Let's Simplify Things: All Opinions Welcomed (Page 1 of 4)

i suppose that the state of the world being good or bad depends on what side of the fence you stand on.  if you think it's good, then you are probably a war-loving, greedy monster from the depths of hell that wants to see humans enslaved.  otherwise, you are probably as troubled as i am.  my girlfriend is constantly going on and on about the facts that no one cares about anyone else but themselves, no one cares about beauty (true beauty, not superficial hollywood/madison ave. beauty) or art or sincerity.  and i agree with her, except about the part about selfishness; i think that being selfish can be a good thing, if you are focusing on improving your self spiritually and not just about your physical self (buying stuff, having tons of stuff).
the problem, or at least one of them, is the matter of religion.  it is religious ideologies that are driving the current state of affairs in the world.  if the USA was really a Xian, god loving, good loving nation, then we wouldn't be focused on revenge and vengeance in the guise of liberation; we would be focusing on the poor nations that are ravaged by diseases (that we could cure) and poverty (that we could end).  or at least focus on its own people and building our country up to be a true example for the world to follow, not a bully that goes around giving smaller nations guns then turning around and declaring war on them.  and then turning around and telling the people of the USA that those people are evil.  the jesus that we supposedly believe in (i don't know what to believe so i keep an open mind) would be appalled at the things that are being done and said in his name. 
and at the end of the day, the big 3 religions (xianity, judaism, islam) are all the same and grew from the same roots.

another problem is the media and its influence.  people don't care about their neighbor but they sure as hell "have to" know what paris hilton is up to and what kind of clothes the celebrities are wearing to the academy awards.  they "have to" watch certain television programs, or else they won't know what "everybody" is talking about the next day.  to know about the celebrities is to belong.  to know the current fads is to belong.  we all want to belong, i don't dispute that, but look at what people choose to belong to.  they choose to belong to churches that take their money and give back guilt.  organizations that accept you, provided that you are of the proper race, religion, sex, follow the "right" sports team, listen to the "right" music, vote for the "right" candidate, believe in the "right" ways...
we need to lose the outdated superstitious religion that keeps us from progressing.  outdated political ideologies that serve only the elite.  we need to turn our backs on the vapid media screaming at us from every platform.
but that's just the beginning.
what happens the day after the revolution ends?
where do we go from there?

Well, according to mythology, there was a great basin that was filled with light. Unfortunately, a foolish monkey removed a plug in the bottom, letting forth the abyss into our realm.
Lipstick Mystic said in more modern terms that there was an inter-universal breach from the anti-matter universe that corrupted a good deal of angels, resulting in "fallen angels" (who are capable of being redeemed) and highly negative beings (who are beyond any scope of redemption.)
Extending this thought, it seems that a great deal of humans and other beings are currently spiritually injured to some degree, all arising from a foolish use of power. This breach has caused significant harm across all of creation, and particularly Earth seems to be one of the hardest places hit.
And some of us have incarnated here as a "rescue team", to go forth into this dense realm to heal and help those who have been injured. There's just so many ways one can go about doing this, that ultimately it comes down to asking yourself "What is the greatest thing I could be doing with my life?", figuring it out, then going directly for it. Sure, we can give you opinions and tips, but ultimately it's you that knows what you need to do. With time, the situation will arise when you're called forth. With intent, you will heed the call. With perserverence, you will continue along the path you have chosen to embark upon.
I think that this saga of battles between the forces of light (STO) and darkness (STS) has been going on for quite some time...beyond human conception as it sways  back and forth throughout all of Creation. Yet, if I'm not mistaken, Earth constitutes a world currently in flux, where both sides are putting forth all their efforts to win the battle, and stem or give rise to the tide of darkness that has swept throughout our Universe.
Just watch out for the thugs that patrol the waters of true being.

My time is short this post will be brief.

Right and wrong as used above are subjective.  There is no "wrong" path, but you may travel in either direction, or not travel at all.  The experience of all includes a 'duality' we are all familiar with.  It is portrayed everywhere, especially movies etc.  In truth the duality is within oneness.  Resistance to the other side, as most of you no doubt gravitate towards one side, is the aspect that creates discontentment.  It's a little like being quite unhappy with one's appearance, which in turn due to the unhappiness, causes one's appearance to diminish in apparent beauty.

Find contentment within.

As Blue has pointed out, there is nothing to fear.

Knowledge increases awareness.  Take care that it does not hurt you or change you in a way you do not wish for.  An example is bitterness.  Gather knowledge to protect and help others.  Not all wish to be helped.  Let them be, for one day they may ask for help, and on that day you will be able to help, and will not have lost any willingness to do so.

For Blue - Illusion yes, but real also, all is thought.

Adama, That was beautiful.  Very Allen Watts.  I'm just wondering if we couldn't replace in your response the word "we" with the word "I" and the word "we" with the word "I".  ??

Maybe that's what you were saying all along.  Let me add this:....I am we and we are all this.

Does that make sense to you?

Winston

"you must read hundreds of books"

No, billions (like Carl Sagan says it) and billions

We can read every book ever written- still we'll have only one-trillionth of one degree of the knowledge of consciousness...

Knowledge really is useless in the here and now, or 'future' lives, no matter how smart and/or "enlightened" we may become, it's the same game, same cubicle, same cage.

I CAN NOT and will not believe we were put here to deny ourselves. We were NOT put here to pour over volumes of this and that, so that we might someday acheive a tangible version of some distant fantastic horizon.

No, it's here -inside.

From the classic "Clerks"

Randal: "title does not dictate behavior"

That may be the single most overlooked snippet of wisdom- of all time.

It's true, yes? Yet even some of us, who have seen  outside this lame 2D world that has been passed off to us as being 3, are still somehow unable to shake off the
concern, the paranoia, and the ritual of blending in.

That's what it seems like to me- just ritual. We've all had those rare moments where we have let our true rage come out, where we have ignored the consequences of what we knew would follow, because we just KNEW it had to come out. For that matter I think some loosh is better gotten rid of.

Those are the moments when "title does not dictate behavior" Now I'm not saying..... go on a rampage, no- but
leaving that comfort zone is like the final frontier, to speak the unspoken, to read the unwritten, to savor completely new flavors, to do the exact opposite of what logic is telling us to do because the gut sometimes has more pull..... I think that is the answer. And no it's not a simple one.

We need to shatter this, I feel it im myself, I feel it in other people I am in personal contact with, I feel it as a massive exodus in consciousness we are about to embark on- Operation Imagination Liberation. I'm ready.
                                                                                      J

SamIAm, you are seeking a simple solution, but I think that what many of us have found here is that nothing is so simple, especially with such vast issues as the nature of consciousness, the state of the world, what actions to take to create a better tomorrow. If it were as simple as some of the New Age dogmas out there would have you believe, for example everyone should just meditate on forming a merkaba around their body and then use it to ascend to higher densities or even just "think positive!", I think we would have more experiential reports along the lines of "this worked for me! Try it!" to which others would respond "it worked for me too!"

I never see this. I see people who repeat word-for-word dogmatic ideas they have picked up from books. There are plenty of people here in Mt. Shasta who fully believe that it is destined to become a physically manifested 5D City Of Light come the Ascension, and they believe it JUST BECAUSE AMORAH QUAN-YIN wrote about it convincingly. There are plenty of books out there that purport to have the truth nailed down in a simple to understand way, but after you start reading a bunch of books, you observe that unless you have multiple sources discovering and presenting the same information independently, it becomes increasingly more confusing to figure out "which book is correct?". I agree with Tom Paine in that sense, I think that is what he meant. You cannot just read one book or even just think about it on your own for like a year, and then "simplify" it into something you can embroider on a pillow. It is a LONG LONG process of reading and reading and reading and thinking and thinking.

I think it is important in our own individual lives to simplify, remove stresses, remove toxins from all aspects of ourselves, become less dependent and more self-sufficient. In a way, things do become simpler, but there is always the awareness that there is infinite knowledge out there and the world is vaster than we can begin to comprehend. 6 billion people in the world, so they say. There is nothing simple about that.

Have you found a simple explanation of life, the universe and everything? Please share it, we'll hear you out.

Tim

Love is the basis of all you've received in answer to your question here.

Love knows fear intimately. It is only fear that does not know love.

Nothing can "fall out of" love. It can only think it has. Love knows better.