07-31-2017, 12:00 AM
I can't think of anything more healing than to effect positive changes for "all our relations." Can you?
I can't think of anything more healing for others or myself. One of the most difficult roles to play is that of the opposition; whether authentic or inauthentic. Through kindness (mercy) we learn how to love, through friction do we learn fluidity. As we serve others do we honor their tonal or spiritual selves? Sometimes those two are at an opposition to one another. Imagine loving someone with such oomph that we defy and tear down their tonal self to serve the spiritual self. To be hated by someone we love with such intensity because we're honoring their spirit and not their ego.
It's a very difficult position for even shamans to take.
This is assuming the shaman knows what's best and that opinion varies by personal ethics and the life experience of the shaman. No one shaman can judge another on the best course of action--as each is a different arrangement of APs they've held. Ideally, no one dies during the process of transformation :/ thunderbeings complicate things by inviting death to visit. Killing the ego can very easily kill the tonal self; it's risky.
Slow and subtle is the preferred course as the transitions don't need to be bumpy. Just as there's a reason for fluid transitions, there are reasons for abrupt shifts too. If timeliness is a significant feature of a situation, then abrupt shifts may be necessary. Sometimes we can go lifetimes without any sense of urgency. Other times all we can do is sprint through the shifts in AP. The situation will often dictate the urgency of the shifts.
Thunderbeings, while intensely rich in power, are unpredictable. The path of least resistance doesn't play favorites and sometimes everyone gets laid out (including the thunderbeings). Maybe that's why thunderbeings are so frightening; they bring about a specific outcome without regard to comfort.
To invite/survive such an ally requires a significant degree of personal and spiritual love. That frequency, love, is impossible to ignore
Love remains the best stalk I've ever experienced. I kinda hope I never discover a method more powerful than unconditional love. I'm a romantic and the theme "love conquers all" seems particularly inviting. It seems only logical to draw down thunderbeings (masters of destruction and birth) to breathe new life into the dead xD This follows the same logic as, "I want to live, but first, I must die!" It's quite humorous when seen in select perspectives.
Sometimes we can't explain what it is that forces us to love another with such unyielding intensity. Also, a discussion on love may prove interesting. What makes love the ultimate stalk? How can love be such an effective weapon against the ego--of self and others. Why is love such an effective lubricant for power?
Personally, when I shift into a loving AP there isn't enough room for hate or anger. Love pervades every part of my awareness. It seeps into all the dark corners and fills it, occupying the space so that hate or anger can't live there. Hate and anger cause blindness within the awareness, hence, when I'm authentically stalking I need to avoid those two APs. Love allows me to avoid blindness. I don't love because it feels good per-say; I love because loving allows me a greater field of vision. If I want to be a visionary, love must be a part of that and overcoming anger and hate is self-serving. What's nice, for me, is that I can be annoyed, authenticly me, many shades of fucked up, and those don't limit my awareness. It seems only hate and anger are limiting.....so I get to still be me, drink beer, be a justifiable ****, and still get access to neat APs losing the ego doesn't mean the loss of self. It means the expression of self.
I'm curious if you've noticed anything similar regarding love.
I can't think of anything more healing for others or myself. One of the most difficult roles to play is that of the opposition; whether authentic or inauthentic. Through kindness (mercy) we learn how to love, through friction do we learn fluidity. As we serve others do we honor their tonal or spiritual selves? Sometimes those two are at an opposition to one another. Imagine loving someone with such oomph that we defy and tear down their tonal self to serve the spiritual self. To be hated by someone we love with such intensity because we're honoring their spirit and not their ego.
It's a very difficult position for even shamans to take.
This is assuming the shaman knows what's best and that opinion varies by personal ethics and the life experience of the shaman. No one shaman can judge another on the best course of action--as each is a different arrangement of APs they've held. Ideally, no one dies during the process of transformation :/ thunderbeings complicate things by inviting death to visit. Killing the ego can very easily kill the tonal self; it's risky.
Slow and subtle is the preferred course as the transitions don't need to be bumpy. Just as there's a reason for fluid transitions, there are reasons for abrupt shifts too. If timeliness is a significant feature of a situation, then abrupt shifts may be necessary. Sometimes we can go lifetimes without any sense of urgency. Other times all we can do is sprint through the shifts in AP. The situation will often dictate the urgency of the shifts.
Thunderbeings, while intensely rich in power, are unpredictable. The path of least resistance doesn't play favorites and sometimes everyone gets laid out (including the thunderbeings). Maybe that's why thunderbeings are so frightening; they bring about a specific outcome without regard to comfort.
To invite/survive such an ally requires a significant degree of personal and spiritual love. That frequency, love, is impossible to ignore
Love remains the best stalk I've ever experienced. I kinda hope I never discover a method more powerful than unconditional love. I'm a romantic and the theme "love conquers all" seems particularly inviting. It seems only logical to draw down thunderbeings (masters of destruction and birth) to breathe new life into the dead xD This follows the same logic as, "I want to live, but first, I must die!" It's quite humorous when seen in select perspectives. Sometimes we can't explain what it is that forces us to love another with such unyielding intensity. Also, a discussion on love may prove interesting. What makes love the ultimate stalk? How can love be such an effective weapon against the ego--of self and others. Why is love such an effective lubricant for power?
Personally, when I shift into a loving AP there isn't enough room for hate or anger. Love pervades every part of my awareness. It seeps into all the dark corners and fills it, occupying the space so that hate or anger can't live there. Hate and anger cause blindness within the awareness, hence, when I'm authentically stalking I need to avoid those two APs. Love allows me to avoid blindness. I don't love because it feels good per-say; I love because loving allows me a greater field of vision. If I want to be a visionary, love must be a part of that and overcoming anger and hate is self-serving. What's nice, for me, is that I can be annoyed, authenticly me, many shades of fucked up, and those don't limit my awareness. It seems only hate and anger are limiting.....so I get to still be me, drink beer, be a justifiable ****, and still get access to neat APs
losing the ego doesn't mean the loss of self. It means the expression of self. I'm curious if you've noticed anything similar regarding love.