John Wilder and spiritual progress

05. Satsang Cafe - General Discussions on AYP
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I will be turning 60 yrs old by mid-year and I am set on taking early retirement by the end of the year. It’s like a switch has flipped and I really, really don’t want to do this job anymore. So, of course, the matter of what is it that I want to do next is on my mind. What is my dharma for this stage of my life? I know I want to spend the rest of my life in devotion to God, but I am also aware that being active in the world, as service to others, is much part of the process.
Wish me clarity!

Sey :pray:

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If you knew exactly what you wanted right now, the rest of the year would be agony!

All the best best to you <3

We’ll get there.

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It is time :heart:

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Hey guys,

are someone here familiar with law of assumption?

There are people who say that there are parallel universes. Actually they say that past and future are an illusion, that they already exist.

For me, this would mean that there is already a reality where I am enlighten. From this point of view practises are unnecessary, there I just have to decide.

And there is some truth in it (not that I stop practising)! At least I see more and more truth as more I progress.

There are people who claim that they(and everybody) is God. So, there is no external reality. And as quantum physics (and my experience deep in practises) says: Everything is energy therefore there is really no past and future. Even there is no God. I just have to decide what is and this is reality.

So, this leads to an amazing conclusion: I could decide that there is world peace, and then there would be world peace.

Practically I could assume that there is no self pacing needed, and so I don´t have to self pace. This would quicken the enourmess. I could add all the practises…

But somehow this does not work. I often have tried it. I came always to the end result that self pacing is neccessary. That my assumption does not lead to world peace.

Its a bit like trying to combine the theory of relativity and quantum qhyics. The micro and the macro cosmos. They seem to be paradox.

Can someone help? Are there higher dimensions which I oversee, and which lead to that it makes sense.

Because I have the feeling something is missing. There is the macro (karma, law of attraction, self pacing, past and future, space and time), and there is the micro (quantum physics, the illusion of past, future, time and space, law of assumptions etc.). In the macro there are other laws than in the micro. Both are somehow true but I can´t connect them. But after everything in this universe is connected, there must be some connection I oversee.

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Hi th1996

As you said, it does not work

So no need to complicate things

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It does not work fully, always. But there lies certainly some truth in it. I have more than often experienced it.

And it lies an huge potential in it.

I think, my question is more like when siddhis/manifestations power and such things are coming, what should we do? When it is true that our state are influencing our environment, and so the entire world…shouldn´t we use this kind of power? Shouldn´t we give our best for world peace for example?

I really think I could do so much more…but something is holding me back…like is it the right way to influence the environment with our thoughts, beliefs and assumptions? I really think that it´s possible…and on one hand I would do humanity a disservice when I am not following that kind of knowledge…but on the other hand it feels like cheating…:smiley:

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Hi th1996,

I would say that the strength of the influence that you have on your environment is primarily determined by the state of your subtle nervous system. I have felt in the past that the process works by absorbing energy from the environment, which then flows through you, exiting in a purified manner.

So the problem with your idea is that we have our limitations in how much energy we can move through us. For sensitive meditators this is closely tied with self-pacing, as you noted.

At a deeper level, we could also ask whether we’re actually influencing our environment, or whether we’re simply participating in a process of merging with it. This merging with it is part of stillness in action (a samyama process) which gives rise to supposed siddhis. However, in my experience, these siddhis don’t work by letting us impose what we think is right for the world, but instead work in somewhat incomprehensible ways.

:folded_hands:

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