This interesting article gives me an opportunity to share the strangest moment of my life. I do not yet want to share it on my own substack.
Just a background on me, I am an agnostic (meaning that I do not believe in God, however I am open minded). I am partly an agnostic because I am not sure if applying "scientific method" to "existence of God is even appropriate because God is non-falsifiable.
So... A strange incident happened several years ago.
A worker of mine was behaving badly towards another employee and was mean. I asked him to stop, but he would not. Exasperated, I told him that I have a bad feeling that God will punish him for his misbehavior.
The employee started laughing and said that there is no God and how will he get punished? I said, I have no idea, and God will find His way. So he dismissed me and turned, laughing, ready to walk away. He did not notice a cable on the floor, slipped and fell down. He was hurt only superficially, however the immediateness of the consequence jarred me.
This incident left me totally shaken for DAYS because the punishment (fall) followed the moment of his blasphemy and laughter immediately. I also thought that it was very proportional -- and extremely close in time. Was it a freak accident? Or a punishment from God? I do NOT know.
I have this incident recorded on a security video (no sound).
I think both Faith and Narcopacifist provide their own interesting perspectives outside of the superstition but I'll provide a perspective relating to what's been outlined here.
As it relates to the incident, your incident with the employee and the notion of karma would probably serve as a far better model for game theory as it relates to superstitions.
An event took place in which an employee was acting up, it was remarked he'd be punished, and then the event (the slip and falling) took place.
We could probably argue that the extraneous object or event here would be the tripping, but given the proximity to the remark about being punished it may create an idea that the two are intrinsically related. Having it appear in front of other employees may also create the sense that something supernatural or outside of human control is at play.
So I won't remark on anything religious, but it's easy to see why the notion of tit for tat forces and karma may create superstitions. It also enforces notions of "fairness" which aids in game theory as well.
Thinking that something bad will befall those who do bad things and seeing it play out may reinforce feelings that something is happening outside of our control. The same goes for good things and people who do good for others having good received upon them.
"Karma" implies something being judgemental toward us. Things don't exactly happen that way. There is nobody outside of our "self" judging us. This is diffucult to grasp from our very limited perspective within time-space, but the Universe consists of INFINITY. Infinity is everything that is, and by definition (not that definitions matter at all to the subject at hand) nothing ELSE exists or exists "outside" of it because there is no "outside" or "other". Therefore, REALITY consists of one thing and one thing only, and that is ENERGY of a higher vibrational frequency than we can currently measure with instrumentation made out of lower frequency "physical dimensional" matter, and energy such as the electromagnetic spectrum. A fundamental quality of that highest-frequency other-dimensional or highest-dimensional energy is CONSCIOUSNESS. Why? Give up trying to figure THAT one out! To my "logical" mind, I personally don't think that it makes sense that ANYTHING should exist! What seems most logical or rational would be a completely empty universe where nothing exists anywhere or "anywhen" except endless cold, dark, empty NOTHINGNESS. But our own experience contradicts THAT state, since we very much are conscious of our own existence and the apparent existence of things around us. But even on a physical, three-dimensional time-space universe level, there is no such thing as "physical matter". Nothing "real" exists EXCEPT energy. E=MC². All atoms are just patterns of subatomic particles that in turn are just "packets" of energy held together by atomic forces that can behave variously as "particles" or "waves" according to what? CONSCIOUSNESS! Yes, that same fundamental stuff that everything is "distilled" or derived from.
We exist in a Universe of consciousness, will, and intention, with certain other properties that can also be ascribed to it ("it" also can be called "The Quantum Field", "All That Is", "Source", "The Great Spirit", "The Creator", and, Oh No! even "God" if you want to really open a "can of worms"!). But however one labels it, it is INFINITY, and we exist within it and are inseparable from it.
Tha being said, it must be true that we are all connected in a very fundamental way, because nothing exists outside of our existence. So when we do harm to someone else, we are really just harming our self. If we think we are being "punished", it is only us doing it. If we judge others, we are only judging ourself. (Within the Big Picture view.) As part of the Creative Intelligence of the Universe, WE are the creators, and creativity is a natural quality that we all possess. We create the circumstances of our lives. We come into physical bodies as individual Points of Focus of that All-Connected Consciousness. And we come from the greater non-physical State. We are individuals because it is more fun this way, and we get to do things here that we can't do in the expanded State. We can face thorny challenges, get to play all kinds of different roles: actors on the Stage of Life! We cancshape our environment andctry out diffrentcthjngs, snd discover what is fulfilling and what pleases us. And we can make mistakes, even very "bad" ones, and experience the consequences, even if it is to learn that we didn't lke the results and want to do it differently next time. Everything is about EXPERIENCE, about learning and expanding SELF. And about LOVE, a core quality of what we are made out of!
And we can apply our creative talents, and through compatable Resonance Frequencies attract other parts of this physical reality, and "other" beings we share it with, to ourselves. Everything is responsive and malleable. In a way we do "create or own reality", but it is all governed by intention and resonance attraction, so results can get complicated, but nobody is "doing anything to us". We are NOT victims. We are all wiling participants even though we generally forget our pre-life State of Reality so we can better play out the roll we have taken on here for this go-round!
This was rather long-winded, but maybe it will help some people to see "the bigger picture" and not take the craziness here quite so seriously. Life is supposed to be FUN! Not something to suffer through in hopes of reaching "heaven" as some "Utimate Goal". Because it isn't. We get rather bored on "the Other Side" and CHOOSE to come back here again and again, because THIS is where "the action is"! Where "growth" of our Soul happens. And, if cours, people indictrinaed by certain religions, particularly Christianity, won't understand this at all, because they have been told a very different version of how things are. And it doesn't matter because they will find out in the end that what they were taught isn't exactly how things are. Better to learn from the many people who have had more direct experiences instead of reading old books that are more mythology than reality. Jesus never told his followers to go read ancient books! Instead he fostered direct experiences of that highest vibrational energy so they could reconnect to Source Energy and expand their awareness, to gain a better, more complete perspective of what life is all about. And, of course, to get immersed in that highest frequency of Love!
The problem here is the mythology of religions that they try to impose on everyone else. It is quite frequent to hear people make statements that show how much they are confusing RELIGION with actual reality/phenomena. Religions are nothing more that codified systems of BELIEF or dogma that (at least originally) were attempts at explaining phenomena existing outside of our three-dimensional-universe experiences. There are other dimensions beyond what we can perceive with our five senses and most scientific instrumentation. However, that doesn't mean they aren't real and can't affect us here. After centuries of scientists attempting to explain our conscious awareness in terms of neurological structures in the brain, they have failed completely. Why? Because awareness is a property of a higher-frequency energy field that exists "beyond" time-space. It is a property of the Quantum Field, as physicists try to describe it. We experience it directly AS our conscious awareness, AND we can study the effects of it under laboratory conditions that prove it is indeed operating outside of "ordinary" time-space "reality". Quantum entanglement and non-locality are properties of that other dimensional or "higher" dimensional reality.
So forget what the religious-types tell you. "God" is not some judgemental old man with a long white beard sitting on a throne in the clouds, with winged angels flitting around!
BUT there ARE other, higher frequency dimensions of energy, including consciousness itself, from which the lower, "denser", slower frequencies of energy that we call physical matter transitioned from.
It is quite fascinating to delve into the science behind "consciousness studies" and learn how psi phenomena are being validated in the lab. It is also very illuminating to study the phenomena of children remembering very detailed past life experiences that can be verified by contacing living people whom they knew in a past life. Also, the huge body of accounts of what people have experienced during Near Death Experiences, including relating what people were doing at distances far away from where the person who died and was resuscitated was located. There is no "rational" explanation for these phenomena within the context of our three-dimensional reality. Only by viewing the universe as multidimensional with levels of reality beyond what our senses can perceive does any of it "make sense".
Igor, you say you don't "believe" in God. The real question is, WHAT "God" don't you believe in? And even better, just forget about the label "God" completely, because it means so many different things to different people. Let's stick to evidence, and the "preponderance of evidence" is that we ARE conscious beings and our consciousness does not arise from neurons in brain tissue. It is, rather, a form of non-physical energy operating outside of three-dimensional time-space. As such, when the physical body ceases to function, that conscious enery just separates its focus from within the body and returns to the state it was existing in BEFORE it entered. If and when you have a real out-of-body experience, you will be convinced of this reality in a way that no idea or
theoretical concept could. And don't be too surprised when you make your final exit from your physical body that "you" are still "you" and are completely aware of your existence as you transition into the outside-of-time-space experience (which, by the way, is VERY disorienting at first until you get used to it again!). So, don't worry about what you "believe". It is irrelevant, and when you get back to "the other side", things will become quite clear.
— tl,dr, read Faith’s answer. I’m with her, plus my attempts to write in English are painful to read. I only saw her answer after I refreshed, or I wouldn’t have burdened you with a redundant answer (of lesser quality..lol)
I was a militant atheist (picture Bill Maher minus the comedian, yikes), but once I realized that consciousness was fundamental, I could no longer feel that way. The difference between Consciousness/Mind at Large and god, is pretty much “Semantics” as they say…
Even though, I knew from psychedelics that there’s more to the universe than what our five senses reveal to us, the HighPriestsOfAcademia had a grip on my mind. I’ve been contemplating the idea that the original PsyOp was the direction the Catholic Church took around the time of Jesus, sending us on a path of materialism mixed with metaphysics, as a way of hiding from us our innate ability to “perform miracles.” Kinda like Jesus mixed with Kabbalah and yogi occult, with a twist of Bob Monroe (so, heal ourselves and others, see the future, and build pyramides and Stonehenge without “tools”).
The pandemic made it clear that the same forces are (and always have been) what the essence of theScience™️ is. By which I only mean those who fancy themselves the authority on what is scientific, and therefore “real.”
The analytical work of Bernardo Kastrup, Donald Hoffman, Dean Radin, and a few others; combined with the Double Slit Experiment, made it clear to me that we are creators (image of god, in the literal sense). Reality is energy, it “materializes” in our presence, possibly only in our minds.
As I was realizing it, I was going to do a little research on the similarities between the different spiritual traditions, and try to extract out the “superstitions,” and I came across this: https://youtube.com/channel/UCChStvnK4jBOz9ar9a5N1DQ
This guy wrote a book about it and makes incredible videos.
Mediation is the "doorway" to expanded consciousness. But meditation that quiets the mind, not as in "meditating" on a problem, which is just mental wheel-spinning.
What the important religions had in common was a Teacher or Master who was so connected to Source Energy that he raised the vibrational frequency of those in contact with him (who were open to it), letting them enter deeper states of meditation. This is so contrary to what Christians, for example, believe. They are clueless about what Jesus was doing here, because it was not part of the "public" level of his teaching. Jesus came to connect people with that "Kindom of Heaven within", that vibrational frequency, as have all the True Masters. He didn't "die for people's sins"! He expanded their awareness of LIFE. The Christian church turned it into a death cult, worshiping a Roman instrument of torture (the cross)! Maybe he did "rise from the dead" physically, and maybe it was just (more likely) a materiazation, an "etheric" body slowed down vibrationally to act like physical matter. It is all just energy, anyway! Who knows what "really" happened? It is irrelevant. But Jesus was about LIFE, not death! He did what every Master has done here, and then after a Master leavs, the confusion begins, because people want to leave a record of what the Master did, but the VIBRATIONAL frequency can't be captured or recorded in a scripture or book! So it all gets distorted, and we end up with empty writings that never capture the true ESSENCE. And it all becomes dogma and rituals for people to fight over!
That was your intuition talking. Once in a while I have that happen right before an event. Like I was stringing up outdoor Christmas lights a few years ago and a thought popped into my head suddenly that I better be careful or I might zap myself, as the lights were plugged in. I dismissed it as being paranoid, but not 30 seconds later I zapped myself! A bulb had broken and the wires sticking out of it were hot. Fortunately the shock was mild, but I'll never string Christmas lights that are plugged in ever again.
Great food for thought here. I do take issue with that chart in the middle, where we have "System 2" thought as a dualistic choice - either we reject the "superstition" though "rational thought" or we embrace the superstition. I find a lot of so-called superstition actually has merit and I will often assess this using my rational mind.
For example, I am studying Vedic astrology. It seems superstitious on the surface but could energies from planetary bodies impact us, and somehow the ancients figured this out through meticulous observation? The first time I had a Vedic astrology reading, I was absolutely blown away by how much of my life history was in my chart, to the point where it freaked me out and made me reconsider the nature of reality...
It's certainly a very limited assumption. It may better fit having some sort of recursive loop that circles back and forth to either reinforce superstitions or culminate in other evidence.
Superstitions are similar to other religious or cultural aspects. It's Bret and Heather's concept of literally false; metaphorically true. Some superstitions existed because they helped us out, although we may not know exactly what about the superstition does it.
I don't know much about Vedic astrology, but Heather has commented about astrology in the sense that zodiac signs and moons suggests a seasonal aspect that likely influences pregnancy and development of babies.
Overall, superstitions aren't bad as long as they don't dictate people's lives. It's like the whole stepping on a crack issue. It's one thing to think it's a little fun, it's another if you're constantly avoiding every crack out there with unyielding anxiety.
This interesting article gives me an opportunity to share the strangest moment of my life. I do not yet want to share it on my own substack.
Just a background on me, I am an agnostic (meaning that I do not believe in God, however I am open minded). I am partly an agnostic because I am not sure if applying "scientific method" to "existence of God is even appropriate because God is non-falsifiable.
So... A strange incident happened several years ago.
A worker of mine was behaving badly towards another employee and was mean. I asked him to stop, but he would not. Exasperated, I told him that I have a bad feeling that God will punish him for his misbehavior.
The employee started laughing and said that there is no God and how will he get punished? I said, I have no idea, and God will find His way. So he dismissed me and turned, laughing, ready to walk away. He did not notice a cable on the floor, slipped and fell down. He was hurt only superficially, however the immediateness of the consequence jarred me.
This incident left me totally shaken for DAYS because the punishment (fall) followed the moment of his blasphemy and laughter immediately. I also thought that it was very proportional -- and extremely close in time. Was it a freak accident? Or a punishment from God? I do NOT know.
I have this incident recorded on a security video (no sound).
Thanks for sharing the story Igor.
I think both Faith and Narcopacifist provide their own interesting perspectives outside of the superstition but I'll provide a perspective relating to what's been outlined here.
As it relates to the incident, your incident with the employee and the notion of karma would probably serve as a far better model for game theory as it relates to superstitions.
An event took place in which an employee was acting up, it was remarked he'd be punished, and then the event (the slip and falling) took place.
We could probably argue that the extraneous object or event here would be the tripping, but given the proximity to the remark about being punished it may create an idea that the two are intrinsically related. Having it appear in front of other employees may also create the sense that something supernatural or outside of human control is at play.
So I won't remark on anything religious, but it's easy to see why the notion of tit for tat forces and karma may create superstitions. It also enforces notions of "fairness" which aids in game theory as well.
Thinking that something bad will befall those who do bad things and seeing it play out may reinforce feelings that something is happening outside of our control. The same goes for good things and people who do good for others having good received upon them.
Thank you! Nobody was around, but the event is on video and I showed it to a few workers.
As God is non-falsifiable, whether this was a punishment from God was also non-falsifiable.
Although I am an agnostic and not a pious person, I try to not commit any seriously bad acts or provoke karma.
It all gets even more complex than this!
"Karma" implies something being judgemental toward us. Things don't exactly happen that way. There is nobody outside of our "self" judging us. This is diffucult to grasp from our very limited perspective within time-space, but the Universe consists of INFINITY. Infinity is everything that is, and by definition (not that definitions matter at all to the subject at hand) nothing ELSE exists or exists "outside" of it because there is no "outside" or "other". Therefore, REALITY consists of one thing and one thing only, and that is ENERGY of a higher vibrational frequency than we can currently measure with instrumentation made out of lower frequency "physical dimensional" matter, and energy such as the electromagnetic spectrum. A fundamental quality of that highest-frequency other-dimensional or highest-dimensional energy is CONSCIOUSNESS. Why? Give up trying to figure THAT one out! To my "logical" mind, I personally don't think that it makes sense that ANYTHING should exist! What seems most logical or rational would be a completely empty universe where nothing exists anywhere or "anywhen" except endless cold, dark, empty NOTHINGNESS. But our own experience contradicts THAT state, since we very much are conscious of our own existence and the apparent existence of things around us. But even on a physical, three-dimensional time-space universe level, there is no such thing as "physical matter". Nothing "real" exists EXCEPT energy. E=MC². All atoms are just patterns of subatomic particles that in turn are just "packets" of energy held together by atomic forces that can behave variously as "particles" or "waves" according to what? CONSCIOUSNESS! Yes, that same fundamental stuff that everything is "distilled" or derived from.
We exist in a Universe of consciousness, will, and intention, with certain other properties that can also be ascribed to it ("it" also can be called "The Quantum Field", "All That Is", "Source", "The Great Spirit", "The Creator", and, Oh No! even "God" if you want to really open a "can of worms"!). But however one labels it, it is INFINITY, and we exist within it and are inseparable from it.
Tha being said, it must be true that we are all connected in a very fundamental way, because nothing exists outside of our existence. So when we do harm to someone else, we are really just harming our self. If we think we are being "punished", it is only us doing it. If we judge others, we are only judging ourself. (Within the Big Picture view.) As part of the Creative Intelligence of the Universe, WE are the creators, and creativity is a natural quality that we all possess. We create the circumstances of our lives. We come into physical bodies as individual Points of Focus of that All-Connected Consciousness. And we come from the greater non-physical State. We are individuals because it is more fun this way, and we get to do things here that we can't do in the expanded State. We can face thorny challenges, get to play all kinds of different roles: actors on the Stage of Life! We cancshape our environment andctry out diffrentcthjngs, snd discover what is fulfilling and what pleases us. And we can make mistakes, even very "bad" ones, and experience the consequences, even if it is to learn that we didn't lke the results and want to do it differently next time. Everything is about EXPERIENCE, about learning and expanding SELF. And about LOVE, a core quality of what we are made out of!
And we can apply our creative talents, and through compatable Resonance Frequencies attract other parts of this physical reality, and "other" beings we share it with, to ourselves. Everything is responsive and malleable. In a way we do "create or own reality", but it is all governed by intention and resonance attraction, so results can get complicated, but nobody is "doing anything to us". We are NOT victims. We are all wiling participants even though we generally forget our pre-life State of Reality so we can better play out the roll we have taken on here for this go-round!
This was rather long-winded, but maybe it will help some people to see "the bigger picture" and not take the craziness here quite so seriously. Life is supposed to be FUN! Not something to suffer through in hopes of reaching "heaven" as some "Utimate Goal". Because it isn't. We get rather bored on "the Other Side" and CHOOSE to come back here again and again, because THIS is where "the action is"! Where "growth" of our Soul happens. And, if cours, people indictrinaed by certain religions, particularly Christianity, won't understand this at all, because they have been told a very different version of how things are. And it doesn't matter because they will find out in the end that what they were taught isn't exactly how things are. Better to learn from the many people who have had more direct experiences instead of reading old books that are more mythology than reality. Jesus never told his followers to go read ancient books! Instead he fostered direct experiences of that highest vibrational energy so they could reconnect to Source Energy and expand their awareness, to gain a better, more complete perspective of what life is all about. And, of course, to get immersed in that highest frequency of Love!
The problem here is the mythology of religions that they try to impose on everyone else. It is quite frequent to hear people make statements that show how much they are confusing RELIGION with actual reality/phenomena. Religions are nothing more that codified systems of BELIEF or dogma that (at least originally) were attempts at explaining phenomena existing outside of our three-dimensional-universe experiences. There are other dimensions beyond what we can perceive with our five senses and most scientific instrumentation. However, that doesn't mean they aren't real and can't affect us here. After centuries of scientists attempting to explain our conscious awareness in terms of neurological structures in the brain, they have failed completely. Why? Because awareness is a property of a higher-frequency energy field that exists "beyond" time-space. It is a property of the Quantum Field, as physicists try to describe it. We experience it directly AS our conscious awareness, AND we can study the effects of it under laboratory conditions that prove it is indeed operating outside of "ordinary" time-space "reality". Quantum entanglement and non-locality are properties of that other dimensional or "higher" dimensional reality.
So forget what the religious-types tell you. "God" is not some judgemental old man with a long white beard sitting on a throne in the clouds, with winged angels flitting around!
BUT there ARE other, higher frequency dimensions of energy, including consciousness itself, from which the lower, "denser", slower frequencies of energy that we call physical matter transitioned from.
It is quite fascinating to delve into the science behind "consciousness studies" and learn how psi phenomena are being validated in the lab. It is also very illuminating to study the phenomena of children remembering very detailed past life experiences that can be verified by contacing living people whom they knew in a past life. Also, the huge body of accounts of what people have experienced during Near Death Experiences, including relating what people were doing at distances far away from where the person who died and was resuscitated was located. There is no "rational" explanation for these phenomena within the context of our three-dimensional reality. Only by viewing the universe as multidimensional with levels of reality beyond what our senses can perceive does any of it "make sense".
Igor, you say you don't "believe" in God. The real question is, WHAT "God" don't you believe in? And even better, just forget about the label "God" completely, because it means so many different things to different people. Let's stick to evidence, and the "preponderance of evidence" is that we ARE conscious beings and our consciousness does not arise from neurons in brain tissue. It is, rather, a form of non-physical energy operating outside of three-dimensional time-space. As such, when the physical body ceases to function, that conscious enery just separates its focus from within the body and returns to the state it was existing in BEFORE it entered. If and when you have a real out-of-body experience, you will be convinced of this reality in a way that no idea or
theoretical concept could. And don't be too surprised when you make your final exit from your physical body that "you" are still "you" and are completely aware of your existence as you transition into the outside-of-time-space experience (which, by the way, is VERY disorienting at first until you get used to it again!). So, don't worry about what you "believe". It is irrelevant, and when you get back to "the other side", things will become quite clear.
Wow! I wish your answered had appeared before I started typing, I pretty much said the same thing, but you said it so much better!
♥️
100% yes!
Igor,
— tl,dr, read Faith’s answer. I’m with her, plus my attempts to write in English are painful to read. I only saw her answer after I refreshed, or I wouldn’t have burdened you with a redundant answer (of lesser quality..lol)
I was a militant atheist (picture Bill Maher minus the comedian, yikes), but once I realized that consciousness was fundamental, I could no longer feel that way. The difference between Consciousness/Mind at Large and god, is pretty much “Semantics” as they say…
Even though, I knew from psychedelics that there’s more to the universe than what our five senses reveal to us, the HighPriestsOfAcademia had a grip on my mind. I’ve been contemplating the idea that the original PsyOp was the direction the Catholic Church took around the time of Jesus, sending us on a path of materialism mixed with metaphysics, as a way of hiding from us our innate ability to “perform miracles.” Kinda like Jesus mixed with Kabbalah and yogi occult, with a twist of Bob Monroe (so, heal ourselves and others, see the future, and build pyramides and Stonehenge without “tools”).
The pandemic made it clear that the same forces are (and always have been) what the essence of theScience™️ is. By which I only mean those who fancy themselves the authority on what is scientific, and therefore “real.”
The analytical work of Bernardo Kastrup, Donald Hoffman, Dean Radin, and a few others; combined with the Double Slit Experiment, made it clear to me that we are creators (image of god, in the literal sense). Reality is energy, it “materializes” in our presence, possibly only in our minds.
As I was realizing it, I was going to do a little research on the similarities between the different spiritual traditions, and try to extract out the “superstitions,” and I came across this: https://youtube.com/channel/UCChStvnK4jBOz9ar9a5N1DQ
This guy wrote a book about it and makes incredible videos.
Sorry, this is so long… but one book that kinda put the whole thing together for me, was “the Kybalion” here’s a free audiobook version https://youtube.com/watch?v=aL43l2SFVWQ&feature=share
I’ve begun meditating and practicing Qigong, I’m determined to figure this out, and acquire the tools we were made not to see.
Mediation is the "doorway" to expanded consciousness. But meditation that quiets the mind, not as in "meditating" on a problem, which is just mental wheel-spinning.
What the important religions had in common was a Teacher or Master who was so connected to Source Energy that he raised the vibrational frequency of those in contact with him (who were open to it), letting them enter deeper states of meditation. This is so contrary to what Christians, for example, believe. They are clueless about what Jesus was doing here, because it was not part of the "public" level of his teaching. Jesus came to connect people with that "Kindom of Heaven within", that vibrational frequency, as have all the True Masters. He didn't "die for people's sins"! He expanded their awareness of LIFE. The Christian church turned it into a death cult, worshiping a Roman instrument of torture (the cross)! Maybe he did "rise from the dead" physically, and maybe it was just (more likely) a materiazation, an "etheric" body slowed down vibrationally to act like physical matter. It is all just energy, anyway! Who knows what "really" happened? It is irrelevant. But Jesus was about LIFE, not death! He did what every Master has done here, and then after a Master leavs, the confusion begins, because people want to leave a record of what the Master did, but the VIBRATIONAL frequency can't be captured or recorded in a scripture or book! So it all gets distorted, and we end up with empty writings that never capture the true ESSENCE. And it all becomes dogma and rituals for people to fight over!
Agreed!
I think you will enjoy this YouTube channel, it’s called “A Rational Divine Outline”
This guy wrote a book with the same title, it’s really great. He should have more subscribers
https://youtube.com/channel/UCChStvnK4jBOz9ar9a5N1DQ
That was your intuition talking. Once in a while I have that happen right before an event. Like I was stringing up outdoor Christmas lights a few years ago and a thought popped into my head suddenly that I better be careful or I might zap myself, as the lights were plugged in. I dismissed it as being paranoid, but not 30 seconds later I zapped myself! A bulb had broken and the wires sticking out of it were hot. Fortunately the shock was mild, but I'll never string Christmas lights that are plugged in ever again.
Great food for thought here. I do take issue with that chart in the middle, where we have "System 2" thought as a dualistic choice - either we reject the "superstition" though "rational thought" or we embrace the superstition. I find a lot of so-called superstition actually has merit and I will often assess this using my rational mind.
For example, I am studying Vedic astrology. It seems superstitious on the surface but could energies from planetary bodies impact us, and somehow the ancients figured this out through meticulous observation? The first time I had a Vedic astrology reading, I was absolutely blown away by how much of my life history was in my chart, to the point where it freaked me out and made me reconsider the nature of reality...
It's certainly a very limited assumption. It may better fit having some sort of recursive loop that circles back and forth to either reinforce superstitions or culminate in other evidence.
Superstitions are similar to other religious or cultural aspects. It's Bret and Heather's concept of literally false; metaphorically true. Some superstitions existed because they helped us out, although we may not know exactly what about the superstition does it.
I don't know much about Vedic astrology, but Heather has commented about astrology in the sense that zodiac signs and moons suggests a seasonal aspect that likely influences pregnancy and development of babies.
Overall, superstitions aren't bad as long as they don't dictate people's lives. It's like the whole stepping on a crack issue. It's one thing to think it's a little fun, it's another if you're constantly avoiding every crack out there with unyielding anxiety.
Just to give credit where it’s due.
Stevie Wonder got the song Superstition from Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Aren't safaris just what people go on in Africa? Tigers are in India and environs.
Yes, you are correct! Big mistake on my part so I'll make that correction!