02-16-2011, 12:00 AM
alien wrote:Turin Otzaki wrote:
ok and I get your point re questioing everything...and death of the physical form included, most valid IMHO. However, can you withstand the pressure of the dominant social paradigm and your own belief system re physical death?? I believe that we can ALL walk straight though walls, if only we could believe so......and THAT is te tricky bit. Believing we can.
That's the trick, ain't it? *smiles* Believing we can. I think almost everyone who's read Castaneda's books would most remember Carlos jumping off a cliff... and waking up in his apartment in Los Angeles. What must it be like to have that strength of belief, so profound it could literally overwrite the entire consensus. I want-to-believe with that kind of fervor... but I must admit I haven't jumped off any cliffs lately. Heh. Maybe one day... who knows?
I once had a dream where I jumped into an abyss. I felt the sheer terror of leaving everything, loved ones and life, behind. I knew I was going to be annihilated. And I was. I fell into that abyss, watched it cover me. Then next thing I know I wake up in bed. Death is real, it just has no 'substance'.
ok and I get your point re questioing everything...and death of the physical form included, most valid IMHO. However, can you withstand the pressure of the dominant social paradigm and your own belief system re physical death?? I believe that we can ALL walk straight though walls, if only we could believe so......and THAT is te tricky bit. Believing we can.
That's the trick, ain't it? *smiles* Believing we can. I think almost everyone who's read Castaneda's books would most remember Carlos jumping off a cliff... and waking up in his apartment in Los Angeles. What must it be like to have that strength of belief, so profound it could literally overwrite the entire consensus. I want-to-believe with that kind of fervor... but I must admit I haven't jumped off any cliffs lately. Heh. Maybe one day... who knows?
I once had a dream where I jumped into an abyss. I felt the sheer terror of leaving everything, loved ones and life, behind. I knew I was going to be annihilated. And I was. I fell into that abyss, watched it cover me. Then next thing I know I wake up in bed. Death is real, it just has no 'substance'.