{"id":5466,"date":"2014-03-03T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2014-03-17T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:01:57","slug":"welcome-to-psychotics-anonymous-state-your-name-and-little-about-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5466","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Psychotics Anonymous. State your name, and a little about yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hello , my name is Remco and I train to be an embodiment of a new vision of reality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nHello Remco<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Although this changed my social life and I lost some old friends because of it. And made the pursuit of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d career like many people around me have seem ungratifying and undoable for me. And changed my pleasure in following politics and discussions, and in tv in general, to a dislike or making it seem as just a waist of time. And caused a (sometimes badly) hidden crazymaking feeling that scientists, philosophers, poets, writers, but actually maybe everyone, misses out on something and will never get the whole picture or even a worthwhile picture if they don&#8217;t share this or a familiar vision;<br \/>\nI still keep on training to be an embodiment.<br \/>\nHere are just some of my reasons, they are from a reading assignment from a small, very special group I train with. If it is to much text, just read the red parts. Or maybe, just read the red parts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153While space around objects may seem appropriate, necessary, and restful, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">space within objects may appear a little bewildering<\/span>. And <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>space considered by itself<\/strong> may appear meaningless, or perhaps even forbidding<\/span>. (p7 (TSK))<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We can leave logical analyses aside<\/span> for the moment and continue to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">contemplate<\/span> the comings and goings of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">things in our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. (p10)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This new consideration of space is not concerned with conventional truths<\/span>. (p10)<br \/>\nThere is a sense in which, as a perception, or better still, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">as <strong>a vision<\/strong>, ordinary space may be related to <strong>the primary ground of all existence<\/strong><\/span>. (p11)<br \/>\nInitially, however, it is important to attend to space as we ordinarily experience it, for <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">such an attending may serve as a doorway to a wider realm of understanding and, consequently, to <strong>the resolution of ordinarily intractable problems<\/strong><\/span>. (p11)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If we accept what occurs within our realm at face value<\/span>, and are not aware of the structuring power of this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclower space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> appearance becomes false or misleading<\/span> in the sense that its more fulfilling and significant dimensions elude us. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is as if <strong>we were being manipulated<\/strong><\/span> by a sort of local petty official, whose power actually derives from a larger government and whose actions express the will of that government. This petty official does not inform us of the source or purpose of his commands\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmaybe he himself is governing clandestinely\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand so we cannot correctly judge our situation. We attribute powers and connections to what in fact lacks them, or to what has them only secondarily. (p12)<br \/>\nRather,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> a <strong>properly-guided <\/strong>journey<\/span> through certain of these spaces<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> can result in<\/span> the perception that they can be meaningfully ordered: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">spaces which are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchigher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbigger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as opposed to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclower\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsmaller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/span>. (p13)<br \/>\nSo, our <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">initial efforts<\/span> at transcendence <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">may seem a little extreme<\/span>, and the new space may look odd for a while. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But as we become accustomed<\/span> to the new space and look back on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">our old space<\/span> from our new vantage point, the lower space <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">may then seem strange<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our accommodating capacity<strong> needs to be greater<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, more balanced<\/span>. (p13)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hello , my name is Remco and I train to be an embodiment of a new vision of reality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hello Remco \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Although this changed my social life and I lost some old friends because of it. 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