Monthly Archives: September 2015

on death … “The caterpillar might think it is dying, that it is making its coffin.”

“…the caterpillar itself does not know it is going to become a butterfly either … if it can’t see that happening to other butterflies. The caterpillar might think it *is* dying, that it *is* making its coffin. Then, big surprise! … Continue reading

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“We are God. Each of us, all of it…. but we choose to be lesser at the same time … to have the experience of both … to make it more fun….”: The Nature of Us and God

“Down the line, eventually, in some field of experiences that are part of larger experiences is us, each of us …. single points of observation … an ever changing organization of Experience aware of itself … existing within some mix … Continue reading

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“Life and spirituality are not all about trying to deny and will out of existence one aspect of Realty, and to magnify another. God includes it all. And that includes sacred and profane. “

“…there is no sacred or profane. God includes it all … the sacred and the profane. If Truth is God, then embracing what is, is equivalent to embracing God. No points for blind belief. Life and spirituality are not all … Continue reading

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“the path to bliss leads sometimes through despair and hopelessness”: Wounded Deer and Centaurs, on relationships

…on relationships, Sure It’s Hard….” to think that it is easy is probably to be an impostor (p. 134). He asserts that the people who are really making the changes in male-female relationships and becoming fuller human beings, you can … Continue reading

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“So, in fact, we can refer to God as funny, even. And to motives for existence that include fun, adventure, magnificence, and such. Interest, maybe. Who knows, maybe challenge?”

“In finding out we are God, the same substance as God — which is Experience — we realize that we actually might have an idea of God’s “motives” or “reasons,” for lack of better words, for manifesting as physical reality, … Continue reading

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God’s *glory*? The *glory* of kings and conquerors? … It’s really just the language of peasants, sucking up to “the man”

“you’re still fucking peasants as far as i can see.” — John Lennon “We used to say that God did things for His own glory … that he manifested in form to glorify Himself in creation. But that is a … Continue reading

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“As we found out, God is bigger than we thought. Loving. All-Merciful. And God hardly cares about things like sins and blasphemy.”

“We have ideas like blasphemy because of the old and mistaken notions of hell but even more so of God being stern, fatherly, and punishing. We have notions of sin because of both of those. And we talk about fear … Continue reading

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“Humans, in their evolution from planetmates, for survival advantages became crazier. And this is when we became more human…. “

“Humans, in their evolution from planetmates, for survival advantages became crazier. And this is when we became more human…. It was a tradeoff. We became pretty good at surviving  … we managed to overpopulate this planet. But we’re crazed mother-fuckers … Continue reading

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“we were prodigal humans, thinking we were separate and alone…now we are being embraced by the Universe…told we are daughters and sons of it…of the same substance”

“…with this new understanding we are being brought back into the fold of God. Like we were prodigal humans, thinking we were separate and alone, and now we are being embraced again by the Universe and being told that we … Continue reading

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“Poof! Consciousness out of a hat!”: We discovered the idea brain produces consciousness, magically, as byproduct of number of chemical interactions, is not only wrong, it’s ridiculous

Poof! Consciousness out of a hat!   “What quickly had to be faced is that the thousands of year old assumption … as old as there has been history … the idea that the brain results in consciousness … that … Continue reading

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