Right on Sweet, we are in full accord!
This is VERY metaphysical, Lakey!
I can duplicate what you are saying. To me, "space" and "time" are just considerations.
Consciousness or awareness is what makes things "real" to us.
Right on Sweet, we are in full accord!
I have been attracted to this field of study for decades. The funny thing about it is that it appears to be 100% subjective and it is all speculative. Sometimes I feel that I have a parial handle or understanding in this area and then I will go onto some thread run by Vinaire usually or someone else with a lot of expertise and I will find something new which I like a lot and feel that I have pushed my understanding further.
So far so good, but if I keep reading a Vinaire thread past the new awareness I just had, I find a lot of new things I don't understand and begin to get confused again. Often, I will leave the thread and move on to less metaphysical topics. Perhaps, a month or two later, something will draw me back to the Vinaire thread and I am surprised to find that my understanding in this area seems to have stabilized out again at a higher level than I was at the last time. I then pick up another new point on his thread and the cycle repeats itself.
The thing about studying a completely subjective field with a Guru guiding you is that if the Guru is correct about things you make gains in your understanding but if your Guru is wrong about something and you follow him, you are going to end up in a potentially very bad situation. You can be worse off than you were before without knowing it.
Where does one go to increase one's awareness in a 100% subjective field of study? Probably, the answers lie within you but you can not reach them so you have to attempt to reach them on a gradient. The tools to do so seem to be limited but there are several options.
Thinking is not one of them and neither is common sense! Of those two, thinking is by far the worse.
Things that do seem to work are a mixture of looking, meditating, studying a religious body of knowledge such as vedic religions, learning from a guru and receiving procesiing or having spiritual drills run on oneself, either being run by a counselor or being run solo.
How deep can one go in understanding existence. If all knowledge is represented by a sphere 100 feet in diameter, I would hazard a guess that early biblical era societies penetrated perhaps 1 foot into the sphere. Modern man today, on average may have 7 or 8 feet penetration. Some great thinker, perhaps an Einstein may have penetrated 10 -12 feet. Someone such as Vin or Roger may be able to look to deeper than that.
HOW DEEP IS MANKIND CAPABLE OF PENETRATING? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ONE COULD GRASP THE WHOLE 100' SPHERE?
It would seem as if we are co creaters of the 100' diameter sphere since we had to agree to it in order for it to exist for us. Anything co created by a being should be able to be fully grasped by that being but things are booby trapped to keep us from grasping the totality of the game we are playing. Since the beginning of recorded history mankind has made continous progress. There is even a concept present that we are better off not knowing this type of knowledge and our time would be better spent just playing the game and not trying to figure out how the game is set up. Those with a thirst for knowledge do not fall prey to this concept and on their shoulders, mankind progresses.
The 6,000 years or so of recorded history seems like a long time, but actually that may be very short for a cycle which consists of losing knowledge as a society and then working societally to fully recover that knowledge.
Lakey
- all 3 L's and that was the result? Sheesh - I couldn't believe it.
