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- Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2008 from Bob Makransky“Someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are ...
Views: 1276 - Two Kinds Of Hurt - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Bob MakranskyThere are two kinds of hurt: self-pitying hurt and sad hurt. Self-pitying hurt is the kind of hurt we feel on purpose, so that we’ll have a good excuse to wallow in self-pity. Whenever we are self-righteously indignant at someone else’s behavior, we are indulging in self-pitying hurt. We ...
Views: 5422(2 votes) - The Reification Of Time - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Bob Makransky“At one time I waded through the river and at one time crossed the mountain. You may think that that mountain and that river are things of the past, that I have left them behind and am now living in this palatial building – they are as separate from me as heaven is from earth. “However, the ...
Views: 1125 - Neptune Sextile Pluto - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Bob MakranskyThe planets Neptune and Pluto entered orb of a sextile (* = 60 degrees apart) aspect in the mid-1940's; and they will remain there until the 2030’s. Normally aspects between Neptune and Pluto are within orb for only a dozen or so years at a time. However, Pluto is presently at a fast place in ...
Views: 4648 - Christian-New Age Similarities - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Bob MakranskyIt’s a pity that Christians and New Agers are irreconcilably divided on matters of doctrine. In truth, we are more alike than is apparent. Indeed, we could be the very closest of allies. Consider our shared antipathy to – and persecution by – the current world religion and its priesthood. ...
Views: 1168 - Spiritual Cookery - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Bob Makransky“I then asked (Dr. Steiner), ‘How can it happen that the spiritual impulse, and especially the inner schooling, for which you are constantly providing stimulus and guidance bear so little fruit? Why do the people concerned give so little evidence of spiritual experience, in ...
Views: 777 - William Butler Yeats' Theory of Reincarnation Explained - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2007 from Bob MakranskyWhat is reincarnation? To begin with, reincarnation does not take place within a matrix of linear time. It’s not as if e.g. you had a life in ancient Greece and then you died; then you had a life in ancient Rome and then you died; then you had a life in the Middle Ages and then you died; etc. ...
Views: 1218 - Death is Watching - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Bob MakranskyWhen we listen to sounds, we can distinguish between two phenomena: “sounds” and “listener listening to sounds”: “Sounds” is when we are hearing all sounds indiscriminately, like a tape recorder does; when all sounds are impacting on our awareness with ...
Views: 1038 - Why Love Relationships Fail - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2006 from Bob MakranskyLove relationships fail because at no time in our training by society are we given a factual model of what a love relationship is, or how to make one succeed. There are fundamentally three levels on which intimate relationships operate, and our social training only prepares us to deal with one ...
Views: 1122 - Communicating with Plants - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2006 from Bob MakranskyPlants’ experience of being in the world is very different from the experience of us animals. Because plants cannot move about, they exist in a state of profound acceptance and peace within themselves. Emotions such as fear, hate, jealousy, possessiveness, etc. are wholly unknown to plants and ...
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