Freefrommainstream wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:47 pm
What is the sense of life then?
Beaming yourself away from the physical world, not in the sense of suicide but in the sense of meditating and getting rid of desires. If our brain works to much then we can not know what reality is. In our life we think and want, every of our senses works. But if we completely go on standby ( f.e in a meditative state) you will feel what reality is, reality is nothing. In my opinion the afterlife is a lucid dreamstate which is formed by our desires and wishes, the ultimate goal is to destroy them and having no self anymore.
How do we apply that to the physical world?
We should meditate and beam our experience and conciousness completely away. Because we are born in a physical world we can not completely dissolve but we can prepare ourselves for the lucid dreamstate that follows our "death". The physical world is just a trap which gives you no freedom, because if you are free you are not trapped in a cycle
Why do I call it a cycle?
If we do something then another action follows and then another action follows and so on. Doing is a cycle which will never end, if you try to do "nothing" you will be bored because doing nothing is not possible in the physical world. Do you call this freedom? This cycle goes into the infinite and it will never end. In my little book called " On infinity and the life" there is a sentence which I want to cite " The endless cycle of life is an infinite way , we will lie to ourselves and find a reason to go him"
: *My book*
I will post my little book separately because it is entirely in german I will translate it, this will take some time.
*Disclaimer*
This text does not justify suicide it just shows that we should dissolve our ego to be nothing in our "afterlife"
21st century materialism, fundamentalism, and mysticism, all embrace an anti-life escapist approach. They are manifestations of the same reduction of higher worlds into intellectual concepts. In modern mystical practice, the person forgets they were the ones who willed themselves into the blissful state and dissociated from their own active agency. No matter what, there is always still the
desire to enter into the mystical state and the desire to remain there. In this state, all experience is still within the framework of current intellectual thinking. The experience can only be interpreted in terms of the concepts already possessed by the intellect (or, more accurately,
possessing the intellect). This is what leads to the duality between "pure desire-free awareness" and the world of reasoned experience through the senses. From there, it is quite evident why people feel the only solution to the 'tyranny of the senses' is to escape the world altogether, by 'rapture' or mystical experience or 'transhuman' technology and/or passively waiting for death. If it was realized the desiring-thinking is still present in the mystical state, only dissociated from our agency, then it would also be realized that there is no guarantee, or even likelihood, that the overarching context of desires, feelings, thoughts informing all experience will simply disappear after death. The only 'escape' is to lapse into complete unconsciousness while the World Evolution continues.
The idea of ending the reincarnation cycle is by working off on our own Karma, which is intimately connected with the Karma of all other humans. This is also reflected in the Christian concept of accepting responsibility for the 'sins of the world', bearing our Cross. We can only work off our Karma in
full consciousness, by voluntarily righting the errors of our past. What we do unconsciously, instinctively, out of blind desiring and feeling, especially in mystical state, does not redeem our negative Karma. This is precisely the purpose of the physical-perceptual plane. We cannot work off our Karma by escaping this plane - we must confront it through our thinking and and thereby redeem it. So engaging in physical reality is the only way by which each individual can end their own reincarnation cycle. Abstract, mechanical intellectual thinking is not to be equated with Thinking as such. There is no reason why thoughtfully engaging in reality must be something oppressive or at odds with inner meditative tranquility. When we contemplate and appreciate flowing, symphonic music, for ex., we are intuitively engaging in higher modes of Thinking. This music unfolds according to a higher order logical structure. It is by becoming more
conscious of that structure that we can redeem what only appears to be opposed - the sense-world and higher worlds of meaning - not by detaching or dissociating further or escaping, but by becoming intimately familiar with how the higher worlds of meaning precipitate into our world of sense-perception.
There are higher and lower principles, light and dark, to everything. There is lower ego and higher Ego-Self, intellectual thinking and Imagination. The oppressive cycle comes from our
lack of knowledge of these dynamics. That is the same thing as our lack of knowledge of higher beings which weave together the perceptual world, i.e. the primeval Wisdom responsible for the dynamics. The lower ego, the intellectual soul, was necessary for human freedom - for humans to
freely choose to follow higher principles out of their innermost desire. Freedom does not come from abandoning desire, but transfiguring it. This is how fate becomes freedom, water turns into wine, fission becomes fusion, etc. (the metaphors are infinite). It is how the Cosmos of Wisdom becomes the Cosmos of Love. Love can only develop in full clarity of consciousness, not a dream-like state of humanity which was only appropriate many thousands of years ago. We do not need to return to the womb of instinctive consciousness, but be born again into higher (more conscious) existence. There is really no escaping even if we wanted to. We can either lapse into mechanistic unconsciousness as the Cosmic evolution continues without us, or we can actively participate in its manifestations of existential meaning.
Steiner wrote:...humanity needs to be given something today that truly changes the present state of soul to the same extent as the dreamer's state of soul changes to being fully awake and alive for the day, when he wakes in the morning.
People hear of deeply significant things that must inevitably lead to ruin, to decline and fall, and they do not even feel indignation. Things are going on in the world, intentions are alive in German lands that should horrify people — yet they do not. Anyone incapable of being horrified at these things also lacks the power to develop a sense of truth.
It has to be pointed out that healthy indignation over things that are not healthy should be the source and origin of enthusiasm, of the new truths that are needed. It is actually less important to convey truths to people than it is to bring fiery energy into their lethargic nervous systems. Fiery energy is needed today, not mystical sleep.
- Steiner, Polarities in Evolution (1920)