Questions for God

Jehebranoi wrote: I mean in a spiritually meditative way, if you were to be cleansing yourself of all bad around you spiritually, then you wouldn't be letting any negative thoughts trap you, into thought, and by doing this with your focus enough on being a part of God in this way, he will become more viably visible.

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time connecting to what you are actually saying. Can I ask if this is what you have learned or is it from personal experience?

maguru wrote:

There is always going to be difficulty explaining an experience with words ,as like you say different people can use a different word to describe a similar feeling or experience. I hold group workshops and find this is often the case, however when I say that I call it nothingness most people will agree with that as a description of the peace or connectedness or bliss and actually find it easier to return or reconnect to it when the name doesn't matter.
It looks to me like you are connecting to it already-but you seem to be still in your head remembering "where you go" as opposed to how you feel, and when your spirit self takes over you don't remember or go blank, could you call this blank 'nothingness'.

I believe there is some processing going on. Sometimes I could call it an expansion of my consciousness/awareness. And yes, I could call it my spirit self which I feel to be my whole self as one and no other. Just me.

I don't "go" anywhere, What I do is reach out and open my mind to infinity and allow the endlessness of outside soak in or enter into me/my mind and at the same time I enter into the outside, becoming more then 'me' and leaving or letting go that 'me' for something other then 'me'. The feeling I get is that of connectedness with all and a deep deep sense of peace growing and flowing.

Oh wow. that sounds amazing. I can understand this. What you are saying is similar to me in the transformative process. I think the difference maybe that I meditate on my negative emotions, or I allow negative emotions as I believe them to be an integral part of the transformative process. Like one side of the coin.

I start from the acceptance that my spirit self and my human self are two distinct and separate beings, The 'human' being a tool to teach or remind me of the presence, awareness and acceptance of the other- the spirit, and rather then them being two sides of the one coin, one has to be chosen as a state of being/mind over the other. I don't believe your human self will ever transform into your spirit self as spirit is whole and complete now, The negative emotions are indeed an integral part of a transformative process, because as long as you 'entertain' hold or keep these feelings you cannot be peaceful or spiritual, this is how the human is teaching, it is showing what we have made of ourselves and offers us opportunities to choose change. I would also accept that the biggest and strongest block to connecting to your spirit self is your human/ego self, because it believes in loss or loosing where in reality it can only gain. Try starting a meditation with the intention of leaving any idea of 'me' behind (so to speak). I have a couple of meditations on my website you might like to try out.
[url=http://] www.paulwilliams.ie/meditations/meditation.html [/url]

I start from the acceptance that my spirit self and my human self are two distinct and separate beings, The 'human' being a tool to teach or remind me of the presence, awareness and acceptance of the other- the spirit, and rather then them being two sides of the one coin, one has to be chosen as a state of being/mind over the other. I don't believe your human self will ever transform into your spirit self as spirit is whole and complete now,

I'm more concerned with the life I experience as a human being and how 'spirituality' can change my experiences and how it can connect us, rather than dis-connect as it is now.

The negative emotions are indeed an integral part of a transformative process, because as long as you 'entertain' hold or keep these feelings you cannot be peaceful or spiritual, this is how the human is teaching, it is showing what we have made of ourselves and offers us opportunities to choose change. I would also accept that the biggest and strongest block to connecting to your spirit self is your human/ego self, because it believes in loss or loosing where in reality it can only gain. Try starting a meditation with the intention of leaving any idea of 'me' behind (so to speak). I have a couple of meditations on my website you might like to try out.
[url=http://] www.paulwilliams.ie/meditations/meditation.html [/url]

I believe I am connected to my spirit all the time. I do not perceive myself as separate in any way, not even ego. It's all me. Does your perspective and practice help you in day to day living?

I think that in order to achieve, connecting personally, you have to put yourself in the other person's shoes sort've speak. How would achieve this by reading what I said? You could probably read it over and over again and eventually, just from me being connected to it, you would understand. But from I understand from just remembering what I said, and not reading it over again and again and AGAIN, is just that there is a way to see God, and that that certain way involves certain skills or something necessaries that allows you to be able to SEE God. If what I was proposing was that you could see God in a certain way, then clearly that way involves you on a personal level connecting personally with God. I'm not sure what YOU mean in your lines of questioning.

Jehebranoi wrote: I think that in order to achieve, connecting personally, you have to put yourself in the other person's shoes sort've speak. How would achieve this by reading what I said? You could probably read it over and over again and eventually, just from me being connected to it, you would understand. But from I understand from just remembering what I said, and not reading it over again and again and AGAIN, is just that there is a way to see God, and that that certain way involves certain skills or something necessaries that allows you to be able to SEE God. If what I was proposing was that you could see God in a certain way, then clearly that way involves you on a personal level connecting personally with God. I'm not sure what YOU mean in your lines of questioning.

I mean in a spiritually meditative way, if "I" were to be cleansing "myself" of all bad around "me" spiritually, then "I" wouldn't be letting any negative thoughts trap "me", into thought, and by doing this with "my" focus enough on being a part of God in this way, he will become more viably visible.

I've just stepped into your shoes by putting "I" in the above quote instead of "you". I get what you are saying in that blocking out negativity helps to focus on god. I think you are describing a method that you use. My question was does this help you in your day to day life?

This is but not the subject. If you were questioning how to see God, then I in fact stated it.