01-19-2008, 12:00 AM
Correct me if I get a detail wrong, but I believe it is a distinct feature of your road that reverence is only properly directed to God.
"Now to my way of thinking, worship is a specialized attitude that allows us access to hidden parts of ourselves.
When I can shine that light onto a feature of the world, it's magic. To my way of thinking about these things, to limit one's sense of reverence to God is like only allowing your eyes to open in a dark room."
This may just be a matter of semantics. I can feel a sence of reverence for Beauty. For a piece of music or a sunset or my wife or the smile on a child's face or the music that sometimes the sounds in forest make. I also have felt complete Awe at some of the spiritual experiences I've been fortunate enough to have had.
But I also, in the back of my mind, know that there is an intelligence behind and above all of this that caused me to be able to experience any and all of these things. When I bring that awareness to the front of my mind I am immediately aware of an energy that comes down over me as if to say, "You're welcome."
"I believe worshipful reverence is a psychic event."
Again semantics maybe, but I believe it is a spiritual event and spiritually discerned.
"Some suggest spiritual ecstacy is within itself, a tool."
A tool and an experience.
My teacher used to say, and it is true, that if you want to repeat a Spiritual experience, remember the feeling.
It is also possible to have a "greater" or "higher" experience in the same way.
There is a sound that occurs when our vibrations increase.
Some say it is like bacon frying in a pan or leaves in the breeze. Others may call it "White Noise."
This is a common experience that I and friends would have and agree upon for many years running. We were all having the same sound happening at the same times.
One day while doing the "point meditation", (keeping my consciousness above my scull just above the spine) I decided to follow that sound to it's source.
To make a long story short, I was pulled upward and wound up immersed in and spread out within a sea of what I have come to call "Blue/White Liquid Lightening." The sound had become a roaring so loud that if I was still in my body, I was sure it would have torn me apart and shattered my eardrums.
It was pure heat and at the same time pure extacy.
And at the same time I was aware that I had been pulled up only to a specific point and that there was more "above" me so to speak.
I experienced and felt what that "sea" experienced and felt. Both It and Whatever/Whoever pulled me up were conscious intelligent beings.
That is a spiritual experience in my understanding of the term and the way I use it. I had no body either astral or physical and no limitations except as far as what plane I had leveled off at. I had no desire to go "higher", though I knew there was a higher.
I would have been perfectly happy to spend eternity there.
Bob
"Now to my way of thinking, worship is a specialized attitude that allows us access to hidden parts of ourselves.
When I can shine that light onto a feature of the world, it's magic. To my way of thinking about these things, to limit one's sense of reverence to God is like only allowing your eyes to open in a dark room."
This may just be a matter of semantics. I can feel a sence of reverence for Beauty. For a piece of music or a sunset or my wife or the smile on a child's face or the music that sometimes the sounds in forest make. I also have felt complete Awe at some of the spiritual experiences I've been fortunate enough to have had.
But I also, in the back of my mind, know that there is an intelligence behind and above all of this that caused me to be able to experience any and all of these things. When I bring that awareness to the front of my mind I am immediately aware of an energy that comes down over me as if to say, "You're welcome."
"I believe worshipful reverence is a psychic event."
Again semantics maybe, but I believe it is a spiritual event and spiritually discerned.
"Some suggest spiritual ecstacy is within itself, a tool."
A tool and an experience.
My teacher used to say, and it is true, that if you want to repeat a Spiritual experience, remember the feeling.
It is also possible to have a "greater" or "higher" experience in the same way.
There is a sound that occurs when our vibrations increase.
Some say it is like bacon frying in a pan or leaves in the breeze. Others may call it "White Noise."
This is a common experience that I and friends would have and agree upon for many years running. We were all having the same sound happening at the same times.
One day while doing the "point meditation", (keeping my consciousness above my scull just above the spine) I decided to follow that sound to it's source.
To make a long story short, I was pulled upward and wound up immersed in and spread out within a sea of what I have come to call "Blue/White Liquid Lightening." The sound had become a roaring so loud that if I was still in my body, I was sure it would have torn me apart and shattered my eardrums.
It was pure heat and at the same time pure extacy.
And at the same time I was aware that I had been pulled up only to a specific point and that there was more "above" me so to speak.
I experienced and felt what that "sea" experienced and felt. Both It and Whatever/Whoever pulled me up were conscious intelligent beings.
That is a spiritual experience in my understanding of the term and the way I use it. I had no body either astral or physical and no limitations except as far as what plane I had leveled off at. I had no desire to go "higher", though I knew there was a higher.
I would have been perfectly happy to spend eternity there.
Bob