The following has been written to capture and process the current thoughts working within me. And they are shared with you here.
Regenerating soul seems to be the work required of me. This seems right, and I see nothing else. No other work on sinking Titanic do I see as important for any of us. Troubling thought this is for me. It will require and receive ongoing consideration by me. But life whittles and hacks and whittles and hacks everything remaining away and leaves only this. Needle in the haystak. The pearl worth selling everything for. Is it sad to see the hay, the dirt, of no value and leaving just the pearl?
What is soul? Essentially it is that which I feel in me that I suspect maybe in others. I suspect it is an inherent feature in every newborn child destroyed by our sick culture within months or years. The reactor of goodness, the engine of goodness, the source of goodness, that I cannot control but I can allow to control me. The place of wisdom. The place of unity with all creation and all creatures. The place of Universal Brotherhood. The place of loving. The place of lsgiabeing.com.
Nothing more than a feature of my nervous system, alongside sense of smell, eyesight, temperature sensation, rage, hatred, love….
Can current techniques in neuro biology and related fields verify that at least in some people, even if just in me, that it exists? Or that definitely it does not? Has substantial work been done to explore this? Is there anyone else on earth that sees this important too, even of ultimate importance?
All of this is profoundly sobering for me, depressing in a way. If it is inherently depressing that is a vote against it being a worthwhile idea. A worthwhile truth. What is depressing I think, and truth, is that what our culture has directed my attention to throughout my life is mistaken. This is quite a shock and it makes sense that one would be depressed while adjusting to this.
If there was goodness in the man Jesus was it not his soul, that he made himself a vessel for his soul, which he understood as the divine goodness within him? I think so. And I think if I were to aspire to anything less I would aspire to mental dysfunction, mental ill health, spiritual ill health, meaninglessness, joylessness. I suspect this is true of all of us.
There's reason to observe that the human species is the most powerful known force in the universe. And that species is destroying everything and objectively quite miserable in the process. Somehow I believe that soul is the essence, the entirety, of health, and that only restoring that in the individual gives peace and joy to the individual, and only in restoring that in others is there joy for the intended healer, the subject client, and the larger environment.
I'm willing to conclude that all of this is incorrect. I do not expect that to happen but I am entirely open to it. But for now and as far as I can see the best way for me to test the truth or error of this is too pursue it as totally and rapidly as I can.
James, it's a little hard to keep up with you. I agree. I mentioned sobering, I mentioned depressing.
What about loving? I mean, you have it tattooed on your forehead for goodness sake. Yes, loving is an attribute of soul, they are inseparable, but loving is an attribute, it is not the source. To me it seems that the way to increase loving is to increase the prevalence of the source. The same for goodness. The same for LSGIABeing.com Similarly.
My sense is the soul is the essence of me, is me most importantly. What profititeth a person if they inherit the whole world but lose their soul? And are we not seeing the conclusive proof that if en masse we lose our soul we also lose our inheritance, the world?
If tomorrow I win the 1.6 billion dollar lottery will I abandon all this? I will devote every penny to it. Why? Because I experienced it as life and nothing else as life. Indeed the pearl worth the ultimate price. That which has been called the divine, God, the ultimate. Everything else seems so inferior to me.
If everyone I care about is freezing to death and I seemingly ignore them devoting all of my attention to gathering wood and starting a fire, have I really abandon them or have I devoted my life to the one thing that can give them life? That which I understand as soul does not exist for itself but for the health of creation. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.
What for now? Some and maybe quite a bit of relevant scholaely work has been done. The scholarship in many relevant domains, neuroscience, primatology, evolutionary biology, sociology, and related fields. Renewed study of all this began for me 3 or 4 months ago, and is thankfully taking front and center in my life now it seems.
Behave by Robert Sapolsky may well be finished the first reading today. The book on Spirit by George Vaillant will likely be finished by me this week, and it was started months ago. Another 5 or 10 such books are on my list. None on my list are at all directly on target and it might be that all of the authors would scream in horror at the views Expressed here. But I think it is true that they in fact are pointing in the direction of what I am outlining. And I will be acting on that theory until the evidence shows me that it is incorrect, and accelerating if it continues to show that it is a correct idea.
And in my rare but occasional interractions with other two legged creatures I am already finding my relationship to those shaped centrally with a concern for soul, growing it wherever I might have a chance to encourage that, and being less likely to enable distractions. Sadly but necessarily that is creating a new sort of harshness from me, not aggressive but passive, as I remain unwilling to devote energy to entertaining, to enabling our mutual distraction from all that matters, soul, fostering it, nurturing it, growing it. But not only harshness, also a constructive passion when the interchange allows to explore these thoughts more clearly, directly, relevantly, and constructively than I have been able to so far.
I didn't go looking for this quest. Not at all. It is as though life is sort of smacking me in the face in the form of the near infinite festering evil around us, shaking my shoulders and saying, James, James, James! Soul was provided to you as a central concept even 10 years ago as you were exploring and expanding dr. Kings 3 dimensions of life, of spirit. And briefly you seemed to grasp the centrality and then it goes off to the peripheral with you. It is the centrality, it is all there is that matters. It is the source of everything else you would want and nothing else you would want and happen until and unless soul proliferates within one individual at a time.
Get on with it. Yes, James, you feel clueless. But get on with it. Maybe you will begin to understand and gain some capability. Maybe not. But it is the work that needs to be done. Get on with it.
But not totally clueless do I feel. There is a vague but strong sense of direction, since of truth, to all this. I don't know how it will turn out. I'm sure I will be speaking of it as it unfolds.
Esoteric masturbation? Is sustainability esoteric? Is World Peace? Is optimal personal joy and personal peace? Not to me. Even if only these last two are possible, which is the case. But I suppose 300 years from now after the wars and massive attrition, Mass starvation, massive plagues, there will be survivors and therefore a surviving world emerging from the dark ages, the dystopia unfolding now. And for them world peace is not totally impossible. Not if the seeds of an emerging soul are adequately sewn today.
How pie in the sky is this? Nothing could be less so, or more important. This has always been true as long as there have been human beings though only recently, recent years, is there the neuroscience to prove it. Physical evolution takes thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years. But not so neural evolution as influenced by culture. The frontal cortex, and pre frontal cortex, are designed in truth and fact to be developed by the external forces, the external culture. They are the last to develop, to be sculpted, not completed substantially until the mid twenties of the individual. And herein exists, and has always existed, the true potential for human beings creating a better world. And the likes of the person Jesus, Buddha, and others, this is the creative ground on which they have worked. Almost never have their followers understood anything but the opposite perversion of what these great creators saw so the initial work was killed and replaced with its opposite, all Energies coopted and directed to the external world and the Profit of a few.
This is the only real, the only important, creative work for us and it has never seriously been undertaken.
And this, the soul, is the only true infinite eternal creative field. Soul is the essential energy of the individual, the essential energy of the individual is the soul. Energy is eternal. This matters because of the multiplier. Evil energy, ineffective wasted energy, is a destructive force eternally. The good soul, the greatly good soul, is a force for good and constructive creation eternally.
What besides this matters?
Yes, but who is up for this sacrifice? Sacrifice? Sacrifice?? The most joyful breath that any individual is capable of is each breath invested in the project to Gooden the human soul.
Notice. the following slides were mentioned at the beginning of this post. They are approximately 10 years old. Time at the moment does not permit searching back for the explanatory posts on this blog associated with these slides. And they are posted here quickly by way of reference, they are not in proper order. And I'm sure I would update them a bit and probably will do so. So tread lightly here but they are worth some consideration never the less. Found it, the original post, with some explanatory text.
Regenerating soul seems to be the work required of me. This seems right, and I see nothing else. No other work on sinking Titanic do I see as important for any of us. Troubling thought this is for me. It will require and receive ongoing consideration by me. But life whittles and hacks and whittles and hacks everything remaining away and leaves only this. Needle in the haystak. The pearl worth selling everything for. Is it sad to see the hay, the dirt, of no value and leaving just the pearl?
What is soul? Essentially it is that which I feel in me that I suspect maybe in others. I suspect it is an inherent feature in every newborn child destroyed by our sick culture within months or years. The reactor of goodness, the engine of goodness, the source of goodness, that I cannot control but I can allow to control me. The place of wisdom. The place of unity with all creation and all creatures. The place of Universal Brotherhood. The place of loving. The place of lsgiabeing.com.
Nothing more than a feature of my nervous system, alongside sense of smell, eyesight, temperature sensation, rage, hatred, love….
Can current techniques in neuro biology and related fields verify that at least in some people, even if just in me, that it exists? Or that definitely it does not? Has substantial work been done to explore this? Is there anyone else on earth that sees this important too, even of ultimate importance?
All of this is profoundly sobering for me, depressing in a way. If it is inherently depressing that is a vote against it being a worthwhile idea. A worthwhile truth. What is depressing I think, and truth, is that what our culture has directed my attention to throughout my life is mistaken. This is quite a shock and it makes sense that one would be depressed while adjusting to this.
If there was goodness in the man Jesus was it not his soul, that he made himself a vessel for his soul, which he understood as the divine goodness within him? I think so. And I think if I were to aspire to anything less I would aspire to mental dysfunction, mental ill health, spiritual ill health, meaninglessness, joylessness. I suspect this is true of all of us.
There's reason to observe that the human species is the most powerful known force in the universe. And that species is destroying everything and objectively quite miserable in the process. Somehow I believe that soul is the essence, the entirety, of health, and that only restoring that in the individual gives peace and joy to the individual, and only in restoring that in others is there joy for the intended healer, the subject client, and the larger environment.
I'm willing to conclude that all of this is incorrect. I do not expect that to happen but I am entirely open to it. But for now and as far as I can see the best way for me to test the truth or error of this is too pursue it as totally and rapidly as I can.
James, it's a little hard to keep up with you. I agree. I mentioned sobering, I mentioned depressing.
What about loving? I mean, you have it tattooed on your forehead for goodness sake. Yes, loving is an attribute of soul, they are inseparable, but loving is an attribute, it is not the source. To me it seems that the way to increase loving is to increase the prevalence of the source. The same for goodness. The same for LSGIABeing.com Similarly.
My sense is the soul is the essence of me, is me most importantly. What profititeth a person if they inherit the whole world but lose their soul? And are we not seeing the conclusive proof that if en masse we lose our soul we also lose our inheritance, the world?
If tomorrow I win the 1.6 billion dollar lottery will I abandon all this? I will devote every penny to it. Why? Because I experienced it as life and nothing else as life. Indeed the pearl worth the ultimate price. That which has been called the divine, God, the ultimate. Everything else seems so inferior to me.
If everyone I care about is freezing to death and I seemingly ignore them devoting all of my attention to gathering wood and starting a fire, have I really abandon them or have I devoted my life to the one thing that can give them life? That which I understand as soul does not exist for itself but for the health of creation. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.
What for now? Some and maybe quite a bit of relevant scholaely work has been done. The scholarship in many relevant domains, neuroscience, primatology, evolutionary biology, sociology, and related fields. Renewed study of all this began for me 3 or 4 months ago, and is thankfully taking front and center in my life now it seems.
Behave by Robert Sapolsky may well be finished the first reading today. The book on Spirit by George Vaillant will likely be finished by me this week, and it was started months ago. Another 5 or 10 such books are on my list. None on my list are at all directly on target and it might be that all of the authors would scream in horror at the views Expressed here. But I think it is true that they in fact are pointing in the direction of what I am outlining. And I will be acting on that theory until the evidence shows me that it is incorrect, and accelerating if it continues to show that it is a correct idea.
And in my rare but occasional interractions with other two legged creatures I am already finding my relationship to those shaped centrally with a concern for soul, growing it wherever I might have a chance to encourage that, and being less likely to enable distractions. Sadly but necessarily that is creating a new sort of harshness from me, not aggressive but passive, as I remain unwilling to devote energy to entertaining, to enabling our mutual distraction from all that matters, soul, fostering it, nurturing it, growing it. But not only harshness, also a constructive passion when the interchange allows to explore these thoughts more clearly, directly, relevantly, and constructively than I have been able to so far.
I didn't go looking for this quest. Not at all. It is as though life is sort of smacking me in the face in the form of the near infinite festering evil around us, shaking my shoulders and saying, James, James, James! Soul was provided to you as a central concept even 10 years ago as you were exploring and expanding dr. Kings 3 dimensions of life, of spirit. And briefly you seemed to grasp the centrality and then it goes off to the peripheral with you. It is the centrality, it is all there is that matters. It is the source of everything else you would want and nothing else you would want and happen until and unless soul proliferates within one individual at a time.
Get on with it. Yes, James, you feel clueless. But get on with it. Maybe you will begin to understand and gain some capability. Maybe not. But it is the work that needs to be done. Get on with it.
But not totally clueless do I feel. There is a vague but strong sense of direction, since of truth, to all this. I don't know how it will turn out. I'm sure I will be speaking of it as it unfolds.
Esoteric masturbation? Is sustainability esoteric? Is World Peace? Is optimal personal joy and personal peace? Not to me. Even if only these last two are possible, which is the case. But I suppose 300 years from now after the wars and massive attrition, Mass starvation, massive plagues, there will be survivors and therefore a surviving world emerging from the dark ages, the dystopia unfolding now. And for them world peace is not totally impossible. Not if the seeds of an emerging soul are adequately sewn today.
How pie in the sky is this? Nothing could be less so, or more important. This has always been true as long as there have been human beings though only recently, recent years, is there the neuroscience to prove it. Physical evolution takes thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years. But not so neural evolution as influenced by culture. The frontal cortex, and pre frontal cortex, are designed in truth and fact to be developed by the external forces, the external culture. They are the last to develop, to be sculpted, not completed substantially until the mid twenties of the individual. And herein exists, and has always existed, the true potential for human beings creating a better world. And the likes of the person Jesus, Buddha, and others, this is the creative ground on which they have worked. Almost never have their followers understood anything but the opposite perversion of what these great creators saw so the initial work was killed and replaced with its opposite, all Energies coopted and directed to the external world and the Profit of a few.
This is the only real, the only important, creative work for us and it has never seriously been undertaken.
And this, the soul, is the only true infinite eternal creative field. Soul is the essential energy of the individual, the essential energy of the individual is the soul. Energy is eternal. This matters because of the multiplier. Evil energy, ineffective wasted energy, is a destructive force eternally. The good soul, the greatly good soul, is a force for good and constructive creation eternally.
What besides this matters?
Yes, but who is up for this sacrifice? Sacrifice? Sacrifice?? The most joyful breath that any individual is capable of is each breath invested in the project to Gooden the human soul.
Notice. the following slides were mentioned at the beginning of this post. They are approximately 10 years old. Time at the moment does not permit searching back for the explanatory posts on this blog associated with these slides. And they are posted here quickly by way of reference, they are not in proper order. And I'm sure I would update them a bit and probably will do so. So tread lightly here but they are worth some consideration never the less. Found it, the original post, with some explanatory text.
