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Date Posted: 09:54:20 02/18/06 Sat
Author: Robert
Subject: Re: fire and spirituality
In reply to: chrys 's message, "fire and spirituality" on 03:41:02 02/17/06 Fri

Chrys,

Of all people, I was talking to my father about this last night. I attribute the seeming lack of spirituality and soulfulness that we're all experiencing today to our culture and the attitudes that people take...at least on the coasts. It's almost like our spiritual awareness is a 6th sense that has been numbed out, dulled down, or just simply overloaded. I hope that it's not a product of evolution, because I feel it would be a regression.

We're bombarded with messages that tell us who or what we're all supposed to be, and also what we're not if we don't sign up to the group think of the moment. These things have a profound impact on our subtle selves...our spirit selves. To experience the spiritual self is a very subtle, fragile experience until one reaches a point of sustained connection with their own soul. I experienced this extended connection with my soul once....lasted about 3 months, and it was the most revolutionary time of my conscious life.

We don't ask these things of people because most people have not established, maintained, or experienced a sustained spiritual connection...be it with themself or with others. Those who have try to talk about it and spread the word, and they're looked upon as people who might not be the most mentally or emotionally sound. See, people only want to deal with things that they can understand...justify in large groups...explain away...profit from...or otherwise have a very superficial involvement with that allows them to say "I did that too" without ever putting in the work. Spirituality/soulfulness weeds these people out quickly, and keeps them drunk on their own sleeping state. It's real work to break through that unaware condition, and walk wide eyed into a world where spirituality is not necessarilly valued.

That's about the closest I can get to an opinion about it. It's not meant to be exclusionary or condescending to those who have never experienced it....just that you can't know what it is until it persents itself to you, and then you have to honor it or it leaves and you can go back to sleep easily.

Hold onto your spiritual experiences, people. There's more wisdom in those fleeting moments than you could amass in years of living asleep.

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[> Re: fire and spirituality -- Iymlad, 08:10:01 02/20/06 Mon [1]

Robert-

"It's almost like our spiritual awareness is a 6th sense that has been numbed out, dulled down, or just simply overloaded. I hope that it's not a product of evolution, because I feel it would be a regression."

It comes and goes in waves ... I think we are actually ramping up at this time.

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