Noble Realms - Takin' It To The Streets

Yeah, it's so much fun throwing those little truth bits out there.

Funny that you mention this too, because that very idea of taking what we discuss here and applying it to all aspects of life seems to be the direction in which I'm being gently nudged.

There are people out there that need support, and are not aware of such beautiful instances such as NR.

Taking it from the virtual to the local.

I engaged in a project that I called the "cc project".  I did exactly what you refer to: the virtual to the local.  While I posted musings and thoughts by the "carefulcarpenter" I mirrored that by being the most expressive self (the real life handyman "carefulcarpenter") that would be acceptable in my local Coffee Emporium(a fictictious name for a real place in my town).  I lived one foot in the spiritual and one foot in the physical.  Very few times did I mention that I was a poet, but as I did it was only so I could hint that I was doing this project, and hoped someone would check out my work via "google" (not one person ever mentioned anything to me about reading a forum). I did tell people often that I discussed issues on forums, but not too much about the poetry itself. The couple times that I brought in poems only a couple people read them and I never really told them how I was mirroring in both worlds.  What I have gained in insight has been a wonderment. I won't go into it here, but your comment sparked me to mention this.

I went door-to-door and introduced myself as "the carefulcarpenter". Those who hired me often said interesting things to me about why they hired me.  In the first year four times people asked me if God had sent me, because it seemed to them from their POV that I came into their lives under remarkable circumstances.  I seldom mentioned to them that I was a poet.  I did have a chance with a couple people to discuss spiritual issues, but they would NOT have done this in public.  Although one 64 year old engineer and his wife took me out to dinner and asked me this--"It seems as though some unusual things have been happening ever since you came to our door..... We'd like to ask you if you are our guardian angel?" ( the longer version of this story would make a whole chapter in a book).

Just today I met with a friend who came back from Switzerland to visit for 10 days; before Christmas I sent her a little poetry that I posted here at NR also( http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic. … 932#p69932 ).  She mentioned it right away, and she jumped right into the best conversation we've ever had about deeper spiritual issues.  I was so pleased that she felt comfortable talking to me about a few things.  Of course she asked that we go in the back room to talk.  People are a little cautious to talk openly about some issues. Today she tried to express the spiriual retardation she witnesses in America-- and that is saying alot since we live in a very liberal and well-educated area of the West Coast.  I had very very few local friends who would ask me ANYTHING about poetry.  Even a poet, that moved her from Scandinavia, would NOT talk with me about poetry in the "Coffee Emporium".  Some people had labelled me "undesirable" ("bad for business") because I talked openly for 4-5 years about synchronicity and philosophy.  My saving grace was the internet.  Even this topic of poetic introspection was rarely discussed on internet forums.  Just outside Silicon Valley, US of A, people were reluctant to admit they spend much, if any, time in forums.  You are refering to the people who worked on buildng up a virtual culture who seemed unwilling to tap into its vaste potential.  DO THEY KNOW SOMETHING THAT A CARPENTER/POET DOESN'T? (national security issues).

Anyway, I haven't been arrested yet for expressing my free self. OOOPs?!!  *knock at the door* (just kidding) 

Yeah, I definitely can relate. I have this 'problem' with expressing truths via metaphor and most times it falls out peoples ears, half registers, or just plain alienates them which, in turn, alienates me.
It can be hard balancing the super natural with the super mundane, I can't wait for it to be common place just like talking about the super bowl. ( well I can wait )

Mencius, strange that you mention Burning Man. That's where this issue popped up at; figuratively. Of course coincidences are now common place in my life, which is a wonderful thing.

When you are blessed with spiritual gifts and you try to share them, you may find yourself irritating some ego-based forces in the other. Many people are good at talking the walk.......

I asked an aquaintance about spiritual discussions we've had over the past few years; I was saddened to find that his language and perspectives have not changed, therefore, logically, it would appear that he has not experienced the growth that I have.  In the past he sparked my interest and attention because he sounded so profound via his questions he proposed.  Today I realize alot of what he does involves the use of logical fallacy.  When I called him on it I discovered he has been protecting a false sort of spirituality, using misleading comments and questions--all the time trying to use his developed rationalism to subvert my spiritual development.  His loss really, and I have grown to forgive him for his game playing. 

Poetry and metaphor speak a deeper language.  Not everyone is adept in this regard. Slowly life has a way of opening people to new realities--maybe then they will go back and retrace their paths and pay more attention to what  love and sharing you have to offer. So many are trapped in cultural limbo.  Meanwhile, be grateful for those who are authentic seekers, and embrace the mystery without needing to "fit in" with any specific crowd. Being the individual in a crowd doesn't necessarily require one to be a clone.

I've completed a phase in my life.  Noble realms has given me a reference point for which I am eternally grateful. In most of the world people are anchored to a false image of themselves which will certainly retard them as the world ascends. I feel I am a Noble Warrior willing to go into the streets of cyberspace and listen, not teach so much anymore, for listening skills is what the half-man lacks.  How many can listen really, when their ears are stuffed with psuedo culture pulp?

Thesis; antithesis; synthesis

Confront; transcend; include

Good; evil; wholeness

Good; bad; balance

Positive; negative; neutral

Physical; spiritual; individuated

Black; white; grey

True; false; paradox

Pick your jargon and reply--or add your own.

I don't invest too much of myself in the words I type. I speak off-the-cuff online as I do in real life. It's all just one big conversation.

I can contradict myself 5 times in one phone conversation. We've been doing this our whole lives and nobody ever kept score. Our brains are constantly self-correcting to stay on course. Constantly throwing away wrong answers for the answers that make 'more' sense.

Life on the internet (as opposed to real life) can turn into one big pissing contest of grammar and erudition. I have no problem taking what I've learned here into my life. The tricky part is bringing my life into a world of screen names where I get to carve my words in stone. (and that is just wrong - on so many levels)

Thank god for the delete key. Something real life doesn't have. And I use it often.

I agree that conscience detects contradiction. Ego is the great soldier fighting against god/higher-self/whatever. STS vs STO. The battle we're born into.

Hopefully, I can sense a contradiction and resolve it before it turns into hypocracy. Which then turns into self-delusion, which turns into defensiveness, which turns into attack. Or isolation. The truth is so alive and self-evident both here and in real life. None of us are perfect examples of what we 'know' in our hearts.

I can only understand this in brief moments. Very difficult for me to reconcile this idea with the world I see so separately. If you have truly integrated this into your being then I salute you, Antaeus. I think this would be a wonderful perception.

I suppose there's good reason why we don't know our exact location on the path. I sometimes like to go into the mind of god and ask Myself, "why am I putting Ocean here in this situation?"

I can say for a fact that having a bigger picture - as I've gotten here on the forum, and from montalks' site has done more to calm me down than years of christianity, pop-psychology, and new age YCYOR.
When I thought about how to talk about all of this to people I care about I realized I didn't have a tidy, little message. I didn't have a John 3:16. And those who DO hang their hopes on that verse suffer just as much as anyone who doesn't see all the stuff going on behind the curtain. That's the message. What's behind the curtain. All the running around trying to make sense of the world - stops.