RisingLane

No one describes the ego and the self-conscious mechanism quite like Bernadette Roberts. Her book "What is Self?" is an impressive achievement. She believed in free will, and she was a monotheist, but aside from that, her explanation of the self-conscious mechanism is unmatched. As a contemplative, she studied the interior movements closely and described them with precision. Check out this interview with her.

It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who misses those. Leo always said it was part of his journey to document it, and I hope he thinks about bringing them back.

I believe there’s a transcendent aspect to God, as God is both immanent and transcendent. I agree that the body and mind must go through a process of transformation.

Isn’t that best achieved by loving God first? That’s all the quote I shared was suggesting, and honestly, I felt you dismissed it a bit too casually.

That’s easier said than done. I’m going to focus on loving God first, as the Roberts quote suggests. When love for my neighbor comes, it will happen naturally. I believe David Hawkins said something similar: “Don’t try to love everybody. It will happen when it’s meant to happen.”

Good for you. I can’t say the same, to be honest.

So much for love of neighbor.

Good question! I thought you were in control of yourself.

Here’s Bernadette Roberts’ perspective on this: "We go deeper when we strive to follow Christ by living his first commandment — love God above all things, above all people, above nature and, above all, love God above ourselves. Unfortunately many people settle for the second commandment — love your neighbor as yourself — which in and of itself goes round in circles and has no need of God at all. Self-love is incapable of true love of neighbor; it may even be bad for him. Furthermore, self-love can never reach Christ's ultimate challenge of loving our enemies or those who do bad things to us. We cannot begin to understand the second commandment until we have come to the unitive state and thereby mastered the first commandment. The unitive state gives us the ability to see God in others with the same eye by which we see God in ourselves; thus what we love in others is the same God we love in ourselves. This love bypasses the whole phenomenal self or the person that appears, be he good, bad or indifferent. So before we can truly follow the second commandment, we must first have mastered the first commandment which means that true love of neighbor is impossible until we first love God above our neighbor and our self."

Yeah, it’s bad. I was hoping to be one of the rare few who’d actually love this movie, but nope.

The only thing I miss is the couch vlogs.

Great season finale.

In a few years, devs will be too lazy to make games. They will just sit and watch AI make the game for them:

Speaking of strategy games, StarCraft was amazing.

We are the luckiest people in the world.