09-09-2008, 12:00 AM
"Thus by changing our point of view, our worldview, through purifying our minds not only are we transformed but the world is transformed as well"
"But I see that it's a means for me to transcend the world or at least pull myself higher, not so much change it."
I think you just answered your own question. All worlds are here, now. To see the world in a better light is to see a higher world.
This of course can be seen in normal everyday life. When we have a better attitude the world seems nicer. But that is just an analogy to demonstrate a
Spiritual reality. "Two shall be in the field one shall be taken, the other left. Two shall be grinding at the mill one taken, the other left.
I don't hold to the idea of "Rapture" as is normally taught by end time literature. I don't think anyone will be disappearing bodily.
What I do think will happen and is happening is that some are "taken up" in the sense that they are experiencing higher realms while others don't
even know anything is happening at all.
That is end times prophecy and has been happening for 2000 years. The only ones who realize it are the ones who it is happening to.
"I do hold out the dim hope that the World and humanity are evolving."
I don't think so. The evidence seems to indicate that humanity as a whole is devolving.
"But I see that it's a means for me to transcend the world or at least pull myself higher, not so much change it."
I think you just answered your own question. All worlds are here, now. To see the world in a better light is to see a higher world.
This of course can be seen in normal everyday life. When we have a better attitude the world seems nicer. But that is just an analogy to demonstrate a
Spiritual reality. "Two shall be in the field one shall be taken, the other left. Two shall be grinding at the mill one taken, the other left.
I don't hold to the idea of "Rapture" as is normally taught by end time literature. I don't think anyone will be disappearing bodily.
What I do think will happen and is happening is that some are "taken up" in the sense that they are experiencing higher realms while others don't
even know anything is happening at all.
That is end times prophecy and has been happening for 2000 years. The only ones who realize it are the ones who it is happening to.
"I do hold out the dim hope that the World and humanity are evolving."
I don't think so. The evidence seems to indicate that humanity as a whole is devolving.