Dialogues of Love, Grief, & Survival Beyond Death — 21st Century Reports from the Afterlife through Contemplative, Intuitive, & Physical Mediumship.
Freedom is not merely the absence of restraint but a state of belonging and love, rooted in correspondence.
True spiritual freedom, then, is realized not in isolation but in empathic communion and communing with Source, which is also one’s very own Spirit.
Freedom is feeling presence, not an absence.
posted by August Goforth @ 11:41
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[More notes from my private writings]
Meditation is the art of letting go of the tensions of the world so that I can once again be conscious that: “I am in the center of the divine flow.”
I let my mind and heart release all that disturbs me. I let my body be still and all the frettings of my body and all that surrounds it. I let the earth and sea and air be still and heaven itself; and I think of spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing, shining into me, through me and out from me in all directions while I sit quietly. The whole infinite process is in support of me, will never let me go, and I can never get out of it. The truth is that I am always in this relationship with the infinite even though I am not always conscious of it.
posted by August Goforth @ 08:45
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[Continued notes from my private writings]
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| "Sunset, Sunrise" |
When I completely accept this moment, when I no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. I am fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way. This state of inner nonresistance opens me to the unconditioned consciousness that is infinitely greater than the human mind.
When I fully accept that I don't know, I give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through me. And even thought can then benefit from that, since the greater intelligence can flow into it and inspire it. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Mystery
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Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.
posted by August Goforth @ 00:30
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[More notes from my private writings]
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| "Marsh Mallow Dreams of Fiona" |
Thought or Imagination of the Spirit is the Great Reality of Being, and all material facts are only correspondences. In other words, the Great Reality of Being arises into many diverse kinds of forms, dream-like, or dreamily, from our awakening from dwelling in what may be called “underconsciousness”.
We interpret this dream dwellingness as “the world” or “our world”. This Dreaming Reality increasingly and continuously emerges and expands from our gradually awakening consciousness into an evolving, consciously alive experience of Living Reality that continues to unfold unceasingly — forever awakening.
For most embryonic awakening beings, at first their personal and unique experience of Reality will be indistinguishable from sleeping and from sleepy dreaming. We continue to sleepily, and still mostly indistinguishably, experience the rising and falling, the in-and-out contrasting rhythms of the universal tides of the Great Ocean that is one’s Resting Source. These “tides” are the “breathing” of Resting Source. Gradually we will begin to more consciously distinguish this contrasting rhythm of dreaming realities. We will then begin to increasingly align in union with the Universal Rhythms when we relax and resist not — resting and drowsing, so to speak — to go along, always without worry, floating and drifting with the ebb and flow of ever-arising Reality manifesting from the Infinite.
Our dreaming is an ever-emerging awakening into further personal and personalizing reality — reality is an ever-emerging experience into further dreaming. We can continue to distinguish this rhythm of dreaming realities, increasingly relaxing with decreasing resistance, without worry, floating and drifting with the ebb and flow of ever-arising Reality manifesting from the Infinite.
And then, at last, with awakened and yet never-ending awakening awe at the un-articulatable Glory of Never-Ending, Unending Mystery, we will continue our Journey, Forever Onward — consciously. One awakens in the dream, while the dream continues on . . . .
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Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.
posted by August Goforth @ 00:24
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"Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.-- (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 26)
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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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"The instrument of thought, which has produced this world that does not work properly, is no longer valid. So perhaps this instrument of thought is worn out. Is there another instrument we can use?" -- Krishnamurti
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"...Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly." -- Alfred North Whitehead - English mathematician & philosopher (1861-1947)___________________________________
". . . keeping the Risen concept of weaving in mind, perhaps at this point it can be sensed that what we have before us, from which we are inseparable and as reflected in this book, is a Supreme Tapestry. There appears to be a Very Grand Design which we all follow, either in awareness or not, co-creatively or not -- recalling that creative means fun. As we weave we are free to make it up as we go along in any way we please, simultaneously staying within the Grand Design as imagined by Higher Imaginals, of whom we an inseparable part. The Grand Design is a work of perfections intermingled with imperfections, solutions with mistakes, and stillness within movement. The Higher Imaginals are many things, but for our purposes here, it suffices to say that they are very advanced and evolved individuals, or Higher Selves." (from The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death; Chapter 13, Mundus Imaginalis, p. 165).