How Does This Work ?

[gruntal]

Attending one of my local meetings last night, again surrounded by girls, I was ( admittedly ) pleased how wild and woolly it became! You might assume the spiritual set would be all trim and proper but that is not always the case. The reason is because we all have wants and desires and some are decidedly altruistic. But that does not exempt anything from the dysfunctional and just plain stupid.

Surely being enlightened should work on all levels starting with the ground we walk on.

It is one thing thing to walk away from the dirt but another to pretend it doesn't exist. It does. Being blind to reality isn't the way to recreate it. I have of late realized things I thought I was oblivious to and not for want of looking at them straight in the eye. I did but saw nothing and in the absence of visions I thought it was hopeless for me. Was I ever wrong! What I thought was childish fantasies was just my method of seeing and remembering the esoteric. I wasn't crazy after all.

I guess it is sad to disown the things that are your salvation. Like the rejected Messiah. The last corner stone the builders rejected. Who would have ever thought? If there is anything I have learned now: your spiritual gifts are unique to you! If it seems ridiculous but still tugs on your spirit then go for it !

I just don't do it like those silly girls do ....

[donq]

Hi George,

I like what you said about walking away from the dirt versus pretending it doesn't exist. It reminds me of the metaphor about ostriches burying their heads in the sand to make them invisible to predators (if they can't see the predators, then the predators can't see them either).
Well, animal experts said it's just a myth.     
"Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand—they wouldn't be able to breathe! But they do dig holes in the dirt to use as nests for their eggs. Several times a day, a bird puts her head in the hole and turns the eggs. So it really does look like the birds are burying their heads in the sand!"
Ok,ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand, how about people? It's said when someone has buried his head in the sand, he is ignoring obvious facts and hoping that by denying the existence of a problem will make it go away.
Will a problem go away?
Again, sometimes it works! As we know about positive thinking! If we think that problems are nothing, then, there's more chance that we can solve them. Problems still are problems but our states of mind have changed by the way we see them. Maybe positive thinking doesn't change our mind to be better, but at least, it makes them much more stable and natural. While negative thinking automatically come to us whenever we deal with problems and make us feel as if they are harder to be solved than they really are.

P.S. Ok, I was wrong before. Now I have to admit that joining a like-minded group is not a bad idea. And sometimes, wild and woolly. :-)
 

[gruntal]

The spiritual will only stay in these groups long enough to start their own groups and become teachers. The initiates will come again and again until they become spiritual. The curious are just that - and everybody has to start some where ! It is all good.

[mojomojo]

A woman married to an abusive husband, used denial to cope and survive, but through her denial other members of the family were left to suffer the abuse, which they could never deny.
Later on in life this same woman was struck with cancer, throughout her entire body, given 6 months to live by the medical professionals, again she turned to her life long friend, denial.
She didn't want to know about her illness and never gave it any thought.
Three years later, she is still alive, she is the longest surviving patient with this type of cancer, that this particular consultant has ever had, if only we could figure out when it is appropriate to use.

[gruntal]

There is a difference between denial and disowning. I suspect this woman knew a lot more of what was going on then she was admitting. People who graduate leave it all behind and you don't realize they were ever sitting there. They were. But you can be sure they weren't sleeping thru the lectures either ...