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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 15, 2016 at 5:38 pm
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(December 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (December 15, 2016 at 8:07 am)Mr Greene Wrote: So "spiritual" = 'emotional'... Feels like we're back with the theists...
I wouldn't want to live an unemotional life, myself. I regard the good life as being, for me, balancing emotion and reason.
Never said you should but I don't think spiritual should be a synonym for emotional.
I think following that path leads the wrong way.
Personally I see 'spiritual' as being about the nature or characteristics of factors in our environment, be that a desert, forest, beach, suburbia or the financial markets.
For this reason I'm always a little more edgy with claims of "being one with the universe" because it isn't our environment, we don't live out there.
Unless you're Buzz Aldrin the chances of space being your environment are a little short.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 15, 2016 at 5:52 pm
(December 15, 2016 at 7:57 am)tigerlove Wrote: O.K peeps...thanks for your replies..I appreciate your input in this thread...
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 15, 2016 at 5:54 pm
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My body lies over the sea
I'm no good at astral projection
So bring back my body to me
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 15, 2016 at 5:56 pm
Oh yeah, "astral". Astro is only for turf, right?
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 15, 2016 at 5:58 pm
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 16, 2016 at 4:12 am
(December 15, 2016 at 4:55 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (December 15, 2016 at 9:40 am)robvalue Wrote: So maybe it's a matter of losing yourself in the subject matter. Maybe when I play a game or watch a film and become fully immersed in it, it's a spiritual experience. I'm pretending that I am the character in the game, or that the characters in a film are "real".
I think both those activities COULD be spiritual ones, but I also think I have to give a caveat to my former definition. I'd say there has to be either a feeling of elevation beyond one's normal range or capacity, or at least an attempt to elevate oneself.
So for a game or movie to be a spiritual experience, I'd say (and this is just me moving goalposts slightly) that you'd have to feel those things connected you with a part of yourself you couldn't otherwise connect with, and that you felt dramatically elevated because of that.
But to be fair, I've been in "the zone" in sports a couple times and in music several times, and in the case of music I'd definitely say that was a spiritual experience to me. So was my viewing of certain movies.
Sure, well when I'm a ninja or a maniac running around killing people, I get the primal rush of violence, control and fear (if the bad guys are hard) that I never get in normal life since I'm really just a pussy.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 16, 2016 at 8:01 am
(December 16, 2016 at 4:12 am)robvalue Wrote: (December 15, 2016 at 4:55 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think both those activities COULD be spiritual ones, but I also think I have to give a caveat to my former definition. I'd say there has to be either a feeling of elevation beyond one's normal range or capacity, or at least an attempt to elevate oneself.
So for a game or movie to be a spiritual experience, I'd say (and this is just me moving goalposts slightly) that you'd have to feel those things connected you with a part of yourself you couldn't otherwise connect with, and that you felt dramatically elevated because of that.
But to be fair, I've been in "the zone" in sports a couple times and in music several times, and in the case of music I'd definitely say that was a spiritual experience to me. So was my viewing of certain movies.
Sure, well when I'm a ninja or a maniac running around killing people, I get the primal rush of violence, control and fear (if the bad guys are hard) that I never get in normal life since I'm really just a pussy.
I NEVER get that feeling... because I always get pummeled by the "I can win" bots.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 17, 2016 at 6:25 pm
I just feel like my energy waves are pulsing in a way they never have before. It's like my higher self is speaking to me through reality and when I open my third eye chakra I really can embrace my astral self and get to know the true me. Right now we're entering the age of Aquarius which calls for serious change and reformation in both the spiritual and physical worlds. This leads me to believe that everyone on earth will undergo a real and serious transformation on a spiritual level. Once we transcend the ego we can all live in bliss for all of eternity and live forever.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
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