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10 Mar 2023 11:01:59 It was 1946 and this lost educational film on *despotism* was required curriculum at every high school in America. The associated test, 11 pages quizzed students on the concepts. By 1967, this film was removed from all libraries.
12 Mar 2023 08:53:14 Relating to my previous Biblical post...
Ed032 yes, quietening the mind is an effective way to allow the voice of the Higher Self through. Otherwise our conditioned/programmmed mind gets in the way. I find the clearest insights often happen spontaneously and when I'm least expecting it.
Supasub, I hear you. God is a term with a long history of connotations. It doesn't bother me any longer but using a more neutral term can be useful as it's less likely to turn people off. Would be a cool project to re-write the Bible using more neutral terms like those.
I lean towards Pantheism or Panentheism which means 'God' is just a name for Everything, the All, universal consciousness etc. The physical universe, including each of us, is a manifestation of that fundamental force at the heart of it all. It's just a case of how clearly we each realise it. That is the path to spiritual awakening, enlightenment, or salvation, as described in the ancient texts of many cultures.
{Ed032's Note - I understand your thinking. What if, whatever the Intelligence that created everything, has actually become everything that has been created. This would make a whole heap of sense with regarding felt connections between things, past lives lived and would make sense of an image of One to be ALL.
Some on here, visiting, will probably find this all crazy but they don't actually think about what they believe. Big Bang BS where 96% is made up to make the framework fit.
I am a betting man, that now refrains. That is odds of being correct that I would throw in the bin and start again.
12 Mar 2023 17:31:57 There's a metaphor in Indian philosophy that the material world is but "God"'s dream. We are all characters in the dream but it's only One source of consciousness at the the heart of each individual. And yes that's why we might have subtle feelings of interconnectedness at times and why we get the feeling that there is 'something more'.
The Satan character is a symbol of our Ego, the part of our psyche that keeps us feeling separate by veiling the interconnectedness of all things. The part of us that fears, hates, compares, feels jealous etc. In modern day society the elite control mechanisms represent Satan in that they play to this part of our mind through media, education advertising etc- programming us to feel as isolated and separate as possible. This keeps us from fulfilling our true potential and keeps us subservient as it's easier to control a group of disparate individuals.
Yes this stuff sounds crazy at first lol. I like to think of it as valuable ancient wisdom codified for future use. Like a puzzle to gradually unravel in a search for fulfillment and freedom.
{Ed032's Note - There are a lot of similarities between faiths and philosophy. Could they all be from a single source of knowledge we know nothing about? One 'book' to rule them all? It is a wonder if that may be possible, with the prevailing texts carrying the same message in a different way. If we at least knew which were the edge pieces of the puzzle, we would have a good place to start.
13 Mar 2023 16:34:09 Hey Ed032, I like the way you think! Yes, I believe there is a single, universal truth at the heart of all religions and philosophies. We can slowly start to unravel it by studying any of them individually or all of them as a whole.
For anyone wanting to explore this idea I would suggest looking into any of the following;
{Ed032's Note - When you look at all the Realms beliefs or systems from the ancients all the way to the BS NASA produce, they are all of the same thinking of what this Realm is, apart from the latter. I don't believe in coincidence.
