-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Just a comment.. If one develops an absolute knowingness of beingness as eternal Soul, it is easier to follow such common sense dictums as: #1: "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" #2: "It's All Small Stuff" The key is POV (point of view). >From the point of view of an eternal being (like you, & me f'rinstance - were we fully aware of it ;) a lifetime or ten on this earth planet is not the all-compelling drama that might be played out in the mind of an unknowing "victim" of reincarnated life. Knowledge is power; self-knowledge + self responsibility = self determination. Things which have helped me connect to this "knowingness" (a word meaning roughly: personal knowledge, gained through some form of experience, the ONLY teacher) Eckankar (don't let the "G" word turn you off, it's only dog backwards :) http://www.eckankar.org Taoism & Taoist practice, as discussed in many books by Mantak Chia (similar to Qi-Gong; Chi-Kung) http://healing-tao.com (english) http://www.healingtao.org (european) Falun Gong http://minghui-ca.falunusa.net/eng.html infinite blessings, Dave Hartley http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Linda Leslie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LeadingEdgeResearch] Re: new paradigm Stephen, Your message struck a chord within me - especially learning to travel with light feet, greet others with a light hand, and oneself with a light heart. Just reading this lifted the heaviness from my soul and my mind. I find it difficult to balance this lightness with the information I absorb daily; I don't know whether to avoid and ignore that "apocalyptic" burden of dark deeds and forces or learn a better way to let it pass through and out. If I don't acknowledge these thoughts consciously I find that they sneak out during sleep. (or lack of....) I think I need to spend more time on the light side. Thank you for your beautiful insights. I hope you are led to speak more. I believe everyone else in this forum would like to hear more about your information "of a more metaphysical nature". Leslie > This is my first post to this list, as well. I am led to speak, which I > do seldom, because I think I can feel your discomfiture, and seem to > recognize in it a pattern that is quite universal. A brief word about > myself will put this in perspective, and perhaps permit you to evaluate > what I have to say. By all means, if they not useful to you, you should > throw my words to the wind. I am an academic, a philosopher to be > precise, who has been working with esoteric materials since 1966. From > the beginning I have had to deal with the tension between my deeper > commitments and the demands of what it takes to keep body and soul > together, including maintaining a respectible front in one of the most > difficult fields to travel incognito. The sense of detachment from this > "madness" that goes on all around us is very real. It also poses a very > real dilemma for one seeking to integrate new ways of being and new > sources of information. Especially when one breaks through to a new > framework for posing problems (I believe the word popular here is > "paradigm," following the philosopher of science named Thomas Kuhn), one > is particularly prone to being disrupted on all kinds of levels. > Notably difficult are relationships that are carry-overs from the > settings we emerge from prior to our "shift." I myself have been > through many of these shifts. And my humble advice is simply this: it > does not serve one well to be too apocalyptic in one's dealings with the > world. When relationships are outgrown, they tend to fall away > naturally. When survival questions (job issues, money, etc.) are no > longer spiritually useful, they tend to resolve themselves spontaneously > if allowed to do so. The key, as far as I can tell, is to learn to > travel with light feet, to greet others with a light hand, and to greet > oneself with a light heart. These simple points are more than useful > homilies, but actually quite essential when dealing with esoteric > energies, and charged information that are very heavy, and tend to set > one's previous sense of the world one its head. > As for the issue of a paradigm shift, then, I would say simply this: > that for the most part one cannot effect such a shift with the mind > alone. And when the heart gets involved, it really is no longer a > paradigm that is at issue. It is acceptance. Acceptance of self and > acceptance of others. This is the key to integrate higher energies and > unexpected information. It is really the self that shifts, and yet, in > shifting, also does not: that is, it stabilizes or crystalizes in its > essential structures. > I am not greatly schooled in Mr. Valerian's work, but onlly encountered > it while wending my way on the web. I was struck by its agreement in > certain particulars with information I have been dealing with for many > years, this information being of a somewhat more metaphysical nature, > and redounding deeply to the issue of the human/alien interactions. I > confess to being as charmed as anyone by the conspiratorial information > that Mr. Valerian seems to have in spades. But I do ask myself this > question: Once I grant the general point that the world is a place full > in all the wrong places of power-hungry and dark individuals, and that > there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in my philosophies, > what is there for me to do on a day to day basis? I find that, though > conspiracies rage around me, my central issues remain with those whom I > love and like, or perchance do not like, and for me the question of > personal integration requires first of all getting straight with all my > beloved--even the infidels. So life is a pretty messy proposition. I > do find encouragement, however, in the gentle hand of those ministering > "angels," the "aliens," if you will, of the light, who will not only > speak to me, but never seem to tire of proferring me a helping hand when > I stumble and fall. > I do not know if any of this is helpful to you, and as I say, if it is > not, please disregard everything I have written. If there is any > succour here, then I am blessed too. Love and Light, Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You have a voice mail message waiting for you at iHello.com: http://click.egroups.com/1/2377/0/_/73356/_/953140641/ eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/leadingedgeresearch http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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