--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" <sinhlnx@> wrote: > > > > > > > > ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person > > > > only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living > inside Mae > > > > West's head? > > > > > > > > http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item203 > > > > > > > > Or, Jim, you were fortunate in realizing you were in a cage. > So I > > > > guess the people living in the cage but don't know it are > > > > in "ignorant Bliss"?....kind of like the people living in the > Matrix > > > > world while the aliens are sucking out the juices from their > real > > > > bodies. > > > > > > > That isn't my reality, though it may be someone's. I recall > someone > > > said once that if it can be imagined, it exists. I like that, > believe > > > it, and accept it.:-) > > > > > > > An yet, someone also said (Saint Byron perhaps) that if you can't > > imagine the opposite of something -- as possibly being true, then > you > > are stuck in in that boundary. > > > > The point of my kidding has been, "Can you imagine yourself as > > possibly stuck in a prison that you are unaware of?" > > > Its easy to imagine anything. If I have my choice I will imagine > that I am eternally free. I can certainly imagine myself to be in > prison, but I choose not to. I'm actually not very interested in > imagining much about myself at all, purely for the purpose of > speculation.
> > I recall someone > > said once that if it can be imagined, it exists. I like that, > > believe > > it, and accept it.:-) > I'd much rather live it through my body than imagine it > in my head. My imagination serves the purpose of bringing my desires > to fruition, and it does a very good job of that, so I ask you, why > would I imagine myself in prison?:-) Why would you or anybody do any Byron Katie work?
