FinShaggy wrote:So is that similar to what other people are feeling when they have a Reiki session. Or do yoga the right way?
Pretty much. The conundrum is that we don't know what we don't know. Figuring out how we actually perceive something that has been so omni-present in our lives can be very difficult in the beginning, but once the first point of reference has been established, then additional points of reference can be associated to it.
FinShaggy wrote:
I uinderstand what you are saying completely. That is a turmoil in my mind. I know how I will get the people that are hoping for this change on board. But everyone else...People are people and evil is there because evil is real. It will not be gone, and there will always be someone trying to "rule" it. I just have to think, I don't want to be as bad as what I am cycling away by becoming like them against them.
Evil is only a matter of perspective.
FinShaggy wrote:
What is Reiki? Like a yoga type mantra, sigil practice? I've gotten 2 very different type perpectives now
I think that's a good question for a separate thread. I bet if you post that question as a new thread, others may be more likely to reply.
FinShaggy wrote:
I understand what you are saying. I know one day I will be old and when I have not done what I have wanted, and people have not been what I expected them to I will look back and become bitter. (Not saying you're bitter, I'm just saying that is what I see happening to people that see big things but nothing happens.)
A lot of people do become bitter, so that's a very valid observation.
FinShaggy wrote:
But I believe that I can make these things happen, and I can see the way history is working and has worked. It's hard to describe. Like I see history as REGULAR people. That got written about, and because that REGULAR person did some amazing things, they are now being considered somewhat of a superhuman in the history books. But they are really just regular people. What was Hitler? He was a CRAZY little shit head that said, "Let's take over the world." Now if a group of people comes together and says that. Everyone would laugh at them. Put them in uniforms and put a gun in there hand, and a microphone in front of them. And all the sudden that shit is real.
Yep, Hitler capitalized on a new technology--the TV... and now that newest manifestation of TV is YouTube... which creates an interesting dynamic with the audience, because in the past, the audience could not interact with the presenter. Today they can, and that changes the dynamic.
Reflect back on what happened to the Taliban after they began posting the beheadings... what they thought would further their cause backfired and caused more people to become aware of their actions harming others, and they did themselves more harm than good.
Yesterday's media could only preach to the public, today's media provides an interactive platform for activity that can potentially propel people into action.
FinShaggy wrote:
Basically what I am saying is that I believe in real life, and being a real person.
So you don't plan on presenting yourself as a teacher/liberator/educator who is in that role because you shoot lightening out of your ass?
FinShaggy wrote:
I plan on solving the debt crisis that America is facing, which will (I believe) take us into a 2nd depression. It isn't a "fix all" for the whole nation, but it will be the beginning of the reconstruction. And I plan on starting this reconstruction before the economy even falls. So when it falls there is a place for people to go. I don't want to describe years and years of work that will be done, but I've thought this out. It happens anywhere between the ages of 30 and 40, I just have to prepare myself up until that point. Then even if I try to fix it, and can't do it the fast way. I have many B plans, and things that will come into play before 30-40 years old, but not that have to do with large scale help until the 30-40. At firs the only people that will be being helped are the people I am in direct relation with, and the people they are in direct relation with, and so on.
Unless you are actively socializing with billionaires such as the
Coke Brothers you are just indulging yourself in idle fantasy.
To make the difference you want to make, you need to create a very large investment portfolio (not just stocks, but municipal bonds and income properties) before you will be taken seriously by anyone who can help you make a difference.
FinShaggy wrote:
Then if even just the reconstruction thing works out, many many more things will domino. And I will be able to help many nations, and maybe even the world. I just gotta bring the humans back to humanity. And I know that sounds impossible. But it isn't. I know not everyone will become graceful together, but when the shit hits the fan in America there won't be a lot of choices to be had.
Interesting. Steven Pinker, the Harvard Professor of Psychology recently published an essay in The Wall Street Journal titled "Violence Vanquished," with the caption "We believe our world is riddled with terror and war, but we may be living in the most peaceable era in human existence. Why brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise."
Quotes of Pinker from the article:
"These investigations show that, on average, about 15% of people in prestate eras died violently, compared to about 3% of the citizens of the earliest states. Tribal violence commonly subsides when a state or empire imposes control over a territory, leading to the various "paxes" (Romana, Islamica, Brittanica and so on) that are familiar to readers of history."
"The second decline of violence was a civilizing process that is best documented in Europe. Historical records show that between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, European countries saw a 10- to 50-fold decline in their rates of homicide."
"The third transition, sometimes called the Humanitarian Revolution, took off with the Enlightenment. Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half. The 18th century saw the widespread abolition of judicial torture, including the famous prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" in the eighth amendment of the U.S. Constitution."
"The fifth trend, which I call the New Peace, involves war in the world as a whole, including developing nations. Since 1946, several organizations have tracked the number of armed conflicts and their human toll world-wide. The bad news is that for several decades, the decline of interstate wars was accompanied by a bulge of civil wars, as newly independent countries were led by inept governments, challenged by insurgencies and armed by the cold war superpowers."
"The rate of documented direct deaths from political violence (war, terrorism, genocide and warlord militias) in the past decade is an unprecedented few hundredths of a percentage point. Even if we multiplied that rate to account for unrecorded deaths and the victims of war-caused disease and famine, it would not exceed 1%."
In spite of what the media presents to the public, a remarkable drop in violence has occurred to the degree that it is now estimated to be less than one percent.
Based on my perspective of societies, we are becoming more and more human and more and more spiritual than we have been during the last 4,000 or so years.
You've got your work cut out for you.
Good luck with all that.