(04-06-2017, 07:35 AM)Agua del Cielo Wrote: @reedfish
I really would differtiate intellectual understanding and what i would called direct knowing.
You can intellectually understand the concept of oneness.
But unless you experience oneness, it will be just the illusion of understanding.
That was what i meant.
Or more down to earth, you can read anything that has been written about love, you can understand thousands of concepts about love, but you will still not know a thing about love.
You have to experience it!
There is no doubt about what you are saying. If you've never swam in the ocean, there is no way words alone can convey the experience. Love in my viewpoint is ACCEPTANCE in its profoundest sense. The hard work of third density is learning to have that "acceptance of self" in every waking moment. I have read in many Buddhist texts on meditation that "blissing out" in meditation is a major distraction, and if you persist in your discipline, this eventually passes. I am supremely confident at my now advancing age that I did not enter this density at this time to spend a lot of time exploring inner reality through meditation. If that was the goal, I would have picked Tibet about 500 years ago to incarnate. (Maybe I did!) I am DEFINITELY here for the harvest. According to Ra there was as many as 60 million wanderers incarnate in the early 1980s. That number is probably double that now - so there really is NOTHING special about me in that sense. He/They pointed out numerous times throughout the work, that the "veil of forgetfulness" was a common irritant of nearly all wanderers. We KNOW there is more than our 5 senses deliver in a very profound sense. My biggest frustration is also one shared by most wanderers - identification of the MISSION, the reason we came here at this time in the first place. I still haven't figured out to my satisfaction why I'm here. I'm here to SERVE, but feel like General Patton sitting on the sidelines, (Ra had a great rant on him!) frustrated as hell. For all I know, I'm the backup to the backup to the backup, and maybe I chose that role in order to explore detachment and humility even further. Wouldn't surprise me one bit. I can't tell you how strongly I identify with Don Elkins in that regard. According to Carla, it was only when the Ra material was being disseminated, that Don (a 5th or 6th density wanderer) "FINALLY" felt that he was living his purpose, his reason for being here in the first place. The way the story ended is VERY sobering. This is the BIG leagues, and not for the trepid.