--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > My opinion is that matter is very real and that > > > > > the illusion is the > > > > > concept that matter and spirit are separate. > > > > > > > > > > Alex > > > > Alex, since it's only an opinion, it means you are not > > very sure, therefore it's not knowingness. Something > > real must delivered as knowingness to the observer > > otherwise it means it's not really > > real to him. > > > > :) <.> / ; \ > > The reason I stated it as an opinion is that it is not currently the > truth of my awareness. I.e., I'm not awakened. Or, even so-called > awakened. > > This idea shot into my head like a bolt of lightning during one of > the large group meetings at the Waking Down retreat in Estes Park in > May. I really bristle at hypermasculine notions of maya, where > worldly existence and pleasures are denigrated, denied, and devalued > as being somehow less "spiritual", the Spirit-Matter Split, as Saniel > Bonder calls it. And, in light of the Waking Down perspective that we > are a paradoxical divine marriage of finite and infinite, as equals, > it hit me that the illusion is not matter, but the concept that > matter and spirit are separate. I mentioned it to Saniel, and he > replied with an emphatic "YES!" > > Alex >>>
Except that modern science shows that there is nothing but energy fields and that sub-atomic particles are energy coagulations and not billiard balls. The mind creates the illusion of matter. Physical is a convenient and enjoyable illusion. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
