10-24-2019, 03:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2019, 04:06 PM by Asolsutsesvyl.)
I'll wrap up the part of my personal story left open with this post. Later on, there's various topics more interesting than the previous, "truth percentages", to explore, including further ones dealing with differences in metaphysics, philosophy, and basic approach to spirituality.
I felt I couldn't write all I had on my mind while still being a member of the Fellowship (FOTCM) which is the "club" (officially a religion) which is the inner part of the Cassiopaea community. As I mentioned before, I was really not sure what to say to them, with all I had on my mind. I finally came to the conclusion that the best I could do, having already discussed personal matters in the past, was to post a few things which may generally stimulate thinking and then simply leave.
I sent a short message about having decided to leave on September the 24th. I mention this because of a symbolic event. A few days after, while walking one evening, I bumped my head on a sign while looking down, a "slow down near the school" type of sign. I found that I had not yet gotten a response to the message (as it would turn out, the person usually handling it was away for the week). After posting a message on the members' board, the next day I was removed. Then followed a sense of inner expansiveness and healing which has gone on since then.
Now I feel I can get off to a cleaner and fuller start with communities which have conflicting philosophies.
To put the essence of the philosophical differences very simply, the 2nd major version of the Cassiopaea website had a 2006 article series titled "Splitting Realities". It was very divisive, in terms of dividing people sharply into souls going onwards and upwards in accordance with the ideology, and souls which are doomed to become lunch to, or enslaved by, 4D STS because they "cannot deal with reality", in terms of how dealing with reality is defined by the ideology. The article series is missing from the current, 3rd major version of the website (but may be found by searching online archives).
The key point is that the whole Cassiopaea thing has evolved into something very divisive, which very sharply divides people according to an oversimplified doctrine. (Simultaneously, it is a very firm official belief that "there is no belief system" in there - only good methodology and respect for the truth.)
I think that the title, "Splitting Realities", doubles as a symbolic indicator of the overall spiritual direction of the Cassiopaean Experiment. The artificial ideological wall has hardened and narrowed over the years, along with the "us vs. them" group mentality, which leaves practically no place for traditional mysticism which aims to transcend the crass and conventional aspects of human life. What is cut out from the picture is replaced by one-size-fits-all substitutes which the spiritual leadership considers "safe" and "good".
I must leave all of that behind. What I am actually interested in is the merging of realities. The mutual growth of understanding, and the replacement of ideological thinking - which by its very nature is always oversimplified - with something more real and full. And I also cannot sweep my personal mysticism under the rug any longer.
This community is one of those which fits the description: people here work towards a merging of realities, instead of furthering the splitting of realities. It is my personal conviction that only a synthesis which ultimately succeeds in taking everything into account, without dividing realities, can be real. But that's almost like the Holy Grail. Here, and probably elsewhere (I think my focus will branch out over time), I hope to make some personal progress, along with, I hope, what I share turning out to be of use for others as well.
I felt I couldn't write all I had on my mind while still being a member of the Fellowship (FOTCM) which is the "club" (officially a religion) which is the inner part of the Cassiopaea community. As I mentioned before, I was really not sure what to say to them, with all I had on my mind. I finally came to the conclusion that the best I could do, having already discussed personal matters in the past, was to post a few things which may generally stimulate thinking and then simply leave.
I sent a short message about having decided to leave on September the 24th. I mention this because of a symbolic event. A few days after, while walking one evening, I bumped my head on a sign while looking down, a "slow down near the school" type of sign. I found that I had not yet gotten a response to the message (as it would turn out, the person usually handling it was away for the week). After posting a message on the members' board, the next day I was removed. Then followed a sense of inner expansiveness and healing which has gone on since then.
Now I feel I can get off to a cleaner and fuller start with communities which have conflicting philosophies.
To put the essence of the philosophical differences very simply, the 2nd major version of the Cassiopaea website had a 2006 article series titled "Splitting Realities". It was very divisive, in terms of dividing people sharply into souls going onwards and upwards in accordance with the ideology, and souls which are doomed to become lunch to, or enslaved by, 4D STS because they "cannot deal with reality", in terms of how dealing with reality is defined by the ideology. The article series is missing from the current, 3rd major version of the website (but may be found by searching online archives).
The key point is that the whole Cassiopaea thing has evolved into something very divisive, which very sharply divides people according to an oversimplified doctrine. (Simultaneously, it is a very firm official belief that "there is no belief system" in there - only good methodology and respect for the truth.)
I think that the title, "Splitting Realities", doubles as a symbolic indicator of the overall spiritual direction of the Cassiopaean Experiment. The artificial ideological wall has hardened and narrowed over the years, along with the "us vs. them" group mentality, which leaves practically no place for traditional mysticism which aims to transcend the crass and conventional aspects of human life. What is cut out from the picture is replaced by one-size-fits-all substitutes which the spiritual leadership considers "safe" and "good".
I must leave all of that behind. What I am actually interested in is the merging of realities. The mutual growth of understanding, and the replacement of ideological thinking - which by its very nature is always oversimplified - with something more real and full. And I also cannot sweep my personal mysticism under the rug any longer.
This community is one of those which fits the description: people here work towards a merging of realities, instead of furthering the splitting of realities. It is my personal conviction that only a synthesis which ultimately succeeds in taking everything into account, without dividing realities, can be real. But that's almost like the Holy Grail. Here, and probably elsewhere (I think my focus will branch out over time), I hope to make some personal progress, along with, I hope, what I share turning out to be of use for others as well.