as you have mentioned, the nuances of individual spiritual experiences are as varied as the number of people who have experienced them. some may exclude anothers 'personal religion' if they want, but i dont believe most spirit-humans do so. my experiences have little to do with human life, so sharing them is not only difficult to do, but most people you try to describe them to think you are from another planet. i dont think many people who have experienced spiritual joy will disregard similar experiences of others, but will gladly share in the others joy. this may not be described exactly as 'unity', but it is a nice community experience.
On Apr 28, 7:22 pm, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > My take on the Dali Lama crying when he was asked if there was an easy > way to enlightenment sets the stage. > > Dali cried because he knows that the way to enlightenment is too > difficult, for enough of mankind to learn, and would never be able to > bring about the transcendence that Buddhism seeks as its flavor of > Unity. > > Why is it that all the great minds of our time and those of history > all converge on the fact that the power for solving all of the > problems of the world is within the mind of mankind, but none have > been able to affect the ways of mankind to bring about any significant > change? > The power connection in the mind has many different descriptions of it > and directions on how to access it. It can be simply a magnificent > light and it can be Jesus in all his glory. And it is exactly what it > is according to whoever is describing it. It is a real thing and > that’s the description that is available from previous information > that has been incorporated into the belief structure of the > individual. > It is energy. It is indescribable. But it is such a wonderful thing > that we have to describe it so we can claim it as ours. The method of > description is metaphor, using that which is familiar to us. > It is a resource for the individual to connect with the collective > intelligence. > When we connect with it we get a personal charge, it is a personal > thing, the opposite of a Unity thing. > We have gone to it (possibly only subconsciously), identified it and > made it our personal knowing and understanding justifier, establishing > our personal religion. And we exclude anything that is not in line > with our personal religion. > This is not the way to Unity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
