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Ideas Of Wrong
Our Spiritual Darkness class at One World, Many Paths is a bit less formal. It‘s more about being able to share the darker side of our spiritual lives without judgement and maybe receive some support. As usual advice is cheap, so any offered is not meant to offend. So maybe for a bit of darkness, doubt/insecurity maybe?…
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Learn From Experience
I recently got in a fight. A fist fight, and realized that the guy who busted my lip and messed up my jaw probably grew up in a terrible environment without love. Actually, even if he did not, whatever motivated him is still about him. Some people rebel even if raised in a loving family.…
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Intense Experience
I’m setting myself up for a new experience pretty soon by enlisting in the Navy. And will learn much, though some may say it’s questionable. What in the end isn’t questionable? Free will. Yes, which is where questions arise from, and answers, and delusion, and the resultant liberation. I certainly questioned it. I still do,…
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Give Place To Dark
We created our Spiritual Darkness discussion group in Second Life to give place to the darker feelings and phases of the spiritual life. Their expression and perhaps some insight. Everyone on any spiritual/philosophical path has dark moments. In Christian mysticism they refer to them as a “dark night of the soul.” They are actually considered…
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Infinite Night
There is a focus here. The darkness we may be in or may have insight into. I recently had the revelation that I am always pointing the finger at others, including a God I supposedly gave up belief in. Rather than turning my thoughts inward and finding the problem, I cast the issue at the…
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Suffer Nothing
There are some very good lyrics I have been hearing lately, “I’ll take everything in this life. I’ll join everyone and understand. ‘Cause all men die. ‘Cause all men die.” (James Blunt) The secret is to learn to be happy first, with whatever you have. But what you have was acquired first and thought to…
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Total Self
The first knowledge is “I don’t know.” The second knowledge is “I can observe.” I don’t like my state. I want to acquire so much knowledge in life and its never-ending. How will this knowledge help you after you die? By knowing I lived a happy life with my knowledge. Is knowledge necessary? I don’t…
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Meaning
What is meaning? What is skilful and what is not so skilful. How can you discredit one thing and credit another? It depends on the moment. Meaning is purpose. Who decides meaning and purpose? How can anything be right or wrong if it has true meaning? Because everyone has their own path. Meaning is nothing,…
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Being Rooted
Why do we sand bag ourselves in with beliefs, worries, fears, philosophies? I prefer to leave my space open. I find these things in the world, and move through them. I find faith, and move through it. I find knowing, and move through it. They all relate in a very big and spacious world. Philosophy…
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Personal Greater Good
In our spiritual darkness class, I like to encourage people to speak freely, but it is not a venue for bashing on anyone or criticizing how they deal with things. I will try to offer only constructive advice and will try to keep it relevant/asked for. Unlike many other spiritual groups, we do not discourage discussion…
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Double Life
Most people find living with parents once out of the nest even more frustrating, because they start to treat you like a child again. Both parties change, and yet sometimes expect you to fall back in to old patterns. Do you feel respected currently? I moved back in out of concern, respect and necessity, but…
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Great Leveller
I found a piece of paper last night. It was something I wrote twenty years ago. Philosophical, reflective and had frustration in it. I saw it and knew what it was, and it was so long ago that I have no real intellectual attachment to it. It surprised me when I read it and started crying.…
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Nothing To Fix
I’m changing with time. Time. Interesting notion. Bushido teaches something I find helpful, metaphorically at least. “I am already dead.” You have already lost the fight, so you can decide what to do with your “failure”. If everything is a failure then what is failure? I am a huge failure. I never sustained gainful employment.…
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Relating To People
A very passive guy. Hates confrontation of any kind. Hates even to criticize anyone. He is also funny. He gets so frustrated with people, because they don’t seem to understand how to “act right.” They do not treat him as he treats them. Just call him names all the time or don’t know how to…
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Inner Life
For quite a long while I have sought to get a handle on an aspect of my inner life. Strange parts of my consciousness that had no good explanation I had heard, and I really got stuck between a few different models. I needed more details. I do dream work, but last night wasn’t fully…
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Light, Dark, Consciousness
Have you ever noticed that both angels and demons are elemental, but ordered differently? Example: Raphael and his flaming sword, a fire angel, and fire demons are obvious. Michael and his chalice, a water angel and water demons are heard of also, but more commonly in Asian cultures. I see what you mean, like a druid?…
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Light Oriented
Let me guess. You like a whole and healthy world, but you do not like the order that people put commonly on it. You have always felt you had an instinct for how things would be healthy and strong, even happy, and have been very concerned about happiness in general. Likely enjoy animals a great…
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Positive Side Of Darkness
I want to discuss the positive side of darkness. I am often in what people would call a dark state. I live in a sort of “half dead” spirit. I am not a very vital man, and for me the heights of emotion, intense joy, etc, are often just not available. I don’t understand what…
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