Unseen_Abilities

Is anyone else empathic? This has been a burden for me and I didn't realise it for a long time - it's more under my control now so it's okay, but it's messed with me in the past, taking on peoples stuff at the physical level...for example, it screwed with my training and messed up my stances, making me feel way too unstable for someone who does as much grounding as I do (read: I do grounding exercises more or less every single day, often twice). It was also responsible for a bunch of posts I made on the internet a while ago when it went haywire, before I realised I was empathic. Like I said, I have more control over it now so I'll be fine. Anyone else? Share your experiences.

I was talking to God/Higher Self recently about my life and what I've experienced in it. The conversatiok basically led to me being told, "Look, coming in right now in the way I have wasn't the best idea - I think I made a mistake. You're just wrong for the Collective Consciousness right now." It wasn't harsh in any way, more like a friendly, pat on the back "Don't worry, you'll be fine - I'll make sure you find something to do with yourself" kind of way. Has this happened to anyone else? (not a joke) Unseen_Abilities

Rather than beat people upside the head with my reality in the physical world, I tend to just keep to myself now. Keeping to myself is the best approach for the time being - I'm far from living in isolation, just developing myself and creating my reality away from most other people. Societies reality does not rule me, but it probably would if I tried to be part of it, so I avoid that now. That said. I also feel compelled to share my ideas in creative work, some of which is available to everyone, so there's an interesting fusion of energies at work in my life at the moment...interesting things are happening right now.

Always a pleasure, Marblehead. Beliefs do create reality to a point - that's now clear to me - but I think there are other factors to consider as well. Also, creating your own reality actually takes serious effort. You won't hear most new-agers say that though. The new-age paradigm is just another preexisting paradigm to me..."You create your own reality, and this is it!" is how it often seems. Playing with ideas is fun.

Exactly. My God is the actual one and only true Deity, all others are wrong. Belief creates reality.

Cleave to inner truth.

Why would God need to know itself further...what mortal mind could grasp something so divine? For someone my age I know myself well. More life experience will no doubt yield further self-knowledge. What is God anyway? Is it our perception of God that makes God God to us? My ideas of God have changed before, but now I lean towards my Soul being God. I personally like Astrology as a tool to map the Soul. In Astrology each chart is different. Therefore, if Astrology is a tool to map the Soul and each persons chart is different, each Soul is different. Thus, it is possible for my Soul to have made a mistake by incarnating as me at the time and place it has. Perhaps an experiment, perhaps a mistake, now I love my life again even though it's not easy, and I'll always have something to do.

In my religion, God is allowed to make mistakes, and does, in order to know itself further. A mistake is a mistake; A mistake is not a mistake. Could Guitar Jesus write a riff so ferocious that he himself could not play it?

But there's been THAT much going on lately it can be hard to tell sometimes. I'm out.

I also find I'll get a piece of actual intuitive advice or intuitive message, than that ol' inner saboteur will throw something on the end of it to try and trip me up. I've been testing the advice in a more scientific manner recently and it tends to be really accurate.

That makes sense and could well be it, soaring crane. The Hunter S Thomson quote, "Too weird to live, too rare to die!" resonates right now. In many ways I'm actually in the best all-round situation I've ever been in in my Adult life right now: Living away from my parents for good, increasing financial well-being, clear goals for the future and greater understanding of how to attain them, more confidence than ever before, more people being exposed to my work than ever before (except I've got to make sure I stay non-attached to that one)...it's just that I got tortured. If you'd been tortured you'd understand what I'm going through now. I appreciate the replies.

Yeah, I see your points. I'll avoid placing too much importance on this - in a nutshell, the task of deprogrammimg myself from a very dark past, and awakening to the past itself, has had me feeling out of sorts a fair bit. The programming I've been subjected to is enormous - like the "my mind got seriously twisted" kind of enormous - so some things are coming up that might not be right. I have a good Psychologist though, it's all good.

For what it's worth, it actually felt right when that came up. It made complete sense and felt comforting, like a piece of my puzzle being put into place - it was clear and in a strange way uplifting, not a bad thing at all. So to me it's actually something that's possible and makes sense. I haven't been dwelling on this, just considering it.

I made a post in the Hermetic/Occult forum about Hypersigils and how I used one to move house with great success. I think it would be cool to have a few of us create one as a group and meet up for training or whatever, but *something* interesting happens that makes the experience more memorable. I think to do this in 2 years or so would be ideal for me, how about you?

Just throwing it out there.

If I had to choose a religious label for myself, it would now be Neo-Pantheist, meaning I've created a fully functional, completely personal faith for myself. Intuitively, I know many many traditionalists are against forward-thinking people doing this, but I've no idea why. Of course I can understand the value that lies in preserving sacred traditions, however for where I'm at right now, becoming a Neo-Pantheist has proven the perfect decision and life choice. If anyone automatically thinks that means I've gone down the wrong path then they are just mistaken - it's as simple as that. Any other Neo-Pantheists on the forum?

Been in a similar situation for a long time myself. Tough thing, being naturally more introverted and relatively private, but also very energetically connected to the collective consciousness, which here is naturally more extroverted and generally...not a good fit for me. It will be interesting to travel more in the future and see what this is like in other countries. I still don't know what to make of Karma, but the fact is I was born an energetic sponge (amongst other things) that naturally soaks up garbage from the environment. One thing that's worked for me is to reframe it so that, no matter what, my spirit ultimately becomes stronger as a result of it all. Also, working on transmuting the energy I collect into something of value that I can then put back out there is, although difficult, a very good thing to do - don't be afraid of getting angry about it, just do something valuable with that anger - create, train, do SOMETHING with it. Just my two cents.

For Martial Arts. One of the best decisions I've ever made was to start training back in 2010. Thanks.

Thanks, GrandmasterP. Jetsun: Since starting to train I've lost 40 kg's, strengthened and toned my body and mind enormously, become disciplined and more authentic, found physical exercise that feels like home and inspires me, some interesting philosophy and something I can pursue for the rest of my life (which is looking very likely at this point, given that my interest is beginning to deepen further).

I didn't think any good would come from it (and I didn't think it through) - I was immature and wanted to do evil things just for the sake of doing evil things. My life at that time revolved around Cannabis, LSD & certain subgenres of Heavy Metal that promote Satanic Witchcraft, and I'm quite sure those bands often put spells in their music and album cover art...combine that with the stuff already going on in my subconscious from much earlier on in my life and you have one potent recipe for disaster.

I never meant to threaten anyone with my individualistic posts on this The Tao Bums forum. Luv yewwww <3

No, sometimes* & depends on the situation. *edit

It is interesting to be experiencing this phenomenon that other people have spoken of, written of, played songs about, and so on.

I was having an experience and had to start this thread, that's all.

I've come to believe in reincarnation, but I do not know about Heaven & Hell (What about Valhalla? or the Underworld, ruled by yours truly ) right now. Many times already I have met people and had a distinct sense of knowing them from another time and place, I've come to believe in reincarnation.