--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Rory: > > > > If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, > > > > as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of > > > > Self/Other/Self, those will indeed be "wrong" or "demonic" -- > > > > i.e., diseased, based around pain, an attempt to mask or > > > > compensate for primal fear, guilt and shame :-) > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Gee, that's awfully judgmental, Rory. > > > > *lol* Is it judgmental to call a disease a disease? > > If you judge something is a disease, and you judge > that diseases are Problems to be overcome, sure > it's judgmental.
Perhaps we are getting caught up in misunderstood definitions -- I merely mean to *identify* areas of pain in ourselves, feel them and heal them. Refusal to heal our own pain is a symptom and cause of surrendering to some addiction or other -- making that addiction -- that false belief and support-system -- more important than our own present-moment integrity, joy, freedom, and so on :-) > Is being judgmental a disease? It is (or will be) if we identify a pattern in ourself as not-self or not-good and do not take steps to dissolve that identification. > It appears that > > one has to recognize and identify the nature of the problem if one > > wishes to heal it. Denial of addiction-patterns masking "not- love" > > impulses -- refusing to recognize the Self in (and larger than) > > patterns like Unworthiness, Fear, Guilt, Shame and Rage -- only > > perpetuates the heaviness of the disease, and leaches away more and > > more life, leading eventually to depression and death. I would not > > be at all suprised to learn that genuine physical immortality is > > our completely natural state, one essentially free of all > > addictions/obsessions/repressions (including addictions to > > relationships, sex, romance, "growth," food, money, power, drugs, > > and so on) :-) > > Substituting, perhaps, an addiction to physical > existence? No, genuine physical immortality is not "physical existence" any longer, at least in the sense it is commonly understood. It would appear to be rather something along the lines of "physically" understanding all "physical" matter to be nothing other than love as a relationship between energy/bliss and consciousness. The formula for physical immortality would seem to be E = Mc(2) or laughter/bliss = love/coalesence x consciousness/light aware of itself :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/