RANT-The world is leaning towards psychopathic tendancies! everywhere!

[Craig]

[quote author=psychegram]Now that's interesting. Most people tend to take such texts and use it as an excuse not to worry, a habit I'll admit I've been falling into myself. Keeping it front and center like that ... that's a much more difficult thing to do. And, yes, much more effective. Thank you for the reminder.[/quote]

[quote author=psychegram]Simultaneous consciousness of two opposites - death and life, anxiety and hope - has to be more effective than... In the Wave, I remember Laura talking about how she started to look at things and try to be simultaneously conscious of both the light and dark aspects; to (I quote from memory) look at a beautiful mountain lake, and see the disease organisms multiplying beneath it. The resulting psychic tension was quite fruitful. [/quote]

It's inevitable we'll see somebody else's experiences - particularly a process that goes very deep as what is dealt with in the Wave - through the lens of where we currently are. There seems to be a thread of "if I can just squash these puzzle pieces into place that I've heard about, then I'll get to eat the golden apple" in what you write.

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Consciousness - of knowing the truth and losing our comforting illusions - is fruitful in itself and isn't some sort of mental exercise for some other payoff.

 

[PepperFritz]

In the Wave, I remember Laura talking about how she started to look at things and try to be simultaneously conscious of both the light and dark aspects; to (I quote from memory) look at a beautiful mountain lake, and see the disease organisms multiplying beneath it. The resulting psychic tension was quite fruitful.

Perhaps the situation is similar, here, with the anger issue? We've been lied to, abused, robbed, and victimized in a number of ways. Rage is natural. So is fear: for many of us, we're waking up to all of this only because of the impending collapse. But collapse can also be an opportunity for real change and spiritual growth. Simultaneous consciousness of two opposites - death and life, anxiety and hope - has to be more effective than focusing only on one or the other, which will either open one to deception (if only the positive is seen) or lead to paralysis (if only the negative is perceived.)

Extremely useful and astute advice, psychegram. Society teaches us to think in black-and-white terms; something is either "good" or "bad", but reality is much more complex. The novelist F.Scott Fitzgerald once said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here) that a characteristic of "genius" is the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time, without needing to resolve the tension between them. Of course, he was talking about literary genius, but it applies to spiritual mastery as well.

 

[psychegram]

In the Wave, I remember Laura talking about how she started to look at things and try to be simultaneously conscious of both the light and dark aspects; to (I quote from memory) look at a beautiful mountain lake, and see the disease organisms multiplying beneath it. The resulting psychic tension was quite fruitful.

Perhaps the situation is similar, here, with the anger issue? We've been lied to, abused, robbed, and victimized in a number of ways. Rage is natural. So is fear: for many of us, we're waking up to all of this only because of the impending collapse. But collapse can also be an opportunity for real change and spiritual growth. Simultaneous consciousness of two opposites - death and life, anxiety and hope - has to be more effective than focusing only on one or the other, which will either open one to deception (if only the positive is seen) or lead to paralysis (if only the negative is perceived.)

Extremely useful and astute advice, psychegram. Society teaches us to think in black-and-white terms; something is either "good" or "bad", but reality is much more complex. The novelist F.Scott Fitzgerald once said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here) that a characteristic of "genius" is the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time, without needing to resolve the tension between them. Of course, he was talking about literary genius, but it applies to spiritual mastery as well.

And it may, I think, be one of the most difficult techniques of all. Being able to give that advice and following it are two very different things.... :/