Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:51 am
Hi all ... Apologies for being conspicuous by my absence. As the only mod, I do have to check in now and then, just in case there are any new topic approvals-- which is rare. Beyond that, this being a generally well-behaved place, the moderation role is minimal.
In the case of this member, having been very actively involved (including this forum's predecessor) for 7 years, it's simply a matter of having transitioned into a new phase, one in which the creativity requires much silence, and so is no longer compatible with this kind of 'vocal', thinking-out-loud activity. It has been this way for this lifetime so far, having gone through a few other metamorphic phases/stages, as per Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, which one can't resist, no more than the caterpillar can resist spinning its chrysalis ... as will be the eventual destiny for others here as well, when the time for a phase-transition arrives. Nonetheless, I will continue to serve the role of mod here, as long as it remains minimal--unless someone feels inclined to take over, either as mod and/or proprietor of the IP/domain (if so send a PM, and I'll approach Simon about how that might happen).
Meanwhile, kind regards
Hello Dana,
Completely independent of whether you vocalize what you are thinking on this forum, I wonder if we can revisit why or why not you are engaging the active intuitive thinking, spiritual evolution path, on your own time.
Eccliastes wrote:There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—
2A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
3A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
4A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.
5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
6A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
A time to be silent and a time to speak.
8A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.
Indeed. Now what is our own active role, in the 21st century (some 2,500 years after those words were inspired), as thinking human agencies, in bringing these metamorphic 'times' to fruition?
It seems you feel the wise powers will place you in the chrysalis when it's time for the next phase. What if that's what they are actually doing here? What if this new forum, these posts over the last 2 years, this new thread by Federica which caught your mod attention, are the newly evolved ways in which the wise powers work to inspire us? It is their way of gradually handing the torch of spiritual evolution over to us. It is very 'unnatural' for modern man to think this way, for the exact reason discussed in PoF:
The reason why we generally overlook thinking in our consideration of things has already been given (see Chapter 3). It lies in the fact that our attention is concentrated only on the object we are thinking about, but not at the same time on the thinking itself. The naïve consciousness, therefore, treats thinking as something which has nothing to do with things, but stands altogether aloof from them and contemplates them. The picture which the thinker makes of the phenomena of the world is regarded not as something belonging to the things but as existing only in the human head. The world is complete in itself without this picture. It is finished and complete with all its substances and forces, and of this ready-made world man makes a picture. Whoever thinks thus need only be asked one question. What right have you to declare the world to be complete without thinking? Does not the world produce thinking in the heads of men with the same necessity as it produces the blossom on a plant? Plant a seed in the earth. It puts forth root and stem, it unfolds into leaves and blossoms. Set the plant before yourself. It connects itself, in your mind, with a definite concept. Why should this concept belong any less to the whole plant than leaf and blossom? You say the leaves and blossoms exist quite apart from a perceiving subject, but the concept appears only when a human being confronts the plant. Quite so. But leaves and blossoms also appear on the plant only if there is soil in which the seed can be planted, and light and air in which the leaves and blossoms can unfold. Just so the concept of a plant arises when a thinking consciousness approaches the plant.
We are waiting for something
external to our own thinking consciousness to put us in the chrysalis because we have forgotten that our thinking consciousness is of the Divine Order. It is the blossom and fruit which has resulted from millions of years of spiritual evolution. It's imaginations, inspirations, and intuitions won't grow from the soil of our inner life unless
we plant its seeds in the Earth and expose it spiritual Water, Air, and Fire. Otherwise it remains as dormant potential and, if we are fortunate, our next incarnation will bring us back to a forum like this one and give us the opportunity to nourish the seeds within us once again.