Did someone say, ``Housing market recovery?''

[flintlock]

Re: Did someone say, ``Housing market recovery?''

Too bad the whole FIRE economy can't just take it's medicine and get this over with. They are going to drag this out for years trying to restart housing.

[labasta]

Re: Did someone say, ``Housing market recovery?''

Ash, I also don't buy the "banks control everything" theory. And I believe you are absolutely correct that we could very easy be in a populist politics period within the next year.
jim

My optimist side says you are right. (It's the side that is in at the moment). Otherwise, some day down the road, America will have martial law.


I love the comments on religion and such. The PDF on the difference between traditions/doctrines and the orginal spiritual meaning is very well said. I'd go further. I'm reading a book at the moment called initiation into hermetics by Franz Bardon. It's an amazing piece of work. I'm at stage 2 of its instruction and it seems to be a lifetime practice. Just completing stage 2 well make me a much much better person which I am eternally grateful (This will take many many months however).

After reading the book so far, I could see real esoteric meaning in some of the things practiced in the Christian tradition which have been forgotten. The bottom line is that religion needs to be restructured and called "self-betterment", "self-empowerment" or "an expansion in consciousness". The last one seems really new-agey and wishy-washy. However, a side effect of completing stage 1 of the book, I had a dream where I was another person. Fine so far right? But during this dream, instead of it being an out of focus, barely memorable affair I suddenly was in the dream just like I was here now in this world. The clarity was crystal. I focused on the minute details of the wall around me in crystal clarity just like I could here if focused on my wall paper. I looked at my own hand in the dream and it wasn't human. It was as much my own hand as my own hand was in this world. And yet at the same time I was equally aware that I was lying in bed here in this world. Freakily, I could have continued and got to look at everything, but I was so apprehensive, not to say scared, of this that I got out of the dream, rather than exist in another world. It freaked me out a little. Maybe I should be a bit braver next time.

Thanks to the book and that initial dream, I am starting to understand what they mean by "expanding your consciousness". It might mean that I can be two or more people at once. I mean, can I be three or a million people??? Can I be non-humanoid aware, or inanimate aware? Is it possible to be aware (and be) everything at the same time? Is this the true definition of God? Very very freaky. Serious gulp.

Might be a one-off though. Will have to see.

On a side note, confronting my weaknesses can be really easy and yet one (so far) has been paralyzingly hard. Once done though, I feel a little bit better. It's also a bit weird that when consciously confronting and willfully remedying my weaknesses, the situations which allow myself to do so appear within 24 hours. I've had three so far. One situation was very hard for me, but I did it to a certain degree.

Good luck to anyone who practices these monk-like initiations.

[cjppjc]

Re: Did someone say, ``Housing market recovery?''

The clarity was crystal. I focused on the minute details of the wall around me in crystal clarity just like I could here if focused on my wall paper. I looked at my own hand in the dream and it wasn't human. It was as much my own hand as my own hand was in this world. And yet at the same time I was equally aware that I was lying in bed here in this world. Freakily, I could have continued and got to look at everything, but I was so apprehensive, not to say scared, of this that I got out of the dream, rather than exist in another world. It freaked me out a little. Maybe I should be a bit braver next time.

Thanks to the book and that initial dream, I am starting to understand what they mean by "expanding your consciousness". It might mean that I can be two or more people at once. I mean, can I be three or a million people??? Can I be non-humanoid aware, or inanimate aware? Is it possible to be aware (and be) everything at the same time? Is this the true definition of God? Very very freaky. Serious gulp.

I beleive the idea of "expanding your consciouness" is not about being more than one person. It is about expanding YOUR consciouness. The clarity you experienced in the dream can be attained for brief periods in your life if you can remember to try.