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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 8:13:04 GMT
"Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?"
Ken Wilber, in A Brief History of Everything (1996)
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 8:24:00 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 8:49:19 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frd9fkgIek0&t=4sUploaded on 14 Feb 2012 This 18 minute advocacy film for human and spiritual ethics about mental health and well-being explores and explains the deeper relationships between psychotic and mystic experiences in human life associated with the collective psyche/subconscious mind (and being) of us all.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 8:55:36 GMT
Published on 2 Dec 2015 A Human Rights declaration by modern mystic, Spencer Perdriau, justly stating the need to find a new humane word for mental illness, and the every-day struggles of life that a person faces with such, such as the many prejudices and stigmas from society and others that greatly limit the potential and productiveness of those struck by this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdzmgxdTrwQ
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 9:16:54 GMT
Mysticism, Mental Illness & Complex Trauma www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0dIKBozxMPublished on 13 Aug 2015 For Beyond 50's "Spirituality" talks, listen to an interview with Mark Lesniewski. An Oregon resident, he has a background in seminary studies, Spiritual Direction training, Clinical Pastoral Education, and a Master's degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy. According to Lesniewski, some people who were close to Jesus thought he was crazy. Same with Francis of Assisi. And what do you make of a prince (now know as the Buddha) who leaves his palace and family and, early on, lives a life of extreme asceticism in a forest? All three master mystics pointed us to more sane ways of living together. How would we handle them today? Last year "USA Today" published a series of articles called, "The Cost of Not Caring." One particular article was subtitled, "The Financial and Human Cost of Neglecting the Mentally Ill." What does this neglect say about our collective spiritual health, and what affect might it have if we changed our perspective about mystics, the mentally ill, and trauma victims, especially if we see what they, and we, all have in common? Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and spiritual lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates. *Produced and syndicated by Joy and Daniel Davis of Beyond 50 Productions.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 10:10:52 GMT
Spirituality, Mysticism and Esotericism www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxXAicpCOTcPublished on 10 May 2014 Examines various internet sites to view, if you are interested in your spiritual development or Spirituality in general. A short unbiased introduction to religions and organizations various spiritual and mystical paths and their history. Mystical experience described in differing paths, religions and traditions available to you. Explains how to achieve communion with ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight.
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2017 9:13:25 GMT
“The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.”
~ Max Planck
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 10:46:52 GMT
Wilson Van Dusen, a clinical psychologist, categorized his patients' hallucinations, and came to believe that the work of Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), which categorized human experience as a series of interactions with spirits, was a model for Van Dusen's observations of hallucinations. www.theisticpsychology.org/books/w.vandusen/presence_spirits.htmIn an article at the John Mack Institute, Virginia Goodchild wrote - It is possible, therefore, that the encounter experience is a contemporary form of an ancient mystical knowledge or gnosis, that is, knowledge that comes from the reality of visionary or revelatory states, that are also taking place in an actual "space" of the soul, or subtle vehicle. Such experiences also make it imperative that we expand our dichotomous worldview to include once again these other levels of reality, that in fact are by no means new, but recover an ancient multidimensionality. Source - en.citizendium.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychologyAn amusing analogy - Schizophrenia, Psychiatry and Mysticism www.stopshrinks.org/reading_room/antipsych/schizophrenia_mystic.htmlby Richard Gosden Schizophrenia is to mystical experience as drowning is to swimming. Psychiatry in this analogy is like an over zealous lifeguard who can't tell the difference between drowning and swimming. Everybody he sees in the water is run over by his rescue boat, knocked unconscious and hauled out with a boat hook. Most of the people rescued, swimmers and drowners alike, are crippled in the process. The lifeguard, who can't swim himself, denies that swimming is possible and claims that the crippling is actually caused by the drowning experience rather than the rescue. This is confirmed by raucous praise for the lifeguard from many of the crippled drowners and their relatives. The crowd of spectators on the beach are divided. A few of them can tell the difference between swimming and drowning, but most can't. The crowd is persuaded by the drowners and their relatives to support the lifeguard's tactics. Swimmers who aren't too badly crippled and who want to go back into the water have to learn how to swim without splashing so as not to attract attention. It's important for those who know how to swim to maintain the skill so it can be passed on. Eventually everyone will have to learn to swim so we can cross to the other side. Common sense would indicate that an ability to swim should be a prerequisite for appointment as a lifeguard. Perhaps this will happen one day. I think if a lifeguard claimed the ability to swim that would disqualify him from being a lifeguard, claiming that ability in general is scoffed at by most lifeguards I know and would be seen as evidence of drowning. Funnily enough I can't swim myself metaphorically or literally, but the metaphorical drowning was definitely (in my opinion) caused by incompetent lifeguards. I am interested in animal symbolism, though, especially spiders. They keep appearing in the house and in my life in general. I don't think they are necessarily about money as people say, and I have read a bit about what they mean but I have spun (sorry) my own interpretation on them. Is it better to do that or stick to official translations of what they mean, or am I just overthinking the omnipresence of spiders in my life just now? I certainly wouldn't tell my lifeguard about it, that's for sure. Sorry for going back to this post by the way, I haven't read it before.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 10:47:59 GMT
Sorry, I don't know what happened with that post there, I'm not technologically minded.
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2017 10:50:37 GMT
Sorry, I don't know what happened with that post there, I'm not technologically minded. Have edited the quote tag.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 11:11:22 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2017 16:19:39 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on Jun 19, 2017 16:33:10 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2017 6:26:21 GMT
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall, while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then Return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the Way of Nature.
~ Lao Tsu ~ Tao Te Ching
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2017 11:58:34 GMT
Heed these words, You who wish to probe the depths of nature: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. In you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods.
Delphi Oracle
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