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If we relied on resource sharing systems, there could be no individual poverty, only everyone relatively unable to access adequate resources to meet the collective’s needs (and the needs of each individual within it). Individual ownership is based in part on not trusting that fellow human beings...

Not only does trying too hard to be good get in the way of love’s full force/flow, equating it with the objects/beings who are loved also interferes with its power and potential. Similar to how our thoughts are not our mind. The love of others, even though sensed as unifying, is still plagued...

Eric, This thing we call love seems like some sort of Quantum Mechanics that Creation allows us all to do. It is an amazing skill that reveals our deeper nature as spirits who are children of God. Unfortunately, love got associated too much with merely doing and being “good.” Trying to be moral...

I trust that this is true, and that two major classes of cooperation (capitalism and governments) have helped achieve this fact. And yet we have the very real prospect that an unhealthy dynamic between the two seems to threaten future progress. Capitalism, an improvement over Feudalism, seems to...

Heard that a time or two?!

Final draft (sorry for the confusion!): Photo of a Beautiful Mind How many questions Have I asked that were loaded? How many times Has my head exploded? But the grief I got I had goaded. Finally, my firmament of knowing eroded.

Revision in line 5-6: But I got no grief I hadn’t goaded.

If I would die tomorrow, please keep this as a memorial/souvenir: Photo of a Beautiful Mind How many questions Have I asked that were loaded? How many times Has my head exploded? But the grief I was given I had goaded. Finally, my firmament of knowing eroded.

I love your insistence about the need for us not to allow specific thoughts to get in the way of (a theoretical?) whole-mind awareness. And that may well mean we need assistance from a dimension deeper than we normally identify with and operate from.

Thanks for those good suggestions. I’ve read some of Merton’s works, so, out of comfort and trust, I’ll probably begin with it.

Reminds me of the belief behind the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the importance of being mentally prepared for transition after death

All I really care about is whether we have the potential to grow. If the potential is actualized by another dimension, I’m perfectly fine with that. As long as we are appropriately, healthily, constructively, EMPOWERED to grow spiritually. I suppose you could say the butterfly is a different...

Analogous to SETTING a radio “tuner” close enough to God’s channel… that is

Your interpretation of Abrahamic beliefs about soul actually supports my main (attempt at a) point here. If soul is not merely an artifact wholeness, but is in some real sense a separate thing, then it is a tool we can pick up and use in order to increase the unity of human and Divine, to...

I believe you are right. It was Paul, not Christ, that said it, and, as Thomas pointed out, wasn’t emphasizing the human mind’s potential to reset, so much as God’s potential to transform us if we open up to, or align with, a beyond sort of Divinity. Nonetheless, I would argue that if the human...

This (that I said earlier) would be a skill or process that would, in effect, re-create such “unity.” Question is, can we DO what I am describing below? When we let go and let God, are we doing what I describe below. I tend to think it is the case, that we are doing something like this...

Certainly not “self” as an individual object/being. And we DO tend to identify with that lesser self.

The belief in an inside out process of learning to do God’s will IS in line with the notion that Christ himself well COULD have said “Be ye transformed.” Do you think Christ believed we have it in us to change and grow by intentionally changing the way we think? If, so, I had the spirit of the...

At least that’s one thing we agree on!!!!

Wow! This thread would have been much shorter if someone had merely said “No, Christ did NOT say that! But was he THINKING It?!!! Was Paul suggesting that Jesus would want us to grow spiritually by learning about the Great Spirit? Copied this from internet search: Paul tells us to abandon...