Ominous said:
Do the C's say anything about Hitler escaping to Antarctica, or what is going on down there now?
transdimensional said:
Don't like to search it yourself?
Ominous, after about 20 seconds of searching, I found a number of references to things "going on" in antarctica in the sessions (see sessions 950520 and 951202 for example). If you don't have the sessions, you can get them at the Files section of the Casschat yahoo group. This way you won't have to depend on other members of the forum to do something that you can very easily do yourself.
Ominous said:
No, it doesn't help. It sucks. I've been vigorously struggling w/ this "Work" for only a few months & am extremely intimidated by these forums.
Ok, can you describe your vigorous struggle in the work, and which parts you found particularly daunting? Reading, collecting data, learning is one thing - but what about addressing your own machine, have you been doing that part of the work?
Ominous said:
I don't feel intellectually adequate to even POST...& when I finally get the courage to post something, that's the response I get?
Well first, how are "we" supposed to know that making a post for you is a struggle and a huge emotional/mental undertaking? If we can't possibly know this, why are you acting like we all know this and for some unknown reason just don't appreciate your courage? Is this a rational expectation or is it your machine/predator thinking?
Also, members of this forum are not generally congratulated on the mere fact that they managed to create a new post. Have you seen this anywhere? Why would you expect it for yourself? It sounds like you're saying "You should be proud of me that I was able to even make a post, so expecting me to be reasonable and externally considerate is entirely too much!"
Ominous said:
I desperately want to learn this Work but don't feel much kinship w/ ppl in these forums.
So it's not so much this thread all by itself causing you to think this way, it's a feeling you've been having for a while and just never mentioned it until now, if I understand correctly? Well then I'm really glad you mentioned it, because this provides a perfect opportunity to do the Work in a network. Use that emotional frustration and its energy positively then - question what you're feeling and get to the bottom of it. Do you really want to continue indefinitely interacting on a forum that you're so frustrated with? Sure sounds to me like an important thing to address and get to the bottom of once and for all. Allow me to say that there are many members on this forum that do not share your frustration and reluctance to post. So either they are not seeing what you're seeing, or - what you're seeing is subjective and not true, a clever product of your predator mind creating a certain "impression" for you, distorting your ability to perceive objective reality.
And if you really are interested in Truth and the Work, you'll dedicate yourself to figuring out exactly what the problem is - is it you or the forum? If you can analyze your posts and the responses to them, why do you think people responded as they did? If you can look at that while detached - without defensive emotional reactions being triggered because it is YOU they are responding to, and you're "special".
Ominous said:
It's extremely frustrating at times, esp when I get responses like that. I'm too sensative unfortunately. PEACE
Sensitive? This is one of those perfectly ambiguous words that we use to hide our own selfishness and internal consideration from ourselves. It is a "wonderful" word that is easy to use whenever we have a mechanical reaction to something, whenever we're angry or want to control someone or something, whenever we get irrationally upset because the world does not meet our demands. It's a baby word that does not differenciate between external and internal consideration, between useful and positive emotional reactions and destructive ones. It is similar in ambiguousness to "you hurt my feelings". Just what on earth does that even mean? What "feelings"? How were they hurt? Maybe it's just your ego or self-importance that was "hurt"? Doesn't matter, baby-words don't make that distinction, all "feelings" regardless of origin or legitimacy suddenly get the same treatment - it's "bad" to hurt them, period.
I only say that because it's just another way your predator is doing everything it can to hide from you, to keep you from objectively understanding just what is going on under the hood. And perhaps this is the crux of your "struggle" with the Work - you address the easy stuff (like the topic of this thread about antarctica, underground bases, hitler, etc), but without addressing the really important inner stuff, you keep struggling trying to communicate and work with the "easy" stuff. And by easy stuff I mean whatever knowledge about the external world you're accumulating - whether it be Hitler and antarctica or whatever you read on SOTT, etc.
In my understanding, to really do the Work we have to balance external and internal Work, osit. Not one or the other. But it doesn't mean we should bite more than we can chew either. But neglecting either side will stunt our progress until we address what we've been neglecting and balance the internal/external stuff out, at least that's been my experience thus far. The beauty of this forum - it exists to help us with all aspects of the Work.