Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00092)

Brenda S. Tucker wrote:
>
> But reincarnation is not an obvious conventional construct. It involves a
> recognition of man's variety of qualities and the proof is very complex
> because it involves the non-physical world.


Not "conventional" in a western sense, but in a Hindu-Buddhist sense
where the notion of higher worlds is more common.


> The mind is maya because it is filled with facts about the visible world.
> When we limit our consciousness to the plants, animals, and elements, we
> are falling prey to maya. When we seek for answers to life's problems, we
> seek for something that isn't currently visible. This helps us to look
> beyond what is present and concrete. Conventional truth would just be truth
> that is posited through perception.


Everything but the Absolute is maya. Forms, forces and beings of any
kind, on any plane that manifest or appear during a manvantara are all
products of maya. Manifestation = maya.


> If you fill your mind with thought and thought-processes concerning what
> people say and write, your thoughts take you away from mundane reality
> which is really maya.


I agree with you. Mundane reality is maya; conventional reality.


> >I believe that the "ray" is sent into matter mainly for the pleasure
> >and fun of self-expression, Brenda. I have yet to hear of any other
> >reason that makes sense to me.
>
> What about the transference of energy vibrations onto the states of matter,
> creating an enlivening of their nature.


Sounds like fun, if you're into it. But why create states of matter at
all?


> Let's say that man began to
> influence every form of life, every element, every atom, until all of the
> world vibrated to man's consciousness. If these beings could then exist
> alongside man, and we could be said to have created the conditions we then
> could live happily in, then the consciousness has an opportunity to produce
> a "form," the human form, which is an advancement over everything we had
> attained before. The form is more representative of our inner life than
> ever before. We have a balance of senses and characteristics that allow for
> new experience. We have used our freedom and our knowledge to produce
> ourselves AND the world around us, not in complete repetition of what we
> have seen with our own eyes that the next kingdom is capable of, and not
> completely by memory of what we had before, but in a way that allows us to
> adapt to changes in our solar system and larger environment.


What's the difference between that and self-expression? I don't see
much. Just imagine if some of these beings then decided to play a game
and jump into the world they had just created. The only rule was that
they had to temporarily forget who they were until the playing of the
game itself helped them to remember. Lila:the play of God.


Mark
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