05-29-2010, 12:00 AM
I think it may not be all that important as to whether we believe we are overlayed by a "cultural program" or "possessed" by an "Entity".
My teacher used to say we don't have a thought of our own.
He also said we are either possessed by a spirit or The Spirit.
So that not just our "bad" ideas and thoughts are not ours, but also our good ideas and thoughts are not ours either.
In that case, we are basically just empty vessels waiting to be filled, and what we "attune to" determines what we draw to us. This would fit with Biblical verses comparing mankind to clay vessels.
It would also explain the miriad personality types we run into during life. (Which, by the way, seems to get more bizzare the older I get.)
The same man also used the analogy that we were similar to computers and the only way to really change the program in a significant way was to wipe the hard-drive clean and start over.
In either case, the main goal seems to be getting to the emptiness.
The problem with this, (again, Biblically speaking,) is that if you clean a house of an "unclean spirit" (or demon) he goes and gets seven others and comes back and moves in with them and your situation is worse afterwards than when you began.
My teacher used to say we don't have a thought of our own.
He also said we are either possessed by a spirit or The Spirit.
So that not just our "bad" ideas and thoughts are not ours, but also our good ideas and thoughts are not ours either.
In that case, we are basically just empty vessels waiting to be filled, and what we "attune to" determines what we draw to us. This would fit with Biblical verses comparing mankind to clay vessels.
It would also explain the miriad personality types we run into during life. (Which, by the way, seems to get more bizzare the older I get.)
The same man also used the analogy that we were similar to computers and the only way to really change the program in a significant way was to wipe the hard-drive clean and start over.
In either case, the main goal seems to be getting to the emptiness.
The problem with this, (again, Biblically speaking,) is that if you clean a house of an "unclean spirit" (or demon) he goes and gets seven others and comes back and moves in with them and your situation is worse afterwards than when you began.