He who has ears let him hear.
In the beginning was the Word.
And the Word was with God.
And God was with the Word.
The word is one of the most powerful tools a person wields.
It sows creation, it sows destruction.
Inside yourself, outside yourself.
The word can be language.
The word can be thoughts.
The word can be meanings.
The word can be people, worlds, solar systems, creations.
Ahhhh the word is expression.
Your word will increase in strength if you practice how your word issues out of you. Make it a practice to control what you allow yourself to think and speak. Address poor thoughts by calling them so and abandoning them in wait for something better. Do not let statements of self weakness carelessly flow from your mouth to others. Do not carelessly curse and talk down others. If you do these things you also will find your inner dialog becoming more gentle, freer, craftier, smarter and there will be less likely hood of succumbing to misery, or even worse potential threats that an erratic inner dialog might hold.
A wound isn't healed by beating it! Your inner dialog is a precious thing. Be kind to yourself.
I tell you are free! and yet deeply imprisoned in the judgment of truth. To achieve pure freedom we have to work within truth and befriend it, speak kindly of it, honor it's harsh lessons and praise it's rewards. Hate against our lot does not bear any positivity. Neither will fruit grow from a thorn.
At all times you should be able to look at what you are and identify the nature of the wave you are riding. And then say, "Of what spirit am I right now?" Oh you are a host for many different types of spirit, and your house is something that can be managed and operated efficiently. Run your inn well and always be of the best disposition your strength can manage.
If you ever become newly aflame with the light and love of the Lord. Keep the light of your lord modest and do not reveal him until he says to do so or he might leave and with him your light will quickly run out.
Just as intense light blinds the eye that is accustomed to darkness, the untimely revealing of your lofty truth would bring blindness and possible injury to another's spiritual eye. Then not being able to see any revelation by your light, your loved one might place you in contempt, which is neither beneficial you you or them. We can take a lesson from the earth. The earth is like an eye who becomes accustomed to light gradually through sunrise. Be as wise as the sunrise if you are to be a light bringer for the Lord.
If we were were to wear wedding attire to work, we would risk our nice clothes becoming filthy and ruined. Therefore do not wear garments that are out of place or you behave foolishly with your possessions. Render to Cesar what is Cesar's, render to God what is of God's.
It's not what goes in you that defiles you, but what comes out of you that defiles you. This is a hero's saying and will redeem you from sin when you flirt with the consumption of the world. Do all things in the name of perfection. To the pure everything is pure, and no drought of poison or serpent's bite can harm a Saint of the Lord. Even when sinning, seek to be like the lord's love. How can a father turn away a son or daughter who loves his affection all else? Is it not said that "love god first and then neighbor as self" be the whole of the law? Did not Jesus come and repeal the the strength of the law of Moses, smash the rouge laws of the church, and offer freedom, asking only love and Grace from the children of earth? And isn't that seed strongly sprouting in the 21st century? Ask yourself what do you see, and then mind your spirit's reply, and most likely if you aspire to truth and practice self awareness then you will find you have caught a tiger by the toe, and if you are like me you we see that the tiger caught has long been let go.
When you are a lost soul with little good bread, your first task in restoration is to be a gatekeeper at your own stomach, heart, throat, and mind. Be alert! Be alert! See who comes here to go there and what they carry in their hands. Decline entry when the guest is not blessed, and when the heart speaks and says "Let this one pass", bless the traveler and let him pass. In this way you will conduct yourself to receive better life and improve your soul and train your spirit.
A young spirit will not be able to see or affect all that goes on inside of him. But every person is given oversite of a little bit, and there is where such a one should start. Those who acty responsibly for the little they have will be given more.
Know that you are weak and perfection is not instant, least there be no reason for time.
Many try at righteousness and get smashed and leave the struggle and return to darkness because of their failure to find the promise, while instead finding only ugliness. When you embark on the great work, and work to restrain forces here and there, expect them to act out and rage against your will, expect them to inflame and grow in size and severity in attempts to set themselves once again as masters with the true master subdued. Suffer them and combat them with all your measures of might and in time your autonomy will serve you rather than you be forced to serve your autonomy.
Your spiritual power is currency. There are many thought natures who would like you to empower them. They are but fish in the sea. Understand the parties who visit your mind, identify patterns, and prune when needed. Being a gatekeeper is your first role in being a laborer for Heaven. If you, in your new responsibility, see yourself poor and without anything good, then this too is good, because it is a truth of God and you truly are that poor in preferable spirit. Soon new, better spirits will be your lot.
Often you will look at your dark and evil heart and lament because the fountain is unworthy. Here begins your great work. Rejoice because the father never leaves, and cups of sin will fill to their measure and then judgment will visit you and wreck your house for the sake of the Lord's Love which is your Love as well. Keep mind that you do not overfill your cup of sin, least you be wrecked and thrown into the throes of judgment. Work to fill your cup of love so that it over-runs and spills into your cups of sin, diluting it and then purifying it, so that you may always live on the increase until you are perfected in your way, poor or rich, perfection and eternal perfection on perfection of your lot and will become your lot.
Pray prayers because they are good for the reflection on self. The prayer is the gift. One prayer that is strong is "Lord father who is my heaven, holy is your name. Provide me this day with bread. Lead me, but not into temptation and deliver me from evil. Forgive me even as I forgive others. Your Kingdom be and your will be." This is the breath of the assailed King.
Bread and hunger are the foundations for eternal life. Can we be happy forever being satisfied? Oh if satisfaction be a thing eternal then I will enter into it and be content. Watch me abandon the mysteries of doubt and death as I spirit in life and know satisfaction, ask for bread, and am satisfied.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Sunday, November 28, 2010
There was a world bourn upon facebook in the image of Man
And who shall benight me for what I made with my time? What I chose to see grow and what I left to see die? I move forward despite arms pulling, and I am clean by tears of the woman bourne from my chest. Her name is Hearkening and the halls of despair preceded her and the halls of glory go forth from her.
When I awoke it fancied me to set down a theatre of play in front of you. Does anyone set their army against my fancy with hatred and dominance in their heart?
Neigh we appeal to those who will bless and feed for love's need and will grow and promote the things of man's throat. But for the crux of mans brow; caste it to the dirt and let a pole pin it there and set a flag on the poll proclaiming freedom from creation's oppressions.
Let the rabble have no voice and be the dirt of a new earth; where the bare feet of biped man walk and bless.
Oh guile. As crocodiles have snapped at crooked men's art, surely the higher truths of heaven were darts at times; rather than rags of comfort.
In the bowels of hell, Men still living rip themselves apart;
Who is the ruler of their heart that have them caste down into the bowels of Hell? How has man come to hold hell in his sphere? Say, is it required?
Long we awaited the deliverance from the trembling powers of God breaking up unhallowed grounds under out feet. Like infants we crawl, some falling in opening cracks some surviving by the generosity of fortune's intelligence to grow to walk and enter onto stable ground; where grass begins to grow and plants begin to sprout. And living even here; Man finds the world still shows influence of heaven and influence of Hell.
All the time I feel the brothers still aboding in the bowels and becon them into the calmer solar plexus of Man; where they might make something that enters into the heart and can vouch their namesake.
And those babes who fell in the cracks; names now forgotten; can hardly be detected but they feed a work in a inverted Heaven of their own; making fire; Oh how the fire set itself up as a great conqueror; but only of broken men and unfortunate babes;
But how man of heart spurn the fire; and how the men of hell tear themselves over each other; and even attempt to murder the men of heart when they visit.
Monday, April 20, 2009
For Tool Fans - H
One of my favorite Tool songs is "H" cause it's got a ballin opening slew of words, that I could never quite figure out, but because they are said with such confidence I assume they are chalk full of perosnal truth.
One reason why the band tool attracted such a wide variety of listeners is because their music was mostly about self discovery and the mystery in the development. Their delivery was cloaked in metaphors, and in the world of poetry that leaves infinite room for the subjectee to run with his imagination on the meaning...
So here is the lyric I am going to expand, and to this day it is the only meaning I've ever thought that fits in perfectly with part of my life experience, and at the same time reveals a deeper meaning on the nature of man and life.
lyric!
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcu614JCTE&feature=related
The snake is the thinking mind, that crunches numbers, runs scenarios, etc.. The blood is the momentum of action. When man tries to do something, he sets his will into motion, when doubt comes into play, it restricts the motion. This restriction is the death to momentum naturally, but it is all-the-same still natural.
Life teaches us about all it's inner elements, and teaches us their names. And I don't mean their word names, I mean the way of their nature and how they co-relate to other inner elements.
The dissonance caused by the conflict illustrated in the lyrics, is part of the 'calibration' process. And as man becomes intimate with himself, and how the life is inside of him, he better understands and becomes familiar with his inner elements so he can employ them in a way that makes sense.
There are other 'tools' that can micro-manage processes such as decision, action, and doubt; like wisdom. I like to call wisdom an greater-angel, because it is a master of many other spiritual processes, and all the process employed by wisdom will have their own personal nature of wisdom within themselves so they can fulfill their roles properly.
When I mention angel-like spirits, I mean spirits that are fixed-and-yet-flexible in nature, like the growth of human hair or fingernails, or even more power-full, like the process of joy rising, or the call of hunger. These 'workers', just mentioned, are given to and serve man pretty unconditionally. There are many other angel-like spirits that, to my current understand, are obviously outside of man-- like the process of water freezing into ice, or pine tree seed growing into a pine-tree.
I know we typically call this biology and geology type phenomenon "science", and it is, but still there is musical order to make the phenomenon come about. Science becomes the study of the micro and macro processes, and while it has it's popper place, the explanation is not the actualization.
That's enough for now. Hope you enjoyed Tool Fans!
One reason why the band tool attracted such a wide variety of listeners is because their music was mostly about self discovery and the mystery in the development. Their delivery was cloaked in metaphors, and in the world of poetry that leaves infinite room for the subjectee to run with his imagination on the meaning...
So here is the lyric I am going to expand, and to this day it is the only meaning I've ever thought that fits in perfectly with part of my life experience, and at the same time reveals a deeper meaning on the nature of man and life.
lyric!
The snake behind me hissesFull Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/tool_lyrics_1951/aenima_lyrics_4858/h_lyrics_57921.html
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
Open up my heart again.
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcu614JCTE&feature=related
The snake is the thinking mind, that crunches numbers, runs scenarios, etc.. The blood is the momentum of action. When man tries to do something, he sets his will into motion, when doubt comes into play, it restricts the motion. This restriction is the death to momentum naturally, but it is all-the-same still natural.
Life teaches us about all it's inner elements, and teaches us their names. And I don't mean their word names, I mean the way of their nature and how they co-relate to other inner elements.
The dissonance caused by the conflict illustrated in the lyrics, is part of the 'calibration' process. And as man becomes intimate with himself, and how the life is inside of him, he better understands and becomes familiar with his inner elements so he can employ them in a way that makes sense.
There are other 'tools' that can micro-manage processes such as decision, action, and doubt; like wisdom. I like to call wisdom an greater-angel, because it is a master of many other spiritual processes, and all the process employed by wisdom will have their own personal nature of wisdom within themselves so they can fulfill their roles properly.
When I mention angel-like spirits, I mean spirits that are fixed-and-yet-flexible in nature, like the growth of human hair or fingernails, or even more power-full, like the process of joy rising, or the call of hunger. These 'workers', just mentioned, are given to and serve man pretty unconditionally. There are many other angel-like spirits that, to my current understand, are obviously outside of man-- like the process of water freezing into ice, or pine tree seed growing into a pine-tree.
I know we typically call this biology and geology type phenomenon "science", and it is, but still there is musical order to make the phenomenon come about. Science becomes the study of the micro and macro processes, and while it has it's popper place, the explanation is not the actualization.
That's enough for now. Hope you enjoyed Tool Fans!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Henry Costen Vaugn
Time and time again
Has Ego
Pulled the phantasmic nightmare
In creeping shadows
Over the windows of our souls
And obscured our vision
We come here tonight
Among brothers
To pull back this curtain
And stand naked
Before the ancient mirror
Even when we are low,
Our branches reach high
Into aethers incalculable,
As organic
We grow onward,
Immersed in all
That we see or seem.
Conflict is our friend and teacher.
We fear not its sacred wrath.
Our hearts are indestructible
Effigies to process,
To imminent knowledge
That love instantiates all
And laughs behind the folly
Of our suffering.
Witnessing,
We vibrate always
The variformed Song
Whose center is nowhere
And whose circumference is everywhere.
Night is the coming of the light.
Light is the coming of the night.
Between, stands the gnarled
Tail of the snake,
Who eats on and on,
And knows our minds
Are not binding.
We were once timid children,
Quaking with compassion,
Unlimited.
We come tonight
In offering to this:
That we are alive
And in love with life,
Despite our protestations.
Should we commune
With our source,
Nature is our mother.
Our roots grow where needed.
We love her always,
Even when blind and broken
And lost,
Convinced we are alone.
Always, we return.
We ingest here tonight
To recover what we have forgotten
That as a great and loving mind
Once wrote:
"...that (we) were once the carrier of a life contained between the poles of an unimaginable future and an unimaginably remote past. Millions of years and untold millions of ancestors have worked up to this moment, and (we) are the fulfillment of this moment. Anything that is past is no longer reality, anything that will be is not yet reality, reality is now."
Has Ego
Pulled the phantasmic nightmare
In creeping shadows
Over the windows of our souls
And obscured our vision
We come here tonight
Among brothers
To pull back this curtain
And stand naked
Before the ancient mirror
Even when we are low,
Our branches reach high
Into aethers incalculable,
As organic
We grow onward,
Immersed in all
That we see or seem.
Conflict is our friend and teacher.
We fear not its sacred wrath.
Our hearts are indestructible
Effigies to process,
To imminent knowledge
That love instantiates all
And laughs behind the folly
Of our suffering.
Witnessing,
We vibrate always
The variformed Song
Whose center is nowhere
And whose circumference is everywhere.
Night is the coming of the light.
Light is the coming of the night.
Between, stands the gnarled
Tail of the snake,
Who eats on and on,
And knows our minds
Are not binding.
We were once timid children,
Quaking with compassion,
Unlimited.
We come tonight
In offering to this:
That we are alive
And in love with life,
Despite our protestations.
Should we commune
With our source,
Nature is our mother.
Our roots grow where needed.
We love her always,
Even when blind and broken
And lost,
Convinced we are alone.
Always, we return.
We ingest here tonight
To recover what we have forgotten
That as a great and loving mind
Once wrote:
"...that (we) were once the carrier of a life contained between the poles of an unimaginable future and an unimaginably remote past. Millions of years and untold millions of ancestors have worked up to this moment, and (we) are the fulfillment of this moment. Anything that is past is no longer reality, anything that will be is not yet reality, reality is now."
Friday, April 10, 2009
Man Sitting on his Roof-Top
"When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down or enter the house to take anything out. "
The man on the rooftop is the man who is spiritually creating thought in his mind. When in procreative thought if he breaks away to reflect on himself, then he should not give his thoughts to the things he sees by taking his findings and expanding/developing them. He should instead acknowledge the mental action, and ignore it, and then re-enter into procreative thought.
Here is a situational example. This morning A girl walks through the courtyard wearing a blue dress, and I say "And why are you dressed so nice?" and she replies, "Oh I'm just going to work, but thank you though!" and that was the end of our brief and casual greeting. Now I was standing on my balcony when then happened, and walked back inside, and I as I assume people naturally do, begin to briefly reflect over the quick interaction...
And in this session i begin to run countless angles of thought and judgment, which potentially lead to pride, vanity, anxiety... satisfactions of all kinds.
Both judgment and pride, though seemingly small and insignificant, disrupt the homeostasis of the soul's life-nature. This could also be renamed as sin, the worker of death.
Here is what the parable above suggests that man does. When you catch your self going into reflection of this nature, resist the momentum of your spirits and take your spiritual eyes, which are the totalness of your conscious awareness, and look on the raw emotion that is created when you begin to break your momentum, and at the same time look on elsewhere in calm expectation for a new wind to come and pick up your spirits, and take you back into procreative thought, which is non-ego-centric, natural musical and mindful movement.
This is an idea, which is a seed, and at the same time that seed develops into practice and ultimately training. If you apply it you will gain strength over your automation, and improve the melody of your soul, thereby purifying your soul's condition. It also will be accounted to you for much more too.
The man on the rooftop is the man who is spiritually creating thought in his mind. When in procreative thought if he breaks away to reflect on himself, then he should not give his thoughts to the things he sees by taking his findings and expanding/developing them. He should instead acknowledge the mental action, and ignore it, and then re-enter into procreative thought.
Here is a situational example. This morning A girl walks through the courtyard wearing a blue dress, and I say "And why are you dressed so nice?" and she replies, "Oh I'm just going to work, but thank you though!" and that was the end of our brief and casual greeting. Now I was standing on my balcony when then happened, and walked back inside, and I as I assume people naturally do, begin to briefly reflect over the quick interaction...
And in this session i begin to run countless angles of thought and judgment, which potentially lead to pride, vanity, anxiety... satisfactions of all kinds.
Both judgment and pride, though seemingly small and insignificant, disrupt the homeostasis of the soul's life-nature. This could also be renamed as sin, the worker of death.
Here is what the parable above suggests that man does. When you catch your self going into reflection of this nature, resist the momentum of your spirits and take your spiritual eyes, which are the totalness of your conscious awareness, and look on the raw emotion that is created when you begin to break your momentum, and at the same time look on elsewhere in calm expectation for a new wind to come and pick up your spirits, and take you back into procreative thought, which is non-ego-centric, natural musical and mindful movement.
This is an idea, which is a seed, and at the same time that seed develops into practice and ultimately training. If you apply it you will gain strength over your automation, and improve the melody of your soul, thereby purifying your soul's condition. It also will be accounted to you for much more too.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Heaven and Hell
I am going to tell you in short my interpretation on heaven and hell, and you tell me what you think.
Heaven and Hell can be learned about by studying your own nature. If we are depressed, then there is reason. This reason 'is' because there is a great truth in work, and we are able to know our own condition by this truth.
For example~ I drank last night, so my body has had to work extra hard to clean and restore my system to popper homeostasis. My mind is also burdened because my brain has been weakened and I must deal with this too. This is my condition, and it is the way it is because there is a great truth in the works.
Well, if we acknowledge this great truth, and and try to grow properly in respects to it using all the power and might we have been given-- such as cognition and senses and judgment-- then we can become harmonious with the truth and experience the richer conditions on the infinite scale of conditions that are potentially experienceable within life.
This scale of conditions, within the realm of judgment and matter, depict the nature of heaven(s) and hell(s).
This world is no heaven, and it is no hell. But within us both manifest their reality.
So when one dies, if he carried a personal hell within him, then that hell will unfold unto it's spiritual reality, because it has been freed of it's body.
Likewise, if is one'self is love, patients, forgiveness, etc., then one also has the tools necessary to solve dissonance, and labor heaven within himself where-ever he is on the real world. And when he dies, likewise his spirit and soul will be freed and manifest itself in the new fertile environment of the spiritual world.
Heaven and Hell can be learned about by studying your own nature. If we are depressed, then there is reason. This reason 'is' because there is a great truth in work, and we are able to know our own condition by this truth.
For example~ I drank last night, so my body has had to work extra hard to clean and restore my system to popper homeostasis. My mind is also burdened because my brain has been weakened and I must deal with this too. This is my condition, and it is the way it is because there is a great truth in the works.
Well, if we acknowledge this great truth, and and try to grow properly in respects to it using all the power and might we have been given-- such as cognition and senses and judgment-- then we can become harmonious with the truth and experience the richer conditions on the infinite scale of conditions that are potentially experienceable within life.
This scale of conditions, within the realm of judgment and matter, depict the nature of heaven(s) and hell(s).
This world is no heaven, and it is no hell. But within us both manifest their reality.
So when one dies, if he carried a personal hell within him, then that hell will unfold unto it's spiritual reality, because it has been freed of it's body.
Likewise, if is one'self is love, patients, forgiveness, etc., then one also has the tools necessary to solve dissonance, and labor heaven within himself where-ever he is on the real world. And when he dies, likewise his spirit and soul will be freed and manifest itself in the new fertile environment of the spiritual world.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Spirit of Spirits
This post draws on aspects of God.
"God is a spirit". He is the creating force of the creation, all things that exist are animated by the currency of his power.
Just as energy is never created nor destroyed by our scientific understanding, God is also eternal, and his creative force moves on through all created things that were, are, and will be.
The material world explains this with the concept of time. 'Now' is the present expression of the creative force. The past is our memory of creation's old material form and interaction. The future is the form to be, and it's interactions. This illustrates the eternal nature of God, but it is not the entirety of God himself; it is only what can be derived by studying the material creation we participate in.
God is an intelligent spiritual being. We can verify this by looking at the created objects of the creation.
Look at a tree and the way it grows up and out, fulfilling a coercive pattern that it must. Look at the human body, it does the same.
There is hardly any material creation that is not indicative of an intelligent spiritual development.
God is called the spirit of spirits in Christian literature. In order to understand this, lets look at something that has spiritually manifested into being, such as the tree and it's fruit. Where do they get their momentum to grow into their form?
We are are persuaded to think "the seed",the "gene", or the "rain, sunlight, dirt etc." But when we separate any of the parts from the whole we miss the mark.Man must combine all his discoveries to see that the factors, (rain, dirt, co2, sunlight, seed, gene, etc.) work together. And the origin of each contributing factor have their own origins and factors, but they are all in the movement, being spirits of the great spirit of life
This is why God traditionally holds the description "The spirit of spirits"
"God is a spirit". He is the creating force of the creation, all things that exist are animated by the currency of his power.
Just as energy is never created nor destroyed by our scientific understanding, God is also eternal, and his creative force moves on through all created things that were, are, and will be.
The material world explains this with the concept of time. 'Now' is the present expression of the creative force. The past is our memory of creation's old material form and interaction. The future is the form to be, and it's interactions. This illustrates the eternal nature of God, but it is not the entirety of God himself; it is only what can be derived by studying the material creation we participate in.
God is an intelligent spiritual being. We can verify this by looking at the created objects of the creation.
Look at a tree and the way it grows up and out, fulfilling a coercive pattern that it must. Look at the human body, it does the same.
There is hardly any material creation that is not indicative of an intelligent spiritual development.
God is called the spirit of spirits in Christian literature. In order to understand this, lets look at something that has spiritually manifested into being, such as the tree and it's fruit. Where do they get their momentum to grow into their form?
We are are persuaded to think "the seed",the "gene", or the "rain, sunlight, dirt etc." But when we separate any of the parts from the whole we miss the mark.Man must combine all his discoveries to see that the factors, (rain, dirt, co2, sunlight, seed, gene, etc.) work together. And the origin of each contributing factor have their own origins and factors, but they are all in the movement, being spirits of the great spirit of life
This is why God traditionally holds the description "The spirit of spirits"
Monday, January 26, 2009
Atheism and God - 002
Do atheists believe in the force? like star wars?
And is that same force, if it were to exist to an atheist, be the same force that brings a kidney into creation, or closes a wound?
I have no problem with atheism, and I acknowledge God.
Atheism is truly needed in this world, but should only be temporary.
Atheists are needed because there exists concepts and ideas in this world that are silly, and unworthy of belief, and the Atheist understands this. These ideas and beliefs make their homes in the minds of men, and the Atheist understands this as well.
So the atheist, when he declares he does not believe in god, is saying that he doesn't believe in the ideas he has about god, because he sees them as not worth believing.
And surely if my thoughts and concepts on God were akin to an athiest's then I would (privately) reject such a false God as well. ...
But for me, rejecting God would be like saying the the power that keeps my hand healthy doesn't exist, and the hand itself, which is a fruit of the creative force, isn't there. Which to reject my God like this would prove to be against reason and understanding. Because my hands are here, and they move, with power allotted and articulated by my will, which considers all kinds of emotions and situational events..right!?. and one day these hands will decay with the death of the body... right!?.. and then that creative power that once animated my body, that constantly moved through me, will still be moving through other creations, other humans, and will lives on and on.
So if your idea of God is only a man sitting on a cloud, with a magic wand saying "there and there, and give that man a jager bomb" then rock on atheist, you do yourself a service with non belief.
And is that same force, if it were to exist to an atheist, be the same force that brings a kidney into creation, or closes a wound?
I have no problem with atheism, and I acknowledge God.
Atheism is truly needed in this world, but should only be temporary.
Atheists are needed because there exists concepts and ideas in this world that are silly, and unworthy of belief, and the Atheist understands this. These ideas and beliefs make their homes in the minds of men, and the Atheist understands this as well.
So the atheist, when he declares he does not believe in god, is saying that he doesn't believe in the ideas he has about god, because he sees them as not worth believing.
And surely if my thoughts and concepts on God were akin to an athiest's then I would (privately) reject such a false God as well. ...
But for me, rejecting God would be like saying the the power that keeps my hand healthy doesn't exist, and the hand itself, which is a fruit of the creative force, isn't there. Which to reject my God like this would prove to be against reason and understanding. Because my hands are here, and they move, with power allotted and articulated by my will, which considers all kinds of emotions and situational events..right!?. and one day these hands will decay with the death of the body... right!?.. and then that creative power that once animated my body, that constantly moved through me, will still be moving through other creations, other humans, and will lives on and on.
So if your idea of God is only a man sitting on a cloud, with a magic wand saying "there and there, and give that man a jager bomb" then rock on atheist, you do yourself a service with non belief.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Atheism & God - 001
Its easy to say there is no God, overthere.
But can you deny the creation, the happening.
Even right now there are relationships and convergences making what is in front of us. What is their power? And is it their power?
There is a force that moves through this moment, and the past is our memory of it's old shape, the future is it's shape to be.
You can deny god, but how can you deny the creation? In it God says, "I am, all your power is founded in the power of my fountain, and even your power is mine, for all power is in me and of me.
God has sent our lord, the image of godly, man, and has given to this image faculty to find his fountain and dance in harmony with it's will. This harmony is the son of God, man's choice to chose his father's image our lord.
--- that's why they write the contemporary church songs "there is a fountain, who is the king."
So the atheist denies god only in his vanity. When God reveals to him, the light of him, then the atheist will turn away from his vanity and ponder on the true God. And if he refuses, it is by his pride, which is is the love of his vanity, an inhibitor to the fountain, and a power that cannot exist in the kingdom of heaven. When the pride rests, then glory is revealed as the son will grow to becomes one with his father.
But can you deny the creation, the happening.
Even right now there are relationships and convergences making what is in front of us. What is their power? And is it their power?
There is a force that moves through this moment, and the past is our memory of it's old shape, the future is it's shape to be.
You can deny god, but how can you deny the creation? In it God says, "I am, all your power is founded in the power of my fountain, and even your power is mine, for all power is in me and of me.
God has sent our lord, the image of godly, man, and has given to this image faculty to find his fountain and dance in harmony with it's will. This harmony is the son of God, man's choice to chose his father's image our lord.
--- that's why they write the contemporary church songs "there is a fountain, who is the king."
So the atheist denies god only in his vanity. When God reveals to him, the light of him, then the atheist will turn away from his vanity and ponder on the true God. And if he refuses, it is by his pride, which is is the love of his vanity, an inhibitor to the fountain, and a power that cannot exist in the kingdom of heaven. When the pride rests, then glory is revealed as the son will grow to becomes one with his father.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
When my movement show heavy with sin.
God has made mine to be vanity,
and double thought.
He has made my inheritance the worm.
He has made my way the way of the servant,
and the servants horse.
Will I be delivered from the judge?
Will the warm mirror grow?
Or will I be cut off and left to stare into the recursiveness
of my iniquity? I know that I will be delivered, and you are my rock.
Let not the hope of my day be in vain.
Have mercy on the wicked
I am lost and I cry in the wilderness.
and double thought.
He has made my inheritance the worm.
He has made my way the way of the servant,
and the servants horse.
Will I be delivered from the judge?
Will the warm mirror grow?
Or will I be cut off and left to stare into the recursiveness
of my iniquity? I know that I will be delivered, and you are my rock.
Let not the hope of my day be in vain.
Have mercy on the wicked
I am lost and I cry in the wilderness.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Programming the Moments
Young programmer
Mind your processes,
your increases, your movements.
Then you certainly moved with uncertainty;
the wrong dance to your music.
and you couldn't see it,
and yet you still knew it.
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This is written with the idea in mind that we, our characters, are subject to our own creation. To handle situation is to react and adapt to it, our actions behaving as processes designed to handle the function we need preformed.
Too Often we, our character, rely on old processes we have created in past situation to handle new situations.
An abstract example: Business man spends all day doing business, handling people in business man ways. He comes home to spend time with his wife and child, and through laziness and habit dependency, he treats his wife and child also in his business man ways when this new environment calls for a different set of mannerisms from the man, so the man should mind his new situation and dance appropriately.
In truth, every situation is new and unique, and although the context may be similar it will never be the replicated to exactness. Us, being programmers of our persona, should mind each new moment with focus, fearlessness, and attention so we can create a process that is truly appropriate to the function that is being preformed. Or, dancing a dance that is true to the music.
When we dance wrong, maybe its never noticed. It is what it is, right? But the human heart, knows and discerns with God gifted accuracy, and the right dance to the music will produce a greater effect in the parties joined in the dance.
Mind your processes,
your increases, your movements.
Then you certainly moved with uncertainty;
the wrong dance to your music.
and you couldn't see it,
and yet you still knew it.
-------
This is written with the idea in mind that we, our characters, are subject to our own creation. To handle situation is to react and adapt to it, our actions behaving as processes designed to handle the function we need preformed.
Too Often we, our character, rely on old processes we have created in past situation to handle new situations.
An abstract example: Business man spends all day doing business, handling people in business man ways. He comes home to spend time with his wife and child, and through laziness and habit dependency, he treats his wife and child also in his business man ways when this new environment calls for a different set of mannerisms from the man, so the man should mind his new situation and dance appropriately.
In truth, every situation is new and unique, and although the context may be similar it will never be the replicated to exactness. Us, being programmers of our persona, should mind each new moment with focus, fearlessness, and attention so we can create a process that is truly appropriate to the function that is being preformed. Or, dancing a dance that is true to the music.
When we dance wrong, maybe its never noticed. It is what it is, right? But the human heart, knows and discerns with God gifted accuracy, and the right dance to the music will produce a greater effect in the parties joined in the dance.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Writings by Henry Coston Vaughn
#2
Kept the faith
Through all
Your emphatic
Nonsense
Drenched
Enclosures
Molded from
Image high
Fought tooth
and nail
To keep the mind
Unbound by
All those subtle
Stupid, Pretty
Lies
From
Mouth to mouth
Eye to eye
On the screen
Into our lives
They creep
And then we
Sleep the
Sleepless
Sleep
Of minds
Barred from
Travel
Deep
And the voices
We love turn round
And spit the paltry
Putrid sound
Of judgement
Made from
Image
High
Manufactured
Lies
And here the
Trial of our lives
So early in our
Minds
"What are the
Sea of voices
To my One?"
To doubt the
Doubt and
Suffer
But never
Leave the
Oceanic
Dream
Behind the
Seems
To be a mind
Just waking
To its own
Enchantment
And knowing
Not
Where or What
And suffer
The slurring
Of their Buts
Drowning
In the
Tepid waters
Of that
Oh so
Familiar
Stream
While still
The peripheral
Tributaric gleam
Haunts their
Weighted
Dreams
To keep the
Faith
To keep the
Self
With no
Contrived defense
But vague
Knowledge
Of Who
From whence
And so
The Flame
Has kindled
Hence
They mock
And knock
The spirit
Down
The weaklings
Sold
In youth
Unto Image
High's untruth
"Divide,
Divide,
This one
Into a farther
Room."
Where he
May doubt
In unmarked
Tombs--
Mother Culture
Spoke
He was not
One of Us
And so
In youth
I crept into
Farther room's
Despair
But held my
Kindled flame
Stripped Bare
Defending
Light
Up through
The trial
And All
Was
Watching
Through
The Dark
The Stilled beatings
Of my heart
That I
Might
Keep the faith
And so
I did
And so you
See before you
Nothing special
But Divine
Inspired
Potential
For having
Kept the Faith
Kept the faith
Through all
Your emphatic
Nonsense
Drenched
Enclosures
Molded from
Image high
Fought tooth
and nail
To keep the mind
Unbound by
All those subtle
Stupid, Pretty
Lies
From
Mouth to mouth
Eye to eye
On the screen
Into our lives
They creep
And then we
Sleep the
Sleepless
Sleep
Of minds
Barred from
Travel
Deep
And the voices
We love turn round
And spit the paltry
Putrid sound
Of judgement
Made from
Image
High
Manufactured
Lies
And here the
Trial of our lives
So early in our
Minds
"What are the
Sea of voices
To my One?"
To doubt the
Doubt and
Suffer
But never
Leave the
Oceanic
Dream
Behind the
Seems
To be a mind
Just waking
To its own
Enchantment
And knowing
Not
Where or What
And suffer
The slurring
Of their Buts
Drowning
In the
Tepid waters
Of that
Oh so
Familiar
Stream
While still
The peripheral
Tributaric gleam
Haunts their
Weighted
Dreams
To keep the
Faith
To keep the
Self
With no
Contrived defense
But vague
Knowledge
Of Who
From whence
And so
The Flame
Has kindled
Hence
They mock
And knock
The spirit
Down
The weaklings
Sold
In youth
Unto Image
High's untruth
"Divide,
Divide,
This one
Into a farther
Room."
Where he
May doubt
In unmarked
Tombs--
Mother Culture
Spoke
He was not
One of Us
And so
In youth
I crept into
Farther room's
Despair
But held my
Kindled flame
Stripped Bare
Defending
Light
Up through
The trial
And All
Was
Watching
Through
The Dark
The Stilled beatings
Of my heart
That I
Might
Keep the faith
And so
I did
And so you
See before you
Nothing special
But Divine
Inspired
Potential
For having
Kept the Faith
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
White Suit Prayer
My heart stands up to my mind - my mind balances on the support of my heart - i am taken back by no thing - in spirit i swim or drown - god is a spirit and whole is the spirit of god. From his spirit i will emulate. I will use all the faculty given to me to monitor the nature of my spirits so I may glorify god with my life.
Walking to class passing many people it is easy for me to become anxious and to feel taken back from brief connections with people. I order myself so as not to be bullied by the illusions of my imagination. If a thought tries to move me, i stand up to it, continuing to look on the person my eyes have visited, proving to the risen spirit that it has no place with me. The illusion passes and I move on without being swayed-- steady in my flow of consciousness as I walk to my class passing and secretly interacting with new people.
If a sub-standard thought arises within the mind in response to something the mind thinks about-- if this thought causes you to retreat or become 'taken back', then you have gratified that thought with further action. The thought is a movement, a spirit that arises out of the heart. If that spirit is further manifested through some successive action, it will become stronger -- seeing that it has room for it's expressive existence. To become 'taken back' by an idea you do not feel should have interrupted your comfort in the first place is like rewarding a dog for mis behaving. In this case the dog is a part of your cultures spirits. Cultured meaning the ongoing cultivated spirits and movements that make up who you are and the nature of your daily thoughts, reactive thoughts, and actions.
Walking to class passing many people it is easy for me to become anxious and to feel taken back from brief connections with people. I order myself so as not to be bullied by the illusions of my imagination. If a thought tries to move me, i stand up to it, continuing to look on the person my eyes have visited, proving to the risen spirit that it has no place with me. The illusion passes and I move on without being swayed-- steady in my flow of consciousness as I walk to my class passing and secretly interacting with new people.
If a sub-standard thought arises within the mind in response to something the mind thinks about-- if this thought causes you to retreat or become 'taken back', then you have gratified that thought with further action. The thought is a movement, a spirit that arises out of the heart. If that spirit is further manifested through some successive action, it will become stronger -- seeing that it has room for it's expressive existence. To become 'taken back' by an idea you do not feel should have interrupted your comfort in the first place is like rewarding a dog for mis behaving. In this case the dog is a part of your cultures spirits. Cultured meaning the ongoing cultivated spirits and movements that make up who you are and the nature of your daily thoughts, reactive thoughts, and actions.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Formation
I looked ahead of me and understanding of what I saw and held started to flow into me until I noticed that I was being filled and then used what was understood to form a conclusive thought. At this conception I became disappointed as I realized that the thought was not grand at all, but only a reflection of the understanding I had been receiving. I wanted back what felt grand-- the uninterrupted understanding-- not its memory. That feeling was like an autonomous series of successful movements- with each step having a magical foundation in truth and providing leverage for the next complementing step and so on and so on and so on. I wanted to find that same flow of understanding but this time live it out rather than killing it prematurely with conclusive thought. I tried to force the experience all over again and this time it felt like the embodiment of grinding gears or some intangible pressure building without outlet for release-- until i quit. huh... can’t have it holding desire-- it seems to play the interferer.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
A Rocky Horror Gift from Pen
You are about to read a passage talking about The Media that I believe may have a taste of truth, but may be more clever than eye opening.
The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can be considered an individual), which in association with the passionlessness and reflection of the times creates that abstract phantom, the public, which is the actual leveller. . . . More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. 10 This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about. . . . The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. 11 If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg—until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels.
Last night I saw a verry rocky christmas-- which is the rocky horror picture show put on during christmas time at this local university. The show was a testimony to sexuality and desire-- while poking at human weakness to it.
I'm at a friends house right now-- and between conversations about the above read passage and the conversation about objectifying women, my friend brought to my attention that "Frank" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and his all his sexual antics --along with all the witness and support from the participating audience, -- these are those who have played the leveler.
raisin my mojo-- stealn my virtue.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Christian Semantics
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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