tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6496296185039475293..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Theosis is more like building a 'pattern' (e.g. a tree) than moving along a linear scale (e.g. up a narrow path)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-43668363727111959452016-02-19T20:59:24.274+00:002016-02-19T20:59:24.274+00:00There were two trees in the garden. One of them di...There were two trees in the garden. One of them died, and one day it will be thrown into the fire and burned. One tree is alive. There is only one living tree, and there will only ever be one. Many braches, but only one tree.<br /><br />The root of the living tree is, of course, God. The One True God. To believe that you yourself can be the root of a new living tree... this is the original lie of the original liar.<br /><br />As the Fathers put it: there is a kind of knowledge, a kind of light as it appears to us, that always turns to darkness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59055591956650401402016-02-13T14:51:47.565+00:002016-02-13T14:51:47.565+00:00I've posted elsewhere on Dr Charlton's sit...I've posted elsewhere on Dr Charlton's site asserting that science and spirit need not be in conflict. Here is one good example:<br /><br />http://www.sofn.org.uk/sofia/84mystical.html<br /><br />The 'God helmet', as some people refer to it, is purported to stimulate part of the brain that enables a human being to contact divine reality. 'Great', I thought, here may be an example of science hand in hand with mystical religion - both searching for the same thing, and converging delightfully, as it should be. But, some scientists, one in particular, dismisses it because it didn't work for him. For him, it was yet more proof that the divine is illusory. For me, it was proof that some minds deliberately shut themselves off from reality, denying the power of intuition, and ways of perceiving that do not use only reason as a tool. As a friend once said,<br /><br />I stir my mind,<br />This barrel of tar,<br />With the paper spoon of reason.<br /><br />Intellect is a tool to help us order the material world; it proves itself utterly inadequate as a means for entering the mystical (the higher reality).<br /><br />This is why we need to re-learn how to 'do it'. I am going to try it using my own way derived from the many accounts I have read. I will try to reduce it to what seem to be the essentials. I expect for me it will be hard - all that fog that modern society has put in the way to clear out.<br /><br />I want that helmet.<br /><br />Seeker <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47541290681700051892016-02-12T22:58:48.868+00:002016-02-12T22:58:48.868+00:00Theosis would be helped vastly if people were able...Theosis would be helped vastly if people were able to access mystical reality (things as they really are). I can’t do it, but I believe it is possible. More than that, I think it is probably natural and normal to be able to do so. I suspect that it is innate, rather like language learning (Chomsky’s universal grammar), and that babies and very young children access reality until the world exerts its inhibiting forces, and the facility to view reality directly is largely lost.<br /><br />It seems to me that the adult who knows that accessing the mystical is possible, and that it is a good thing to do, will attempt to do so. There is more than enough information in books and on the net describing a definite process for accessing mystical reality. This information has been available for thousands of years – every religion knows about it, and the methods for achieving it seem to be largely similar. Think how wonderful it would be to read scripture with greater insight, and to view the world from a different and higher perspective. <br /><br />There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for not re-learning what we lost as we grew in this modern world, nor does there seem to be any good reason why we would not want the young, our children and grandchildren, to learn (not forget) how to access the mystical. Adults could foster the mystical in their children, and purposely set out to follow long established method for helping them to keep what is natural to the human being. The child would have no barriers, no prejudice against the spiritual, and a healthy desire to believe. What child does not thrill to fairy stories, and tales of myth and legend? They would, and should, see it as a lovely game. I think it would be easy.<br /><br />This sacred teaching, for that is what it is, would be a gift that, in this society, would never be taught in schools. This is a great pity. But parents/grandparents can supply the deficit. It is simply a matter of finding the method and then placing it within a religious framework, and then doing the method with the younger generation.<br /><br />SeekerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com