03-26-2011, 06:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2011, 10:45 AM by Steppingfeet.)
Moderator edit to clarify the authors of the two quotes to which irpsit is responding.
Jody; I fully agree with you. We must, prepare for hard work. Service to others and not sitting down and just sending light energy. Service is caring in everyday life, as we transit from an individualistic self-serving society to one that is of mutual help for each other. And this includes caring for others, caring for the meals, for gardening, for building an house or teaching, for helping when in need.
As our present society gradually collapses, local small communities will form within cities, and in the countryside, to deal with those practical questions. Gardening, permaculture, green building, cooking skills, are all important. Learning how to live in community.
Pay attention to these movements.
Personally, being involved in an anthrophosophic ecovillage, I can give advice, my experience, or help, in case you need to.
I feel joyful to live my life in green ray, by caring to each other (we are practical, not theory).
As GLB said, I believe there is already a crescendo of green ray, it doesn't matter the future. Let's focus on this PRESENT MOMENT. There are many opportunities for each of you:
- to create what you feel is necessary to give your soul that creative space
- to manifest the conditions in your life that truly make you happy and joyful
- to create those conditions for service to others
From personal experience, I can tell you, it seems better to build your own life from the present moment, right now, rather than waste the time with future plans or speculations. It is wiser to decide based on our true happiness and love, rather than from mental concepts.
Quote:Jody wrote: But you can see why people holding onto that pleasant belief would not react well to the prospect of more difficult work ahead. That quality of seeking to avoid hard work is another suspect point in that belief. In life, if there are two possibilities, one with hard work and the other without hard work, the first is the more likely! That's not cynical, just realistic and responsible. If we seek to be examples, it serves others better if we recommend they continue planting and expect and prepare for difficult work ahead, rather than giving out the message that all will be beamed up. That's where I feel very strongly that the ascension message is enormously irresponsible and does great harm. It's an understandable but pathological earth 3d psychological reaction on the part of wanderers who are traumatized by their earth 3d experience and simply want out themselves, so succumb to fantasy and wishful, 'magical' thinking.
Jody; I fully agree with you. We must, prepare for hard work. Service to others and not sitting down and just sending light energy. Service is caring in everyday life, as we transit from an individualistic self-serving society to one that is of mutual help for each other. And this includes caring for others, caring for the meals, for gardening, for building an house or teaching, for helping when in need.
As our present society gradually collapses, local small communities will form within cities, and in the countryside, to deal with those practical questions. Gardening, permaculture, green building, cooking skills, are all important. Learning how to live in community.
Pay attention to these movements.
Personally, being involved in an anthrophosophic ecovillage, I can give advice, my experience, or help, in case you need to.
I feel joyful to live my life in green ray, by caring to each other (we are practical, not theory).
Quote:GLB wrote: Secondly, while it can be interesting to speculate in either direction, I think that both schools of thought are mistaken if they begin to place emphasis upon the unfolding of Scenario A or B as future certainties for which the seeking entity would do best to prepare. This diverts the attention from the only access point, so to speak, wherein one connects to the real and the true, that being the present moment. Our outer identities do of course live within, and are made of, the illusion, so it is wise to plan and make decisions according to the ever changing needs of the horizontal plane (e.g., it will likely rain some day so it would be helpful to invest in a raincoat, you live near a river that floods so best to elevate your house), but these concerns need occupy only a small portion of our consciousness as I see it. The further ones attention strays from the present moment, especially as it gets caught up in sensational events of the future (however plausible and probable those events may be), the more we solidify, and identify with, a separate, time-bound, transient identity.
As GLB said, I believe there is already a crescendo of green ray, it doesn't matter the future. Let's focus on this PRESENT MOMENT. There are many opportunities for each of you:
- to create what you feel is necessary to give your soul that creative space
- to manifest the conditions in your life that truly make you happy and joyful
- to create those conditions for service to others
From personal experience, I can tell you, it seems better to build your own life from the present moment, right now, rather than waste the time with future plans or speculations. It is wiser to decide based on our true happiness and love, rather than from mental concepts.