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Originally Posted by mercuryrising  Sort of...
This may not sound like an answer. It's what is going through my head at the moment.
You know that John Lennon song "Imagine"
There is no hell below us,
Above us, only sky...
That last line keeps repeating. There's nothing higher or lower than where we are right now. A lot of spirituality/religion focuses on escaping where we are for where we think we should be. Like, "If only people would be peace and love, the world would be heaven." I think you said something similar in another thread.
I think this relates because if I say, "We aren't what we think we are", then that opens the question "What are we, then?" or "What should we think instead?" There's no right answer. |
It's funny you should mention 'Imagine' by John Lennon. Last week I downloaded it in itunes and the same day, my neice who is 30yrs younger than I, sent it to me on utube. I imagine he's saying it is up to us and we have to take responsibility for the whole of the human race.
The statement of 'we are not what we think we are' is a great example of not accepting the reality of NOW. Maybe at some level it is true. We certainly change form. We never stay the same but right now, we are form. I beieve that form contains much more than we were aware of, or maybe we could be creating our own inner/spiritual evolution?
It seems to me that Tolle is jumping the gun so to speak. He is guiding past who we really are in the moment of now and leading to who we are
not right now, but perhaps can be in the future or when we die. Hmmmmmm...........
This feeling beyond form and thought is a real experience but not at all practical.
I readily admit Oprah and Tolle have brought insight and awareness. However, the promise of who we really are bypasses the most important aspect. Humanity!