Universal Heretic's Communal Shade Tree

[Zigzag Idiot]

"We Have to Risk the Aloneness and the Terror of Being Totally on Our Own

To have a free mind is to be a universal heretic. You don’t believe in the ultimate reality of any concept. You can assume any belief you find useful and attractive, but you don’t need to hold on to any of it. Without being captured by your beliefs, you are strong enough and confident enough to throw away any and all beliefs and perspectives, each and every philosophy and story. You can stand totally alone, completely independent of all that comes through the mind, through time and space. This station of realization is difficult and rare. Most of us don’t have the nerve to lose our minds. Although terrifying, it is necessary for true freedom. We have to risk that we may be wrong. We have to risk the aloneness and the terror of being totally on our own. We have to risk cutting all of our supports, burning all of our bridges, destroying all of our boats. They are all ultimately and fundamentally concepts that come from hearsay or, at best, from our own past experiences. Even the concepts and knowledge that have come from our own immediate experiences cannot be relied on. That knowledge is like Buddha’s words—old, unless corroborated in this moment. Maybe a week ago you had an experience of realization, but how do you know that will be the same today? Who said that God won’t change or that self-realization should continue being the same today? In other words, we cannot hold on to any concept past our direct experience of it; otherwise, what we’re doing is believing a story. Whether someone else’s or our own, a story is a story, not true reality here and now. To be truly independent and autonomous, we need to be free from the concepts acquired from others as well as our own past experiences". - Hammed Almaas

 

The creation of this Journal is/was a spontaneous thing for open to all. 

Transpersonal is my theme at the moment. Feel free to make comments or change themes and make comments.

[Zigzag Idiot]

A lot of stuff can be said about the Transpersonal. The capacity for making fun of oneself. That's one thing.

There can also be a complete absence of emotion.

The mulltidiminsnality of our being.

The phenomenology of it.

The changing states of consciousness. We can experience our multifacetedness as clear and precise as a diamond. Next week it might be more like a crumpled aluminum can. Emotions can be high volume or low volume. But from my experience higher volume emotions usually are in the territory's of the personal.

If you're reading this right now and have a slight pressure felt in the vicinity of the prefrontal lobes, you're at the right spot. But then if that's the case, you didn't need me to tell you. Huh? If you don't experience that at the present, nevermind, but please put it (the notion) on the shelf for the time being.

Slow, concise, Zen-like land-mines is one way of expressing.

I have a Eurasian friend who does pretty well delivering it machine gun style also. ?

Edited April 24, 2020 by Zigzag Idiot
fight / right

[Zigzag Idiot]

This is also a terminal/garage for magic flying carpets. Shamanic taxi drivers use these and assist those who have 

Psychological vertigo. 

[Zigzag Idiot]

Everyone is schizophrenic. It's just a matter of degree.

The Fourth Way frames our multidimensionality as a multiplicity of "I"s that are not integrated.

"If you're going to be crazy, you might as well enjoy it" - TM

[Zigzag Idiot]

Shift of theme.

"Absence of joy is slow suicide." -Ocke de Boer

"Any attitude other than peace or joy is egoic". - Jesus through ACIM 

Paraphrased by me through often faulty  memory.

Proper use of grammar is uninteresting and time consuming.

Free pass on pronoun use here. I, me whatever. Doesn't matter here. Just express it.

Run on sentences are ok too.

[DrewNows]

@Zigzag Idiot New channel (for me) I’ve been diving into recently, it’s quite the breath of fresh air, filled with nuggets and ?