--- In [email protected], Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > Well, gee, everything is a projection of the Self and none of it really > exists, anyway, but, when living the particle POV, there are definitely > different dimensions, different dimensional beings different levels of > consciousness, different chakras, different parts of the torus, etc. I look > forward to living permanent Reality POV. You seem to hold that you do (as I > said, I'm the newbie here). For how long now? And is there no shadow that > ever arises within it?
* * Absolutely, Reality is delightfully multidimensional from a particle POV (which is a redundancy, in a way, as we have no Realities per se without creators to create them *and* creature-particles to appreciate them) -- a real amusement-park of self-discovery! >From one POV, Reality awoke to itSelf as That-alone-IS, that which has only >ever Been and only ever will Be, in November 1982. In Reality, we could say we >felt and granted the need for "liberation into utter perfection" to our first >I-particle then, and then immediately experienced the result once we had met >all the "yeah-but" objections of all the counter-programs. That first particle >is probably always the stickiest! And of course, absolutely, "shadows" or >other I-particles whom we have been ignoring, are constantly arising within us >to grab our attention! We are constantly enlightening ourselves, weaving back >and forth between "ignorance" and "unity" in our particles, though we >ourselves are "none of the above" and/or "all of the above, simultaneously" :-) > On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:23 PM, RoryGoff wrote: > > > You are of course entitled to your own viewpoint. As whether rakshasas or > > devas are "simple psychological projections" or not, I could not say. I > > have certainly experienced them as "real" and very powerful entities which > > are, however, on closer look ultimately projections of the Self, or of Us, > > as is everything. And I do enjoy "indulging in" reducing everything to the > > Self, or to IS-ness or Reality. > > > > --- In [email protected], "emptybill" <emptybill@> wrote: > > > > > > This psychologizes chö (d) and is a way to dismiss > > > it as merely a method to devalue our internal fodder. > > > > > > Chö means "cutting"; it is a Buddhist Tantric method > > > for severing our human psyche from abhaya- > > > which is primal dread or the tremendum. > > > > > > Rakshasa-s/demons are not simple psychological > > > projections and neither are deva-s. To dismiss them > > > on such grounds is to indulge in reductionism. > > > ........................................................................\ > > > ....... > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > > > > IME rakshasas or demons are simply our own so-called "bad" children > > > spurned, as the devatas or angels are our own so-called "good" children > > > approved. > > > > > > > > All of this is nothing other than the chod or demon-feeding technique > > > Vaj has occasionally spoken of here, > > > > > > > > > > > >
