Tantra

Blaze

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I think the library I sent you, Mermaid, has some books on Tantra.

But here's why most people just can't get into it: To practice Tantra, one must destroy ordinary appearances, mantling the body and mind of a deity or for westerners, a Daemon (not demon, though you could do that too).

Most people think in terms of "I am John," for example. If you remain John, then you'll never be anything more, since John has many limitations. "I am" is the gateway.
 
Ukpoohbear

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“All mystics are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well! Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.”
— Anthony de Mello
 
Ukpoohbear

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Blaze said:
I think the library I sent you, Mermaid, has some books on Tantra.

But here's why most people just can't get into it: To practice Tantra, one must destroy ordinary appearances, mantling the body and mind of a deity or for westerners, a Daemon (not demon, though you could do that too).

Most people think in terms of "I am John," for example. If you remain John, then you'll never be anything more, since John has many limitations. "I am" is the gateway.
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Yes I have heard of that concept from a few different sources. Even when I had therapy with a really nice lady, she did an exercise where you are recalling a memory but remembering it from the outside looking in, and so you are learning to see yourself as someone separate from the one having the experience. I first heard of the concept via Eckart Tolle.

I found the concept quite difficult to actualise though. The more I tried to detach from myself, the more I became stuck. However, as time has went on, and I have come across that same concept in its different forms, it makes more sense to me now.

Some of the memes posted above are about how emotions are just passing through; that everything passes, good and bad and that all is well, even when it isn’t. It is all about detachment. Or even that quote by Yoda, ‘learn to let go of everything you fear to lose.’ All these quotes are advising you to not be so fixed on who you are.
 
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david starling said:
What do cats do when they look in a mirror?
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I can give real life examples.

When my cats look in the mirror, they usually see me looking at them and they stare at me for a bit. They are waiting patiently for me to get out of bed and feed them :lol: but the expression on their wee faces also says ‘I love you,’ and they look happy but they are definitely also saying, ‘but I am waiting for you to feed me.’ :lol:
 
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‘For one should not trust normality too far; when people are very normal it is often a compensation - they are concealing insanity.’
— Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, page 386
 
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This is a thread about

4D

It contains advice within it that helps heal the human consciousness, using the realm of imagination and archetypes.

This thread, called Doom and Gloom, describes the stresses and strains of 3D issues - https://www.astrologyweekly.com/foru...=141804&page=5

The doom and gloom of 3D existence, the trauma and emotional anguishes that are borne from a 3D human existence, can be helped by accessing the 4D realm, which deals with imagination and the use of archetypes.

This thread, called 5D Inspiration!!, describes the 5D realm, which is more likely to be accessible, once healing takes place in the 3D realm. The 4D realm is where you go to to receive this healing, which helps you to transcend to the 5D.
- https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131840

All 3 realms are accessed recurrently throughout our life time. For example, once healing takes place in the 4D which allows you to have access to the 5D, it is normal to return to 3D in your every day life and for more healing, until more time is eventually spent accessing the 5D.
 
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Ukpoohbear

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‘Most people can’t face inner conflict at all; they impose a kind of artificial unity on life by clinging to the prejudices of their ego and repressing the voices of the unconscious’
— Robert A. Johnson - Inner Work
(Taken from Sophiacycles from IG)
 
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‘In truth, pain is the price of freedom. And the moment you are willing to pay that price, you will no longer be afraid. The moment you are not afraid of the pain, you’ll be able to face all of life’s situations without fear.’
— Michael Singer

The above quote is quite apt for the now, as Pluto has just begun its yearly retrograde motion at 28 degree Capricorn.
 
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Ukpoohbear

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Lodged

The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.

— Robert Frost
 
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Poems by Robert Bly

Things to Think

Think in ways you've never thought before.
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.

Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you've never seen.

When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.


One Source of Bad Information

There's a boy in you about three
years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty
Thousand years. Sometime it's a girl.

This child had to make up its mind
How to save you from death. He said things like:
``Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.''

You live with this child, but you don't know it.
You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy
At night. He's uninformed, but he does want

To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy
You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas.
Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you.
 
Ukpoohbear

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How to judge less:

‘When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.’

— Ram Dass
 
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Ukpoohbear said:
How to judge less:

‘When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.’

— Ram Dass
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Hello, that’s really beautiful if you don’t mind me saying. I’m new on here. Not sure if I can just join the conversation?
 
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