10-17-2016, 01:49 AM
(10-17-2016, 01:24 AM)Aion Wrote: I do understand what you are expressing although I admit I feel you have some pretty strong biases. We all do, of course. I'm not sure I would agree that order is automatic and chaos is not, since entropy is pretty automatic. I think that is maybe a choice you have made. Personally I view them as metabolism. Anabolism and catabolism are both required to maintain a body in any state. To become balanced is to bring these processes in to dynamic equilibrium.
The body does not die due to ego death because the ego is instantly reborn anew, innocent and open. It does mean reorganization though and I do believe it can even affect physical changes. For the mind death is but a doorway to a new self.
I think everything is automatic until you choose to be consciously creative. Personally I see order and chaos as equal tools, both which are required for creation.
On a practical level I am not sure my suggestion would be appealing or even seem useful, but it would be to explore your opposite self. That is, to delve in to all that you see yourself as Not. Open yourself to everything you don't want to be and accept that as part of All that you are.
Of course, both are automatic. But if you control one, you control the other.
Is the body not a product of the ego, anyway? So if you really destroy the ego, doesn't that imply the destruction and rebirth of the physical body, as well?
Otherwise, it's just mind-wiping/brainwashing, which IMO is not anything near the same as ego death; ego death meaning being completely one with the all without bias towards or against any particular direction.
>Open yourself to everything you don't want to be
That's pretty broad. There's a lot of things I don't want to be.
I don't want to be a heroin addict.
I don't want to be a child molester.
I don't want to be a Mormon.
I don't want to be a fan of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I don't have anything against any of those things, from one angle, because, yes, all is connected to me, but I also don't see the benefit of exploring these distortions.
So, no, that doesn't seem particularly useful, unless I completely misunderstood.
I don't just want any random new self. I want to improve myself. And perhaps ego death could be controlled, but I've learned my lesson about accepting ego death advice from random strangers OTI (no offense).
I really need to know how to heal my body and figure out how to manipulate physical matter with my mind to a much finer degree in order to be able to survive, or at least teleport away from, problems that I may have.
Seems like the next few years in the world might be turbulent, and the odds are frankly stacked against my survival in some possibilities.
I can survive, however, and I need to find the way to do that.