no one finds it unusual, but yet ESP and spirits are “weird” and not normal.
Maybe we do not REALLY know what love IS. We obviously haven’t mastered it yet. We humans are not always very loving beings, are we? Perhaps we should focus on learning how to truly LOVE... and then maybe everything else will fall into place. Let's start with ourselves. Then maybe we'll find God.
"Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God." --Edgar Cayce
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Technology and the Buddha
I find myself perplexed by something….
With the exponential rate at which technology is advancing, we find ourselves facing the possibility that one day, computers will most certainly exceed human intelligence and there will be a technological-evolutionary jump called the Singularity, where humans transcend biology and become one with computers. The line between humanity and technology will be blurred, and the soul and the silicon chip will unite. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, if you think about the fact that we're already developing mechanical organs and limbs, as well as blood cell-size submarines called nanobots to be sent into the body on vital health missions, it doesn't seem so far-fetched. We will be able to place ourselves in virtual reality environments and control the movements of these nanobots as if we were inside, seeing out of the eyes of these tiny robots. Just like soldiers today remotely control intelligent weapons systems.
Anyway, these advancements in technology will make it so that we will never have to suffer from disease or ever die (provided we take well enough care of ourselves now, since it's easier to maintain perfect health than reverse disease and damage).
Now, here's the dilemma. Buddhism teaches us that everything that is born is subsequently certain to die. Death can be a teacher. Only when we face the mortality of ourselves and our loved ones can we be free from the fear of death and learn the lessons it has to teach us about life.
My question is this…
If we use science to our advantage and come to the point where death is no longer an issue, are we demeaning the Buddha? Will we be missing one of life's greatest lessons? What will happen to our consciousness if we keep living the same existence?
An excerpt, and one of my favorite lines, from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance says…
"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself."
So is science bringing us closer to the Buddha or further away? If science IS the Buddha, and so are we… does conquering death bring us to a higher level of consciousness?? Or is it our own vanity that will lead us to destroying ourselves? Will we devolve and become less conscious by never having to fear death?
This vanity—keeping ourselves alive while everything around us dies…seems to throw a wrench in our cyclic existence of birth, ageing and death. Even if we choose to have our pets live forever, too… this is still selective and vain. We are playing God.
Will some of us become Technological Age Hippies?
With the exponential rate at which technology is advancing, we find ourselves facing the possibility that one day, computers will most certainly exceed human intelligence and there will be a technological-evolutionary jump called the Singularity, where humans transcend biology and become one with computers. The line between humanity and technology will be blurred, and the soul and the silicon chip will unite. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, if you think about the fact that we're already developing mechanical organs and limbs, as well as blood cell-size submarines called nanobots to be sent into the body on vital health missions, it doesn't seem so far-fetched. We will be able to place ourselves in virtual reality environments and control the movements of these nanobots as if we were inside, seeing out of the eyes of these tiny robots. Just like soldiers today remotely control intelligent weapons systems.
Anyway, these advancements in technology will make it so that we will never have to suffer from disease or ever die (provided we take well enough care of ourselves now, since it's easier to maintain perfect health than reverse disease and damage).
Now, here's the dilemma. Buddhism teaches us that everything that is born is subsequently certain to die. Death can be a teacher. Only when we face the mortality of ourselves and our loved ones can we be free from the fear of death and learn the lessons it has to teach us about life.
My question is this…
If we use science to our advantage and come to the point where death is no longer an issue, are we demeaning the Buddha? Will we be missing one of life's greatest lessons? What will happen to our consciousness if we keep living the same existence?
An excerpt, and one of my favorite lines, from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance says…
"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself."
So is science bringing us closer to the Buddha or further away? If science IS the Buddha, and so are we… does conquering death bring us to a higher level of consciousness?? Or is it our own vanity that will lead us to destroying ourselves? Will we devolve and become less conscious by never having to fear death?
This vanity—keeping ourselves alive while everything around us dies…seems to throw a wrench in our cyclic existence of birth, ageing and death. Even if we choose to have our pets live forever, too… this is still selective and vain. We are playing God.
Will some of us become Technological Age Hippies?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
We’re all a little damaged, aren’t we?
One of the life lessons I think I've always had trouble with was not letting a relationship consume me. Whenever I fell in love with someone, my dreams and aspirations would go on the back-burner. I think life attracts us to similar situations over and over again, like a magnet, until we learn the lesson that we are supposed to learn and grow as a soul. With some of us, the lesson lies in matters of the heart (or perhaps that's the avenue that is best to reach us through), and with others it might be getting along with certain personalities of co-workers and learning what it is that is blocking us from understanding one another.
I've realized that I seem to gravitate toward others who seem to be “damaged” in some way or another. These particular souls attract me over and over again, and I think that it’s my own shadow that I am projecting onto others in an attempt to alleviate my own damages. (And by Shadow, I mean the archetype in Jungian psychology that represents all that is repressed, denied and undeveloped in our subconscious mind.) Until I love myself as a complete individual, not needing completion from anyone or anything, I will probably still be attracted to the darkness in others until I fix the darkness in myself. If I focus on the good in myself and in my life, maybe I will attract people with those qualities into my life instead of encountering doubt, fear and insecurity.
I have a feeling that my soul has been around for a long time, and I have an overwhelming feeling that this time around, I want to get it RIGHT, but maybe there is nothing to get “right”. Perhaps I need to stop dwelling on my old soul and why it is here and relish the fact that I AM young and alive. That my soul is fresh with opportunity, to learn new things, to love other people and to BE HERE NOW.
Souls have no age or gender. Energy cannot be quantified by a number, nor identified by a name. Energy has no timeline… it is eternal. WE are eternal.
I used to believe that everyone has one soul mate--a person whom they are destined to be with--but I have since reconsidered my theories regarding that concept. I think that we have MANY soul mates. Soul mates from past lives, soul mates from future lives, and many souls in this lifetime that teach us important lessons in our present physical lifetime. We may come in contact with these souls over and over again. Every relationship is a soul-growth experience. In our physical existence, with a lifespan of 80 or 90 years if we’re lucky, are we really supposed to confine ourselves to one other soul? Are we SUPPOSED to be monogamous? We certainly aren’t penguins that mate for life. For the same reason pandas don’t mate in captivity and we don’t find our family members sexually desirable, if we spend 10, 20, 30 or more years with a significant other, don’t they just become family and not so desirable anymore? No one wants to die alone and lonely, so is it our fear of death that makes us want to find someone “permanent and stable”?
I think that we should not confine ourselves to one other, but try to love as many people as possible while we are here on this earth. We have the opportunity to learn a life lesson from every experience, and guess what? We’re writing the curriculum. Life does not throw lessons into our lap. We weave our own lessons to be learned through our own choices, and it is also our choice whether or not we actually learn anything from them.
Don’t ever be afraid of falling in love. It is wonderful. Just feel it. Let it flow through you and just let it happen. Even if it doesn’t work out or nothing comes of it, don’t deny yourself the feeling of falling in love. That’s why we are all here, really. To love one another. To love as many other souls as possible.
Love unabashedly.
Love recklessly, even.
It’s the most important thing we can share as human beings. Every time we fall in love, we learn something new about ourselves.
We should stop defining ourselves by our age, what we wear and what we look like. None of that matters. We should just learn how to BE HERE NOW. In the moment. That is all that matters. To feel the warmth of another person’s cheek pressed up against our own. Don’t think about forever. Don’t dwell on the past or spend too much time contemplating the future. The present is so precious. Just be here now.
I've realized that I seem to gravitate toward others who seem to be “damaged” in some way or another. These particular souls attract me over and over again, and I think that it’s my own shadow that I am projecting onto others in an attempt to alleviate my own damages. (And by Shadow, I mean the archetype in Jungian psychology that represents all that is repressed, denied and undeveloped in our subconscious mind.) Until I love myself as a complete individual, not needing completion from anyone or anything, I will probably still be attracted to the darkness in others until I fix the darkness in myself. If I focus on the good in myself and in my life, maybe I will attract people with those qualities into my life instead of encountering doubt, fear and insecurity.
I have a feeling that my soul has been around for a long time, and I have an overwhelming feeling that this time around, I want to get it RIGHT, but maybe there is nothing to get “right”. Perhaps I need to stop dwelling on my old soul and why it is here and relish the fact that I AM young and alive. That my soul is fresh with opportunity, to learn new things, to love other people and to BE HERE NOW.
Souls have no age or gender. Energy cannot be quantified by a number, nor identified by a name. Energy has no timeline… it is eternal. WE are eternal.
I used to believe that everyone has one soul mate--a person whom they are destined to be with--but I have since reconsidered my theories regarding that concept. I think that we have MANY soul mates. Soul mates from past lives, soul mates from future lives, and many souls in this lifetime that teach us important lessons in our present physical lifetime. We may come in contact with these souls over and over again. Every relationship is a soul-growth experience. In our physical existence, with a lifespan of 80 or 90 years if we’re lucky, are we really supposed to confine ourselves to one other soul? Are we SUPPOSED to be monogamous? We certainly aren’t penguins that mate for life. For the same reason pandas don’t mate in captivity and we don’t find our family members sexually desirable, if we spend 10, 20, 30 or more years with a significant other, don’t they just become family and not so desirable anymore? No one wants to die alone and lonely, so is it our fear of death that makes us want to find someone “permanent and stable”?
I think that we should not confine ourselves to one other, but try to love as many people as possible while we are here on this earth. We have the opportunity to learn a life lesson from every experience, and guess what? We’re writing the curriculum. Life does not throw lessons into our lap. We weave our own lessons to be learned through our own choices, and it is also our choice whether or not we actually learn anything from them.
Don’t ever be afraid of falling in love. It is wonderful. Just feel it. Let it flow through you and just let it happen. Even if it doesn’t work out or nothing comes of it, don’t deny yourself the feeling of falling in love. That’s why we are all here, really. To love one another. To love as many other souls as possible.
Love unabashedly.
Love recklessly, even.
It’s the most important thing we can share as human beings. Every time we fall in love, we learn something new about ourselves.
We should stop defining ourselves by our age, what we wear and what we look like. None of that matters. We should just learn how to BE HERE NOW. In the moment. That is all that matters. To feel the warmth of another person’s cheek pressed up against our own. Don’t think about forever. Don’t dwell on the past or spend too much time contemplating the future. The present is so precious. Just be here now.
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