GENIUS FORUMS

Ryan, Here's a brief summary of gnosis from our 'dear friend' Wiki: Gnosis (from one of the Greek words for knowledge, γνώσις) is the spiritual knowledge of a saint or mystically enlightened human being. In the formation of early Christianity, various sectarian groups labelled "gnostics" b...

So... Ataraxia, These important questions are yet unanswered, as they *always* get swept under heavy fabric of the rug of reason/logic, in all my experience in this forum. Do you too, like the founding Trio, follow the tactic of ignoring what you can not fathom and address intelligently? Is such &qu...

I'd say that the source material is merely different for different levels of reality. On our level of reality, molecules are the source material - but once you gt down to the molecular level, there are smaller source materials. Our level of reality, smaller levels live molecular and quantum levels,...

Iolaus: Well, you are right that I should not act like a proxy. You asked a question that is part of the vocabulary we have gone over, and no, I don't find it very natural to call the actual 'not real.' It seems to me that the importance of defining real as the immutable, and for emphasizing the poi...

Jehu: Such beings, given that they are one with the true Being, are possessed of the same characteristics - omniscience and omnipotence. No one on Earth or anywhere else is omniscient or omnipotent. Anyone who believes otherwise is as deluded as Jehu. How 'bout you, Iolaus? You are his First Discipl...

Mikiel, He doesn't answer, I think, not because he doesn't grasp it, but because you don't stay with the thread and jump in in various spots arguing over word definitions. He distinguishes between the real, which is immutable and unchangeable, and the actual which changes and is comprised of more t...

After, "Where did *it all* come from?" (if not the last implosion half-cycle as per the perpetually, eternally oscillating, "Bang/Crunch)... "What is the medium/explanation of/for 'action at a distance' as demonstrated by gravity, info exchange between 'entangled particles,' tele...

broke: Get a grip, mikiel. No one is forcing you to read Tomas' posts. Do you have a problem with my confrontation of Tomas' moronic melodrama? It's no trouble, really. Whether or not he can hear and use the feedback is up to him, and I'm totally unattached to whether he does or not. I do agree with...

Mikiel, Based on your last explanation or clarification after Jehu's objection to your understanding of time and Now, it is my opinion that he was not correct in his original assessment of it, but he has not updated his response. So far as I can see, you do not regard the Now as relating to any kin...

First, a challenge to skipair to reply to my post above: Skipair, Your reply to me, stamped Sun, 10/12 was completely evasive. I asked: Quote: If skipair can not personally experience these observations, then these objects do not exist? (Your reply didn't touch upon an answer.) Likewise the next exc...

Tomas, I don't apologize, was not angry at all in my post and actually suspect that you are a brain-damaged moron with nothing better to do than mock conversations which are over your head on these boards. PS: Loki, I think it was spineless cowardice of you to back off and eat crow just because you ...

It's a safe bet that Tomas knows how to use the quote feature. He prefers his style. At least he's consistent. I'll give him consistency in the role of court jester/fool... verbally making goofy faces and sticking out his tongue at those in serious discussion. I've yet to see an intelligent, substa...

Ataraxia, To further address your inquiry into objective consciousness... Moreover what is the meaning of the phrase "from the point of view 'objective consciousness' "in this context? If 'it' has a point of view that we can grok,'it' must be a thing-itself. The 'outside of the circle' has...

Loki, Don't hold your breath waiting for an intelligent reply from the triumvirate. Their strategy in dealing with the "opposition" is to ignore us. (The head-in-the-sand tactic.) The forum is a pretense of discussion of the subjects listed at the heading. It is actually obviously merely a...

Ataraxia: It seems to me that it doesn't differ substanitally from the 'QSR doctrine',apart from a more liberal usage of jargon and seemingly uneccessary oveuse of capital letters.I doubt 'they' would have any objection(at least as far as I can tell) Right off the top (literally, of McFarlane's intr...

mikiel, you are rude and demanding. How long did it take you to read and comprehend all the material? How long would it have taken you to read it if someone demanded you read it for the sole purpose of belittling others ? A Bodhisattva is a teacher. He understands the limits of his students, by rec...

Skipair, Your reply to me, stamped Sun, 10/12 was completely evasive. I asked: If skipair can not personally experience these observations, then these objects do not exist? (Your reply didn't touch upon an answer.) Likewise the next exchange: Quote:(m) So, skip... do you believe what you "see&q...

Mikiel, But he is flat wrong about the ongoing reality of NOW and so will not address my posts of clarification above. It is indeed unclear to me that he truly disagrees with it as you recently expressed it. I use the word consciousness in a way consistent with enlightened mystics of all major Trad...

Trevor, This is not a serious discussion of enlightenment. Hold it there, cowboy. This stuff doesn't interest me at all. Disinterest has served me far better. If you want to convince me to read more, you're going to have to convince me that what I've read so far was even worth reading. I don't jump ...

T.S.: I was a paraphrasing what he said in #2. I took out all the filler, and found it was impossible for me to determine if he is bullshitting or not. The only difference is that he was more cunning than simple and direct -- but I don't consider an intelligent bullshitter any more wise than an unin...

d.f.: Maybe not the I, but the individual is the divine consciousness in complete control. At base the individual is alone and solitary, fully sovereign. The I is the witness which is connected to and the same as all other I's, but not the same. Individual *forms* are manifestations of the One (divi...

miki, I have no reason to believe, from his intro quotes, that Joel Morwood is enlightened. I'll give an example. Let's say someone says, "the reason the undefined is undefined is because definitions, by definition, define", would you have any reason to believe he is enlightened? I'll avo...

T.S., Here, yet again is the link shared in my OP with quotes from enlightened ones from all traditions... and intro quote for each section by Joel Morwood: http://www.centerforsacredsciences.org/traditions.html If you deny them all, you are hard core against the universal truth of enlightenment fro...

. mikiel, Simple .. define 'divine' in your own words. Not some damn dictionary. . I already said I have no special definition but rather accept the commonly used definitions and quoted the usual synonyms. I gave one example of how my usage differs from common parlance as per "the supernatural...

Your post rambles far and wide almost totally ignoring my reply/inquiry to/of you. "Just define 'divine' whether capitalized or not." Yes sir! Right away sir! As per common usage sans the "supernatural" refs in dictionaries. (The natural cosmos is the Divine Body... the whole uni...