"To be a Christian without prayeris no more possible than
to be alive without breathing. "
to be alive without breathing. "
Martin Luther King
- Jasai said ...
so are you saying that people who don't pray aren't christian? or all people who pray are?- and if you pray (speak) but don't meditate (listen), have you accomplished anything? learned anything?
so are you saying that people who don't pray aren't christian? or all people who pray are?
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so are you saying that people who don't pray aren't christian? or all people who pray are?
and if you pray (speak) but don't meditate (listen), have you accomplished anything? learned anything?
-jasai
Important features of this culture put many people into a state where their brain chemistry is out of balance by age six. This tendency acts to turn off part of their awareness.
Thereafter, a complex mechanism which I have elsewhere termed a chronic acts to prevent the reactivation of the child's full eidetic awareness.
Reduce a whole society to this semi-aware state, and install the chronic buffering mechanism, and it creates a powerful logical blind spot that stops most everyone from seeing what is happening. The two effects protect each other and cause an awful lot of trouble.
As a result, we live in a culture in which most people in this society have a consistently distorted view of everything.
Not everyone is caught in the confusion. Creative engineers, medical diagnosticians, great mathematicians and physicists, some children, some poets, painters, sculptors and mystics are not caught in the confusion - but their efforts to describe what they understand are not readily reducible and are often articulated in symbolic or specialist terms.
The alternative picture of reality given by these people is wholly rational, but not deductive or reductionistic. Communities of such people have formed over the centuries for mutual support and collaboration. Many other people have seen this picture at different times and places. Since they couldn't directly communicate the picture to others because of the brain chemistry and logic problems referenced above, they all contributed to creating a situation where it could be communicated and transmitted across generations within the community.
These people used their understanding of the situation to make adjustments and create work oriented cultures that study science. While humanity generally remained stuck in a social and cognitive hurricane, such communities and cultures of competency provided sanctuary in the encompassing storm.
The worldview in such communities, outside the dopamine hegemony is scientifically grounded and experimentally testable. If lines of inquiry or experiment fail - they are discarded. If they work, the community learns something and it's added to that community's specific culture of competency.
Such are the characteristics of a genuine and vital Christian community. Everything else passing itself off as such a thing without doing the work of a genuine culture of competency is ersatz and anti-Christian...,
i think i love cnulan. reading you makes my head spin happily and that makes me grow from the roots.
gracias.
-jasai
de nada jasai..,
clarification about that chronic I mentioned;
(chronic - the organizing principle of a personality and primary obstacle to awakening. This is a big characteristic, an overall pattern coloring all behavior, which is often perfectly obvious to friends and family - but no matter how many times the person is told about it - is entirely opaque to him. It's his most obvious feature - and yet he's entirely oblivious to it.)
As you know, people react differently... Someone whose chronic is anger will be angry upon being awakened suddenly from a sound sleep, especially a sleep which contains a dream. It could also be resentment, hysteria, shock or fear; it all depends upon that individual's chronic.
an awakened person (or one striving towards awkening) understands this (chronic situation) and has compassion. for what can a person work with but what he has been given?
and i guess that would have to be equal amunts compassion for others and for themselves during such moments.
i think i'll read that first comment again.....
-jasai
ah jasai....,
while I always love it when the digital aether demonstrates the reality of telepathy/synchronicity/ serendipity...
but why you gotta go and place your finger precisely on my own point of chronic dysfunction?
see, when I was about 11 years old, over some fighting/bullying taking place in my neighborhood - I made a faustian bargain in which I exchanged the moral faculty of compassion for hyper-vigilant reptilian ruthlessness...,
lol ...
my man got game.
lol!
and so you can begin right there with that bit of truth/reckoning.
ahh opportunity.
it all works out.
-jasai
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