Carl,
I didn't say right and wrong, I said good and evil. Angels are good by definition so it is obvious that they are part of the duality, of which they would be conscious.
As for personal experience, yes I have felt the presence of both angelic and alien, and seen evidence of their existence.
Okay.
While I admit that such things may exist, they are not part of my world. In my world, good and evil is the same as right and wrong. Also, good and evil is only for humans and nothing else in the universe.
Proof? Proof? I can barely prove that I exist.
However, by careful observation, over time, from an increasingly elevated vantage point, you yourself will see sufficient evidence of how things work.
I'm sure that statement is true. Yet, this is a philosophical forum. It isn't Zen master's paradise. Showing someone a direct way to whatever you think is wisdom isn't as good as showing someone your good reasoning...or if you don't have any, then at least some evidence.
You say you can barely prove that you exist. That's true...maybe you don't.
An adept would be a fully realized person, and a Buddha would be fully perfected. The difference would be that a Buddha would be in a permanent state of realization, and the adept would still experience moments of non-perfection.
Okay.
Now how did you find this out? Reading books and talking to people that have read books, or direct experience?
The energy is more pure than that of the average person, hence one is lifted by one's proximity to it. It has a cleansing effect if one allows that.
Walk in the woods and your mind clears, your body quickens, you release of toxins in the face of this purity. Useless thoughts and emotions are swept away. This allows you to take in healing energy from the Greater Force, manifested through nature. It's not just oxygen we breathe into us.
Expire, inspire. Do you not feel inspired,clarified, and renewed by particularly creative and positive music or words on a page?
I do feel all of those things when I breathe or walk through the woods. But I also feel those things when I'm not believing in delusions. Belief in angels, sages, enlightenment, energy, Greater Force, etc....clutters and confuses me, so that my energy flows all over the place.
If I focus only on what I know to be true and have no false beliefs, the energy goes the way it's supposed to.
Wisdom is based in nonduality but encompasses duality. We live in a dualistic world, and so our efforts to help others and the world in general must follow those lines (though rooted in oneness).
The truth and the false can't both exist in one's mind. Either you're fully enlightened or you're fully unenlightened. Either you're fully aware of reality, or you're fully living in a dream world. All of the knowledge you gain here at the Genius Forum is still part of the dream. Higher vibrations are still part of it. The truth takes you far away from this dualism.
To others, it may still seem like dualism. You may seem to have a very high vibration. You may seem wise. Yet to yourself, all of these conceptions are partial and don't encompass the truth. They don't contain the fullness of reality.
Wisdom doesn't encompass duality, because duality isn't real. We don't live in a dualistic world. We live in reality, and our minds are unenlightened.
Our efforts to help others should only come after we have helped ourselves or have been helped. If we don't know where we're going, it's very likely that we'll never get there.
And subjective? I don't think so. High moral standards, as expressed through life-affirmation, creativity, consciousness, and agape love, are pretty rock solid beneficial for the whole. And are given to us from the whole, so to speak, to promote.
They are subjective. What's a high moral standard to you may not be to me. Something you call creative may be seen as copycatting to me. Love may be a completely different thing in your mind than in my own.