Ideas for a New Self, and a New World

by Pete on 01/09/2012

From We Create Our Own Reality:

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are “things” with a reality of their own, and you, an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, you paint the landscape of your life. Create a great day!

Who are we? One morning I woke up with these thoughts on my mind: all life is about intention; learning to think for ourselves; understanding; perspective; exploration; experimentation; discovery; loving and being loved; all I want to do is be me; oneness and sharing.

Two days later, I woke up with the thought, we’re “victims” when our thinking habits and behavior patterns are negative, and “benefactors” when they’re positive and loving. To change negative patterns of thought and behavior requires clear intention, determination, forgiveness, humor and creative aggression, in other words – audacity! We must understand we’re meant to learn from our experiences, not define ourselves by them. In the words of the rehab community, “it’s all good!”

We’re here to learn about who we are, what “reality” is, and what we’re capable of. We are gods becoming and we create our reality whether we do so consciously or not. We’re free to regard ourselves as passive victims of the creative process or active, creative participants. It’s part of an evolutionary process of expanding our awareness until we become consciously aware of our role in creating our own reality and co-creating our shared reality.

Have you ever marched in military formation or seen other people do it? All military Basic Training includes learning to march in formation. Besides moving in lock step, we sing sexually explicit songs in tune with our movements. It’s fun and makes us feel as though we’re one.

Societies and their institutions train us to march in lock step too. Sameness is favored over individuality for the sake of control. We teach a fixed curriculum and discourage each other from asking questions unless they’re of the who, what, when and where variety. Answers to “why” questions are discouraged because they threaten the control society attempts to maintain. “Why” questions are also discouraged because they imply that intention, or consciousness, is the source of matter and not the other way around, as classical science believes.

This limiting and hardened matrix of “official” beliefs slows our pace of spiritual development. Fueled by material need, we explore and develop new technologies while spiritual understanding goes unexplored and unappreciated. It doesn’t have to be this way and many of us, motivated by unexplainable mystical experiences in addition to the psychological pain of an uncertain future heightened by threatening world conditions, are responding to this need by throwing open the doors to spiritual exploration and understanding. More than anything, we want to make sense of our experience!

During childhood, many of us learn to think we’re bad, untrustworthy, inferior or undeserving. Failing to love or trust ourselves, we accept dependence on outside authority and external judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. We do less thinking and imagining for ourselves and do more following. Instead of examining and changing old beliefs that no longer serve us, we defend them as if they are who we are!

Ideas to set us free:

Consciousness (Energetic Awareness) is the source and substance of All That Is (the universe, All That Is, is alive).

You, me and All That Is are unique, individualized expressions of Energetic Awareness (Consciousness).

We are Aware Energy Beings creating a human reality.

As Energetic Awareness, All That Is is both one and separate.

We are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself!

LIVE for the love of Being and Creation!

When you (outer self or ego) feel lost or overwhelmed, stop what you’re doing and reach out to higher Awareness. Talk to your inner self or soul, or sit under the stars and talk with the universe. (Review: Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers)

Remember how good you are, how much you do and how well you do it.

Be who you love to be and do what you love to do.

Be yourself to the best of your ability!

Let love be the Light and the Way, not fear.

Live by Value Fulfillment and practice Idealism. In other words, determine the qualities of life and being you value most, your ideals, and actualize them to the best of your ability.

Make self-improvement and natural passion the centerpiece of your life and you will automatically change yourself, and the world, for the better.

Learn from your experiences; do not define yourself by them.

Do what works and makes you happy!

From a spiritual perspective, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment, there just IS. There is what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

“Nothing you can ever think, say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.” – the Energy of Unconditional Love

What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better?

If others don’t love, trust or believe in us, we must love, trust, and believe in ourselves, and them. We must provide each other encouragement and give ourselves room to grow. Fear and judgment imprison us while love and understanding set us free. Forget “The Audacity of Hope” and focus on The Hope of Audacity!

Use affirmationslike the following to replace common cultural beliefs that tell us we’re bad and we can’t trust ourselves. As you repeat them, be aware of how good they make you feel. If we don’t believe in ourselves, what hope is there for our future? They’re free, simple and easy to use. As powerful seed thoughts, they serve as antidotes to some of the most negative ideas we’re exposed to growing up. Plant them in the fertile soil of your imagination. Watch them grow and bear fruit. Believe in the good intention and healing power of your body and mind!

I love myself, because I am!

I love myself, because I can!

I trust myself, because I am!

I trust myself, because I can!

I believe in myself, because I am!

I believe in myself, because I can!

I love you, because you are!

I love you, because I can!

I trust you, because you are!

I trust you, because I can!

I believe in you, because you are!

I believe in you, because I can!

Take some time and think about how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it. We’re not perfect, but we are doing the best we can with what we know, even though we can and will learn more and do better in the future. Think about how well we treat each other at home, work, school, and in our travels. Things can always be a lot worse than they are in the present.

When we stop making judgments based on external values that define good and bad, right and wrong, and start paying attention to what works and makes us happy, our powers of observation and discernment will improve, as well as our imagination. Our awareness and understanding will expand; we will become more conscious of, and responsible for, the role we play in creating our personal and shared reality.

Find a great motto for yourself, one that inspires and directs you in a way you want to be inspired and directed. It may be inside you now. I’ve been directed by a motto most of my life but was unable to express it in words until recently. The ideas that inspire and direct my thoughts and actions are: Seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good.

If we like what we’re doing,  whether it’s learning to walk, talk, learn, parent, write, teach, create, organize or employ – we seek the greatest understanding to achieve the highest good, whatever we perceive that to be in the moment. We may have never expressed this impulse in words before but it’s what we do intuitively. When we become consciously aware of this natural ideal, we not only appreciate ourselves more, we multiply its effectiveness by being consciously aware of it and enthusiastically supporting it. 

For reference, read: A New Story of Origin.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

In other words, we create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, how can we afford NOT to question them?

The more we love and appreciate ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

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As with all things, take what you like and leave the rest.

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Why?

by Pete on 01/03/2012

To authority, “why” is a threat. To understanding, it is a friend.

The following article appeared Thursday, 22 December 2011, in The Guardian, a well known British newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/fallujah-us-marine-iraq.

I Am Sorry for the Role I Played in Fallujah

by Ross Caputi, former U.S. Marine

It has been seven years since the end of the second siege of Fallujah – the US assault that left the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians, and displaced hundreds of thousands more; the assault that poisoned a generation, plaguing the people who live there with cancers and their children with birth defects.

It has been seven years and the lies that justified the assault still perpetuate false beliefs about what we did.

The US veterans who fought there still do not understand who they fought against, or what they were fighting for.

I know, because I am one of those American veterans. In the eyes of many of the people I “served” with, the people of Fallujah remain dehumanized and their resistance fighters are still believed to be terrorists. But unlike most of my counterparts, I understand that I was the aggressor, and that the resistance fighters in Fallujah were defending their city.

It is also the seventh anniversary of the deaths of two close friends of mine, Travis Desiato and Bradley Faircloth, who were killed in the siege. Their deaths were not heroic or glorious. Their deaths were tragic, but not unjust.

How can I begrudge the resistance in Fallujah for killing my friends, when I know that I would have done the same thing if I were in their place? How can I blame them when we were the aggressors?

It could have been me instead of Travis or Brad. I carried a radio on my back that dropped the bombs that killed civilians and reduced Fallujah to rubble. If I were a Fallujan, I would have killed anyone like me. I would have had no choice. The fate of my city and my family would have depended on it. I would have killed the foreign invaders.

Travis and Brad are both victims and perpetrators. They were killed and they killed others because of a political agenda in which they were pawns. They were the iron fist of American empire, and an expendable loss in the eyes of their leaders.

I do not see any contradiction in feeling sympathy for the dead US Marines and soldiers and at the same time feeling sympathy for the Fallujans who fell to their guns. The contradiction lies in believing that we were liberators, when in fact we oppressed the freedoms and wishes of Fallujans. The contradiction lies in believing that we were heroes, when the definition of “hero” bares no relation to our actions in Fallujah.

What we did to Fallujah cannot be undone, and I see no point in attacking the people in my former unit. What I want to attack are the lies and false beliefs. I want to destroy the prejudices that prevented us from putting ourselves in the other’s shoes and asking ourselves what we would have done if a foreign army invaded our country and laid siege to our city.

I understand the psychology that causes the aggressors to blame their victims. I understand the justifications and defense mechanisms. I understand the emotional urge to want to hate the people who killed someone dear to you. But to describe the psychology that preserves such false beliefs is not to ignore the objective moral truth that no attacker can ever justly blame their victims for defending themselves.

The same distorted morality has been used to justify attacks against the native Americans, the Vietnamese, El Salvadorans, and the Afghans. It is the same story over and over again. These people have been dehumanized, their God-given right to self-defense has been delegitimized, their resistance has been reframed as terrorism, and US soldiers have been sent to kill them.

History has preserved these lies, normalized them, and socialized them into our culture: so much so that legitimate resistance against US aggression is incomprehensible to most, and to even raise this question is seen as un-American.

History has defined the US veteran as a hero, and in doing so it has automatically defined anyone who fights against him as the bad guy. It has reversed the roles of aggressor and defender, moralized the immoral, and shaped our societies’ present understanding of war.

I cannot imagine a more necessary step towards justice than to put an end to these lies, and achieve some moral clarity on this issue. I see no issue more important than to clearly understand the difference between aggression and self-defense, and to support legitimate struggles. I cannot hate, blame, begrudge, or resent Fallujans for fighting back against us. I am sincerely sorry for the role I played in the second siege of Fallujah, and I hope that some day not just Fallujans but all Iraqis will win their struggle.

- This piece originally ran on stopwar.org.uk -

Normally, we frame the information we share concerning personal and world events in terms of who, what, when and where. Directly involved or not, we laugh, we cry, we feel disgusted, angry, elated or threatened. Seldom do we ask “why” life is unfolding the way it is. What lies behind the decisions made and the actions taken? Why do we think and act the way we do?

Ross Caputi, after his traumatic awakening in Iraq, is starting to ask “why”. Isn’t it time for the rest of us to do the same, and “why” is not the only question we can ask. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? When we stop asking questions our minds stop working, leaving us at the mercy of those all too happy to use our energy against us. Isn’t is time for us to take responsibility for our own beliefs and our own actions?

Responsibility is the price of freedom. Freedom without responsibility creates chaos. By refusing to take responsibility for ourselves, we open the door to subjugation and tyranny.

Ross Caputi’s Iraq experience, and the following quote from the poem, Charge of The Light Brigade, by Alfred Lord Tennyson clearly illustrate the consequences of tyranny, our own or society’s:

“Their’s not to reason why, their’s but to do and die.”

Pete – Http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

In other words, we create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, how can we afford NOT to question them?

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them!

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The Power of Ideas

by Pete on 01/01/2012

We Create Our Own Reality

During the course of everyday events, we often forget the role of thoughts in the forging of our material reality. We get lost in the visible symbols, the material by-products of our imaginations, forgetting the invisible blueprints from which they, and we, emerge.

Pure energy, like money, its material equivalent, is shaped into matter and experience by thought. It can be used to lift up or smash down, to build character or destroy character, to express love or express hate, to beautify or make ugly.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are “things” with a reality of their own, and you, an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, you paint the landscape of your life. Create a great day!

Our own experiences demonstrate the power of ideas. An idea can make us happy or sad, loving or fearful, productive or unproductive. Like invisible blueprints, or bits of living DNA, when ideas become beliefs or conditioned thought and behavior patterns embedded in our subconscious, they automatically control our attention and direct our actions, unless we consciously override them. In other words, we are programmable. If our beliefs work for us and make us happy, what’s to worry about? However, if they do not work for us or make us happy, we must consciously act to change them or live with the consequences. Objects like clouds, people, buildings and words on a page are ideas expressed in material form but they are not the ideas themselves. These remain invisible to our physical senses.

Our redeeming quality is the self, which is our seat of power, and the moment, which is our point of power. When we stop letting established cultural beliefs and external value judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment (a recipe book for behavior), control our lives, we can live as free spiritual beings creating a human reality. Freedom without responsibility creates chaos, as we all know. In other words, responsibility is the price of freedom. If we understand that Consciousness (Aware Energy) is the sum and substance of All That Is, we will know that we’re both one and separate, and that we’re not only the product of creation; we’re creation itself!

From a spiritual perspective, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment; there just IS! There is what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

If we stop and take a close look, we’ll see that, essentially, this is how we organize our lives. We all want to do what work for us and makes us happy, despite external value judgments, social demands and expectations. Don’t you agree?

When we choose to learn from our experiences instead of define ourselves by them, our powers of observation, discernment and imagination grow, and our field of awareness expands. This includes not letting others define us by our experiences as well. In a value judgment world of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment, our thinking is limited. In religious schools, many of us are told, through bibles, words and actions, that we’re bad and we can’t trust ourselves. In public schools, the unspoken message is: sit down, shut up and do as I tell you; I’m the teacher and I know what’s best for you! These religious and secular cultural beliefs are damaging if we let them stand.

Over time, grades and value judgments take their toll on many students, especially if they’re being forced to think and do things they don’t believe in or want to do. Many students who go along with the program grow up to become the new oppressors. Though many are sympathetic, well-meaning and helpful, many believers are left who insist on defining others as empty sponges, blank slates or robots to be programmed. These beliefs weaken, confuse and frighten the outer self  or ego. Powerless and troubled, many become docile and dependent on outside authority while others rebel and become destructive as they struggle to survive and figure things out. This kind of treatment empowers some and dis-empowers others. Unless we refuse to believe these common cultural beliefs, we succumb to them in one way or another. What’s sad is that when we do succumb to them, we fill the roles we once abhorred, perpetuating reality as it is.

 As we think, we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create!

When we do less thinking and imagining for ourselves, we do more following. Instead of examining and changing old beliefs that no longer serve us, we defend them as if they represent who we are! By creating a new framework of ideas, by redefining the way we see ourselves, and the world, we can change the world and ourselves for the better.

Institutions are great places to throw open the door to new thinking. Here’s a list of university mottos, most of which appear on school letterheads and crests (list of over 500 common mottos):

Stanford University Motto: The wind of freedom is blowing, adopted when it opened in 1896. (To learn more about its history, visit the Stanford University website and read the speech by former Stanford President, Gerhard Casper, On the Origins and History of the Stanford Motto, “Die Luft der Freiheit weht” (The wind of freedom is blowing.), which he delivered October 5, 1995.)

Harvard University: Veritas – truth to Christ and Church.

Yale University: Lux et Veritas – Light and truth.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Mens et Manns – Mind and Hand.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech): The truth shall make you free (unused since 1990).

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): Fiat Lux – Let there be light.

Columbia University: In Lumine Tuo videbimus – In Thy light shall we see the light (Psalms 36:9)

Brown University: In Deo Speramus (In God we Hope)

Duke University: Eruditio et Religio (Knowledge and Faith)

Howard University: Veritas et Utilitas (Truth and Service)

Think of yourself as you perform the various acts and fill the roles you’ve chosen or accepted in life: child, student, parent, teacher, secretary, business owner, writer, plumber, truck driver. Don’t you find yourself wanting to do the best job you can so you, and the people around you, will be happy? Don’t you want to make sense of life? Several years ago, I woke up with the thought on my mind: Seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good. There it was! As soon as the words appeared in my mind, I knew they described my lifelong passion. It’s what kept me alive and made life worth living all these years. Because of my anger and disallusionment in early life, I determined it was more important for me to change myself, and the world, for the better than commit suicide or hide away somewhere. I knew that to serve the highest good, I had to seek the greatest understanding. I wanted to make sense of every experience in my life. I didn’t want to just explain those experiences that were earthbound, I wanted to explain all my experiences, including dreams. I wasn’t willing to sign off on half truthes and fairy tales. You can see Seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good etched into the digital stone above the entrance to the student quad at Stanford University. The doctored photograph appears at the top of the page, below the title of this article.

Not only is this ideal inspirational, it is personally empowering. It serves as a moral compass and gives every individual the right to challenge any belief, no matter how sacred it is deemed to be. Many of the university mottos above speak of truth and light but remain vague and ambiguous, leaving it up to the individual to interpret. Seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good is unambiguous. It is clear and direct. It speaks to everyone as an individual. It offers a pursuit that stirs curiosity and stimulates natural passion. It affirms and expands Joseph Campbell’s motto, “Follow your bliss.” 

 

What is more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better?

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

In other words, we create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, how can we afford NOT to question them?

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them!

Change yourself, and the world, for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! POTS

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Seth on Projecting Power onto Others

by Pete on 12/28/2011

Posted on Seth, Jane Roberts Yahoo Group by Oceanside Rick

As a society you may project it [power] upon the criminal, as a nation upon a foreign country. As an individual you may place this power upon an employer, a labor union, or any other segment of society. In whatever area you choose, though, you will feel relatively weak in comparison with the strength that you have projected outward. You meet your own denied power, you see, whenever you find yourself in a situation where you feel weak in comparison to another person or situation that frightens you. – Seth

Session 663 – The Nature of Personal Reality Copyright © 1974 by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts

Okay, so we feel weak in the presence of a person or organization who can fire us or otherwise cause us to suffer and even die, power they and we project. What do we do about it? What perspective, understanding or strategy will work for us, and make us happy? Do we simply give in to the demands and expectations of “superior” power? Do we play the game and find our niche within it? Do we armor ourselves against this hostile world and cower in fear, keeping our heads down as far as we can? Do we view it as a game or learning experience we’re here to embrace and outgrow? Are we here to discover who we are, to expand consciousness? Do we see ourselves as human beings having a human experience, or spiritual beings creating a human experience? Should we believe in ourselves or disbelieve in ourselves? Should we trust ourselves or distrust ourselves? Should we believe we’re good or evil? Should we believe we’re worthy or unworthy? Are we empty sponges waiting to be filled, robots in need of programming, or are we souls expressing ourselves through flesh? What works best for us, and makes us happy? What makes the most sense based on our own experience?

Doesn’t our power lie in the ability to imagine alternatives, in our power to determine what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t? When we buy into the right/wrong, good/bad, guilt/punishment external value system, a recipe book for living, our sense of self and power atrophies. The power of dreams and imagination goes unrecognized and underutilized. Seth suggests we live by value fulfillment and practice idealism – determine the qualities of life and being we value most, our ideals, and actualize them to the best of our ability. Isn’t this another way of saying: believe in yourself, do what works and makes you happy? As a world of souls in flesh, what works best, and makes us happy?

When we remove external value judgments from life’s equation, we’re left with so many delightful questions: how do I like to learn, what do I like to learn, who do I love to be, what do I love to do? It’s like a breath of fresh air. Again, to paraphrase Seth, we’re not bad; it’s our ideas about who we are, and what reality is that are bad or poorly conceived but then, what’s life if it’s not a learning and creation experience? What can we do today for the selves we’ll be tomorrow? We can wake up, wise up and rise up to our full potential as souls creating a human reality!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them!

Change yourself, and the world, for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! POTS

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Join the Real Talk World Yahoo Forum

by Pete on 12/19/2011

Join the Real Talk World Yahoo Forum, ask questions and look for answers. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better? Is greed good? Is competition more effective than collaboration? Is fear, vengeance and capital punishment better than love, understanding and forgiveness? What does money represent, how does it affect our lives and how can we best use it? What’s the best way to treat ourselves as individuals and nations? How can we make education more meaningful? What role should we let government and its institutions play in our lives? Do you have questions about sexuality and its expression, bring it on!

What are the root elements that drive behavior? Let’s examine society’s ”official” answers and how they affect our lives. Do they work for us or against us, do they make us happy or unhappy? Use your intuition, experience and imagination to figure out what makes the most sense to you. When we let go of external values of right and wrong, good and bad (recipes for living) and start paying attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, our powers of observation, imagination and discernment grow. Bring material from Seth, Elias, the God of Neale Donald Walsch, Abraham and any other channeled entity to the table if their ideas make sense to you. Let’s drop our human masks and be the spiritual beings we are, creating a human reality. Let’s make conscious what we know unconsciously!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them!

Change yourself, and the world, for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! POTS

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Is Greed Good?

by Pete on 11/30/2011

Some of us believe that greed is good and some of us believe that greed is bad, even evil. What is it and when was the last time we actually stopped to think about this idea? Why do we act as though we know the answer to something when we don’t? This brings up another question: are we here to learn and grow in understanding of who or what we are or are we here to be automatons, “good citizens” who go along with the flow without question?

Instead of reacting to the idea of “greed” with old judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, why don’t we reexamine it with open hearts and minds? Why continue to play the  I’m right, you’re wrong; I’m good, you’re bad; I’m smart and you’re stupid game when it hasn’t worked in the past? Is there any time this strategy has gotten us anywhere beyond high blood pressure or violent reaction?

So, is greed good, is it bad or is it something in between? For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume there is no right or wrong, good or bad, there just IS! There is what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t. In the end, isn’t this how we organize our lives anyway? Don’t we all want to do what works best for us and makes us happy?

Definition of Greed

The Encarta Dictionary defines “greed” as:

a “strong desire for more” or, “an overwhelming desire to have more of something such as money than is actually needed.”

The English Dictionary defines greed as:

  1.  a “strong wish to have more money, things, or power than you need.
  2.  a strong wish to have more food than you need.

While we’re at it, what stands behind the impulse to want more of anything than we need?

As we think, we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

 The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them!

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What to do About Corporate Greed and Sell-Out Politicians

by Pete on 11/15/2011

Response to article (and great comments), Bank of America Makes Millions Charging Fees for Unemployment Benefits; written by Marie Diamond and published on Think Progress:

Track these decisions back to their source and hold the politicians involved accountable. If it is found they made these decisions for personal gain or cronyism; if it is found they’re not doing what works best for ALL of us, as members of this society, shouldn’t we challenge their behavior and, if they refuse to improve, remove them from their positions of power like we remove irresponsible drivers from the road? This goes for corporate heads as well. If they fail to be good earth stewards, if they do not work for the interest of ALL, shouldn’t we, as a responsible society, remove them from their positions of ownership and power as well? shouldn’t ownership be a privilege, not a right? After all, aren’t we more the property of the earth than it, our property? Isn’t responsibility the price of freedom and long-term human survival?

Some of us live in a world the majority of us don’t want to live in. It’s a world where success is defined by money, power and privilege. If the majority of us want to live in a world where love, truth and joy define success, we must become the change we want to see in the world. If we want to live more for the love of being and creation and less out of the fear of suffering and death, we must insist on keeping the Law of the Jungle in the jungle and out of society! Aren’t we spiritual beings creating a human experience? Who do we want to be? What do we want to do?

What are your thoughts on this matter?

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Seth – Physical Reality Emerges from Subjective Reality

by Pete on 09/07/2011

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by Oceanside Rick, Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:11 am (PDT)

SethWhen I speak of the dream world, I am not referring to some imaginary realm, but to the … world of ideas, of thoughts, of mental actions, out of which all form as you think of it emerges. In actuality this is an inner universe rather than an inner world. Your physical reality is but one materialization of that inner organization. All possible civilizations exist first in that realm of inner mind.

In the beginning, then, the species did not have the kinds of forms they do now. They had pseudo forms, dream bodies, if you prefer – and they could not physically reproduce themselves. Their experience of time was entirely different, and in the beginning the entire earth operated in a kind of dream time. In your terms, this meant that time could be quickened, or lengthened. It was a kind of psychological time.

Again, forms appeared and disappeared. In your terms of time, however, the dream bodies took on physical forms(, although) physical reproduction was impossible. That did not happen to all of the species at once, however. For a while, then, the earth had a mixed population of species who had completely taken on physical forms, and species who had not. The forms, however, whether physical or not, were complete in themselves. Birds were birds, and fish fish.

In the beginning there were also species of various other kinds: combinations of man-animal and animal-man, and many other “crossbreed” species, some of fairly long duration in your terms. This applies to all areas. There were dream trees, with dream foliage, that gradually became aware within that dream (with gentle emphasis), turning physical, focusing more and more in physical reality, until their dream seeds finally brought forth physical trees.

There may be other terms I could use, in some ways more advantageous than the term, “the dream world.” I am emphasizing this dream connection, however, because the dream state is one familiar to each reader, and it represents your closest touchstone to the kind of subjective reality from which your physical world emerges. The dream state appears chaotic, shadowy, suspicious, or even meaningless, precisely because in life you are so brilliantly focused in daily reality that dreams appear to be staticky objective background noise, left over from when you sleep. But that is how physical experience would seem to someone not focused in it, or inexperienced with its organization.

Again, the world came into being in the same way that any idea does. The physical world expands in the same way that any idea does. I am speaking for your edification of the world you recognize, of the earth you know, but there are probable earths, of course, as real as your own. They coexist with your own, and they are all in one way or another connected.

Each one carries hints and clues about the others. In the terms used by science, there was no evolution in linear terms, but vast (long pause) explosions of consciousness, expansions of capacities, unfoldings on the parts of all species, and these still continue. They are the inner manipulations with which consciousness presents itself.

Later in the book I will discuss some of these, but they represent intuitive leaps of new understandings. The pattern of animal behavior, for example, is not at all as set and finished as you suppose. Your physical experience is a combination of dream events interlaced with what you call objective acts.

Were it not for your myths, you would have discovered no “facts.”

Session 887, Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Vol. 1, copyright © 1986 by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts

Links to related Seth articles:

Seth on the Impulse (Will?) to Be

Seth – Trust Yourself

Seth on Man’s Purpose

Afterthoughts

Science tells us that consciousness arises from matter even though our personal experience tells us otherwise. Could it be that we stubbornly insist on believing in science instead of ourselves? Popular belief says that consciousness is limited to brain function. While we remain hobbled to this belief, do we fail to see that Consciousness (Awareness and Energy) lies behind the organization and expression of All That Is? Do we fail to see that the activity and integrity of each day, each cell, each molecule and each atom is maintained and controlled by a combination of self-awareness and other-awareness?

Isn’t awareness and energy everywhere and everything? Isn’t it the essence of who we are? How else can we explain the exquisite detail that exists at all levels of being? Even our dreams are self-organizing and perfect, from the smallest to the largest, from the simplest to the most complex expression of being. As we think (as awareness and energy interact), we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create.

Our brains and bodies connect us to the earth’s unique field of being and creation. If it were not for our bodies and the development of our outer egos (human self-identity), how could we continue to experience ourselves as human beings over a lifetime of moments, from childbirth to death from old age? If it were not for our bodies and outer egos, time and space would not play such a prominent role in our experience. As they do in dreams, the most dominant and energetic energy forms (thoughts, feelings and intentions) would spontaneously catch us up in their expressions. Without physical bodies and outer ego identities, our physical relationships and world, time and space, would change as rapidly and spontaneously as our thoughts.

Without a strong sense of self and purpose, we lack an anchor and become more like a leaf in the wind. We blow about willy-nilly, driven by forces around us that are stronger and better organized than ourselves. In whatever form we express ourselves, our freedom and strength lies in paying attention to and determining what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t. To do anything less is to be blown about by the wind.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up. (from We Create Our Own Reality)

For further research, read: A New Story of Origin

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

Change the world and yourself for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! (POTS)

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The Trouble with Money is not Money

by Pete on 08/17/2011

Is it possible for any of us to completely understand why things are happening the way they are today, or any day? Often, what we see as Armageddon one minute becomes our salvation the next.

Putting these larger thoughts aside, why do some millionaires and billionaires, and want-to-be millionaires and billionaires, hate paying taxes so much they’d rather spend their fortunes to destroy our social contracts and turn us against each other? Why not spend that money on taxes for the benefit of all? Or, why not spend it looking for solutions to problems like over-population, resource management and unfettered growth instead of making them worse? Why would they choose to be part of the problem instead of the solution? Do you remember the game of Monopoly? When one or two people own all the money and property, the game’s over. Money, like blood needs to circulate, otherwise, society, like the body, die.

Waxing philosophical again, perhaps they are part of the solution and we can’t see it. Yet, there is a part of me that yearns for us all to work together instead of at odds. It seems more fun and elegant that way, doesn’t it?

It’s nice to be good at something, even making money but when it goes far beyond filling our personal need, it becomes disruptive. It becomes an irrational obsession like drug addiction. It reflects an imbalance between mind, body and spirit. It becomes an unrealistic expectation in the power of money to make us feel safe and happy, spiritual/emotional qualities no amount of money or property can buy.

When emotions like fear or greed rule our thoughts, we turn the world against us because we have turned against the world.

It is not the individual or the corporation that needs to be controlled so much as it is an emotional appetite for money, power and privilege that is so large and so great, it would consume or control everything in sight. It is not that we are bad, it is our ideas about who we are that are bad.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

Change the world and yourself for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! (POTS)

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Seth on After Death 2

by Pete on 07/22/2011

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by Oceanside Rick, Sat Jul 9, 2011, 8:10 am (PDT)

SethIf [after death] you firmly believe that your consciousness is a product of your physical body, then you may attempt to cling to it.

There is an order of personalities, an honorary guard, so to speak, who are ever ready to lend assistance and aid, however.

Now this honorary guard is made up of people in your terms both living and dead. Those who are living in your system of reality perform these activities in an “out of body” experience while the physical body sleeps. They are familiar with the projection of consciousness, with the sensations involved, and they help orient those who will not be returning to the physical body.

These people are particularly helpful because they are still involved with physical reality, and have a more immediate understanding of the feelings and emotions involved at your end. Such persons may or may not have a memory of their nightly activities. Experiences with projection of consciousness and knowledge of the mobility of consciousness, are therefore very helpful as preparations for death.

You can experience the after death environment beforehand, so to speak, and learn the conditions that will be encountered.

This is not, incidentally, necessarily any kind of somber endeavor, nor are the after death environments somber at all.

To the contrary, they are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality you now know.

You will simply be learning to operate in a new environment in which different laws apply, and the laws are far less limiting than the physical ones with which you now operate.

In other words, you must learn to understand and use new freedoms.

Session 535, Seth Speaks, the Eternal Validity of the Soul, Copyright © 1972 by Jane Roberts

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

Change the world and yourself for the better with Philosophy On T-Shirts! (POTS)

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Seth on After Death

July 22, 2011

Posted on SethJaneRoberts@yahoogroups.com by Oceanside Rick, Fri 7/8/2011, 6:17 AM Again, as mentioned earlier, an individual can be so certain that death is the end of all, that oblivion, though temporary, results. In many cases, immediately on leaving the body there is, of course, amazement and a recognition of the situation. At many funerals, the [...]

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Seth on Exterior Religious Dramas

July 14, 2011

Posted on Seth_Practicing_Idealist by Oceanside Rick, Wed Jul 13, 2011, 6:01 am (PDT) The exterior religious dramas are of course imperfect representations of the ever unfolding interior spiritual realities. The various personages, the gods and prophets within religious history—these absorb the mass inner projections thrown out by those inhabiting a given time span. Such religious [...]

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Seth on Society and Government

July 13, 2011

Seth (ESP Class, 3-5-74) Class Transcript At the beginning of the evening, two of the couples in the class announced their forthcoming marriages. Class then got into a discussion of marriage and its place, or lack of place, in today’s society. Seth entered the conversation: You form your society. Your society is not some thing, [...]

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Seth on Man’s Purpose

July 8, 2011

Posted on SethJaneRoberts@yahoogroups.com by Oceanside Rick [oceanside77usa@yahoo.com], Mon 6/27/2011, 6:00 AM Physically speaking, man’s “purpose” is to help enrich the quality of existence in all of its dimensions. Spiritually speaking, his “purpose” is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create [...]

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Handling Incompatibility

July 7, 2011

Snake People The following was posted by Kasey at Seth and Personal Reality, Wed Jul 6, 2011, 8:32 pm (PDT) Greetings, The poem about the snake was inspired (by) a prominent member of my church.  The problem is that she angers others and then blames them for not understanding her. It would be humorous except [...]

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Seth – Trust Yourself

June 29, 2011

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you cooperate with others easily and automatically as a part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. You are not jealous of talents you do not possess, and so you can openheartedly encourage them in others. Because you recognize your own [...]

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Seth – About “Mistakes”

June 11, 2011

When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. You made many mistakes. Finally, however, you could form the letters quite easily. You felt triumphant. You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. You had accomplished something. Then you were told that you had [...]

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The Hope of Audacity (Boldness)

June 9, 2011

Awareness and action define Consciousness. Without Energy, or the power to act, Consciousness cannot know or express itself, and without the desire for Consciousness to know and express itself, what gives rise to action? One needs the other for anything to exist! The Natural Law of Consciousness and Creation There is no right or wrong, good [...]

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Seth on Fanaticism – Part 3

May 15, 2011

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by: “Oceanside Rick” Tue May 10, 2011 7:21 am (PDT) This is the last part of a series of posts about fanaticism, as requested by a member of the Abraham list. – Rick SESSION 854, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Copyright 1986 by Jane Roberts MAY 16, 1979, [...]

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Seth and the Safe Universe!

May 7, 2011

Seth’s ideas on a safe universe were gathered and collated by Lynda Madden Dahl of Seth Network International (SNI). – Pete Hi Seth Friends, It’s good to be talking to you again, although I don’t really have any Sethian news to pass on this month. I do, however, come bearing gifts. Lots and lots of [...]

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