Thoughts, and Questions, about Modern Awakenings

[tribunalofmercy]

I want to be a bit open about my own recent experiences simply because there Are those now going through them – and though we have books to read and people to ask, it does seem some of the ‘rules’ of the past are being thrown out of the (proverbial) Window.





I have mentioned how strange and somewhat frightening it was when my spiritual ‘reawakening’ began for me in May of this past year. (first awakening in 1987) Thankfully I had a Lot of one-on-one instruction and guidance from my own guides, without which I might have had a less-than-desirable repeat of my Earlier awakening experience and run away in fear, or not been so understanding of what was Happening. (ended up in a state of half-sleep for Many more years)





There were times this past year when my ‘unleashed mind’ took me where I should go; there were times when my mind outran my Body, trying to astral-project me somewhere not while I was meditating but while I was typing! Or walking around my apartment….or in the car…..Goodness. Times when I would feel an experience ‘coming on’ and I would literally Run to the floor in front of the sofa so I could Release my mind, barely making it before ending up in the throes of a vision. Even times when the REM-state would overwhelm me: I have been known to pull over in the car and just Close my Eyes so whatever I needed to see could be Experienced without a wreck.



All of these experiences conform to vibrational peaks and troughs; we will likely be experiencing them More strongly, and less strongly, on our own coils, so to speak...when we are 'Closer' to Universal Consciousness, or 'taking breaks' from it.



Mine may seem a bit extreme, but everywhere I look I begin to see others going through experiences Without the benefit of a guide, and what do they know of what is happening? Beings from other planes attracted to their light and Reaching Out for them while they are almost unintentionally ‘traveling’. Knowledge of ‘grander things’ being shared without benefit of Wisdom to know what is just ‘information’, and what is Helpful information. Make no mistake – ANYone out there in the cosmos may throw us a bone or two nowadays to make us Feel good, powerful, ‘enlightened’ but not give us all that we Need to know to Grow as we should. They know what is going on…we are Children. I Cannot say this enough.





We see it; we see it even Here, as well as other places....I cannot close my eyes to what I see, and hope it will go away, go back to following the rules better...the Universe is becoming a potential playground though I am enjoying the newfound 'knowledge' immensely I must also be Aware of the bigger picture. Many of us are Not Ready, yet there it is. It has been said that many are now being Born into the world genetically predisposed to greater understanding and I see it - in part, we have brought it About - but wisdom still has it's Own time.





This is a time of change, and change is Messy - even spiritually. It is part of my nature to look 'down the road' - How can we adjust our tactics to better prepare for this? How can we be Useful to ourselves and others as this happens? Do we Want to?   Do we want to continue in our human responses to 'change', or think Differently?

[baangus]

Jan 11, 2015 21:34:59 GMT tribunalofmercy said:

This is a time of change, and change is Messy - even spiritually. It is part of my nature to look 'down the road' - How can we adjust our tactics to better prepare for this? How can we be Useful to ourselves and others as this happens? Do we Want to?   Do we want to continue in our human responses to 'change', or think Differently?

Hi ToM. Something I read this past week reverberated with me as I read your comments/questions:

Can we put away all ideas, concepts and theories, and find out for ourselves if there is something real -- not an imagination, not something illusory, fanciful, not a myth -- but a reality that can never be destroyed, a truth that is abiding?

To find that out, to come upon it, all authority of any kind, especially spiritual, must be totally set aside, because authority implies conformity, obedience, acceptance of a certain pattern. A mind must be capable of standing alone, of being a light to itself. Following another, belonging to a group, following methods of meditation laid down by an authority, by tradition, is totally irrelevant to one who investigates into the question of whether there is something eternal, timeless, something that is not measurable by thought, that operates in our daily life.

To find out if there is something that is not projected by thought, that is not an illusion, a myth, we must ask whether thought can be controlled, whether thought can be held in abeyance, whether thought can be suppressed, so that the mind is completely still. Control implies the controller and the controlled, doesn’t it? Who is the controller? Is that not also created by thought, one of the fragments of thought, which has assumed authority as the controller? If you see the truth of that, then the controller is the controlled, the experiencer is the experienced, the thinker is the thought. They are not separate entities. If you understand that, then there is no necessity to control.

When there is a division between the controller and the controlled, there is conflict, there is a wastage of energy. When the controller is the controlled there is no wastage of energy. When there is no division, you have all that energy to go beyond that which you thought must be controlled. 

Freedom is to be a light to oneself; then it is not an abstraction, a thing conjured up by thought. Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself.

J. KRISHNAMURTI

[tribunalofmercy]

Thank you, baangus - Happy New Year to you, btw

I can So tell when I have meditated well before coming onto the site, and when I have not, lol – it reflects in both tone and focus of interaction in posts/threads, for I am not yet non-dual


I was thinking about something quite similar over the past day – the idea of what actually determines our awareness of what we are trying to Control, and what we are trying to Release from our control. It would seem that to control the atma is to release control to the Brahma, yet to release control of atma is to give control to the Brahma – does that make sense?


I know I have shared before that there is always a chicken-or-egg mentality to us at some point on the journey, as it relates to Thought – “What is this experience? Did that thought come from my own mind, or from something I heard, or read, or from some Other spiritual direction, and how can I Possibly know if I was influenced by myself, or someone Else, or SomeThing else, and how can I be Sure of the truth of anything?” etc etc Yet I see it is linear thinking in General that has led us to this concern, because in the grand scheme of things there is Ultimately a Truth, and it will not Matter “who thought of it first”, where it came from or whether it was Thought at All. It becomes Irrelevant. And that is a freedom in Itself.


No matter what we experience, it will always be perceived a bit differently between ourselves and any other(s). And there is truth to be found in All perspectives….I still wonder if wisdom is not that Freedom to acknowledge all perspectives and wait for the embracement of the Big Picture. (a bit more patiently than I would have it sometimes, lol)