03-28-2012, 10:26 AM
(03-28-2012, 08:41 AM)yossarian Wrote: I just think Shin'Ar has as much to learn from this forum as vice versa. I think he's seeing scary ghosts where none exist and so the forum is helping his to learn some kind of lesson relating to how he relates to people who appear to be going down a bad path.
We are all simultaneously teachers and students. Teach/learn, learn/teach as Ra termed it. Everyone here is aware of and is rooted in the same common truth, yet we all have our own perspectives on it, some hold knowledge pertaining to certain information that others aren't aware of or don't quite comprehend fully yet, came across it in varying ways, studying different aspects of it with varying lenses and biases, etc.. So almost every post here is our way of teaching each other what we have come to know, and at the same time every subsequent response we get will help us refine what we profess to know, thus we all teach and we all learn. It's good to take a Socratic approach to all this with a sort of 'intellectual humbleness'. Through Socrate's stance of "not knowing anything" and viewing all around him as potential teachers he ended up amassing much wisdom.
I mean, we have a zen master, a practitioner of ancient esoteric rites, channellers, psychonauts, metaphysicians, theologists, and just 'regular' people with no prior initiation or spiritual learning who've come across truth and seek to incorporate this enlightenment into their daily life; a whole motley crew of truth seekers, really. Everyone here has much to offer one another.