(July 30, 2014 at 2:42 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: Objective in this sense has nothing to do with objects or the material. There's no proof that your concept of God or any other deity exist as anything but subjective, psychological experiences. It's all very well saying that the universe is a manifestation of God but this still doesn't automatically mean that God is a real, eternal being that manifests everything.
Suppose you live in the jungle all your life.
One day i pop up and i give you a radio.
I tell you that inside the radio there is music.
You may say......where the hell is the music?
I say to you.......if you want to get the music you got to tune up the radio to some station.
After you tune up you can listen the music.
The same thing apply to the perception of God.
God is within but you will never know until you tune up and that is not as easy as to tune up a radio.
It require a lot of hard work but God is there.
Quote:All these archetypal images come from what Jung called the Self which is nothing to do with the little ego. Others refer to it as the Higher Self although it's not cute and cuddly like the New Age concept.
http://www.trans4mind.com/jamesharveystout/self.htm
There are and there were in the past a lot of thinkers who have and had great ideas about how the system works.
In the past i have been reading books after books but i found later on that what the practice can give you is a ocean compared to a drop of water of theory so i decided to stick with yoga which is one drop of theory and an ocean of practice.
You can keep on reading and understanding how the system works but until you reduce the distance that separate you the microcosm from the macrocosm all is futile because the progress only happen with a lot of practice not with a lot of theories.
