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Hey beautiful Gathering Spot friends,
Below are a few quotes I've come up with about the co-creation of reality. Enjoy!
With abundant love and warm holiday wishes,
Fred
I have watched several fascinating videos by a woman who appears to know how to analyze peoples body language. Listening to her is addictive. The video below analyzes two people who are said to be victims of abuse-Fred, I wanted you to see this...I feel it is a validation of the victims and it helps me to understand the odd parts of their expressions. Something she said about world leaders being in on it rings freshly true and appalling. ADMISSION: I find it hard personally to hear their testimony because I don't want the world to have such evil in it.
For those who might be interested in my recent adventures at the spiritual community of Damanhur in Italy, here's a write-up I made for my friends. Enjoy, and much love, Fred
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Below is a short story I wrote on the inevitibility of enlightenment. It's about a 10 minute read. Let me know what you think.
The Four Minute Monkey
Chapter 1: Evolution
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Lovin it. Tell it like it is, sister!
Here's one way to stop supporting endless wars...
http://nowartax.org/People's Life Fund.html
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Sponsored by The Nation Institute and The New School (http://www.newschool.edu), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed author Chris Hedges sits down for a one-to-one interview with public intellectual, academic and activist Cornel West.
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Here are a couple of my favorite inspiring quotes. Enjoy!
Quotes from the amazing book Cosmic Journeys by Rosalind McKnight:
Every soul has its own special tune to play in the universal orchestra. p. 93
War is the manifestation of fear. Humans fear to be killed. Thus, they kill out of fear, striking first before the fear turns in upon itself. p. 223
From Revelations of an Elite Family Insider (2005)
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Thanks, Fred. Good thoughts, big and deep perspective. This seems true as far as words can express truth. Relating to one aspect of what you said: Sometimes I use the analogy of a mainstream computer and its many individual stations. Individually we're like these stations (monitor, keyboard, bells & whistles) and we tend to think of ourselves as having completely separate individual existences. But we forget that we're really conscious outposts of the central computer, which is the Consciousness in which we all take part. I think the new physics posits that there's only one Consciousness in the universe -- and it follows there's one Love. So our individual vantage point (focal point) is just a detail in the vast unborn, undying Awareness in which everything exists (or seems to; do hologram's actually exist?).
Anyway, I love what you said near the beginning of your post: "The more I open to all of this, the more I realize it is silly to get so serious about it." ...and yet it seems natural to help wherever we can, since we all "inter-are" (using Thich Nhat Hahn's expression).
Cool, Bob. I like the computer analogy, even if it is a bit impersonal. Enjoy!
Of course, by "mainstream computer" I meant "mainframe computer." Yeah, it's a little impersonal. Analogies are always inadequate by their nature.
I dig, Fred!
I'm switching tracks!
I share sentiments with an analogy I recently watched again on Lost when Kate says to Jack "kind of unlike you, the whole glass half-full thing." And Jack replies "there's a glass?"
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"The goal is not to merge back into oneness, but rather for each part of the whole to explore the richness and variety of being,"
I heard a Hindu mystic say that the Buddha got it wrong about trying to get back to essential oneness and that Hindu faith or advanced ideas therein was superior because it was about the many...
You said a lot and deep too. Man.
" I know that this understanding exists on some deep level within others, but most have unconsciously chosen to block it off."
That's me in spades. I'm like the poster child for that
Yes. When I hear people say "we are one," I find myself saying "and we are many." If we were truly all one, you wouldn't be reading this and we wouldn't have anyone to interact with. I love that you are there and I am here and we get to explore with each other the uniqueness of each of our beings. The way I like to express that sentiment is by saying we are all divine. We are all interconnected in the same cosmic dance. And we all come from the same divine source. Much love and warm wishes to you all!