Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00337)

My old uncle who is a bit of mysoginist still has this embroidery on his
wall:

MAN KNOW THYSELF

WOMAN KNOW THY PLACE


- now I know that's not very pc - but it's hell funny



Namaste


Naughty old stirrer



|-----Original Message-----
|From: DANIEL J HOUGAS [mailto:younggung36@msn.com] 
|Sent: Monday, 22 October 2001 3:43 AM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: Re: Theos-World wake up to it and enjoy (including 
|"spiritual")life
|
|
|Bridgett, the highest thing you can ever do is to know 
|thyself, don't you agree. 
| 
|----- Original Message -----
|From: bri_mue@yahoo.com
|Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 12:09 PM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: Theos-World wake up to it and enjoy (including 
|"spiritual")life
| 
|Jerry: "Another way to put it might be that a mystical 
|experience is in the form of new and deeper states of 
|consciousness, even though the senses and outward experience 
|of things may still be physical plane earth. A psychical 
|experience is in the form of altered or different sense 
|experiences, perhaps of subtler aspects of physical or astral 
|earth. With the psychical, we see different things and may go 
|to other places, but our basic consciousness is the same. It's 
|the same "us" that is going there and seeing those things. 
|With the mystical, we may still be here and seeing the same 
|things, but we're greater within, with a wider scope of 
|understanding, with perhaps entirely new ways of appreciating 
|life in our wider consciousness."
|
|Maybe we don't "go" anywhere.
|
|Jerry: "can know the taste of an apple by reading about it. 
|And also, they admit to being afraid to eat it"
|
|It reminds me a bit of primitive tribes that live in the midst 
|of a beautiful forest/nature, but are afraid to walk in it 
|at night because of the "gosts" out there. They demonize the 
|world, not realizing that if there are "gosts",or spiritual 
|beings, out there they couldn't harm one if you are present minded.
|
|Jerry: "We experience materiality directly, and we experience 
|dreams directly, and so how does one know that direct 
|spiritual experience is any more reliable? " One is good for 
|this, and the other is good for other aspects of life, and yes 
|they are both limited on a "real" life basis it seems. But at 
|least are to be considered as "normal" in our current 
|condition. Nevertheless the physical (or the lower Manas seems 
|a more accurate thesophical term) seems more familiar to many 
|theosophists then spiritual "experiences"(and of course there 
|is also discussion of what is "spiritual"), wich some 
|demonize, and that is a dead end street. Just as you breath 
|air, drink water (any long term breatharians on the list ?), 
|and eat at least some, food, applying "experience" exploring 
|consciousness and self .helps one to be a more balanced person 
|it seems, plus adding a good dose of scepticism and trying to 
|check things out helps a lot . In other words to stay with 
|your two feet on the ground seems an advisable way to go as 
|long one has a body.
|
|Only reading books, of watever creed is indeed a limitation, 
|and can get you confused or stuck. Creed can also mean 
|scientific creed of course, but also in science, there is a 
|lot of good research going on that can be looked up and can 
|be made to be useful.
|
|We live in a great world/universe, why not wake up to it and enjoy it.
| Brigitte
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to 
|http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
|
|
|[Non-text portions of this 
|message have been removed]
|
|
| 
|
|Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to 
|http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 
|
|
|