Friday 12 October 2018

SHACK 420 NEVER ENDING

Andreastringer.blogspot.com


WILL IT EVER END---YES

WILL IT EVER STOP---YES

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

THE MOMENT ONE STOPS, IT CREATES ITS OPPOSITE

SWING THE PENDULUM, THE SEESAW 

BUT THIS IS INSTABILITY

YES BUT IT IS ALSO CALLED BALANCE.

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SHACK 419 SAFE

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YOU ARE CRAZY, MAD AND INSANE

BY WHOSE STANDARDS DO YOU QUALIFY SANITY?

ITS ALL DECIDED BY COMFORTABLE AGREEMENTS 

AND THEY CAN

STUNT THE GROWTH FOR THE FEAR OF ANARCHY AND INSECURITY 

MIND YOU YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED

SCARED TOO?

WHO IS IT THAT IS SCARED ?

YOU MIGHT FIND OUT THE ANSWER TO THAT IS LIBERTY AND FREEDOM

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SHACK 418 OH LORD






WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?

ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE

FOR NOWHERE DOES NOT EXIST EITHER

DEFINE HERE


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SHACK 417 FUNNY?

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Maybe the ego is a Cosmic joke of make believe, here today and gone tomorrow, a sort of peep ho game.  Because the ego is made up of ‘fashion of the day’ the Cosmos needs to believe its own creation.  As all things created are a creation of the mind and the Cosmos has a mind as well, it may well find doubt and try to solidify its own creation as eternal and forever long live the king so to speak. 

The human ego is a splinter off of the block and it comprehends at a deep fundamental level (if ever one probes that far, and how far is the depth in a mind? –just a thought away) that it is transient, expedient and temporary and so its creator at the Cosmic Level may fear the same dilemma.

Maybe the Cosmos was a creation of something beyond all forms of self, we see the forms of the Cosmos but not the mind behind it, if the mind behind it is aware of its fragility, then all is well, if it is not then it lives through its creation and becomes victim to insecurity and searches for that security and solidness that humans do.

We may go through this rigmarole ‘I am not as real as I thought I was’  ‘my real nature is only a thought an idea?’ ‘I only thought I was real’ So in the end I only thought I am in existence and I only thought up this idea and so on, many question their purpose and existence.

So the endless round of reincarnation, cycles and spirals continue until the realisation of it all dawns --------there is no point in doing it all over again---however we will do it all over again and again---and you know why?  Well to find out why we do it over and over again.

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SHACK 416 EXISTENCE

Dai Manuel





MAYBE THE EGO IS THE 

COSMOS EXCUSE

FOR  EXISTENCE


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SHACK 415 OUT AND OUT

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I am writing myself out of existence, forcing myself into a corner, pressurising the ego, compressing it and no way out. No way out of what? Out of itself and what is this self?

This self is a human made set of concepts that shift and change with the ages.  These are mental constructs and have no reality, although we believe them so, they shift with cultures, politics, science, fashion and societies madness and extremes. None of these are long lasting and real. It seems that the physical universe is not lasting and real and it is always moving and evolving a creation in continual process, and to some who wish to make it stationary and everlasting it causes uncertainty and insecurity.

Humans prefer familiarity and to cling to a safe place and to familiar forms yet old age, change, loss of one’s capabilities prove the uncertainty of life at times. So is it better to die now----not suicide and despair---not necessarily a physical death, however dive beneath the uncertainty and fear of shifting platforms of seemingly solid foundations and see behind as it were the flotsam and jetsam of the panorama of endless change and evolution.

What then is old, death, birth, rotting flesh of a deceased body, hankering after gold and security? These are but phantoms on the endless journey to who knows where? The secret is learning to live in harmony with change and uncertainty.


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SHACK 414 EMPTY OR NOT?

Zen stories to tell your neighbours


Out of the emptiness of oneself and there is only one self that is all of us and everything appearing to be many, there comes a realisation of the magic of illusion and make believe.  Make believe everything is forever and on firm ground and with no mystery.

Everything is a mystery; why was I born?  Yes sure my parents copulated or maybe some were test tube children with a sperm donor and yet somehow you arrived.

Then this organism may get ill, falls in love (how can one fall in love if one is love? Ouch) and so many activities humans do to many extremes and still the answer to why is life, life, the Universe vast and massive, enormous and powerful, why the sun, the moon, why and how, how? Maybe an intellectual answer, however the mind is limited by the content of its learning and experience and this changes in the course of time.

What lies behind the mind or should I say behind the graphics that appear on the screen of mind may provide a few tentative answers which of course provokes more questions.  One can go quite mad banging one’s head on the wall of intellect and logic for the answers.

Can infinity and eternity have defined answers? ----If so the definition has to be as spacious as infinity and as long as eternity.  To define these two aspects which maybe one aspect is the fuel for the quest and one often hears that enlightenment is the answer, it is only the first step on the ladder to nowhere, it is the starting line, it is the bait for the seeker , and when the seeker realises that infinity is eternity the seeker also realises there is no answer and there is no reason and in that giving up has found that space that is what the seeker has been looking for and as there is nothing found or seen and yet fulfilled with the experience of this space for it an alive dynamic consciousness then one has found the unlimited space---and is satisfied to reside there because the realisation dawns ‘I am the Space I have been looking for’

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SHACK 413 AGAIN,AGAIN

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When one gets into atoms and stuff and really take in the fact that atoms are 99.99% empty and something apparently arises from this near empty state you come to a realisation that is a magic trick and sleight of mind(hand) and it appears real and collapses like the rabbit out of the magicians hat and it is for the delight of the magician and one may inquire who is this magician? ----why you of course---and what's more the audience as well.


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The magician fools himself believing his tricks are the real deal-----We all do this you know. SHACK


SHACK 412 AGAIN!!?

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On the edge of reason and insanity one may ask? Who is there to go insane and what does sanity mean?

The edge of reason whatever that means is non conformity to education, religion, science, politics, culture and the so called norms of societies agreed conventions and rules.  These laws, norms and rules, social conventions and etiquettes are much the same difference. They keep the herd and the populace in check so called survival and safety and in the main have a fair deal of success.

A slight degree of deviation is accepted as either mentally ill, a genius, need for change because of challenge and adaptability but generally in small degrees any major deviance that breaches the laws then sets one on course for imprisonment or execution.

The danger to all these above scenarios is the one who has been stripped of many of the trappings and conditionings, brain washing and stifling hypnotic advertising and is considered not ‘known’, not mad, doesn't break the rules seems compassionate and yet not understood and cannot be boxed and compartmentalised.  Such a one has gone over the edge  of reason or everything and is in a position to be free of rules and yet obeys them with a natural instinct because such a one has found all abiding compassion and how can one define that, because if it is definable then it is limited by logic and reason and they are subject to the conditioning of the culture and age one abides in----so where does one find such a mind? --------In the Self.


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SHACK 411 STRANGER THAN

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A gentle whisper, a sort of inner voice without sound, it is a calling through the mists of illusion and delusion and through the tangled jungle of the mind and is calling one home.

The ravages of the mind that played havoc with the body are slowly giving way to a peace, a lovely soft place to lay the head and allay the fears.

Hopefully one will become so sick, bored and so weary of seeking love, rest, security and peace with this endless media frenzy, hype, materialism, fashion, celebrity status, political power and strength through aggression and military power, dogma, austerity and poverty, rape, torture and brutality that the weary traveller will look no more to the outside seduction that is the thief of the mind and the hope is one will seek a more realistic mind which will consist resting in the quiet mind with a relaxed body and not see life through rose tinted glasses but by the balm of inner peace and the simplicity of joy and bliss not through being high on substances or hype but by finding the self.

The ego like the bored TV viewer with thousands of films and channels, documentaries, the internet browsing, cars with satnavs, apps and so much information that the hungry ego’s library is in constant upgrades, reconfigurations that the virtual world and who one really is, is in conflict and gets lost in the fog and glamour and distraction and so in death or reincarnated back into the illusion of confusion as to who one really is.

The graphics in the library of illusion, the box sets, the seeming limitless films, videos, colour, noise, violence and slushy romance, super heroes, violent space aliens, sadistic masochistic pornographic images, real live action war scenes, with action as it happens in real time(as if there is such a thing as real time) all displayed and believed to be real and therefore believed to be reality, but in essence mind stuff a fabulous substitute for reality and if there maybe a real ’solid’ reality whatever that maybe.

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Wakeup and become 'unhypnotised'.
What matrix do you live in? Shack

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What is real? Shack
















Bema's vibethe wayI seeit.wordpress.com

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Maybe the above image is all we really do see. SHACK

SHACK 410 ANOTHER QUESTION

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Can one go deeper in the space that is oneself? What appears to be just a stream of something coming through a hole into a vessel open at both ends, whether it is thoughts or just being.

There isn't a perceptible movement in this space and no seeming motivation almost as if one is suspended in an ocean. In this ocean one is no longer one.  When ripples arise in the ocean, one may be just a ripple, a wave and so is co joined and yet individual.

There is no individual movement like link in a chain one link is stimulated the whole chain reverberates and in the ocean one wave produces an oceanic effect and is seamless., it's almost like a hive matrix. A kind of super mind filtered down and transformed to the individual and yet joined by the stream and in some ways separate and yet individual.   

The usual physical and mental habits, routines and disciplines, the demands of the ego seem to be suspended and a period of adjustments needed to support disorientation as an effect of the experience and may prompt the question----who am I doing this for, is it for me or the collective?

First find out who the who is and then the doing answers itself.


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SHACK 409 ENDLESS

Scrolls


It seems there is no end to the stream of life through me in this incarnation, it feels as though a cork has blown and a hole appeared in my being this was an experience on 20th July 2017, it felt a short circuit or some major reconfiguration as if something had widened a hole or loosened my fontanelles and some neuronal adjustments made and in process.

I spent the day wandering, being nowhere in particular, eating a lot of junk food and spending more than budget allowed and the next day I was exhausted, restless and in a strange unfamiliar place, a place of no place and my ego mind not finding itself in the remains and shards of this shattering.


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SHACK 408 QUESTION

Knowyourmeme


Who am I doing this for?  If I am a temporary being, a dream, just a idea and that dissolves disappears and is no more, so why bother? Does it matter if life is a mystery , whether it was a big bang a dream and then who is the dreamer, does it really matter?  

The answer may lie somewhere between it does and it doesn't matter, does that help?  Well not really, so what are you going to do now? If I give up, what is there to give up, if I don’t give up, what is there to seek, if I bury my head in the sand I bury my curiosity and if I do that I will never know the truth, then again if it all temporary and expedient maybe there isn't an answer and I have merely created a problem to prove I exist.

Then on death where is the mortal that lived in that mortal coil? So was it all a conjurers trick and the Cosmic Magician at work and the ‘I’ that thought it was real and solid was just a sleight of hand of the Cosmic Magician, a rabbit out of the hat-----question; who is the Cosmic Magician?  Is it a magician who is trying to find out who it is, so here we are back in the mobus strip and still perplexed and ask is there an answer to all this?

Definitely not it would stop the creator instinct, the great cycles of evolution and perpetual motion and that is the essence of the mystery in itself.

So is there ever an answer to any of the questions, yes more questions in order to keep the show on the road and the ball rolling---only you can decide---question who is this you that decides---and how did you become a you?

   Is it any clearer now? If it is pray tell me.  If no then we are off again, where are you going dear searcher -----absolutely nowhere and that is about as much an answer or near to it as one can get, then we return and are back who is this ‘I’ that seeks an answer.

Rest easy and have a cup of tea.  There that wasn't so bad at all was it? You’re kidding.  Yike and Yuck.


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Monday 1 October 2018

SHACK 401 TO OR TWO

nome.ru








THERE ISN'T A ME FOR IT TO HAPPEN TOO




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SHACK 400 ANSWER


You Tube



I'D T REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHO AM I?

SO WOULD I

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SHACK 407 INSANE

Give Me More



YOU THINK BECAUSE YOU ARE FALLING APART

YOU ARE GOING INSANE 

MOST PERSONAL AGENDAS ARE 

YOUR BETTER OFF WITHOUT A 'ME' HISTORY OR AGENDA

BE AWARE AND  NOT REFORM THE 'ME'  AGAIN 

WATCH OUT FOR THE SUBTLE TRAPS

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Its only the agendas and programmes, the conditioning and brain washing that is falling apart, 
you cannot fall apart. SHACK 

SHACK 406 OH MY!

Alex Croal Art and Stuff




WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?

YOUR'E FINDING OUT THERE ISN'T A ME 

DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY


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SHACK 405 SURE

Raincaster.com






I EXIST-----ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?

ARE YOU SURE YOUR SURE

WHAT IS EXISTENCE?

THEN YOU ARE NOT SURE



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SHACK 404 CIRCLES

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Going around in ever decreasing circles trying to find the beginning  of endless circles.

A dog trying to catch its tail.

The beginning is the end and vice versa 

What am I bothering about this for?

It really doesn't matter for life is that fleshly dream in a troublesome body and everything in form

arises and perishes.  

It will always be a myself and that is what keeps the ball rolling and the show on the road.

The point is for whose entertainment?

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SHACK 403 PUZZLE

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I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO 'WHO AM I'?




SO WOULD I


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Whose Shack anyway!!!

SHACK 402 ANSWER PLEASE

DriveURLLife





QUESTION

WHAT IS IT THAT HAPPENS THAT CAUSES A 'TOO' TO HAPPEN TOO

AND WHO IS THIS 'TOO' ANYWAY

IF IT ISN'T THERE AND IS A GHOST IN THE MACHINE

ITS ENOUGH TO DRIVE YOU CRAZY

THEN AGAIN WHO IS THIS YOU? 

I NEVER KNOW WHETHER IT IS A 'TOO' 

OR A 'TO' 

YUCK


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SHACK 339 SOUL SUPPLY

fact2ge



The Soul Matrix

Has everything I need 

For My Well Being

If I allow it and open to it


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SHACK 338 BODY FAT

Dr Axe


My body fat makes me feel heavy and I clutch it around my lower abdomen.

It says to me you are here and are heavy and grounded.

Eat more stuff, although I am on a fairly good diet, its is reassuring me I am here, solid, a body, good!

When I had suspected lung cancer, a consultant told me this because I had lost so much weight ‘eat, gain weight, you are so thin losing weight rapidly’

So I associated weight gain as healthy, now many years later weight is threatening, the difference now is I do not feel this is the issue, for now I have heavy thoughts.

So how much do thoughts weigh?

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 Maybe heavy thoughts provoke anxiety and stress which raises the cortisol levels which in turn can make the hormone ghreln kick and and can activate hunger in the system. SHACK








SHACK 337 HOLDING ON

123rf.com

I’m doing everything I can to hold onto this form.

Pills, exercises, diets, fear of illness and facing the unknown.

My life is safe as it was before, at least I knew where I was and although at times not pleasant it was reluctantly acceptable.

I’m in a nice flat, just got enough money to survive and yet mentally, psychologically there is a turmoil gong on at just under the surface levels so to speak. I am not depressed just wondering. I know I am in chaos and it’s OK because I recognise that it is leading me to a fundamental deep change and will make space for something to arise or subside. It doesn't matter if this form doesn't make it as a physical renewal, it is the process that is important, for that process is beyond my ken.

Glimpses of the possibility of letting ‘deep life alchemy' take place is exciting and yet fearful, these glimpses taunt and tease me and the only encouragement in this process of radical change at the cellular level.  The dissolving old me as it were shudders at its demise and there is a space which is filled with mourning and withdrawal.

Maybe this change is so fundamental there may not be a me as such.



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SHACK 336 UNEASY

Concretemixed.wordpress.com

It’s not easy as you touch your body, hug your partner and children, cut your finger, have joint pains, get sick, have a win in a gambling session, eat delicious food, make love, have highs and lows, the weather, wars, history, religion, science all confirming we are and solid, real, this is it, when you die where do you go if there is a you, so have a great time now, no regrets as this solid lump of a body and concrete world just crumbles and then oblivion.

Then there are a bunch of scientists telling us we are a bunch of atoms that are more or less empty and even more incredible at the atomic level most aspects of it are unpredictable. It’s enough to send a good man to drink!!!

Spiritualists and psychics, some gurus and masters tell us we are eternal beings which are only temporarily housed in a human and on death the real me is released.  So the essence of life takes residence in the human form and rejoins the mainstream life energy.  Then there is this notion that solids of various objects organic or not organic are like for instance; an atom being a sardine and all forms are different packed sardines in various densities. When we die we merely become less packed and have a more transparent body, spaces between the sardines.

So what formed the sardine(s) brought them together in a tin, the tin being analogous with any form chosen and it is said this is the higher self or soul, which is like a chip off of the old block.

Be that as it may all of the above are explanations and choices of which there are many more.  Which one appeals, most likely the ones that fit the life experiences and afford a modicum of safety and pleasure with a foundation, a sound base and platform to build a life around.

Since this world and its commodity for change and at best uncertainty although ones choice has safety nets and insurances, one way of certainty is to make a friend of change.  The here today and gone tomorrow, here a while-----enjoy----let go----move on, perhaps this approach allows for the ever new to arrive, it does not allow stagnation for stagnation forces change reluctantly as it decays and causes extreme consternation.

The Universe is in constant flux and change albeit  it can be millions of years down to weeks, days and minutes depending on the form created and the life styles and spans of years of that style and is arbitrary.

Maybe the lesson from this is to accept change when it arrives, perhaps not to encourage it for living as life has it, then life has it’s own way to do it for one, the growth from foetus to senior life shows us this, the increments of change maybe chaotic in its ‘spurts’ of the growth and the in-between stages as the form sheds its debris to build the new form.

As an example the dissolving process of change as in foetus to baby to childhood to adolescence then to senior life and beyond and all that accompanies this in hormonal change and the like can be challenging.

At these times being relaxed, breathing gently and fully in a Yogic and Qi Gong Way, stretching and attuning to the body one may begin to feel with sensitivity brought about by a listening feeling approach a faint almost imperceptible ‘a deep fundamental movement, a process in process’, utmost patience is required.

At these particular times upheavals and certain level of chaos are apparent, these maybe alchemical in its performance to facilitate the new form and perhaps if one accepts this part of the process and to wait patiently observe quietly without judgement, for opinion may alter the course of the deep process which is beyond everyday senses and expect the unexpected and who knows it maybe exactly what is the best for everyone everywhere.

For sure if one view is everything is solid and immovable until collapses with old age and decrepit dotage then indeed it is uneasy and makes one squirm

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SHACK 335 WE ARE WHAT !!!?

Deepbreathdarling7.tumbir.com

Why is it important to grasp the fact and really absorb, let it sink in as deeply and completely as possible, that in the study of vibrations, frequencies and wavelengths that we are only vibrations, frequencies decoded by an organic computer to assume reality, we are an organic TV in essence we are the invisible wavelengths in space hitting the aerial attuned to the frequencies that make us believe we are an organic solid form.

We are an idea, a series of thoughts and frequencies and sequences held together by thought which make the blue prints of intelligent design.

This is important because once this is realised and seen as reality, it begs the question, why hold onto a set of virtual reality simulated illusions? It could make war and acquisition redundant. But the mind is so enamoured with make believe it feels to realise this means giving up one’s perceived reality and that would mean death.  The opposite is more like reality, realising one lives in a virtual world and programmes of a decoded organic computer then suspend the reality and find where the broadcasts are coming from in the reality of realities.

The key player in this is a Central Intelligence Agency which for the want of a better word is the Higher Self or Soul, it over lights the human form and is a plug, a kind of transformer and battery charger and is a vibratory link with interface with the Intelligence of The Cosmos, if you like a local motherboard in the organic brain computer.

The brain receiving these vibrations, forms neural pathways to accommodate the vibratory sequences and frequencies and apportion then appropriately.

This is beautifully put by an eminent physicist; The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.
— James Jeans in The Mysterious Universe[14]
In an interview published in The Observer (London), when asked the question "Do you believe that life on this planet is the result of some sort of accident, or do you believe that it is a part of some great scheme?", he replied:
I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness, not consciousness from the material universe... In general the universe seems to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a great machine. It may well be, it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.
What remains is in any case very different from the full-blooded matter and the forbidding materialism of the Victorian scientist. His objective and material universe is proved to consist of little more than constructs of our own minds. To this extent, then, modern physics has moved in the direction of philosophic idealism. Mind and matter, if not proved to be of similar nature, are at least found to be ingredients of one single system. There is no longer room for the kind of dualism which has haunted philosophy since the days of Descartes.
— James Jeans, addressing the British Association in 1934, recorded in Physics and Philosophy, [15]
Finite picture whose dimensions are a certain amount of space and a certain amount of time; the protons and electrons are the streaks of paint which define the picture against its space-time background. Traveling as far back in time as we can, brings us not to the creation of the picture, but to its edge; the creation of the picture lies as much outside the picture as the artist is outside his canvas. On this view, discussing the creation of the universe in terms of time and space is like trying to discover the artist and the action of painting, by going to the edge of the canvas. This brings us very near to those philosophical systems which regard the universe as a thought in the mind of its Creator, thereby reducing all discussion of material creation to futility.
— James Jeans in The Universe Around Us[16]
So leading on from the above and the paragraphs above what are we? We are a thought in a mind, a set of vibrations in a sea of vibrations; a dream in a dreamer who has as far as is known has no visible corporeal body and is in its essence a vibratory entity.  What name can we give this entity, God, the source?  And if we are Its dream and creation what are we then?

Can this prove life after human death or death at large for other forms?; If one goes along with vibratory life, life being vibrations, frequencies caused by the ripple through space by a Central Intelligence then it stands to reason to state that the human form which is compacted atoms (99.99%  is space) like ice to water, water to steam and then vapour and so on, that our life experiences are vibratory as well and held together by an entity called the ego, so on the dissolution of the body, the ego programme goes back to join the ocean of vibration, this is named by some as the spirit body which mediums and psychic refer too and can contact, their brains being attuned by light trance and altered vibratory state of consciousness. The human body then is dense packed atoms or denser spirit body.

Bearing in mind the ego does not like to perish and always wants to fulfil itself whether a life of misery, after all it was the only life it knew or a wonderful life and all stations in between, being a vibratory programme like a TV, Radio broadcast will be attracted to those on Earth that could host it, hence rebirth and reincarnation, a problem may arise although the hosts (the parents) maybe  the original oversight from the world of ‘spirit’ had the best intentions, life for the host may have different indications if by chance a tragedy, a calamity a world event, illness and so on alters the original plan.

This would lead to more trauma or disappointment for the incumbent young soul and produce more conflict or unresolved issues and so causes issues upon issues and so layers are built up and they maybe so impacted that many rounds have to happen in order for a release and better incarnation next time.

Perhaps an awakening is needed; many awakenings happen in many ways not just spiritually facilitated; shocks, illness, loss, gain and so on and of course following a ‘spiritual’ quest.

Those who subscribe to the above may wish to clear their ego programme as far as the needs for daily living and so when they leave the tightly packed atomic vibratory form that is the human body and their programmes are not matched or attuned to any standing Earth programme they may go to the Ocean and their finer more subtle energy signatures and codes go to another dimensional abode commensurate to a vibratory place of ‘residence’.

Of course the old question comes up; who created the first ripples, the vibrations that went forth and caused standing waves and interference patterns, where did the first thoughts come from? Of course holy books will tell you God, how did God arrive and who Created God and if there was a God Creator who created him / her / it and so on. Then there was an accident a big bang, and accidents have a cause and so on.

The idea for this mystery is to keep the ball rolling and when you get an answer please let the world know----but you will have to prove it beyond all doubt. You maybe one million trillion percent convinced but how about others?

It’s best to keep quiet if you really know because any explanation is based on thought and that is always full of twists and turns.

If you really, really, know, well congratulations and I hope you can live with it.

SHACK







SHACK 334 RESIDENCE

Pinterest

Walking around the halls of residence the halls, doors and rooms are numbered and labelled. One becomes familiar with the layout; the lecture theatres, the classrooms, the dining rooms and the academics studies and residences.

Then it was decided to refurbish an alter certain buildings and though some entrances and approaches were the same some of the numbering and locations were different.

I took time not to go to the previous room and places, many of us would find us going automatically to where they were before and suddenly pulling up short---oh no it’s changed ---where the dickens is it now.

How strange a habit born out of familiarity is, it becomes a route and automatic thing, ones awareness is suspended and we go automatically like a pre planned programme of a robot.

Many of us go through life not questioning following unconsciously our routines and disciplines.  We wake up when these are challenged, transport strikes, some disaster,  an unusual event, our reaction maybe one of resignation, frustration or philosophical, or we could be in denial, fearful, angry, violent, or search for a solution in the hall of residence of our mind archives.

In contrast to this in meditation and going to an experience outside ‘the box’ or no experience at all, the suspension of the internal dialogue and incessant mind chatter that most people do not know is there because it is constant, like those who need music, the TV and radio on continually, always on the mobile / cell phone, doing, doing, are surprised when they first hear and witness their own chatter which is a running commentary and is the pilot in one’s life.

This cacophony, this clatter, this ghetto blaster (type of large radio) this graffiti which daubs the mind when realised is blamed and not owned and is a shock, then one investigates and may not like what one sees. It is in these rare moments of quietness when we realise this is our safety net and not the turbulence and noise, the frantic manoeuvres and ploys is not who we are and the search for who are we begins---the world is never the same again; why so? ; the chatter, clatter, routine, habit are mere constructs taught and drilled into us, little holes in the innocent mind filled like the dentist and their fillings with politics, religion, culture and chatter and social ability, no matter, when we lose the  memories of this with nothing else we go back to factory setting and the old coping mechanisms.

Suddenly one day thoughts become very noisy when the mind is quiet, alive, alert, observing and non judgemental the dams sluice gates are open and one sees the clutter in the attic floating out and that was the old you--- one is now emptying oneself and feels good and it doesn't matter if there is nothing to replace it.

There is a shift; ‘I know that when I need to know that I feel safe, have the knowledge the habit and so on ---to ‘I know I don’t know but when I need to know I will know’.  Even that maybe not enough but it will suffice for the time being---giving one space to dive deeper into the mystery that is me/ you / us.

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