Anoesjka

Nobody even looks! I'm so disappointed.

Smart deduction, I must say.

I think that maybe the exoteric teachings exclude each other, but not the esoteric ones. But I might just be misunderstanding you.

I know about the nightly guidance, I've been receiving it too. Of course it's no woman in my case. That's alchemy, my friend. And the light you talked about, may well have been from outside our sphere, to awaken the seed in your heart and let the new soul be born. I've had a light twice, it shone from inside my head. At first I thought it was someone awakening me with a torch shining in my face, but it came from behind my eyes. As we travel on our path that may very well have many similarities, we receive guidance and understanding. Nice to have you here.

This : http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/openGraph/wid/0_7qwxzunz I didn't seem to be able to embed the video.

Would the concept of self or ego be programmed into us at an early age? Would for instance, children raised by wolves have no concept of self? I remember asking my mother about this, at the age of two, maybe three, maybe because I was told I was "a self".

The thankless bastard!

The birth of your child. Your own birth and death. Those are corporeal events that easily beat something superficial like fame, sex and wealth.

Yes, I couldn't feel any 'negative' emotions also, but that seems very dualistic just like you say, and since the source is all, bliss should incorporate these too. It's a mystery to me, and I guess we won't be able to unravel that one until we reach true realization.

Try that with a Moebius ring or a Klein bottle and than discover that the inside equals the outside. There's always a greater truth than the one we consider as THE truth.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I wouldn't know where else to put it. Several schools are talking about the Kundabuffer organ, or the remains of it, and that it should be destroyed first by the new soul, before it rises through the Shushumna. Is the Kundabuffer merely the ego, or is it something else? Does anyone have firsthand experience?

Even though I'm not a Taoist, at least not that I know of, I've been pondering about duality for about twenty years. I simply couldn't understand why half of the universe seemed "bad" and the other half "good". Then, one day it struck me, it's a very simple truth, but since I'm a simple person, it seems to work for me. What seems good and advantageous, may not be that at all. It may be good in the short term, for the ego, but it may hurt others. It may even hurt other species. Or even the whole planet. We don't know that, our monkeyminds simply can't or won't see that far ahead. What seems bad and evil, on the other hand, may prove to be indispensable. Take the virus. It has been with us, living complex creatures, for the whole of evolution. Yet it is so simple, you can't even call it alive. Still, it's the (or a) motor that drives evolution to create ever more complexity and explore new ways it wouldn't have done without the stimulus of the arms race with the virus. So you see, duality is a construct of our insufficient apprehension and as such does not exist. Sorry if I have stated the obvious with this.

Those footsteps, I have a comment on those. I have been a professional potter a decade ago, and having experimented with glazes a lot, I can say those footprints look like a reduced copper glaze. You can also find that sort of thing in a melting pot used to melt silver (because of the copper contained there in).

Moobs - I actually had to look it up (english isn't my native tongue). If you've ever had a bad day as a middle aged woman, definitely look it up with Google image search. It made my day!

No, probably not. But how can there be so many different viewpoints in a mystery school with the same name? Not that it's very important, I will walk the path that's right for me, without sticking to any dogma now. Then I was just ignorant in signing up with one of them (but at least I gained some insight). I believe you, when you state that there are orders that are more ethical. It's what I had in mind when signing up. Maybe the people there just didn't have the answers I was looking for, or my perception was faulty. I'm glad that mystery schools exist with such high standards. It's probably just an issue with taking metaphors literally.

That used to be a worry of mine, that once you attained a form of enlightenment, you would become emotionless, robotic. Not wanting to perceive the depths of emotion. But I too have had glimpses involving bliss, and the bliss is a state where there is joy and love, arousal and maybe even a sense of humor. But maybe, if I could only study it, without it kicking me out of that state, I would come to the conclusion that this bliss is ALL emotions all together.

That's not a quote. This is a quote!

@Nungali: I didn't mean to bash Rosicrucians, in fact I'm still one in my heart and forever will be. But there are indeed many different beliefs among them. And since you're not allowed to question those beliefs, it may not be a place for those of us with rebellious natures like myself.

Pink ones

I was with AMORC, but only as neophyte, later on I got teachings from Lectorium Rosicrucianum which were indeed quite a different group. They claimed that AMORC was occult and they weren't. I think this Kundabuffer thing is indeed kind of threathening, if you raise the Kundalini without the help of the Holy Spirit, or the New Soul, you are damned; the negative chakra's open up and you are doomed to hit "rock bottom". That sort of thing is kind of frightening. LR also believes that we stem from dinosaurs, so that's not very different from theosophical teachings imo.

http://thetaobums.com/topic/34094-kundalini-kundabuffer-black-tantra/?hl=kundabuffer That's the thread Manitou hinted at. I think that I'm going to have nightmares tonight. (My sacral area hurts) I now remember why I quit being a Rosicrucian, too complicated with a lot of fear instilling.

Manitou, silent thunder, thanks for your replies. I will seek out those threads. I come from Rosicrucianism and they believe in things like Kundalini and building the rainbow body. I also don't think it is a literal thing, but I have experienced so many strange things, that to me nothing seems impossible anymore. But I do believe Satan is the metaphor for the egotistical and hedonistic "lower" traits in us humans, so therefore I thought the Kundabuffer is equal somehow to the ego. This Beelzebub is a teacher from a gnostic sect, he claims he used to be a demon, until he decided to change his life. (I'm not judging!) Even though Kundalini and Chi are Hindu and Taoist concepts, they are also mainstream in esoteric teachings. They borrowed a lot from the eastern traditions.

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Ahaaaaaaaa....

My mother, who is 81, is the only one (besides me) in our family who's still alive. I loved my father very much, and I was very proud of my brother, who was very talented, but they passed away at an early age. So now I was stuck with my mother, a prejudiced being with a limited intelligence, who loved telling the same stories over and over. She didn't understand me and I didn't understand her. Gossiping and judging was all she could do and I hated it. I really didn't like to visit her and when I returned home after a visit, I felt completely drained. Years and years nothing much changed. Until I decided to change. I decided to truly listen to those stories she was telling me. I wanted to respect her as a human being. And you know what? Over the past year I've grown to love her and I can express that love to her. It feels wonderful and I wish I had seen this sooner. We both enjoy each other's company now, there's no need for negativity anymore. Moral to this story: everything can change if you change. Even if it takes you a lifetime.

Western traditions also believe in building the new body. Heck, even the resurrection of Jesus can be translated as such. I don't know, I think if they talk about that, they talk about leaving the old habit body behind. But we'll see hopefully, one day.