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New to forum-- not sure how it works
DIR By: Thea
Date: January 2, 2015, 11:00 am
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Hi Jed,
While I don't always remember to look at what is looking, I
figured out that whenever I am not "empty," have an identity
problem. I guess I use a step process where I just let the
feelings or thoughts happen and witness them fully. It is
generally easy, after a minute or two, to really see that there
is "no one" who is upset, inadequate, angry, etc. A few months
ago, I "saw" that when I hold onto something, it is because I'm
afraid of re-identifying myself as "not that." In other words,
as not the one with the trauma, opinion, pain, belief, (and on
and on). It's as if I'm being flung into wide open space. It
feels as if I am doing this alone because my spiritual groups
are hung up on pretty words.
Experience has taught me that the next step will reveal itself
when I ask. I'm not quite clear on spiritual autolysis, but
there are times when it is clear there is no one home. I guess I
am asking for the next step.
Thea
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Re: New to forum-- not sure how it works
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: January 2, 2015, 11:23 am
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Dear Thea:
Welcome to the forum. It's pretty difficult to say what's next
without know more about you. I would guess that you already know
what is next and just have to relax and it will show up,
probably right in your face.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: New to forum-- not sure how it works
DIR By: Thea
Date: January 2, 2015, 12:11 pm
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I have had a suspicion there is something more (or other than)
since elementary school. As a teenager, I started with the usual
stuff and made my way through Seth, new age thought, Eckhart
Tolle, Course In Miracles, Byron Katie, your books --
non-duality stuff. The last books I actually read were Scott
Kiloby's Love's Quiet Revolution and Carse's Perfect Brilliant
Stillness. In the 80s, I actually owned a bookstore that sold
all this stuff until I figured out that all we were doing was
reading. I've always suspected that spiritual growth was
actually a process of divestment. For that reason, (except to
remind myself there are others out there) I don't really want to
read any more. I like the Sedona Method, and recently, I've
found the Youtube stuff by Tom Campbell to be helpful.
Right now, what is happening is that I feel as if I want to live
with fewer reference points, and I find that it is a rather
lonely place. It's not that I don't want to retreat into herd
mentality-- it is that in many instances, I couldn't if I wanted
to. Was it you who said that thinking is highly overrated? It
is, and it'd be nice to hang out with other bodies who are not
busy thinking, calculating, worrying, projecting. It's so funny
when people tell me what they think I must be thinking about
them or a situation. They don't believe me when I tell them I'm
not thinking.
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