Zigzag Idiot

"We are all warriors carrying a shield so we maintain a blindspot according to the way we carry our shield. This is done to defend the integrity of a personalized image of ones own identity. The realized christian contemplatives first imperative is to lay down the shield. This is turning the other cheek to pride and vanity and of being somebody. If you successfully become a nobody, that means that your Kesdjan body is formed. As long as we are divided beings, we cannot let go of the shield." Zigzag Idiot Ive never quoted anything from this character before now.

Earlier this evening I went out and walked in the woods around my house. It was so quiet with the remaining crickets left and the cows 'talking' down in the pasture. The closet state highway had become silent for the most part. I let my eyes adjust to the dark and found a good place to sit after walking on the side of the hill. I layed back on the earth for a while. It was so relaxing. Took out my IPhone and the first post I read was this one. After clicking on 'good' ,,,,,,,,,it triggered a wonderful, cathartic, laughing fit that's hard to describe. About 3 or 4 hours ago. @Sahil Pandit Thank you!

Edited out of the final book was Jesus channeled through Helen, critiquing Freud and Jung. To be found in the urtext The ego is as frail as Freud perceived it. The later theorists have tried to introduce a less pessimistic view, but have looked in the wrong direction for their hope. Any attempt to endow the ego with the attributes of the Soul, is merely confused thinking. Freud was more clear-sighted about this, because he knew a BAD thing when he perceived it, but he failed to recognize that a bad thing cannot exist. It is therefore wholly unnecessary to try to get out of it. As you very rightly observed yourself, the thing to do with a desert is to LEAVE. from: http://a.courseinmiracles.com/urtext/chapter-3/section_6.php#gsc.tab=0 The unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious, which lies above the miracle-level. All psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution to the truth in this connection,,,,,,,,,,,, Jung's best contribution was an awareness of individual versus Collective unconscious levels. He also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. His archetypes were also meaningful concepts. But his major error lay in regarding the deepest level of the unconscious as shared in terms of CONTENT. The deepest level of the unconscious is shared as an ABILITY. As MIRACLE-MINDEDNESS, the content, (or the particular miracles which an individual happens to perform) does not matter at all. They will, in fact, be entirely different, because, since I direct them, I make a point of avoiding redundancy. Unless a miracle actually heals, it is not a miracle at all. The content of the miracle-level is not recorded in the individual's unconscious, because if it were, it would not be automatic and involuntary, which we have said repeatedly it should be. However, the content IS a matter for the record, which is NOT within the individual himself. All psychoanalysts made one common error, in that they attempted to uncover unconscious CONTENT. You cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms, because "content" is applicable ONLY to the more superficial unconscious levels to which the individual himself contributes. This is the level at which he can readily introduce fear, and usually does. Freud was right in calling this level pre-conscious, and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between preconscious and conscious material. He was also right in regarding the censor as an agent for the protection of consciousness from fear. HIS major error lay in his insistence that this level is necessary at all in the psychic structure. If the psyche contains fearful levels from which it cannot escape without splitting, its integration is permanently threatened. It is essential not to control the fearful, but to ELIMINATE it. From: http://a.courseinmiracles.com/urtext/chapter-2/section_5.php#gsc.tab=0

@DrewNows I agree. Great insights and rich undertone @mandyjw The beginning of your talk reminded me of

The Gurdjieff Work calls it external considerating.

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Meetings with Remarkable men is autobiographical in nature. Gurdjieff on an expedition crossing the Gobi desert- "The first thing next day, with the consent of our consciousness, degenerated like those of all contemporary people and corresponding exactly to the requirements of hell, we killed all the goats, which only the day before we had regarded as our sincere friends and associates in overcoming the difficulties of the journey." After this admirable Christian-Mohammedan manifestation, one of us began to cut thier meat into small pieces in order to roast it.,,,,,,,"

In rural places of the U.S., people of blue and orange worldview might say of someone who is backsliding in some way -"he went to shit and the hogs ate him". Feminine not excluded- "She went to shit and the hogs ate her." They don't notice their own judgements. I didn't notice my judgements and it's still ongoing. It takes vigilance not to fall back into spiritual sleep.

I felt I run full speed into a brick wall with your statement that Leo hates you.,,,,?

@jbram2002 Have you tried typing yourself according to the Enneagram of personality. Contained in this system is what's called the idea of 'chief feature'. This can give someone a place to start from in dealing with things of this nature. Apart from endocrine (essence) types which are fixed and unchangable, The attributes of personality are said to be not as fixed and thus changeable. Something we can have the actual capacity to do something about. I can empathize. I struggle often at times with escape into comfort food for dissociation from reality.

http://www.primasounds.com/the-discovery-of-primasounds/

Greg Braden's talk I posted in High Consciousness Resources reminded me of the Work being done at Heartmath.

Orange materialistic worldview needs to hear this.

@seeking_brilliance ???Oh that's great! That's rich.?

I've had a long battle with cynicism. It kept me from understanding forgiveness.

? All the synchronicities My attention is hooked. ??‍♂️

The capacity to hold one's tongue and just feel and observe. There is almost always honesty in silence.

At about 47:30 ,,,,, similar to Fourth Way/Gurdjieff Cosmology

@MrWolf ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_(Fourth_Way)

I'm happy when I remember to let go. Someone said Zen mind is Beginners mind.