Let's start with basic questions:
Who am I?
What am I?
Where am I?
When am I?
Why am I?
How am I?

A few others for reflection, realization:
What are my powers? What are the powers of the mind? Do we really know our powers? Do we have any sense of its depths?

How do we transform the world?

[quote]How do we transform the world?
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There is no spoon...

[quote author=Joesus link=board=6;threadid=2818;start=0#msg14224 date=1064770978]
There is no spoon...
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perhaps, but this has never stopped me from using one to eat a hot bowl of soup. What I meant was, how do we transform consciousness globally?

There is only One.
You heal yourself and the world is healed.
The perception of duality is the illusion. Once duality is vanquished then there is only the Self. Any residual of the world is the playing out of the Karmic debt of that particular creation as you finalize your rise into Brahman which is the stabilizing of Union.
After that there is only Love (energy in motion, the Absolute transcendental isness)

It all takes care of itself as you complete this.

[quote author=Joesus link=board=6;threadid=2818;start=0#msg14233 date=1064784798]
You heal yourself and the world is healed.
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I would like to believe that, but my compassion for others is such that I would need to take (or heal) others with me, and not be content with just taking (or healing) myself.

You would absorb all of the other parts of yourself and heal them at the same time.
Another point. If you are affected by the illusion you can't help get anyone further than you are.

[quote author=Joesus link=board=6;threadid=2818;start=0#msg14252 date=1064799061]
You would absorb all of the other parts of yourself and heal them at the same time.
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I understand..... but have you ever experienced this yourself?

[quote]I understand..... but have you ever experienced this yourself? [/quote]

Yes, but more than just an experience, a reality.
The first experience came 6 years ago and it has stabilized over time with constant focus.

[quote author=+Franziska link=board=6;threadid=2818;start=0#msg14478 date=1065463084]
Shawn, would you like to give your ideas on your questions, I found your contributions always highly interesting and educating
and then I'll share whatever I can share in thought, if there is anything to share after your usual in depth reports
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thanks Franziska, but I am not in a position right now to fully take up these questions. The answers one gives depends on one's state of mind and beliefs, but to what extent the answers represent Truth vs mere belief, that I cannot answer at this time. I would like to elaborate on these questions when the time is right and when I have more time to give the sort of thoughtful answers that the questions deserve. Hopefully, this time will be soon. In the meantime, though, I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts over the matter if you want.

I'll give you all a postmodern answer and see what happens.

Who am I? Text
What am I? Text
Where am I? Text
When am I? Text
Why am I? Text
How am I? Text


There is nothing but the text. We are all trapped within the boundaries of language and philosophy is merely the pursuit of articulating those limitations.

And the Troll says: Wut u tink?

[quote author=Timothy_417 link=board=6;threadid=2818;start=0#msg14538 date=1065628759]
We are all trapped within the boundaries of language and philosophy is merely the pursuit of articulating those limitations.[/quote]

Hardly! I hope you're not a post-modernist, Timothy. I read, a while ago, a book entitled 'Beyond Post-Modernism', that suggested the important role of mystical experience in going beyond post-modernism. But that's a different thread.

Back to the point, I don't agree with your above statement, on both counts. First, behind the language, presumably resides the experience. That is, the meaning of language is derived from experience, and while language certainly is not the ideal medium for communicating experiences, it's better than nothing. Secondly, since philosophy literally means 'the love of Truth', you cannot restrict its domain to language. Perhaps there are some modern-day "philosophers" who restrict themselves to language or logic, but they clearly are not real philosophers or seekers of Truth.

Actually I think it was Wittenstien, who said that, I think and he was by no means postmodern. Anyway, language to the postmodernist is not just language in the mundane sense, it is Logos. It's not just the words and structures of communication, but the fundamental process of signification. It sculpts and is sculpted by experience in ways that, they argue, are impossible to isolate.

But basically, I just pretend to be a postmodernist because so many people react strongly against it. It's like the universal step-child of the philosophical family, loathed and scorned by all.