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No Flaw
I am considered autistic. It makes me a natural nihilist, and I have always been a negative thinker. The funny thing is, I tried with all my might not to be. This drove me into a deep depression, and the more I tried to understand the world as I was told it was, and the…
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Negative Feeling
Spiritual discussions and therapy don’t often cross paths. Doesn’t it seem strange they don’t cross? What do spiritual groups have to offer if they won’t accept pain and a need to heal? Platitudes maybe. They make statements implying they want to help and heal, but pain is somehow beneath them. Taoism teaches that our strength…
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Spiritual Life
The Buddha rejected the way of the ascetic, but people get hung up on his view of attachments and miss his message. Avoidance can be an attachment, and no insult intended if you are Christian, but in my experience those most concerned with Satan are Christians. They are more concerned about Satan and evil than…
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Closest to the Divine
Even the “saints” felt spiritual darkness. The term “dark night of the soul“ was used to describe the doubts experienced by a man now seen as an exemplar of his faith. It’s been expressed in a lot of art also, but people don’t seem to think about it. The poem “Footprints in the Sand“ says in your…
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Feeling Disconnection
Many spiritual groups don’t welcome dark feelings or dark sentiments in their functions. We don’t have this prejudice on Reflection Island, and our Spiritual Darkness class is to give that its place in our awareness. I would like to start by offering the floor to anyone who would like to share some element of darkness…
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Knowing Darkness
Snakes mostly just lay in the sun trying to get some heat, digesting something they could gulp without too much effort a week ago. Snakes rule. They are very close to the Tao, and it is wise to respect their space. They are as a rule avoidant of any fights, but they will strike as…
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Dwelling in Darkness
Dwelling is what gets me. I wonder how I could have done things differently. Well for me on dwelling, I practice really only one thing. It helps me quite a lot, but it seems to be sort of complicated. Disinhibition. Your mind is inherently aware of error. You won’t stop being aware of error, and you…
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Now What?
There is an old Native American practice, or rather non practice. They never apologized. Can you guess why? It’s about connecting in the wrong way. To say “I am sorry” is almost self insult. Yes. The way they saw it, they needed to do something, or you did, and apology was pointless. They understood the…
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Habits in Distress
Stress re-enforces habit big time. I daresay some people are so accustomed to their stress habits they forget they are stressed. As in a twitch, or as in running away? The whole spectrum, facial tick, running away, uncontrolled rage, self-harm, and that is not a rare habit really. For every virtuous behaviour we have been taught,…
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Defeat of Ego
Is the frustration invalid because it’s “bad“? Some people avoid any and all frustration like they aren’t allowed to be frustrated for some reason. I can get very frustrated, but I have no reason to resent anyone. I can’t blame them for options I don’t have because I do have them, and I take them.…
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Spiritual Family
I do like the idea of accepting the literal facts of gender difference without additional prejudice. Men don’t need to be emasculated, women don’t need to be intimidated, yet we do both. In the States, if a man gets married he’s seen as having “gotten a wife”. I often mock my male friends for how…
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Let Go
I value my shadow side, and have a natural inclination toward it. It is sort of my spirituality, but people often mistake me. A light during the day can go unnoticed in the broader light. This same light in darkness stands out very clearly. If you are a darkly inclined person it doesn’t mean you…
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Darkness Teaches
Darkness is a part of spirituality, yet there is a trend to censor it in some spiritual groups. No one really likes to talk about the bad side of things, and part of the reason they don’t is either an idea that it somehow makes their efforts impure, or just simply the tendency to label…
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Dark Hearts
The darkness of those who lie, like married men who don’t say they’re married. That is bad. Infidelity. Cheating on a partner. Is sex in the virtual world of Second Life with someone married infidelity? To my view, yes it is. But there are other ways to cheat, and not with sex. The intention is…
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Question is Why?
Are the spirits really inconsistent about anything? They live within their realms very consistently. Solid is agreement to stay at a certain state. The human inconsistent isn’t about humans having any programming, it’s more about them not knowing that they aren’t actually programmed. Human’s won’t actually claim their domain. It’s not a matter of conscious…
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Nihilism
The spiritual darkness discussion group, at ‘One World, Many Paths’ in Second Life, was started because a lot of other spiritual groups bar people from talking about negative feelings, and tell them that if they would just be more spiritual they wouldn’t feel bad. We don’t do that here, and we let people share and discuss…
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Arbitrary Moralism
A lot of people look at darkness as a negative. I’m not one who does. Nor am I. This is why we have the discussion group on spiritual darkness in Second Life. It’s to learn from this side of the truth also. When others refer to driving back the darkness, I know they mean the…
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Stuck On Stupid
I wish I could stop and reflect more often. What stops you? Not sure, partly personality. I ask a lot of questions. Questions can be patterned in a concerning way. Questions are always coherent with patterns of thinking, either perhaps corresponding to therapeutic method, or religious prejudice, or emotive bias/temperament. Sometimes they don’t maintain coherence.…
Category: Darkness
I don’t scare me. Fear is in the eye of the beholder. In fact always is. We have only two instinctive fears, falling and loud noises. Everything else we make up. What are our options? Both confinement and freedom. It is why people fail to find freedom, they think they won’t have any limitations.
When all turns to ashes you realize ashes feed growth. It’s a burning world, but we each burn at different rates. The spirit is as a phoenix, and for all the burning it is not and cannot be destroyed.
“In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’ clock in the morning, day after day.” F. Scott Fitzgerald