Make no mistake, this is the most difficult of paths; this is the most difficult life there is. It is far easier for a person to become a Croesus with fabulous wealth or to attain great fame than to succeed in attaining the spiritual life. It is far easier to accomplish anything in the human world than in the spiritual because in the spiritual world you and I are called upon to “die” before we can attain what we are seeking.
Joel Goldsmith
A Parenthesis in EternityW
Love-hate relationship w religion JT
You love religion. Then you hate religion. Then you love to hate religion. Then you begin to realize its utility, and so end up hating that you once hated religion. Then you start hating those that hate religion. Then you realize they are you, like 6 months ago.
Eventually, you stop obsessing over who does what, and appreciate the different stages people are at, and realize that most are not doing anything bad on purpose. Then you regret not being kinder to those who were, as far as their journey is concerned, a step and a half or less behind you.
My advice? Stay ahead of the curve, and just be kind. You’re not better than someone else because they are still thinking thoughts that you used to think.
Jeff Turner
DON’T MOVE A MUSCLE !!
DON’T MOVE A MUSCLE !!
You just said – silently – but
More emphatically than ever before
“I want nothing else but God.”
Your eyes are closed but stuff
Wants to invade – don’t let it!
There’s only the perfection of
Spirit here and everywhere.
Slowly … very slowly now …
No, don’t open your eyes … slowly
‘See’ a little something, ‘See’ it
As it really is, in Spirit. Perfect.
‘See’ that your oft repeated
Request is fully full-filled.
See in God, don’t vacillate, don’t
Waver, see clearly now.
Let another thought in and
CATCH IT !! Don’t start thinking
You as a limited being must do,
Do, do anything. Don’t you know
This realm of infinite awareness
Is the only realm there is
Coz it’s the only ONENESS alive!
Stream-of-consciousness: Healing 4 u
Stream-of-consciousness: Healing 4 u
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You can do it! You know there’s something more to life than what you’re experiencing, right? What you may not know is that there is a whole lot more available to you right here and now, the moment you determine to see spiritually. Everything changes! You feel a filling up of fresh oxygen and an emptying out of fear which has been engendering selfishness. It’s all leaving, Can you feel it now? What’s more important to you, to be applauded as a winner or to be consciously aware that you’re very mind is the mind of God? Do you need to know what your mission is for the rest of your life? You’d better be ready to take a lot of notes because your life is eternal! Better yet just let go, listen serenely, joyfully, expectantly. Have you ever thought that by having the mind of Christ you lose all sense of creativity, spontaneity, the element of surprise? If so you’d be wrong, wrong, wrong! The mind of Christ is your real mind! You want to know what that other mind is? It is a chronically severely hypnotized mortal mind that was never your mind. You never asked for insecurity, fear, doubt, joylessness, struggling, pain, disease, death. That’s not your mind and it’s not your life. Your very life is God. You can have that one hundred percent right now. I mean right this instant. I would dare anyting to try to interrupt you right this instant because right this instant you know what is most important for you and for starters it is not to be interrupted! Secondly the good health, happiness, security, sense of purpose, companionship, love, joy, they’re all yours now! Can you see it?
Metaphysics VS Quantum Physics definition
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS:
● Metaphysics points to God (not necessarily using the terminology) and what God has to say about the material world, namely that it doesn’t exist!
● Quantum physics has the audacity to make the same claim and then go poking around in matter to prove that matter doesn’t exist!!
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●●● met·a·phys·ics = The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, possibility and actuality.
2. (used with a pl. verb) The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline: the metaphysics of law.
3. A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.
4. Excessively subtle or recondite reasoning.
● first principles, esp of being and knowing
2. (Philosophy) the philosophical study of the nature of reality, concerned with such questions as the
●●● EXISTENCE OF GOD [emphasis mine] the external world, etc
met•a•phys•ics
● treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology.
2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches.
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e•pis•te•mol•o•gy = branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.
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on·tol·o·gy = branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.
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cos·mol·o·gy =
1. The study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space.
2.
a. The astrophysical study of the history, structure, and constituent dynamics of the universe.
b. A specific theory or model of this structure and these dynamics.
● 3. A philosophical, religious, or mythical explanation of the nature and structure of the universe.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS =
The branch of physics that uses quantum theory to describe and predict the properties of a physical system. Also called quantum mechanics.
QUANTUM THEORY =
1. A theory in physics based on the principle that matter and energy have the properties of both particles and waves, created to explain the radiation of energy from a blackbody, the photoelectric effect, and the Bohr theory, and now used to account for a wide range of physical phenomena, including the existence of discrete packets of energy and matter, the uncertainty principle, and the exclusion principle.
(Atomic Physics) a theory concerning the behaviour of physical systems based on Planck’s idea that they can only possess certain properties, such as energy and angular momentum, in discrete amounts (quanta). The theory later developed in several equivalent mathematical forms based on De Broglie’s theory and on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. See wave mechanics
1. a theory for predicting the discrete energy states of atoms and of radiation.
2. any theory that describes a force or field using the methods of quantum mechanics: a quantum theory of gravitation.
quantum theory
A theory in physics based on the principle that matter and energy behave both as particles and as waves. According to this theory, matter and energy are composed of tiny units of electromagnetic energy called quanta. Quantum theory is used to explain such phenomena as the photoelectric effect and the uncertainty principle. ♦ Another term for quantum theory is quantum mechanics, which also refers specifically to the use of quantum theory in studying the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules.
quantum theory
The theory that electromagnetic radiation consists of units called quanta or photons
Descriptions of Ecstacy JS
The body, the earth, the stars, the galaxies melted into a big unity—and I was a part of this unity. Unlimited and timeless my consciousness hovered in a pulsating eternity. —Frédéric Lionel, French philosopher11 One becomes wholly Mind, the One Mind of God, in which exists all-knowledge, all-power, and all-presence. —Walter Russell, sculptor, musician, author, philosopher, and mystic12 That light is the very essence, the heart and soul, the all- consuming consummation of ecstatic ecstasy. It is a million suns of compressed love dissolving everything unto itself, annihilating thought and cell, vaporizing humanness and history, into the one great brilliance of all that is and all that ever was and all that ever will be. You know it’s God. No one has to tell you. You know. —P.M.H. Atwater, near-death experiencer13 The experience is often and movingly described by the saints and sages of all religions. The following are but a few among hundreds, perhaps thousands, of descriptions: Oh, wonder of wonders, when I think of the union the soul has with God! He makes the enraptured soul to flee out of herself, for she is no more satisfied with anything that can be named. The spring of Divine Love flows out of the soul and draws her out of herself into the unnamed Being, into her first source, which is God alone. —Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher, and mystic14 This new experience bestows new enlightenment which places the experiencer on a new plane of existence. There is an indescribable feeling of elation and indescribable joy and Bliss. He experiences a sense of universality, a Consciousness of Eternal Life. It is not a mere conviction. He actually feels it. —Swami Sivananda15 In the orison [spiritual communion] of union, the soul is fully awake as regards God, but wholly asleep as regards things of this world and in respect of herself. —St. Teresa of Avila16 To the enlightened man whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his “body,” while the physical body becomes a manifestation of the Universal Mind, his inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth. —Anagarika Govinda, German-born Tibetan Lama17 Whilst the mind is separated from itself, and whilst it is borne away into the secret place of the divine mystery and is surrounded on all sides by the fire of divine love, it is inwardly penetrated and inflamed by this fire, and utterly puts off itself and puts on a divine love: and being conformed to that Beauty which it has beheld, it passes utterly into that other glory. —Richard of St. Victor18 The higher our mind is raised to the contemplation of spiritual things the more it is abstracted from sensible things. But the final term to which contemplation can possibly arrive is the divine substance. Therefore the mind that sees the divine substance must be totally divorced from the bodily senses, either by death or by some rapture. —St. Thomas Aquinas19 Soul and mind instantly lost their physical bondage, and streamed out like a fluid piercing light from my every pore. The flesh was as though dead, yet in my intense awareness I knew that never before had I been fully alive. —Paramhansa Yogananda, yoga master20
Kind of waking trance – Tennyson [JS]
A kind of waking trance (this for lack of a better word) I have frequently had quite up from boyhood. When I have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name to myself silently, till all at once as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being—and this not a confused state but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words—where Death was an almost laughable impossibility—the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet Laureate of
Great Britain and Ireland
JS
Expanded perception – Selbie
With expanded perception comes freedom from the limitations of the body. The experience bestows a profound sense of joyous well-being, “beyond imagination of expectancy,” and undeniably clear awareness of one’s indissoluble unity with the infinite Consciousness from which all creation springs. Some of the names given to this experience are “cosmic consciousness,” “samadhi,” “oneness,” “nirvana,” “Christ consciousness,” “enlightenment,” “self-realization,” “divine ecstasy,” “rapture,” and “union.” This is the experience of God, or, just as meaningfully, the experience of our Self or soul. Because we are all Divine in our essence, all inextricably one with God, the experience is not reserved only for cloistered nuns or yogis in remote Himalayan caves. Anyone, anywhere, who achieves deep stillness and complete inner absorption, regardless of how, shares the same universal experience.
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God
Gods with amnesia
We are gods with amnesia. Near-death experiencer Jan Price says, “Born of God, we are spirit, and cannot be anything else. All is mind—one mind. We are that mind asleep—yet awakening, and God is that mind eternally aware.”8 Jesus said, “Lest ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe” (John 4:48). Miracles, though fascinating and inspiring, are only performed by saints and sages to awaken belief. The miracles of the saints and sages are strong prods to our sleeping memories of our divine nature. Their purpose is not to entice us to want to perform miracles ourselves, but to awaken us to our divine potential, to shake us out of our amnesia-induced conviction that we are merely physical bodies and that this physically manifesting cosmic movie is the only reality. Even when we realize we have amnesia, however, even when we believe in the power of our own thought, we will not be immediately able to use its power consciously. Not until we have mastered the exacting mental discipline practiced by the saints and sages will we, like these great ones, be able consciously to use our thoughts to change the hidden, nonlocal energy template and thus the physical world. Further, our existing convictions run deep into our nonlocal subconscious. Merely thinking with the conscious mind that one has blue eyes instead of brown is not going to overcome the much more powerful conviction—lying deep, and all but inaccessible, in the nonlocal subconscious mind—that one has brown eyes. We hold our convictions so deeply that even when they make us miserable we cannot easily change them. Being told that a problem is all in the mind is no help at all—as a wise man said, “That’s jolly well the worst place for it to be.” Our deeply held thoughts are like girders that hold together the structure of our being. And like steel girders, our thought girders are immensely strong. The exacting discipline undergone by the saints and sages to achieve such profound mental control begins with direct experience of one’s subtle, nonmaterial, divine nature. Intellectual belief in our higher potential, our divine nature, is a starting point, but belief is not enough to change deeply held convictions that the physical world is fixed, immutable, and separate from ourselves. Direct inner experience attained through practicing the disciplines of the science of religion, on the other hand, will transmute those deeply held convictions of materiality by enabling us directly to experience the subtler, interconnected, nonmaterial reality of energy and thought.
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God
NON Physics of God – Selby
Almost all of us have no conscious awareness of our ability to make the cosmic movie play in three-dimensions, or to shape our bodies in accordance with our deeply held thoughts. A rare few, however, are consciously aware of these abilities and have learned how to use them deliberately. The rare few are the saints and sages, and they assure us that we, too, can do the same.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? —John 10:34
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these. —John 14:12
Since everything is made out of mind, it can be controlled by mind. As you develop more and more mental strength, ultimately you will be able to do anything. —Paramhansa Yogananda, yoga master
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God