tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7671904952428621336..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: In a time of unprecedented spiritual warfare - maybe spiritual causal hypotheses ought to be first-line and primary? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-5803988252488465482022-01-15T09:57:05.493+00:002022-01-15T09:57:05.493+00:00@todd - Actually, what I am saying is not really t...@todd - Actually, what I am saying is not really the idea of more frequent prayer - which I have not found terribly effective, probably because I was praying for the wrong things. I am suggesting making the first line hypothesis of malign spiritual influence - its more about understanding. Prayer may come after. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-81393915112247911772022-01-14T21:03:51.342+00:002022-01-14T21:03:51.342+00:00My thinking has changed in just this way recently....My thinking has changed in just this way recently. As you come to appreciate the reality of the existence and activities of demons, it can be quite a disturbing thing. <br /><br />The mass media/general environment is, of course, full of appalling Sorathic evil which in turn provides fodder for a sort of Sorathic brooding (presumably caused/helped along by demons). Sins like despair, self-pity, frustration need to be constantly repented. Frustration was a big one to discover and repent. One needs to avoid being sucked into the Sorathic vortex and lending one's thinking-powers to evil.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64341922199192940912022-01-14T17:47:21.220+00:002022-01-14T17:47:21.220+00:00Such a needed clarification and reminder.
I often ...Such a needed clarification and reminder.<br />I often get distracted and confused and anxious by entering long chains of reasoning about my current state, why it's not great, and what I should do to improve it. But it's hard to ever leave the chain of thinking and actually start acting or even just being.<br />And it's also critical to really know that our dis-ease and dis-orders have a primarily spiritual basis.<br />The almost cliched Christian and spiritual idea of focusing on prayer really makes sense. <br />We can do nothing of ourselves may be an exaggeration (but a useful reminder) that the interesting and wise Jesse Lee Peterson (an rather unconventional Christian) repeats a lot.<br />He also prioritizes what he calls "silent prayer." <br />Such focus on the spiritual, and a giving up of the idea that we can think our way out, has been quite beneificial. Toddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-54165448923193037072022-01-14T14:49:05.255+00:002022-01-14T14:49:05.255+00:00I, for one, concur in the experience you describe ...I, for one, concur in the experience you describe Dr Charlton. <br /><br />I conceive of it somewhat differently however (though perhaps not?) <br /><br />I find myself instinctively reaching for *abstractions* to explain my situation. Unfortunately, these *abstractions* are outside the Hierarchy of being. Purposely so, and we have as you say been trained to reach for them.<br /><br />Things like ideologies and sadly medical science today are all *hyper-real* or abstractions orthogonal to reality (existence in re) which is itself one strata of the Hierarchy of Being. <br /><br />When I align myself with God, which is actually merely using the eyes and not the abstractive faculty to perceive existence, these dysphorias evaporate. <br /><br />But as you point out, using the eyes to look around is very difficult after all the psy-ops.<br /><br />Thanks for the insightful post. Skarphedinnoreply@blogger.com