I have very little down here to hold me. I feel like I've already had my toe dipped in very hot water over the last couple of years.FrankOne wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2022, 10:13 amThe exit is always there and there are no "shoulds". People don't exit because they can't..... because they aren't ready...... because at a deeper level they really don't want to leave.....yet. Many say they want to leave, but they cling to the things of this world. How can one leave what they love? Then there are those that feel that this world is an unjust prison. They fight against it. Rage against the machine. These types want to fight and they stay here FOR the fight.Niemand wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2022, 3:28 amThis begs further questions:
* Should we want to exit it right now?
* How should we prepare to leave it if we do?
Many people would say "yes", and that is extremely tempting, but this does raise the issue of what happens if we exit unprepared. I'm trying to think of a couple of metaphors here – maybe a bit like someone trying to drive a car after only having seen it on TV/films. You'd have some idea, but you'd probably crash the thing if you'd never seen anyone drive one in front of you.
Or put it another way. I remember when Dire Straits' Money for Nothing video (pictured) came out in the early eighties, and a lot of people raved about how amazing the animation was. It was state of the art at the time but now looks awful. Imagine if we were stuck in the equivalent of that video and we come out into something which bears the same relationship to it as our "reality" does to that.
The natural man belongs here no matter what half of it's mind thinks. It does not have a single mind. A single mind would evaporate this illusion for the individual in a flashed moment.
Can a child of God be imprisoned? It's impossible. The Creator has given all to the child and the child could choose in an instant to be free of the most diabolical chains.
So, how can you hold down an all powerful being? You tempt him into choosing it out of free will.
Picture this:
A steel vase with a small neck is bolted to a concrete floor. In the vase is an exquisite apple. A monkey puts his hand in the vase and finds the apple, but he cannot retrieve it. He won't let go of it, because he wants it. He is entrapped.
The apple is the Ego. The illusory self creation which the God being loves. It is his precious. It is his identity that is self willed and can do what it wants. It has fun times, it has miserable times, it is angered at times, and at relative peace sometimes...but...it is in seeming control and that control is very appealing.
there is no getting out early. It happens when the student is done with it's lessons and finally chooses to put away vain and childish toys. The only way to win the game is to stop playing.
To stop playing is done in only one way. To become truly and peacefully unreactive. If there are any that wishes to dive into the core of this, I will continue. I leave subjects in this way because most really don't want to proceed when they realize the work ahead of them. This is a very young group of students on this planet. I'm not being condescending even though some minds may judge it this way. We are ALL completely equal. The only thing that separates us is time.
I fear the process of dying more than becoming dead, but there is still an unknown component there. Godless atheists often seem to be terrified of death, but won't admit it. It was how many people have been controlled recently. I'm less scared of it than they are, but still have some concerns.
My main concern is getting to a better existence than this. We don't need lions and tiger and sharks down here, we have enough predators and they're mostly human.