Dear Syamala,

Again, changing the world starts inside, step by step, one person at a time. It totally depends on that what one experiences in life but up till now there has been a general acceptance in philosophy and psychology in the Western world that a human life is divided in four stages: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

I have been brought up with this knowledge and the moment I read Harbhajan Singh's book Self Designed Universe I found this line of thinking back, not only as far as a human life is concerned, but now also seen as the way the Universe functions as an evolution.

Yes, take it easy is of course the best way to live but up till now this has been only possible at old age. First because simply surviving has been human's task and now because we created a society that believes that we can only survive by earning as much money as we can.

Well, here is my vision so far (always willing to learn something new), based upon my experience up till now:

Competition is one of those inventions of humanity for instance in sports and games. But it has infiltrated in every aspect of life and is not fun anymore.

So high time to turn inside and listen to ones own cells, how they work together to keep ones body fit. And by doing sports in that way one creates ‘and and’ or 'win win' situations all the time in ones own life.

And imho it is a must that one first finds ‘and and’ and 'win win' situations completely in oneself before one can start radiating this to the world around.

And the above is a complete learning school, also called “the path of Life”. And it takes a whole life of experience to create that wisdom inside. At least up till now this has been the case for the majority of humanity.

Up till now, a normal human life has been divided in phases or stages.

As a child you are busy getting your body into balance, from lying, to crawling, to walking, to running; a child completely lives in his/her body.

As an adolescent the “body-mind” becomes very important and is influenced by everything around it. And it is not yet a unit. One feels attracted to objects and people in ones environment but also repulsed by objects and people in ones environment. There is no balance yet neither within or without, this has to be found inside and it takes quite a long period before that happens. There is a beautiful saying for this in the German language: “Himmelhoch jauchsend, zum Tode betrübt”.

As an adult, reason starts to enter the mind more and more. By reasoning one tries to come to grips with that what goes on inside oneself and that what goes on in the world around. And even reasoning with one another is a competition, because at that stage in life one is not yet able to enliven oneself that much into the thoughts of someone else. One is convinced of ones own viewpoint.

And then the fourth stage enters and by becoming aware of the fact that soon there will come an end to ones working period of life in the outer world, on starts to reflect back. During this reflection one starts to become more open to ones inner needs and is not so much connected anymore to the outer world.

And if everything goes well, it is in this stage one discovers the inner beauty of ones own world and the truth that what is inside reflects itself outside. And one starts to unite ones past with the present and is not so worried anymore about the future and more able to live in the moment.

It is the odd and rare being that discovers this truth in an earlier stage in his/her life and those then become the teachers of humanity.

Well, at this moment in time we are at crossroads: are we willing to accept the above facts and become truly aware of them? Because when we can, we truly can do something about it that can change our viewpoint at any stage in life and become a wholesome unity inside much quicker. And once we have realized that, our environment will change with it.

Mieke

Syamala:
Whenever one changes negative feeling, thought, word, action to positive one contributes to polarity shift. This shift is happening on a massive scale as light increases through individual consciousness. Orientate, look, see the signs and rejoice!

What are the effects of this shift? Systems crash in individual patterns and in collective patterns.

And from the ashes what rises? That depends on the seer and the seeing. Is it not the quantum way?

Trish~~

Yep.

Nice.

peace

Dear Meike,
Thanks for your good insights. Actually, it may not be easy at all to look upon success and failure with equanimity even in old age. It depends upon the particular experience and the past and personality of the experiencer. The ability to accept pleasure and pain equally is described in Vedanta as one of the qualities manifest in an "enlightened" person. I was thinking "how on earth one can react to pain and pleasure or success and failure the same way". When I was going through the Atari episode with my children, it struck me (may be right or not) that for me, the parent and just an onlooker, the video game is just a game, not worth pulling each other's hairs over a loss but the children did not see the game as trivial or unreal. There was a big difference in how I looked upon the play and how the children looked upon it. I thought, may be, an Enlightened one sees life as a game but not "real" (world as illusion), sees that opposites are inevitable in life and therefore is able to look upon opposites with dispassion and with composure. So that is the origin of this reflection.

Dear Trish,
It is nice to know that a shift from negative to the positive is happenning on a massive scale. If you have in your mind, some specific events indicating such shift, I would welome your sharing them with others on the blog.
I agree what one sees depends on who sees it. That is why I think that it helps to reduce conflicts if one can look upon different points of view with equal dispassion.

Yes, and there are infinite and finite games. If you click my name there is a chart that compares them for you.

and the gravity of spirit is getting ready to execute the infinite play... which might seem quite ominous to the forces of ego and the ego empire..

Yet it is to the benefit of all, some simply do not yet understand best not to resist because hell will be the pay, embrace and prosper Heaven will be the mainstay..

Why wait to die to go to Heaven when you can bring it to you?

Dear Syamala,

Yes I understand how this video game was seen in such a different way between you and your children. They 'were' the game and you were the 'outsider' or 'observer'.

I can only say that my experience of oneness at 34 gave me the insight that it was "all good; that one could not do anything wrong as long as no one else would really suffer from it". Lol, after that I had to really figure that one out :)

I raised a daughter and a son and with that the female and male energies. I tried to always let them enliven themselves into the feelings and thoughts of the other.

This went alright until a certain age in their adolescence when they start trying each other out in every possible way. I never took sides and tried to let them sort it out. My only solace inside was my inner voice that told me again: you cannot do it wrong.

My husband didn't agree with me, my children didn't agree with me, so lonely I was, I can tell you that.

I am not pretending that I was enlightened after this experience of oneness but I did see that opposites are inevitable in life and tried to unite them, at least in myself :)

I am a Libra and i guess this is my dharma inside :), Always trying to balance things.

So yes, everything depends upon the particular experience and the past and personality of the experiencer.

But have I been so glad to have experienced such an unconditional love at my 34, something that has changed everything for me in life for the good.

And am still convinced of my truth: that what one radiates one receives back.

Love to you,

Mieke

Dear Richard,
I saw your table and I agree with all the rows of the table. In the Atari game episode, being the mother of both children, it did not matter to me who won or who lost. I could identify myself with both of them at the same time. Also, when I played a game with either one I was happy even if I lost. (Actually, I was not as skillful as they were with those joysticks!) That is because I enjoyed playing not winning or losing; I did not play for me. Ego means setting barriers, isolating oneself from the rest. Then who wins and who loses makes big difference. When one acts without that ego the barriers are broken (what you call infinite play); one identifies with everybody and everything else; there is no longer win or loss but only fun.

Aloha syamala

On Coast to Coast Jim Elvidge was interviewed about his book: Universe Solved.

- Ranan Banerji, Ph.D. Physics, author of “Society, Scientists and the Spirit

“We have recently been inundated by a spate of books on the "science-religion" controversy. They all confuse science with reductionist materialism and religion with fundamentalism. Elvidge's book is one of the notable exceptions. Unfortunately, none of the exceptions are receiving the attention of the rich publishers or the mainstream media. This is all in keeping with the modern cultural trend towards oversimplification of every issue. My hope is that this book will reverse the trend.”

In essence his book shares we live in a program reality, the programer could be a computer geek, God.. etc. And of course the Higher Power would allow the game to always go to the next level and have the power to intervene when in trouble or senses trouble that would lead the game to end. It is an interesting concept.

And you are right about the games. I was amazed how violent they are. I think we live in denial that we interact in a reality of a pecking order on a daily basis. And the gift is to be objective when we feel subjective. Because young males feel they are immortal, they are willing to go to war without really understanding the consequences. Maybe the games are making children universe aware where they won't be victims of their own thinking. I used to teach my children the affirmation: I patty win when others win and because I am letting them win I win all the time. love patty

oops here is the sites link: http://www.theuniversesolved.com/book.htm you may copy or paste or click my name, for The Universe-Solved. check out the forum.. they have seem to taken metaphysics to amazing levels. love patty