06-05-2011, 12:00 AM
Nu Lang wrote:You are right, common man is not concerned with power spots and if you were to talk to a person about it, they may laugh in your face, call you crazy, get scared, etc.
When I stared talking to my "normal friends" about some of this stuff, they, not a single one, made fun of me. They would just shut up and listen (ask a question or two). The atmosphere shifts into attention, I feel them listening (I feel sometimes that something in them is listening more than usually, the part that is often just off, and that another part is sometimes unsure, insecure, losing ground a bit). Then they go back into their worlds (sometimes it is like a big contrast, we finish this topic and there is like a split and they reach and try to bring the continuity of the usual back and for a few seconds there is silence till they switch), but the interest/attention has been there for that moment. Other times it fluidly merges with another normal topic (but I still feel the split happening, like something breathes out, as if in relief, when it reaches common ground). It is interesting. It is very rare of course that something like this happens, because I am not the one to open such subjects on my own. But if somebody asks then I answer - I do not believe in keeping secrets/knowledge to myself. Everyone deserves a chance.
I think the key to having people listen to you is to talk about such stuff only when you feel it is coming from them, either curiosity (but not the most shallow one, the one where the mind is just seeking stuff to babble about) or deeper interest, both are fine, but one needs to kind of regulate what one says. What exactly and how much, not to talk too much. Just the right amount. It is not a matter of controlling anything though, apart from our own selves, our perception of what is going on. We need to be fully tuned in. It is also most important to be aware of a certain margin in all things. When the cup is full so to speak (when the spirit is out of the speech, when something changes) then not to keep pouring into it afterwards, to feel when this moment is passing and changing into something else and respect that (I sometimes find it harder to do /see this in a discussion forum, because it is not a real time discussion, the time and space are different here, different pace).
Hence we need to take care of how we interact with people, but in no way am I saying that we should indulge weakness. We should just see it and work with it, or around it, if possible. Sometimes there is some form of love involved. Love for the Spirit, love for the spirit of the other, even if the person is not close to us (or even if we don't want anything to do with the person). Or love for our own selves, that we can open doors for other people if we allow ourselves to. We allow ourselves to be used / of use to something beyond us. And we can serve this purpose in extraordinary ways. Someone can see us on the bus and the person's life is changed by it (we might not even notice). The world is magical and we are magical beings.
When I stared talking to my "normal friends" about some of this stuff, they, not a single one, made fun of me. They would just shut up and listen (ask a question or two). The atmosphere shifts into attention, I feel them listening (I feel sometimes that something in them is listening more than usually, the part that is often just off, and that another part is sometimes unsure, insecure, losing ground a bit). Then they go back into their worlds (sometimes it is like a big contrast, we finish this topic and there is like a split and they reach and try to bring the continuity of the usual back and for a few seconds there is silence till they switch), but the interest/attention has been there for that moment. Other times it fluidly merges with another normal topic (but I still feel the split happening, like something breathes out, as if in relief, when it reaches common ground). It is interesting. It is very rare of course that something like this happens, because I am not the one to open such subjects on my own. But if somebody asks then I answer - I do not believe in keeping secrets/knowledge to myself. Everyone deserves a chance.
I think the key to having people listen to you is to talk about such stuff only when you feel it is coming from them, either curiosity (but not the most shallow one, the one where the mind is just seeking stuff to babble about) or deeper interest, both are fine, but one needs to kind of regulate what one says. What exactly and how much, not to talk too much. Just the right amount. It is not a matter of controlling anything though, apart from our own selves, our perception of what is going on. We need to be fully tuned in. It is also most important to be aware of a certain margin in all things. When the cup is full so to speak (when the spirit is out of the speech, when something changes) then not to keep pouring into it afterwards, to feel when this moment is passing and changing into something else and respect that (I sometimes find it harder to do /see this in a discussion forum, because it is not a real time discussion, the time and space are different here, different pace).
Hence we need to take care of how we interact with people, but in no way am I saying that we should indulge weakness. We should just see it and work with it, or around it, if possible. Sometimes there is some form of love involved. Love for the Spirit, love for the spirit of the other, even if the person is not close to us (or even if we don't want anything to do with the person). Or love for our own selves, that we can open doors for other people if we allow ourselves to. We allow ourselves to be used / of use to something beyond us. And we can serve this purpose in extraordinary ways. Someone can see us on the bus and the person's life is changed by it (we might not even notice). The world is magical and we are magical beings.