(Here is the second of two parts on making wishes, following desire, and manifesting one's dreams. I hope you enjoy.)
Two days ago I posted on the miracle of making a wish and seeing it come true. However, this post will not be as bright and cheery as the last one, as I will be discussing something very serious I see in regards to trying to fulfill one's wishes. The shadow side to hope, it would seem.
If you haven't gotten a hint from the title of this post, it is about relying too much on fantasy as a means of escape from the real world. I see this many times in my experiences with the young, and have been stuck in this very hole many long times.
I am a member of a website titled: www.mytelekinesis.com where i was formerly known as "Twilar Sylaethus", but changed my name to "Faerie_King" after complications arose which I will not delve into in this post. The site is a living forum on developing psychokinetic abilities and is mainly populated by pre-teens and teenagers wanting to become telekinetic or any of the other "Kinesis'". While it is a nice idea of people showing each other the ropes in learning psychic abilities, there are still many problems to overcome as far as the majority of the members.
You guessed it! Escapism from the real world delved into too much fantasy. I am not saying that psychokinetic phenomena does not exist. Far from it, I am a whole hearted believer in such things as I have seen it done as well as done some minor things in that area myself. The problem, however, is the beginner's attitude that developing a "Super Power" will somehow make all of one's problems go away and make them seemingly invincible. A few even developing the idea of becoming superheroes if advancing far enough in psychokinesis.
While one could argue that even comic book superheroes had problems just like all other people (just look at Spiderman always having to protect MJ Watson from Venom and Green Goblin), that is not the point I am trying to make.
We are a part of this world with all it's ups and downs. We are connected to each other, to the earth, to the cosmos, and every thing within creation. We are each a small cell in the body of the universe and there is no escaping that for all the dreaming we have.
We are a part of this earth with all of it's beauty and horrors, and there is no mistaking that. If the masses try to deny that, then Nature responds back with her power and it always ends bad for us. just look at the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan or the recent tornadoes that have devastated mid-west town such as Joplin. People tried to escape their connection to this world in their power plants, technology, internet, and the like only to have it all destroyed in the blink of an eye. The real world did not care how disconnected these people were, but chose to bring them back to earth anyways.
(I am not saying that what happened is not tragic. Just looking at it from a different view point is all.)
While we can dream of a happier life filled with love and prosperity and make it come true, that does not mean that we can disconnect ourselves from this earth or that all of our problems will go away all at once or even at all. We will still have our lessons to learn, our parts in the cosmos to play, and the work of our divinity to uphold, and there is no escaping that.
Our sufferings strengthen us and help us to grow as human beings and as Gods. We learn nothing from cushy lives with no tribulations. I am not saying either that we have to play martyrs or that there is no hope for peace in our lives. I only say that we need not take a cowards way out.
We can make a life of our dreams if we so desire. We can have it all, but we cannot get away from being human on this earth. To think otherwise is fantasy.
To delve into impossibilities is fine and encouraged. Humans could never have invented helicopters and airplanes unless they dared to dream. But going too far into the impossible leads to fantasies of the realm of inflated egos and fear, and as a spiritual seeker, I try to avoid that. I need to keep my life in perspective, being able to reach into the heavens, yet keep my feet on the earth.
I suggest we all do the same.
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I like to develop a super powers where it can used to help others, not to inflate ones ego. As I don't need pride as I find it useless as we lose this sense of ego when we die. We will be nothing (if you don't belive in the afterlife that is). I'm not seeking the mystical arts to escape the physical world. I an seeking it to enhance the physical world. Making it brighter and a healthier way to live.
ReplyDeleteIf we humans are too focused on the physical world (internet, cars, materialistic things) then there would be global disaster. We are born selfish beings and to just think of ourselves and to think of just of our material world is forgeting the spiritual world and the environment. If you think of only this material world, then what a incredibly boring world this is. The only entertainment these days in the material world is violence, sex, drugs and alcohol. Now do you think is this is evolving spiritually?
We humans have lost our connection with the spiritual world leading us only to think of only our material world. If you think of this material world only, what have we humans been doing for mileniums? Eat, sleep, work, multiply excessively and improve the quality of 'our' lives only, while we forgot our environmental friends (animals plants etc).
Now if we do as the above only, there will be an increase of toxic human waste (methane), increase in carbon monoxide (increase of human population = increase of automobiles = increase realease of CO) thus increasing the greenhouse gases which will increase the size of the holes in our protective ozone layer. This will lead to global warming as our ozone layer (protective sheild from the sun) is weakened. This global warming, leads to higher temperature, melting icecaps, which will lead to high tides and thus disaster. The above paragraph is why there are global disasters increasing throughout the world. This is simply high school general chemistry knowledge. Due to our exponential population increase, and our human empire ever so expanding at an incredible rate, plants will decrease in numbers, leading to animal population decrease which can also lead to decrease of oxygen.
To stop such disasters as cyclones, earthquakes etc, we should hold our environement in equal importance and also be involved in the spiritual world as well. The fae loves plants I believe and becoming involving in them and spirits, I believe, will have you become more interested in the environment. We should stop being selfish and learn to love absoloutely everything unselfishly, otherwise there will be major disaster (s).
It's not that having pride or being selfish is necessarily a bad thing, at least from my point of veiw. We all need to take the time to consider ourselves and to see ourselves as having some form of worth. Trust me Pride is better than Shame. However, the problem with being to prideful and selfish is that it becomes a self destructive tendancy to the point that all selfless acts we may believe we are doing end up being done solely for our greater glory and not out of love.
ReplyDeleteYou speak of the spiritual world as if it is a place "out there" when in truth, it is actually permeating throughout "Here" God is the light that surrounds and fills the world and we are expressions of it. The problem is not that it is absent from our lives, it is that we do not see it and, as a result, do not take responsibility for it.
I see the Earth and Nature as the Divine Mother, the "Shekhinah" of the Cabala, and the fundamental immanence of God. The earth is fully conscious and alive, even though we fail to realize this. And while it is sad that human beings continue to raid our mother of her resources, in the end, Nature will always win out. Just because we are godly beings does not mean we are above nature. That is our immanence in this world.
And on one last note: why is sexuality such a "sin" to you? I am planning my next post to be on that subject, so i am just curious.
LVX Amor!
One thing I forgot to mention. I didn't mean complete chastity. It is ok to let it out once in a while, but it is not recomended to overindulge in it. Many magicians fail because of there delight in sex, or so I hear.
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