Teacher! Sensei! Master! (you know ;-) I have a question for those who can discern the spirit of spirituality.?
What is the 'spirit' of spirituality, particularly as it appears within R&S? I've noticed something happening here, especially when two or more are gathered with one accord.(could it be THAT spirit?) I'm not talking about the spirit of contention, (which is definitely here) and it doesn't necessarily involve religion, per se,(people from all walks are involved, including Atheists) and it's more than an exchange of technical information. Are those involved creating something, invoking something, or releasing something? (a spirit breaking free?) Is it an impersonal, collective energy? It feels energizing, but it doesn't feel impersonal. It feels joyful, loving and truthful. It shifts me. Can this energy be harnessed? How? Has the spirit of spirituality taken on a life of its own and once created cannot be destroyed, but only added to? Is it 'born' of the unity of those involved, or is it an outside agency that shows up when conditions are just right? Either way, what needs to happen?
Spiritualseeker2011-01-20T17:04:06Z
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Yes. It is almost a miracle! All it takes is a bit of focused mind to feel its energy. All along, we humans of the so called 'modern' innovative minds, have been striving to improvise on the outside, sophisticate, and re-quip ourselves. The ancients did just that, but entirely on the inside. And please see, they paced their rate of sophistication at an incredible speed. The documented eastern culture provides some evidence. The rituals, traditions and practices, are highly indicative of their perceptions beyond sensory level. We depend on gadgets to do almost the same things, but growing at snails pace. Communications, health, unconventional energy sources (this is the most significant one!) and all other broad classifications we can name today. What we call as blue-tooth was encased right withing their being. The spirit and its nature, its power was better understood by them, and they harnessed it directly (not through mutilation+manipulation of gross raw materials that we do today(and we end up littering the planet and space around with everlasting junk!). .. Some where, we accidentally tripped on("stepped on", ) their methods/methodology! .. I was wondering if somebody would notice it and mention it too! And here seems to be the very same question! "Impersonal collective energy!" ....... I suppose this phrase comes closest to describing it well with available words (at least for the present)! That "collective mind" is still 'stained' with some attributes of 'mind' and personality! Like that mob psychology (college students, viewing a movie at a theatre in a group shout and whistle for no reason, while individually they sit quiet and finish the movie!). .. Feels like some unseen hands has cleverly devised/designed it just for us here! "nicknames" hiding the profile, names, and personality, provides the essential ingredients to pool in "just" the energies! .. The spirit of spirituality, once created cannot be destroyed. Yes. It gets merged, to re-emerge when needed! That is what needs to happen. And it is amazing, "the way" it is happening! No amount of mechanisation (in the name of modernisation), could arrest it, could confine it. The spirit dominating the matrix!
Seems to me they are being moved. Effected by those things that cannot be clearly undetstood at this point. These things have the power to move as well as motivate and unite people. Some say that these things are the author of god and religion. The spirit in spirituality is to me the governing factors of all affairs. It may cause some to feel like they must not take any chances to others it causes them to feel as if there is no chance to take. But true a spirit does have life if it's allowed to live. It Also can be invoked if it once lived in the minds of men. They are born when a solution is imagined in the heart of those who believe.
G It is not all that mysterious. The adaptability of the human mental capacity has become self-fulfilling and is evolving faster that the body. When two people acknowledge each others individuality and find agreement on, at least the legitimacy of differing viewpoints, the experience becomes spiritual to the extent two, or more people can agree to enter the realm of non-territorial ism. Once viewpoints are being considered, rather than defended against, the realm of spirit is opened.
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I don't recall anyone else reporting this? If not, it might be a strong phenomenon that's local to you. It would impact different people differently, wouldn't it, if there's something "out there" that's manifesting as "in here" to you? In other words, I guess I discern very little, except the sagging knowledge that peak oil has passed and our material standards of life will be in decline from that, plus global warming, for a long time to come.
It is that which cannot be seen with our eyes, tasted with our tongue, smelt with our nose, touches with our skin, heard with our eyes. It is beyond our senses. It is that infinitesimal part of the Divine whole with occupies our body. That is our true identity and that is what we are, the spirit soul. We are not this body, mind, intelligence or ego. We have to realise that and remind others of the same. For this we are given this human body, so we can use our mind intelligence and ego to surrender the same to the divine whole so that at the end of our time here on earth, go back to where we came from never to return to this endless cycle of birth death old age disease fault misfortune unhappiness