tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post8989326346528283016..comments2023-09-28T10:08:44.827+02:00Comments on Gwynt: Of Ill-Conceived FantasiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-717677477815102014-05-22T09:30:43.869+02:002014-05-22T09:30:43.869+02:00'Morning OG; I suspect that the whole argument...'Morning OG; I suspect that the whole argument about the perceived fundamentals of the psycho-spiritual life rests on the answer to that implied question. One of the heartening things I find about the life of the spirit, as compared with science, is that one isn't dependent upon fresh discoveries in the hope of advancement. One can always continue the personal search because that is what one feels drawn to do, without any necessary hope of reward. That search then becomes an act of love.<br /><br />Maybe this is not the most appropriate place to say this, but I am thankful for your supportive comment, particularly as you and yours are passing through a difficult time at present.<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-12760022349946278092014-05-21T23:35:39.309+02:002014-05-21T23:35:39.309+02:00Once again, your essay is a fascinating mixture of...Once again, your essay is a fascinating mixture of old wisdom and modern ideas from depth psychology. <br /><br />You've pegged the truth of projection exactly. It makes one wonder, sometimes, if there's any objective truth at all, or if it's all just projection. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-73322076054103677412014-05-20T19:50:38.639+02:002014-05-20T19:50:38.639+02:00Halle; Thank you for your support and encourageme...Halle; Thank you for your support and encouragement. It has been a privilege to communicate both with you and with others here. For as long as you continue to post, I will certainly read, and comment when appropriate.<br /><br />Bless you.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-59331055792157247742014-05-20T18:09:19.953+02:002014-05-20T18:09:19.953+02:00Dear Tom, you must follow your path.
I can only r...Dear Tom, you must follow your path. <br />I can only relate your question thinking of nudges that come to me in the same vein. Because it keeps me from 'living in the moment' it seems I too might back away soon.<br />For me, blogging and the reading of blogs is about reaching out. It is about the anticipation of the wisdom, the humour and yes, the love that flows back and forth. <br />Because of the challenges to my own thoughts here I grow inside.<br />To that extent, the blogging world has been far from broad and easy, for me.<br /><br />You likely know how I feel about the learning that you have gifted me over this short time. Just in case, thank you so much, and love's blessings always Tom.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-83087620649321492272014-05-20T16:18:18.862+02:002014-05-20T16:18:18.862+02:00Halle; And when one's Higher Self says that b...Halle; And when one's Higher Self says that blog-posting is part of the broad straight way, the comfortable way, what then? When it says that I should seek the strait and narrow way, should I not listen?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-82716159754832926642014-05-20T15:20:27.524+02:002014-05-20T15:20:27.524+02:00As Ellena would say, "Ah Schnucks!". I f...As Ellena would say, "Ah Schnucks!". I forgot to click the email follow-up button. The comments that fly here are almost as good as Tom's posts!!Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-43258753565101847982014-05-20T15:06:06.436+02:002014-05-20T15:06:06.436+02:00Because it is fun to do, certainly nobody would pa...Because it is fun to do, certainly nobody would pay me to do this, I imagine a conversation with my higher self. That conversation does what it can to further me while I'm here. <br />It is safe for me to say the higher self I can speak of is not THE Higher Self.<br />Hmmm, where have I read that??<br /><br />Looking forward to the next direction you take in GWYNT!Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-377783682199974812014-05-20T08:51:44.184+02:002014-05-20T08:51:44.184+02:00Geo; That may well be so. Another way of describi...Geo; That may well be so. Another way of describing the same phenomenon would be that we 'move' in such a way as to reduce the discomfort we feel. (By 'we' I mean all living creatures.) Yet one of the features of the spiritual life is that our chosen future must include a great deal of discomfort, a continual moving out of our comfort zone. And, as the saying goes, "intention counts for a very great deal." Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-50805731433685212902014-05-20T02:42:51.406+02:002014-05-20T02:42:51.406+02:00A feature of quantum mechanics describes reality a...A feature of quantum mechanics describes reality as virtual particles surrounding irreducible coordinates. It is our attention and intention --among a LOT of other variables-- that cause some particles to become actual. This also describes navigation: at every given point we try to choose a future that best includes us.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-88477800300164148752014-05-19T10:45:35.464+02:002014-05-19T10:45:35.464+02:00Susan; I think I agree that the idea of a state o...Susan; I think I agree that the idea of a state of Ultimate Enlightenment would present problems. For me, it would present the same kind of problem that Infinity presents to the mathematician and physicist. I look at both these ideas at something towards which we can move, but with no expectation that we can actually arrive. In fact, arrival is impossible by definition.<br /><br />Life is surely about 'process'. One thing that I discovered a long time ago is that the spiritual life is a non-stop process of beginning; that the end is never reached. Is it not that, and the spiritual uncertainties that abound, that makes the life of the spirit so exciting and more-ish? We are in a neverending process of becoming. It isn't easy, but it is infinitely(!) (or nearly so :) ) worthwhile.<br /><br />Finally, is there truly a goal to be reached? Is it not more about what we are? Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-85651913762172771682014-05-19T10:33:28.619+02:002014-05-19T10:33:28.619+02:00Natalie; Please do not worry if you feel late with...Natalie; Please do not worry if you feel late with your comments. I know you are very busy, and when they arrive your comments are always worth the wait.<br /><br />I have never connected the process of transmutation of lead into gold with the task of redemption of the ego-self. But now that you have raised the idea of haloes and reconciliation, it just seems to be so right, that inner transmutation, redemption and reconciliation are what the process of becoming real is all about. Thank you so much. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-68643056178306057792014-05-19T03:50:35.957+02:002014-05-19T03:50:35.957+02:00The concept of an ultimate Enlightenment seems str...The concept of an ultimate Enlightenment seems strange to me and, in a way, frightening because it indicates finality. The way I prefer to see spiritual growth is that there is a continuing process of Enlightening that never ends. <br /><br />Personally, I'm hoping this search continues after the death of the body. Once I could spend hours in meditation but I tire so easily these days and feel I'm nowhere close to the goal.<br />susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-56643263225390706422014-05-19T01:49:03.813+02:002014-05-19T01:49:03.813+02:00Tom, sorry I'm so late in commenting lately.
...Tom, sorry I'm so late in commenting lately.<br /><br />Maybe the task we have as inhabitants of this universe is precisely the alchemical one of transmuting lead into gold: the lead of our dull, heavy, ego-selves into the gold of a different but nonetheless real reality. Not after death but here and now in this life. Gold is a very interesting and powerful metaphor in this sense - like the haloes around the heads of saints on icons. Maybe rather than 'saintliness' it represents having reconciled the human with the divine.Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-20446530338687385642014-05-18T19:17:54.978+02:002014-05-18T19:17:54.978+02:00Ellena; In my experience, it is my ego that compl...Ellena; In my experience, it is my ego that complicates life. It is my ego that finds difficulties where none truly exist, because it refuses to see the world as it is in reality. As you put is so nicely, it finds a leaf, a bloom and then a stalk and the process goes on in circles. When I remember myself, and see the world through the eyes of reality, I see only a flower in glorious bloom.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-59389023295546292872014-05-18T19:13:04.181+02:002014-05-18T19:13:04.181+02:00Lindsay; There is not much that I can offer in res...Lindsay; There is not much that I can offer in response to your comment. The insight is a natural outgrowth of the process of 'knowing thyself'. I was stunned at the onset of clarity that I experienced when that process first began. <br /><br />And it is to recognise the reality of the person one is that dissolves the veil, both in us and that which we see around others, that is the key. And it isn't easy or painless. If it were, it wouldn't be worth the having.<br /><br />As for T.S.Eliot, a master indeed. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-62059491155026919632014-05-18T16:10:21.968+02:002014-05-18T16:10:21.968+02:00Don't we discover more and more difficulties t...Don't we discover more and more difficulties the deeper we search? We hold a leaf and then a bloom and then a stalk and another leaf and realize that we might never get to the root. <br />I am off the subject but that's all that came to my mind.<br />I wanted to read your post again prior to clicking publish but I could not without loosing what I wrote here so let it be). Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-70042167436958665342014-05-18T15:11:10.613+02:002014-05-18T15:11:10.613+02:00Hi Tom,
I think it is in the acknowledgment and ac...Hi Tom,<br />I think it is in the acknowledgment and acceptance of our charismas that we gain an insight into what is the realty for us or rather what is intended. <br /><br />In other words in the sharing of ones gifts, to be the person who you really are, honest, helpful, kind, impatient, compassionate, rational, impetuous or whatever …….the reality without the veil, and to see past the veil present in others. <br /><br />Life was not meant to be easy. Lovely poem from the master, exercising a gift! <br />Best wishes <br />Lindsay Byrneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11030132436987752741noreply@blogger.com