12-02-2011, 12:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2011, 02:33 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(12-02-2011, 11:59 AM)Pickle Wrote: It sounds almost like he feels that our existence is some sort of evil conspiracy LoL.
I observe that we are triad beings composed of life-consciousness-form. Or as Ra refers to it the mind-body-spirit complex. One of the core tactics of manipulation of all kinds is to place overemphasis on the form. We obsess over bodies, and identify with them. But we are not our bodies- the body is just the form which our consciousness has taken. If there were an evil conspiracy lurking in the background of this reality, I can only assume that they would play upon this distortion in every way imaginable.
Pickle Wrote:In reality, outside of the trap of the body, in our level of evolution, we would be like a person without hands or arms. We can travel and move our consiousness around, but we cannot do anything.
In most realities, we can move in and out of our bodies at will. In some of them, bodies are freely offered and shared among different beings. Bodies are cheap commodities. Wisdom... now that comes at a heavy price.
This gives one a little bit of a different perspective on the relative value of the body form. Here in our reality we place the body upon a pedestal and worship it. Even "good" people find themselves enslaved to spending a huge chunk of their time attending to the maintenance of the body through diet and exercise. It is one thing to keep the body in good working order- it is another thing to enslave oneself to diet and exercise regimens- especially under the presumption that it will "make one more spiritual".
For example, when I see somebody who thinks that they "need" to take 2 - 3 hours out of their day to go to the gym, and another 2 - 3 hours in procuring and preparing their special diets, I start to think this individual has some deeper issues that need dealing with. They are using "working on the body" as a distraction from "working on consciousness". There is even a medical term for this: orthorexia nervosa. It means- an unhealthy obsession with health.
You are right- the body serves a purpose- but only relative to the environment in which it exists. If consciousness wants to travel to other realms, it needs to be able to leave one body behind and take up a new form. Attachment to, and over-identification with, the body- that is the imprisonment of which I speak.