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Spiritual Guidance

First and foremost, you certainly are a brave soul for putting yourself out as such....there needs to be more people like you in this world...Thank you!

Naturally skepticism comes into play since noone personally knows you...all we can do is analyze and dissect your posts.

That being said.... respectfully, unfortunately there are alot of people out there who claim to be self-proclaimed "gurus" who are pretty much con artists or power/energy thieves.

For a long time I felt that I somehow thought I was cursed and needed a healing ceremony to help me, particularly from a well known shaman in my neck of the woods....the only problem is that person wanted a pretty penny for their services....I immediately pulled out as one I didnt have the money and two I didnt trust the person enough even if I did have the money as I could see their intention was for monetary gain......this made me think long and hard as the motives behind healers/shamans that charged for their services...this is purely my philosophy but I feel that healing and spiritual enlightenment works in reciprocity - what you do for me is what I do for you... I know there is alot of dedicated work and time that goes into the training. But I can't get past the true intentions of these gurus as you have to really trust them to open yourself up in such an intimate way to a complete stranger...especially when they claim to truly know - who really truly knows?? now c'mon....to come to the conclusion that we know absolutely nothing about this universe is true humility imho.
 
I need your guidance. So much weird supernatural stuff has happened to me that I cannot explain and never tried to seek. I need someone to talk to who wont think Im crazy and schizo and institutionalize me when I tell them that I see and interact with spirits. Im gonna PM u. Thanks for offering yourself.
 
yagecero said:
I don't want you to take this negatively, but you seem awfully sure of yourself. Your posts are loaded with so much new age "philosophy" and self-aggrandising that I find it rather difficult to refrain from entertaining the idea that you're a little delusional.

I have a few questions:

Who told you that you have "archangel status" (and what is that supposed to mean exactly?)?

Have you trained under a [spiritual] master of some sort?

If so, which belief structure(s) do your practices adhere to?

Who are some of the best known "angels" in the universe?

Mastery of the human experience in relation to what? It appears that you're suggesting your system of belief is the only truthful one - we all know where this attitude has lead us throughout history.

It's odd to me whenever somebody says that they are at a "higher level" than anyone else as it suggests: 1) Their belief system is hierarchical, and 2) that they have one hundred percent faith in said system, which, I have always found, engenders a form of righteousness.
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If you were so advanced as you proclaim to be you would have little need to angels or guides, don't you think? More to the point, how can you trust something outside of yourself over yourself? How do you know you are not being mislead by entities proclaiming to be angels who are infact just cosmic pranksters, or possibly something more malicious? Shamans use spirit guides and sometimes it backfires on them.. appearances can deceive!
 
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If you were so advanced as you proclaim to be you would have little need to angels or guides, don't you think? More to the point, how can you trust something outside of yourself over yourself? How do you know you are not being mislead by entities proclaiming to be angels who are infact just cosmic pranksters, or possibly something more malicious? Shamans use spirit guides and sometimes it backfires on them.. appearances can deceive!
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lol
yes, it sure can...


the point though, is to return not only as you were, but to come as you are.
 
Psyduck said:
How do you know that something other than you (i.e. somebody else) even exists which consquently possibly needs guidance. Maybe you are the first, last and only being that ever existed.

On a more serious level: hello <3
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Ninae if you wanna help me, i'm struggling with 2 things, one is what psyduck said. The other is that everything is an illusion. I tried doing what all great philosophers did and broke down all my fundumental beliefs and starting completely anew... Its driving me crazy... How am i supposed to love anybody if i dno if they're real?
 
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Lost Ego said:
Ninae if you wanna help me, i'm struggling with 2 things, one is what psyduck said. The other is that everything is an illusion. I tried doing what all great philosophers did and broke down all my fundumental beliefs and starting completely anew... Its driving me crazy... How am i supposed to love anybody if i dno if they're real?
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How do you even know you exist? If everything is an illusion then all notion of who you think or feel you are is also apart of that illusion, so who are you really.. Nothing? Everything? There both one and the same. So if all of illusion is arising from no-thing, which is you; then everything within it is also you. There's no distinction between real and unreal, there the same.
 
malakaix said:
How do you even know you exist? If everything is an illusion then all notion of who you think or feel you are is also apart of that illusion, so who are you really.. Nothing? Everything? There both one and the same. So if all of illusion is arising from no-thing, which is you; then everything within it is also you. There's no distinction between real and unreal, there the same.
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How can a no-thing be a some-thing?
 
CrackAndScrabble said:
How can a no-thing be a some-thing?
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Some-thing would be defined by it's limitations.. we define our-selfs as some-thing "i am this, i am that" but who we really are is undefinable. If you see yourself as nothing, you see yourself as you truly are.. of course then it could be argued that to see yourself as nothing would imply you see yourself as something.. which is where words really fail here. But whatever ;)
 
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Ahh, I take it you believe in Buddha's interpretation of self?

There is no such thing as a "self".

I would have just worded it different. Instead of saying that the self is nothing, i'd have said the self is non existent and fictitious. When you're using such metaphysically charged words as nothing and something its easy to muddle your own view.
 
Lost Ego said:
Ninae if you wanna help me, i'm struggling with 2 things, one is what psyduck said. The other is that everything is an illusion. I tried doing what all great philosophers did and broke down all my fundumental beliefs and starting completely anew... Its driving me crazy... How am i supposed to love anybody if i dno if they're real?
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It can get very lonely at times. Everything might be an illusion as we see it, but it persists. We are able to within this "illusion" learn to function. We naturally function within it. It's the best we can do for that moment. It's best not to drive ourselves crazy over it, but yea- I know. It's always changing, yet always stays the same, somehow.

The way I love others is to love myself (it gets lonely here), sometimes. I accept that although I can't confirm that they exist as I might expect them to, that I am definitely experiencing something, involving an illusion of "other" that happens to be the way it goes, and they present to me, the experience of myself, and it's up to me to make that the best experience I can make it. This involves some creative thinking sometimes, and this isn't to say that I believe you, and others don't have your own unique views, like me- as I wonder, why would the universe limit itself when it is... what it is? Whatever that is, that I can't know... I can only know that it's not "nothing", so why would it be anything close (without going into something, nothing stuff... or whatnot)? As it continues to expand from the point where it began, by theory, with each galaxy.. each star, each atom, each spark... it might be so many things, potentially infinite- including what may be beyond itself... but it's also just one. You are the dream of another, as you dream them.

This is my shot. : )... my thought for the moment. I keep coming around to it one way or another. We are alone, but we're not.
 
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If you were so advanced as you proclaim to be you would have little need to angels or guides, don't you think? More to the point, how can you trust something outside of yourself over yourself? How do you know you are not being mislead by entities proclaiming to be angels who are infact just cosmic pranksters, or possibly something more malicious? Shamans use spirit guides and sometimes it backfires on them.. appearances can deceive!
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I feel the same thing, but also I have to credit the fact that she might still try to "connect" (although by example here, she herself is gone out of the loop, but perhaps the discussion she started might have been a seed, if we allow it?)

What I mean is, it might seem as if she's arrogant and foolish for stating herself to be as she did. It might seem"obvious" that she's just another exploratory drug user in a short remission, or something, who happens to dabble with divination and has an interest because of some strife, in "healing" and angels... spirits who heal.

More to the point, how can you trust something outside of yourself over yourself? How do you know you are not being mislead by entities proclaiming to be angels who are infact just cosmic pranksters, or possibly something more malicious? Shamans use spirit guides and sometimes it backfires on them.. appearances can deceive!
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True, but should one also wall themselves up, in arrogance, and distrust for their, fellow existence? Might their negative experiences, or perceived negative experiences be a reflection of their own karma, so to speak? If I'm using karma right at all, if not... I'll use another word. Perhaps... energy. Maybe the true way to be is to have the awakened heart, where you are experiencing, taking notice of, and using in the best way possible everything? Even the negative spirits that come to you, to forgive them, and forgive yourself?

I am not touting myself to be a finished person (then again- aren't we all, always, in a sense?), or anything at all... with my words. I am struggling as well, but this is what I find. Not to be afraid. But sometimes I do (fear), and sometimes it seems inevitable (or even necessary), but the aim I believe is transcendence. And sometimes it seems that you are definitely right, that malicious forces (might want to) have had a hold on my existence, but God allowed them to, and I put my faith in God, because why would the creative element, even in "his" (and her, and wapa) destruction, be malicious... in your mind?

A star goes supernova. It creates elements heavier than oxygen. This is something I never forget. A collapsed mass, that we call a black hole, pulls everything in, as well deceiving (although I don't have proper metaphor, it's a guess, a quick association), holds it all together.

A death in the family brings us closer- to love one another more, and "grasp" ourselves, perhaps some different way, to function.

And I guess, sometimes I want "bad" things to happen. But over all, I just want good things to happen.

This is just another shot at this, as your thoughts mirror mine. How can we trust anyone but ourselves? But what is not?
 
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malakaix said:
How do you even know you exist? If everything is an illusion then all notion of who you think or feel you are is also apart of that illusion, so who are you really.. Nothing? Everything? There both one and the same. So if all of illusion is arising from no-thing, which is you; then everything within it is also you. There's no distinction between real and unreal, there the same.
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you're not helping lol... nihilism is my worst nightmare. i know that i exist because i think. "i think therefore i am". i know that much, but nothing can verify your existence. nothing. i cant possibly form any relationship with nothing.

twenty-six im trying to love me, i really am, but sometimes i just can't
 
I find knowing that we are forgiven- to forgive ourselves as we might another, who asks for it (even if not), make it easier, for me. Or at least that's the direction I try to go.

I do find it works, though, forgiving myself. But it's something I need to keep on doing, so who knows. I try, too. So I forgive myself, more, because I try.
 
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