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Taobum1: "Hey, wanna see me lift my leg up as an independent, spontaneous action?" Taobum2: "Ok, go ahead dude, that would be really something to see" Taobum1: "Grrrr, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........I seem to be having a bit of trouble.......gimme another minute" (meanwhile, hot chick walks by......) Taobum1: "There ya go dude, one leg in the air" Taobum2: "That's not quite the leg I thought we were talking about" Blessings :wub:

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Here is the extended version quote....... "..the average man is indeed incapable of the single smallest independent or spontaneous action or word. All of him is only the result of external effect. Man is a transforming machine, a kind of transmitting station of forces." "..a man is a very complex organism developed by evolution from the simplest organisms, and who has now become capable of reacting in a very complex manner to external impressions. This capability of reacting in a man is so complex, and the responsive movements can appear to be so far removed from the causes evoking them and conditioning them, that the actions of man, or at least part of them, seem to naïve observation quite spontaneous." "..man differs from the animals only by the greater complexity of his reactions to external impressions, and by having a more complex construction for perceiving and reacting to them." All he is saying is that the majority of humanity is simply reacting to stimuli ? i.e., man gets hungry -> he is compelled to eat, man likes what neighbor has -> compelled to buy the same man needs money -> compelled to get a job man reads article in newspaper -> takes interest and follows advice man reads taobums thread -> feels the need to post something man sees attractive woman -> follows woman (for a minute or two) Are there many cases where someone is not reacting to some sort of stimulus ? Blessings of Independent Action :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

"Everything that lives must serve the “all-universal purposes.” Man is not exempt from this necessity, and must, either by his life or by this death, contribute his quota to the transformation of energy upon which the reciprocal maintenance of all existence depends" "Man has thus a two-fold destiny, either to live only as the unconscious slave of the all-universal purpose, or to pay the debt of his own existence and thus attain independent individuality, with all that this brings of further possibilities of self-perfecting." Unfortunately, "the average man is indeed incapable of the single, smallest, independent or spontaneous action or word." - George Gurdjieff Blessings :wub:

Good point Jetsun. I would also like to see that. I don't have much time myself to fully test out these practices out. Maybe after 12 years or so I might give them a go. But that is a bit of a long time to wait. But from what I've read, there will come a time when your higher bodies can be separated and come under your conscious control. This can be used for specific purposes such as healing, giving service etc.. By the way, I know of a cat called 'Jetsun' ! Bless you Jetsun :wub: :wub:

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Damn, I only got 6 months. Blessings of Survival :wub:

Take the Quiz - How long would you survive after an Apocalypse..... http://games.usvsth3m.com/how-long-would-you-survive-after-the-apocalypse/ Blessings of No Apocalypse :wub: :wub: :wub:

Is this day is upon the TaoBums ? "There will come a day when you will feel totally helpless, a mere pawn of destiny, and then you will begin to realize that God alone is your haven of security." - Paramhansa Yogananda

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Another excerpt...... (I highlighted an interesting point about reaching at-onement with God - giving more Service ! ) source: http://www.researchersoftruth.org/mastering-the-mind "......This means, we have to unfold, what I call, the Superconsciousness in our personal self in order to enter the fifth heaven. And then, what more? Expanding yourself and concentrating self-consciously, to be able to see and know, not by learning now, but by at-one-ment with what is there. Can you imagine what kind of self-consciousness is that? Let us call it Self-Superconsciousness. This means that in this heaven you have to be able to know things by attunement. What's attunement? Being in the Worlds of Existence, properly co-vibrating yet being two. What are the next two heavens of our Spirit-Soul Ego-Self? What did Joshua Emmanuel the Christ (the Godman) say? "You must unfold your real Self to enter the state of the divine Oneness, by oneness or attunement, But, this state is not mundane or worldly. It's divine, which means, you have returned back home. Yes." Have human beings since Joshua Emmanuel the Christ reached this state? Yes, many, but … There is a burning "but". There are certain Spirit-Soul Egos who can be in at-one-ment with God and with the Godman, but – what is the Will/Pleasure of the Godman, of the beloved One (for me, the most beloved One)? This paradise is not for us. What did he say? "He who wants to follow me should shoulder his cross and follow me." So, those who reached there, some of them who gave themselves to Him, have come down to the material plane, even in the darkest hell, to serve their brethren, the human beings. Is that sacrifice? No! Because, even in the darkest hell there is Light. They are not far away from Him, because, they are self-consciously in the Omnipresence of the Father. Everything is in God the Father. Can you do that? Can you unfold within yourself this kind of self-consciousness? Yes, why not – all of you are offsprings of God. So, human beings are living subconsciously now. But, whether we want it or not, according to the parable of the Prodigal Son, sooner or later we have to be back home, to our divine nature as Spirit-Soul Ego-Selves, and – we have to work on it. How? God has given us a perfect human body, built up and sustained by the Holy Archangels of the Elements. Yet, you know very little about that material body unless you open a book of anatomy. That body is under the supervision of the Holy Archangels of the Elements. A ray of our Spirit-Soul Ego-Self created our time-and-place mortal self and we have been given the psychical substance and the noetical substance and Super substance, the Mind vitality. What have we done with that? Unbridled desires, unbridled and uncontrolled emotions, making dirty what you call love with that stupid expression of what you call life, having in it fighting, jealousies and all that. We have made a great misuse of this Mind substance by creating bad elementals, human demons composing our personality. Yet, the heart, the pulse of Life of our personality, is our Soul Being. Now, we have been given the Mind vitality as thought to work with it, to reach understanding, knowing and wisdom, but – what have we done with it? We have made the thought a slave of unbridled emotions. So, it's our duty to do what? To try to make a proper psychical body and unfold our self-consciousness in it. But first of all, we have to unfold our self-consciousness on the material plane in the material body and to form our noetical body, control our thoughts, become masters of our thoughts. Now, by unfolding more of our Soul self-consciousness, manifesting our divine power we call attunement, unfolding our Self-Superconsciousness in at-one-ment with the divine – what do we find? That we are all gods, sons of the Almighty. We have the means of knowing the truth and there is no excuse. We have it in our nature – observation and the capacity for knowing. A human being is not an animal. Every human being is a Spirit-Soul Being, a God. I get from the minds of some of you, "Do I have to sacrifice my personality? It's painful but I like it." You are going to lose nothing, because every incarnation with the virtues and the vices, with the good actions and the wickedness, that total collection of the elementals, is living, is a living form. Behind you, in all your past lives, nothing is lost. There is a living total of all your experiences (elementals) in the Cosmic Memory. Living? Of course, because it is made of the Mind vitality. And when you reach that state of "Be ye perfect as perfect is your Heavenly Father," you will see that in every incarnation you have written, say, a book. You have it in the Cosmic Memory like in a library on its shelves. You are like a writer who is writing books. Who is preventing you to get a volume and go through it again? And reading it, you can enjoy what is enjoyable and what is painful, by the grace of God now, it will not affect you any more, because – you have got rid of those vices. So, when you reach perfection, you are not going to lose anything. You are not going to lose your Present-Day Personality that is so precious to you now. You will find, inside you, all the volumes you have written in all your past incarnations. In perfection you are gaining, not losing. You are gaining, because, nothing made of the Mind vitality, no thoughts, no emotions, no desires are lost. When you reach the attunement, you can attune yourself to any one of your incarnations. Can we, by at-one-ment, enter into that living total elemental of our past personality? If you wish to, you can. But, why would you? Is not the attunement seeing and knowing? Anyhow, it's nothing that I wish to do myself. Attunement is worthwhile with Joshua Emmanuel the Christ and with God and not with past elementals. And then, you can use the at-one-ment for God and the attunement for anything you like. But, you can never do that unless you reach the highest level of Self-Superconsciousness. You can do it. You can become the master of visualization, in introspection, and of the right meditation, manifesting your divine state of observation. The Mind vitality is given to you as your daily bread. Use it properly to feed yourself and to make your psychical and noetical body, just as you are making with it (by eating and drinking) your material body. And Joshua Emmanuel said that it is not only with bread that a man should be fed, but with the Mind vitality from our Heavenly Father. Who is where? Everywhere and inside your Spirit-Soul Ego-Self. So, stop living as the animal life around you. The Seekers of the Truth should live as human beings, as Archangels, and as gods." Blessings of Researching the 'Truth' :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

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"If man has an apartment stacked with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the nation, we stick'em on the front of a magazine and pretend they are role models" - B. Lester

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