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Topic: The Positive, Critical Point

Okay, I began reading "Power Vs. Force" yesterday, by Dr. David R. Hawkins.  ...In the introduction he speaks of "Critical Point Analysis."  It's a form of analysis based upon the axiom that in a sufficiently complex system, there is a small input point that will have a widespread influence on the functioning of the whole system.

The analogy he uses to explain Critical Point Analysis is the locomotive.  Here is a gargantuan, complex machine, and yet, with moderate finger pressure directed at the right point somewhere in the machinery, the whole machine will stop working.  Or, think of a giant clock--the removal of one, crucial cog can cause the whole clock to stop keeping time.  Obviously, however, one could pull one of the numbers off of the face of the clock and the clock would go on ticking--the number isn't a critical point in the clock system.

Anyway, when I read this I immediately began thinking of the human aura.  I thought about the "hot buttons" that so many of us have.  We can be perfectly blissful, but if somebody--a mother, a brother, a lover, a co-worker, a Matrix agent, whoever--comes along and pushes that button then our whole system can fall into chaos, incoherency, fear, doubt, disbelief.  We might recover later that day, or, we might continue on a descending spiral into physical illness. 

The buttons can be anything.  They can be our insecurity about our weight, leftover religious programming that we're damned and going to hell, beliefs that we're stupid, too loud, too whatever. 

Clearly, those on a spiritual path will usually gain awareness of these weaknesses and will either (eventually) release the false belief patterns or unlearn a reactivity to situations that tend to highlight these patterns in us. 

My question, reading the Hawkins material, was this: If there is a critical point in each human mind, which when activated and with the reactivity of lower consciousness, tends to favor chaos, incoherency, and illness in a human being, COULD THERE BE an opposite, positive, critical point that--when activated and activated with the conscious intent of higher consciousness--tends to promote coherency, growth, feelings of validation, and health? 

My question/theory is definitely predicated on a philosophical assumption (but one that feels intuitively right to me) that there is always a potential for equilibrium.  If we are not balanced in fact, then there is at least--always--a potential for a return to balance.  A potential that resides inside us and isn't something we have to acquire except through the probing of awareness. 

If it exists, what is that positive, critical point in the human spirit that only needs to be pushed for balance to return?

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.

2 Reply by manyeagles (edited by manyeagles 2005-09-12 07:27:08)

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Interesting points and thoughts Dreamosis!!!!!!   smile

Perhaps that critical point in the human spirit that needs to be pushed for balance to return is: Discovering that we've been somehow conditioned (at least in most societies nowdays) to FORGET who we REALLY are, and LEARNING from those who have managed to retain this realness. 

Much of the Toltec insights/observations/lessons seem to address this aspect (for myself anyways) wink

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      Then you have time for everything.
   You're never in a hurry.
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manyeagles wrote:

Perhaps that critical point in the human spirit that needs to be pushed...LEARNING from those who have managed to retain this realness.

...I think what you call "realness" I may call "core consciousness," or maybe simply the Divine Spark.  In any case, yes, I am thinking that this is a sort of positive, critical point that--having awareness and energy brought to it--may begin, and accelerate, the enlightenment process. 

A friend of mine recently, a very scientific-thinking friend of mine, said to me, though: (rough paraphrase): success isn't usually found in the finding of a perfect sequence that produces results everytime, but rather it's in replicating an "okay" sequence that gives you reliable results when you perform the sequence a hundred times or so. 

Or, in far simpler words: don't waste too much time looking for the perfect way when the way you've got is working out well enough.

In searching for a "positive, critical point" I don't want to waste too much time--though it has caught my attention. 

It may be that the nature of energy is such that only negative energy has domino-like effects.  Maybe all positive gain is an upstream, uphill deal, end of story.

Here are thoughts:

(1) Grounding.  For me, very simple grounding meditations have helped me balance my thoughts and feelings, have reduced my sensitivity to negative goings-on around me, increased my sense of peace, and deepened my awareness.  ...It's not a foolproof technique, but having done it over and over, it works for me.  It has a definable (for me) stabilizing effect upon my energy and tends to coincide with positive experience. 

Sending energy into my grounding cord has been a critical help to me.  It provides that "shock" (maybe what 4th Wayers are talking about) that helps me pass into a higher, positive energy. 

(2) Identifying with the Core Consciousness/Godself/Godspark/Divine Spark/Higher Self/etc.  ...When I "go into this place," negativity has less of an effect upon me and, indeed, my experience seems to hurtle towards positivity.  ...I try to write my plays from this place.  When I do, when I stop and consciously intend to shift my attention into that inner, divine ring, my writing accelerates.  My marriage is definitely easier when I'm there in that place.  I am not offended by the opinions of others or by "lower" energies--mostly I laugh at them. 

(3) The Third-Eye Chakra.  A meditation teacher once told me that the third-eye chakra, along with the Crown, are (energetically) places of neutrality in the energy system.  Of course it's possible for both chakras to handle foreign, negative energy, but--sufficiently purified--they are supposedly naturally neutral/non-judgmental fields.

My thought here is: Well, if there is really a "place" (or field) in the energy system that is by its nature a neutral sanctuary, wouldn't holding one's attention in that sancutary have a ripple-effect of positivity throughout the system?  As, in those moments, every thought and feeling and experience is encountered without judgment or reaction or grief, but with detachment? 

Also what is coming to me now is that quote in Matthew from Jesus.  He said: "The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore if your eye be bright, the whole body is also lighted." 

Others have connected that quote to the third-eye chakra. 

(4) The thought-pattern of: "I am a verb, not a noun."  If an awareness can be held that you are fluid process and an infinite choice-maker...If that awareness could become permanent, and provided that one applied toward positive endeavors, I would think that a quickening of positivity around that person would be an obvious result--as their inhibitions would be at a minimum and as life provides thousands of millions of opportunites per day to grow one's awareness.

(5) Maybe if there is an overarching negative mental pattern in each person that is their personal demon, there is an overarching, inbuilt positive archetype in each person.  ...What is it for you?  What is your strength?  There is great value in knowing your weaknesses, but there is also value in knowing your strength, isn't there? 

I think one trap may people on a spiritual path fall into is that they spend so much time "working on" themselves, focusing on what's wrong, how they were programmed, how many entity attachments they have, etc. etc., that they forget to consciously channel energy into what's going well and validate that. 

It is a tightrope, I guess.  Focusing exclusively on the positive and denying the negative could lead to prideful vulnerability.  But focusing exclusively on the negative--even in the name of positivity--and forgetting to fuel the positive in yourself may be just as dangerous...if not more.

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.
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I think that classifying thought's and feelings with "wrong.." or "positive..." is amistake in the spiritual way because then u'll always try to escape from the wrong to the right and allways try to get to the satisfaction that is unreachable, and by that you'll grow the duality in yourself. Instead i think you shoudn't identify with the negative or the positive and try to get used to only observe it objectively and in that way you will  get ballanced.

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Point taken! Well worded. Thank you All2one!

" Then it was, then again it will be. And though the course may change sometimes rivers always reach the sea." Robert Plant
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All2one wrote:

I think that classifying thought's and feelings with "wrong.." or "positive..." is a mistake in the spiritual way because then u'll always try to escape from the wrong to the right and always try to get to the satisfaction that is unreachable ...

I agree that there is a danger, and distraction, in labeling thoughts and feelings.  But what creates a label?  Or, what causes a label to be harmfulf? (Putting one in the position of "always trying to escape from the wrong" and choose the supposed right?--stuck in, and no longer growing because of, a false dichotomy?)

I feel that it's moralistic judgment, really, that puts a person in that position of "always trying to escape from the wrong...."  That (energy of judgment) sets up a dynamic of inner tension, leading to anger, frustration and self-abdication whenever you, or others, don't perform "as they should."

The terms positive and negative, to me, aren't moralistic though, but (for me) describe tendencies to either allow growth or deny growth.  The terms aren't absolute for me, they change from context to context.  In one moment, a cigarette may have a negative effect upon me; in another moment, a cigarette may be a positive, next step, allowing me to calm myself and return to an emotional balance--and thereby allowing me to return to a physical balance, in that moment.  Of course, a cigarette could bring poorer health with it, but overall, its effect in that hypothetical moment--and for that day--might be positive.

My question is, if thoughts and emotions aren't evaluated in some way (not judged, but evaluated), how do you choose thoughts and feelings that tend to lead to harmony over disharmony? 

I suppose I am, in this post, making an assumption that harmony is more desireable than disharmony.  Or, I'll say at least, as far as I'm concerned, I find it preferable.

I agree that sending out the energy of "WRONG" to yourself, or to anyone else is a mistake in the spiritual way.  But it isn't necessary to send out that energy-of-wrong in order to evalute your thoughts and feelings as self-sabotaging and self-defeating. 

I use the terms positive and negative because I feel they have greater neutrality (non-judgment) than the terms good or bad.  To me, positive=that which allows the beingness of something or the change of something; negative=that which limits or denies the beingness of something or the change of something.  Both are valid to me, negative doesn't equal "wrong."   It equals limitation.  And limitation is useful and can be a stepping stone to greater positivity (an allowing of growth). 

At one time, a few years back, I chose to view "nothing as negative."  To me, at that time, all there was was the individual will.  And, I reasoned, I would be happier if I just gave full expression to my will at all times and refused to let myself or anyone else "place" or "classify" or otherwise stall my will by invalidating it with a judgment.  When I found myself attracted to two other women, I acted on it immediately, cheating twice (and repeatedly) on my girlfriend.  And when my girlfriend complained, I told her there is no right or wrong, baby, don't judge me.  I talked over my friends if I found them boring, or told them they were boring.  If my friends were offended by my angry mood, I would unleash upon them for attempting to control my behavior.

In short, in a period of about four months, I ruined a love relationship with a woman I really loved, strained every friendship I had, burned bridges with teachers who liked me, and I felt justified in all of it--they had the problems, not me.  They were judging me, classifying me as wrong when there is no right or wrong, no positive or negative.  Words or promises were hogwash--they were in the past and all that was important was the will of the present and satisfying that will.  I became almost all ego. 

...From the highest perspective, yeah, all is the same.  When you see a man raping a woman, it is really just the Godforce struggling with the Godforce.  But would you stop a rape if you saw one?  I would.  I understand that it's all the same, and that there is ultimately no positive or negative, but I would stop a rape.  Why?  Because I do not like suffering--experiencing it myself, or watching others in it.  I would categorize the thoughts, feelings and act of rape as negative.  If I were raped, would I judge the person who raped me and forever beam out to them the energy of "wrong-wrong-wrong?"  ...I would hope I wouldn't.  I would hope I would forego the bitter energy of judgment eventually and turn to understanding again and feelings like joy. 

...Is it vanity to recognize suffering as negative and to try to lead yourself out of suffering?  Or help others to?  It is a part of it all, yes.  But it's possible to stay in suffering, see, and never know anything else--at least, it's possible to do just that for whole, human lifetimes.  What is to lead you to experiences besides suffering if it isn't awareness, discernment, that is based upon SOME dichotomy of "preferable"/"not-preferable"?

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.

7 Reply by All2one (edited by All2one 2005-09-14 08:30:08)

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The label created when you react to the craving/aversion by more craving/aversion instead of observing it.
It is the conscious and the unconscious judgment thath puts you in that polarity, ( feeling/thought that i like so i'm satisfied with it - ill pursue it more and more to be "happy" again, or don't like- i will escape from it or always try to fix it.....) for instance escape from fear or seeking pleasure.

[dreamosis]"The terms positive and negative, to me, aren't moralistic though, but (for me) describe tendencies to either allow growth or deny growth.  The terms aren't absolute for me, they change from context to context.  In one moment, a cigarette may have a negative effect upon me; in another moment, a cigarette may be a positive, next step, allowing me to calm myself and return to an emotional balance--and thereby allowing me to return to a physical balance, in that moment.  Of course, a cigarette could bring poorer health with it, but overall, its effect in that hypothetical moment--and for that day--might be positive".

The cigarette isn't the issue, but the reason for it - is. 
When one smokes cigarette the reason for that is that one is not satisfied with the reality AS IT IS and wants a change (no cigarette-no good - i want one...) that's what one feesl anyway, so you're escaping from the reality by any reason(tension, pressure etc. ..) with the change of cigaretteand givig up to the craving, thogh it's not so bad, some people do it with heroin...
I'm trying to stop smoking for awhile now as i observe my thoughts and feelings in live action(not easy at all)   smile .

[dreamosis]"My question is, if thoughts and emotions aren't evaluated in some way (not judged, but evaluated), how do you choose thoughts and feelings that tend to lead to harmony over disharmony?".

The harmony that you talk about can be obtained only when one lives in a not prejudice and choiceless(to thought's/feelings) reality, then youll stop the craving for change and live in perfect balance and harmony(fully liberated/inlighted) and the way to do so is  observing and learning about your cravings (even the smallest and the subtlest ones).
Identifying with craving  for something or for something not..(aversion) will always lead to misery (unsatisfaction) and that means even by making internal goals in yourself like choosing positive thoughts.
The clearest and most truthfull morality will be achieved by choiceless reality as you will be filled by only love and compassion without any interest or goal (not like the love girls you talked about.)

[dreamosis]...From the highest perspective, yeah, all is the same.  When you see a man raping a woman, it is really just the Godforce struggling with the Godforce.  But would you stop a rape if you saw one?  I would.  I understand that it's all the same, and that there is ultimately no positive or negative, but I would stop a rape.  Why?  Because I do not like suffering--experiencing it myself, or watching others in it.  I would categorize the thoughts, feelings and act of rape as negative.  If I were raped, would I judge the person who raped me and forever beam out to them the energy of "wrong-wrong-wrong?"  ...I would hope I wouldn't.  I would hope I would forego the bitter energy of judgment eventually and turn to understanding again and feelings like joy".

I dont think you understood me,internal judjment- i will help that raped girl because she's suffering and not to satisfy my aversion to the rape.
Your quote in the bottom pretty much explains observing and not reacting to craving.
Observing isn't going to make you a vegetable, in the contrary by truly unselfish choislessness you will have the most lucid and genuine nobility and morality.

[dreamosis]"...Is it vanity to recognize suffering as negative and to try to lead yourself out of suffering?  Or help others to?  It is a part of it all, yes.  But it's possible to stay in suffering, see, and never know anything else--at least, it's possible to do just that for whole, human lifetimes.  What is to lead you to experiences besides suffering if it isn't awareness, discernment, that is based upon SOME dichotomy of "preferable"/"not-preferable"?".

The only way to stay in suffering is by identifying with the aversion or with craving for other( joy), only by observation and learning the suffering vanishes step by step, curtain by curtain.
One that is ill cannot heal others.

Didn't got the quote to work. sad

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[dreamosis] My question, reading the Hawkins material, was this: If there is a critical point in each human mind, which when activated and with the reactivity of lower consciousness, tends to favor chaos, incoherency, and illness in a human being, COULD THERE BE an opposite, positive, critical point that--when activated and activated with the conscious intent of higher consciousness--tends to promote coherency, growth, feelings of validation, and health?

My question/theory is definitely predicated on a philosophical assumption (but one that feels intuitively right to me) that there is always a potential for equilibrium.  If we are not balanced in fact, then there is at least--always--a potential for a return to balance.  A potential that resides inside us and isn't something we have to acquire except through the probing of awareness.

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Dig your signature, and it really applies to the questions you asked. Sometimes the path finds you, in spite of your best efforts to the contrary! kekeke!

The beauty of how energy works is that you will only receive that which you're ready for. This is why awareness (especially of consequences) is so important. If you're able to identify energy drains before the agent has the opportunity to manifest them, then you can render them counterproductive, and the agent will either leave you alone, or waste their own energy in the drain they created! The reality they never seem to comprehend is they can only teach you useful lessons via their feeding activity, but by doing this, they lose all claim to the greater spiritual potential created by such actions. While these acts may be painful, it is YOU who will evolve out of this stage, and everyone knows what happened to the dinosaurs when all the herbivores(us) disappeared. In this way, understand that not all painful experiences are negative if the underlying lessons are learned.

All this "energy theory" seems to react very well to Taoist principles, and IMO, (and experience) you won't be able to find the vortex you're looking for until you're ready, and once you have achieved it, you'll realize that it's not something that you can recreate, for yourself or anyone else, because you'll become aware that you wern't the only one making all the arrangements required to make such an experience possible.

I think the best advice I can give is the search for singularity. This will appear as striving for balance when things are bad, but striving for growth when things are good. One of these days you may find your awareness touching something that is so vast, beautiful, and vibrantly alive that you know you'll never be able to explain it. When it happens, don't question or catalogue, just accept and remember.

And post it here.

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Yeah, AND POST IT HERE!!!!!!!!
This is a great thread. It is a bit late (3am) to make a post, but love this discussion. Keep it up, probing the deep.

" Then it was, then again it will be. And though the course may change sometimes rivers always reach the sea." Robert Plant

10 Reply by All2one (edited by All2one 2005-09-22 10:57:35)

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It is important to remember that growth achieved even more when things are "bad", only then you can really see your own growth and your progress level.
Like a teacher in vipassana course told me "you  really learn  how to sail your boat when there's a storm, not calm water..." or something alike.
Of course when "the things are good" you should not forget the "bad" and be hypnotized and blinded by the temporary mildness, and like GibbleTronic said allways learn and remember..., remember that these are 2 sides of the same coin, and remember yourself - the one who is remembering...

11 Reply by dreamosis (edited by dreamosis 2005-09-22 19:11:39)

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All2one wrote:

It is important to remember that growth achieved even more when things are "bad", only then you can really see your own growth and your progress level.

I generally agree with that.  I find whenever I think I'm NOT growing, that's usually when I'm growing most.  Those are times, too, when I'm most resisting myself/others/the world around me.  With my hike in resistance comes a hike in conflict, and with a hike in conflict comes (seemingly) far more opportunities to shed judgment and to clear.

I feel, however, there is such a thing as indulging in the "bad" or "negativity."  Oftentimes in myths the heroes, when passing through a dangerous zone, are told not to linger too long or to look too closely.  In the "Lord of the Rings" this was the passage through the swamps.  If the heroes looked too closely at the bodies in the swamps, they were pulled in.  There's a similar passage in "Neverending Story" too--the horse is overcome with the sadness of a swamp, I believe.

All is one, but nonetheless it seems that there are certain mindframes and attitudes that cut one off from the awareness of all is one.  Of course, one is never actually cut off--they only perceive that they are cut off.  Hence the mantra, "Separateness is an illusion."  It is a perception, a belief--a virtual reality opted into through consciousness tricking itself and forgetting (at least in part) that it tricked itself.

It seems too that there are certain modes of consciousness that tend to enhance the illusion.  I notice in myself that my feeling of connectivity diminishes when I become fixed in a state of extreme anger.  My link to Oneness may not change at all during these excursions of consciousness, but the feeling of "all-is-one" decidedly fades for me during those times.  I feel more separate.  My awareness of others' energy decreases, my awareness of the environmental energy decreases--those perceptions seem to be blotted out by the spike of anger. 

However, I have found it more useful to find neutrality during such "low" moments rather than condemning my anger as "bad."  By finding neutrality I simply mean that I try to observe my anger, let it run its course, let it burn out; and, I do stop "feeding" it.  I think of it like stepping to the side of a fast river where the water is shallower and where I won't be swept away.  I can either stay mid-stream or watch the fast river from the reeds.  I don't try to stop the river or re-direct it. 

Again, though, I notice that my awareness of universal interconnectivity, or the sharing of my awareness in that interconnectivity is dampened by hosting a certain range of energy.  I suppose it is arbitrary to call the limiting range "low," and the range supporting expanded awareness "high"--but those are the terms I use. 

I've come to feel that resistance is at the heart of the "game."  If one bends, is non-resistant, then could one become like a clear pane glass, letting any and all hues of light through without them getting stuck in you?  In other terms, resistance might be "aversion" (like said earlier), or "craving."

...As I was walking along today I was thinking about that craving/aversion concept.  My thought was, "Isn't wanting enlightenment a craving?"  Weird.  The idea of giving up wanting something to attain that something you formerly wanted.  This has really been at the forefront of my mind lately.  I woke up from a dead sleep the other day with the thought, "The highest level of consciousness cannot be ACQUIRED, it must be given."  The thought wasn't that it had to be conferred, or given to you from some other super being, but that that level of consciousness had to be (I can't quite express it fully) sparked in you through acts of giving.  Not material acts of giving, but somehow...giving. 

And again I'm reminded of the first Harry Potter book.  In order to extract the philosopher's stone from the Mirror of Erised--according to Dumbledore's spell--one had to want to find the stone but not use it or keep it.  (Detachment).

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.

12 Reply by All2one (edited by All2one 2005-09-24 08:38:50)

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Impressive conclusions Dreamosis, well spoken.
You right that it's hard to DO what you KNOW, but your'e on the right track, there's no magic glasses that you put on and suddenly every thing is hunkey-dory smile  but what you can do is creating some direction, a vector to some point that you want to be tuned to and making progress in that direction step by step lesson by lesson, offcourse the pace is in your hands.
All in one is avery high state of mind, to lose the duality that we born into takes alot of awear effort.
"Low" and "high" are surprisingly correct terms, emotions and feelings are wave formed, the higher the frequency-  the more pleasant sensation, for example - pain and anger are most gross emotions/feelings (lowest frequency), love and compassion are the highest/subtlest ones.
But as you KNOW this is less important than maintaining equanimity and unpreferringness towards them.
Resistance is against the law of nature of the flow and being so it is hindering progress, and the resistance is the craving for else, but it is only natural and requires observation as well.
I'm glad that you found the right vector to follow, you speek only truth, from here it is only matter of time/lessons.

13 Reply by Jen (edited by Jen 2005-10-08 23:37:33)

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Whew, lots of good ideas in this thread, can't address them all, but I'll
do my best to give my take.

First, dreamosis, re this:

Also what is coming to me now is that quote in Matthew from Jesus.  He said: "The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore if your eye be bright, the whole body is also lighted."

Others have connected that quote to the third-eye chakra.

From what I know, the correct quote is: 

"The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore if your eye be single, the whole body is also lighted."

There may be different versions that use your wording, but I think
the above conveys the meaning much better.  What does it mean for one's eye to be single?  One-pointedness, focus, seeing the whole picture--the All-Seeing Eye.   The unicorn with its one horn also symbolizes this (and the opened third eye has been called The Horn of the Unicorn). 

Now to answer your question--what is the positive, critical point that needs to be activated to promote growth into higher consciousness? 
If we look at Hawkins' levels of consciousness (LOC),  he says that a major transformation occurs at level 350, Acceptance.  At this level,
we realize that we are both the source and the creator of all our experiences, and this brings harmony into our life, as we no longer see ourselves as being at the mercy of forces beyond our control.  Robert Fritz, in his book The Path of Least Resistance,  has called this the orientation to the creative--the shift to recognizing yourself as the predominant creative force in your life--again, as opposed to seeing our circumstances as the dominant force.

In Acceptance, we can accept that we create it all, and with an expanded perspective we can see that it's all perfect and it all serves a purpose, rather than judging or labeling ourselves or anything as "good" or "bad." But we can only see this when we are able to bend non-resistantly, to flow with "what is."  "Judge not lest you be judged" means that the very act of judging something binds you to it. It may seem like a paradox, but only from the stance of non-judgment are we truly able to exercise our freedom of choice.

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Jen wrote:

It may seem like a paradox, but only from the stance of non-judgment are we truly able to exercise our freedom of choice.

...So apropos for me that you write that.

I have been circling that thought (or a thought like it) for most of the year.  Back in April I began meeting with a friend of mine.  Our aim was to combine our thoughtpower and build our own philosophy from the ground up, drawing on what we knew, what we'd read, experienced, and with the aim of avoiding inventing a new vocabulary.  We wanted what we created to be simple.

Right away the two most central concepts were: non-judgment and choice. 

The consciousness of choice, of "I am (helping) creating this..." has endless applications.  Recently, I have discovered it can even be applied to the simplest sense-perceptions.  In some measure, I am choosing to align my mind/senses with the frequency of physical reality.  ...It's so easy to forget that even that's a choice (to some degree).

What is, for me, so important about the awareness of choice is that it fosters a rapport between you and the nature of being (change).  Of course, you can be aware of the ever-changingness of the world without a notion of participation, but that awareness is usually negative. 

So, yes, yes, yes, an awareness of choice does seem to be critical in passing into and encouraging the growth of positivity.

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.

15 Reply by Jen (edited by Jen 2005-10-17 22:01:39)

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The Michael entity (michaelteachings.com) says:  You are here to learn how to choose, and to choose how to learn.

A good summation, I think...