Spirituality

statement: karma is equivalent to ignorance

Request: By not seeing the world as it truly is and creating vulnerabilities within ourselves, we suffer from the wounds and distortions that separate us from the divine... The mind, imprisoned by its conditioning, creates according to cultural narratives.

taking control of your destiny

Is it an ego illusion, or is it actually constructive?

non-pointedness of mind

Request: In “Discovery” in Ch. 7, “The Razor's Edge," there is a section called “one-pointedness of mind.” In this section he describes “non-pointedness” of mind.

"focusing on form is de-energizing"

Request: Doc, from Realizing the Root of Consciousness: Meditative and Contemplative Techniques Jun 2002 (part 1/3, 1:35:44).

the payoff of an experience is the experience itself

This largely explains ego payoffs.

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran

a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet -- wikipedia.

Byron Katie

Teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work."

"The Work" by Byron Katie

Calibration of this method of self-inquiry.

viewing under-200 as part of nature

Reconciling the innate destructiveness of non-integrity with God's Creation. By request.

T/F: reading Doc's books raises your level of consciousness

Also calibrated: average LoC increase.

Being Aware of Being Aware, by Rupert Spira

"The knowing of our being—or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being in us—is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience."

level: there are no justified resentments

Priority request: Contemplating this during applications of the Sedona Method.

statement: there is nothing I can possibly do that God would condemn

Request: any condemnation merely seems to be a function of the spiritual ego and, I presume, karma.

“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me…"

… apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love” -- attributed to Nisargadatta Maharaj (Priority request).

resolution of animal / angel conflict

"Mankind lives in the realm of tension between emotional instincts and the counterbalancing power of spiritual awakening (i.e., the animal/angel conflict)" -- I: Reality & Subjectivity.