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Topic: Your spiritual journey
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charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
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posted June 09, 2010 05:08 AM
  
When did it start?How do your parents feel about it?
(Especilly if you're from a family with a strong religious backround) How do you feel about it? ------------------
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dervish
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posted June 09, 2010 06:01 PM
I had a spiritual vision when I was 15 as I was on the verge of suicide (and I was being held down to be kept from doing it). Very short & sweet it was like I "woke up" and I was flying through a gigantic virgin forest where the trees were even bigger than redwoods, and it was so REAL even the sense of motion (and there was a wordless song and then I realized I was the one singing), and I came to a tree larger than all the others that I knew was "Yggdrasil" and it took me to Freya who Sang and I understood her wordless song who told me I had to remain strong and let my steel be tempered, that I had to help against the coming Ragnarok. And then I came to back in the real world of illusion. I didn't know what to think of it but I no longer wanted to off myself and I did feel better (not happy, I'd just lost my best friend). While it's easy to come up with "rational explanations" for why I had this experience, I did find out later that many others had similar experiences & messages since at least the 70s, so I'd apparently tapped into (or it tapped into me) something from the Collective Unconscious, or what many before me called "a wind through the World Tree." But while this affected me (and saved my life!) I didn't actually become spiritual in any sense, it was more of a mystifying experience. When I was 16 I got close to someone in the occult and learned a little of magic but this turned out bad (the person into it that is) and I had to escape, but I seemed to randomly encounter 2 who changed my life around. (Btw, I was a runaway at this time far from home. I'd been a runaway when I had a vision of Freya, too.) One was a priestess of the Dianic Wiccan tradition (the other a more general neopagan more into the occult and self-development) and through them I gained a spiritual perspective on life (btw, the Wiccan had books by Linda Goodman which is how I discovered her). I became a literal pagan for a few years before drifting back into agnosticism. My family didn't get to react because I wasn't with them. But just before I turned 22 I visited my granny and I shared with her about Freya and all the other stuff, and after telling her of Sessrumnir, and how cool that heaven was, I asked if she'd visit me from her heaven since I didn't think pagans were welcome in her heaven. And I loved her response: "They're both the same place. You'll see your trappings and I'll see mine, but we'll still be together and love each other." IP: Logged |
Randall
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From: Saturn next to Charmainec
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posted June 11, 2010 04:59 PM
Wow.  ------------------
"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis IP: Logged |
SunChild
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From: Australia
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posted June 29, 2010 02:49 AM
Wow Dervish I had a very very similar vision involving those trees 2 years ago when I was 23. I can't believe I read that!  Still to this day I could not really make sense of it, I thought it had something to do with the dream work I was doing then involving the guardian of the threshold. Wordless song and gigantic trees, I was approaching the trees, I was not in my body, I felt expanded. ------------------
the ideas for creating something beautiful are unlimited - Rachel Weitzova IP: Logged |
charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
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posted June 30, 2010 07:37 AM
That's amazing! IP: Logged |
Cancer/Scorpio729
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posted July 21, 2010 09:06 PM
Wow Dervish, that's quite an experience. It's amazing how these kinds of things happen to people at the time they need it most.My story is boring. I just found my aunt's old copy of Star Signs when I was twelve. At one point my parents had to take it away because I was getting too obsessed. After that I started reading more books, both spiritual and occult, and learned not to tell everyone what I read. I still don't understand why these topics are considered weird. ------------------
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes
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charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
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posted July 22, 2010 08:25 AM
No spiritual journey is boring dear  We all start in different ways and it's wonderful when one starts on such a journey. It a start to a wonderful beginning that leads to expansion and growth  Weird? Hmm never heard of that word  jp ------------------
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cancer/Scorpio729
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posted August 02, 2010 10:36 PM
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charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
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posted August 03, 2010 06:56 AM
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quote:
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Randall
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posted November 28, 2010 01:21 PM
*bump*------------------
"The earth is not given to us by our mothers and our fathers, it is borrowed from our children." IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 25, 2010 07:08 AM
*bump*------------------
"The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted January 11, 2011 02:47 AM
I'm glad Star Signs pointed you in that direction. What a book!  ------------------
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne IP: Logged |
Cancer/Scorpio729
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posted January 12, 2011 07:39 PM
Ya, I have no idea what it is about that book.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted January 13, 2011 12:17 PM
It initiated a lot of people.------------------
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted February 06, 2011 11:46 AM
I thought I knew a lot--until I read Star Signs--and then I learned I knew nothing.------------------
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 28, 2011 11:25 AM
Especially while re-reading it. Soooooo much I missed before!------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 29, 2011 11:15 AM
Pulled my quote from it.------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
SunChild
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From: Australia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 29, 2011 08:55 PM
I LOVE that quote Randall.I was going to post it as my status on FB to see what responses I'd get but some people aren't ready for that kind of information, so I'm hesitant. I feel like it would offend some people, they take it the wrong way. I absolutely LOVE that quote though. You can feel the truthfulness to it.
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“It’s an interesting thing. Seeing Kuan Yin relating to a flower so intently. She's not just looking at it; she's interacting with it…I’m seeing how the act of relating to a flower appears to be so simple. Yet, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to make such a “simple” act important. Now, the lotus is floating away.” IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 29, 2011 09:52 PM
Yeah, probably the only place you can get away with a quote like that is a Linda site. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 30, 2011 11:27 AM
Just wanted to have the 19th post.------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted April 07, 2011 01:18 PM
One thing I've learned is to choose your battles. Be careful arguing over trivial matters with people you care about.------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted April 08, 2011 04:45 PM
And count your Blessings.------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted April 09, 2011 02:33 PM
And true wealth is health.------------------
"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
charmainec
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From: Venus next to Randall
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posted April 13, 2011 03:06 AM
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charmainec
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posted April 13, 2011 03:06 AM
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