Spirituality

"Divinity emanates as consciousness/awareness”

Request: From Discovery of the Presence of God, page 37.

"a loss for the ego is a win for God"

Also calibrated: "a win for the ego is a loss for God."

physical exercise as a spiritual practice

A way of honoring the correlation of the physical and the spiritual.

awareness

Request: a keyword in spirituality.

statement: consciousness lacks the subjective "I" until age 3

Request: Doc said that consciousness enters the fetus during the 3rd month, but he also told that he became aware of himself at age 3. My first memories are also from around age 3. Can it be said that infants are run purely by instincts until their consciousness "wakes up"?

correlation between eyesight and level of consciousness

Request: As consciousness increases, I feel as if my vision has gotten better. I don’t think this is the case for everyone but it could have a correlation.

T/F: negative intentions of others toward you can make you sick

Correspondingly, the level at which one is no longer subject to the negative intentions of others.

using guilt as motivation to do better

Priority request: Is this an explanation of a decent regret?

statement: all attachments must be surrendered

Request: Useful to remember when you losing things— that everything has to be surrendered at some point. Either willingly or with resistance.

T/F: hell does not exist

Request: Conversations with God talks about how hell does not exist. Is this false?

asking God to speed up karma

Request: In order to get rid of bad karma faster, even if it leads to hardships and suffering.

percent of thoughts that are useless

The mind, predominantly, is a phantasmagoria.

T/F: it is better to bottle up your anger and emotions instead of taking it out on other people

Request: There are those who take their anger out very quickly on people and those who keep it within themselves which ultimately poisons them from within. Would the act of keeping it inside be better since you are choosing to not affect others?

statement: awareness of the ego naturally leads to its abolition

Request: Is awareness of ego all that’s required, such that the intention to transcend it will naturally arise?

accepting one's level of consciousness

Request: As as spiritual student, I feel a lot of angst and anxiety about being over 200. But when it comes to just accepting myself regardless of consciousness, a burden feels lifted off. I think this is helpful to others who feel the same way.