Digest Number 1042

[Guest guest]

What was going on with you that you chose to write this? Sounds to me like you

were offended by her post and chose to respond with this rather holier that

thou, we who are evolved beings wouldn't say anything like that post. Why else

respond at all? Why not simply assume that the poster will figure it out in her

own good time without any input from you?

 

Which is not to say that I think that the information presented is either

uninteresting or untrue. However, it's a bit more difficult for us ego-driven,

unenlightened beings to hear from someone who appears to be operating from the

same place while pretending not to be.

 

Among the dianic witches on this list, you will find a wide divergence of

opinion, I believe, especially in the area of aggression and social activism. I

believe that you are suggesting that aggression is a bad thing in the Shakti

tradition (I hope I'm using the terms appropriately). Are you? Perhaps you have

a different definition of it than I do.

 

For me, a degree of agression is necessary in this world to get things done. Is

there a Shakti position on social activism? Is that not a form of prayer and

worship here?

 

 

 

Message: 22

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:16:24 -0000

"omprem" <omprem

Re: welcome

 

Thinking, awareness, consciousness, mind is not

located

exclusively in the brain but rather is spread

throughout the

physical body, even into the cellular level. The more

important

aspects of thinking, awareness, consciousness and

mind are

not located in the physical body at all but rather in

the pranamaya

kosha, our subtle energy system of chakras and nadis.

 

Knowledge from this latter area would preclude anyone

from

saying such confrontational statements as, "The one

most likely

to do that would be me. As long as act like you think

with the

brain above the waist... we'll get along fine."

 

A tendency to aggression only indicates a sense of

separation.

But there is no separation in the universe or beyond.

Aggression

is an act of ignorance of one's true, divine state

based on

listening to the so-called evidence of the senses

assessed

under the sway of the ego.

 

So Hum

 

Omprem