And we all had the power to heal each other as did Buddha.

The Gnostics were censored for the power of Rome.

Well they did leave this in but it was bastardize from the original writing of the Gnostics..

'Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.''

"Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be.
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy.

Take your time. Hurry up.
Choice is yours. Don't be late. ........... no I don't have a gun"

And "nirvana" can be achieved even here, on this sold out, wretched earth. "Nirvana" comes from within. It is our black flame, our kuandalini. Our third eye. When one realizes the true reality of things, one is at peace.

Cheers!!

coincide with Bernie taking the oath. The trend left begins when people are tired off seeing their kids hungry.

33 - The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”

34 - * Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?

35 - If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside,

36 - can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated* and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

37 - If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me;

38 - but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

- John, Chapter 10

SOURCE: http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/10

PS: I heard a great presentation on the Nag Hammadi discoveries and the Gnostics at Griffith Observatory ca. 1987. It was awesome!

PPS: Gnossos = 'To Know'...knowledge of God (creator, universe, self, life, infinite, etc). through study. Radical.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

Once when he was walking at night, he stepped on something. It made a squishing sound, and he imagined he had stepped on an egg-bearing frog.

This caused him no end of alarm and regret, in view of the Buddhist precept against taking life, and when he finally went to sleep that night he dreamed that hundreds of frogs came demanding his life.

The monk was terribly upset, but when morning came he looked and found that what he stepped on was an overripe eggplant. At that moment his feeling of uncertainty suddenly stopped, and for the first time he realized the meaning of the saying that “there is no objective world.” Then he finally knew how to practice Zen.

SOURCE (seems one of them click baity things): http://www.highexistence.com/7-zen-stories-that-give-you-a-glimpse-of-enlightenment/

Thank you, Ichingcarpenter.

We're almost there, the day when light shines from our eyes...

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I'll wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm, we reach the shore
You gave it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you


I NEVER WAIT FOR YOU MY FRIEND.

I got a bad email today from my brother and my father is dying and I'm thousands of miles away..
he's 99 but wanted 100

a true american WWII decorated hero and helped writethe original nuclear test band treaty
which prohibited atmospheric testing on the planet.

So, I'm being a little more than what is necessary right now for some

The name of my father's book is called

'No half measures'

Please know you have both as long as I have breath.

I am truly sorry on the sad news. My family, also, is experiencing the loss of our dad.

Knowing you from what you write and how you treat other people, I know he is an extraordinary human being.

You will know they are around you because they will let you know. Love doesn't end ever and parents will never leave their children ever. Take care both of you. -RV

You made me cry, but thank you. From the many, many blessings and events and heartaches of this life, I am totally convinced of what you wrote.

is a good title.

My family has said goodbye to Dad and the last of the WWII vets in the family.

Sad to think that so much history is passing with them.

Another musical offering:

"I can tell my brother by the flowers in his eyes, on the road to Shambala!"

I, too have a someone who is ready to take the walk to the other side. A walk we all take, but sad for us not going.


I too believe that the veils are lifting. So much is being exposed and we are here at the great reveal.

" be it food, drugs and tv..."

As well as books, music, internet message boards and other distractions we all too often rationalize as being superior in every way to that which we personally find distasteful or wasteful.



Unfortunately, as I can both program my remote and name and locate eighty-eight constellations, I'll resign myself to a lower level on the evolutionary scale. Denied by a lack of pretense, I'll simply wallow in the self-realization that I am no better, and little worse than anyone else, as opposed to those who stand tall enough to look down on anyone not sharing the same ideology.

A little family, a little love, a little laughter and a little wine will be my mournful recourse in this sad life, as the much-more evolved among us tell us (tirelessly, righteously and all the moral absolutism mere humanity can muster) how incredibly vapid I truly am for not marching to the tune they want to entertain us with-- be that corporations, or merely posters on the internet.

I do..............


I'm friends of the monster under my bed

Age of Aquarius and all that stuff.

Something about an alignment of the planets within an astrological house that occurs every 2,000 years? So when they sang "this is the dawning..." They weren't kidding!

We have to have some patience! It isn't going to change overnight! But I believe we are blesses/cursed to be living in a time of great change, for good or bad.

Seems to me human beings are behaving the same way as they always have.

The greedy minority taking advantage of the giving majority.

The war mongers starting wars. for others to fight.

The criminals being criminals.

The owners exploiting the workers.

The honest and the righteous just trying to get by and survive.

Nothing seems to have changed, though. Maybe it will take this time, eh? It never seems to, though.

I'm sure you children said that......... Oh wait
you never did that in your life

But always told how others to live
without that experience to explain
what the age of your lack of or expertise is for your understanding

of what is going on with
On the rotation of the planet means and who that understood that thousands of years ago

You never provide anything except your opinion.

Truly you do not.

I am, however, an evidence-based thinker. That may be confusing you. As for the rotation of the planet, I understand that pretty well, actually. I understand celestial mechanics pretty well, too. All obey the laws of physics, and do so demonstrably.

I confess to not having an excess of knowledge of galactic or universal mechanics. The math is beyond my capabilities. I read in that area, though, and work to keep up with current theoretical thinking.

Beyond that, I have no real opinion at all. The evidence doesn't exist and can't be observed. Some people seem to think there are non-physical forces at work. I don't. I leave those people to their thinking, but don't bother with it, really.

Again, you don't know me. Please don't pretend that you do. Thanks.

of existence

You take a some time to do so some

some mind alternating drugs.. like.. chose your consciousness changing drug............... be honest
.......... you missed the 60s and 70s

Now something that would change your
consciousness........ which if you ever did that in your life........... you wouldn't continue your limited
experience on the time you have left on this planet.

Time is limited and so are we

My post must said something to you
to get the response from you.

went to High school with that family
and met his Dad dating his sister

Went to his wake in Coronado that was invited and promoted at that time by his brother.

"All obey the laws of physics, and do so demonstrably."

I must say that I find this a silly thing. These laws you speak of are really little more than pretty good approximations of what we perceive.

You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own.

His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred sprits scattered wide through the world and centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.

How can the cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Started in 1775...american revolution, discovery of uranus, the new planet associated with aquarius...
It's a 2000+ year cycle, so there is lots of time left for things to get better...The negative side of aquarius is an obsession with money and control...

There are NO coincidences...

I observe what can be seen and demonstrated to be real. You might have other opinions, but the physical universe is complicated enough for me. I'll let you think about other things.

take a chance............ what do you have left to lose?

to waste. In a previous post, you suggested that I take some psychoactive drugs, and implied that I missed the 60s and 70s. You know nothing of my life. That's clear.

That's OK, really. But you do presume too much about me and my path. I am sorry to hear about your father. Mine will be 91 next month, and is living on borrowed time. He is also a decorated WWII vet. We have that in common, along with more other things than you think.

My oath has led me to become who I am. I need no advice. Be at peace.

I wish people would realize that the planet Earth will keep on chugging along...with or without us. I believe most of us prefer with.

This is from an agriculture tweet:

Earth is taking care of itself. We spray poisons on food so it will bring in more profitable harvests. Problem - Resolution. Earth rebounds.

feeling. We will get shrugged off like fleas on a dog and the majority of people will never see it coming. It is a simple truth some would like to do everything in their power from realizing.

There's a lot of stuff going on. Every 10-20 years another lot of stuff. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong.

We all try to find meaning and explanations in this stuff. That's normal, most life forms do this.

Under all the seemingly random events there are real linkages between the forces that cause these events.

The Fermi Paradox and that Big Silence in the sky concern me, because I suspect we are working our way through the Great Filter, but it is looking precarious.

The nice thing about the Many Worlds model of the universe is that there are branches in which humans will survive and thrive along with the branches where we die out.

<Android raises a glass> Here's to the branch that lives. May we build our nest on it. <drinks>

Some folks here need a trip to the Total Perspective Vortex. That will set them right (unless one is Zaphod Beeblebrox in which case the universe revolves around you -- Hey! I am a really hoopy guy!)

Is this fairy cake? I am hungry.

Just not 'old' in a recent, American definition. But I wholeheartedly agree with the intent and spirit of your post, and it's something I've been watching more and more people slowly start to wake up to. It's a beautiful thing, even if it is somewhat unfortunate it has taken so long on so many things, and knowing that it will still be years until it truly comes to fruition. But I suppose that is the curse of humans, and also the strength: by knowing we are leaving things behind, it SHOULD compel us to do better, and often does. Unfortunately, the ones it doesn't work on are typically very powerful.

For now.

The disciples asked

Gautama, the Buddha, "Oh, Enlightened One, what shall we do when you are gone? Who will we follow?"

The Buddha said, "Be as lamps unto yourselves."

Hey........... I'm drinking and getting a little stupid
LOL



We Can't Stop

I've been googling variations of terms, but I can't tell which study it is.

I will get back to you.

But I don't lie

Danish is a little different from Swedish, but close enough that I can read most of it (as long as I don't have to hear it spoken aloud! Aarhus is pronounced "AWW-hoose," with "hoose" pronounced as in moose).

a couple of times, back here, before someone would tell me to stop saying Aarhus. Was this study done there? Nice town.

I was only there once, but fond memories. And their Danish was easier for me to understand than the mashed-potatoes-mouth version they speak on Sjaelland.

Nicer, but a bit more abrupt than the folks in Holland I had been working with before. Best cafeteria EVER! Beer in the vending machines, bicycles if you needed to get to a far away part of the building. North Sea right by my hotel window - so many sailboats after work. Not much of a culture shock. Would like to go back as a tourist sometime.

I'm in Holland several times a month (was just over there yesterday) and speak the language much better, so I'm much more comfortable there anyway.

Would be at the Sofitel (now Babylon, I think) by the CS for 5-8 weeks at a time. Had so much fun, big biers (seems like almost every night), hanging out downtown or at the beach. I could actually see myself living there.

The weather sucks, the living space is small and expensive, and the bureaucracy is cumbersome. I just moved someone up there from elsewhere in Europe, and she is drowning in petty bureaucracy. To get to work, she needs to take 2 buses. To switch, she needs a different set of tickets because the bus company is split into two and they won't honor each other's tickets (no such animal here in Germany). Plus she can't get medical insurance until she gets a paper from the tax authorities, which they are dragging their heels with, whining about documents from third countries. So, she is praying nothing happens until this messy paperwork is done. Lots of Catch 22. That's the problem with a lot of Europe, certainly here in Germany as well. A short visit of a few months will not prepare you for the wall of paper and indifference you meet when you try to establish a daily existence here. I keep my Blue Cross in Texas because to get medical insurance here in Germany, even though I pay over 50% in taxes here, they want to charge me €2500 a MONTH. Even my wife, who retired at 60 when she needed her thyroid removed (tumor on it), and had already been out the better part of a year for her cancer treatment 10 years before, was suddenly kicked off her medical insurance by the state, so I now cough up €400 a month for it until she's 65, and can get government health insurance. If she had been on her own, she would have been up shit creek.

Plus there's the language. Yes, they all speak some English there, but to be part of society in Holland, you must speak Dutch. I learned it easily, but most people have problems with it. It does take some getting used to!

too profound for me to not pay attention. I've always been interested in neuroscience.

I have no idea how I'm going to manage Danish, though.

enough to ponder our existence
and these questions I ask.

A reduction in the size of the hippocampus in people with depression:

http://sciencenordic.com/depression-can-damage-brain

so thank you. It's enough to explain how some people can become disabled or have relationship issues beyond "the obvious."

Because Capitalism is official US policy.

As is endless economic growth.

What it is ain't exactly clear...."

Stephen Stills

It is, however, beginning to clarify. And it is not what the plutocracy wants to hear at all.

ETA:

Not the torturer will scare me
Nor the body's final fall
Nor the barrels of death's rifles
Nor the shadows on the wall
Nor the night when to the ground
The last dim star of pain, is hurled
But the blind indifference
Of a merciless, unfeeling world

***

And each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark
Each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark
When the wheel of pain stops turning
And the branding iron stops burning
When the children can be children
When the desperados weaken
When the tide rolls into greet them
And the natural law of science
Greets the humble and the mighty
And the billion candles burning
Lights the dark side of every human mind

- Roger Waters

Eat and drink as cleanly as possible. Eliminate your mind of negative thinking. Rid your body of stored trauma. Live life with positive intention. Love yourself then you will love others. Expand your consciousness with meditation, pure tones and color, sacred geometry, chakra and energy awareness. Be committed to your whole-being healing.

Sid

We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

you might try to hide, but there's no running away from understanding the bigger picture.

I logged in (after ages) because I concur. Change is upon us, I see it in many examples around here. Occupy lingo and behaviour are simply (part of the) mainstream and the burnout/depression crisis is front and center. A leading thinker just published about authority, stating the patriarchy has failed and should be replaced with the authority of an appropriate collective.

I like to think we are nearing some form of collective consciousness. Lord knows our collective subconscious has been manipulated for long enough.