Re: Exploring Dimensions and The "Matrix" Phenomenon
Hi BB,
Lets assume that the basis for your (intuitive) conviction about spirituality and mankinds progression, which by the way I do not see as arrogance, comes from these areas:
1) Your own experience
2) The experience of others (that which is not your own experience)
Thus.....
3) The experience of others that coincides with and affirms your own experience.
4) The experience of others that does not coincide with and affirm your own experience.
This for me begs the question:
a) How much of the above doctrine that you quote is your own experience?
b) How much of the above doctrine is not your own experience?
c) What aspect of you is evaluating and deciding, often with absoloute conviction, what "is" and what "is not"?
As I have said above: I have no doubt that the Bringers of the Dawn and the C material and similar appeals to a place within many people, and it goes a long way to reaffirming and putting into context what many people, myself included, feel inside.
It is a highly convincing closing of the/a loop that resonates on many levels - BUT there is something about it that does not quite ring as solidly as it should do.
Ego will seek to grasp at and include all that which fits its existing structure/mindset/perspective - it will, without your necessarily being aware of the process, also filter out all that does NOT fit your existing structure and mindset. Ego is biased.
What is this place that we feel inside that is being affirmed? it is the inate human/ego need to find meaning and purpose in our lives.
I will partly use some Eckhart Tolle statements to better explain this:
A significant part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated lack or incompleteness or of not being whole. If it is unconcious, it will only be felt indirectly as an intense craving, wanting and needing. When this happens we tend to enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego-gratification and things to identify with in order to feel whole.
As long as the egoic mind is running our lives one cannot be at ease. Since the ego is a derived sense of self, it needs to identify with external things.It needs to be defended and fed constantly.
The most common egoic identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, realtionships, personal and family history, belief systems and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious and other collective identifications.
None of these is you.
Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made h Âs famous statement "I think, therefore I am". He had in fact given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with being and and identity with thinking.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly however it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that we use our minds wrongly - we usually dont use it at all. It uses us. This is the disease/insanity. We believe we are our minds.This is the delusion.The instrument has taken us over
I cannot stress this last paragraph enough!
What I am suggesting by all of this is that there are many spiritual traps and pitfalls, and as long as the egoic mind is more or less deciding what "makes us feel complete" then we run the risk of not even knowing that this is happening and we will suffer a fall - a dark night of the soul.
The egoic mind knows us better than we know ourselves - the egoic mind is also extremely good at passing itself off as our "intuitive self", so long as what is being intuited fits to our perspective and works towards our feelings of completeness.
Many people are also seduced by paths to higher knowing where a neat and tidy doctrine is laid out for them by a powerful parental figure like a church, a guru, a shaman, a spaceship commander from Arcturus, or a teacher claiming to be a high priest of the Order of Melchizedek. Knowing just what rule to follow in every circumstance is a relief if you don't trust your own intuition. But going too fast, skipping from method to method, and settling for answers you had no part in originating can leave you open for an unbalancing event (A dark night of the soul period)
When intuiting one has to be able to draw the line between a "feeling" and an "emotion", and I know through my own personal experience how many times I have got this wrong on my own journey and that it is a continual process of refinement.
Montalk in various threads is, I believe, doing his best to help you to see all this - I just wanted to paint another version of the same picture insofar as it will anchor it more strongly in my own mind I hope as it does for others.
"BUT there is something about it that does not quite ring as solidly as it should do":
I believe that Bringers of the Dawn material and similar, whilst highly informative and very interesting, is written in such a way as to a) take advantage of the incompleteness that we feel and b) appeal to the egoic self.
I have no doubt in my selves (Smile) that this incompleteness is a hole that is to be filled, so that mankind maybe fulfilled - the question is with what?
BB, I am really very chuffed for you, and I know exactly how it feels when the "Divine" starts to embrace ones life and the joys it brings - the exilharation and energy is powerful, and yet it is just the start of a long road of learning and experience.
None of us can normally go from unconcious to concious or from asleep to awake in the course of 1 night, or even 12 months. This is a long road along which we all need to have our wits about us.
Even more so, because I believe that there is nothing that has as much potential for self harm and unbalance as a partly awakened soul, and that there will be plenty of experiences along that road that will be there to cause that lack of balance.
Warm regards
JT