Dragon Intuitive

Month: March 2009

  • Do We Have Freedom?

    Do We Have Freedom?

    Freedom is really sort of a nebulous idea and touted a lot, but do we really have it? If you could have freedom from everything, would you really want it? Would you be dead? Basically yes, you would. Likely are rules there too? This is also right. No energy escapes the universe and order touches…

  • Freedom is Understanding

    Freedom is Understanding

    Seeing the true reality makes your choices true choices. Rather than saying something arbitrary, honestly rather thoughtlessly like “I could never kill anyone“, why not say the truth? Under the right circumstances I would kill someone, and understand why. Rather than say I would never steal, why not say that if I needed to steal…

  • Virtual Reality Freedom

    Virtual Reality Freedom

    Are we more free in the virtual world of Second Life (SL)? Potentially, and there have been real social/political movements that took place in Second Life that had a very real First Life impact. Second Life does allow another level of expression. I can make a statement in my very form here. Freedom of imagination.…

  • Death Wish

    Death Wish

    Id and ego are not the same, quite the opposite. The id is primal and thinks only in concepts, identities, and identifies with everything. To your id you are your mother, you are your brother, you are the world, you are in and of it all, you are a ham sandwich, and you are all…

  • Natural Inclination

    Natural Inclination

    In many schools of metaphysical thought, for you to have a natural inclination you won’t find freedom denying your inclination. It isn’t freedom to be right handed, but determined to do everything with your left, is it? Unless its conscious choice? Conscious choice can deny freedom, and in that case it’s delusion, but you have to…

  • Free in Relationship

    Free in Relationship

    Freedom is a pretty complicated topic, though it would seem simple. Freedom is often sought in name, but people call a lot of things freedom. Often if someone says “I need my freedom”, it’s because they are about to self destruct and feel entitled. We think of many things as freedom, mislabelling them like financial…

  • Natural Law

    Natural Law

    There is a difference between a ‘natural’ law and a connived one. The natural laws arise even without human doing but include us, and they are a part of our natures. Contrived rules tend to create resistances. They rely on denial of select elements of reality. We know instinctively? Yes we do, and the natural…

  • Ritual Statement

    Ritual Statement

    Some of the elements of language we don’t now recognize as ritual were actually former rituals. The handshake was a disarming process and bragging was a ritual both in Norse and Japanese cultures, but there is something deeper to ritual. Wedding ceremonies to birthday parties, if they have meaning it’s because they have a message.…

  • Using Ritual

    Using Ritual

    The little ritual, or psychodrama if you will, might seem to have no power or meaning.  But as people have often experienced, if you dream about something aggravating at night, your next day may be very much affected. Much of dream and ritual are connected. Some tools are actually focuses to allow dream like imagery to…

  • Ritual Connection

    Ritual Connection

    Obstacles cease to be obstacles and become simply a part of the terrain as we become more aware. You won’t bemoan the wall when you see the door, and often times especially in the case of sculptors they say they don’t know what they are going to shape until they do. Is there not an…

  • World as Ritual

    World as Ritual

    Do you see a connection between the modern ‘worship’ of materialism/money as the root of many people being in a state of dis-ease, as in it being a good example of ‘bad’ ritual? Yes, I do indeed. The American bill says in God we trust, but in fact the ritual of money isn’t about trust…

  • Spiritual Forces

    Spiritual Forces

    I’ve heard you say “in the grip of some spiritual force” and then say “they are inside you.” I wanted to ask, do you ever give props to a power outside of us? Actually, yes I do, if I understand your question right.  Respect, you mean? I mean, yes, the right to occupy your mind,…

  • Yoga Philosophy

    Yoga Philosophy

    You hear a lot about Yoga philosophy in this day and age. It has become quite fashionable; let go, have faith in the divine, seek peace. It’s what I refer to as the blue sky doctrine. Put your body in impossible positions? Oh, asanas are not the main element of Yoga. They are an aid,…

  • Gnani Path

    Gnani Path

    I do get very emotional about knowledge, does Gnani preclude bliss? No, in fact it acknowledges that some people most naturally arrive at bliss by intellectual contemplations. That they are moved to awe by inspiring ideas, and religious observance may not speak to them. It’s not considered to be profane to be unmoved by ceremonial…

  • Questioning Path

    Questioning Path

    Gnani is more about the questions then the answers? Yes. They don’t deny that answers can be arrived at, but getting an answer and clinging to it is not the Gnani way. It’s the dynamic of inquiry itself that is their path. It’s almost like the question is a mind asana? Exactly. Knowing the path…

  • Power to Give

    Power to Give

    Reciprocation has played a part in a lot of metaphysical and spiritual world views. As above so below, yin and yang, yet we in our modern culture have largely abandoned this idea thinking we act independently of the world, or that we can operate in closed systems. Even our science says there really aren’t any…

  • A Giver in Balance

    A Giver in Balance

    As you give you are cause, but if you refuse to be an effect, to never receive, then your giving will be out of balance and you won’t create. To reject a gift is to reject the giver, and the giver is the source. Even if you don’t want to be spiritual about it, it’s…

  • Bribery

    Bribery

    There is giving, and then there is bribery. The difference between genuine giving and bribery is in giving there are no conditions. You give because you are adding to the world. It’s bribery if you are giving to induce a condition, and there is no reason to accept bribery. Love. Expect nothing in return? Yes,…