| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing |
| Moderator: | JARETH::PAINTER |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
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[Found this in some reading I've been doing and it was suggested that ]
[others here might find it meaningful. It's related to the discussion in ]
[note 131, but I felt it deserved its own note. ]
If the difference between "personal reality" and "personal
illusion" were obvious or easily found, there would be no Earth
school. For the Earth School experience that each is now living is
the illusion known as "life," the all encompassing preoccupation
with physical existence which steals one's waking hours and leaves
behind a blindness to the more subtle reality of understandings
which transcend physical death. Earth school is the living medium
within which man struggles to understand and evaluate his motives
and actions in light of more subtle awarenesses.
Illusion and reality are deceptively general terms for they
have specific applicability to the individual. Illusion is that
which appears to be true or real, but which, in fact, is a sham, a
pretense of the real. Reality on the other hand connotes the
authentic, the genuine foundation of unlimited understanding.
Personal illusion is, therefore, any part of the human experience
or belief system which negates a spiritual/universal core and
interaction with life. Personal reality is any phase of
understanding which shows man's physical presence to be a mirage,
a momentary consciousness soon to be altered in light of a far
more expansive form of life.
There can be a starkness to finding personal reality, for
reality is Truth. It is facts about who one is and what one's life
is about. The quest in search of reality calls to each to seek
beyond the immediate, the illusion, to find the irrefutable, the
non-negotiable reality of who one really is. This search for
personal reality begins on one level, usually hinging on one
suddenly unsupportable life myth or belief system. When this is
shattered, it begins a chain reaction shattering one illusion
after another until false myths and barriers are destroyed, and
one stands whole and complete - but alone.
This can be a most painful experience to truly see oneself,
one's environment and one's belief systems in the pure white light
of "what is." The human conscious mind does not easily accept
drastic changes in programming, but it is possible to influence
the "program control center" of the mind in order to find the
reality of all things.
The place to begin discovering personal reality is within the
confines of your own nature. The truth which you find revealed in
your own life should be the guide in dealing with areas of
illusion. Take a long, hard look at your personal reality. Many
years may be spent trying to separate what you want to see about
yourself from what you are afraid to see or are simply uneducated
as to how to see.
The process of looking inward is valuable in learning to see
the seemingly impenetrable depths of your own being and in
providing you with a fixed center, a place of triangulation upon
that which exists beyond the conscious mind's fickle
interpretation.
Consider this thought, light which shines from without
reflects only the human illusion, while light which shines from
within radiates the Infinite Reality.
People are all masters of skillfully covering up who they
really are and what their true connections are. It is a difficult
struggle to reach inside and find the "real you." Of course, that
truly beautiful essence that exists as one's pure spark of
creation resists being hoisted from tranquil oblivion of the inner
self into the arena of painful combat in the conscious mind. But
once one has sensed personal reality and one's interrelatedness to
the Universal God, then true knowledge and illusion go separate
ways, for when one had gained personal awareness nothing else has
force to prevail. Identification of one's true self is the
beginning of the search for reality in all things.
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| 148.1 | References please? | SHOGUN::BLUEJAY | Do not attempt to adjust your set... | Tue Jun 10 1986 14:22 | 7 |
Sounds interesting - what have you been reading? (Reminds me of
the writings of Richard Bach.)
- Bluejay Adametz, CFII
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
away."
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| 148.2 | More | WFOVX3::ESCARCIDA | Tue Jun 10 1986 16:50 | 4 | |
Would like to know more of what you have read. Source? Where and who
from..... minor things like that. :-)
Addie
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| 148.3 | MILRAT::KEEFE | Tue Jun 10 1986 17:01 | 22 | ||
re .1 and .2
Title is "Agartha - A Journey to the Stars" author was Meredith Lady Young.
The book is published by:
Stillpoint Publishing
Box 640
Walpole, NH 03608
price was $9.95 shipping/handling is $1.75. They'll send you a
catalog upon request. MC and VISA accepted.
Or you can call 1-800-847-4014 from 9 to 5.
in NH the number is 603-756-3508
- Bill
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| 148.4 | A bit about the astrology of personal truth | NATASH::BUTCHART | Wed Jun 11 1986 08:44 | 29 | |
The illumination of the light of truth on your life has an astrological
manifestation in the "person" of the planet Uranus. An astrologer
friend of mine calls Uranus "the light that we hide from". As the
wonderful text of the original note observed, this light is painful
when it shows up our illusions, our real patterns, our selves.
This is why many would _like_ to hide from it, and possibly why
many people dread their Uranus transits. I myself, watching a
particularly potent transit approaching, have often first wanted
to figure out if there was a place I could burrow into until it
was over. Mythologically, however, Uranus was kind of a merciless
character; astrologically, it seems to be interested in showing
me my personal truth whether I like it or not.
The quality of someone's Uranian insights seems to be influenced
quite a bit by the sign it's in. People I've known with Uranus
in Gemini, for instance, attain their best insights when they register
them consciously through communication with others. People with
Uranus in Cancer (of which I am one) seem to feel that the insight
does not ring true unless it registers in the gut, on a feeling
level. People I know with Uranus in Leo seem to find that this
light of truth can radically alter their definition of who they
are.
The nice thing to contemplate is that we all have Uranus somewhere
in our charts. Therefore all of us have a capability of illuminating
(and then living) our own personal truth. But it does take courage
to look at it.
Marcia
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| 148.5 | Healing and Being Healed | MILRAT::KEEFE | Tue Jul 22 1986 07:45 | 117 | |
[ This is from the same source as noted in 148.3 ]
Healing and Being Healed
There is a thought I would like to share with you and that is:
You never lay your hands on someone in love
without a healing occurring
on the appropriate level.
Healing integrates so much more than just the physical presence.
Healing is altering total reality, opening the window to a
comprehensive understanding of one's true appearance that any and
all compromise may be negated and the archtype of perfection
embraced. One's natural appearance is after all without physical
adornment of accessories or clothes or for that matter even a
physical presence. One's true appearance is as light, a
transmutable, multi-refractive presence which simply exists as a
reuseable force within the universe.
Is it possible to be "cured" of a physical malady without first
gaining a new inner perspective? The answer is "no." The
understanding, conscious and superconscious, precedes or is
simultaneous with any healing. When someone moves past physical
trauma in a matter of moments rather than years, it is because the
awareness of healing has occurred simultaneously with the physical
alterations. In other words, Stages I, II, and III have been dealt
with simultaneously. There is no rigid sequential time limitation
to healing, yet there are usually natural progressions, a step at
a time, leading one toward a goal of health through
self-awareness.
Perhaps the term "self-awareness" seems too vague. Physically
embracing one's divinity is another way of seeing self-awareness.
Healing involves the sorting through of one's emotional and
spiritual baggage to see what is still in one's present life
suitcase. Much can be discarded; a small percentage can be kept.
This sorting is self-awareness. Healing through self-awareness is
the only honest healing, since it goes beyond physical alteration
and most importantly changes one's preconception of cosmic
confinement. One's view of reality changes as one grows toward
health, opening up new vistas of physical and spiritual life. The
individual can more appropriately define healing as he lives it
and struggles to find acceptance of his own perfectness. There are
no "do nots" and "can nots" in healing. Everything in physical
reality is transmutable through love, or you know it as "energy."
Healing is a freewheeling, continually perpetuated journey. The
personal "sorting out" process is always at work within the
individual psyche. So the healing process can likewise be invoked
into everyday experiences in case of major disease and trauma.
Accordingly, each day in Earth School requires healing of the self
through awareness and acceptance of the human connection to love.
All people are healers, and each is capable of healing not only
his own presence, but his children, parents, close friends,
distant relatives and total strangers. Every man, woman, and child
on Planet Earth is a healer. Every physical life situation has the
potential for healing, for causing transformation. Life does not
exist as a prerecorded message of either plodding drudgery and
misery or carefree escape. It exists as a learning - a lesson in
the art of healing oneself, each other, the planet and beyond.
The purpose of physical life is to learn to heal: heal the pain,
anger and frustration, channel the vast resources of love and
learning to where they can do the most good, to the heart of
mankind.
There are no limitations to the vibrations of empathy and love.
Love is the vibration which when expanded through cosmic
attunement produces "miracles." I realize when I say there are no
limitations that this is difficult to comprehend when one seems
constantly hemmed in, limited by the physical. But in the world of
healing, in the world beyond the physical presence of stars,
planets, and galaxies, exists a force of such enormous intensity
that even a vague alignment with its presence produces changes
beyond knowable limitations. So in thinking of oneself as a healer
involved in the giving and receiving of love, one should feel
buoyed by the notion of nonlimitation in which all that is sought
in the name of "love" becomes appropriately manifested.
There is more than healing through traditional medical routes;
healing occurs through the creative process. The artist, the
dancer, the musician, the architect, the teacher, business
executive, lawyer and politician can all heal through their own
creative approaches to and interpretations of their fields. Just
because one is not interested in physically touching another or
palpating another's spleen does not mean one is not a healer. Men
and women can heal each other through their own individual
expression. Certainly audiences and individuals alike are healed
through interplay, acceptance and understanding of creative
interpretation. The everyday creative motions one goes through can
be one's mode of healing. These potentially viable healing
abilities unfortunately often become blocked by the individual's
own inability to translate perception into response or interpret
one's true self in terms others can understand.
Healing oversees the field of individual creative archtypes. It is
the term used to cover all the forms of creative expression and
interplay which cause joy and wholeness to surface in the
individual. For example, the architect who lovingly creates the
designs for a building is then faced with the problem of selling
the designs to the customer. Creative perception turns to thwarted
response when the customer remains unimpressed, and the potential
joy and healing through creative exchange is lost in the dilemma
of response. When personal ego replaces love, dilemmas can never
be dissolved and resolved, and thus healing never takes place.
When an actor plays to an audience, becoming sensitized to its
collective energy, he loses himself in the act of playing out his
own creativity. There is no singular ego directing the audience or
actor - each is healing the other through the understanding of the
shared creative experience. Each moves in response to the other's
subtle cues. The individuals within the audience are being healed
through the release of themselves as separate entities and their
acceptance of themselves as part of the whole. The performer is
being healed through the infusion of energy projected from the
audience, allowing him to flow within his own creative
performance.
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| 148.6 | NATASH::BUTCHART | Tue Jul 22 1986 08:41 | 3 | ||
Thank you, Bill.
Marcia
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| 148.8 | Each still owns his own responsibility | MILRAT::KEEFE | Mon Sep 08 1986 10:29 | 13 | |
Where/why does it imply "need" ? Healing oversees the field of individual creative archtypes. It is the term used to cover all the forms of creative expression and interplay which cause joy and wholeness to surface in the individual. There is nothing wrong in offering someone knowledge and allowing them to go forward with it. It then becomes their responsibility as to how they use it - to heal themself or not. Life does not have to exist as a prerecorded message of either plodding drudgery or misery. It can exist as a learning - a lesson in the art of healing oneself, each other, the planet and beyond. If you believe that the purpose of physical life is to learn to heal: heal the pain, anger and frustration, then channel the vast resources of love and learning to where they can do the most good, to the heart of all mankind. I think you set your own limitations when you say it doesn't fit into your reality. | |||||
| 148.9 | Thank you so very much | NETRIX::"kots3::[email protected]" | Christopher | Fri Aug 02 1996 10:45 | 11 |
Where were you about four months ago. I'm only 20, and I have been wandering around life getting real nervous that because I had no idea who I was that I would turn out to be a terrible person. You think anyone sat down and helped me out? No of course not. Most of my friends are to wrapped up in the "norm" that I don't think they will ever undergo "self-realization". Anyway what you said was exactly how I feel. I thought I was "in for it" untill I read a book called "I'm OK youre OK. I think I'm pretty blessed to have figured out what I have at such an early age. Well its back to college for me. Peace and all that good stuff that comes with it!!!!! [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||