I Have Some Questions...

[Joe Fulton]

The purpose of this posting is to inspire other postings based on the questions asked here.

Being curious can be a lot of fun, and if you are a cat, so the saying goes, it can get you killed.

Life doesn't ever seem to give solid, pat answers, rather there is a multiplicity of questions.

So I would like to throw a few out there and see if there are any other questions.

So with that there is a ground rule to this.  When you reply it can only be with a question about something that you are curious about.

Here are some questions that I have to help seed some discussions:

 

So the first question is in regards to time.  This isn't so much about what time is, but what it could be.  We generally assume that time is a linear or causally dependent function where things happen in sequence.  What other ways are there that time could work?

People are funny.  For example in experiment after experiment it has been proven that cooperation is pretty much always the best strategy.  If that is the case then why is cheating so prevalent?

Why do people get writer's block?

I've often wondered "is anything that I have to say that important?"

Why does everyone else seem so much smarter?

Will I live to see my mind uploaded?

Will I live to see a better mind downloaded?

On a smaller scale, and kind of back to this site, I wonder when and how the basis for the Stanzas and the Voice of the Silence will be found?  Will they be in a set of a very few documents or scattered among many works?

Will I live to see a gathering of all of the major esoteric groups gathered together to learn and to apply their best minds to specific questions?  I have this belief that while many people have individual pieces of 'the pie' it will only be through cooperation and mutual effort that many of the great puzzles of the age will approach solutions through practitioners bringing together the pieces of the spiritual Tower of Babel that has existed for so long.

How many new fields of esoteric study exist that didn't a hundred years ago?

What should we study that we don't now?

How many new religions could I create in a day?  a week?  a year?

Who would I like to sit down and have a really good chat with, one on one or as a group?

What do I need to know that I don't know now?

Will I open up this post tomorrow and feel bad for anything I asked?  I'm sure I will because things usually look silly a short while after they are written, but tis what it is.

Those are a few of my questions.  I would love to hear yours.

If you want to go start a discussion or write a blog based on any of these questions, whether posted by me or anyone else, by all means, go for it.

 

 

[Ferran Sanz Orriols]

 wow, I've just seen your questions, Jessica :-)

 I'll go first for the last one on your first post:

 yes, exactly... but it is happenning/will happen inside people, for this is the place of causes in humans... yes, it's about home

 my opinion is that Benjamin Creme speaks quite properly about the benevolent restoration we're in  http://www.share-international.org/

 yes, the intake of pranic flow with no adverse reactions is quite a question, a difficult one, one of the dangers of the path... it is said that inofensivity is the key 

[Hari Menon]

Dear Joe ,

Apropos your statement :

Will I open up this post tomorrow and feel bad for anything I asked?

 

Never !!!!  For if you ask about something that you wish to know , you are a fool for only a minute - and if you never ask then you are a fool for life .

[BALAJI NARASIMHA MURTHY]

Jessica

The present human system is not fully fitted with required motors and accessories. Present body can not take this heavy flow of pranic life .  

[William John Meegan]

D:

Your question lies at the heart of who we are as human beings.  It is in the beginning and endings of life that we are so much in quest to know.  The child just entering the world wants to orientate itself to its environment.  And it is the going out of the world that forces us to ask, where are we going?

Yet, there is a third reason that an individual can thirst for knowledge and that is when early on in life he or she gets quickly tired of the world and realizes that it can't be all there is.  There has to be more to life then the blandness of the material world.  That focus you placed into your question speaks of the intensity in which such a quest for true knowledge takes on.  The world offers up an ocean of trash for such people that have rejected its rediculous way of existence.  Few indeed have any answers to that which the quester seeks.  It is more of a smorgasborg: a banquet in which we pick and choose that which we think is most likely to be the truth.  Even as we individual traverse the years we even drop that which we have mistakenly aquired on the journey to at last we come to a place in the midst of creation that is totally alien from whence we started.  And what is most horrendous and horrifying to realize is that we cannot return and freely offer up what we have learned.  Who in that awful place, from whence we came, would believe us?

[ornamentalmind]

Why are some people more focused on knowing/asking ‘Why?’ than others? :D

[William John Meegan]

James Davis:

TIME of course slows down or speeds up according the depths of our interests; however, your analogy of the fiery angels is symbolic of the collective unconscious.  There in the depths of that Milky Ocean TIME does not exist.  CG Jung speaks many times in his writings of dreams being out of sequencial order.  The entire series of dreams must be evaluated to determine the order in which each should be placed.

[James Davis]

"What should we study that we don't now?"

Transpersonal Semantics.

                      Best Thoughts,

                      James

[James Davis]

"So the first question is in regards to time. This isn't so much about what time is, but what it could be. We generally assume that time is a linear or causally dependent function where things happen in sequence. What other ways are there that time could work?"

A fiery angel comes to live with us, in her face the memory of all we have known, in her all the fiery angels of past ages. Her hand traces the brightest patterns of life, the hidden structures of worlds and time. With her, into the earth for a time, to sleep, to dream, and finally to wake, until now we see the creative, the essence of ourselves, the soul incarnate. Near her, the face of the whole world shines with fluid light. Near her the obvious invisible flame, and in this the world of subtle pattern, the flow of deep purpose, the great mystery. We live in this flame in our true aspect, and in it are all the faces of love in all times.

                      Best Thoughts,

                      James

[William John Meegan]

Karan Barnacle:

You asked:

"My question is are we really only biological machines for the reproduction of the genes we carry?"

If this was the only reason for life then there is no reason to exist for it more than implies we are biological mistakes an at best an infestation upon the earth: a plague.

Your post also touches on cheating and adultery.  I do not think that women or men deliberately cheat on their spouses because they want to preserve their genes.  It is a matter of the pleasure principle.  Consciously transmitting genes is not on either's mind.

For me: life is to be experienced and enjoyed.

Many of us though know that there is more to life and seek absolutes and therefor learned to question everything and demand from the transcendent answers to our questions.

And even as we come full circle after more than half a life time having obtained "at least for ourselves" answers and those absolutes we were seeking, the bottomline says, "LIFE IS TO BE EXPERIENCED AND ENJOYED".

 

[William John Meegan]

Joe:

You asked some time ago:

"Why do people confuse the concepts of relative and absolute?"

This is an analogy that compares the local to the universal.  For example the Old Testament ba'al (god) was Yahweh as far as the Judeao Christian religions are concern; whereas, each religous culture had a different name for their deity.  Yet, all of the religions around the world were talking about the same God. 

What is local or personal is relative to our own personal or cultural belief.  What is absolute is universal.

But why do people confuse or cling to the relative, is in my opinion, because they have not transcend their own local deity or their own opinions.

It is like learning a profession.  We cannot know all vocations in the world and therefore do not understand them.  It would take lifetimes to understand the many professions that we individually encounter in the world.  This would be the same as if we individual try to understand all religious cultures around the world.  Individually we can never know them all and therefore for the most part people are afraid of what they don't know.

If the individual cannot understand his own religion how is he expected to understand the absolute; however, for the most part most people believe they do know their own religions and therefore they believe there knowledge is akin to knowing the absolute.

Then of course there is that blind spot in all of us that do not listen to the other that is trying to explain himself and this is a great expanse between two different opinions that cannot be traverse without opening oneself to what the other have to say.

Each human ego has an inborn attitude that he or she knows everything.  "Ask me for an opinion about anything and I will have something to say about it" say the egos of the world.