Amanda/German experience revisited

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Dear Amanda,

 

, "mumble cat" <mumblecat@a...>

wrote:

> Hi Tim,

>

> Good to see you again, by the way.

 

You see me? I thought I unplugged that little mini-cam on top of my

monitor (just kidding) :-).

> There is in the spiritual process a natural process of healing the

>wounds from the past, of unraveling old conflicts from the personal

>history and realising they are not needed to be carried around.

 

This is not "spiritual process" at all, but purely psychological

process (can be worked out through a therapist and probably should

be). Actually, it can be argued that the words "process"

and "spiritual" don't go together at all. We *ARE* what we *ARE*

always, where is the "process" in I AM or Presence?

>This can take a long time to do, perhaps because as you say, there

>is a resistance to change in the mind and pain is more familiar and

>thus feels safer than being without it.

 

I can only quote Nisargadatta: "How can time help you?" Time is

utterly subjective and ultimately illusory. The sense of time

depends entirely on memory.

> There is no doubt exceptional people who can either drop massive

>amounts of painful memories from their psyches and realizing they

>are pain free in an instant, or they have been doing a process of

>unraveling and forgiving others and themselves (themselves) in the

>course of a long time.

 

It's really sad that you see people who can awaken TO the NOW

as "exceptional." It's a sad commentary on the general state of the

human population. Here's a quote from a book I have, written by an

M.D.:

 

"The assumption that the norm -- or average man or woman -- is at a

healthy level of emotional development is the underlying mistake of

at least this century in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and

sociology. I do not say this for shock effect or theatrics, but just

to point out an elemental error that has caused horrendous

distortions in our understanding of human nature. It is a basic

blooper that makes most so-called research completely worthless.

Surely if the average were normal, this planet would be a much

happier place and most of its population would be untroubled,

inwardly and outwardly happy and content individuals. The facts

speak for themselves."

 

Love,

 

Omkara (Tim)