JeanneT said:
transientP said:
electrosonic said:
alkhemst said:
That its all one, while in theory could be true, is often just a blanket statement many new-agers like to use to cover over difficult problems or personal responsibility. You can transcend duality from the comfort of your living room while watching Oprah interview Erchart Tolle, and do it in a yoga tree-pose, envisioning the law of attraction to take away world hunger and vote in the first woman President, Hillary Clinton. I don't doubt some try just that.
Yeah true, but it can never be done from 3D, no matter how many courses they attend lol.
In fact, surely it would be STS to even try to attempt to change things to suit yourself through the power of the mind in this dimension?
Yeah.. another attempt to serve a "self". Who are they to try to force a world in which no one is allowed to be hungry ?
Just because it doesn't fit in with their
current view on what should and shouldn't exist ?
It would take a really big ego i think to assume that all the hungry people are just sitting there waiting for your specific fragrance of love and light..
This is my first official post since writing my intro a year ago...
I am a bit bothered by the "feel" of the above comments although there is no argument with the context.
Some of us who were prompted to search for solutions for the incredible pain and misery witnessed in the world before this material was available for contemplation and consideration were drawn to the new age concepts, for sure. I happen to be one of those people, as was Laura, perhaps, as I understood her story in "Amazing Grace". I really understand the call and drive to find a way to heal what seems to be dark and painful. However, I would argue that it is not always from the place of a "big ego" and such. Often, one does not know the best path until many dead ends have been tried out. I do not regret trying things. At this point in time, after reading many times over what the C's have said, I feel that I really understand the motivation of the "do-gooder" who I was. Consequently, my eyes are open and the learning is deep and not just intellectual. I do think compassion for allowing others to learn as they will/or not is appropriate and we are ALL 3D learners here.
Hi JeanneT, Glad you decided to join the speaking part of forum members :)
I understand what you say, and I think that it is common to have sought the truth through many teachers and through living life (life is religion) before coming here. And to have found actual pieces of truth before coming here (one would quickly stop being interested in the material if there wasn't a feeling of recognition I think.) And also fairly common to have searched with noble motives I'd think.
Sometimes it can feel a little as one has to find a quote from some teacher used here, that says the same as what one think is the truth, or pretend to not have had any knowledge at all, before reading the material here, in order not to seem as a egocentric deluded person who thinks one has figured out the big banana, when saying something here.
But I have found that it actually helps a lot on finding out if what one knows actually is true, and also how to formulate what one knows, to have it not so easy. (might be uncomfortable but is good brain training)
And the people who really are egocentric deluded persons who think they have figured out the big banana, get filtered out that way. (if you scratch him a little...) And the people who are not, it will make them work harder which is good.
Though I have come to the conclusion that I can probably trust my self more than I actually think (in some ways at least), as I generally got the message fairly quick from when I first started reading Lauras material, that one can't think with the way one thinks, and that all one thinks is true might be false and visa versa, and so decided I cannot trust anything I think, and to doubt anything I know. But often it happens that what I think or know is being confirmed by the ones further on the way than me, which proves to me that I'm probably less ignorant than I think.
Still, even if I trust myself too little, I think it is better to find that out, than to find out that one should trust one self less, and therefor I keep my doubts about myself close at heart, to keep my huge hairy ego from getting the best of me...so the system works for me so to speak, even if I'm generally not a quote person, and prefer to say things in my own words, and forget who said what of the teachers, or where I read it, but more have all I know in a mess, that intuitively gets divided into messy truth box, and messy false box. (and maybe a messy "possibly true or false" box to go through later)
