--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > For that matter, could *all* forms of addiction > > be a way to preserve the illusion of self, and > > keep selflessness at bay? <snip> > > I'd agree with this. The Dark Night's "hell" appears to be the pain > of the withdrawal from particular identification with and addiction > to spacetime and the relative, as one moves from identifying with an > effect (the particle) through Nothingness to identifying with the > emptiful, simple, ordinary, innocent Cause (OneMind, the Heart of > All in the perfect Now). I think it was Anne Wilson > Schaef's "Escape from Intimacy: Untangling the 'Love' Addictions: > Sex, Romance, Relationships," which struck me in how clearly her > description of sobriety resonated with my own Dark Night and first > Self-recognition of/as Brahman. > > This is not to say that that first dawning eradicated all addictive > tendencies forever, as there have since then been subtler and > subtler "threads-to-other" coming to awareness to reintegrate and > subsume into the Self -- more and more sobriety which paradoxically > also includes the identification with the particle's utter abandon > and intoxicated devotional surrender to the Whole. I have been > finding this whole-hearted surrender is automatic *after* the > mechanics of the collapse (Incarnation) of the Whole into the > particle, and the exalting/humiliating Unity of both, are pretty > fully comprehended. But then, I had not been a bhakti... > > *L*L*L* > PS Your reflections are unusually easy for me to riff off of, Rory (Ha-Ha!)-- I've been noticing something that may be related, having to do with noticing subtle fears and their subsequent resolution even 'within' in a permanent state of Self Realization, as we rediscover the world in its Divine state.
When you wrote your recent equations having to do with greater and greater fullnesses sensed in BC-->KC-->SC, taking as a starting point all fears and associated emotions being caused by fear of the unknown, might there be subtle fearful tendencies that occur when we are enlightened as to our Brahman Universe, but not yet ripened into our Krishna Multiverses, then similarly not yet ripened into our Shiva Infiniverses? Because that aspect of our complete silence and its corresponding infinity of being is yet unknown to us? I don't know the answer yet, but it is a fun cosmic toy I have discovered! 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
