Spirituality for Living

People project onto us and we assume roles. Young people tend to worry a lot about things they shouldn’t. Thus who has had a smooth third decade? Seems to me stories of that are rare to non existent. In their twenties, who doesn’t have some comedy of errors to relate at least, if not a tale of tragedy.

Then we project onto our children. Do you see yourself as limited and frustrated even in those small successes? I’m a father myself and raised my own son till he was eight. I know how it is, and am not going to give you some new age rhetoric.

I suspect (knowing what I know of projection) that their isn’t necessarily any animosity, but your bigger distress is likely not your children. Can you afford a babysitter? There are issues that some put off as selfish, but in fact they are needs. Child rearing can [...] Continue to Seek…

What do you see when you dream at night? Not the days events in a factual way, but your projections onto life. Dream is caused from intelligence not being able to sleep. Intelligence isn’t able to sleep because it doesn’t need to and intelligence projects. Your projections dictate your actions which dictate your future, and you are aware if not directly that people project onto you. This is why we assume roles, and we know where those will take us. So our dreaming mind does a remarkable job of synthesis, and voila we have predicted the future.

Couldn’t dreams be a lack of projection? Not a lack of projection, but there are two grades of projection. Only one is natural. We filter data. We can’t avoid it, and we need to. This lets us concentrate, but fear makes filters go opaque meaning we can’t see through it. For some reason [...] Continue to Seek…

What is the worst projections people do? Fear is very virulent and it isn’t instinctive. We warp our own natures for the sake of fear. Fear of rejection, it creates rejection. Fear of failure, it creates failure. Fear is an obsessive (I dare say psychotic) focus on bad. You don’t avoid bad things by thinking on them excessively, you just trade one set of bad things for another. You have to see good to receive good, and when you receive good you realize that you aren’t actually receiving anything. It was already there. This brings peace I find.

Best things we project? Love. Outward or inward? Well this is why I’m talking about projection. You can’t avoid projection. Projection is the natural behaviour of the human mind, so outward is in and inward is out. It just spreads. But love for example; How many people are repelled when someone says [...] Continue to Seek…

We all project energy, and we interpret the energy coming to us to make sense of it like a bats sonar. The other being does the same. For me the process of projection is primary data not secondary, like senses are to you. In the case of two individuals; you project onto them, they project onto you. There is an interplay of energy, a.k.a. communication even if words aren’t spoken.

So the less filters we have between the energy coming to us and our awareness the better? No I wouldn’t say that. I have other problems and tend to need help that other people think is weird. But like philosophy, in that communication of energy there will either be recognition and an agreement of terms and understanding of each other, or dissonance and thus repulsion, avoidance or screening.

So previewed with the fewest mental obstructions is the best? No, I still disagree. [...] Continue to Seek…

Projection is quite natural, and by projection I mean projection of your state of mind. Ever notice when you are actively engaging someone in conversation you tend to imitate their body language without thinking about it? In the case of a community some of those states are viral. You can tell when someone is “not from around here”. They don’t have the group projection.

If someone says “I don’t project on anything” they lie or are very naïve. In fact it is a delusion. You can translate any event only to the degree you project on it. If you have no mental stance on something (none what so ever), your brain won’t recognize the pattern of the object or event, and in most adult cases you might not take any note of it at all.

Example. At work, when someone starts a project in a completely new area. They knew nothing [...] Continue to Seek…

Projection and how it impacts our lives. It isn’t as simple as pop psychology would have people see it, and it gets flung around too casually. It winds up being like the pot calling the kettle black, and few heed the old aphorism; Remove the timber in your own eye before trying to remove the cinder from another’s.

There are two components for every situation, you have the event and your opinion of the event. We have what the world brings to us, and we have what we bring to the world. When a problem arises, the bigger part of that problem is not the event. If events were really that powerful we could never know rest or distraction. The bigger part of that problem is our part in it. Our views and reaction to it. When you encounter a problem person you aren’t encountering a human pain in the [...] Continue to Seek…

We have questioning minds because we have roving eyes. Does each lead or follow at different times? Does mind exist only in the wads of meat in our skulls?  I would argue the mind doesn’t follow the eye and this can be backed up in science. The eye follows the mind.

Native tribes exposed to new things like movie screens simply can’t see them. That has been established. Then a mystic comes along and speaks the same language as the tribe, eventually revealing the movie screen to his people.  If not making it understood or understandable, they do make it seen. Thus science can seem very occult, and the occult can and has become science.

My difference with science is not contradiction of its insights, nor is my difference with a naturalist/humanist/materialist philosophy. I don’t agree with the restriction of view is all. It is true, but I feel it to be a [...] Continue to Seek…

What matters is what you did and what you learned, not what you had. Now what you have can influence what you are able to do, so that seems a good guideline for getting. So matter matters to the degree it is energy. If you go rescue a friend or loved one from being stranded somewhere with your car, the car mattered just not directly.

Our bodies need certain conditions; food, shelter and continuation of those to the offspring. Do we add on many illusory needs beyond that? I think that is a grey area. I wont say we don’t, but I would say self expression is a need. To be able to do. To move and act in the world isn’t an illusory need. A friend told me of a Saudi prince’s silver Audi, not silver colour, a silver Audi. That was an illusory need. The idea of privilege being [...] Continue to Seek…

The spiritual insights of the Norse religion can be summarized as a collection of intuitive metaphors called “kennings”, and we still use the word. They governed community meetings, called “things”. This is how their communities were governed, and skalds kept the remembrance of the kennings as well as the decisions and events that occurred in the things (community meetings).

Interestingly, if a chief was a raging idiot the influence of the skald could get him deposed. The chief was expected to answer with wisdom any challenges to his judgment. He couldn’t just attack the skald, if he did the tribal warriors would put him down like a rabid dog. If he couldn’t match wits with the skald he would loose his position in shame and the position of chief was only semi hereditary. Perhaps we need a skald in the U.S.?

But blind ambition makes idiots of all our leaders. I [...] Continue to Seek…

The Norse saw there as not being one world, but nine. Perhaps corresponding to the chakras of eastern mysticism, and these nine worlds rested on ygrdassil the world tree not unlike the Jewish tree of life. Modern physics also have a theory of ten dimensions, but seen from our point of view it might seem like nine. It would be interesting if they come up with the same number in the end. In numerology there are only nine stages. Anything higher is repetition and anything possessed of the full ten dimensions in physics might seem to us to be an anomaly. Like a wormhole, or black hole, any sort of singularity. Thus starting over again at one.

What was the Norse ‘morality’ or code of conduct like? Religion = myth = subjective truth perhaps. Their morality was based on personal accountability and family bonds. They didn’t have a set of codes, because [...] Continue to Seek…