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I recommend Huston Smith's book The Postmodern Mind highly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0835608301/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That one? I ordered it straight away! Thanks
I recommend Huston Smith's book The Postmodern Mind highly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0835608301/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That one? I ordered it straight away! Thanks
You got it. I skipped some of the chapters but the book was brilliant IMO. :)
Alex, would you be willing to tell us about your own spirituality? It seems you perceive every religion to be a cult, so do you see yourself as spiritual but not religious? (i.e., in the category known as "none" / for no affiliation, lol ) ?sure. I totally accept what you're saying. then again, we are all playing this consensus reality game... and whether we like to admit it or not we're all judging each other as to how well we're playing it :)
haha... great... thx for sharing.I know the following is long, but its another wonderful personal story that I just had to share here and fits right in with what we discuss.
I can't remember which discussion Alex was in where Alex brought up Strieber's story about being in a cage as a young boy etc. but Alex mentioned he had heard this in a Greg Carlwood HigherSideChats discussion between Greg and Whitley Strieber (2018). I place the post in this thread as I think it was this discussion with Gordon White where this was covered.
So... last week, as I strive to do each day when I take my "power walk" (not so powerfully), I pick one of these MP3s to listen to (yesterday was Alex's most recent release - with Rick DeLano). This time it was the HigherSideChats discussion with Whitley Strieber.
So... when I listened to the 2018 discussion, Strieber told the story where he and his wife, Ann, had made the agreement that whoever might pass on first would, through a friend, let the other know they are fine and 'alive and well' so to speak on the other side. Strieber then tells about his two key data points which... here's the exact story excerpts from this link -
"We worked out a plan of afterlife communication. The first of us to die would contact friends who had no idea of our plan, and only then contact the loved one. Not two hours after Anne died, I got the first call from such a friend, Belle Fuller, who said to me, "Whitley, the strangest thing just happened. I heard Anne telling me to call you. Is she all right?" (She knew that Anne was ill.) I said to her, "Belle, Anne died an hour and a half ago." This kept happening, and finally I realized that Anne was carrying out our plan."
Strieber then tells Greg Carlwood of another specific incident where the friend calls Strieber and tells Strieber that he had just "gotten a message from Ann to call him (Strieber).
When I got home from my walk, I shared this precise story with my wife, Cristina, who has the strongest desire that when she passes on, she experiences eternal peace and doesn't want to come back to any world such as this regardless of whether I'm there or, as is my own desire, hoping she would want to meet me again, etc. I shared this story with her mentioning that maybe her soul may have other plans for her! So... keep an open mind. Note, I also promised her that if she ever told me to "buzz off" in any future lifetime, I would honor her request (and I would... that is an unbreakable "self rule" - to honor the wishes of the other).
Now for the next pre-story but relevant information. My wife, Cristina, immigrated to the US in 2017. We have been married since 2002. I had lived out of the country up until 2013 and it was in the fall of 2013 we decided to do the "immigration process" and it took 3.5 years! She arrived on my father's birthday 2017 (my father had passed on, suicide in 1979). My relationship with my mother had never been good and for background (if interested) - read here.
My greatest wish was that my mother (who was almost 80 when Cristina arrived) would be able to meet Cristina. I was convinced my mother would see/feel Cristina's energy and perhaps consider her son was not such a "bad guy" after all, as there would be no way a "bad guy" could have attracted the love and marriage of such a wonderful, peaceful, talented (an artist like my Mom!), mature woman such as Cristina. Sadly, my mother, who had been suffering from cardio-pulmonary disease had taken a turn for the worse in December and by the time Cristina arrived in January, my Mom wasn't open to visitors. She passed on February 18th, 2017.
The last part to know is that almost year ago I had taken on the project of creating a website so that Cristina would have a web presence to present her art. I found a designer and recently we completed the project and the site went live a feww weeks ago. My next step was to create "business cards" for Cristina that would have her website address and contact info, etc... but I wanted to make sure these cards were different, high quality, etc... and so last week I went to search online for a local business that could assist in producing such. I had searched before and had my notes available yet I felt compelled to search again. Pretty far down the Google first page, I came across a company called 'alphagraphics' and instantly recognized it as the company my Mom used in the 1980s when she was still living here in Dallas. My Mom always worked with the best folks who always did work with integrity and so it felt like a sign and I decided I would reach out to them when they were open. I sent myself an e-mail with their link information as this is how I remind myself of tasks. This morning happened to coincide with a.) their open hours and b.) my energy and enthusiasm to jump on it.
So, with that background established - here's what happened.
I started to dial their number. I got six digits of the ten needed when I heard behind me a loud crash. Behind my desk is a backdrop I recently acquired which I use for Zoom and Skype video calls so I had to get up and look behind the back drop to see what happened. There, wedged between my shredder and the wall was a piece of art my mother had done which was part of a set of two others which Cristina had hung on the wall behind my desk, which, had been obscured from view when I set up the backdrop. It had somehow come crashing down and this was the source of the loud crashing noise. Fortunately, the glass and frame were fine and no damage to the painting occurred... and once I saw that, it suddenly hit me.
The timing could not have been any more uncanny - literally in the middle of dialing the number to alphagraphics, one of three "boot" drawings had come crashing down. The significance of these boot paintings has its own history too. I had been given an original set done by my Mom back in the mid-nineties. My divorce from my first wife, a harrowing episode of my life no different than depicted in the movie, "The War of the Roses" with the sole exception we didn't literally kill each other. But my ex had destroyed the boot drawings along with just about every other irreplaceable possession that she know held huge meaning for me. My mother wasn't happy at all when she learned they were "gone" and regardless of the fact my ex had done the deed, she blamed me (as she had blamed me for many, many things). So just like the story I shared regarding my son and his car title (for those who might have read it), the significance of this specific piece of my mother's art transcends in meaning (to me) all other pieces of her art she ever did. That my sister gave me her set (less one as my original set had 4 and she only had 3), set the stage for this incredible "call" from my Mom, as this is how I have chosen to interpret the incident.
Just like Whitley Strieber got phone calls from friends telling him Ann had told the friend to call Whitley. Considering I had just last week listened to Whitley sharing the story with Greg Carlwood (done two years ago). That I felt compelled to share this story with my wife just after hearing it (again, last week). That I discovered the same graphics company my Mom had always used (last week) yet only felt compelled to finally call them this morning. And in the midst of dialing their number, one of her boot drawings comes crashing to the floor (though undamaged! thankfully). That it was Cristina who had hung the painting (with a dubious method) but with heartfelt intentions (as I may never have hung them). And then at just the right moment... during a stretch of time that could not have spanned more then 3 or 4 seconds (to dial a number - to "make a call"). BOOM!
I hope I was able to convey the experience properly. It is powerfully meaningful to me. I know she knows I love her dearly.
Here's relevant artifacts -
Screenshot of the dialed numbers when the crash happened -
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Here's what I saw when I went to investigate -
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This shows the place it fell from and the two other boot drawings still hanging. You can see the drywall screw all but fully dislodged and angling downward -
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Here's the actual drawing in case folks want to see it -
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wonderful. Thanks for this. words are powerful I will adjust accordinglyI have tried to adjust that away from judging and more towards "assessing."
the battle archetype (these guys vs. those guys) [as] the grandparent of the good/evil narrative.
According to Zarathustra, Ahura Mazdā created the universe and the cosmic order that he maintains. He created the twin spirits Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu (Ahriman)—the former beneficent, choosing truth, light, and life; and the latter destructive, choosing deceit, darkness, and death. The struggle of the spirits against each other makes up the history of the world and is reflected in the choice between good and evil that humanity constantly faces.
At the age of thirty, Zoroaster had a divine vision whilst bathing in a river during a pagan purification rite. On the bank of the river he saw a 'Shining Being' made of light who revealed himself as Vohu Manah ('Good Mind').
Vohu Manah led Zoroaster to the presence of Ahura Mazda (God) and five other radiant beings, which are called the Amesha Spentas (Holy Immortals). This was the first of a number of visions in which Zoroaster saw Ahura Mazda and his Amesha Spentas; during each vision he asked many questions. The answers given to Zoroaster are the foundations of Zoroastrian religion.
In last week’s article, I discussed the issue of American “balkanization” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana, there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states.
Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns. Others are here because they can’t stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel culture, and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences.
It is frustrating when people who are not right-wing lunatics echo the language used by Donald Trump about the left. Donald Trump has risen to power by spinning tales about an America that doesn’t exist, one plagued by marauding hordes of immigrants, vandals, and Stalinists. He promises the public that he will restore a better America, one that also never existed. It is our job to expose these fictions for what they are, and provide a better vision of what could be. Having liberals and leftists endorse the right-wing myth about Totalitarian Leftist Mobs feeds into Trump’s culture war reelection strategy. We should refuse to concede, then, that the grotesque caricature of social justice movements is true. We should demand that the full facts of these “canceling” incidents, rather than vague innuendos and selective details, be put on the table and evaluated fairly. And we need to point to the real problems in this country, which do not come from angry anti-racists on Twitter—who mostly just tweet—but from a government that is letting its people die, and a class of oligarchs that couldn’t care how much ordinary people suffer so long as the stock market keeps going up.
I can understand why people dislike Cancel Culture and violent riots. I consider myself a Classical Liberal. I want freedom of speech and liberty, not Marxist authoritarianism.
What I have noticed is that those who claim themselves to be aligned with today's "progressivism/leftism" (meaning, no resemblance to classical liberalism - defenders of civil liberties) almost, with rare exception, cannot refrain from dragging a non-political conversation into the political muck. This is being done on every social media type and venue.
Since a significant portion of the "silence culture" crowd with its various branches such as "cancel culture" are of the marxist ideology which goes hand in hand with "there is no reality beyond this meaningless materiality" type world view (which is equally imposed upon all that suffer under such domination)...
You get thread trashings like some of the recent posts. Don't bite is my advice and... use the ignore feature provided by the software. All they are striving to do is derail and/or destroy higher conversation.
While I am sympathetic to these types of worker/societal issues, don't we have to be fair and point out how much the quality of life has actually advanced in recent centuries through this type of shared sacrifice?Having no means to pursue a higher quality of life aside from within the economic machine which, itself, perpetuates the evils noted above—thus making one an accomplice in evil simply through compulsory participation (I could write about this one for a long time, and it has many extensions—such as taxes used to support endless wars of very dubious moral integrity: “Drone strikes on children”)
There's the false witness: Marxist authoritarianism. Who wants Marxist authoritarianism? I haven't met anyone who wants it.
The primary intention is targeted at each and every individual with the goal being to eliminate their contact with the aspect of their being that transcends the five sense world. In other words, the goal is to de-link each individual's connection to their soul.
Anyone who posts anything that is in support of all this nonsense is demonstrating they have no value in connection with their own soul and wish to make sure no one else does either.
It is black and white obvious. It is spiritual warfare plain and simple.
K9!... I understand fighting "the good fight."
I found that it simply seems to feed the monster(s), but that is just my opinion and, we all have free choice at all levels of our being, even at this level up to the point they put us all in cages or kill us (one by one). It sadly appears this is coming.
I don't see it as fighting the good fight. For me it's just speaking up and telling the truth. There is a real deficit of courage in the world right now, and I can't be a part of that.The primary intention is targeted at each and every individual with the goal being to eliminate their contact with the aspect of their being that transcends the five sense world. In other words, the goal is to de-link each individual's connection to their soul.
Anyone who posts anything that is in support of all this nonsense is demonstrating they have no value in connection with their own soul and wish to make sure no one else does either.
It is black and white obvious. It is spiritual warfare plain and simple.
K9!... I understand fighting "the good fight."
I found that it simply seems to feed the monster(s), but that is just my opinion and, we all have free choice at all levels of our being, even at this level up to the point they put us all in cages or kill us (one by one). It sadly appears this is coming.
That's a complete mischaracterization of what Chester wrote.OK, so lets not even have a conversation with one another because we've already decided that anyone with different ideas than our own is just evil and lets accuse them of wanting to kill us all, hence justifying our own refusal to have a conversation with them.
Come on out of that nightmare, Chester. It's just a guy on a forum thinking out loud.
That's a complete mischaracterization of what Chester wrote.
No, it's not. Earlier he said to block me and lumped me in with some other conversation. He told you you were "fighting the good fight" and insinuated that he had enough of me. He brought up people killing each other and you bring up Gulags. All I said is that economic disparities are evil but suddenly it's communists and Marxists and gulags.
That's a complete mischaracterization of what Chester wrote.