Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00420)

Dr. A.M.Bain wrote:
>
> In message <960506001847_287923765@emout17.mail.aol.com>, RIhle@aol.com
> writes
> >Anyway, it is possible to understand how Self may be able to "make a
> >connection" with Spirit (Atma-Buddhi) because of the "verisimilitude of their
> >ultra-rarefied Natures"; however, it is problematic to conceive of how Spirit
> >can have any association with a physical body at all unless something else on
> >the "Prakriti side of things" operated as its "threshold of interpentration."
>
> My considered response here is that it is rather that Spirit may, from
> time to time, "make a connection" with Self - if Self is awake enough.
> My experience suggests that Spirit (individual *or* universal) does not
> have any association with a physical body other than "overseeing" one.
> Spirit is a bit like a) Saturn, who eats his children, or b) The Great
> Mother Goddess, who eats her children.

Yes and I think the being 'awake enough' is the operative word. People find
the idea of an impersonal Self a bit scary, they still like to have a friend
on high. The Christian God seems to fill this need but the Buddhist
philosophy does not. Better to be asleep in the lap of God than awake and
alone in the wide world of self responsibility.
>
> This is another way (IMO) of saying that the interest of Spirit in the
> human equation is to "digest" the experience of the life of the
> individual Self - and *very very* occasionally to lend a hand in
> emergencies. :-)
>
> I made a record of a 1977 (?) experience which I will try to find and
> post for the possible interest of subscribers to the list.  Extra good
> karma will accrue to TI members ... :-)
>
> Alan
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   Bee Brown
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