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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: syncro] 2
#28607154 - 01/02/24 02:01 PM (25 days, 17 hours ago) |
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โEgo is the only thing going onโ sounds like something the ego would say ๐
I like to think of the ego as a an itty bitty part of the Self that got carried away with itself and adventurously stuck its head out a bit too far, before the rest of Self can catch up with it.
-------------------- "Things are true that I forget, but no one taught that to me yet." A disembodied-re-embodied consciousness be-ing (With all the accoutrements.)
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: Nillion] 2
#28607876 - 01/03/24 12:11 AM (25 days, 6 hours ago) |
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One thing I learned about from The Secret Doctrine.. is the concept of Great breaths and lifes of Brahma..
The first thing was the soul/Creator.. which then divided into other people.
Adam Kadmon (me).
But how long the world has existed.
186 great breaths.
Each breath is around:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, years.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28603199 - 12/30/23 10:35 AM (28 days, 20 hours ago) |
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Ecclesiates ch1 v2 comes to mind.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28604157 - 12/31/23 05:08 AM (28 days, 1 hour ago) |
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Where charity etc is sincere it is counter to ego. Ego would complicate it.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: Nillion] 1
#28606818 - 01/02/24 09:09 AM (25 days, 21 hours ago) |
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I'm not saying I agree with everything she says, and those parts had faded in memory, but her explorations of history and creationism are deep and unique to me anyway, but I'm kind of a literary dummy. I was attracted by the foundations in ancient Brahmanism, adding in perspective of Western Occult of which I was seeking more understanding.
I noticed you also casually threw out Agrippa at a glance it seems. These are extensive teachings and historical views.
I don't care for her views on the races, but in creationism in the subtle implications and intrigue of opposition to the church, though I have no opposition to Christianity per se.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: Nillion] 1
#28607142 - 01/02/24 01:53 PM (25 days, 17 hours ago) |
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As modern scientific views will likely be considered in another century. I'm considering whether to drop $20 to get on that journal. Other pieces speak of deep complexities around colonialism in India and contradicting views among Theosophists including natives who adopted the standard. I'm more interested in the esoteric views which I hope Santucci will address.
As for Brendan's question, the conflicting stories of Eden I assume originate between early Christianity and the church, the biting of the apple bringing gnosis at Christ's urging. Theosophy appears to carry on that view.
Yogananda's teachings draw from the yogas you described in the other thread, older than his particular rise, and similar teachings are from many of the foundations there.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28607232 - 01/02/24 02:36 PM (25 days, 16 hours ago) |
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I even have another version the story of Eden, though it's not public. Lilith is interesting to say the least.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28607734 - 01/02/24 09:16 PM (25 days, 9 hours ago) |
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I've been meaning to write a book before I die, but I have shared some of the material with loved ones. I mostly write things down in paper notebooks and move on to new topics.
I can address the allegory of Eden, instead of sharing my version of historical Eden, so to speak.
In this, the trees are systems of knowledge and Adam is an every-man character aka You. The fruit is the result of the system of knowledge, both in terms of action and consequence. There are two types of fruit, that which hastens your demise and that which prolongs your life. The good truth, or right teachings help a person grow and thrive. They are of the tree of life and their fruit is worth eating. The other fruits, these are things like reckless behaviors and addictions, they are very attractive and taste lovely, but leave one empty and can hasted death in endless ways.
In this sin is not something that causes damnation in an afterlife, rather it is simply harmful to the person who engages in it while alive because it can shorten and or end their life. Life is sacred. Don't bet or count on another one, take care of and appreciate this one as if it is the only one you get, even if you believe you get more.
This part of the allegory of Eden. I am not aware of others making it public.
Understanding it relates to the: By their fruit ye shall know them material. The trees being spoken of are not people, but rather are traditions of knowledge passed down. The whole thing is an ancient pun because writing was done on leaves of palms and on pounded bark and stems and so the idea of systems of knowledge being trees was evidently amusing enough to certain scribes that they stuck with the allegory for thousands of years. Punny right?
So I can at least share that.
Edited by Nillion (01/02/24 09:18 PM)
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock] 1
#28607888 - 01/03/24 12:41 AM (25 days, 6 hours ago) |
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Race has proved itself disgusting as a concept, why use it?
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Quote:
lostintimenspc said: Race has proved itself disgusting as a concept, why use it?
Its the ways things were suited in the past..
The root races existed until a better root initiated itself..
Now is different
Black or white or Asian.. we all stand on this Earth as united beings.. each deserving its own utility..
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Ego is the only thing going on!
#28602963 - 12/30/23 05:38 AM (29 days, 1 hour ago) |
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Discuss!
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28602984 - 12/30/23 06:11 AM (29 days, 55 minutes ago) |
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โI Am God and There is No Other!โ The Boast of Yaldabaoth
No worries. One of my outbursts came to mind. "There is no Dharma!"
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: Nillion]
#28604039 - 12/31/23 12:35 AM (28 days, 6 hours ago) |
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Cool quote^
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28604041 - 12/31/23 12:36 AM (28 days, 6 hours ago) |
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Also I think there is degrees of egotistical behaviors.
From purely selfish to almost selfless.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: syncro]
#28605350 - 01/01/24 12:58 AM (27 days, 6 hours ago) |
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But you can be proud of giving and helping people.. it is an upstanding citizen.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28605368 - 01/01/24 02:16 AM (27 days, 4 hours ago) |
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It's complicated.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: syncro]
#28605548 - 01/01/24 08:45 AM (26 days, 22 hours ago) |
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I think you're right. Ego can do some good.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: syncro]
#28606567 - 01/02/24 12:33 AM (26 days, 6 hours ago) |
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Maybe ego is what you get for biting the fruit of good and evil..?
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28606795 - 01/02/24 08:43 AM (25 days, 22 hours ago) |
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Well now you gotta read the Secret Doctrine. It's funny I don't mind either version of Eden. Psyop aside (who cares), it is for the swan to extract the milk from the water.
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Re: Ego is the only thing going on! [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28606801 - 01/02/24 08:46 AM (25 days, 22 hours ago) |
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Blavatsky? Wasn't she proven a fraud?
I was given all of her books by a friend, I read them and then gave them away. They aren't something I can take seriously.
What in them do you think is worthwhile or not totally made up?
Here is some of her material:
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No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African Tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The 'sacred spark' is missing in them and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe
She's doesn't know what she is talking about. Missing sacred spark because of a skin color and historical cultural difference?
The secret in her Doctrine is that she was an ignorant superstitious racist.
Edited by Nillion (01/02/24 08:50 AM)
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