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.

 

 

[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.

[William John Meegan]

TIME of course is an illusion or an arbitrary sequence of moments in relationship to the rest of the universe.  But you asked how can it be different.

 

We are told that the Birth of Christ began a new era hence the AD era; however, that is arbitrary to when the psyche (Mary) conceived a spiritual thought.  Such a spiritual insight is so horrendous to the soul/psyche (individual) receiving it that time is annulled and a new beginning commences.

 

This actually happened to me in June of 1978, where the laws of the time/space continuum were annulled and a new beginning commenced.  My mind was wiped clean of all its obsessive longings and a new world stood before me.  I chosed to study religion, mythology and ancient civilization or it can be said that that imprint was put upon my soul/psyche in my new incarnation: though I had not died physically.

 

Yes, I knew who I was at the age of 30 and everything else that had happened to me in life up to that time but my primary obsession in life was gone.  It is as if I had stepped into a new dimensional space/time continuum going in a different direction then my previous obsession was leading me.  It was as if my mind was tabula rasa, but it wasn't, only in relationship to that one primary obsession and yet I was in an entirely new creation with an entirely new reason d'etre guiding me.

[Karen Barnacle]

If co-operation is the best strategy why do people cheat?

Evolutionary theory explains this as a result of an adaptive strategy. Some people cheat and survive to pass on their genes. Therefore cheating is an inherited behaviour. For example there is evidence that a large proportion of young are not fathered by the dominant male in the group or by the male partner if the couple are monogamous. Females have been observed to 'sneak off' and mate with another male - either a rogue, wandering male or a non dominant/non partner. Evolutionary theorists believe that this occurs because the contribution of genetic variation is more valuable than fidelity (or female co-operation with the male partner).

 

The shorter answer is that it is because cheats sometimes win big prizes...

 

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

 

[Olga Stolyarchik]

Hello Everyone,

I have a couple of questions.

Why people hesitate sharing of the personal spiritual Awakening? It is not against the Universal Law, in fact it is one of the ways to meet and communicate with a mind-likes outside of a books studies. I like to read H.P. Blavatsky. She is my Higher Teacher. The One for whom I've waiting all my life. I was told by a few wise men that the Teacher will find me and she did. And with amazing puzzle of signs, clues and a combinations of little things I found where is the root of my Lotus Flower grew, through Theosophy.net

I understand that some of the unexplained, unusual experiences involving unseen forces and Higher level of Consciousness cannot be reveal to the others. I have it too and know why it is very important to know what can be share from personal knowledge and wisdom, and what is strictly related to an individual soul development and meant to be discrete. There is another reason for a hesitation I do experiencing. Even when I process certain episode and connecting all the dots, never have loose ends and perfectly fall into place, I know that some of the things I cannot explain. The though about lacking some answers in own experience, like have a final result but missing essential in a working process in metaphysics, etc., the though of incapability to deliver all correctly (with my English self-learning by ear like a music). I didn't read many books on theosophy except of course HPB. Going from time to time to a Buddhist Temple, or not far from where I live at big Indian Community - Temple Harry Krishna. The services there purifying me, the energy is so tremendous and full of Light and Peace. Not one church, (no offends), ever make me feel so good. The wisdom of the Mahatmas comes from the Temple of Gods to my mind where “Mana can find it” I am learning bits and pieces but the time is flying so Astronomically fast that hours feels like a precious moments and limited time should be chosen wisely for the best of soul evolution and a giving for the humanity.

I would love to share my Awakening with pleasure if anyone likes to know. This is the best few minutes of my entire life that make me who I am now and even my latest artwork showing the transformation.

Its there any other reason why people wont like to share that particular experience?

Sharing moments of the Enlighten will not bring disturbance into the Higher Transformation or lower any effect on present or the future of a human being soul. Everyone here knows the part of wisdom from life experience that is one of the kind. Its may be supported by the deep meaning of the Ancient Masters but still the experience will be always unique and one of the kind.

 

Thank you for reading and my apology for the English writing insufficiency,

Olga