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Rob Byrne's avatar

“In the beginning was the word” etc…”word” in Sanskrit, I seem to remember means vibration. “Sound” is vibration interpreted by the brain via the hearing canal, I guess 🤔 the only difference between apparent solidities (hard/soft) is one of speed ie the higher the frequency the more solid something appears to be. I’m no physicist as can be plainly seen. So I would call this “ vibration” or “word” as “infinite potential”

Before there was “any-thing” there had to be “no-thing” what that no-thing is, is beyond all human faculties, as Jesus is supposed to have said (and I’m not saying that there was or wasn’t a “Jesus” or whether he said what is claimed, or if what is claimed is accurate after multiple translations etc) but something on the lines of “no eye has seen, no lips have spoken of, no ear has heard” in other words, just what God is/isn’t is beyond all human understanding. So what I’m getting at is, “No-Thing” is the underlying reality, but our ego/thoughts can’t grasp that. All things appear from no-thing and eventually return to no-thing. Another word I subscribe to in place of “No-thing” is the “Absolute” the “Absolute” is not relative, has no opposite, is and contains all. So whatever “is” is the Absolute being that already . Everything already is, we just notice it. Time is relative, there is only “what is” but the thought stream/ego only (apparently” exists in the “story” of what was or what will be. There are no thoughts required for the immediate. “Heaven” the “Garden of Eden” is the “ thought-less” state, the “ tree of knowledge” knowledge being “thoughts about” as opposed to “one-ness with” is the fall from grace, the fall into the Abyss of the hell of continuous thinking which is the mechanism that takes us away from “God/Heaven/Paradise” or “being fully in the moment”. Think of walking around a corner in the forest and seeing a beautiful sunset over the sea for example. The sudden beauty triggers a gasp of “wow” and for that second the “wow factor” is not the sunset but what the sunset triggered, (very) temporary suspension of thoughts, which, unfortunately, come back in at lightening speed and you drop back out of Heaven without even noticing that that is where you were. The thoughts come in “oh I wish so and so was here” or you take out you phone to take a photo etc, and I’m not saying that anything is wrong with that or that you even have a choice, because “everything” is the Absolute/God/No-Thing” being that, whatever is, is right, wrong-ness is in the mind of the beholder and nowhere else. Someone mentioned paths, how can there be a path to what already is? Looking for the path is what stops you finding it and the cosmic joke “the seeker is the sought” (you can reverse that if you want)😉 It is impossible to talk about that which is beyond all reason but the Absolute wouldn’t be “Absolute” unless even the most useless notion is not manifest, and also there is no choice to do or not to do, so the idea I’ve had for as long as I can recall as an adult, is that whatever is possible has to occur for “Absolute” to mean what it means. People ask “how can God let this happen”? Answer, because God is unlimited, whatever is, is God being that. God empty spacing, God the Murderer and God at the same time being the Victim as well as the violence, the sound, the smell, the weapon, the blood, the witness, ground, sky, rain, heat, cold etc “Nothing Is Happening” apparently. All the problems of the world are thoughts, sure there are unwanted or unpleasant situations happening, problems are the “ l story” the mind/ego try’s to make of the situation, the ego needs drama/story in order to feel as if it’s real, that’s why when you ignore the ego/story such as the “sunset” example, the ego says fuuuuuuuck, because in that moment, for all intentional purposes, it ceasesd to exist to that person. Enlightenment, so I’ve read, is when the thoughts cease to stick to the person because it’s “seen” that there never was a person in the first place, the “ l person” was too only a thought 🤣

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Tony Cecala's avatar

“When the initiation turns into ritual, indoctrination replaces realization.

Concern with the performance of the ritual creates the pious ego. Repetition leads to habit. Habit leads to unaware-ness. Unawareness leads to ignorance and intolerance. Ignorance and intolerance lead to cruelty and inflexibility.

Religion is born.”

—Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar® Materials

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