'Perspective' Articles
Humility is a virtue only so far as it promotes proper perspective. We must not place an obsession with controlling ego before the principles that controlling our ego is supposed to serve. To claim wisdom requires a modicum of hubris. To believe that yes we can understand, at least in part.
Now regrettably, it’s like braham is sleeping. The human part of god is sleeping and tossing fitfully. Maybe is a bit drugged, considering the preponderance of that. Will the human spirit fall out of bed?
“Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life.” John J. Emerick
Impact of Perspective
The subject is the impact of perspective on spiritual life. Some see it as merely a tendency for distortion. They think we don’t see clearly because of our ego putting an overlay on spiritual experience. I would say individual experience is the life blood of the spiritual path. They say we all have a message we bring to this world, and yet a lot of orthodox schools of thought disparage the very source of this message. The “I” that we don’t have to create. They imply that our goal is somehow to merge with the universal. Yet paradoxically they say that… Seek More
Perception of Reality
You never perceive reality directly with your senses. It isn’t how it works. And how and what you perceive is determined by your focus, often subconsciously according to conditioning. If you can see what you don’t see, then your perspective isn’t a trap, it’s an incarnation. Many schools speak of a mental body, in one terminology or another. But unlike with our flesh itself, which we have no trouble differentiating from our world, we mistake our perspective or mental body for the world itself. If I touch something I do feel it. My hand did contact whatever I touched. If… Seek More
Narrow View of Reality
How can we trust our senses when they are so limited? Yet people do. But in fact there is something that makes you trust your senses and lies underneath the senses. Experience? No. That comes after and often leads to some cloudy thinking. The lack of alternatives? Also I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Emotions? That’s part of it. The capacity for emotion precedes the senses. We are a being that arises from the greater life. From the ways of nature itself. Our senses are not the product of our thinking but our thinking can cloud our sense. We are… Seek More
Collective Unconscious
Can our mind be a key to the physical world? Would you be able to change the outcome of physical objects? In fact yes, to a degree. The exception to that rule is that you aren’t the only mind. There isn’t just your will. There is everyone, so it results in a consensus. We create a shared reality through the interaction of our wills. And so for example, since people are afraid of physical instability, and for good reason since it’s a threat to biological health, there is very little blowing things up with the mind. Are some spontaneous combustions… Seek More
Presence in Expression
Why do we want to label our existence? The only truth at this moment is ‘I can’t say I am not. I AM that I am.’ To refuse labels is to label labels. Active opposition is service to the force you deride. Every moment is a new observation. In any moment a new insight can be seen. What is new, name one? In this moment we have a dynamic between us. Your view is meeting another in a way that wouldn’t happen if not for this moment. Something can be learned from this, and it will be new. The dynamic… Seek More
Fabric of Reality
The negative impact of the human mind on the fabric of reality. Thought is viral. Human thought tends to be negative so it is self perpetuating. Someone gets a pessimistic attitude about their life or a business, and that has a subtle negative impact on other peoples views. They will be second guessing, and eventually there will be a collective reaction against that business or project that will end it, when there was really no reason to stop it. Social attitudes are very virulent. There is so much reinforcement of roles, i.e. You are not contributing if you are not… Seek More
