Courtesy

"There are ways of treating others in which only consistent courtesy, even in very little things, is offered. This is a very healing habit to acquire."
-- ACIM, urtext

Advanced communication?

I’ve always taken for granted that humans probably have the most advanced communication in the universe. 

But I’ve realized how ego (species) centric this is. Quite apart from the likelihood of other races in this and other galaxies being far more advanced than ourselves in all ways (it’d be weird if they weren’t), we can even speculate that some animals may have communication we couldn’t understand even if we had a translator, because their minds and concepts and perception apparatus may be totally different. 

Hell, even plants or microorganisms may communicate on advanced levels. 

Or there may be minds in the hearts of suns or gas giants, or living in space between galaxies, or in spaces we don’t know about because human-visible light doesn’t show them. 

And of course, communication implies spiritual progress towards enlightening. 

(Thanks to Arthur C. Clarke for stories which inspire such thoughts.)

Thoughts about pain

It is my current theory that Pain is energy phenomena surrounding the flickering back and forth between an Inside viewpoint and an Outside one. (Inside The World that is. Which is an apparent “outside” Source.)

If you have only one of those, there is no pain. Of course, the inside one alone is not possible, because there’d be no life, the world being illusory.

The more aware one is of both viewpoints, the greater the awareness of the pain is (but not the pain itself, that diminishes proportional with the shift towards the outside viewpoint).

I guess body pain is symbolic of the “real” one.

BTW, body pain is a Forgiveness Lesson, because suffering makes the Ego more willing to give up its fortified viewpoint. If all seemed well, it'd have no reason to change its mind.

Time and Purpose

I think you may like the post and quotes I have just posted here (on my mainstream blog).

Depression has a truth to it

Jed McKenna maintains that Depression is virtually a required stage to go through if one is to arrive eventually at awakening and happiness. Because the idea of happiness divorced from Source is nonsensical.