anart said:
Laura said:
Those people who have awareness of potential famines, political and economic upheavals, possible cometary events, just by constantly acquiring knowledge about our reality and the people within it, who then activate that knowledge by making whatever preparations are available to them to make, are basically in the ACTIVE/CREATIVE mode. They are acting based on knowledge, SEEing, DOing, investing their talents, giving their mite, keeping their lamps filled and prepared. JUST BEING IN THAT ACTIVE MODE is more important than that you are able to achieve some sort of "total preparedness." Learning, SEEing, DOing SENDS OUT A SIGNAL
As the Cs said:
'Life is religion. Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the world will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely a dream in the 'past.' People who pay strict attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality of the 'Future.'
This is SUCH an important post - it should be the introduction chapter in a "Handbook of Being Human: Surviving the Experiment". You've summed up the entire point so concisely. If everyone could just deeply grasp
and apply the above, entire worlds would shift.
Following up on my
last post, the above makes me think of something else...
On the one hand, we have the idea that maybe preparing for potential futures based on reading the signs is a useful endeavor for several reasons, one of which would be that it might even change the future in a positive direction.
On the other hand, I think it's also possible to become so involved in "preparing" for possible futures that we forget what is really important. I could think of a million different possible futures, and try to prepare for each one, but if I'm not really
"in the moment" and truly focused on the Signs, I might end up going the whole "off the grid, stocked up, and ready for Armageddon" route (with my trusty Bible, of course!).
As I see it, the problem with the second route is that the focus is on physical survival no matter the cost, and
the cost may very well be that instead of truly serving others, I'm just obsessed with saving myself - and then justifying it by saying I'm reading the signs and acting accordingly.
Or, looked at another way, instead of just seeing the signs and preparing, I could go overboard and effectively shut out or reduce the possibility of a better future because I'm so fixated on the negative possible futures. I mean this in a sort of "you get back what you give" type of creating one's own reality. It's kind of like when you are just SURE that everyone is out to get you, so you push other people away without realizing it... and then suddenly, everyone is pushed away and you've fulfilled your own prophecy. Probably not the best analogy, but it'll have to do.
So,
I think it can be a rather fine line to walk, and I always try to ask myself if what I am doing is serving the greater good, and serving others, or not. If I See something, and I decide to prepare for it, do I just take certain steps and then let the chips fall where they may, or do I end up obsessing about it? It's always the "obsession" part that seems to indicate that I've gone off the tracks.
Can I act in preparation for something I See as a message to the Universe that says, "Oh boy, I see it! I'm gettin' ready!", or do I get "lost in the role" so to speak?