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Truly splendid uselessness nourishes and elevates us spiritually, rather than simply providing a rush of mental or bodily pleasure
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Why does ESP fascinate? What is it about ESP that captures the imagination? Is it a challenge to contemporary science’s physical-only worldview? A desire to re-mythologize the world? A hope that death may not be the final-forever end of personal consciousness?
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Imagine blind salamander in dark cave, suddenly touch by ur finger, what it will think, who touching me , no bodies here. yes universe is more mysterious than we know.
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Why is communication important & how do we communicate? We communicate through energy! The receptors read vibrational energy fields such as light, sound and radio frequencies, and if the receptor is attuned to the particular frequency it can alter the proteins and change the shape of the receptor. This is the one of the ways our cells are impacted by the vibrational Universe. “Thought waves” and “emotional waves” being of obvious importance in the field effect on biology. We are immersed in living fields of vibrational information. Each of us is a spirit in material form.
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DMN BEGETS DEMONS
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Matter and the body have been traditionally associated with the feminine; often in the West they have been denigrated as a result. Not just in the West, however, in India we also find the same typology, with matter associated with the feminine and spirit or consciousness, in contrast, associated with the masculine. This appears early with Samkhya philosophy linking the materiality of the world with the feminine prakṛti and aligning the masculine puruşa with spirit, consciousness. Images of the Goddess within India traditionally associate her also with matter, materiality, and bodies. What does this do for wonder, given its associations with matter? In the epigraph with which I start this chapter, Abhinavagupta unpacks the equation of wonder with subjectivity. Not surprisingly, given his Tantric affiliation, this involves a revalorization of the feminine, as it is the Goddess who exemplifies this coupling of wonder with subjectivity. He tells us in the Paratriśikā Vivarana: The powerful mantra of this visible world is the Goddess of Speech, Paravak. She is the mantra "aham." ("I"). Her innate and spontaneous essence is the rapture of wonder (camatkara). As it is said, "all visible phenomena rest in the Self, which is the T-feeling. This is a secret beyond all secrets. Tracing out the terms here, we see that speech, as a function and as a goddess, is integral to the sense of subjectivity, the "I." Additionally, at base, speech is rooted in a kind of wonder, for us perhaps paradoxically, since we tend to associate wonder with a kind of speechlessness. Yet here, the very essence of speech is wonder. I suspect that Abhinavagupta points here to an introspective insight, an awareness of wonder as the basis out of which speech bubbles forth. If we penetrate through to the origin of speech, at the core is a kind of rapture - wonder that is simply the sense of subjectivity, the "I" (aham). This wonder, which is subjectivity, he apostrophizes as Goddess. To highlight this insight's counterintuitive importance, this, he tells us, is a very big secret (guhyam atirahasyam). We might understand this phenomenologically as an awareness that arises from articulating the sense of "I," of subjectivity. At the very beginning of saying "I" there is the expansive rapture that includes a nondemarcated self. This unadulterated subjectivity is what we experience in wonder. The secret here is recognizing in an experience of wonder our own subjectivity encompassing the multiplicity of objects and matter that we see in the world. Source : Contemplative Studies and Hinduism - Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship
a "To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Teaching a child to love all earthlings is the highest form of education." "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France “Anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.” ~ Raegan Butcher "Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage." ~ Aurobindo Ghose "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem." ~ Alan Alexander Milne "We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen." ~ Eckhart Tolle "The Awareness with which all people and animals are aware of anything is the very same Awareness with which you are aware of these words right now. Treat people and animals as such, that is, as your very own self." ~ Rupert Spira "Don't say, "It's going around." Say, "She is going around." Aren't animals living beings and in reality the Self as well? Animals wear the animal body and humans wear the human body. We all wear different bodies like different shirts, but in reality we are all the same being." ~ Ramana Maharshi
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