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SunChild
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posted September 14, 2004 12:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
I know a melbournian, - who is an inspiration to me...his writings are so inspiring and beautiful- he is immortal.
He wrote about 'his choice' that I've pasted below- I hope it can be of some inspiration to other knowflakes here.

My Choice
My outlook on life changed drastically many times in the past
40 years from one extreme to another.
I acted as a complacent member of the flock - just to become a
major “trouble maker”, questioning every command and every
doctrine at every opportunity. I was a musician and entertainer
and I became an orthodox engineer. I have experienced
dangers of a totalitarian regime and communism - to discover
limitations and traps of the capitalistic society. From someone
depressed with incurable diseases - I changed to a fanatic of
self-healing and rejuvenation. From a perfect family
member - I changed to an extreme ascetic who enjoyed
meditation more than sleep. As a sailing instructor - I did a
Ph.D. in physics. After recording the world’s first hologram of
the combustion process in an engine – I started to study bioplasma
around the human body and aim to see auras with
my own eyes. As an academic – I started to design totally
radical fashion. Being a competent orthodox scientist - I
aimed to explore the Origin of the Universe by separating my
consciousness from the physical body. I do not want to bore
you with the rest of the list - I just want to give you some idea
about the range of extremes I decided to adopt at various
stages of my life.
I have “achieved” many things in my life - only to discover
that “that was not it”.
By experiencing and exploring consequences of all extremes
over many years I started to formulate the final conclusion. Do
you know what it is?


It is to live a life consciously and with purpose. The purpose
that is compatible with the Grand Plan - the Purpose of the
entire Universe.
Formulating your OWN purpose, compatible with the Grand
Plan is the most important. It is also necessary to be ready to
expand your purpose every time you grow to understand more.
Can you expect to achieve something without knowing
what it is?
Only after experiencing existence outside my physical body,
exploring “the other side” and mysteries of Higher
Consciousness, discovering with astonishment The Singular
Nothing, the Origin and The Purpose of the entire Universe,
only then did I understand, that the best choice I can make
everyday is to live in my physical body.
Only then I realized that the best tool for my feeble and
limited Intellect to explore the entire Universe is actually my
own physical body. Only then I started to appreciate the
feedback and all sensations my body provides for my Intellect.
Only then I noticed that the part of the Universe that is closest
to me is actually my own physical body.
Only then I realized how much I can learn just by using my
Intellect to pay attention to the phenomenal range of
sensations generated by my own physical body.

To my amazement, I discovered that I actually knew very little
about my own physical body. Not only I haven’t made it. I
couldn’t consciously design any part of my body, I didn’t even
know how and why it works. I couldn’t even control some
very basic functions of it, not to mention repairs!
Let me explain what I mean. Imagine that you lost your hand.
Do you know how to grow it back? (Eventually, when we
learn enough – we will know how to rebuild our body at will.)
I realized how little do we know and that our “scientists” on
Earth haven’t even started thinking in the direction of true
progress (evolution of individual intellect and its abilities for
higher feelings).
We think that we are “advanced” or “civilized” – but it is not
true at all. On Earth we are right at the very bottom of
conscious evolution, following the most primitive instincts
and ignorant doctrines rather than intellect. Tragically, most
people on Earth don’t even have enough integrity to admit it.
The most significant change in my attitude occurred when I
learned to appreciate my own body as a manifestation of The
Great Intellect – as a magnificent, generous, very sophisticated
and very private gift to assist ME (my individual intellect) in
my individual learning.
Only then I discovered that the best teacher is actually
WITHIN - and always has been. No longer I need to wonder at
various beliefs. I know. I have searched and I have found.

I have learnt to use and trust my intellect.
You can do it too. Anyone with intent and enough self
discipline can do it. But it won’t happen by itself. We need to
aim for a conscious progress ourselves.
Can you expect to make progress without aiming for it?
Only after all the above discoveries within myself I started to
recognize other people as Individual Intellects with Unlimited
Potential.
In summary, staying in a physical body, learning from it and
from Nature around us as much as possible is the best choice
we can make. This is the fastest way to make progress in the
Universe at our stage of evolution. Do you agree? Every other
activity, no matter how fascinating it seems, is auxiliary.
Life is truly a wonderful opportunity to develop the Intellect
and eventually learn the Greatest Lesson of all – how to
Love and become Loved.
Can you imagine all people on Earth adopting this point of
view?
It is back to the Freedom of Choice, isn’t it?

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"There was a young lady named Bright
Who travelled much faster than Light
She started one day
In a relative way
And returned on a previous night."
-Arthur Buller

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maklhouf
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posted September 14, 2004 06:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for maklhouf     Edit/Delete Message

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La nature abhorre une vide

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sesame
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posted September 14, 2004 08:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sesame     Edit/Delete Message
Awesome! Thanks Heaps Sunchild!

Dean.

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thirteen
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posted September 15, 2004 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for thirteen     Edit/Delete Message
how profoundly beautiful and simple. there is truth in simplicity.

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Gia
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posted September 15, 2004 07:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gia     Edit/Delete Message
That was wonderful.

Thanks for posting it. I'll print it and stick it in my diary. It reminds me of a teacher I once knew.

Gia

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posted September 16, 2004 02:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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SunChild
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posted September 16, 2004 10:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
He's more of an inspiritation- he's my guru Everyone is welcome...
Thirteen- there is also simplicity in Truth


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"There was a young lady named Bright
Who travelled much faster than Light
She started one day
In a relative way
And returned on a previous night."
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posted September 16, 2004 11:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Actually while im thinking about simplicity-this is how simple it all IS. I have more things he wrote about- I think he eventually made an ebook out of it. Anyhow he doesn't mind sharing.

All Life must be by DESIGN.
Intellect and Intelligence had to exist before any Life existed.
Why? Simply because Life had to be IMAGINED and then
designed. Like a house.
How much Intellect and Intelligence is needed to design Life?
A little or a LOT?
I am sure you will agree, that a Great Intellect indeed is
needed to design Life. So Great in fact, that it may be
impossible for us to imagine today.
We can summarize our discussion so far in the following
statement:
GREAT Intellect had to exist FIRST – before any Life in
the Universe came to existence.

I would like to stress both words: GREAT and the
INTELLECT, because without phenomenal Intelligence -
Life just couldn’t happen.
Please make sure that you truly understand what we are talking
about here. There is little point of reading further if you do not
understand and agree with the above statement.

The concept of The Purpose
Can you imagine anyone EXTREMELY intelligent designing
something with NO purpose and for NO reason?
Hence, the next conclusion is that Life MUST have a
PURPOSE.
Prepare your imagination and intellect to stretch to the limits
you never thought possible.
If you can meet the challenge, even to a limited extent, you
will know for SURE your place and perspectives in the
Universe. You will no longer need to “believe” anyone and
anything. YOU WILL KNOW. For sure.
Wouldn’t you like to see your life from the widest perspective
imaginable? Wouldn’t you like to KNOW what is really going
on in the Universe and WHAT FOR? Why did it happen? Why
it HAD TO happen?
Many great individuals in the distant past tried to explain some
aspects of The Purpose to people who couldn’t even start
understanding what they heard. Since they couldn’t understand
much – they developed various “beliefs”.
But “suspecting” or “believing” in The Purpose and
PROVING it comprehensively to EVERY INDIVIDUAL,
including YOURSELF are totally different things.
The insight and understanding that I would like to share with
you was developed gradually, over four decades
of trials and errors, followed by 5 years of meditation and
intensive concentration, several hours each day.
Communicating it to you is the most difficult task in my life so
far.
Understanding The Purpose and proving it to myself, although
a great challenge in itself, was not as difficult as expressing it
for other people to understand. Why?
Because it takes TWO minds to have truly effective
communication. I know myself but I do not know YOU. I
simply do not know what information and which examples
from Nature would stimulate your imagination most
effectively.
Before I started writing, I tried to express my discovery to
several carefully chosen friends, to whom I am very grateful
for their feedback. Almost all of them were deeply moved and
suggested to “write this down”.
So, here it is.
First - let us consider The Beginning. Everything has to have a
beginning. Do you agree?

The Beginning
Imagine The Beginning.
The Beginning of Everything.
There is NOTHING.
Absolutely Nothing - no space, no time, no perception, no
consciousness - nothing.
Can you imagine TRUE NOTHING?
I know that it is hard, but try...
Imagine theoretical, hypothetical, absolute NOTHING that had
to exist before anything else in The Beginning.
The Beginning of Everything.
Try to imagine NOTHING in your mind.
Now, how many absolute "Nothings" like that can exist?
If you say 2 or more - neither of them will be "nothing"
anymore - there will be 2 of "something" that you defined and
distinguished as 2 separate "things".
So, we have to conclude, that in The Beginning - there could
only be ONE NOTHING.
Singularity.
Hence, the entire Universe must be a Single Process – no
matter how complicated it seems to us and no matter how
limited is our perception and interpretation of it.

Incidentally, everything that our astronomers can perceive in
the Universe seems to originate from the Single Point in Space
– called by scientists the Centre of the Big Bang.
Is it a coincidence?

Development of intellect
Let’s examine what are essential conditions for intellect to
develop.
Is it possible to “record” or “transmit” intellect from one living
creature to another? If it was – we would be teaching monkeys
and chickens at Universities.
Can one person learn and another become more intelligent as a
result? Not really.
Is it possible to develop intellect without practicing any
thinking? Highly unlikely.
The only necessary condition for development of intellect
seems to be the INTENT of intellect ITSELF. Nothing else is
needed – only the intent to think.
From the above consideration it is clear that Intellect can
ONLY develop ITSELF. No one else can make us more
intelligent and wise – only ourselves. Is that not so?
So, the key property of intellect is that it can develop
ITSELF in the direction of its own INTENT.
Now try to imagine what would happen to intellect, if it did
NOT have the intent to develop itself. What would happen to
your own intellect if you decided NOT to use it at all?

Suppose that you decided NOT to think. It is clear, that in time
your intellect would decay and regress significantly.
So, intellect has a motive to develop itself. The best and the
most logical choice for intellect – is to grow and expand itself.
Otherwise it decays and in the extreme case it may even cease
to exist.
Isn’t it a pleasant feeling to become more intelligent and
knowledgeable?
Would you consider choosing the opposite?
Would you have a desire to become less intelligent?
Please keep answers to the above questions in your mind – you
may need them very soon.

Where is intellect?
What is the difference between a living body and a dead body
at the moment of death?
Every organ in both cases is exactly the same.
Even every atom is the same.
So what is the difference?
“Consciousness is gone” as many experts would say.
Gone WHERE? And where is it when we are alive anyway?
Surely NOT in any organ, or even not in any atom of our body
– because they all remain exactly the same at the point of
death. Organs and atoms are not “going” anywhere. They stay
the same, and only later do they decay.
From this simple example, we have to conclude that
consciousness as well as intellect (which is a certain aspect of
consciousness), exist independently of the material reality that
is composed of atoms.
Where are they? We do not know yet, but it doesn’t mean that
we cannot study them.
However, it is clear, that using material technology (any
instrument made from atoms) to study consciousness and
intellect may not be a very good idea.
The MIND should be our instrument. Let’s use it.

The Origin of Intellect:
We agreed that in The Beginning there was a Singular
Nothing.
We also agreed, that before Life could come to existence –
there had to exist a Great Intellect who designed it.
How could a Great Intellect come to existence? Could it come
to existence from and In the Nothing?
Well, we have just discovered, by examining certain aspects of
ourselves in one of the previous sections of this book, that
intellect CAN and actually DOES develop itself. You have a
proof of it within your OWN intellect.
Indeed, when you sincerely and thoroughly examine Your Self
– you will find that your own intellect has expanded itself
from a very simple awareness, so simple in fact, that you may
not even consciously remember it.
So, we have a very logical sequence. The Intellect developed
ITSELF from the simplest possible awareness – just as our
intellect did.
In other words, the awareness of Nothing expanded itself -
much as OUR awareness did. That's why it is SO important to
study ourselves – it is the only way to understand
Consciousness.

From awareness - consciousness of "being", intelligence and
Intellect developed - all by ITSELF and with ITSELF. Nothing
else was needed - only the INTENT of Intellect to think by
itself – at every stage of its own development.3
We have already established that one of the most pleasurable
and satisfying activities for Intellect is to develop ITSELF.
Hence, it is almost certain, that after sufficient amount of
thinking The Intellect became very evolved - from and in the
Nothing.
Apart from the pleasure of developing itself, what OTHER
essential needs of The Advanced Intellect can we identify
beyond any doubt? What would satisfy The Great Intellect and
Intelligence of the Designer of Life? It seems impossible to
say... However, we CAN determine the needs of OUR
intellect, can’t we?
Let’s try to establish what activities are the most satisfying
for YOUR intelligence and intellect.
Imagine that you have no physical body - only intellect and
intelligence. What would be the most pleasant and most
satisfying activity for your intellect? The ULTIMATE
activity? That would NEVER be boring, that you would like
doing indefinitely long?
This topic is very advanced and can be fully understood only by studying
the Self, which may take every reader a lifetime. However, understanding
of how awareness can appear and develop intellect is not essential to
understand the rest of this book. It is sufficient if reader understands the
concept of the Singular Nothing and the need for The Intellect to precede
Life.
It is purely about yourself. The better you understand the
answer - the closer you will approach complete understanding
of the Purpose of the entire Universe. For this reason, I suggest
that you THINK about the answer to this question, before you
continue reading.

Intellectual Needs
We have already established that one of the most pleasurable
and satisfying activities for Intellect is to develop ITSELF.
Have you discovered anything else trying to answer questions
from the previous chapter? Have you found any other
ESSENTIAL needs for YOUR intellect?
What about a need for FEELINGS? What particular feeling is
the most pleasant and always satisfying?
Isn’t it LOVING and being LOVED?
Indeed, just by examining ourselves we can establish with a
high degree of certainty, that ANY advanced intellect has a
NEED for Higher Feelings, such as Love.
So, without any doubts, we can conclude that The Great
Intellect also had a NEED to experience Higher Feelings. It
needed to Love and to be Loved.
What exactly is “True Love”? It is very difficult to define this
blissful “state” of mind and intellect with any precision. One
thing is certain, however. In order to experience Love – an
exchange of feelings has to take place. To experience Love –
we need to give Love and also experience being loved.
Do you want a proof? Imagine that one of the above is
missing...

Hence, for Love to be complete and truly fulfilling it has to be
a mutual exchange of feelings.
Exchange of feelings? With WHOM ????
There is no one else! The Intellect is alone in the Nothing!
So, The Intellect, at a certain level of its evolution (only then!),
develops a NEED for certain sensations, that we call
"feelings". In particular, it imagines a very special, blissful
EXCHANGE of feelings that we now call LOVE.
But to make such an exchange possible – The Intellect needs a
“company” of other "individual intellects" to make such a
pleasant exchange POSSIBLE.
Do you know how to DESIGN a system, in which the
possibility of experiencing Love is maximized?
Let’s explore some key aspects of such a design.

Designing for LOVE
Can you force anyone to love you?
Can you demand being loved?
Would you really love someone if there are “conditions”
attached?
What happens to true Love in these situations?
The moment we try to force anyone to love us, or impose any
conditions, the Higher feeling that we call Love – simply stops
existing. It is instantly replaced by feelings of bitterness,
disappointment and even deceit, as soon as any conditions are
discovered.
This is a very “delicate situation” – to say the least.
From the above, it is clear that:
In order to experience True Love - the autonomy of
individual intellects cannot be in any way compromised.
Individual intellects have to CHOOSE themselves to give their
Highest feelings to other individual intellects by their OWN
Free Will.
Hence, we can define the autonomy of the “individual
intellects” as a necessary condition in “Designing for Love”.

Without the autonomy of “individual intellects” – no
possibility of Love exists.
An essential part of this individual autonomy is the
unconstrained Freedom of Choice, or Free Will.
Should there be any limits to such an autonomy of the
“individual intellect”? If there is any limit whatsoever in The
Design – as soon as it is discovered by the “individual
intellect” – it would induce very unpleasant feelings of
disappointment and deceit.
So,
In the Design for Love, autonomy of the individual intellect
should be unlimited.

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"There was a young lady named Bright
Who travelled much faster than Light
She started one day
In a relative way
And returned on a previous night."
-Arthur Buller

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Randall
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posted September 17, 2004 01:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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Moon666Child
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posted October 04, 2004 01:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moon666Child     Edit/Delete Message
Wow! Very thought provoking!

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paras
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posted October 04, 2004 06:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for paras     Edit/Delete Message
Thank you, SunChild!

I love to hear of another's realization of the trinity of Nothing-ness, and One-ness, and Many-ness. It can be said so many ways -- and at the same time no words can adequately describe it. One stares into the Void, only to see himSelf reflected back -- and then stares into himSelf, only to see everyOne else reflected back -- and then stares into everyOne else, only to see the Void reflected back... what I'm trying to put a handle on now is how to keep this knOwing from driving one crazy while immersed in the physical realm. I found your first post here most encouraging:

quote:
Only after experiencing existence outside my physical body,
exploring “the other side” and mysteries of Higher
Consciousness, discovering with astonishment The Singular
Nothing, the Origin and The Purpose of the entire Universe,
only then did I understand, that the best choice I can make
everyday is to live in my physical body.
Only then I realized that the best tool for my feeble and
limited Intellect to explore the entire Universe is actually my
own physical body. Only then I started to appreciate the
feedback and all sensations my body provides for my Intellect.
Only then I noticed that the part of the Universe that is closest
to me is actually my own physical body.

quote:
In summary, staying in a physical body, learning from it and
from Nature around us as much as possible is the best choice
we can make. This is the fastest way to make progress in the
Universe at our stage of evolution.

Many thanks for sharing.

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Randall
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posted October 18, 2004 12:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
*bump*

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Randall
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posted October 21, 2004 11:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
Welcome back.

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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posted October 22, 2004 09:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Thank-you's!

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posted March 24, 2007 10:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
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