Gaia: Questions & Reflections: The Group

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://trichronos.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:09:59 GMT

I feel very much that my body is doing the work of helping me to transform my personality.

It's difficult, because "the knowledge of good and evil" is mostly the realization that what we do to our bodies lives on in our spirits after we die. Because the world is dominated right now by people that gain power through intimidation, that's pretty hard for many of us. We carry a lot of spiritual garbage around that other people have dumped into us.

The really wonderful thing is to open yourself to someone that looks lovingly into you and helps you clean up the mess. When you don't have such a person in your life, having a body can really hurt.

Even so, if we can avoid situations of physical assault, a body is great in spiritual conflict because it is relatively dense. As long as we love our bodies and take care of them, it can be very hard for spiritual predators to penetrate the core of our personality. What's even worse for them is that they realize that it actually feels pretty good to be us, so they tend to fall into us and be unable to get out. That connects us to them in a transformative process. Their greed for good things drives them to emulate us.

So on the whole, having a body is pretty cool.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://addresstofollow.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:32 GMT

Having had OBE's, I feel more spirit than body, it is a gift while incarnated here, and I try to respect it,and relateto it by appreciating the miracle of nature that it is, but I won't be afraid of leaving it, without body the universe is available to us. I am spirit having a human experience

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://eccentric.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:51:19 GMT

The thing I find most intriguing about living in a body is the amount of time I give to it's 'preservation' and upkeep.

Logically it is simply a mode of transport and communication yet if I gave in to it's demands for attemtion I would spend all my time grooming it and keeping it in peak condition, so that ultimately it would be the fittest best looking body in the cemetary.

I am not my body any more than my car is me when I'm driving it.

Living in a body seems expedient for the present, for gaining experience in the physical sensual world, though it certainly has its limitations, not the least one being 2 dimensional travel if unaided.

I don't see it as my body ownership wise. I have it on loan until it wears out then I will leave it so it can return to the earth from which it came and I will move on to the next experience.

I am spirit, I have a soul and presently I live and express myself in and through this body.

Re: What's the strangest food you've ever eaten?

http://Alison-Wonderland.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:33 GMT

Raw horse meat, I suppose. Some find it strange though I don't particularly.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://Alison-Wonderland.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:09:34 GMT

Sucky but necessary for incarnation!

Re: Do pets make better friends than people?

http://eccentric.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:32:39 GMT

Well having said what I said I visited Shakira's breeder and am now the delighted owner of an 11 month old Olive python 'Kundalini'.

Kundalini is preparing to shed his skin so I won't be bringing him home for about a week.

I can't wait.

Re: What purpose do life's distractions serve?

http://missbritt.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:06:34 GMT

mabye it's all done this way because then we work harder. and then that thing we want seems like something bigger and something valuable

Re: What purpose do life's distractions serve?

http://missbritt.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:04:58 GMT

Someone very close said this to me once, and it stuck with me.
The more you want something the harder it is going to be to get it , why , who knows.. but thats what makes us want it more isn't it ?

Re: Why is there still poverty on the planet?

http://missbritt.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:02:07 GMT

As long as there is greed there will always be poverty .
The world is so caught up in money , i find myself at times driven so hard to have a high paying job after collage in fear without lots of money I will find myself unhappy. It's aweful.

Re: The Rosette Blog

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:53:20 GMT

This took me to that place where dreams are born...
Have your ever seen A.I. ? If you haven't you should.
Thanks for opening the door to this memory.

Re: Do pets make better friends than people?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:15:04 GMT

Andrew, I am sad to hear about the death of your beloved pet. It has been difficult for us, especially my son, to get over our kitten's death in January. I believe sometimes we can feel very very close to our pets, perhaps because they do not say hurtful things or disappoint us, so that it comes closer than most relationships to unconditional love, which we all need.

Hugs,

Nicole

Re: Do pets make better friends than people?

http://kenb51.gaia.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:39:15 GMT

I have experienced the long mourning period for pets. Perhaps because they depend on us more than people do. They don't turn on us or let us down. Some of my pets have taken years to get over. As for bonding more with people, I wish I knew. Sorry for your loss.

Do pets make better friends than people?

http://eccentric.gaia.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:21:57 GMT

Those that remember my previous incarnation on Gaia may remember my pet Proserpine python, Shakira. Shakira passed away in her sleep last June aged 30 months as result of an infection.

I was a basket case for about a fortnight afterwards and the pain of the loss of my young friend is still present which from a commonsense point of view is rediculous. Particularly when you realise that the only real difference between a pet snake and a pet rock is that you don't have to feed a pet rock.

I would handle her a couple of times a day, and she came to recognise my touch and smell, and though there was no conscious communication it was an awesome privelege to bond with 300 million years of evolution.

What I have found puzzling in the time since her departure is the fact that I found myself mourning more for Shakira than for any human friend I have lost, as though the bond we had formed was closer than any human friendship.

I am not lonely for her, and don't feel the need to replace her for the sake of having a companion and probably won't. I don't particularly want to go through the pain of separation with a pet again.

But I'd love to know if others feel as I do, that we grow closer to our pets than we do to other people?

Is there some aspect of this that I'm overlooking that could help us to bond more closely with each other?

Re: The Rosette Blog

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:05:29 GMT

It is a fascinating thought, my dear heart. What will others learn from all this that we are creating here on Gaia?

Loving you so much, eternally,

Nicole

The Rosette Blog

http://usandthem.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:42:16 GMT

In a thousand years or so what would a techno- anthropologist discover from the blogs here and now. What might they see that we do not . Will they see a piece of themselves or an image they attempt to forget. Will they be able to reach from how we have stretched. Will they observe from a distance or face to face with us as we are.
What artistic message are we sending forward in these combined thoughts. What frame-filled, frame-less picture of innocence are we drawing as children in this new way of communicating, What searching will they see us to have been doing. What relearning, reinventing will we be showing upon these walls. What wheels of transport are we beginning to carve in this stone age that roll forward.
What restrictons, what freedoms, what commandments,
what declarations, what cave writtings are we etching in this sheltered space of the mind. Will they inspire, will they be an echo of future history's from what we, you and I are all posting today.
Thanks.
Just me

$1000 Article Contest

http://buildabetterworld.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:41:29 GMT

Hi All,

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It's an exciting way to not only share your healthcare concerns but also earn a little cash in this tough economy.

Wishing everyone a good day and good luck!

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Re: What if God Was One of Us?

http://MikeyDineen.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:21:05 GMT

one with us..................
his face? Little Joey sat near the back of Miss Finche's art class and one day she was surprised to see him dilligently sccribling away with markers/crayons /coloured pencils
" Joey, what are you doing back there, young man?"
His reply was immediate: I'm drawing the face of God, Miss"
Her voice was stern as she scolded," But nobody knows what the face of God looks like"
Joey didn't hesitate: " in 5 minutes, when I've finished, they will."

How do we take control of our destiny?

http://eccentric.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:37:57 GMT

'Be the change you wish to see in the world' - a wonderful philosophy, but just how practical is it?
If we could control our destiny we could influence the world but many of us seem destined to repeat our mistakes, pushing the very people that would help us away, as if we are frightened of the consequences, frightened of the possibility of confronting ourselves.
Even the best intentioned seem to fall by the wayside of conceit as they come under the influence of increased wealth, recognition or power, all of which seems to come about as a result of people finding direction and purpose in their life.
How do we take control of our destiny yet avoid the pitfalls that can result from success?

Re: Why is there still poverty on the planet?

http://Piercarla.gaia.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:34 GMT

To me the reasons are multiple or maybe are all the same: some people have not decided to embrace and work their shadow, are hypnotized/identified with their egoic mind and stuck into wantings, have no idea of prosperity consciousness and live in lack and fear, are disconnected with who they are and their values, are disconnected with their heart and love in its forms, do not love themselves, do not know what they are, some people are resisting it and so keeping it in place.

Re: What if God Was One of Us?

http://kaliyuga.gaia.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:56 GMT

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home

If God had a face, what would it look like?
And would you want to see

How can we not embody
that which is the supreme ordering principle
whatever name we choose to give it?

Do our hearts not beat on their own
our hair grow on it's own
our eyes see
ears hear
skin feel
all on it's own?
Do not our conscious thoughts
arise on their own?
Do not even our best laid plans and intentions
come from a place of no intention?

There is no randomness in the experience of reality
neither "externally" nor "internally"

So, how can "God" NOT be one of us, each of us and all of us?
And if this is the case
should we not realize this to the greatest degree possible?
And if we do that
will that single act of realization
not unleash our capacity to love all beings
as if they were our own mother?
Would this single act
not transform our experience of reality
into the pure realms?