--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > > > MMY did not recommend the use of hypnosis since, IMO, it > > > > promotes self-will and not the will of the unified field. > > > > > > The unified field has a will? Far out. > > > > Isn't it just a *trip* that so many people assume > > it does? > > Actually it gives me the creeps! > > I mean the UF - if it exists - is simply what the universe > is before it gets all random and foamy and *long* before > the chaos becomes visible as the whirly subatomic stuff we > all know and love.
Well -- and poetically -- said. Deep bow. The ARROGANCE of people who anthropomorhize that univese and project their petty human characteristics onto it. > Ascribing intentions to it is absurd but worshipping > it is deeply weird. I always used to wonder what the unified > field charts were trying to say, it was clear that they > had an intention beyond simply informing the observer > what the TMO thought was going on. I missed out on all those "charts," but I can imagine. My guess would be that their Intent and purpose was to convince people to "toe the line" because if they didn't, the Unified Field would be righteously -- and justifiably -- pissed, and do Bad Things to them. :-) > But of course, if you buy the mystical idea of consciousness > then the charts make sense, on their own terms. But until > nature demonstrates that it's something other than blind chance, > electromagnetism and entropy I'll be giving the charts a miss. I'm content with having missed them. :-) > > You don't necessarily find this assumption in main- > > stream (read, not Fundamentalist and Supremicist) > > Hinduism, or much of Buddhism, or even avant-garde > > Christianity. The belief in God (or the "unified > > field" or whatever you want to call it) as having > > a Will and/or having a Plan for All Of This is > > not a given at all. > > > > Many think as I do that if such a thing as a > > fundamental, core level of existence as God or the > > Absolute or <insert euphemism of your choice> exists, > > it's just so NOT That Kinda Guy. > > > > It has been described by the great mystics and spir- > > itual leaders of the planet as "devoid of attributes," > > and as Just Fuckin' Not Involved in this universe. I > > can groove with that. It strikes an intuitive reson- > > ance with me. I think of God/the Absolute/whatever > > as a kind of Operating System. It just exists; it > > doesn't plan ahead or have desires for how All Of > > This "should" turn out. > > > > I just roll my eyes and tune out the moment someone > > I'm talking with or chatting with online starts refer- > > ring to "God's will," or something similar. I find > > the whole concept offensive and demeaning. WHO, after > > all, could conceive of a sentient cosmic uber-being > > so powerful as to have created All Of This and at > > the same time so petty as to feel that it had to > > micromanage it? That's just insulting. > > >
