Going Beyond New Age

A new series of posts is about to begin, and each new post will begin with the same lead-in:

“How to live as if we know or strongly suspect that …”

These new posts will be shared from this author’s latest little “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” book, not yet ready for publication, but expected to be on the market by early Fall 2026.

“Spirit teaches a simple seeker – How to Live – as if …”

As if what, you might ask. “as if we know or strongly suspect that …”

Suspect what? Each post will offer something different to suspect.

Before we begin this new series, perhaps I should explain what and/or who “Spirit” is, at least to my simple understanding.

Inspiration comes, if it does, to everyone, more or less, and now and then. But where does inspiration come from?

Perhaps inspiration is a fundamental quality of the mind of humanity, or a manifesrtation of the highest and/or most expanded state of awareness that humans are likely to reach in the forseeable future. Inspiration is a mystery to understand, and yet we’re each and all, now and then, inspired to do this or that, or to go here or there, or simply to be what we know we are. It’s a mystery, for now.

So, the problem arises, at least for this simple seeker; how to interact with Inspiration, whatever it is?

Inspiration is a one way flow of creative energy. It’s like a monolog, as a source of information that allows for no questioning.

I have always seemed to need to question even myself, so my source of information and creative energy (such as it is) must be questioned, but how?

Perhaps Inspiration itself provided me with an ideal way out of the problem. Personify inspiration, and so I did, and it works, at least for me, for now.

In the series of little “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books, Inspiration becomes Spirit, my psychotherapist, with His wise and yet down-to-earth style of interaction with his not too bright (but eager to understand life) student, me, who He calls Chela. This set-up allows me to interact with my personal source of inspiration, whatever it might be. Inspiration personified seems to serve me well, and perhaps some of my readers will also dare to pretend that Spirit exists as even more than the personification of a mystery. For all we know …

I hope you come back, soon, to learn more about what Spirit is teaching this simple seeker.

Love,

Jean Whitred

(a simple seeker)

Simple Seeker Meditations – Book Ten

51. Spirit tells me that

Until the age of cellphones, it wasn’t considered polite total to oneself.

Now, who can ever know if we’re communicating long distance with a friend, or a shorter distance with our inner self.

It might take practice.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 14

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51. Spirit tells me that

Our future can never be anything that our past didn’t have the potential to become.

“There’s nothing new under the Sun.”

Who said that?

And now I suddenly understand what it means.

We each and all are becoming what we may always have had the potential to become.

And now the question arises – what do I have the potential to become?

How is it possible to know?

It’s much easier to accept what I have no potential to become – graceful, at least not physically.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 13

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53. Spirit tells me that

It’s you or me, Honey.

No offence intended.

We each strive to survive and thrive.

Invasive plants in my little garden.

Who but a gardener could ever consider that beautiful Iris plants have a natural tendency to invade … or do they only need to expand beyond their present limits?

Hosta is feeling the pressure from its neighbour.

And yet, Hosta too expands if it can, though not with the same speed or force that Iris does.

We each have our own nature.

How can we grow without expanding?

Is human territory much as a garden in that respect?

We may threaten our neighbours without any conscious intention to do so.

Or they may threaten us, if they seem to be expanding in our direction.

It’s an easier problem to resolve in the garden than in the world of humanity.

I’ll simply dig up and transplant the Iris roots (and plant) that’s moving too close to Hosta to allow for a healthy relationship between them.

The world (or garden) of humanity – does it work the same way?

And who is to do the digging up and transplanting?

And the question arises, sooner or later, how long can we play this game within the limits of a small garden (or world)?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 12.

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54. Spirit tells me that

Any possible situation can only exist as a result of a continuous stream of earlier interconnected situations.

A continuous stream of earlier interconnected situations have created the illusion of the so-called here and now.

Someday, historians and psychologists, not to mention scientists, will look for clearly defined, or not so clearly defined patterns of response that will help them to predict the future.

What’s happening today that hasn’t happened ten thousand times or more before?

Or are we each and all, slowly or more so, moving on with our life and developing a future that wasn’t here before?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 12

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55. Spirit tells me that

A personal spiritual philosophy of life – is it possible?

Is it practical?

Is it necessarily a reality, whether we’re aware of it or not?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 10

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56. Spirit tells me that

An old political slogan –

“Know there is a fence.

Know which side you’re on,

And know who’s there with you.”

Could it equally apply to any field of thought, or emotin?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 10

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57. Spirit tells me that

32. Spirit tells me that

Together we stand, until … When does a collective of specifics become a a specific …?

Today is Canada Day, and being a dedicated Canadian, my little patio lets the world (or at least anyone passing by) know that I’m celebrating being a specific of a particular collective.

And yet, all over the world there may be billions of little people like me doing the same thing, without even knowing (or perhaps even very much caring) that we’re each and all a human within humanity.

small groups of people within ever-larger groups of people …

How to retain our individual identity as a “ME” and still be part of a “WE”?

Does the problem start with any one-to-one relationship?

Is it a problem of exclusiveness vs inclusiveness?

How to solve it in the best interest of all concerned?

Are wars no more than a frustrated outcome of a failed attempt at togetherness?

Or is it necessarily always a power play?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 1

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33. Spirit tells me that

It’s nothing personal, and yet it’s as personal as it can get.

Energy attract, or …

Flowers and blossoms attract bees, and yet they may also attract other insects, for different reasons.

And so it may be with people, among other things.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – July 1

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34. Spirit tells me that

How can we ever know how much is beyond our ability to do, until we try?

When does accepting the illusion of absolute control of any situation serve as an excuse for not testing the limits of what we can do?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 30

35. Spirit tells me that

Whatever happens, you and I and everyone else are co-creating a future.

We’re cocreating a future humanity.

How does it feel?

What an awesome opportunity and responsibility.

Can we ever separate these two potentials?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 20

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36. Spirit tells me that

Our emotions are forces beyond our control, unless we choose and are able to …

Unless we choose and are able to develop will power to control the emotions that would possess us, if they could.

Is possession too strong a term to describe emotions?

Some people seem to have a potential to feel qualities and strengths of .emotion that some others are not able to feel.

I have a neighbour who, now and then, seems to spiral downward into a dark area of mind.

She can become destructive and dangerous.

And yet, at other times, and fortunately most of the time, she’s harmless.

What makes her descent into darkness more dangerous is the high power of her personal energy.

We don’t all possess that high power that can lead us to positive or negative expression of what we physically do to the world around us.

Do our leaders necessarily possess that powerful personal energy?

If so, how to know how they would use great power?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 29

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37. Spirit tells me that

It made sense and felt right, and then it didn’t.

Haven’t we all been there?

Life as a continuous series of learning experiences?

Can we also take time out, now and then, to enjoy the journey?

After all, even schools provide for creative physical and social activities

“All work and no play makes John a dull boy.”

Who saiad it?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 28

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Book Ten – A simple seeker’s meditations

29. Spirit tells me that

Life is a one-way street.

There’s no going back, but we can look and learn, or pay.

So many things we’ve done wrong along the way, both individually and collectively.

How can we co-create a loving and sustainable future?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 28

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30. Spirit tells me that

Wherever we each may be, we’re here and now from our unique perspective of time, place, and situation.

So, as some say, it’s always now.

Why don’t they also say that it’s always here, and in this particular situation?

It might require them to rethink their position in time and space.

Perhaps we can only claim to be here and now if we can describe what we see from this particular here and now.

Then, what is the general perspective?

Chaos?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 27

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31. Spirit tells me that

It may be impossible not to love everyone, more or less.

What a difference a word makes, and the difference is clarity of expression of thought or feeling,

Consider a simple word such as “some,” when used to alter the meaning of a sentence, depending upon exactly where in that sentence it is placed.

I have always claimed to love everyone, more or less.

Never again.

Now, and from this moment on, I will share my feelings, at least in this respect, more accurately and more clearly, simply by saying that I love everyone, some more and some less.

Love is a variable and yet so very many people seem to give it an all or nothing at all kind of meaning.

Perhaps they need to relax their hold, not only on the word itself, but on their capacity to love.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 26

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Book Ten – Simple Seeker Meditations

23. Spirit tells me that

If we can claim inspiration, then why can’t anyone else?

Our leaders included.

“What if I told you that your leaders have inside information that guides them, if they care to listen, in how to interact with each other?”

Leaders don’t get to be leaders by following the crowd, and yet they must listen to … who?

Or what?

Are they more in harmony with their so-called enemy leaders than they are with their own people?

Are leaders playing a game with each other, and the rest of us are only spectators, or victims?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 25

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24. Spirit tells me that

Here and now can come and go, but there and then are forever, unless, of course …

Things are not always as they seem.

Once upon a time may never have really been at all.

What if it was all a dream?

Or a nightmare?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 23

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25. Spirit tells me that

A very healthy sign – the ever-higher price of advertising.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

Was it Abraham Lincoln?

The ever-higher price of basic advertising seems to support that it now takes more and more effort (and money) to fool us into believing what our common sense (such as it is) tells us that it just isn’t so.

There’s hope for humanity yet, whatever happens.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 22

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26. Spirit tells me that

If not me, then who?

I’m in no shape to do battle, and yet … somebody has to stand …”

A tenant issue, and I’m a tenant.

And yet, so are all the others.

I’m the oldest one in the building, and I was active, many years ago.

Now, surely it’s someone else’s turn to stand up for the benefit of all, or for anyone who really cares.

That’s the ticket – who really cares?

A tragic situation.

Not the little issue that should be a non-issue, but the seeming reality of indifference to a sense of community.

Is that where we’re all heading?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 21.

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27. Spirit tells me that

A paint brush.

A paint brush is not a skateboard.

You can do things with one that you can’t do with the other.

Is it all about skills assessment?

Have we been trying to become what we never had the potential to become?

Is that the future of psycho-therapy?

I remember school counselors helping us to accept our potential to follow certain career paths that we seemed to have a natural ability to succeed in, even though we might enjoy some other.

I enjoyed dancing, and yet I had no sense of balance.

So it was with singing.

I love to sing, and yet, pity those who must listen to me.

I would never have succeeded in a dancing or singing career.

Is life that simple?

Accept our natural skills and work with them?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 15

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28. Spirit tells me that

From where we each are in the world (or energy field) of expanding awareness …

We each express, in our own way, the Timeless Wisdom that expresses itself through us, as well as it can, all things considered.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 13

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29. Spirit tells me that

Simple Seeker’s Meditations – Book Ten

1. Spirit tells me that

Rays of sunlight are as living streams of creative energy.

Count them, if you can.

Can you imagine each of us humans as being one of those streams of living, creative, loving, and intelligent rays of light from an unknown and perhaps unknowable source?

Perhaps there are more than seven billion blends of creative, loving, and intelligent, more or less, unique human energy that we each express.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31

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2. Spirit tells me that

We serve our leaders as well as we can, even knowing they’re not perfect, but …

There may never have been a perfect leader, one who was all things to all people.

Like us, they’re flawed.

Can we accept their flaws and still see that they may be the best of a less than perfect choice of options?

“A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest.”

Who sang that song?

Millions seem to see something that you do not.

Which doesn’t deny the reality of what you see, but we each see from a different perspective, from our personal state of awareness.

We can’t make others see what we see, and those who share what they see with the largest group of seers get to choose who runs the store.

We might all blame our childhood, or that of some others, for how we choose to live as adults.

The reality may be that we were born with a unique personality that social conditioning may cover up, but what is always within us will come through, if only now and then, until we intentionally seek to discover our more-or-less original nature, if we choose to take the path of individuation from the masses.

What Jung didn’t seem to be concerned with is the reality that our true nature may be severely flawed.

Not everyone will notice.

Why?

They may be as flawed in their thinking as the rest of us.

What hope for a just society?

It’s going to take time.

It takes money, a lot of money, to rise very far in our so-called democratic societies.

Perhaps we’re not as democratic as we might claim to be.

Advertising is expensive, and the media is controlled by a few who have a preference for whom they advertise.

Our choices are limited.

Real democracy is extremely limited.

It may necessarily be limited to our ability to live in a truly democratic community.

And, what would a truly democratic government look like?

Some ancient empires were (or considered themselves to be) democracies, and yet they waged war with every nation they could that resisted their control of world trade and power.

How far have we come in the last two thousand years?

Some might say, “We need well-balance humans who have a heart and mind.”

The good news is that we do have well-balanced humans who do have a heart and mind.

They’re just not as popular as those who express a drive to succeed at whatever it is that they choose to succeed at.

We admire that energy without being aware of the price that some others might pay for it.

Can we ever lose our soul?

It’s part of what we are and, possibly it’s our potential this time around.

We each may have a guiding energy who is working through us, to express itself in physical form, and to experience a particular human experience.

We might choose to play a villain, or a powerful leader, or possibly a savior, whether or not we have what it takes to really be successful in that role.

Planetary evil is being exposed and yet, only to those who have eyes to see it.

Planetary love is also evident to those who see it.

Hopefully, there are some who can see the worst and the best that humanity is capable of, and still have faith in the future psychological evolution of humanity.

Most of us can only see the surface of what we do see.

And words are limited in what they can convey of the insights of those who share deeper awareness with us.

We take their words at surface level.

What is referred to as dead may only seem to be dead.

We’re still alive when we’re sleeping, and yet …

We’re still living in the material world, even when seemingly lost in a dream.

“The living dead” can refer to people who don’t seem to be very aware of what’s going on around them.

And yet, they may each and all possess the potential to “wake up.”

How am I?

Perhaps as most.

Fine, and if I’m not, then I don’t know about it yet.

And what does fine mean?

Satisfied, more or less, with how Life is presenting itself.

As to vampires and other monsters, perhaps they warn us of possible degrees of exploitation.

“Buyer beware.” is a wise warning that can cover so much more potential life experience than shopping.

The good news is that we may all have to travel through the valley of The death of soul” to discover the ten thousand ways that we can misunderstand Timeless Wisdom.

Sooner or later, we each and all will develop deeper and more expanded awareness of why it was all necessary.

It’s only a matter of time and enough experience.

We may each and all, even now, be spiritual, more or less.

We simply need to develop more, and there may be nothing we can do to hurry the process more than to believe in ourselves as being basically spiritual in physical form.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31, 2024

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3. Spirit tells me that

Confession is good for the soul, they say.

And yet, perhaps it’s wiser to share it only with your soul.

Otherwise, you risk someone exploiting your moment of weakness.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 31

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4. Spirit tells me that

Everyone plays Charades.

It’s the In thing to do.

We express thoughts and emotions, consciously and with intention, or otherwise, with everything we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts May 31

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5. Spirit tells me that

Blue is blue and yellow is yellow, and yet, … individuality is not independence.

Most everyone can notice the difference between blue and yellow until they blend together into variable shades of green.

Do blue and yellow cocreate green?

Or, does green contain them both?

And is it the same with individuals and communities?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 30

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6. Spirit tells me that

Understanding why doesn’t change anything, but it might help us begin.

Understanding why we are the way we are, or why we do what we do, doesn’t change the reality of anything, and yet, if we’re not satisfied … dissatisfaction itself might be the driving force of change.

And yet, change doesn’t necessarily result in improvement.

I may change my hair style without being satisfied with the result.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 4

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7. Spirit tells me that

Would it be the same – if we didn’t care for humanity?

Could we still be spiritual?

If humanity is a physical expression of Spirit, then what quality of Spirit do we express, individually and collectively by caring for each other individually and collectively?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 3

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8. Spirit tells me that

What’s in a name?

Energy and Matter vs Spirit and Matter – is energy intelligent?

What a scientist calls energy might be spirit to a believer in such.

If we’re spirit after we die, then perhaps we were spirit before we were born.

And, if we’re spirit before and after, then why not now, behind the scenes of a material experience?

That’s how I see it, for now.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 2

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9. Spirit tells me that

Consciousness expands into the unconscious, or does it dissolve into it?

And, do Ego and Self/Soul play the same game?

Is it a game, or just the way Life is?

Individuality and Community?

Male and Female?

What other so-called polarities merge their identity?

Day and Night?

It takes both the material and spiritual worlds to harmonize with each other in order for most of us to understand what it’s all about.

The good news is that we each and all contain (or are contained within) a blend of consciousness and unconsciousness, ego and self, male and female, and all the so-called polarities. We’re each somewhere, experiencing Life from a more or less unique perspective.

Psychology and spirituality are not necessarily at odds with each other, and perhaps are very much part of each other.

Psychology seeks to understand how and why individuals develop their more or less unique outlook on the worlds they live in.

Psychology is very much more grounded in physical reality than is spirituality, which is almost always in danger of losing itself in mist while seeking to understand the mystery of Life.

As for the content and functioning of the unconscious, for all we know the collective unconscious may be the sum total of all that the collective mind of humanity has ever known or achieved.

If that’s so, and it very well might be, then the personal unconscious would be all that the individual mind has ever known or achieved, perhaps from countless pervious lifetimes.

We read about the Akashic Records.

Their existence may be more real than myth.

A historical library of Life?

Who would want to know?

I seem to need to know as much as I can about what it’s all about, and why?

An inner voice tells me that I’m asking the wrong questions, and that I should be asking How?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 1

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10. Spirit tells me that

We each must learn to follow a leader until we can learn to follow ourself.

We each must learn to follow before we can learn to lead.

Students learn to see the world through the eyes of their parents and teachers, until they can see directly what their parents and teachers see, or something else.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 1

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11. Spirit tells me that

Time moves on – to reshare a three year old photo of me holding up “Spirit teaches a simple seeker – The Art of Timeless Wisdom – Book Three.

How could I ever know that I would become an author to a series of little Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books?

It’s an awesome experience that I could never have dared to even imagine would fill my later years with such pleasure.

“The Art of Timeless Wisdom – Book Three” is one of a set of three little books that may have been meant only for me, as a personal learning experience.

Someday, when money becomes available, I hope to retitle them to express this possible reality, with “Becoming Me.”

They served me very well, to prepare me to share the first of a second series, titled “Letting Go.” Letting Go went to press (Balboa Press) just before the end of 2023, so that it would qualify for this year’s “Celebration of SFU Authors.”

Now, the second book of the second series is just about ready to share. “Spirit teaches a simple seeker – Boundaries – yours, mine, and ours”

It’s an incredible experience to be part of it all, whether or not they’re ever financially successful. I’m in it for the long haul, win, lose, or draw.

“Spirit teaches …” books, (soft cover and eBooks) ae available on Amazon, Balboa, and a few other places.

I’ll possibly be dead and gone before the world discovers them as a foundation for a new and simple philosophy of life that blends philosophy, psychology, science, religion, and spirituality into one.

They each teach the same timeless wisdom from a unique perspective.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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12. Spirit tells me that

A walk in the Park.

The path of expanded awareness is never a walk in the park.

Parks are usually maintained by experienced gardeners, for the purpose of providing visitors with a welcome respite from the realities of daily life.

And yet, our beautiful parks can help us recover from daily struggles.

How?

They offer an alternative view of Life.

We could never struggle for a brighter future if there wasn’t a grim reality to recover from.

Without witnessing and/or experiencing the devastation of war, what value would peace offer?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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13. Spirit tells me that

Law and order are basic needs of any society.

Love and duty take second place.

Without law and order to control us, we seem to slip into a situation of gang rule, with competing gangs fighting to become the source of law and order in their community or country.

And, when the gang leader does achieve legitimacy as ruler of whatever society, then the temptation is powerful to expand that control into the lands of neighbouring societies.

Is that where we are, today?

Do our most powerful leaders attempt to become world leaders?

Has it always been that way?

Is it human nature?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 8

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14. Spirit tells me that

The video game called Humanity.

How real are our leaders, or any of the rest of us?

Welcome to the world of illusion, when toy characters believe they’re real people.

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way when the toys are lured into believing that they are creating toys that act real.

Are unseen forces playing with us, and with our leaders?

If so, does it matter who wins and who loses?

The winners today may be losers tomorrow.

If unseen forces are only playing with us, with no betting allowed on the outcome, then it’s all in the name of learning how to play the game, as well as they can.

And we may do the same by focusing on what we’re learning from playing the game than what is happening within the game.

Can we look at our personal life with that same outlook, beyond the day-to-day events?’

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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15. Spirit tells me that

As with cookies, so with humans.

The basic recipe is the same – Head, heart, ego.

“It’s a small, small world….”

Who sang that song?

And, isn’t it curiously so?

Wherever you go, people look the same, more or less.

We talk in different languages, but we say the same words.

And they each and all express thoughts and emotions.

And we each do what we do, whether we’re told to or not.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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16. Spirit tells me that

All trees reach toward Heaven, and yet, only because their roots reach toward Hell.

Jung used this idea to support his claim that he’d rather be whole than good.

Why did he not explain, or share, if he was aware, and he likely was, that the difference between those trees that reached higher did so because of their strength and flexibility, and more – they firmly held their ground without rigidity.

Willows bend to the wind, but Poplars resist the wind, and suffer for their inability to bend to it.

Nature can teach us so much about human nature. if we would only open our eyes and minds.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 7

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17. Spirit tells me that

Blowing in the wind – are we each and all as no more (nor less) than one of the ten …

Picture if you can, and care to, ten thousand or more leaves reaching out from twigs that are reaching out from branches that have spread out from the trunk of a tree that has grown out from roots that are firmly, or not so firmly, planted beneath the surface of the ground, in the darkness of a life that is beyond our view, but reaching down and out to absorb, as well as they can the moisture and nutrients that the soil provides them with, as well as it can.

We, as leaves, may be oblivious as to the source of our very being. and yet we each reach as far as our energy allows us to, while still restricted by the twig that holds us as firmly as it can.

We blow in the wind, but not by personal choice.

The wind blows us about, and we, as well as we’re able to, adapt to the forces of Nature, including rain.

What choices do we have?

Perhaps the greatest possible choice available is to choose to be aware of what’s happening to us, and through us.

We’re not bystanders.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 13

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18. Spirit tells me that

Witness testimony may be necessarily flawed, and yet personal experience may be, too.

Any and all witnesses to whatever event must necessarily see from a unique perspective in time and space, including the mental space they’re in.

And yet, the same can be said about participants in any event.

How to learn what really happened, and how?

Asking why may be less helpful.

Why may invite a judgment call?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 12

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19. Spirit tells me that

Advanced intelligence is not artificial.

It’s our future.

Blame the machine, not me.

Kids today are generally so much more advanced in technical skills and computer understanding than their grandparents are.

I needed to ask a fifteen year old kid how to get my new computer mouse to work.

“It’s easy, Grandma, just remove the USB from the battery compartment of the new mouse …”

“A USB in a mouse’s battery compartment?

I had never seen one there>

But, I followed his advice and, Lo and behold, in a tiny slot on the edge of where the battery fits in, and touching it with my fingers, I was able to slide out this tiny little chip.

“Okay, now what?”

“Install it into the back of your desktop computer.”

Amazingly, I found another so-called USB stuck into a tiny slot.

I took it out and replaced it with the new one, and WOW!

I’m back in the saddle again.

My computer began to work for me.

How blessed we are, or at least those who are, to have young people to teach us how to live in this new world that they are creating.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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20. Spirit tells me that

Whatever it is that we’re doing, we’re not doing something else.

Did we choose?

Where does necessity fit into the picture of freedom to choose?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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21. Spirit tells me that

Expanded awareness?

Enlightenment?

And, of course, Jung’s Individuation – to separate from Mass Man, or Mass Mind.

Can it be done?

How separate can any of us be from anyone else?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 11

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22. Spirit tells me that

Struggles of life as exercise, and some pay big money to do it.

We face our inner demons alone, if not now then later.

But, sooner or later they must be faced, so why not now?

Only fear prevents us, and what is it that we fear?

Defeat, and lack of courage to dare to risk defeat, and lack of faith in our ability to deal with them.

But what if we knew that there was no battle waiting for us, and that our inner demons were on our side, and only testing our faith in ourselves?”

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – June 10

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23. Spirit tells me that

Meditations – Book 9

93. Spirit tells me that

Feeling is a blend of emotion and thought, and yet it has a cause that is neither.

Something happens that we respond to, depending upon how we feel about what has happened.

If we welcome whatever, then we respond with a blend of positive emotion and thought.

On the other hand, if we don’t like what has just happened, then we feel a negative blend of emotin and thought.

People who feel distressed have a reason for feeling that way.

Something has happened to cause them to respond stressfully.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 23

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94. Spirit tells me that

How far above Middle C have we come as a civilization?

As a country?

As an individual?

Have we moved at all?

Are we meant to move?

Or are we designed to discover our own personal note, and to refine it as much as we can?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 24

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95. Spirit tells me that

The good news is that the world not only turns, it also moves forward, and so do we.

It would be so easy to think that we’re not going anywhere.

It’s an illusion.

We can’t not move.

It’s part of what we are.

Of course, speed is optional.

Or is it?

Perhaps, we each have our own inner control system that determines how fast or how slow we develop; physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.

And there may be no need to rush.

Who sang, “Let’s take it nice and easy…”?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 22

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96. Spirit tells me that

Healing our way to spirituality is the only way to go.

We must let go to reach out.

There’s so much mumbo-jumbo being offered as a way to spirituality.

Even meditation is useless if we’re still holding on to what no longer serves us well.

Release it all, as an old love song goes, “Please release me, let me go … and let me love again.”

We can love the life we live if we live the life we love.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 28

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97. Spirit tells me that

A satisfied mind has found its personal comfort zone.

How many of us have reached it?

There may be no short-cuts to achieving a sense of peace with ourself (or with our Self).

So many distractions, dead-ends, detours, and promises of contentment lure us, if they can, as long as they can, from accepting the reality that our peace of mind doesn’t come from somewhere out there.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 28

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98. Spirit tells me that

A Sunday morning vision.

Picture, if you can, Life as an endless loop of fine energy.

Can you picture Life as an endless loop of fine but powerful energy that weaves into and through each of us, and everything that is?

If that fine thread of Life energy is refined (or contaminated) by who or what it passes through, then it could be as our blood system.

Our blood system carries nutrients to every cell in our physical body, but it also carries any contaminatnts that it picks up along the way, and shares them.

Comments: Note: It isn’t so. Our blood system delivers nutrients to all of our physical body cells. The veins pick up the contaminated air (carbon dioxide) and deliver it to the lungs to be breathed out.

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 26

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99. Spirit tells me that

Stars don’t shine their light at us.

They may not even know that we exist.

Stars shine because it’s in their nature to shine, and so do we, more or less.

As with stars, we are light and only need to trust in our own light, and let it lead us along Life’s way, along the way that Life designed for us, alone.

Sure, we can see brighter lights, and may choose to blend our own with that of some others, but we might also choose to light our own way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 25

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End of Book Nine

89. Spirit tells me that

Social conditioning at a primitive level – what would it look like?

Different from …”

We’re each and all necessarily socially conditioned from the minute we’re born, if not before.

societies can’t exist without some form of organization 0 generally accepted rules of order.

How are we socially conditioned in a way that would be different from a primitive society?

Or … is it necessarily the same?

Cookie and a stick?

Or have we developed enough intelligence to actually understand the necessity of learning to get along with each other, and willingness to compromise our individual interests for the benefit of group interests?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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89. Spirit tells me that

It’s got to be this or that..

Either we open to our unique future, or slip back into our …

The world turns, and we turn with it, if we do.

It’s go forward or slip back.

No other options are available.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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90. Spirit tells me that

Sitting in a cafe doing Jungian research. – observing unique blends of human energy.

We each and all are unique blends of human energy, and when we necessarily interact with other unique blends of human energy, with each of us influencing and being influenced by everyone we connect with, whether directly or indirectly, and since energy flows continuously, we must necessarily influence and be influenced by everyone, everywhere, perhaps from times past and into the future, if that’s possible.

I so enjoyed the latte.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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91. Spirit tells me that

Ego and Spirit are as Matter and Energy – one is the other, more or less.

Ego gets such bad press, and yet, how else can we express the quality of our Spirit?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 17

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92. Spirit tells me that

Timeless Wisdom Meditations – Book Nine

1. Spirit tells me that

Ego as a distorted work of art – a personal collection of coping skills?

The good news is that we can learn to adapt to new situations in original ways if we’re aware of having developed a less than ideal pattern of response in the past.

We can kick bad habits.

Our personality doesn’t change simply because we develop new ways of doing things, or new ways of looking at the world we live in.

Our personality has been with us from birth.

It might just have been smothered under learned ways of living.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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2. Spirit tells me that

Have we infected the Moon with human thoughts and emotions?

Are emotions and thoughts human?

Our pets can read our thoughts and emotions, and respond to them.

Are animals more developed in this respect than humans are?

Or have we simply dumbed down?

Do thoughts and emotions exist around and within us, in an interconnected world of their own?

Do we each live in an interconnected world of our own?

We’re separate from each other, and yet we’re interconnected in a non-physical way.’

Some of us seem to be more interconnected than are some others.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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3. Spirit tells me that

It’s time to wake up.

We need to dare to face the awareness of reality.

Is reality different things to different people?

If we’ve each been living in our own little world of illusion, then the answer must be yes.

And yet, how to wake up?

Would we be waking up to another world of illusion?

An old song tells it well.

“Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, we’d live and laugh forever and a day.

We’d live the life we’d choose.

We’d fight and never lose. …”

“While another song goes, “Meanwhile life outside goes on all around you.”

Bob Dylan gave us that thought.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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4. Spirit tells me that

Ego as an apprentice to Self – a master of the art, skill, or teaching who the ego is.

Ego is studying and serving under the direction of Self – a master of whatever art, skill, or teaching that she/he shares with Ego.

It’s not a Master/slave relationship, for each chooses the other, more or less.

Master is an honorarium.

We don’t call our teachers by their first name.

And we don’t usually call our parents by their first name.

Mom and Dad are as teacher and master in that they express respect.

In time we, as ego, will also reach, perhaps, a level of skill or position where some others will call us Mom, Dad, teacher, boss, or Master.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 3

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5. Spirit tells me that

Artificial Intelligence and humanity – is there a powerful connection?

And a clue?

Is humanity itself as a form of artificial intelligence that is slowly awakening to its possibly infinite potential to develop expanded awareness and understanding of the so-called mysteries of Life?

Could the gift of awareness (or invention) of artificial intelligence itself be as a clue to our own, as yet, underdeveloped mind?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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6. Spirit tells me that

When the worker is ready, the boss will appear.

When the worker is really ready …

Perhaps the time has come to bring so-called high spiritual thoughts down into the world of lived physical reality.

“When the student is ready” timeless wisdom teaches us, “the teacher will appear.”

“When the student is really ready, the teacher will disappear.”

“We’ll no longer need a teacher (or at least not that particular teacher), for we will have learned all that we can from her/him.

It will be time to move on, and perhaps become our own teacher.

Some workers rise up from the ranks of their fellow workers, to become leaders or directors of other workers, or of former fellow workers.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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7. Spirit tells me that

Our comfort zone is a judge who may have sold out to social conditioning.

It happens.

I once so believed in my comfort zone to guide me.

I trusted its judgements.

I lived my life by its guidance.

And then, lived experience kept pushing different perspectives.

What to believe?

Could our personal comfort zone have sold out to social conditioning?

And yet, it isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

I had to learn to question where it got its information, and who or what benefitted by me believing whatever.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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8. Spirit tells me that

“Women count, and add up, too.”

A protest sign from 50 years ago.

I was still in my 30s and still full of righteous indignation at the second-class treatment of women by our political leaders.

We marched on Victoria.

Well, actually, we had to take a ferry.

Whatever.

I had never created anything like it in my life.

Where did the inspiration come from?

And yet, my work of art (We were instructed to create our personal protest sign) was scorned, even by my fellow protestors, whom I hoped to impress with my depth.

They saw simplicity.

Has anything in the world changed?

We see what we see.

What more can be said?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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9. Spirit tells me that

If we all live in a personal world of human experience, then perhaps we all dream …

Is there possibly a master dream wherein all individual dreams interconnect?

Is there a master plan of human experience that we each and all fit into?

Has the script been written a very long time ago, and just updated as human evolution develops?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 5

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10. Spirit tells me that

If we’ve tasted one small piece of pie, then we’ve tasted pie.

As with pie, so with …

Where could we go with such a thought to meditate on?

Where could we not go?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 6

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11. Spirit tells me that

Ego as a personality’s adaptation to society.

It develops from birth until death.

How well do we adapt to our society?

We do the best we can without losing or distorting our individual personality along the way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 5

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12. Spirit tells me that

Here and now is where and when in a moving world?

Who knows how and why?

Life is moving into the future but everything else is moving into the past.

Life experience is a two-way street, with no U-turns allowed.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 12

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13. Spirit tells me that

Social-conditioning is self-conditioning, but we feel more comfortable giving credit.

We learned to sleep through the night without being fed, or a diaper change.

Actually, we learned that it was pointless to try to get service.

Office hours?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 11

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14. Spirit tells me that

Is loss of faith a price we must pay to follow rational philosophy?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 8

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15. Spirit tells me that

Segments of an orange and personal or national boundaries – held together and …

We’re each and all held together, and yet we’re each an all as individuals.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 8

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16. Spirit tells me that

Humanity is a unique expression of energy within a unique expression of form.

Are energy and form as the original Yang and Yin?

Each is within the other and neither exists without the other.

We’re each unique, more or less.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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17. Spirit tells me that

Sharing our personal pain gets bad press.

“Oh do stop complaining.”

And yet …

Sharing our personal pain may be seen as having survival value, if not for ourself, then possibly for some others.

Babies cry to let caregivers know they have real needs.

And yet, when adults cry, they’re often called a cry baby.

Is the urge to complain as a built-in safety device that can protect some others from experiencing our painful situation?

Humanity has survived for tens of thousands of years.

We’ve learned to avoid the fate of some others because we learned from their mistakes, more or less.

People think and feel the way they think and feel for reasons that even they may never fully understand.

And, whatever we think, we may not always have thought.

We live and experience new situations and/or old situations in a new way.

some of us are exposed to a greater number of perspectives than are some others, for whatever reason.

There’s always a reason why we respond to whatever the way we do.

We are individuals in so many ways, and yet we’re all as one in one basic way.

We’re human, and being human, we can open our mind, or close it, to new ways of seeing the world we live in.

No blame.

We develop as we do, in our own way and in our own time.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 17

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18. Spirit tells me that

Some call it religion.

Some call it spsirituality.

Whatever.

We each live our unique …

We each live a very personal and unique grass-roots philosophy of life, without perhaps even thinking that it is a philosophy of life.

After all, philosophy sounds rather academic, when in reality we each live a very personal life that is more directed by physical and emotional needs than by any so-called higher levels of mind.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 17.

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19. Spirit tells me that

Change is the only constant, some say, and yet we each and all possess an ever …

We each and all possess an ever-expanding capacity to adapt to and influence the ever-changing realities of our personally lived life experiences.

Actually, we can’t not influence our world, no matter how we choose to respond to it.

We each make a difference, one way or another.

What an awesome opportunity, or responsibility, eh?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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20. Spirit tells me that

The reality is that we each do have power, but not absolute power, which is probably just as well, considering how we might use it.

Releasing the illusion of complete control is not surrender.

It’s waking up to reality.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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21. Spirit tells me that

When will so-called spirituality face the slippery slope of passion, or is it one?

Is spiritual and religious, and possibly even political extremism no more than a substitute for a satisfying physical relationship?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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22. Spirit tells me that

To make sense of something has come to imply a rational perspective, ignoring …

How can making sense of anything without input from our physical senses make any sense at all?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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23. Spirit tells me that

The more we change, the more we stay the same.

New ways of doing whatever …

Monkey see, monkey do.

And yet, a monkey is still a monkey.

What does that mean, re humanity?

I was always such aa tag-along, except when I needed to be an individual.

Has humanity learned to tag along behind a few individuals who are really changing the way we do whatever?

The most of us seem to simply adapt to the changes that a small group of individuals have made by thinking of more efficient ways of doing whatever seems to be in need to be done.

Most of us don’t get our hands into the wash water any more when we do our laundry.

We drop our clothes into a machine, add detergent, close the lid, and push a button.

Who could have believed that washing and drying clothes could be that easy, fifty years ago?

Gone are the days for most of us, when hanging clothes out on a line to dry was normal.

Someone, or some few someones, invented an easier way to get things done. and the rest of us were only too willing to adapt.

“Monkey see, monkey do” gets bad press, and yet, there are times when we benefit by following what some others have learned to do.

Do a few lead the pack in all ways of life?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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24. Spirit tells me that

Plato seemed to know that we are what we are and we’re not what we’re not.

And yet …

Why didn’t he ask us to know how we came to be what we now are, or what we intend to become, if we can?

Awareness says it all.

The curse, or blessing, of humanity is expanding awareness.

Other species don’t seem to expand their way they see the world they live in and are part of.

It’s us humans who seemed to have been designed to be dissatisfied with our lot.

And how to make us dissatisfied?

Provide a vision of a better way, a more expanded outlook on the world we live in and are part of.

Is human awareness infinitely expandable?

And, how to live a simple life after we’ve been given an expanded perspective of it being more simple than it might be with a little effort, and then more and more.

It can get wearying.

Mystery – the concept of mystery is a luring one.

We humans seem by nature to deny the reality (if it is) of mystery.

It’s just something that we don’t know, yet.

And yet, we might know if we …

What does it take to see through mystery, or what seems to be mystery?

We’ve gone a long way, and yet, as an old song tells it, “But Baby, you’ve still got a long way to go.”

In the final analysis, where are we?

It’s almost enough to make us join the illusion group of “Now is all there is.”

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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25. Spirit tells me that

Not one man in ten – and that’s a good thing.

A contented seed wouldn’t grow.

Discontentment with the status-quo is what keeps the world turning.

I wonder if that’s another of those Universal Laws we hear about?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 20

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26. Spirit tells me that

There is no Ego separate from Self.

Each is a variable of the other.

We are one.

And, as with individual humans, so with collective humanity.

So, if this is true, then it must also be true about individual nations and the collection of nations that live on our dear little Planet Earth.

Egos t the top may have much more in common with Egos at the bottom than anyone cares to accept as true.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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27. Spirit tells me that

1, 2, 3. Physical, emotional, and thinking. From the one comes two, and from the two comes …

Lao Tzu described the process of human development away back then, and away over there.

“From the One comes the Two, and from the Two comes the Three, and from the Three come the ten thousand things.”

Emotions are rooted in physical existence, while thoughts …

Do emotions attract thoughts?

Does how we feel determine what we think?

If wo, then how to inspire a higher level of thought than survival and thrival?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 25

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28. Spirit tells me that

“I’m dead” he sighed, and then he pushed the Start button to begin another game.

Caring for young children is, or can be, an incredible learning experience, not to mention a total pleasure.

And yet, I was shocked at how unemotional and impersonal young video players can relate to deadly actions in the game.

Is human life as a video game that we shrug off?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 23

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29. Spirit tells me that

If all lived experience is as A Course in Self Awareness, then what have we learned?

“A Course in Miracles” was channeled from a higher level of intelligence for the benefit of a certain group of people, as is any and all teachings of timeless wisdom.

We each seem to need lessons that make sense to us, where we now are, on our journey through physically lived experience.

What helps some others may make no sense to us, at all.

No blame.

We each are where we are for whatever reasons.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 23

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30. Spirit tells me that

The reality is that we each do have power, but not absolute power, which is probably just as well, considering how we might use it.

Releasing the illusion of complete control is not surrender.

It’s waking up to reality.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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31. Spirit tells me that

How well are we doing?

If our lived experience is as an initiation …?

If our lived experience over a lifetime is as an initiation into a higher and more expanded level of awareness, then how are we each doing?

And, how can we know how well we’re coping with whatever comes at us?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 30

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32. Spirit tells me that

If we each have a unique but expandable capacity to develop a unique but expandable potential to do …?

To do what?

Whatever.

But, we have no capacity to be anyone but whom we are.

What we become can change, but who we are can’t, at least not during this lifetime.

We are whom we are, for better or worse.

Is that true?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 30

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33. Spirit tells me that

Without lived experience, how can we know?

We’re each developing quality …

“If I was in her (or his) position, I would not have responded to … the way she (or he) did.

And yet, if we’ve never been in her (or his) position, it’s just talk.

“Know thyself” the philosopher told us.

And yet, we can’t know ourself unless we reflect on the why of what of what we’ve done with our life.

And, since we’re all human, some others may respond as we do, and some might not.

We can compare outcomes to help us choose future options.

Live and learn, though some may take more living for less learning.

No blame.

We each progress in our own way and in our own time.

Quality of soul doesn’t come without a price tag attached.

The price?

Lived experience.

There may be no other way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 29

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34. Spirit tells me that

Some of us are aware of what’s happening, while some others only see what they see.

The world we live in is changing.

Forces of destruction seem to rule all over our dear little Planet Earth.

How will Gaia respond?

Nature can join in and outdo any harm that any of our leaders can imagining.

It’s happened before.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 29

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35. Spirit tells me that

Emotion fills the gap between what is (or seems to be) and what might have been.

And then along comes thought to …

What role does thought play in this scenario?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar28

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36. Spirit tells me that

There is no love without intelligence, or it’s a very unwise love.

At their highest …

Love is all there is, and so it is with intelligence.

They go together like a horse and carriage.

Whatever did happen to horses and carriages?

Will love and intelligence also go the way of the Dodo bird – into extinction?

Or has it already happened in our so-called modern society?

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 27

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37. Spirit tells me that

There is no ego separate from self.

Each is a variable of the other.

We are one.

And, as with individual humans, so with collective humanity.

So, if this is true, then it must also be true about individual nations and the collection of nations that live on our dear little Planet Earth.

Egos at the top may have much more in common with Egos at the bottom than anyone may care to accept as true.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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38. Spirit tells me that

Some say that all there is is love and explain evil as …

If evil can be explained as the absence of love, then why can’t love be explained as the absence of evil?

As within – so without, and if there is a higher whatever then there must necessarily be a lower whatever.

Perhaps it’s time to return to the acceptance of the concept of angels and devils?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 3

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39. Spirit tells me that

Why did “All roads lead to Rome.”?

Easy.

Romans built the roads.

What choices do we really have in life?

It’s like “Pick any color you like as long as it’s red or blue.”

Has our thinking been chosen for us?

Education?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 3

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40. Spirit tells me that

Formless doesn’t necessarily mean without form – an ocean wave?

More or less form.

Thoughts are considered (by some) to be forms, while emotions are as a type of moving energy.

And yet, individual emotions must necessarily have some form or we wouldn’t be able to identify one from another.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 2

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41. Spirit tells me that

Freedom to choose is an illusion.

Our emotions pull us one way or another.

Perhaps the only way we can get to choosing is to become aware of our emotions, and then asking them why they want to go one way more than another.

Talking to ourself may be the timeless wisdom way to really know why we do what we do.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 1

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42. Spirit tells me that

Thoughts and emotions can never be totally separated from each other because they …

They each rise up from the same source, Life.

The material world is alive.

Our physical body is alive, while it is, and the physical/material world is expressed on The Tree of Life as the foundation of life.

From the foundation, Feeling rises up and then divides itself (from the one comes the two) into Emotion and Thought, which go their separate ways, for a time, as they rise, thought to the left and emotion to the right, until they reach the limit of their possibility to move away from each other.

And then they each turn inward as they continue to rise, until they meet and merge again at a higher level of togetherness.

Do our personal (and collective) thoughts and emotions play this same game, or do they get trapped in the illusion of separateness?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 31

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43. Spirit tells me that

To be brave is one thing – to be foolish is something else.

Listen to your inner guidance when it makes sense to do so.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 6

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44. Spirit tells me that

We may be the who we always were, but we’re the what that we have become.

Life is an incredible learning experience that keeps on keeping on, as long as it does.

How can we know what we might yet become?

And why?

And how?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 7

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45. Spirit tells me that

I’m a spirit being, learning to live as a human.

Being spirit/energy is no big deal.

We’re all spirit/energy with no effort required to be what we are.

But, being human?

Hey! That takes effort, and there are so many different ways we can practice being human.

It’s a creative work of art.

What kind of human are we?

What kind of human do we care to become?

How much effort will it take?

Is there any reward other than selfj-satisfaction?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Post – Apr 5

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46. Spirit tells me that

Talking to myself, the wall, or Spirit – which suggests a higher authority figure?

I can talk to myself or Spirit with my eyes closed, but the wall seems to require a different response.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 4

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47. Spirit tells me that

Be your own best friend.

Plato and Shakespeare said it in their own words.

“Know thyself.”

Plato probably referred to an intellectual perspective, while William spoke from the heart.

“This above all, to your own self be true.”

We need head and heart in this physical world, to know ourself and to care about ourself.

Perhaps, if we can’t care for ourself, then we might not be able to care for anyone else.

It all begins closer to home.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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48. Spirit tells me that

“Praise the Lord. I’ve seen the light.”

Does anyone remember?

The light of understanding.

Understanding, awareness, enlightenment, knowing – do they each and all mean the same thing?

When we’ve experienced something, if we have, then we know.

It’s not like anything we might read about, or hear about.

Also, it can related to simple physical activities, such as playing in the snow.

Not everyone has touched snow, made a snowman, had a snowball fight, built a snow fort, created an angel by lying on our back in the snow and moving our arms to create wings. Any physical experience that some others may have enjoyed, or not have enjoyed, is a personal experience, a knowing.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 10

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49. Spirit tells me that

Mysticism is as mist.

We see, but not too clearly.

Are we all mystics, more or less?

“I see” said the blind man.

But, of course, he doesn’t see at all, but he understands, more or less.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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50. Spirit tells me that

Are we the way we’ve always been?

She was a lady, and I was not.

There I was, sitting in a local cafe, by the window, sipping a latte, close to my walker loaded with a week’s supply of groceries, and enjoying the scenery.

I always was a people watcher.

I felt comfortable with myself until she sat at a table near mine.

she couldn’t have been much more than ten years or so younger than me, and yet she carried herself and dressed with a comfortable sense of elegant simplicity – the classic kind.

No excess, and yet – I could only envy her.

The old question that always seemed to linger around me again pushed my buttons.

Why couldn’t I be like her, when I had no idea of what she was like, except for her outer appearance.

If “What you see is what you get” then what she had was something that I always seemed to need, and yet it just wouldn’t happen.

Would I have felt comfortable with myself if I was aware of presenting myself in such a state of gentle self-approval?

I don’t know.

It might be a satisfying place to be.

And then, would self-satisfaction be a dead-end game?

I seem to need space to move forward in.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Apr 9

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51. Spirit tells me that

Our leaders are not perfect, and yet, neither are we.

Who said it?

“He who is without …”?

How do we develop the concept of right and wrong?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 15

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52. Spirit tells me that

Consciousness expresses itself in thoughts, emotions, and forms.

There is no other way?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 15

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53. Spirit tells me that

Co-creating reality is an ongoing process that we each and all contribute to, one way or another.

Everything we do makes a difference.

We co-create our world by being part of it.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 12

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54. Spirit tells me that

If spirit is conscious energy then there is no consciousness without spirit, more or less.

The concept of spirituality can get a lot of spooky press.

And yet, we’re each and all energy beings – and most of us are conscious of being.

We’re not just energy beings, we’re conscious energy beings, and so we’re each and all spiritual beings, living a human life, in a human form.

Why is that considered mystical?

Simple.

Mystical refers to mystery, and there’s so much mystery about life, whether in general or specific.

Our own individual life may always be a mystery to us.

Why are we the way we are?

Could we have possibly have been any different?

If not, then we might as well relax and accept ourself the way we are.

That doesn’t mean that we can’t improve or change what or how we are, if we care to.

We may simply need to begin to feel comfortable with how we are now, at least for now.

Energy and consciousness may each refer to potentiality of awareness.

We each have potential to become more and more aware of the world we live in and are part of.

We activate and expand that potential by consciously choosing to do so.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Poste – Apr 12

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55. Spirit tells me that

Can we feel stress without being aware of the tension that’s causing it?

Actually, tension doesn’t cause mental stress.

It’s our resistance to deal with the tension that causes stress.

But, the question remains.

Can we feel the stress without awareness of its cause?

Is that when psychotherapy steps into the picture?

Self therapy, or professional therapy, may help us to understand why we feel dissatisfied with what’s happening in our life.

Dissatisfaction causes mental stress.

It can be reduced and possibly even eliminated, at least for a time.

And yet, it’s never usually very far away.

Something will push our buttons, and we feel stress.

Awareness makes a difference, even when if it might not be able to totally release whatever tension.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 13

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56. Spirit tells me that

Everything we do makes a difference.

We cocreate our world by being part of it.

Cocreating reality is an ongoing process that we each and all contribute to, one way or another.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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57. Spirit tells me that

Talking to myself, the wall, or Spirit – which suggests a higher authority figure?

I can talk to myself or Spirit with my eyes closed, but the wall seems to require a different approach.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 4

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58. Spirit tells me that

Whatever it takes and no more, and yet, no less either.

Lessons of life are learned.

Do we each learn the lessons that our more or less unique life experiences teach us in our own way and in our own time?

Some of us are, or seem to be, slower learners than are some others.

We may not all have started this lifetime on an equal footing.

Some seem to begin where some might hope to end.

Talk of equality denies the evidence.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 20

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59. Spirit tells me that

Love is an emotion.

Compassion is a feeling.

Emotions are variable.

Unconditional?

Is it possible for love to be unconditional?

I love you unconditionally because …

Can we measure so-called unconditional love?

We may easier measure compassion.

We may feel more compassion for some situations than for some others because we’ve experienced some, but not all.

And, we can’t feel compassion for something that we have not experienced.

Or can we?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 20

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60. Spirit tells me that

Instinct and intuition evolve and then dissolve into each other at ever higher levels ….

At ever higher levels of human development of awareness, what was one intuition becomes an instinctive awareness.

The Tree of Life tells it well.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 19

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61. Spirit tells me that

Feeling as depth analysis

Hearing and seeing provide a surface awareness.

Future psychoanalysis and future studies of psychology may give more value to feeling than they now seem to do.

Feeling is a blend of thought and emotion, from which each arise separately, if they do.

Perhaps most everyone has witnessed a sense of disbelief of what some others have said, now and then, and yet were aware that the other may have had no intention of deceiving them.

We can share what we believe is true, whether or not it really is true.

And then, at times, we can pretend that something is so when we know, or strongly suspect, that it isn’t so.

We have our reasons for defending what we have been taught to believe is true.

Who wants to be a social outcast?

Let’s be polite and get along.

Is seeing beyond the surface of what we hear and/or see as a psychic gift?

Or is it a natural human faculty that has been devalued by those in control of our social conditioning?

Perhaps my dimming eyesight and reduced hearing have been intentional – as a way to dare me to feel beyond what I hear and see.

I can see more clearly now, when I can hardly see at all.

Is that what it took?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 19

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62. Spirit tells me that

We glance through the display cases and the open doors of shops along the street and in within a mall, as we stroll along, waiting to feel the urge to enter in.

Do certain moods tempt us more than do some others?

Are we addicted to some, or have just developed a habit of letting some moods move us more than some others?

Moods and attitudes , and other states of mind – as cafes or shops at the Mall?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 22

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63. Spirit tells me that

What you see is never all you get, unless you’ve seen it all before, and even then …

A box is a box, and yet, what’s in the box?

Some of us recycle boxes that are clearly labeled as containing something other than what we’ve put into it.

Is our memory as a box that we keep storing newly, and recycled, experiences within?

Or, does memory also have a life of its own, and rearranges what we drop into it, in an order of its own choosing?

Some of us remember more pleasant past experiences easier than some remember not-so-pleasant past experiences.

Some remember experiences from last year easier than those from last week.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 22

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64. Spirit tells me that

A dependent personality disorder – is it a disorder if we’re each dependent on …?

We’re each dependent on outside sources for our very existence, and yet, we may be equally dependent upon our inner resources to make the best use of any outer resources that we may have access to.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts Apr 22

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65. Spirit tells me that

Our ego will survive when our false self has dissolved into dust and memories.

We each had our beginning with a drive to survive.

Some call it Ego, the original personality.

Social conditioning and learned responses to life experiences has smothered nature as much as it can, and created a false self that few of us feel comfortable with.

And yet, perhaps it was necessary for us to adapt to the world we live in.

The good news is that in quiet meditation we can learn to reconnect to our real being, as separate from the roles that we have been taught to play, and become.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 25

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66. Spirit tells me that

Not everyone in the audience is biased – the stage of life is not a race track or …

Or stadium.

Some may only have come to watch the show out of curiosity.

Cheerleaders for different interest groups will be doing what they can to inspire the audience to root for this one or that one, or this side or that side.

Is it possible to be an unbiased spectator in today’s world?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 24

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67. Spirit tells me that

It’s easy to say “I love me,” but “I like me” requires a sense of self respect.

Can we develop a gentle dignity, or does it develop itself, if it does?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 24

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68. Spirit tells me that

Thoughts and emotions may come together as feelings.

We feel emotion, and yet there can be no emotion separate from any thought.

And it also goes the other way.

If it feels right, it is right, if only while it is.

The simple math of awareness, and the miracles that it can create.

Thoughts create emotions and emotions create thoughts.

Neither may intend to create the other.

They just do – a law of Life?

Happy or kind thoughts create happy or kind emotions.

Sad or angry emotions create sad or angry thoughts.

And then what happens?

The spiral affect takes place – upward or downward movement of thoughts and emotions.

That’s when awareness can step into the picture and say “STOP.”

I mean, it just isn’t mentally healthy to allow one’s thoughts and emotions to get too far out of control.

So, a simple reminder.

“Be aware” posted on the frig door.

Actually, the frig door may be to post such a notice.

We need to be aware of what we eat.

It’s the law – as within – so without, or, as we take in, so we spread out?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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69. Spirit tells me that

A comes before B if only in the alphabet.

Breakfast comes before lunch, unless …

Breakfast comes before lunch unless we bring them together with brunch.

The beginning of a story comes before the end, even if we start it with the ending.

Where am I going with this train of thought?

Is it a train?

Or conveyor belt?

Is everything we might possibly feel, think, say, or do as necessarily only one step in a sequential order of our feeling, thinking, saying, or doing?

I’ve allowed myself to become disorganized re personal duties to myself.

How to set it all into some form of sequential order?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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70. Spirit tells me that

Love is as the horizon – it doesn’t really exist, and yet it’s an ideal emotion.

Not everyone sees the same horizon.

Some see further than do some others.

When we see a boat near the horizon, the people on that boat also see a horizon, beyond what we see.

So it is with love.

We can feel it, and yet so can everyone else, more or less.

How much more?

How much less?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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71. Spirit tells me that

I wasn’t always an old woman.

It’s taken many years of practice to get here.

Why haven’t I aged gracefully?

I seem to have fought against the inevitable, all along the way.

It must have made sense at some time.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 26

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72. Spirit tells me that

We the living are ancestors in training.

Will we inspire the next generations?

Or, …?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 3

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73. Spirit tells me that

It may never be an either/or situation, but rather this, that, or some other.

Either/or sounds so confrontational.

There may be many more options than two in any given situation.

Flexibility and willingness to adapt one’s position may be prime requirements of peaceful co-existence.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – April 30

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74. Spirit tells me that

Every path that ever was, is, or yet might be, is necessarily a two-way street.

We might each and all be walking a unique (more or less) path through life experiences.

So, how can it be a two-way street?

We look back to see where we’ve come from, or we can look ahead to see where we’re going.

Where does instinct and intuition fit into this picture?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 8

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75. Spirit tells me that

Our conscious mind as the surface of an ocean, the cover of a book, or short-term memory.

The so-called unconscious mind is where it’s at.

Think of short-term and long-term memory, or the front or back of a deep closet.

The front of a book or closet is window dressing.

Our true character is safely stored deep within.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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76. Spirit tells me that

Some things are meant to be, and some things are not.

But everything else is possible.

What is meant to be and what is not meant to be may be as limits with ten thousand variables of possibility between them.

With a little bit of luck, intelligence, and a powerful intention, who knows what humanity might yet become?

Who knows what each of us might yet become?

But, we’ve got to have a dream.

Or, as a song tells it “Get a new plan, Stan.”

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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77. Spirit tells me that

Life is a learning eperience.

Pleasure and pain both win – more or less.

Can all of our lived experiences be measured as producing more pleasure than pain, or more pain than pleasure?

Can it ever be an either/or?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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78. Spirit tells me that

It comes with the territory.

We have an emotional relationship with everyone and everything in our life.

It’s only a matter of how intense, relaxed, or distant it is.

And what degree of positive or negative relationship it is.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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79. Spirit tells me that

Change happens.

I’ve always asked Why?

But not How?

A sequential order of events.

I left the bank without my copy of transaction slips, and without the bill I had paid.

How did I manage to be so careless?

It’s never happened before.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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80. Spirit tells me that

Our so-called conscious mind allows us,, if we will to, focus on here and now, or this and that, while our so-called unconscious mind claims a more expanded view.

A microscope vs a telescope?

A spotlight vs a flood light?

It throws much more light on the problem, if it is one.

Perhaps we can only see what we see, until we can see more.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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81. Spirit tells me that

Whoever blames herself?

Social conditioning is necessarily self-conditioning.

We learn to do what we’re told to do, if we do, because it serves us well, or at least more well than to disobey.

And then we project the blame onto those whom we chose to direct our thinking.

They had reasons of their own.

And so did we.

Survival?

Or, was it that we really wanted to please?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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82. Spirit tells me that

It may never be an either/or situation, but rather, this, that, or some other.

Either/or sounds so confrontational.

Note: there is more on my Facebook post

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 30

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83. Spirit tells me that

Until we learn to navigate our own ship on the Sea of Life Experience, we’ll be as crew.

Timeless wisdom teaches 7us that we either lead ourselves or someone else must, and will.

And, it’s usually not a simple case of either/or, but of how much we are able and willing to be self-directed, and what price we’re willing to pay for sailing our own ship.

Learning to navigate through whatever life experiences face us isn’t usually a piece of cake.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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84. Spirit tells me that

Feelings come before thoughts, if only in point of time.

Aristotle was so wrong.

I feel, therefore I am.

We feel thoughts and emotions, if we do.

And, if we don’t, then we’re as good as dead.

Feeling connects our physical body to the worlds of emotions and thoughts.

Consciousness gets high press for being the foundation of our world, and yet, unless we feel conscious …

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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85. Spirit tells me that

Physically, emotionally, or mentally – where wherever we are, it’s here and now.

Emotions connect our physical body to our mental world.

There is no other way.

And yet, gentle emotions connect us to more gentle thoughts than harsh emotions do.

What if we read the news to learn what emotions were being intentionally triggered within us?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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86. Spirit tells me that

Some will say we do too little, some will say too much.

We do what we can, if we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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87. Spirit tells me that

Even knowing that I may be wrong – I accept that you are the way you seem to be.

How can we ever really know where someone else is?

We can only see from where we are, at any given time.

The back end of a house can’t be seen from the front.

Our vision is necessarily limited.

A very angry person may see a less angry person as being more positive, and yet, to an even more positive person, that more positive person may seem to be negative.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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88. Spirit tells me that

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Meditations for Here and Now – Book Eight

1. Spirit tells me that

A battlefield may always exist between concrete knowledge and active intelligence.

What we know, or believe we know, is one thing.

What we might yet know, or believe we know, is, or might be, something else

Do we struggle to hold on to what we think is so, or do we relax and open our mind to what might be so?

Some call this battlefield Ray Four – a struggle for harmony.

A struggle for harmony suggests that it doesn’t have to be an either/or situation.

What we now believe is true may always be true in some situations.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 2

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2. Spirit tells me that

Where we focus our attention makes a difference.

Self-interest has power of its own.

Self-interest has a power of its own, and yet to focus our attention on it can, and at times does, give it more.

More to self-interest is less to the common good, on a sliding scale.

Or, is it possible for each to benefit equally?

After all, we’re each part of the community that we are a part of.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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3. Spirit tells me that

Awareness doesn’t come in variables of strength and/or flexibility.

20-20 vision, or …?

How clearly aware are we of …?

for me, it’s more like playing the old game of Snakes and Ladders.

I climb up and up, and … I hit a slippery slope, and I’m back where I began, more or less.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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4. Spirit tells me that

The difference between prayer and meditation – communication with a higher …

If we seek answers from a higher level of awareness, then we pray, if we do.

If we seek answers from a higher level of our own awareness, then we meditate, if we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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5. Spirit tells me that

Something old, something new – each so-called new year developed out of the past.

“There’s nothing new under the sun.”

Who said that?

Even our individual way of life developed out of an earlier way of life.

Why did it develop the way it did?

Everything seems to change, but not in the same way.

Why?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 1

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6. Spirit tells me that

What’s it all about, and why?

We’ve each been given a clue, or two, or three, or four, or more.

Philosophers and scientists, and some others, share their clues with those of similar mind, and together they develop ever-greater insights into Life.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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7. Spirit tells me that

I always wanted my heartW and head to be in the same place, but one would have to …

One would have to move up, or the other down, and each seemed to wait for the other to make the first move.

Intuition and reason in place of heart and head?

I would suspect that it’s instinct and intuition that learn to harmonize with each other, as with Yesod and Da’ath on The Tree of Life.

It’s Yesod (feeling) in the next Higher World, that resonates with Da’ath (knowing) in the next Lower World).

They interact and connect as Kundalini rises.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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8. Spirit tells me that

All spiritual teachers are guided by the Universal Law of Triage.

All students, and would-be students by their very unique nature, fall, or slip, into one of only three groups: 1. Those who will develop a higher state of awareness with or without any assistance from a physical teacher.

They are well on their way, with a personal inner guidance system to help them.

2. Those who are beyond hope/

They are trapped in a world of illusion, for now, and

3. Those who, with support and encouragement, can develop a higher level of personal awareness of their oneness with all.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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9. Spirit tells me that

Awareness as salt, sugar, flour, oil, etc.

It comes more or less refined.

My vision isn’t 20-20 any more, if it ever was, and yet, I can now see some things, and some people, in a way that I never could, before.

I’m more aware?

Or, is my awareness more refined, with experience and intent?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

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10. Spirit tells me that

The Shadow side of the Middle Way – as we move toward the light, or the dark, it also moves toward us.

There is no absolute and clearly defined Middle Way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 9

11. Spirit tells me that

In the beginning of our physical life, we’re soft, weak, and flexible of physical body and mind.

At the end of our physical life, we’re soft, weak, and flexible of physical body, but not usually of mind.

Our thinking has become rigid, like our bones.

Social conditioning can’t change the color of our skin, but it can change how and what we think, if we let it.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 8

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12. Spirit tells me that

Ego therapy is needed so very much more than Self-therapy ever was, is, or ever will be.

Why have psychotherapists got it so wrong?

Unless, instead of self, they mean individual.

What I call Ego – our own nature and the confusion around it.

We have been born with a programmed role to play, and yet we have each been born into a particular society that programs us, as well as it can, to fit into and contribute to that particular society.

And then there is the personality that is the result of an ongoing attempt to harmonize differences between predisposition and learned responses to lived experiences and situations, not to mention all the people with similar (or different) mixed-up personalities.

How to harmonize them all, collectively and individually?

I studies psychology and other topics, in a formal setting when I attended University for twelve years or so, in mid-life.

What drove me back to the so-called Halls of Wisdom?

It was the memory of caring for newborn babies, several years earlier.

They each had a personality of their own, and individual ways of interacting with the world around them.

I was well aware of the concepts of Nature and Nurture, but there was something else going on, and I needed to understand what that something else was.

Alas, academia is structured in basic ways of looking at and understanding the world we live in.

It’s either this or it’s that.

We don’t get into spooky thoughts of unseen forces directing our traffic.

If you can’t put it on the table and look at it, it doesn’t exist, at least according to academia.

A future psychology?

Perhaps the day will come when even talk of Spirituality, or so-called spirituality, is history, and we all come to use more realistic terms such as Higher Mind.

We’re all aware that we’re becoming more and more aware of the world we live in, and of the one who is living in it, and seems to be trapped within a physical form, at least for now.

I always admired Freud.

He wanted to see clearly what some others dared not question.

Higher Mind may someday replace the concept of Spirituality.

Why?

Because, Higher Mind suggests clearly defined (fore or less) stages of mental development.

It takes all kinds to make a world, and as far as being a realized being, or a so-called realized being, we can only be the unique being that we each are, so no two so-called realized beings will necessarily be a mirror-image of the other.

We’ve each developed, if we have, in our own way and through unique life experiences, or even through the same or similar experiences, our individual pattern(s) of response was/were developed over time and personal experience.

I may have misled you re Ego.

Ego is a thing, even if a non-physical thing.

Ideas and emotions are things.

We can’t put everything on the table, to inspect.

Try putting your emotions for whomever on the table, unless it’s a non-physical, mental table, where they can work out their differences.

“There’s something there that wasn’t there before.”

We come into the physical world to experience and learn from it, and to contribute to it, if we can and care to, to the future development of it and all others.

This energy being that we are is different when we leave than when we arrived.

The difference is Ego.

We could call it by any other name.

Freud and Jung (who studied with Freud, for a time) both understood that the human spirit has an infinite potential to develop, but can only do so through personal experience.

We leave our physical body behind us, but what we learned from the experience of physical life has made a difference in our state of awareness.

Ego.

Three plus two equals five.

If we were at level three when we arrived, and left at level five, then the increase in our awareness (20 is our Ego, which is absorbed into our Self.

We’re more than we were before.

Next time we’ll develop another Ego, and it, too, will dissolve within our developing awareness.

So, perhaps we can put it all on a table and look at it.

A grade five child has developed from a grade three chld.

Call the difference what you will to.

Ego is as good a name as any other.

It’s easy to criticize someone else’s idea, and yet there is a danger when you do that.

We’re claiming that we’re right, and he (or she) is wrong.

The truth may lie somewhere in between.

We each understand what others say in ways of our own, based on our personal understanding of the topic, and our personal interpretation of what the other is saying.

We each may be partly right and partly wrong.

Bob Dylan sang it well (or as well as he did sing it) with “You’re right from your side and I’m right from mine.”

We can learn from each other, if we care to, and we can disagree, again, if we care to, or if it’s in our nature to disagree with anything that doesn’t make complete sense to us.

I’ve always been notorious for doing that.

I’m finally learning, after many years, to re-read, again and again, what has been said, and to try and find common ground.

It’s there, if we care to look for it.

We’re never likely to agree completely with anyone on any topic, but we can come to a consensus, if we care to.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 4

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13. Spirit tells me that

All life is woven from the same limitless potential, and so it is with our stories.

Your life story is woven into my life story, and into everyone else’s.

And so it is with my life story.

We’re not connected to each other,

We’re woven into each other.

It’s the same with communities and nations.

Our leaders are of the same fabric as the leaders of all other nations, more or less.

So, how do differences arise?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 6

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14. Spirit tells me that

Expectations are as prevision of the results of our efforts.

Some are realaistic.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 5

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15. Spirit tells me that

Forgiveness has a place, but not on a level playing field, with equals.

One is up.

I’ve struggled with the concept of forgiveness for many years, as many of my friends are only too well aware.

It must have driven them … and it did drive some of them to express annoyance with me.

“Hive it up.” they just as much said.

They seemed to believe that, without forgiveness, then we had to be hostile toward those we didn’t forgive.

For me, it was a totally different issue.

Up and down, and I seemed to need a level, eye to eye acceptance of each other as equals.

Now I can accept that equality is an illusion, other than the reality that we’re each equally human.

After that, differences develop.

So, where am I now?

I forgive you all for not understanding my immature concept of reality.

Utopia?

Perhaps, someday, but for now we’re all in some ways different from each other, at least some of the time.

Is it something to forgive?

Or just accept?

Or both?

Or more?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 4

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16. Spirit tells me that

War can serve our will to survive.

Need is one thing – will is more powerful.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 15

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17. Spirit tells me that

We each attract thoughts and emotions, both from the physical world and the world of mind.

Some attract more from one than from the other.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 14

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18. Spirit tells me that

Everything that happens has a reason

Everything we do has a cause.

Or is it the other way around?

Does everything that happens have a cause, and everything we do have a reason?

What reason would I have for tripping?

Could it have been an unconscious reason?

It did change my life, at least to some extent.

Is thee a danger of giving the unconscious credit?

Could it be as a slippery slope?

It could excuse me for carelessness.

“My unconscious mind made me do it.”

When I was a child, some would say, “The Devil made me do it.”

Does our unconscious get more credit now than the Devil ever did?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 13

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19. Spirit tells me that

We can’t adapt to everyone and still be what we are.

Yellow and Blue? Green.

Adaptation has its limits.

When to compromise?

When to stand firm?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 13

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20. Spirit tells me that

Do we need to be well grounded in old ways before we can imagine the new?

“If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.”

And yet, even if it still work, something else might work better.

We’re well grounded in confrontation, and yet a more mutually respectful approach might work better.

Commens:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 10

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21. Spirit tells me that

We each are channels, one and all, sharing what has been shared with us, by Life.

Intentionally or otherwise, we can’t not share what we have become.

Our original nature has been covered over or changed by the experiences and our responses to them, as well as to intentional social conditioning.

We’ve also struggled to make sense of lived experience, and this too has helped us become the person we now are.

Many so-called psychotherapists seem to focus on ego-centric issues such as what happened to us in early childhood, and who done what to us.

In the future, perhaps they’ll help us to understand what might have happened in the life of those who helped to make us the way we are, now.

Like us, they also were a product of their environment, more or less.

How much more?

How much less?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 10

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22. Spirit tells me that

Anger never hurt anyone.

It’s angry people who may do harm.

Emotions express feelings.

Feelings are inner experiences.

How we choose to respond to our inner experiences may do grea harm, or great good.

It’s our will to act on our thoughts and emotions that can result in harm or good.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 17

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23. Spirit tells me that

We each were born with a self-developed, more or less, personality.

Self – within.

Social conditioning comes from without.

That sounds simple enough.

So why should self-development be so difficult to understand?

And yet, it’s never an either/or situation, as far as our personality development goes.

We’re each a blend, or mix, of developmental forces.

Blends are smoother than mixes usually are.

Perhaps a healthy personality (Ego?) develops from harmony between inner and outer energies/forces.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 17

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24. Spirit tells me that

Sooner or later, new ways become old ways, and move into the past to make room for …

To make room for even newer ways that the future sends back to us in the here and now.

Change is the only thing that doesn’t change.

We need to learn to adapt, again and again.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 16

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25. Spirit tells me that

Survival is the foundational need of all possible worlds.

In Maslow’s Hierarch of Human Needs, our physical needs are the foundation upon which we build all of our other needs, both as individuals and as collectives.

Survival comes first, and then kundalini rises.

Jung was into being “whole.”

He and Maslow were both close to Freud, at least for a time, and they shared and developed ideas with each other.

“I’d rather be whole than good” Jung said, or words to that effect.

Goodness can be seen as static and rules based.

Wholeness expresses awareness of one’s personal comfort zone, and acceptance of it.

Jung and Maslow, and some others, may have personally experienced what Freud may never have, or, if he did, he rationalized it all.

I do that myself, sometimes, but it doesn’t work for me.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 16

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26. Spirit tells me that

You were right from your side and I was right from mine.

Adaptation can only come from different perspectives moving closer to each other.

How do they do it, if they do?

They find common ground – a middle way.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 20

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27. Spirit tells me that

Not everyone can play Hamlet, or the president, equally as well.

We each have …

We may each be playing a role on the stage of Life, and yet, perhaps, not as well as some others might play it.

Why are we playing whom we are, in this lifetime?

Is it a learning experience?

Or have we something unique to offer a needy world?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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28. Spirit tells me that

Is that what Kundalini is?

An inner awakening to an ever-expanding world?

As we answer the wake-up call of Kundalini, our awareness of Life expands from the physical world to the worlds of feeling, and then to emotion, thought, and then to higher worlds of mind that some call spiritual, while others call scientific, and then beyond even these worlds to the awareness of mystics.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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29. Spirit tells me that

Kundalini rises.

Everybody knows that.

Where did they get that idea?

Wise ones.

So, why have the wise ones, or some of them, taught us for thousands of years that kundalini rises, when we all know that it’s not possible?

The light from within each of us does rise, and yet at the same time expands.

There can be no rising of light (awareness) without at least an equal expansion of it, unless, of course, it’s within a box.

Is social conditioning as such a box, that allows us to develop the light of awareness, but only within strict (more or less) limits?

How much are we allowed to know?

How much are we allowed to grow?

And, for all we know, it may be necessary for the benefit of our community, for us not to know too much.

Plants draw from below, and yet, unless there is sunlight and fresh air, not to mention moisture, from above, the plant has no hope of activating energies from below.

Kundalini may be a two-way street, as pressure gradients are.

There is an ideal harmony between forces from within and forces from without that culminates in the highest possible state of development.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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30. Spirit tells me that

Who doesn’t struggle?

Is struggle the foundational experience of existence?

We struggle to survive, unless everything is handed to us.

Can there be wise struggle, and not-so-wise struggle?

What would determine how wise our struggle is?

Do we choose our struggles, or do they choose us?

Or, does someone else decide it all for us?

And we just go along with it?

For whatever reason(s)?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 19

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31. Spirit tells me that

Is an apple still an apple after we’ve taken a bite?

Or sliced it?

Or mashed it?

Is spirituality still spirituality after we use it as self-therapy?

Is mysticism no longer relevant in a scientific community?

Is it now as a philosophy of life?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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32. Spirit tells me that

Spirituality as self-therapy – dressed up?

A banana is fruit until we add ice cream.

Fruit is nutritious and yet, it might not appeal to you.

However, if I cut a banana lengthwise, put three scoops of ice cream between the two pieces, smother it with whipping cream, and add a cherry on top, it could look like a tasty dessert.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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33. Spirit tells me that

When the here and now was the past, and the present was the future, how many …

How many of us open to what the future can teach us?

We seem to focus more on the past and get stuck in it.

Meditation and imagination are ways and means to open our mind to what the future might offer us if we are willing to cocreate with it.

There is only one past, and yet possibly countless futures.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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34. Spirit tells me that

We each serve our God, our Country, each other, and ourself, more or less.

No options.

There is no option to serve or not to serve.

It’s how knowingly, willingly, and how well we serve, where we get to choose, more or less.

It has to be more or less, until we become aware of how well we’re serving whom or what.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 23

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35. Spirit tells me that

The positive side of greed – it oils the wheels of evolution, and war.

Where would humanity be without greed?

War may be a necessary part of life.

The problem is that we’ve taken it to extremes.

We can blame our leaders all we like, but it isn’t like in the old days when the masses were almost as slaves, and could be pulled into an army by the rulers of their land.

Today, the majority of men in uniform are probably killing because it’s something to do with their life, and get paid for it.

Not much different from a video game, where young kids are killing people, and loving it.

It’s unreal so there’s no guilt about doing harm.

Wild animals kill others of their kind to defend their territory, or to claim the territory of some others.

Humanity, so far, has not risen all that far from the beast.

It’s going to take time and experience before we find a better way to live together.

There is a time and place for each of us to become aware of personal responsibility for awakening to what it is that we are contributing to our society, which is as a part of a greater, more inclusive society.

We will wake up, one by one, sooner or later.

Perhaps there’s no hurry.

How many lifetimes have we been working on the improvement of the quality of humanity?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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36. Spirit tells me that

Common sense is neither thought nor emotion, but a blend but a blend of each at its finest.

Could common sense be as a modern term for timeless wisdom?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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37. Spirit tells me that

We are as children playing video games.

Greed and war are as virtual reality.

We watch the news and hear of all the horrors that are happening in so many places in our world.

Then we meditate and thank the Universe for being as one with all.

Artificial intelligence?

Or artificial emotions?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 22

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38. Spirit tells me that

A word of caution that came too late.

“Once you begin to open your mind, there is no way you can close it.”

“So, why did He bother telling me, after the fact?

My spirit teacher.

Do we each and all have an inner voice that would lure us into deeper understanding?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 29

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39. Spirit tells me that

“You know what you know, and I know what I know.”

My teacher’s gentle scorn.

It’s so easy for us to get caught up with what we know, or think we do, that we’re apt to lose sight of the reality that some others may claim a different knowing.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts

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40. Spirit tells me that

The scientific method has a place of honor in spiritual (or higher mind) studies.

There is no understanding without awareness, and yet we may not always understand what we’re aware of.

What comes before why, but not everyone bothers to ask why.

Scientists do, and so do serious spiritual seekers.

Diversified experiences can benefit us all.

It can teach us humility to become aware that there are possibly many more ways than one to experience the same reality.

The scientific method values consistent results from different fellow scientists performing the same experiments using the same methods.

Spirituality is a different pursuit, and yet it could learn by paying attention to the close attention to detail that is part of the scientific methos.

We’re each following a path of our own into the unknown, as are dedicated scientists, even when they attempt to replicate the results of some others.

They know that they are not the “some others.” but are interested enough in what their fellow scientists have claimed to discover (or to prove false) that they personally test the outcome claimed by those others.

Can we spiritual seekers dare to personally test the outcome(s) claimed by so-called knowers of truth?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Jan 30

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41. Spirit tells me that

We shall overcome.

How well?

How quickly?

If we’re intentionally flawed, …?

So, you might ask – why would we be intentionally flawed?

Some might say, “With one hand tied behind my back I could …”

If we’ve developed awareness, skills, and a unique style over countless lifetimes, then where’s the challenge to improve?

But, if we’re made to forget (or agree to forgetting) just how great we are at whatever … how quickly and how well would we rise to our former greatness, such as it was?

And, while we’re recovering, we might also develop humility and compassion for those who have not yet developed as well as we once did and are now remembering.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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42. Spirit tells me that

Evolution is predestination with an open agenda.

Flexibility makes a difference.

Water flows downhill.

Everybody knows that.

And yet, if the pathway down becomes blocked?

Plan B comes into action.

Build up against the block until it’s washed away or submerged.

Or a path is found around it.

Do we each instinctively have an inner Plan B?

If we dare to listen to it?

What would it be like?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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43. Spirit tells me that

Mutual attraction means that we’re attracted to each other for our own reasons.

It’s a natural, complementary process, not one were two of the same come together.

Unless, of course, it’s like magnetism, where the less is more attracted to the more than the more is to the less.

We can gather together for a mutual cause, which isn’t quite the same as coming together just to be with someone like ourself.

We share something beyond.

We may, or may not, be equally attracted to each other, and we may be attracted to something about the other, while the other is attracted to us for some other reason.

Birds of a feather flock together – some to lead and some to follow, and some for safety, and some simply enjoy the company of their own kind.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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44. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance as a slippery slope?

Recognition is one thing but acceptance is as okay?

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change …”

Such serenity might bring peace of mind and allow one to stop struggling to change what can’t be changed.,

And yet, how can we know what can’t be changed, and what might be changed, with a little more effort?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 4

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45. Spirit tells me that

Birds of a feather flock together, some to lead and some to follow and some simply to enjoy the company of their own kind.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 3

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46. Spirit tells me that

Spirituality is more than, but never other than religion, and you can’t have one without the other.

You can’t have one without the other, more or less.

Spirituality rises up out of religion, if it does, and it does, slowly or more slowly.

It’s like the Kundalini.

There must be something for it to rise up out of, as energy emerges from form, or dissolves into form.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook posts – Feb 7

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47. Spirit tells me that

A calling is not a career, or is it?

We consciously choose our careers, if we do.

Callings seem to choose us, if they do.

And yet, the calling can become a career.

Would it then lose the unconscious directive?

How to harmonize calling and career?

Is it a case of harmonizing the unconscious mind with the conscious part of that mind?

Oh, the questions that could be asked.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 7

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48. Spirit tells me that

Humanity as a Tree of Life, with our conscious mind interacting with thoughts and emotions, both individually and collectively.

Modern technology, not to mention timeless wisdom, didn’t come from nowhere.

Some of us seem to be more open to receiving different kinds of information than do some others.

Scientists and philosophers each open to particular types of ideas, and these particular types of ideas are attracted to those minds that are open to them.

Inventions usually develop in more than one area of our world at one time.

Particular ideas may be more highly developed at certain times during history, and there are receptive minds in many more places than one.

Meanwhile, most of us benefit, if we do, from the work of a few dedicated people who follow their hunches, or their dreams, and are willing to put in the time and effort required.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 6

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49. Spirit tells me that

Knowledge and knowing are not the same.

Knowledge is information from someone.

We read a newspaper, listen to a teacher or friend.

They share information with us.

How true is it?

But when we personally experience something, that’s a different kind of knowing.

Even then, we might choose to deny what we know is so, if we’re not yet ready to accept its reality.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 6

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50. Spirit tells me that

Can there be consciousness without conscience?

An inner dialogue?

One way?

“Let your conscience be your guide.”

Do we each have a personal mental comfort zone that can manifest as a voice of reason?

Do we, or can we use it as a wall to bounce ideas off?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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51. Spirit tells me that

The fundamental things apply as time goes by.

We each seem to claim personal power.

We each seem to claim as much personal power in our outer world as is possible, within the limits imposed by powers beyond our control, for now.

Is it the same situation within the confines of our own personal mind?

Our thoughts and emotions interact with each other to attempt to create a sense of self-satisfaction, within the limits of what seems possible, for now.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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52. Spirit tells me that

Respond and react are not the same.

Response is situation specific, while …

Reaction is a repetition of an earlier response.

It had to have been situation specific at some time in the past, but has now become a habit.

How much of what we do in our everyday life is original?

Is it all a repetition?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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53. Spirit tells me that

Evolution and transcendence are not the same.

One adapts to change.

The other …

What does the other do?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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54. Spirit tells me that

Feelings are forms of communication – the language of conscience, personal and …

Personal and collective, we each have a unique (more or less) conscience that speaks to us in feelings that we understand as clearly as if it spoke in our first language.

I call my conscience, Spirit, and I dare, with all due respect, to talk back to Him, and question what He seems to tell me.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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55. Spirit tells me that

When going back to correct earlier mistakes would keep us from going forward to create new ones, then it may be best to let the past mistakes lie where they are, in the past.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 8

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56. Spirit tells me that

Three is a powerful number.

A very few have changed our world forever, while …

The rest of us, the 97% of humanity, have adapted, if we have, to the changes that the few have brought.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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57. Spirit tells me that

That’s Life.

Diversification and unification – breathing out and breathing in.

It’s as simple as that – or could be, if we let it be.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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58. Spirit tells me that

Acceptance follows resistance, or it has no lasting value.

As an old song goes, “If I didn’t care, would it be the same?”

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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59. Spirit tells me that

No other option, but we choose how willingly we move into the future.

Tomorrow will come, whether or not we’re around to witness its coming, but if we’re going to be around, what difference will we make to anyone?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 9

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60. Spirit tells me that

How to share light to a blind world?

How many artists and visionaries have tried to share their gifts to a world that doesn’t care see or hear them.?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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61. Spirit tells me that

Do we choose our pleasure?

Or do they choose us?

Is it the same with our wills?

“I will do it if I can.”

Why?

Are wills and pleasures the same?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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62. Spirit tells me that

Is that our motive for passive acceptance?

Not to please, but to avoid offending?

Is there survival value to passive acceptance?

At what praice?

Selfj-esteem?

Or do we just slip into a habit of not wanting to make waves?

After all, who wants conflict?

Especially with someone more assertive and potentially aggressive.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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63. Spirit tells me that

Cosmic energy trapped within human form.

Is that what we are?

“Now see what you can do.”

What can we do if we’re a unique (more or less) blend of creative cosmic energy trapped within a unique (more or less) human form?

We can, or might, attempt to discover just how creative we can be within the unique (more or less) limits available to us.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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64. Spirit tells me that

A closed past vs an open future – Religion vs Spirituality?

Revelation is sealed?

Or is it?

There’s nothing new under the Sun, and yet there may be worlds within worlds beyond the Sun.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 10

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65. Spirit tells me that

Everybody’s doing it.

If walking our path is living our way, then …

Everybody’s doing it.

Walking the walk and talking the talk gets such high press, and yet, it’s simply doing what comes naturally.

We couldn’t possibly not be walking our path and living our life our way, whether we follow a leader or not.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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66. Spirit tells me that

How to be me?

By staying within my comfort zone.

Comfort zones get bad press, and yet the can serve us well.

Social conditioning can try to smother our natural tendencies, but it can never totally remove us from them.

We are what we are and we’re not what we’re not.

The problem arises when we resist becoming more than we now are, not other than we now are.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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67. Spirit tells me that

We’ve come so very far without seeming to have moved at all.

Is Life moving while we …?

Are we simply watching the show?

Our life, or at least my life, seems to have a life of its own, with me as a spectator.

Who is directing it all?

I’ve just returned from an outing with two young people who seem to genuinely care for me.

How can it be?

It blows me away to experience it.

Our outing did not achieve what it was intended to achieve, and yet I came aware so very much in awe of how blessed I am to have Akari and Bill in my life.

Where do such people come from?

Why are we all not like that?

How to become as they seem so naturally to be?

Spiritual awareness is one thing, but a lived reality beyond belief is something else.

I want it.

The danger in experienced being cared for is the awareness that anything and anyone in our life is only here while they are.

And then what?

Perhaps some hesitate to open to being cared for, for fear of possibly having to deal with its future absence in their life.

Perhaps care is there for us, whether we’re aware of it or not.

Perhaps, for most of us, it seems to have been so very missing, so much of the time.

Were we simply unaware?

I now accept that it might always have been there, whether expressed or not.

Our inner essence has reasons of its own.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 13

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68. Spirit tells me that

It’s a mystery, my son, at least until we understand.

Everyone seems to know that we’ve come from past generations of people.

Both religious and spiritual people can fall into that same trap, believing that something is a mystery

It’s a lazy way of thinking, unless we accept mysteries as simply something that we don’t yet understand.

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Feb 12

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69. Spirit tells me that

Social conditioning is never an option.

It’s a matter of more or less, and by whom.

Social conditioning is an unavoidable, evolutionary experience.

It’s never an option, but a matter of more or less, and by whom or what, and for what purpose..

Purpose is always the driving force of any evolutionary experience, including intentional social conditioning.

And yet, there is always the potential for unintentional social conditioning.

Learned helplessness can be the result of having been cared for beyond the point of serving us well.

When someone does something for someone else that that someone could very easily do for themselves, perhaps with a little help and training, then the recipient of assistance may learn, or choose, to depend on some others to do what they might be able to learn to do for themselves.

Young children usually have a powerful enough need of selfj-direction to protest against being treated as helpless beings.

Some seniors, and some others, not so senior, may choose to let others do for them what they could do for themselves, with a little assistance and/or training.

They might even learn to play helpless just to get special treatment.

This is self-destructive in the long run, for they then become less and less able to do things for themselves.

Where to draw the line?

Perhaps we’re expected to harmonize the outer and inner influences.

Social order at the physical level of existence would not be possible if everyone was allowed to follow their own conscience.

Social conditioning may be necessary for the first half of our lifetime, for the sake of social stability

After that, becoming aware of a more expanded inner awareness can benefit us as individuals without causing chaos to our society.

Whatever our inner voices may tell us to do, we’re still subject to the laws of our society.

How to harmonize them without rejecting either source?

Comments:

Ref. My Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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70. Spirit tells me that

Without boundaries there is no relationship.

We express our value of each other by respecting each other’s comfort zone.

It may be nearer or further for each of us, and depending upon … what?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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71. Spirit tells me that

Anything that happens anywhere might also happen anywhere else.

How to prepare?

Change and adaptation to change – is that what life is all about?

The same principles might apply within each of all the worlds we live in – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual (as higher mind), a scientific world (if such there be), and whatever other worlds or dimensions we might live in.

We change because we must, one way or another, for our world is changing around and within us.

We adapt, if we do, or the worlds go on without us.

It’s as simple as that.

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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72. Spirit tells me that

Do we write the books, or do they write themselves through us?

“Letting Go – Here and Now.”

One more in a series of “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books that has been accepted for this year’s Celebration of SFU Authors, to be held April 4, 2024.

Four little books in four years.

How long can this aged author keep it up?

Already, next year’s book is in the making.

It’s theme?

Boundaries.

Are boundaries a necessary reality of life?

Do we set them, reluctantly, only after our personal comfort zone has been invaded?

So many questions will focus on personal struggles, as has been the case with all the earlier books this simple seeker has been a part of.

And yet, what an awesome feeling to be part of it all.

I hope some of you choose to read some of them, and report back your experience(s).

Spirit, or my higher self tells me that the books have been written before I was born.

If so, then perhaps it’s true with all literature, technology, and science.

It’s all been on the drawing board of Life, waiting to be pulled into human consciousness.

We writers, artists, scientists, and inventors of whatever, may just have been in the right place at the right time, and thought a particular thought that pulled in a stream of information beyond anything we might have, or possibly could have, expected.

If we have ancestors – generations of the past, then perhaps we also have them of the future.

Life is curious, eh?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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73. Spirit tells me that

I’ve changed, and so have you.

And our changing changes the world we live in.

I Ching tells us that change is the only constant.

What does that mean?

It means that everyone and everything is constantly changing.

We’re not the same as we were even a minute ago.

We’re now a minute older, and so is everyone and everything else, in one way or another.

And as we change, and we do, we change the world we live in, for better or worse.

What will it be?

We choose.

What an awesome responsibility, eh?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 14

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74. Spirit tells me that

It’s a mystery, my son, at least until we understand.

Everyone seems to know that we’ve come from past generations of people.

Both religious and spiritual people can fall into that same trap, believing that something is a mystery.

It’s a lazy way of thinking, unless we accept mysteries as simply something that we don’t yet understand.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 12

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75. Spirit tells me that

Is it possible that we don’t learn anything until we need to?

For whatever reason?

Evolution – another word for education?

We learn what works, and what doesn’t.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 18

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76. Spirit tells me that

We’re never singing solo, though it may seem that way.

The rest of the group are scattered around the globe.

Keep on singing.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 17

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77. Spirit tells me that

Whatever happens is Fate, unless it’s your Destiny.

Fate is flexible.

Destiny is not.

It may be our destiny to face whatever challenges fate presents us with.

So, we’re an acorn, destined to become a strong and straight Oak tree, unless …

It wasn’t by accident that we were born to whom, and where, and under what situations, or in what condition, or so I’m told by a usually very reliable source.

We each chose, if we were capable of choosing, a particular life situation to develop an understanding of.

Different people, depending upon their level of development, will respond to different situations in different ways.

In Spirit we can think ang plan, and yet we need physical existence to actually discover our skills development.

A practicum?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 17

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78. Spirit tells me that

With no intent to offend Freud, Jung, and some others, the day will come when the concepts of conscious and unconscious mind go the way of the Dodo bird – total extinction.

How did we get pulled into thinking that we possessed two minds.

Our so-called conscious mind is as the tip of an iceberg. with the greater part of the iceberg being beneath the surface of the water.

Oh, correction. Freud didn’t use the term unconscious mind. He recognized it as subconscious, which is closer to reality and allows for integration.

We’re not consciously aware of anything beyond our personal experience(s), and yet the Universe moves on., or as Bob Dylan sang it, “Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you.”

Local and non-local awareness would surely be easier to understand.

We’re only aware of what we’re aware of, and yet we have the potential to become aware of much more.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 16

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79. Spirit tells me that

Have we become what we are simply because we could never have become …?

Could we ever have become anything other than we are now?

Anywhere along the way, could we have taken a different path?

Or, were we destined to be here and now, and as we now are?

How much flexibility …?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 15

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80. Spirit tells me that

The endless loop of life, or, what goes around comes around.

We’ve been there.

With vegetation, there is a natural and endless cycle of development and decay.

Why would it not be the same with humanity, individually and collectively?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 23

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81. Spirit tells me that

If the five physical senses are each a unique but limited expression of awareness, then ..

It could solve the problem of what happens when our physical body disintegrates.

I had worried that I would no longer be able to see, hear, touch, smell, or feel anything beyond myself, after so-called death.

I mean, what’s the point of being around if we’re not able to witness what’s happening around us?

Perhaps the only thing we’ll not be able to do is to do whatever.

In physical life we can do things, if we choose to, and if we’re able to.

So,, what is it that we’re now able to choose to do, if we’re able to?

To live a physical life.

Spirituality must never forget physicality.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 23

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82. Spirit tells me that

We can never think outside the box of our mind, but the edges are flexible.

Not only are the edges of our mind flexible, and perhaps infinitely expandable, but within the edges of our mind there is, perhaps, limitless potential to see and understand more and more clearly, if we choose to.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 22

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83. Spirit tells me that

Response is all there is.

We respond.

We’ve always responded and we always will.

So, what is it that we’re responding to?

Life situations.

It’s a never-ending game.

You say or do whatever, and then I respond, but whatever you say or do is itself a response to some earlier event.

How did this response game begin?

In the beginning was the word, and word was GO.

After that, we each and all .responded in one way or another, and we’ve never stopped.

Is it possible to stop responding?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 21

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84. Spirit tells me that

Whatever we feel is real, whether it is or not.

Feelings are never rational, and yet …

Feelings come from lived experience.

Rationality is a mind thing.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts 21

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85. Spirit tells me that

We cheer for our own.

They may not be good guys, but they’re our guys, and we …

What parent ever cheered for the team that their child was playing against?

Is it the same with love and war?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 22

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86. Spirit tells me that

If our flaws unite us with each other, then why do we strive for perfection?

Most of us may have more flaws in common with more people than we have perfections.

Actually, we may have no perfections at all, and yet we keep on trying, if we do, to continually improve ourself, instead of just accepting ourself the way we are.

Would it suggest a defeatist attitude if we stopped trying to improve ourself in this way or that?

Would it be as stepping onto a slippery slope?

Would it attract more people to us?

Would they be the people we would want to be attracted to?

Oh the questions that could be asked.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 20

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87. Spirit tells me that

My Last Duchess

Who has read the poem?

Who wrote it?

A beautiful description of …

My mother was a schoolteacher until she married Dad, which didn’t give her many years to teach, since she married at 25.

When I had to study the poem “My Last Duchess” Mom shared with me how eloquent her teacher had read it and shared the beauty of the picture it described.

She loved the sounds of words, it seemed to me, so much more than what the words described.

I felt so emotional about the situation expressed in the poem.

Mom saw only the beauty of words.

How far have so many come?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 16

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88. Spirit tells me that

Experience is our teacher, and yet, if we don’t listen, we don’t learn.

Every physical and non-physical teacher we might have during our lifetime is an experience, and they are sharing their experiences with us.

Our children and pets can be as teachers, for they share with us what they need from us, and if we care for them, and if we are able to provide what they need, we do.

And, our own personal needs can be as teachers.

The danger of teachers of all kinds is that they may have their own reasons for teaching us whatever.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 25

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89. Spirit tells me that

Everybody’s doing it?

Doing what?

We’re each and all awakening from illusions.

That’s what evolution of consciousness is all about.

And, we’re each and all awakening in our own way and in our own time, from self-created illusions.

Why are they all self-created?

We chose to believe whatever, because we seemed to need to believe it was true, whether or not it was.

And it wasn’t.

Now, with no intended offence to ourself, or any other, we’re strong enough to face the truth, or at least a little bit of it, until we’re brave enough to face more.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 25

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90. Spirit tells me that

Life is an endless series of experiences wherein we each and all struggle for …

Is it all a struggle for a feeling of satisfaction?

How satisfied do we need to become before we stop and just take it nice and easy?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb. 24

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91. Spirit tells me that

We are social beings – individual social beings, unless …

How to live within a group, as a member of that group, and still remain an individual?

Can we have it both ways?

Yes.

How?

Meditation with intent.

What intent?

With intent to develop a closer connection to our own individuality.

We can only contribute to any group as an individual if we care enough about our individuality to protect it from becoming trapped within mass thinking.

It’s a slippery slope, either way we look at it.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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92. Spirit tells me that

Starting at the bottom, or thereabouts, those who have more inspire those who …

Another version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, to account for human greeds?

Those who have more inspire those who have less to reach for more, and so the human pyramid of wealth club develops.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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93. Spirit tells me that

The scientific method of spirituality – awareness gets high press – observation?

In spiritual language we speak of expanded awareness, and ever-expanding awareness.

How can that be any different from the scientific approach of observation and … closer observation?

Can observation be expanded?

Why not?

We witness something, and yet, anything we witness is never an island unto itself.

We see the red light, and yet, we also see the intersection and the environment and activities in the neighbourhood around that intersection.

The red light is never (or not necessarily) seen as an island.

So it is (or may be) with inner awareness.

We can focus our attention or expand it.

The choice is ours.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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94. Spirit tells me that

In an inner allotment garden of Mind, what would you plant in your private area?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 27

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95. Spirit tells me that

We start low and go slow.

How skilled (or not so) have we become on the stage …

If humanity is as a stage of life, and we are each and all actors in training, then that would help to explain dreams.

In our dreams we participate, more or less, and are more or less aware of participating.

How to develop acting, or any other experience.

Practice, practice, practice.

We cocreate the world we live in.

We cocreate with energies and forces beyond our control.

We learn to cooperate with them, sooner or later.

And, as we learn to cooperate, we develop personal skills that contribute to the show.

Each and all of our world leaders has developed a personal style of expressing personal skills and powers.

We’re no different than any of them, but they have also developed a powerful sense of self-confidence that we can only admire and envy, if we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 1

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96. Spirit tells me that

If we only knew – our personal problems are anything but personal.

It’s so easy to believe that we have personal problems when they’re anything but personal.

They’re social constructs.

Anything that could happen to anyone could also happen to many others.

And yet, do we learn from witnessing what some others are doing that seems to be counter-productive?

Not a chance.

We’ve locked ourselves into a little world we call our own.

We’ve put up boundaries around our so-called personal problems and claimed them as our very own.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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97. Spirit tells me that

From the ashes of disaster, sense arises from nonsense.

We learn from mistakes.

So, how do we manage to slip back into old patterns of living that proved, time and again, to be unproductive and self-destructive?

Nonsense may not possibly be without any sense, but only less sensible than it might be.

If so, then perhaps everything that makes sense to us today, will (or might) at some time in the future, seem to have been as nonsense.

Evolution of mind?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28

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98. Spirit tells me that

If our conscious mind is as the tip of an iceberg in its relationship to our so-called unconscious mind, then we’re as one with it.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 28 (shared from a post from one year earlier)

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99. Spirit tells me that

Life is an endless series of experiences wherein we each and all struggle for …

Is it all a struggle for a feeling of satisfaction?

How satisfied do we need to become before we stop and just take it nice and easy?

Comments:

Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Feb 24

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End of Book Eight

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