T had cheated and set an alarm every morning to do the
CHALLENGE.
The issues she had considered included Brexit, and she had had to question, question, question, trying to weigh up the alternate objective consciences.
N had noticed that sometimes the news was reported only in one way. It was not often conflicted. This month there had been a massive amount of Brexit news, there had been a huge conflict which had been acted out in the world. What it said to him was that it was all illusion. It was a merry-go-round - somehow we get pulled into the world by these issues and conflicts which seem to have become of supreme importance, and feel that we have to take opinions and sides, but really they are not that important to us in terms of our souls and our development on this world. It was like a very low level of debate.
I began ... to investigate the causes in which way and why the crystallisation of the mentioned factors obtained from the particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of OUR COMMON FATHER CREATOR for the actualising of the Divine being-impulse of objective conscience, proceeded in their presences, that is to say, just in their said subconsciousness, and thus avoided that final degeneration ... and I was convinced that this strange anomaly there fully justifies one of the numerous wise sentences of our highly esteemed, irreplaceable, and honourable Mullah Nassr Eddin which states:
‘Every-real-happiness-for-man-can-arise-exclusively-only-from-some-unhappiness-also-real-which-he-has-already-experienced.’
O said this meant that happiness, then, was only alleviating suffering. That was what he was saying, there was nothing else. L said, in other words, no pain, no gain. RM said that pain wakes us up. N asked how long it wakes us up for. T said not for very long. RM said for as long as it takes to be comfortable again. M said he thought pain did not necessarily mean that you evolved, because a lot of people could resist the pain and become quite tolerant to what they felt, without transmuting the pain and being with it, and coming to a place of peace. He felt that it definitely affected the way we wanted to control things when we were in pain. We tried to manipulate situations because that made us feel empowered, but in fact there were solutions from which we were able to make peace with it, and the action followed naturally after that, which was more to do with being, rather than doing. D asked M if he was saying that the pain should not be avoided, because if you put it down it could manifest in other ways. M said he was saying that there was a natural mechanism in us, that rejected pain. It just wanted good experiences.
The mentioned duality of their general psyche proceeded because on the one hand various what are called ‘individual-initiatives’ began to issue from that localization arising in their presences, which is always predominant during their waking existence, and which localization is nothing else but only the result of the accidental perceptions of impressions coming from without, and engendered by their abnormal environment, which perceptions in totality are called by them their ‘consciousness’; and on the other hand, similar individual-initiatives also began to issue in them, as it is proper to them, from that normal localization existing in the presences of every kind of being and which they call their subconsciousness.
M asked what was meant by the text: localization is nothing else but only the result of the accidental perceptions of impressions coming from without. RM said it was an interpretation, an accidental perception or conception. M said he thought that was exactly what he was pointing to, that your perceptions were not yours. There was no reference point that was you in that. It was all coming in, and you made something fixed of it which gave a sense of you, and that was where the problems started. T said that when you tried to draw, then all the questions started. It was extremely challenging to ask what you were looking at. What was it that you were trying to draw? She thought the arts helped people use their perceptions and learn the limitations of what your perceptions were at that moment, so it took tremendous work to change your perception.
| Every morning, when you read the news, and you come across something where there is a conflict, try to be aware of the two alternative "objective consciences" at work. When you are thinking of one, look in one direction, and when you are thinking of the other, look in the other direction, physically moving your head. |
N had noticed that sometimes the news was reported only in one way. It was not often conflicted. This month there had been a massive amount of Brexit news, there had been a huge conflict which had been acted out in the world. What it said to him was that it was all illusion. It was a merry-go-round - somehow we get pulled into the world by these issues and conflicts which seem to have become of supreme importance, and feel that we have to take opinions and sides, but really they are not that important to us in terms of our souls and our development on this world. It was like a very low level of debate.
L had found an app called Perspecs news, and that gave every day a few topics from the news, and gives both sides of each story. So he was able to consider an issue, look in one direction, read, look in the other direction, read the other side - he had done it a number of times. Over time, he had a similar feeling to what Nigel described, and came to the conclusion that it didn't really matter. In the end, it was people arguing about things which weren't that important. For example, whether we remained in the EU or not, Britain was an island off the coast of mainland Europe. During the month, we had witnessed something very similar in Parliament. Two points of view represented literally by the two directions, which the Speaker puts to a vote, saying ayes to the right, noes to the left. It was also analogous to the general effort to stay awake - we are planning to do one thing and get distracted by another, and that is a like a dialogue - do we do what we want, and stay awake, or do we succumb to gravity and do something different instead?
T responded to L's conclusions that the debates over issues did not really matter. One of the things that she had looked at was on the surface frivolous, a conflict between whether women should wear high heels or not. It caused spine problems and difficulty walking, which affected the whole body and how people felt about themselves and their place in the world. The thesis / antithesis did matter. What people decided in their minds as a group to do, had consequences in people's lives. She thought that related to the violence in human communication. O said she thought N was speaking on a different level. On a different scale, maybe it didn't matter, but on this scale, where we lived in the world, it did matter. T said that when the community were acting and living together, individually we could take a step back. N said that he meant we must not get too identified with a historic process that was going on. He was not saying that the matters to do with Brexit were not important at some level.
The reading continued from Chapter 27 of Beelzebub's Tales.
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The reading continued from Chapter 27 of Beelzebub's Tales.
‘Every-real-happiness-for-man-can-arise-exclusively-only-from-some-unhappiness-also-real-which-he-has-already-experienced.’
O said this meant that happiness, then, was only alleviating suffering. That was what he was saying, there was nothing else. L said, in other words, no pain, no gain. RM said that pain wakes us up. N asked how long it wakes us up for. T said not for very long. RM said for as long as it takes to be comfortable again. M said he thought pain did not necessarily mean that you evolved, because a lot of people could resist the pain and become quite tolerant to what they felt, without transmuting the pain and being with it, and coming to a place of peace. He felt that it definitely affected the way we wanted to control things when we were in pain. We tried to manipulate situations because that made us feel empowered, but in fact there were solutions from which we were able to make peace with it, and the action followed naturally after that, which was more to do with being, rather than doing. D asked M if he was saying that the pain should not be avoided, because if you put it down it could manifest in other ways. M said he was saying that there was a natural mechanism in us, that rejected pain. It just wanted good experiences.
The mentioned duality of their general psyche proceeded because on the one hand various what are called ‘individual-initiatives’ began to issue from that localization arising in their presences, which is always predominant during their waking existence, and which localization is nothing else but only the result of the accidental perceptions of impressions coming from without, and engendered by their abnormal environment, which perceptions in totality are called by them their ‘consciousness’; and on the other hand, similar individual-initiatives also began to issue in them, as it is proper to them, from that normal localization existing in the presences of every kind of being and which they call their subconsciousness.
M asked what was meant by the text: localization is nothing else but only the result of the accidental perceptions of impressions coming from without. RM said it was an interpretation, an accidental perception or conception. M said he thought that was exactly what he was pointing to, that your perceptions were not yours. There was no reference point that was you in that. It was all coming in, and you made something fixed of it which gave a sense of you, and that was where the problems started. T said that when you tried to draw, then all the questions started. It was extremely challenging to ask what you were looking at. What was it that you were trying to draw? She thought the arts helped people use their perceptions and learn the limitations of what your perceptions were at that moment, so it took tremendous work to change your perception.
