He argues that the evolution of species is the evolution of consciousness seeking to express itself as multiple observers; the universe experiences itself through our brains:
"We are the eyes of the universe looking at itself".[88]
In his book Quantum Healing, Chopra stated the conclusion that quantum entanglement links everything in the universe, and therefore it must create consciousness.[91]
Chopra argues that everything that happens in the mind and brain is physically represented elsewhere in the body, with mental states (thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and memories) directly influencing the human body.
He has stated, "Your mind, your body and your consciousness – which is your spirit – and your social interactions, your personal relationships, your environment, how you deal with the environment, and your biology are all inextricably woven into a single process … By influencing one, you influence everything."[94]
In it Chopra said that "there is a realm of reality that goes beyond the physical where in fact we can influence each other from a distance".[109]
Chopra was shown using his claimed mental powers in an attempt to relax a person in another room, whose vital signs were recorded in charts which were said to show a correspondence between Chopra's periods of concentration and the subject's periods of relaxation.[109]
Chopra states "The placebo effect is real medicine, because it triggers the body's healing system."[111]
Chopra sees the universeas having three layers:
1. the "material" world,
2. a "quantum" zone of matter and energy,
3. and a "virtual" zone outside of time and space, which is the domain of God, and from which God can direct the other layers.
Deepak Chopra - Wear a mask or join the company. (DJ DonnellonI thought you understood how consciousness creates our reality and how our consciousness can have a powerful effect on the health of our bodies. States of fear make us more susceptible to dis-ease. That’s why there is all this fear-based programming. All not for the best interest of humanity. Whose side are you on, man?)
Chopra has written that human beings' brains are "hardwired to know God".
In 2013, Chopra published an article on what he saw as "skepticism" at work in Wikipedia, arguing that a "stubborn band of militant skeptics" were editing articles to prevent what he believes would be a fair representation of the views of such figures as Rupert Sheldrake, an author, lecturer, and researcher in parapsychology.
The result, Chopra argued, was that the encyclopedia's readers were denied the opportunity to read of attempts to "expand science beyond its conventional boundaries".[131]
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Transcript:
https://iamfearlesssoul.com/deepak-ch...
"We know nothing. Everything we know is made up. It is a human construct. We don't question: What is the source of this experience"
You think that the polar bear will have returned to your garden.
Your wife, son and daughter think that the polar bear will not have returned.
Do minds create matter?
According to some of the scientists who study quantum physics, the definite properties of an object, such as position, are selected from a menu of possibilities.
This is said to be like 'natural selection' in Darwin's theory of evolution.
The properties that survive are in some sense the 'fittest.'
'Fittest' means "better designed for a local environment".
When you go into the garden, there is no polar bear, but there is a dove.
Nine-year-old Jamel Myles took his own life after enduring four days of homophobic bullying at school.
Women do not like homophobic men because they are such bad lovers?
Some people in heterosexual relationships admit to being bisexual.
(There is a belief that everyone is bisexual, but that some people are more gay/lesbian or straight than others?)
Bisexual actress Amber Heard
"An Australian study by the School of Health and Social Development, found that 'women in relationships with 'bisexual' men say their partners are better lovers and fathers than 'straight' men.
"Researchers concluded that this was because bisexual men were more open to designing a relationship that works for women, rather than a 'straight' man who would come in with certain assumptions of what that relationship should be." Straight people don't exist
"The book also aims to show that bisexual men are more monogamous than most."
Actress Ellen Page is not heterosexual.
Some studies have shown that people who are homophobic are more likely to have repressed homosexual desires.[61]
In 1996, a controlled study of 64 heterosexual men (half said they were homophobic by experience, with self-reported orientation) at the University of Georgia found that men who were found to be homophobic (as measured by the Index of Homophobia)[62] were considerably more likely to experience more erectile responses when exposed to homoerotic images than non-homophobic men.[63]
Bisexual actress Aubrey Plaza
Another study in 2012 arrived at similar results when researchers found that students who came from "the most rigid anti-gay homes" were most likely to reveal repressed homosexual attraction.[64]
The researchers said that this explained why some religious leaders who denounce homosexuality are later revealed to have secret homosexual relations.[64]
They noted that "these people are at war with themselves and are turning this internal conflict outward."[64]
A 2016 eye-tracking study showed that heterosexual men with high negative impulse reactions toward homosexuals gazed for longer periods at homosexual imagery than other heterosexual men.[65] Homophobia
'Mugabe has had sex with two male politicians'. 'Mugabe gay' - BBC
There was an ethnic group in central Africa where it was customary for a male warrior to marry a teenage boy.
Africa's homophobic laws were introduced by the European empires that carved up and plundered Africa.
"Prior to western colonisation, there are no records of any African laws against homosexuality."
The share of the sub-Saharan Africa population that is Christian climbed from 9% in 1910 to 63% in 2010, says the Pew Research Centre.
Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopal priest from Zambia said: "Religious fundamentalism is strong in these countries. That provides the militant reaction to LGBT rights.
"One of the fears for fundamentalists is losing grip of the country; they are told they have lost grip because of the gays. They say, 'We don't want to lose Nigeria or Uganda just as our brothers lost America to the gays. If it means killing, we will kill.'"
He said homosexuality is a rare point of convergence for Christian and Islamic hardliners.
In the central African Zande culture, before European conquest, it was regarded "as very sensible for a man to sleep with boys... Some Azande men had sex with boys "just because they like them"...
The South African Thonga provide another particularly well-documented instance of a boy-wife role...
Homosexuality has been discussed as common in the (Nigerian) Hausa bori cult...
Among the Maale of southern Ethiopia, some males crossed over to feminine roles...
Among the Fon, the predominant people in Dahomey (now Benin), Melville Herskovits in the 1930s reported that, after the age at which boys and girls may play together, "the sex drive finds satisfaction in close friendship between boys in the same group . . . .
"A boy may take the other 'as a woman,' this being called gaglgo, homosexuality.
"Sometimes an affair of this sort persists during the entire life of the pair"...
Traditional African gay wedding
Kurt Falk wrote about an especially intimate bond of association, soregus, among the southeastern African Naman that included sex both between men and between women.
An "exceptionally reliable" Nykakyusa (a people living around what is now the Tanzania/Zimbabwe border) reported to Monica Wilson in the early 1930s that male friends, who live in villages of age-mates when not out herding cattle, generally sleep together.
The Nykakyusa accepted that male friends who danced together would have sexual relations...
An Ovimbundu (in Angola) informant, told an ethnographer, "There are men who want men, and women who want women...
Among the Tswana (in addition to homosexuality among the men laboring in the mines), it was reported that back home "lesbian practices are apparently fairly common among the older girls and young women, without being regarded in any way reprehensible"..
With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies...
In three large population surveys (USA's AddHealth and GSS, UK's NCDS), Satoshi Kanazawa found a small positive correlation between higher IQ and self-reported homosexual behaviour or identity.
We should not assume that all gay/bisexual people are child abusers, or that all Italians are in the Mafia, or that all Jews are in the Kosher Nostra, or that all Africans are of low intelligence.
Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd. According to an article entitled: Bigots are buggers : "Research by US psychologists suggests that 80% of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings. The research results were published in the prestigious Journal of Abnormal Psychology, with the backing of the American Psychological Association."
People who are sexually attracted to children often make the best teachers and girl-guide leaders and often look after the waifs and strays that families have abandoned.
Famous Jews who have made life more interesting include: Jesus Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Pissarro, the Marx Brothers, Carl Sagan and Baruch Spinoza.
We should not be like the Nazis and see everything in black and white.
The world needs gay people, black people, Jewish people and even people who find children sexually attractive (so long as they are not child abusers).
Research by the advertising agencies has found that images of boys have a far wider appeal, for both men and women, than images of girls or women or men.
In the New Scientist, 27 October 2007 (Population is the key), Andrew Ferguson pointed out that:
1. World population is likely to be 10 billion by 2070.
2. Even if we adopt a simpler lifesyle, as for example in Cuba, the planet will not be able to cope.
3. For everyone to enjoy western European lifestyles, the world population needs to be about 2 billion.
To help save the planet, we need to demolish the last great taboo.
We need to stop forcing people to go in for relationships that lead to the production of babies.
Roughgarden argues that homosexuality/bisexuality is a defining feature of advanced animal communities, which require communal bonds in order to function.
"The more complex and sophisticated a social system is," she writes, "the more likely it is to have homosexuality intermixed with heterosexuality."
He writes of the paradox: that if homosexuality is a product of evolution, then "genetic factors associated with same-sex preference must enjoy some sort of reproductive advantage...
"Anything that diminishes, even slightly, the reproductive performance of any gene should (in evolutionary terms) be vigorously selected against...
"The consensus among scientists is that same-sex preference is rooted in our biology.
"Some of the evidence comes from the widespread distribution of homosexuality among animals in the wild..."
Gustave Courbet
David Barash suggests some possibilities.
1. "Insofar as homosexuals have been freed from investing time and energy in their own reproduction, perhaps they are able to help their relatives rear offspring."
This could be "to the ultimate evolutionary benefit of any homosexuality-promoting genes present in those children...
"Some recent research has focused on male homosexuals among a more traditional population on Samoa.
"Known as fa'afafine, these men do not reproduce, are fully accepted into Samoan society in general and into their kin-based families in particular, and lavish attention upon their nieces and nephews - with whom they share, on average, 25 percent of their genes.
2. "There is some anthropological evidence that in pre-industrial societies homosexual men are more than randomly likely to become priests or shamans."
"Perhaps the additional social prestige conveyed to their heterosexual relatives might give a reproductive boost to those relatives, and thereby to any shared genes carrying a predisposition toward homosexuality."
3. "Groups containing homosexuals might have done better than groups composed entirely of straights.
"It has recently been argued, most cogently by the anthropologist Sarah B. Hrdy, that for much of human evolutionary history, child-rearing was not the province of parents (especially mothers) alone.
Relatives helped bring up children.
"If sufficient numbers of those assistants had been gay, their groups may have benefited disproportionately.
"Alternatively, if some human ancestors with a same-sex preference reproduced less (or even not at all), that, in itself, could have freed up resources for their straight relatives...
"Homosexuality might correlate with greater sociality and social cooperation; similarly, it might deter violent competition for females."
For the Buddhists, all visual attraction is the reaction of the lower self. Fleshly charm does not last and is in a sense unreal. In other words, you don't need a girl/boyfriend; and thegirl/boyfriend's sexiness is a bit of an illusion. However, according to the Buddhists, avoiding sex, while continuing to think foul thoughts, is not good. Better to obtain physical outlet, while thinking wholesome thoughts. (aangirfan: THOMAS MANN)
4. "One study has found that female relatives of gay men have more children than do those of straight men.
David P. Barash, an evolutionary biologist, is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012).
In the 1950s Nabokov wrote Lolita.
Nabokov liked girls, so long as they looked like boys. Lolita was the girl with the ‘puerile hips’, the girl wearing ‘shorts’. Nabokov and Pale Fire and deception
Albert Goldman’s 'The Lives Of John Lennon' (1988) claimed that John Lennon had a gay affair with The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, during a four-day holiday in Barcelona in April 1963. (Cached) It also refers to a number of relationships which Lennon reportedly had with other men.Goldman claims that Lennon visited underage boy prostitutes in Thailand.
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Great article as always, Aangirfan.
Just one point of dissension: Jesus was NOT a Jew, he was a JUDEAN - the native of a certain geographic location.
"Jews" are NOT judeans. In Jeebus' times there were no "jews", there were pharisees. "jews" are a relatively new phenomenon dating not more back not earlier than about the 12th century, when they made their appearance in the European political context. In english I understand that the label dates to not earlier than the 16th century.
Dumb white people put the homophobic fundamentalists into power in Iran
Anonymous writes:
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ARTICLE AAANG!
I am the gay oldest of four sibs.
I've never been able to enjoy the happiness and security of marriage.
My three sisters have been helped by me in their childrearing for 20 yrs.
I must say all the love and joy I've recieved from the co-parenting has very much enriched my life, and I say with pride, the lives of my nephews and nieces.
They all love and respect me.
You know why? Because as a nonperverted, decent, moral gay person, I earned thier love and support.
Their will always be hateful people who try to morph the pedophiles and abusers with the moral, nonperverted gay, but the statistics on hetero males abusing daughters, sisters, and what not is staggering.
Not to in any way demean the pain and anguish the abused have suffered at the hands of the evil abusers who are gay, but satanic torture is about gaining demonic payback, not sexual pleasure.
The issues are far more complex than the average person knows.
You may have noticed that certain people are in need of a good education.
These are usually white people.
"White schoolchildren in Britain's poorest communities lag behind peers who are black or of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin."
This is according to a Financial Times analysis of more than 3m sets of exam results.
"Poor white children even achieve worse average results than deprived pupils for whom English is a second language."
It is generally these 'poor whites' who write the 'ignorant' comments on blogs.
Lynching of an innocent black kid in the USA. Outside a courthouse in Omaha, Will Brown, after being killed, mutilated and burned. Brown was innocent of the crime of which he had been accused. Cached
In the UK, "Poor white children have fallen behind by the time they reach the age of seven...
"In Hull, the worst-performing local authority area, a child eligible for free school meals, a widely used indicator of poverty, has a more than two-thirds chance of finishing in the bottom fifth of national exam results at the age of 16."
Matthew Shepard was an American student who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. Shepard was targeted because he was gay.[1]. A gay teenager was reportedly murdered by his uncle and father in Turkey because of his sexuality, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Dumb whites tend to see things in simple black and white terms.
A study by Edinburgh University researchers found that childhood intelligence is linked to voting preferences and political involvement in adulthood.
British National Party voters, some of whom are fans of Hitler, had the lowest average intelligence - scoring just 98.4. BNP voters have lowest IQ
The USA also has its poorly educated, fundamentalist whites.
People who give in to racism, and prejudice against people like gays, may simply be poorly educated.
"There is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world."
According to Hodson: "Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," something which appeals to people with low intelligence. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice."
In a study in the United States, Hodson and Busseri compared 254 people with the same amount of education but different levels of ability in abstract reasoning.
They found that people who were poorer at abstract reasoning were more likely to exhibit prejudice against gays.
Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, says: "I think that lower cognitive capacity can lead to multiple simple ways to represent the world, and one of those can be embodied in a right-wing ideology..."
"There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others, particularly foreigners," Hodson says.
"Much of the present research literature suggests that our prejudices are primarily emotional in origin rather than cognitive."
A gay couple, who are penguins, have adopted an abandoned chick.
The human staff at the Wingham Wildlife Park in the UK say that the gay couple, Jumbs and Kermit, are the two 'best penguin parents' they have had
1. "Androphilic males - that is, males who are sexually oriented toward other males - show up in cultures around the world."
God is not a fundamentalist.
2. In many cultures certain types of Androphile males are reputed to be particularly kind towards members of their family.
3. "In Samoa, for example, there is now substantial evidence for above-average kin-directed altruism among the culture’s androphilic males, a group known as the fa'afafine."
4. In Samoa, a young boy who shows an interest in female-type activities like cooking will spend a lot of time attending to the family needs.
"It is common to hear people say that families that include fa'afafine are particularly fortunate..."
"The men who have sex with fa'afafine typically prefer ordinary female sexual partners, but when they have sex with fa'afafine, it isn't seen by the culture as homosexual."
5. A team of researchers, writing in the journal Human Nature, suggest that what they have found in Samoa may be the way things have been throughout much of human History.
6. The Aché, hunter-gatherer people from Paraguay, have a type of androphilic male who "generally stay with the women's and children's group during the day.... They also sometimes care for sick and injured individuals..."
7. "Perhaps what these (gay) boys need is fewer doctors, and more grateful families."
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A HuffPost/YouGov poll shows that 45% of Americans believe in ghosts, or that the spirits of dead people can come back in certain places and situations.
Alfred Russel Wallace
"Alfred Russel Wallace announced that natural selection alone was not sufficient to account for human evolution.
"As a spiritualist, he believed that humans have non-material spirits - implying supernatural involvement - but he had scientific reasons as well.
"Our brains, he claimed, are over-engineered: through the people he met on his travels, he recognized that even the ‘savage’ in his mud hut has the potential to play Chopin études on the piano, despite the fact that he will never even see a piano.
"How could natural selection, which Wallace appreciated only responds to immediate needs, produce apparently useless traits like these?
"The solution to this question was, for Wallace, some kind of ... non-material guiding force."
1. How old is your child?Three 2. How often does your child see ghosts/entities?Pretty much all day 3. What type of "being" does your child see?My grandfather who died 13 years ago
4. Where around town will your child most often see these beings?Anywhere
5. Do these beings ever approach your child around town?I believe he is always there 6. At what age did your child being seeing ghosts? We noticed it around 9 months Anything else you would like to add?She tells us he keeps her safe
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Spiritualism is a belief that spirits of the dead have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.
He believed that that certain aspects of living organisms, such as intelligence and morality, cannot be explained in terms of purely materialistic processes.
5.We should practise non-attachment to lots of things. "All the delightful things of the world - sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts - these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed.
"But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering."
6. It is not a good idea to 'suppress' our feelings.
Research shows that people who are able to talk about their grief, anger or fear get rid of these negative feelings more quickly.
People who are not able to talk about these feelings are more likely to suffer ill health, mental or physical.
Some people get angry when there is a long queue at the airport.
Some people learn not to get angry.
They are not supressing their anger; they just don't feel anger.
We see ourselves as separate selves.
Our body feels the pleasures and pains of life.
Imagine switching out of the SELF mode into the NON-SELF mode.
In the NON-SELF mode there is no grasping of pain or pleasure.
But this is difficult for our minds to imagine, just as 'infinity' is difficult to imagine.
Some people write about the dangers of talking about the Oneness of everything.
"Holding to both the oneness and multiplicity of existence takes greater spiritual maturity...
"It requires being present with the moment with all it's paradox and radicalness.
"Experiencing both the bliss and sorrow of existence takes greater spiritual maturity...
"It requires us to be present to the entire situation of existence, our own and all others.
"In terms of our tradition, we describe this as the dance between emptiness and form and our path as the willingness to experience both and their mutuality.
"The main emphasis of our path is to show up wakefully to the play of emptiness and form..."
Some people have suggested that only one 'entity' has real free will.
And only that one 'entity' is good.
That one person is 'God'.
Or the Tao, or the Force, or the Holy Spirit, or the divine...
Paradoxically, it may be that if we give up our supposed 'free will', we can then follow the will of 'God' (or go with the flow, tune into the Tao, realise that we are part of 'God') and live happily ever after.
Some Taoists would argue that every 'thing' and every 'action' is a mixture of 'good' and 'evil'.
"Taoists believe that nature is a continual balance between yin and yang, and that any attempt to go toward one extreme or the other will be ineffective, self-defeating, and short-lived."
The Mohist philosophers in China believed that the purpose of life was universal, impartial love.
Mohism promoted a philosophy of impartial caring - a person should care equally for all other individuals, regardless of their actual relationship to him or her.[48]
"We can test the problem with my most perfect identical twin: myself!
"Trying to remember the most important decisions I took in my life, I ask myself what I would have done if I had had the possibility to relive again any of the decisive moments of my life - with the same imperfect knowledge and with the same external constraints I had.
"The results of analyzing my perfect twin’s behaviour are, in my opinion, absolutely clarifying: reliving my life would have rendered a life identical to the one I actually lived.
"I can distinguish between two types of events as determinants of every minute fact that occurred in my life.
"Some were the result of conscious decisions, in many cases taken as the result of an evaluation of pros and cons (always with incomplete knowledge of the real situation).
"As it is impossible for me to take stupid decisions (the stupidity defined by myself), I was forced to decide in a determined way, searching the best results.
"In other cases my behaviour was the result of random and/or uncontrolled external factors. In the first case I would repeat my action; in the second, my response would be forced.
"However, if the external random factors would be the same, I also would repeat my action
"Ruben Rial Planas shows in his 'twin analysis' that he has made two types of decisions in his life:
"Those which were conscious, determined decisions.
"And the others 'the result of random and/or uncontrolled external factors'.
"To my astonishment he concludes: 'In either case I am not free', although he just made a brilliant analysis of the really free decisions: the conscious determined ones."
We choose; we have free will.
"Ultimate reality is consciousness."
According to Amit Goswami, a theoretical nuclear physicist:
"Consciousness is the ground of all being... Our free will is real...
"Reality is not two things - God and the world - but one thing, consciousness."
The problem of evil can perhaps be explained by looking at the equation 0 = +X -X.
When there are created 'things', we get dualism.
In other words, when we have 'hot' we also have 'cold'.
When we have 'good' we also have 'bad'.
We could perhaps see 'God' or the 'Ulimate Reality' as being '0', and the world as being +X -X.
Or we can see 'Reality' as being '0' which can be +X -X.
"The mystics of all the great traditions agree that all distinctions are imaginary and that the Ultimate Nature of Reality is non-dual."
The Taoists would argue that there is always Yin and Yang.
There is only a problem if there is a lack of balance.
Of course the mystics would also say that Ultimate Reality is much more complicated than we normally imagine, and that Ultimate Reality cannot be described in words.
Dr. Ian Stevenson:
"Twins in Sri Lanka.
"We did testing that showed they were identical, yet they were markedly different in their behaviors and physical appearance.
"One twin began to talk about a previous life as a Sinhalese insurgent, said he was shot by police in April 1971. Anyway, his family laughed at him, so he shut up and nothing could be verified about what he said.
"The older twin talked copiously about the previous life of a young schoolboy. He made several specific statements that ultimately checked out. He said he lived in a place called Balapitiya and traveled by train to a school in another town called Ambalangoda. He made comparisons between the families' property.
"He referred to an aunt, by name, who had cooked chilies for him.
"Perhaps the most astonishing thing was that when the two families met, the boy pointed to some [writing] in a wall that turned out to be the name of the deceased boy he was remembering. The subject said he had made that when the cement was wet. No one in the deceased boy's family had noticed it before."
Ros Barber's new novel Devotion is about God and parallel universes.
Finlay Logan's daughter has died, in a parachute accident.
And Finlay Logan, who is a psychologist, is assessing the sanity of April Smith, a Christian fundamentalist who has blown up a bus.
Finlay says: "There is no fucking God. Because it simply wasn't possible that God the Father would smear your twenty-one-year-old daughter across a field in the Surrey Hills."
Finlay meets Gabrielle Salmon.
Gabrielle Salmon is a scientist who studies consciousness.
She claims that she can help people to connect to God, and thus find peace.
She has managed to reproduce Religious, Spiritual and Mystical Experiences (RSMEs).
Author Ros Barber now presents two parallel universes for Finlay.
Finlay can choose.
We should note that the scientists now tell us that this is possible.
According to the scientists, when you come a cross a 'particle' it does not have a 'fixed state' - until your mind decides what its 'fixed state' will be.
In other words, if you come across Mr Schrödinger's cat lying very still on the grass, the cat is neither dead nor alive - until your mind decides what its 'fixed state' will be.
Let us imagine that you have a very strong feeling that the cat will be alive and well next year.
Christians believe that things go better when you tune into the Holy Spirit.
The Taoists would call the Holy Spirit the Tao.
When you are tuned in, the cat is not dead.
Some Taoists and Christians and others believe that bliss can be achieved when:
1. You believe that, when tuned in, life works out for the best.
2. You are compassionate
3. You are moderate (Avoid extremes)
4. You are humble (The selfish ego is switched off)
5. Everything is in balance
6. Being tuned into the Holy Spirit or the Tao or whatever you want to call it, you go with the flow.
(You are not battling against the Holy Spirit or Tau)
7. You avoid the use of force; you avoid pitting your will against the universe.
Eventually the cat will die, but it will continue in the Spirit.
Spirit and body?
"It stretches our own humanity to love a child who is less than perfect... And that is an important lesson for us.'" (Dr. Frank Oski) Christians refer to both 'spirit' and 'body'.[4]
There is a belief that spirits inhabit and animate beings.
The body is like a computer.
The spirit is like the person who operates the computer.
The New testament refers to evil spirits. Luke 11:2 "When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'"
Mark 16:9 "He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons."
How might a spirit achieve bliss?
Lao Tzu taught that we should eliminate all that is dark and negative in ourselves.
