[futrethink]

---Profpat.

Whatever works for you futrethink.

---Huh? What works? I was being serious about individuals who are sado-masochistic.
---People who like violence in society happening to themselves will go out and be violent.
---People who, actually love and care about others, will think about what is going to happen to those loved ones.
---A sado-masochist might like violence, but how likely are they that they want violence happening to someone they love, especially if that loved one doesn't like violence happening to themselves?

[Drifter]

Caution: - digging for the truth may be hazardous to your anthropocentric vision!!

Originally Posted by futrethink Profpat. ---If that is Tina’s answer, then my answer to that, on that level of perception is, “DUH!” ---Read through how a choice occurs and look at my signature. ---As ‘bad’ and ‘evil’ are degrees of negativity, is ‘love’ and ‘like’ merely degrees of positivity? ---Everything that any individual does is; for love of self. ---I am going to wait and see if there are any arguments on that last one. Wouldn't bet against there being some, though.

[Drifter]

Vladimir Kush: Sunrise by the Ocean

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence. -- Waking Life

[leskey]

Originally Posted by Drifter The fertile ground of the Mind. Is sown by the thoughts we entertain. As an aside: In this quest there must be no thoughtlessness. Lack of thought is a serious impediment to the cultivation of skill in the art of creative action. At the same time, The Voice of the Silence enjoins disciples to free themselves from all particular thoughts and be attuned to All-Thought. __Thou hast to reach that fixity of mind in which no breeze, however strong, can waft an earthly thought within. Thus purified, the shrine must of all action, sound, or earthly light be void...all earthly thoughts fall dead before the fane. __Wherein lies the difference between thoughtlessness and that state of transcendence which is rooted in a serene identification with the Divine Mind? __The correction that needs to be made in the lesser perspective is archetypally related to the correction needed in the larger perspective. Whenever one has a sense of self-encouraging exaggeration - not only verbally or in terms of external expression, but in the feeling-content and motivational coloration of particular thoughts - there is falsity and distortion. Persisting thoughtlessness means that one has fallen into a state of fragmented consciousness, and this is not only owing to the imperfections shared with all other human beings,but also through an irreverent attitude to the vestures brought over from previous lives. Such are the scars of failures from former times of opportunity to strengthen and perfect the spiritual will for the sake of universal good. Myriad are the ways in which many souls have frequently failed over an immense period of evolution. Hermes, June 1978 Raghavan Iyer

Hi, Drifter. Guess no one's perfect, huh?

[Drifter]

Every thought is an opportunity for choice.

Choose wisely.

No greater love hath any man than hath this man for his Higher Self.

He is the only perfect one.

I try to follow in His footsteps.

At times it isn't easy.

Those are some mighty big shoes to fill.

If I take His hand, sometimes I let go.

When I let Him take my hand, He never lets go.

[Drifter]

Daemon-Eidolon Dyad According to C J Jung

"This “other being” is the other person in ourselves – that larger and greater personality maturing within us, whom we have already met as the inner friend of the soul. That is why we take comfort whenever we find the friend and companion depicted in a ritual, an example being the friendship between Mithras and the sun-god. This relationship is a mystery to the scientific intellect, because the intellect is accustomed to regard these things unsympathetically. But if it made allowance for feeling, we would discover that it is the friend whom the sun-god takes with him on his chariot, as shown in the monuments. It is the representation of a friendship between two men which is simply the outer reflection of an inner fact: it reveals our relationship to that inner friend of the soul into whom Nature herself would like to change us – that other person who we also are and yet can never attain to completely. We are that pair of Dioscuri, one of whom is mortal and the other immortal, and who, though always together, can never be made completely one. The transformation processes strive to approximate them to one another, but our consciousness is aware of resistances, because the other person seems strange and uncanny, and because we cannot get accustomed to the idea that we are not absolute master in our own house. We should prefer to be always “I” and nothing else. But we are confronted with that inner friend or foe, and whether he is our friend or foe depends on ourselves.

You need not be insane to hear his voice. On the contrary, it is the simplest and most natural thing imaginable. For instance, you can ask yourself a question to which “he” gives answer. The discussion is then carried on as in any other conversation. You can describe it as mere “associating” or “talking to oneself”, or as a “meditation” in the sense used by the old alchemists, who referred to their interlocutor as aliquem alium internum, “a certain other one, within” This form of colloquy with the friend of the soul was even admitted by Ignatius Loyola into the technique of his Exercitia spiritualia, but with the limiting condition that only the person meditating is allowed to speak, whereas the inner responses are passed over as being merely human and therefore to be repudiated. … But a real colloquy becomes possible only when the ego acknowledges the existence of a partner to the discussion…. (p. 132)
[It is about transformation] “It is my own transformation – not a personal transformation, but the transformation of what is mortal in me into what is immortal. It shakes off the mortal husk that I am and wakens to a life of its own; it mounts the sun-barge and may take me with it”. (~ C.G. Jung, “Concerning Rebirth”, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C.W. volume 9i. Page 134)

Interesting is it not.
http://cheatingtheferryman.blogspot....ng-to-c-j.html

[Drifter]

I Who Speak

Sometimes As I Write, the 'I' becomes "We” and yet remains 'I.'
There is a Consciousness which, while It remains One, is a symphony of harmoniously blended parts.
I write, and I watch myself writing.
I Know, and yet I wonder at the knowing.
I am the student and, at the same time, I am the Teacher.
As Teacher, I stand in Majesty looking upon the world below.
As student, I look up humbly and amazed.
I speak and, presently, there blends with my voice the melodious Voices of Others.
One Meaning in many tones is unfolded.
So the tones of the seven-stringed Lyre are all sounded; one here, another there, in groups and, finally, all together.
And before this Melody I sit entranced, filled to the brim and more.
I who Speak none will ever know until, on that final Day he finds Himself, when I appear in all My Glory.




~Dr. Franklin Merrell Wolff

Love
Drifter

[Drifter]

Sow a thought and you reap an act; Sow an act and you reap a habit; Sow a habit and you reap a character; Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

- Samuel Smiles

[Drifter]

" 'There Is A Greatness' within every human soul.
I sense this greatness in growing degree.
Something there is in every man, to which I offer the gesture of respect.
As men become truly sane they reveal to Me new facets of My-self, and I feel a kind of wonder before these.
These Brothers (and Sisters) enrich Me by revealing Myself to Myself and myself." ~FMW

[Drifter]

Awakening is a flowering of your innermost being.
It is a revelation of your essence,
hidden by long eons of self-delusion,
ignorance,
unbounded desires.

Enlightenment is an ending as well as a beginning:
the ending of the old, veiled, dark ego,
its longings, illusions, frustrations;
the beginning of a vast expanse,
an infinite field of the Unknown,
an adventure in consciousness.

It is a revolution:
it represents danger to the old way of life,
to old ways of thinking and living.

It is freedom from the known and the unknown;
from the real and the unreal;
from any appearance of division between you and Truth.

It is the abandoning of beliefs, dis-beliefs,
presumptions and stances,
self, ego,
call it what you will,
or call it nothing,
what it is.

It is the Path of the golden Dawn,
the Path out of the Night of Time
into the Bursting daylight of Eternal Now...

- Petros