tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7233878607747520713.post7395488961922334746..comments2023-10-01T10:38:04.957+01:00Comments on Power Of Source: How ACIM is differentEolake Stobblehousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7233878607747520713.post-47972205589013332882008-08-12T15:58:00.000+01:002008-08-12T15:58:00.000+01:00There are many subtle steps along the way. I have ...There are many subtle steps along the way. <BR/><BR/>I have a friend in Denmark who took that three-week deeksha course thingy. I have not heard yet how it went.Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7233878607747520713.post-38127724963768452432008-08-12T04:40:00.000+01:002008-08-12T04:40:00.000+01:00I enjoy the Course in Miracles. It hasn't been my ...I enjoy the Course in Miracles. It hasn't been my path, however.<BR/>Two years ago i was at the Oneness University in southern India, and i went through a three week process in order to be initiated to give deeksha, the oneness blessing. As they began they process, one day our young Indian guide explained that in the far east, they tend to have an impersonal relationship with the Presence, and that in the West, we have tended to have a personal relationship with the Presence. We have a visualization of God, and Jesus, as someone we can have a personal relationship with. Whereas in the Zen Buddhist world, a meditation hall will often have no statues and no representations of the Presence. The young guide's comment was that in India, being between the two, they have both an impersonal and a personal way of relating to Presence. They encouraged each of us to develop a personal relationship. <BR/> At that time, i had no symbol, no form that i connected with. I meditated and Tara came to me. She is the goddess of unconditional love, known in China as Kuan Yin. She loves us no matter what we do, completely and unconditionally. As we went through the process, she was with me. And at times, as we went deep into a sacred space, she would come to me, and sit on my lap, in a most lasivicious (sp?) manner. She was sexual for me, because i need sexual healing. <BR/> As i was saying in another comment on another blog you posted, "form is emptiness, and emptiness is form". And here is the beauty of tantra, the marriage of sexuality and spirituality. I have known this for awhile with my mind, but it is clearer than ever that for me to drink deeper of the nectar of this universe, i must penetrate the mysteries of sexuality and spirituality simultaneously. A masturbating monk is not a fully engaged, vital, enlightened being!forrest evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06784516892752445547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7233878607747520713.post-91082068466249696302008-08-09T11:32:00.000+01:002008-08-09T11:32:00.000+01:00I think the workbook makes the difference.(At leas...I think the workbook makes the difference.(At least for the "New- to-this-matter-soul")<BR/><BR/>The Course says that without doing the workbook the text will seem like mere abstractions hardly to understand.<BR/><BR/>Familiar with that ?<BR/><BR/>In my opinion Non Dualism is understood/experienced while the love of God starts to dawn in us.<BR/><BR/>This awareness of love is a reference point from which it is easy to say that nothing in this world is of true importance since nothing in this world brings so much joy.<BR/><BR/>The course says that this experience cannot be put into words which I think is true. <BR/><BR/>Consequently, mere words cannot really help. At least not in a quick fashion as doing the ACIM workbook does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com