spiritual progress?

[Plenum]

do you think you are making spiritual progress?

learning stuff?

or do you feel stagnant right now, waiting for some other paramter to change?

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I noticed in chat that quite a few people seemed to have dropped out of meditating quite recently; and they felt that was a 'link' to their deeper self that was not being actively utilised for whatever reason it may be.

and sometimes, of course, we just need to plateau out, and chill a bit; act as a sponge for while, accumulating.

[Raz]

When you cease to know, you open your self to grow
I have no idea how far I have come
I have no idea of the potential I hold, if I did, it would no longer be experienced as infinite
I am grateful over the sense of unknown potential that I feel in the presence of this moment.
ideas about our self are like training wheels on a bike; Good in keeping you from falling during one phase, but hinders flexibility and growth in the next.
Stepping stones
Infinite number of phases
Fractal style

[Plenum]

good stuff Raz-man.

[Rake]

Personally I'm making great strides and progress. Someone has said that this year is kind of bumpy as the negative energies are being released so to speak. Make of that what you will but i most certainly have been having a bumpy time but through this time I am really whizzing up the spiritual spiral . Don't expect anything and you never know you might be surprised my friend.

[Spaced]

I've been feeling somewhat stagnant these days, but it will pass

[reeay]

Stagnation is a great lesson if you see the 'bigger process' of development!

[Raz]

good stuff Raz-man.

Thanks for bringing it out of me Plenum =)

after the letting go of "know" stage, knowledge is simply free association not a structural fixation.

[AnthroHeart]

I'm moving along at a slow pace. I'm done with the feelings of initiation. I get freaked out too easily when there is sudden change.

[xise]

The more I learn, the more humble I become. Multiple realizations bombard me these days, such that every month I feel completely astounded with realizations concerning concepts of balance. They astound me because I strive my best to treat everything as catalyst at every moment, and sometimes I do not see the answer or I unknowingly cling to imbalanced beliefs; yet when the answer of balance comes it feels like it was sitting right in front of me all along.

I almost feel like sometimes I need to memorize how many things I realize, because the realizations are so numerous. My beliefs concerning seven colored love feel fluid. What was once a small trickle of a stream of loving energy has grown into a raging river. A white river that flows into an ocean of infinite beauty and of infinite love.

[Aloysius]

To be honest I think I "peaked out" a long time ago. There was a time where I saw everyone as the "Creator" and appreciated the sacramental nature of all distortion, I didn't need to think about it, it was just the way it was. It all just kinda crashed down one day and I doubt I will reach that point again within this lifetime. I embarked a long journey fleeing from myself. When I tried to reclaim that previous state I just fell into the deep pit of magical thinking and have to try everyday to crawl out. However, being closer to the regular experiential distortions of the individuals around me has taught (and continues to teach) me an awful lot and now I tend to think of my "peak" as stagnation as there was little growth, little learning, only (blissful) being. Also the fact that it was able to fall away has shown me I was not as "developed" as I had assumed and that my distortions towards arrogance had blinded me to the fact that I had work to do, for myself and others.
Yeah I've stopped meditating, something happens that I can't always handle.
So for "progress" I guess i would say I'm making big strides, just on a very different path these days.

[AnthroHeart]

Someone on this board once told me I had opened to intelligent infinity some time ago. I remember once feeling bliss. I believe I've touched on II a number of times. I've pierced the veil a number of times, but what I saw wasn't always truth. For instance when I thought I was working with Ra, I was told that I did such a good job that I could skip the next Octave. I don't recall the names of the octaves, but they were given names. It was difficult to ground and I took everything literally so I couldn't watch movies. They'd either freak me out, or I'd get so attached to a character that when something bad happened to him, I'd feel like vomiting. When I supposedly was working with Ra, there were exciting times, and there were times when the lesson were really hard. Like focusing on the One Original Thought without any other thoughts. That was difficult to do. I ended up having to learn how to share the One Original Thought with everyone. When I spread out the energy between everyone, instead of hogging it for myself, it became easier to balance.

I've not been back to that point. It's difficult to face your shadow self, especially when your shadow self has you commit acts of cruelty. So I think the hilights of experience of spirituality have passed for me as well. Yet I have new experiences each day. Little synchros here and there.

[sjel]

The more I learn, the more humble I become. Multiple realizations bombard me these days, such that every month I feel completely astounded with realizations concerning concepts of balance. They astound me because I strive my best to treat everything as catalyst at every moment, and sometimes I do not see the answer or I unknowingly cling to imbalanced beliefs; yet when the answer of balance comes it feels like it was sitting right in front of me all along.

I almost feel like sometimes I need to memorize how many things I realize, because the realizations are so numerous. My beliefs concerning seven colored love feel fluid. What was once a small trickle of a stream of loving energy has grown into a raging river. A white river that flows into an ocean of infinite beauty and of infinite love.

How did you get to this point?