“You can be confident that the “I” who thinks your thoughts and looks through your eyes and feels the world as the delicate nexus of your nervous system right now — that “I” will be like a little child again, scrubbed of all cognitive notion of being “you,” but with an intuition that will be giving you hints along the way.”
The asymmetrical war is the cause of Estelle’s dissociative symptoms. The “tiny but loud autocrat,” one should quickly surmise, is her ego, which is not the bastion of individuality we assume it to be. This assumption, we learn, is a deliberate Orwellian twist that perpetuates social control over the individual by placing an authoritarian voice of its own creation at the helm of the natural person seeking liberation. The duplicity of the egoic turncoat — acting at times like the liberator but only further ensnaring the self in its grasp — fuels the distrust that keeps them at odds, preventing the one thing that can actually lead to a liberated individual: the rejection of all authority, including one’s own.
#2: Energetic pattern = energy + will This principle was lifted directly from the title of Part Two, “Soul = Dust + Breath,” with the terms converted to a layperson’s vocabulary. The translation “soul —> energetic pattern” was covered in the first principle. The next part, “dust —> energy,” could also be “dust —> material,” […]
I don’t trust disorganized religion.
Look at it closely and you’ll inevitably find some reactionary yahoo who figured out there is nothing to figure out and wants to sell you that information.
This is a condensed version of an article originally published at Not Two. Faith is not the opposite of doubt. It is the absence of fear. Like “God” and “divine,” faith is one of those pesky words that seems to erode the meaning of any sentence where it is placed rather than contribute to it. […]
Spirituality gets a bum rap because of its association with belief in an invisible supernatural realm, and people suffer as a result, unwilling to even consider the ways that a healthy spiritual life enhances the human experience here and now. Not only is this association with the supernatural unnecessary to spiritual experience, but it is […]
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