I’d like to post a few miscellaneous thoughts,
beginning with the phrase “living meditation”. This came to me when
I was writing a reply to a post on a website that I am on, as part of a
discussion on meditation. My comment was along the lines of there being various
types of meditation
– e.g., I consider Tai
Chi a form of moving meditation, and many people find gardening a form of
meditation (I find most contact with
natural energies to be akin to the relaxation form of meditation … but I also
love storms :) ), and the thought came to me that the way people live their
lives could also, if they wish, be approached as if it was a form of meditation
– for instance, the life of someone dedicated to sport could be considered a
meditation on physicality, someone dedicated to science could be considered to
be living a meditation on knowledge, or if dedicated to philosophy or some
forms of yoga a meditation on the mind. A fairly obvious one would be to say
that someone who has chosen a “religious life” (i.e., a nun or monk) has chosen a meditation on religion (not necessarily spirituality), whereas
someone trying to be spiritual in a non-seclude life might be living a
meditation on spirituality (or, possibly,
on balance).
Just another tool (perspective) that might be of some use :)
(I’ve
just come across this collection
of brief suggestions regarding various approaches to meditation from, I am
surprised to say, one of those wannabe Jedi / Jediism sites. I’ll leave you,
Dear Reader, to make up your mind about it :) )
Although it is very New Agey and thus a bit
off-putting (for me – and, as a result, I
didn’t watch every single bit of the embedded film), and I have a few
technical disagreements on what I did see
(which I won’t discuss, Dear Reader, as I want you to read and think about this
for yourself), the advantages of connection with earth energy are well
discussed here.
This is different to grounding,
which also provides a form of contact with earth energies. Contact with natural
energies can include things like contact with wind and water – for instance,
sailing and swimming. Also, getting out of urban areas (i.e., cities and towns) is good, as it reduces the psychic noise
of humanity down to a level where one can become aware of the natural energies
of the world. The Japanese, incidentally, are aware of this concept – have been
for some time, and refer to it as “forest
bathing”.
(How
do people in spacecraft cope without this, then?)
Next, I’ve come across an adaptation of the
Qabbalistic (the spelling indicates the type
of Qabbalah, often) “Tree
of Life”, located here. In the case
I have come across, that structure has been used to provide a basis for
classification of extraterrestrial influences. I haven’t tried to view things
that way previously, and I always think trying to simplify things to polar
opposites is risky (e.g., see here),
so I cannot comment on the accuracy, nor the usefulness, but it is interesting -
and well done to someone for effort.
I am very dubious about the evolution of
time and consciousness diagram.
Next: places and/or people and/or cultures one feels negative
about.
Someone recently posed a question about a
culture they had negative feelings about. The person asked if there was any
inherent difference between that, and another culture they had positive feelings
about. Replies included typical comments about karma,
and typical – incorrect - comments about those being victim blaming.
Now, as I’ve written elsewhere, not
everything that happens to us is karma
(if you’re going to bleat on about karma being victim blaming, remember that
you are also blaming others for their happiness as well). Setting aside the
FACT that karma applies equally to good things, a “bad” experience could be a
test of us, a test of those about us (I’ve
been through several of those lately – with mixed results on the part of those
supposed to help me), a learning experience … or it could indeed be karma.
Few people are capable of the objectivity
needed to sort of which one of these causes is happening in any given situation
– and certain psychic / spiritual skills are also required.
If I experience something unpleasant as a
result of karma, I’m actually pleased as:
(a) the experience has an end – I do NOT have to change/grow, as I would if this was a learning experience, and I am not reliant on others, as I would be if this is a test of others (if I make the same mistake that created that batch of karma, I will create another batch of karma - separate issue);(b) the techniques I written about here and here can be used (provided one learns) to minimise the amount of karma one experiences. In this sense, far from being victim blaming, it is actually enabling – but, I do admit it is not always taught that way, and many misteach the concept in a way that is victim blaming. That doesn’t make those erring pseudo-teachers right.
Now, going back to the question that was
posted, the reasons one could have negative associations with places and/or
people and/or cultures includes (and this
is not exhaustive):
- one could have been a victim of someone who had, or seemed to have, a strong association with the place/person/culture concerned (that association may be wrong: consider, for instance, if you had been a child, and relied on the incorrect advice of someone you looked up to in forming that association);
- one could have done something wrong oneself as a member of the culture or when living in the place or possibly even having been (in a previous incarnation) the person concerned, and be in a state of denial and/or guilt – or fear over karma due to come back at some stage.
Your emotions are not an indicator of some
fundamental / universal truism / fault in others (or yourself, for that matter).
Learn to ground, and then meditate.
Next, gender stereotypes.
I have, several times – recently, and in
the past - come across comments in a group aimed at fostering spiritual
development which are, in my view, naïve at best and dangerous at worst, and
show a failure to appreciate the physical and other violence of gender roles.
This is a frustration I’ve felt before, and reflects one of the major reasons I
don’t have much to do with traditional spiritual/mystical orders: the view that
the state of the world doesn’t matter, provided one is personally overcoming it
– or that improving the self is sufficient to improve the world. It isn’t.
Those who have a skill, have a moral (i.e., spiritual) duty to USE it
responsibly – and that often means doing what you can to make the world a place
that, if it isn’t better, is at least “not bad” enough that people can make decisions
and choices free of controlling influences – that is one of the major reasons I
do my clearing and healing work. It also goes further: if you saw someone with
a gun killing people, and you had the ability to stop them (e.g., you’re a member of the police and have full back-up- I’m excluding most other
idiots with guns), you are facing a test and do not say “it is up to the victims of the gunman to evolve to a state where they
cannot be shot”, you stop the
gunman.
People with spiritual insight and skills
such as contact with BPLF Guides are in the situation of the police in that
example: they have the capability to act safely and effectively (if circumstances
are otherwise, this may NOT apply), and thus the moral and spiritual DUTY to do
so.
Including when the situation is something
of the physical world, such as psychic
control, a need for rescue
– perhaps of entities inflaming a war of hindering efforts to relieve poverty, poverty,
famines, droughts (consider, at this
point, the sort of work a tribal shaman would be expected to do), and
gender stereotypes.
This possibly gets more annoying for me
than others with an interest in spiritual matters, as I have a history of
social activism.
Next, balanced positivity. There is what appears
to be an inherent contradiction between at least some of what I have written
about on gender stereotypes and places etc one has negative feelings about. It
is worth meditating on that, to determine one’s own views on the limits and
coexistences of contradictory principles – such as the traditional concepts of
the “Law of Attraction, and “opposites attract” (in the physical world, consider, say, osmosis
vs. the polarity effects of magnetism).
As a final comment, I recall reading, in
one of Lobsang Rampa’s books, how he had been harmed by an absent healing.
I’m aware of the possibility, if those attempting to do that are failing to
work to the Highest Spiritual Good, or failing to use protection, or are dead
set on ramming their will that the patient be the healer’s version of better no
matter what, but I haven’t come across it personally – until now. Well,
recently. Someone I physically know in the physical world - not someone connected
to me via this blog - did exactly that, and the sensation was terrible.
Fortunately, I was able to reject the energy
(I haven’t been as good as I should with keeping my protection up, these last
few months, so it did get into my aura). I suppose, on the plus side, it
shows that the young person concerned is
becoming less selfish than he has been.
And finally, here are a couple of sketches of ideas I've had for a while, but haven't had the time/energy/money/opportunity to bring into being yet. Perhaps someone else can - I certainly hope so :)
[2] Please
see here, here and my post "The
Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons
I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2,
although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather
engagingly - to be the Earth edition of
"The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is
no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted
changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately
after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr, Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga
... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this
site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue
(see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me
for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are,
to meditate-clear for peace), and here
for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend
learning how to flame, ground
and shield, do alternate
nostril breathing, work
with colour, and see also here and be
flexible.
The real dividing line is not between
Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who
believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.
Tom Fletcher, Former UK
Ambassador to Lebanon
Tags:attitudes, Balanced Positivity, discrimination, emotions, healing, meditation, personal responsibility, protection, society,
First published: Manadagr, 12th October, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
and other minor matters): Monday, 12th October, 2015
