INDEX
Part I
The Creation
The Soul
The Will of the Soul
Free Will
Spirit
Human Condition
Part II
Monitoring Condition
Living through the Flesh
Living through the Spirit
Part III
Autonomy
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
Autonomy of Flesh
Autonomy of Spirit
The Creation
The creation is everything that exists materially and non-materially. It is the everything, it is even the nothing. It is the life that has passed through all moments. It is this very living moment, and will be all moments to come. It could even be looked at at all the moments that have been, will be, and are happening -- infinite and time is what we use to mark our place within it.
Part I
The Creation
The Soul
The Will of the Soul
Free Will
Spirit
Human Condition
Part II
Monitoring Condition
Living through the Flesh
Living through the Spirit
Part III
Autonomy
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
Autonomy of Flesh
Autonomy of Spirit
The Creation
The creation is everything that exists materially and non-materially. It is the everything, it is even the nothing. It is the life that has passed through all moments. It is this very living moment, and will be all moments to come. It could even be looked at at all the moments that have been, will be, and are happening -- infinite and time is what we use to mark our place within it.
The Soul
The soul is the eternal part of our expressive life-- the part that experiences all moments in life-- even all moments to come after the death of the body that holds us to this world. It is the commonality of all living things-- as in all living things have one -- it is a piece of God given to us to manage. It is like free private land that is ours to culture and cultivate, watch over and maintain. It is our stake in the creation.
Will
Will is the foundation of choice. It is the decision -- decided through the interpretation of information coming in through your physical senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell-- or in result of the processes of your emotions and thoughts. "I will do this" "I will this to happen." I will no... I will not! Do what you will. What will you? What will you do? Without free will the soul and it's tender would be as automated as a computer. Instead we tend to ourselves as we chose, we are alive and we carry our own culture which is our identity.
Spirit
Spirit is a expression of being. "I want to talk to her, but my spirits do not empower my will." "We are in the spirit of giving". We tolerate evil spirits the come from inside the heart of our being. Spirit can be looked at as the nature of one's will power-- "I want to eat your face." may mean "I am in the spirit of face eating!" -- I am in the spirit of progression and growth. I am in the spirit of understanding. The spirit of truth taught me these things--because I am a hunter of truth--a gatherer of like things.
Human/ Soul Condition
The total of your perception, senses, and spirits compose your condition. Condition is a snapshot of life. "I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in."
Part II
Monitoring the condition.
You all know your condition. Your condition is what is asked about when somone asks you how you feel. How do you feel? What is your current condition? We can know our condition by comparing and contrasting current feelings with memories of past feelings >> I know I am feeling good in this moment because moments ago I was in an unsatisfied state. Or...In this moment I am bored, confused, and stressed about what I should spend my time on besides vedging out on the internet, TV, Halo 3, or pantry when these things are the only things that seem available-- but instead I decided to work on this writing project. Now that I am writing my condition may remain constant or it can change with every word I type and thought that surfaces. I could afford to loosen up.
Life in flesh vs. life in spirit
You have all probably heard about living through the flesh and living through the spirit. Just because we have heard something and internalized it doesn't mean we have understood it and grasped how it applies to our life from a sensical point of view.
Living through the Flesh.
Above we talked about condition, and interpretation of condition. This condition is a combination of your life within the flesh and your life in spirit. Living through the flesh is letting your habbits and desires control the nature of your unfolding. In another light it is to let the world shape your experience within it. In even more words, it is the dominance of your situation over your spirits-- making your spirit a slave of stimulus and response.
Today Elliot and I found out that the lease we were going to sign for this place in Ross Park did not allow animals. The selection of duplex housing is becoming smaller every day and we are still without a place to live. on top of that I am bored with my current life routine and a feeling of lack of direction has got me down-- wind blows me in circles-- stale is this taste. The combination of the circumstances that I have experienced within this material life tries to shape my condition today... sad to say with a good bit of success.
Living through the spirit.
Spirit, mentioned in part 1, is the movement of expression, and characteristics of that moment. Just as you live and exist in the flesh, your spirit coexists with you. Your spirits are the expressive state of your being--the force of movement that runs the meat puppet show-- the show that everyone else sees and even the private shows within yourself such as imagination and thoughts. When monitoring your condition your spirit and will are the forces that change the condition of your condition. If you are feeling down and will yourself to be stronger than circumstance and even stronger than your typical emotional reactions, you will yourself through the power of spirit, to change how you feel. Your spirit is the expressive movement. Living through the spirit is controlling your condition through your own power of will.
In another light >> Instead of your condition being dominated by your fleshly experience, it is dominated by your will to be what you decide to be. -- we are on the coat tails of real strength.
This is the more powerful way of life because your condition is controlled by your will and not the material circumstance of life, situation, and reaction.
Personal Recap
So as I, feeling directionless, purposeless, and stressed by a unfulfilling life routine, stressed by seeing Elliot stressed by our bad fortune, stressed by the weight of owning a dog, stressed from battling impure thoughts(spirits) and heavy with the labors of personal progression, I feel my condition... 'so this is what it feels to be human eh?' In my perception I do not feel so well. but this condition of mine is conditional and my higher truth intervenes and battles for me..-- and in a complementing spirit I will myself to be in a condition that is not so depressing and moreso stong and able. I carried myself through the spirit and did not let a lesser existence claim me.
Now I have to touch the difficulty of being human... living through the spirit is hard for me. Everyone's nature is different and I spent a good while training myself to live through the flesh, so many times the life in flesh will best my spirit. But trusting in god's prescriptions, which is to live in the spirit, may one day make my soul and spirit unshakeable by things experienced within my life and through the flesh experience of my body. Then I will obtain the true strength god created man to have. It may just be the spirit of Christ I lock onto when I battle the chains of my flesh. Which the spirit of Christ would spirit of god's and there by to live through the spirit is try at godliness. These things I want to come to know better.
In part three we will talk about autonomy, true life versus the machine of self (habit and established pattern) and integrate all the prior subjects.
Part III
Autonomy
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
The Autonomy of Flesh
The Autonomy of Spirit.
Monitoring the condition.
You all know your condition. Your condition is what is asked about when somone asks you how you feel. How do you feel? What is your current condition? We can know our condition by comparing and contrasting current feelings with memories of past feelings >> I know I am feeling good in this moment because moments ago I was in an unsatisfied state. Or...In this moment I am bored, confused, and stressed about what I should spend my time on besides vedging out on the internet, TV, Halo 3, or pantry when these things are the only things that seem available-- but instead I decided to work on this writing project. Now that I am writing my condition may remain constant or it can change with every word I type and thought that surfaces. I could afford to loosen up.
Life in flesh vs. life in spirit
You have all probably heard about living through the flesh and living through the spirit. Just because we have heard something and internalized it doesn't mean we have understood it and grasped how it applies to our life from a sensical point of view.
Living through the Flesh.
Above we talked about condition, and interpretation of condition. This condition is a combination of your life within the flesh and your life in spirit. Living through the flesh is letting your habbits and desires control the nature of your unfolding. In another light it is to let the world shape your experience within it. In even more words, it is the dominance of your situation over your spirits-- making your spirit a slave of stimulus and response.
Today Elliot and I found out that the lease we were going to sign for this place in Ross Park did not allow animals. The selection of duplex housing is becoming smaller every day and we are still without a place to live. on top of that I am bored with my current life routine and a feeling of lack of direction has got me down-- wind blows me in circles-- stale is this taste. The combination of the circumstances that I have experienced within this material life tries to shape my condition today... sad to say with a good bit of success.
Living through the spirit.
Spirit, mentioned in part 1, is the movement of expression, and characteristics of that moment. Just as you live and exist in the flesh, your spirit coexists with you. Your spirits are the expressive state of your being--the force of movement that runs the meat puppet show-- the show that everyone else sees and even the private shows within yourself such as imagination and thoughts. When monitoring your condition your spirit and will are the forces that change the condition of your condition. If you are feeling down and will yourself to be stronger than circumstance and even stronger than your typical emotional reactions, you will yourself through the power of spirit, to change how you feel. Your spirit is the expressive movement. Living through the spirit is controlling your condition through your own power of will.
In another light >> Instead of your condition being dominated by your fleshly experience, it is dominated by your will to be what you decide to be. -- we are on the coat tails of real strength.
This is the more powerful way of life because your condition is controlled by your will and not the material circumstance of life, situation, and reaction.
Personal Recap
So as I, feeling directionless, purposeless, and stressed by a unfulfilling life routine, stressed by seeing Elliot stressed by our bad fortune, stressed by the weight of owning a dog, stressed from battling impure thoughts(spirits) and heavy with the labors of personal progression, I feel my condition... 'so this is what it feels to be human eh?' In my perception I do not feel so well. but this condition of mine is conditional and my higher truth intervenes and battles for me..-- and in a complementing spirit I will myself to be in a condition that is not so depressing and moreso stong and able. I carried myself through the spirit and did not let a lesser existence claim me.
Now I have to touch the difficulty of being human... living through the spirit is hard for me. Everyone's nature is different and I spent a good while training myself to live through the flesh, so many times the life in flesh will best my spirit. But trusting in god's prescriptions, which is to live in the spirit, may one day make my soul and spirit unshakeable by things experienced within my life and through the flesh experience of my body. Then I will obtain the true strength god created man to have. It may just be the spirit of Christ I lock onto when I battle the chains of my flesh. Which the spirit of Christ would spirit of god's and there by to live through the spirit is try at godliness. These things I want to come to know better.
In part three we will talk about autonomy, true life versus the machine of self (habit and established pattern) and integrate all the prior subjects.
Part III
Autonomy
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
The Autonomy of Flesh
The Autonomy of Spirit.
Autonomy
Humans are referred to as creatures of habit. This is true, because each and every one of us has a routine; a set of actions and establish patterns of activities that we do day to day -- week to week, that we have cultured to satisfy our individual needs and the demands of our lives.
There are different actual definitions for autonomy, but none of them suit the process I am describing to the extent I want it described. Here is an excerpt from dictionary.com
1. Independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions: the autonomy of the individual.
2. The condition of being autonomous; self-government, or the right of self-government; independence: The rebels demanded autonomy from Spain.
3. A self-governing community.
Here I want to add more definition, and these definitions will be the context I use the word 'autonomy' in.
4. An ever-changing ingrained system of habitual expressive actions that is the result of the will and actions.
5. The automation of self.
The Autonomy of the Flesh.
We recall that our spirit is an expressive movement, and can be used as a force to aid our will. Our spirits can be dominated and subservient to the desires of our fleash or it can dominate and make the flesh a servant of our will. We also recall from above that our autonomy is a cultured and intelligent system for handling day to day events and situations. It is the image of yourself that you, as a self creating artist, feel and change every day.
A great example of your automated self, or the condition of your autonomy, is your dreamstate character. Within a dream it is rare that your free will interrupts the unfolding of events, as you are unconscious and your focus is at rest. The character of ourself that we see within a dream is an imitation of the self> It is like yourself on autoplay, automatically and quickly responding to situations and scenarios you invent within your mind. The scenarios and situation are being called from your unconscious mind through a system of associations or like things that link together somehow. Your unconscious mind is powerful, and retains everything you have ever witnessed and even remembers things that have been specially emphasized by your conscious. What this is coming around to is that your dream character is a direct insight into your base condition as it is the simplest automation of yourself. Your dream version's intelligence is based on your autonomy, which is an imprinted system of expressive actions that is a result of will and actions. --
Everyday I wake up, take my dog outside, sit down and check my email. It is by automation and habit that my flesh moves through this routine. Many times, even if I have no reason to check my mail or the last thing I want is to be in front of this 2d prison screen --I do it anyway. In those moments I am a prisoner to the automation of my flesh.
One of the hardest things I ever accomplished was slaying my personal love for marijuana. Even when I wanted to quit because personal truth imagined a better way of life I still found myself giving into the imprinted automation of my flesh and desire. Every day that I moved against my Will my spirit would weaken and and by relation my willpower weekend. Soon it came to where I was within a personal hell, not because I smoked pot, but because my will had been broken and I had become a slave to the autonomy of my flesh. In my free will there was no true freedom, because the will of my flesh overpowered the spirit of truth and the spirit of my will.
4 years I smoked daily, 1 year and a half I turned my back on my higher truth in my weakness. So for a year and a half I trained my spirit to be submissive to my flesh. The road of correction has been hard and hard daily because I could never conquer my love for smoking pot. I could only start winning battles of willpower in the name of personal truth.
The Autonomy of Spirit.
Just like decisions, reactions, and choices can all be established within the autonomy of self, there also is an autonomy of spirit. This is a newer discovery for me, and might even include some misinformation. If so> I apologies and wish you the best in your own understandings.
The spirit is your soul's power to will. Your will is your movement, or action, or desire as a free soul thereby claiming life. God says I am the alpha and omega. The beginning, the end, and the progression and condition in-between. Just like god we have a beginning, and end, and a progression and condition in-between. When it is our will to be a certain way that we see as good it is in that spirit that we will it to be. During everyday life there are many situations and scenarios of the flesh that try to mold us and shape us, our spirit and will can act as a corrective and protective force. The autonomy of the spirit is the culture of our automated strength and power. The more we exercise our spirit and power the more it automatically works for us, or against us. If our spirits, by habit are trained to lower after some event X happens, then next time event happens the spirit will work against the will if the will is for the condition to be opposite of where the spirit and flesh takes it. Now the same is for the reverse. If it is in your spiritual autonomy to raise your condition when met with resistance, than the next time you encounter event X your spirits will automatically raise to meet the occasion because through your life this is what you have cultured it to do.
For example. Everyday in my organic gardening class I start to disassociate myself from the lessons of my teacher and engage in my own personal thoughts. When this happens I lose content from the lesson so with all my will and spirit (might) in truth I change my condition to be attent and hold it that way through focus--this spirit is held constant with my might. Sometimes these dueling desires to associate with the teacher's lecture and disassociate into my own thought become like a battle. God and the Devil are raging inside of me : )
Some time late within my organic gardening lecture I felt tired and my will and spirits were being dominated by my flesh. I saw myself slipping into disassociation. Then all of the sudden, without my intensely willing it, my spirits increased and the power was designated to pay attention. I could only conclude that my spirits, through prior training and habit, kicked in to correction mode. Saved by spiritual autonomy >
Now imagine if your spiritual autonomy, through willpower and trust in God's aid, over the years became so strong that the autonomy of the flesh was subservient to your will. True peace and happiness will have been obtained because you worked for it and willed it, and trusted that it was desired for you as a living entity within the living entity of god.
Touching my own humanity and the difficultness of this task:
I have only noticed spiritual autonomy intervention once or twice for me to key in on it and know "this is what has just happened to me...wow". It may happen many many many times without my being aware of it, even right now. Though some days (almost even in measure), I completely lose the battle, and no matter what my will is the autonomy of my flesh reigns and my spirits and will suffers. To everyone their own battles and good luck.
Humans are referred to as creatures of habit. This is true, because each and every one of us has a routine; a set of actions and establish patterns of activities that we do day to day -- week to week, that we have cultured to satisfy our individual needs and the demands of our lives.
There are different actual definitions for autonomy, but none of them suit the process I am describing to the extent I want it described. Here is an excerpt from dictionary.com
1. Independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions: the autonomy of the individual.
2. The condition of being autonomous; self-government, or the right of self-government; independence: The rebels demanded autonomy from Spain.
3. A self-governing community.
Here I want to add more definition, and these definitions will be the context I use the word 'autonomy' in.
4. An ever-changing ingrained system of habitual expressive actions that is the result of the will and actions.
5. The automation of self.
The Autonomy of the Flesh.
We recall that our spirit is an expressive movement, and can be used as a force to aid our will. Our spirits can be dominated and subservient to the desires of our fleash or it can dominate and make the flesh a servant of our will. We also recall from above that our autonomy is a cultured and intelligent system for handling day to day events and situations. It is the image of yourself that you, as a self creating artist, feel and change every day.
A great example of your automated self, or the condition of your autonomy, is your dreamstate character. Within a dream it is rare that your free will interrupts the unfolding of events, as you are unconscious and your focus is at rest. The character of ourself that we see within a dream is an imitation of the self> It is like yourself on autoplay, automatically and quickly responding to situations and scenarios you invent within your mind. The scenarios and situation are being called from your unconscious mind through a system of associations or like things that link together somehow. Your unconscious mind is powerful, and retains everything you have ever witnessed and even remembers things that have been specially emphasized by your conscious. What this is coming around to is that your dream character is a direct insight into your base condition as it is the simplest automation of yourself. Your dream version's intelligence is based on your autonomy, which is an imprinted system of expressive actions that is a result of will and actions. --
Everyday I wake up, take my dog outside, sit down and check my email. It is by automation and habit that my flesh moves through this routine. Many times, even if I have no reason to check my mail or the last thing I want is to be in front of this 2d prison screen --I do it anyway. In those moments I am a prisoner to the automation of my flesh.
One of the hardest things I ever accomplished was slaying my personal love for marijuana. Even when I wanted to quit because personal truth imagined a better way of life I still found myself giving into the imprinted automation of my flesh and desire. Every day that I moved against my Will my spirit would weaken and and by relation my willpower weekend. Soon it came to where I was within a personal hell, not because I smoked pot, but because my will had been broken and I had become a slave to the autonomy of my flesh. In my free will there was no true freedom, because the will of my flesh overpowered the spirit of truth and the spirit of my will.
4 years I smoked daily, 1 year and a half I turned my back on my higher truth in my weakness. So for a year and a half I trained my spirit to be submissive to my flesh. The road of correction has been hard and hard daily because I could never conquer my love for smoking pot. I could only start winning battles of willpower in the name of personal truth.
The Autonomy of Spirit.
Just like decisions, reactions, and choices can all be established within the autonomy of self, there also is an autonomy of spirit. This is a newer discovery for me, and might even include some misinformation. If so> I apologies and wish you the best in your own understandings.
The spirit is your soul's power to will. Your will is your movement, or action, or desire as a free soul thereby claiming life. God says I am the alpha and omega. The beginning, the end, and the progression and condition in-between. Just like god we have a beginning, and end, and a progression and condition in-between. When it is our will to be a certain way that we see as good it is in that spirit that we will it to be. During everyday life there are many situations and scenarios of the flesh that try to mold us and shape us, our spirit and will can act as a corrective and protective force. The autonomy of the spirit is the culture of our automated strength and power. The more we exercise our spirit and power the more it automatically works for us, or against us. If our spirits, by habit are trained to lower after some event X happens, then next time event happens the spirit will work against the will if the will is for the condition to be opposite of where the spirit and flesh takes it. Now the same is for the reverse. If it is in your spiritual autonomy to raise your condition when met with resistance, than the next time you encounter event X your spirits will automatically raise to meet the occasion because through your life this is what you have cultured it to do.
For example. Everyday in my organic gardening class I start to disassociate myself from the lessons of my teacher and engage in my own personal thoughts. When this happens I lose content from the lesson so with all my will and spirit (might) in truth I change my condition to be attent and hold it that way through focus--this spirit is held constant with my might. Sometimes these dueling desires to associate with the teacher's lecture and disassociate into my own thought become like a battle. God and the Devil are raging inside of me : )
Some time late within my organic gardening lecture I felt tired and my will and spirits were being dominated by my flesh. I saw myself slipping into disassociation. Then all of the sudden, without my intensely willing it, my spirits increased and the power was designated to pay attention. I could only conclude that my spirits, through prior training and habit, kicked in to correction mode. Saved by spiritual autonomy >
Now imagine if your spiritual autonomy, through willpower and trust in God's aid, over the years became so strong that the autonomy of the flesh was subservient to your will. True peace and happiness will have been obtained because you worked for it and willed it, and trusted that it was desired for you as a living entity within the living entity of god.
Touching my own humanity and the difficultness of this task:
I have only noticed spiritual autonomy intervention once or twice for me to key in on it and know "this is what has just happened to me...wow". It may happen many many many times without my being aware of it, even right now. Though some days (almost even in measure), I completely lose the battle, and no matter what my will is the autonomy of my flesh reigns and my spirits and will suffers. To everyone their own battles and good luck.
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