notes: The more the is anxiety, there more there is uncertainty. To that degree the play has succeeded. The more the actors have succeeded to grip you. ~14:00 You have been connected. You are living it up - to convince you that this is a real situation. :) Alone/ lonely - All insides have outsides. Inside the skin goes with the outside of the skin - And outside of the skin is the whole cosmos. And that goes with the outside, the same as the front goes with the back - and when you realize that - that is the mystics point of view - s/he finds that out. Morals: rules analogous to the rules of language. We talk to each other in English only if there is mutual agreement to what is the language. We have to behave by rules of driving on the road, of family arrangements, etc., but this is not largely recognized because the authority who regulates the rules of grammar is different. If you transgress the rules of grammar, people wont summon the police. So one sees the authority of the STATE as standing behind those rules. The domain of mysticism and of morals come into conflict, The mystics have been suspect. When in the domain of religion, then the priests are greatly disturbed. Glossolalia - speaking in tongues. ~24:00 Bishop Pike wrote in a letter - We must not be too dogmatic, we must keep open mind above all these matters. But when it comes to speaking in tongues - this must not happen in the physical church! Now this has characteristically been the attitude of priests - everything has to be done decently and in order - they have been afraid of the spontaneous manifestations. Life falling in love. Astounding paradox comes about: we know on the one hand that human love is only genuine when it is felt in the depths of the heart and we know that this is true whether it be the love of man of love of god. We dont want someone to love us because they are forcing it. We want them to love us because they really do in their heard. Now if you go back in the study of the Hebrew religion underlying the history of Christianity, you will find the problem in this way. Youve got two traditions constantly compensating against each other: the priestly tradition and the prophetic tradition. The priesthood is always concerned with the outward observance of the laws. But the prophetic tradition is concerned with - do you really mean what you do. ... If you really obey the law, you obey it with your feelings - and not just outwardly. ~29.00 To write the law in the heart means to change ones desire. So you see,what this comes to this is a peculiarly paradoxical situation - you are required by law to be completely honest and loving. This is where the astonishing conflict arises between the mystic and the moralist. Luther said inward compliance is a most terrible thing - he based most of this philosophy on an attack that your own inner feeling can be Commanded. If you tell another person that you love them but in your heart you know you dont love them, youre a liar. And the more you insist on that lie... etc., You will not have sufficient energy to make a sort of mock of the feeling of love. I have met someone who was always doing stuff for the good of all beings and... I couldnt get on with him, because...~36:00 Real honesty is always not pretending that your feelings are other than they are. ~ 36:50 Morals and mysticism : the vision - the harmoniousness of everything that you are from one moment to the other. In other words: human behavior - its ups and its downs - is no different in principal than the behavior of the clouds, or of the wind, or of the matters of the dancing flames. Ultimately it is the same with human beings - we are just the part of the natural order, the same as the sky. The person who is most destructive is the person who pretends to be a model of love and rectitude and justice etc., - because no one can be. Book recommendation - Memories, Dreams and Reflections C G Jung ~40:00 A man who understood how to integrate in his being the devil in himself and the monkey in himself. The mystic is the one who feels that everything that happens is in some way harmonious, right, is in some way an integral part of the universe. Now when we translate that into the moral sphere - there are no wrong feelings - there may be wrong actions, actions contrary to the rules of human communication. But the way you *feel* towards other people - loving, hating, etc., - there no wrong feelings. [Feelings, etc.,] ~42:00 https://youtube/watch?v=WhOpuY8NO0A
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