02-27-2010, 08:07 PM
Hi Biu Tze, how do you pronounce that & what does it mean?
Thank you for joining us, Daniel. I hope that you find this site to be a safe place for you to explore your concerns and find loving support and wisdom. Almost everything you brought up has actually been discussed here!
As with everything you read here, please take what is helpful to you, and set aside anything that does not resonate with your own heart and mind.
You mention you have the Hidden Hand material. Have you read the L/L Research material that's the focus of this site? The About Us link at the top of the page gives a good overview. For your situation, I imagine that Carla's "Wanderer's Handbook" (available from the Library link) may be very helpful. What would you say is your level of understanding of the Law of One principles?
One thing I have learned here is a new way to think about service. If someone asks for help, and we are able to provide the help they ask for, that is service. If they haven't asked for help, we can offer it. But we need to respect their freedom of choice if they say "no, thanks." In this life, it is a good enough step of spiritual evolution to give and share what we can in half of our opportunities. Remember the airline instruction to put on your own oxygen mask first, so you don't pass out while trying to help others.
If someone else can only find happiness and inspiration by taking away your happiness and inspiration, then there are two people with big problems! Even your own death would still leave them unhappy and uninspired. You can sometimes help another person have a better circumstance outside of them. But their own interpretations and feelings inside of them are their own responsibility. If they have emptiness, you cannot fill it; just as when you have emptiness, no addictive behavior can fill it. Trying to fill up other people's emptiness can itself become an addiction.
This has been a difficult life lesson for me to learn, but the wisdom of the LLR books and this forum have been very helpful for me. From the way you put things, I suspect that you may have a similar challenge and I can definitely recommend that you use the loving wisdom available here.
Talking things over can help uncover the roots of your own attitudes and assumptions about what it truly means to serve. Perhaps, as in my case, some of those attitudes came from indoctrination by people who were ignorant, or manipulative, and did not teach you what is truly best for your own growth.
As for the topic of spiritual attack, there is much excellent information here from FairyFarmGirl and several others. This is also something discussed at great length in the LLR books and channeling sessions.
Until you are free of spiritual and psychological parasites, wouldn't it be safer to focus on this world and on meditation, rather than trying to explore spiritual realms through astral projection and so forth? One advantage of this world is that there is usually some time between cause and effect, giving you an opportunity to reconsider your thoughts before they become manifest. If your thoughts are scattered or influenced by negative forces outside your control, that delay could be protective for you and for others. At least, until you can guard and shepherd your thoughts according to your own choice of values.
There are also some insightful discussions here about struggles with excess attention to sexuality and how that might actually be an issue of power and control.
I hope that this forum helps you discover answers that help you on your journey to true service.
Thank you for joining us, Daniel. I hope that you find this site to be a safe place for you to explore your concerns and find loving support and wisdom. Almost everything you brought up has actually been discussed here!
As with everything you read here, please take what is helpful to you, and set aside anything that does not resonate with your own heart and mind.
You mention you have the Hidden Hand material. Have you read the L/L Research material that's the focus of this site? The About Us link at the top of the page gives a good overview. For your situation, I imagine that Carla's "Wanderer's Handbook" (available from the Library link) may be very helpful. What would you say is your level of understanding of the Law of One principles?
One thing I have learned here is a new way to think about service. If someone asks for help, and we are able to provide the help they ask for, that is service. If they haven't asked for help, we can offer it. But we need to respect their freedom of choice if they say "no, thanks." In this life, it is a good enough step of spiritual evolution to give and share what we can in half of our opportunities. Remember the airline instruction to put on your own oxygen mask first, so you don't pass out while trying to help others.
If someone else can only find happiness and inspiration by taking away your happiness and inspiration, then there are two people with big problems! Even your own death would still leave them unhappy and uninspired. You can sometimes help another person have a better circumstance outside of them. But their own interpretations and feelings inside of them are their own responsibility. If they have emptiness, you cannot fill it; just as when you have emptiness, no addictive behavior can fill it. Trying to fill up other people's emptiness can itself become an addiction.
This has been a difficult life lesson for me to learn, but the wisdom of the LLR books and this forum have been very helpful for me. From the way you put things, I suspect that you may have a similar challenge and I can definitely recommend that you use the loving wisdom available here.
Talking things over can help uncover the roots of your own attitudes and assumptions about what it truly means to serve. Perhaps, as in my case, some of those attitudes came from indoctrination by people who were ignorant, or manipulative, and did not teach you what is truly best for your own growth.
As for the topic of spiritual attack, there is much excellent information here from FairyFarmGirl and several others. This is also something discussed at great length in the LLR books and channeling sessions.
Until you are free of spiritual and psychological parasites, wouldn't it be safer to focus on this world and on meditation, rather than trying to explore spiritual realms through astral projection and so forth? One advantage of this world is that there is usually some time between cause and effect, giving you an opportunity to reconsider your thoughts before they become manifest. If your thoughts are scattered or influenced by negative forces outside your control, that delay could be protective for you and for others. At least, until you can guard and shepherd your thoughts according to your own choice of values.
There are also some insightful discussions here about struggles with excess attention to sexuality and how that might actually be an issue of power and control.
I hope that this forum helps you discover answers that help you on your journey to true service.