Hey Schalk, my hat's off to you.  That's a lovely piece.  Bury me in the black soil .... wow, such ring and resonance, hey?  I think your non-conceptually-fitted earthlove carries a feel the conceptual just doesn't touch, fun and useful as this latter otherwise can be.  And to keep things in the realm of not real, how about not ...

That sense of who one really is, what you call the ground of being, actually arises from one's story.  One's story = one's history (writ large, back to the big bang) = one's conditioning.  The experience of Being and one's conditioning are inseparable: no conditioning (ie, no matter no history no brain), no experience.  There is no ...

Here is a longish quote to consider from David Bohm:... we have not perceived the whole truth unless we have also perceived that the truth must operate.  If we think it is the ''Ego'' or the ''I'' that operates, we are confused.  (For example, that we follow truth because we are ''honest,'' so that the Ego makes a ''choice'' ---as if ...

I don't think the experience or reality to which Bill's comment refers is confined to green, but rather inheres as an aspect of experiencing (call it what you will) totality.  Call the experience Being Stuckness, I think any of the colours can be subject to it.  Thus if Buddha was amber or orange as Wilber says, and if most Zen masters ...

Bill's comment is not Green, but points to an experience that, in Being awareness (call it what you will), one can experience the full isness (call it what you will) of the All.  That place, IMO, is peace defined.It is also a place that can devour any motivation to act (= to differentiate) in this world, precisely because it is the place of ...

Hi Bill, just to poke around a bit, do you ever prefer one game over another, such as the game of Self?  To put the question another way, how do you actually act?  Why the pattern in how you act?

I agree with everything you say, Fangsz.  Our mappings (call them knowledge, theory or science) are but abstractions, bits selected via some notion of relevance---relevated, if you will---from the whole.  Any abstraction is only relevant within the limiting case it represents.  The truth, for its part, cannot but refer to the whole ...

I follow you.  Experience, in my experience (!), is really of a different character and feel, and so much richer, than mapped explications of it.

''The idea that anything can be asserted as absolutely real indulges in the myth of the given ...''Fangsz, are you asserting the above as absolutely real?

Roger's presentation should be interesting.  The theory of shadow can run in circles.  Someone once asked Jung to define the shadow, probably the millionth time he'd been asked this question, and he answered impatiently, ''All this talk about the shadow, the shadow is the whole of the unconscious!''In spiritual circles, people still ...