consciousness

Our life is but a wave in the ocean of consciousness.

However, in regards to the theological aspects of each religion, tradition or philosophy, the same exacting standard must be set as measurement: does it clearly and accurately depict the functionality of Reality? That is, does the cosmology precisely describe how Reality works? If not, then the religion is invalid.

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

During the 1980s, a remote viewing project called Stargate was done at Fort Meade. It used binaural beat tones, transmitted through earphones, that altered brain waves. A hemi-sync that device played two different frequencies into each ear was found to produce altered states of consciousness. Perhaps this technology was derived from these experiments done in the 1960s on MKULTRA subjects.

I do not know about you. But, I prefer a life spent making mistakes than a life making none.

Clearly, when western cultures absorbed Christianity, they got an all-inclusive package: ancient Hebrew rituals and myths steeped in lost purpose, scantily recorded and broadly misinterpreted teachings of Jesus, revisions and distortions by Paul, twisted cosmology and superstitions supplied by priesthoods and bureaucratic/political distortions innate to man__ traditionalendeavors.

However, just as earlier, when Christianity was introduced it didn__ eliminate pagan conceptualizations, but layered new beliefs on top of them, so science simply added to the western mindset. It didn__ fully displace religion, luck, fate, etc. Science just heaped other definitions onto the average person__ already conglomerated psychic truckload.

The authors of the gospels, like all writers in all time periods, either reference information they have at hand _ including things they__e heard or read _ or they make things up. . . For reference material, the author of Mark relied not on Jesus himself or any writings from him. . . . His sole source(was): oral traditions passed along by word-of-mouth for four decades.

To a realized master, death and rebirth is in every breath. Death is that of body consciousness, ego and limits of the mind. Rebirth is that of the cosmic mind of being the Spirit. In this realization is liberation.When awake as liberated, each prayer and each moment of meditation is for humanity as there is no more individual ego or identity left. Such realized masters continually gift humanity with the grace of higher consciousness- so that each of us attain our fullest potential in goodness.

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.

Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there is nothing left to explain. It's just irrational to insist that sentience remains unexplained after all the manifestations of sentience have been accounted for, just because the computations don't have anything sentient in them. It's like insisting that wetness remains unexplained even after all the manifestations of wetness have been accounted for, because moving molecules aren't wet.

Reality__ functional flow can never be debated: reality manifests as it does regardless of individual recognition of its value-based inter-active function. Only simulated notions about reality _ creeds, definitions, assumptions, paradigms _ can be argued over. And that debate knows neither end nor resolution, as each arguing party hosts a personally customized fantasy _ with each appearing unwaveringly valid to the holder.

Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves__nd the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.

Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not? The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

Passion Has No Paperwork

Only by honoring the greater truths (the macrocosmic truth) may we begin to honor our subjective truths (our microcosmic truth). This is a recognition of the greater mystery of life and a deep honoring of being a child of that great mystery. In that profound recognition rests the awareness that the same macrocosmic mystery is within us, and it manifests and takes its course in many ways. When we simply recognize this fundamental aspect of the nature of existence, we can begin to understand its presence in our lives. And then finding ourselves moving away from the career or relationship we thought we__ be in for the rest of our life is less of a shock or a __omething must be wrong_ and more of a deep, humble sigh of __lright, okay, here we go, and so it is._ This is the way life moves. We do not hold the reins, and to feign so creates only pain. Evolution necessitates change.