Dontaskme
I really hear you Nick...but it will fall on deaf ears. Those with ears will hear, those with eyes will see, many are called, few are chosen...Your compassion is clearly palpable from another awakened being here.
I appreciate your support but remember hostility and these attacks are to be expected. When someone gets a glimpse of an awakened perspective it changes a person and this change makes others uneasy. Greta and others are just responding to something that doesn’t appear normal. It isn’t that I’m anything special. I just experienced a glimpse of a human perpective. Consider how Plato describes it from the Cave Allegory:
[Socrates] This entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed whether rightly or wrongly God knows. But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally, either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.
Now, coming out of the sun and not fully accustomed again to living in darkness, a person having experienced the light wants to share even though unsteady but is confronted with experts that at best only confuse everything and at worst kill him.
[Socrates] And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
The question now becomes the value of the intellect in this matter of awakened sight. What knowledge can a psychologically sleeping person have? Yet unaware of our condition we create experts by the boatload who, while equally asleep to reality, claim to explain everything by literal dualistic reason..
This person who has experienced the light has the unenviable task of trying to relate the common sense of it to all these experts and their followers. You think Sisyphus had it tough? Not even boulders can offer resistance like an expert with their heels dug in.
So for the sake of non-experts with an inner knowing that there is something more than shadows, how are they helped by the one who now knows by experience? Of course there is education but of what kind?
Plasto describes it as the soul turning towards the light and Christianity defines it as metanoia.
It is obvious that posters here do not respect life as a cycle and what it means to value it from a higher conscious perspective. Experiencing the light and the awareness of eternal values as product of the light seems absurd.
Does this question of the light interest you?
Genesis 1:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
What do you think the “light” refers to? Plato writes of the good. The light was good. What is the source of light without suns?
You are the only one I know here who is unwilling to either prostitute or ridicule the great ideas
My great great grandfather had few if any peers in the ability to paint light. I feel I should contribute something to serve the cause of questioning the human condition and high art has the potential to arouse awakening. So eventually I would like to write something worthy of what he produced in order to stimulate contemplation.
Would you be open to conversing by PMs free of ridicule? Perhaps you may write something that will resonate with me which would appear in an eventual article. I’m in the market for human rather than academic responses. When a person has been touched, a certain something appears within their writings which is far more genuine than the usual. That is why I’m in the market for the responses of those who have experience what it means to turn towards the light.
