(July 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: I'm trying to relate this to driving. You said Indian taxi drivers are very reckless in India but they are far more careful in Australia. Meanwhile, Italian drivers are very reckless and so are some Australian drivers. Why would Indian taxi drivers have a shift in consciousness on moving to Australia? After all, if they'd moved to Italy they would be driving like the Italians.
Slowly, slowly you are getting there.
A shift in consciousness will always happen especially when the things change.
It can happen for the best as well as the worse according to many factors.
Good company always help and bad one always lead to degradation.
So a good environment and a bad one do the same for the better or the worse.
Quote:People can still be on a spiritual path while being atheists.
It is very funny.
Almost everybody travel toward the goal of life.
Some smart people have a good vision of this goal by believing that the big ocean of consciousness or God is the goal.
Other people still travel toward this goal with the idea that the goal is not God (atheist) but after sometime when the goal get more clear they admit that God exist.
In this way they make the travel extra hard for themselves.
Now you may ask why an atheist travel toward the goal.
Human aspirations are INfinite not finite so how it is ever possible to find solutions to INFINITE aspiration within a finite arena or universe?
These people think that this universe can give peace of mind and happiness but that is not possible.
Have you ever seen anyone real happy with material or physical things?
These people are living in the fairy Ape.
Spirituality come when you can understand clearly the goal of life.
Until that it is only a big confusion belief.
Quote:Which, I'm guessing, means that all the gods and goddesses are really aspects of The One.
When the spirituality get deeper and deeper you stop worrying about the many to concentrate on the only one.
The sooner the better.
