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BTW, I call my overall approach to growing spiritually, “Depth-Dynamic Being”

Related to both the Christ envisioning exercise and the positive self-fulfilling prophecy concept, I made this comment in the post about death transcendence. It fits I well here also, since my mind is busy processing ideas from both threads (and real doesn’t care all that much from which...

I did a mind exercise while running yesterday. I imagined being at the base of physical being (the matter me), as though in continuous incarnation. Between the “God” or deep Unknown zone and the physical zone. Since it was my mind doing the imagining or autogenic visualization (feelings in there...

I agree with non-duality as more real than divided reality. But that does not mean that the lesser reality of divided matter is only an illusion. The boulder that is about to fall on one’s head is very real and the hard and heavy boulder is different and separate from the human at risk of being...

Author Diekman, in Rober Ornstein’s anthology , The Nature of Human Consciousness, postulated a “receptive mode,” in contrast to an “action mode.” Yes, being receptive could transcend regular conscious “mind/mentality”

You seem to use “figure itself out” as a positive thing, but being mysterious, beyond words and regular understanding may be spiritual and something worth bringing about intentionally so we don’t take our own existence and life for granted

Somewhere here you also emphasize non duality. Which would sacralize the mundane because it is attached to all that is. While this is an embrace of material environment, that unified field stretching out and connecting oneness mental activity of non dual seems to be more of an energy concept...

Whateverland When the mind goes deep to God or into the great unknown I know it will yield a harvest, but not sure where the plants are grown. Are they grown in a peaceful meadow that’s a hidden part of me? Or in vast plains that stretch across eternity? I place my bet on the...

Poem about the God function, regardless of it’s metaphysical status: Whateverland When the mind goes deep to God or into the great unknown I know it will yield a harvest, but not sure where the plants are grown. Are they grown in a peaceful meadow that’s a hidden part of me? Or in...

I was just talking with Powesse about the need to let the meditative object be, to accommodate it, instead of putting it in a mental/conceptual box. I think my word for listening or silence is going deep. I think you have to be still and silent to go deep mentally.

Years ago I picked up on an image that was in my wife’s mind when I was trying to be mentally deep. It was a red barn. If what you say is true, my mind reading was the low hanging fruit. It would have taken more time and skill to pick up on smells and touch/feelings? When I mentally resurrected...

Neat. Someone else has already done this weird science and found it useful, even recommending it to others!

I’m Add to that the use of positive self-fulfilling prophecy. Praying to God works well enough to make some desired “prophecies” come true. “God” helps the mind attract good things from out of the blue, from the unknown. This is the topic of my new post, Religion as Self-fulfilling prophecy. Of...

Sounds like your mind has the habit or skill of viewing (what most people would identify as) its own projections and using what developmental theorist Piaget called “accommodation” to experience them. The mind accommodates the raw perceptions instead of assimilating it into known concepts. The...

I get similar symbolic “messages” in my dreams. Teachers seeming to teach me spiritual truths. Lots of school and prison settings. Sometimes I am a teacher, but more often a student. Also some helping and healing stories. In one dream, a male voice gave me a Bible verse to look up, “Matthew...

If there is a Zero Point Field (from Lynn McTaggart’s book, The Field) that stores life’s memories and other information and energies, or Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphogenetic Field or Jung’s Collective Unconscious or a Quantum Substrate, then our mind’s focus might attract frequencies or energy in...

Yes, praying to the “Good Unknown” (Good because we don’t want the bad stuff from the Unknown) is like the new age concept of “law of attraction.” The mind orients towards. hones in on, and at times seems to actually attract certain realities. Case in point, I wrote this poem during Easter...

Do I believe in God? Yes. Mainly because my praying to God works for me. Metaphysically? If it works, there must be something there, but knowing its exact nature is not necessary. Even if “God” is really only a positive self-fulfilling prophecy that my mysterious mind fulfills religiously...

Probably correct that it is a necessary step to later experience “good” more internally and then want to do good for its own inherent expansion of spirituality/wholeness. Morality is a fake it til you make it method of spiritual growth, called Sutric in eastern thought. Christianity with its...

What you described could be useful even if not true in an objective or metaphysical way, because the human mind as it imagines and thinks or even perceives is always projecting and often does not reclaim the projections in the form of personal insights from them or spiritual growth. Even if it...