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One last thought about Heinlein’s “dying culture” claim: Is it true that our culture is dying, given all the rudeness? And if so, are we too far gone to turn it around? On many days, things do look bleak, as online nastiness seems to become the dominant style. But my personal defense mechanism also aims to act as a countercultural force: I see... See more
Arthur • Resist the Snark and Be Happy
• we possess self-awareness. In Ra’s cosmology, this places us at the third density level of consciousness. This is the stage where entities gain the ability to choose their path, particularly between service-to-self-or-service to others.
• This shift involves an increasing awareness of our unified consciousness, psychic abilities, of love as a powerful force and a confrontation with our own shadow.
• Jim believes are currently experiencing a transition into fourth density.
• Ra’s message suggests that solar cycles may play a role in triggering these harvests and planetary shifts, therefore the Sun may be actively coordinating the spiritual path of humanity.
• This thought experiment has continued to reinforce my most “woo” suspicion: that we live in some kind of Earth School.
• As a reminder: this is the theory that we have souls that choose to incarnate on Earth in order to learn specific lessons. These lessons evolve our consciousness, perhaps up through the densities that Ra introduces.
💭Spirituality & Philosophy and Attention
• The world we know cannot be wholly mind-independent, and it cannot be wholly mind-dependent… What is required is an attentive response to something real and other than ourselves, of which we have only inklings at first, but which comes more and more into being through our response to it — if we are truly responsive to it. We nurture it into being; or not. In this it has something of the structure of love.
• Defining attention as “the manner in which our consciousness is disposed towards whatever else exists,” he writes:
• The choice we make of how we dispose our consciousness is the ultimate creative act: it renders the world what it is. It is, therefore, a moral act: it has consequences.
• Attention is not just another “cognitive function”: it is… the disposition adopted by one’s consciousness towards the world. Absent, present, detached, engaged, alienated, empathic, broad or narrow, sustained or piecemeal, it therefore has the power to alter whatever it meets. Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. So how you attend to something — or don’t attend to it — matters a very great deal.
What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains
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Words as Forcefields: The Exile of Symbolic Speech
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