The Malleable Light

This will be a short post inspired by a three hour philisophical discussion, in which a man of strong religious beliefs who I have great respect for tried to sway me into his belief system. We discussed “The Ultimate Truth”, and how religions or the lack of religion fit into the search for it. I will not disclose which religion or who I discussed this with, as it is not relevant to this blog entry.

When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was “Hell in the Pacific”, which tells the story of two men, one American and one Japanese, marooned on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific. They survive by accepting their differences and working together, despite the fact that their two countries are at war. At the end of the movie, after calling a truce, a magazine brings their conversation back to religion and war and therefore ending the truce and they begin fighting again. Minutes later a bomb lands on them and blows them to pieces. Last night’s discussion reminded me of this movie.

Our main disagreement stemmed from a hypothetical person who chooses a predefined organized religious path versus one who simply chooses his own path and how this choice will ultimately lead to “The Ultimate Truth”. The one thing that we both agreed on, is that neither of our beliefs or paths made sense to the other.

My current observation is that there may or may not be an “Ultimate Truth”; however, my logical but currently limited human brain tells me that there most likely is. What doesn’t make sense about all of this is when a person expects his religion to make sense to others and tries to force it on them. Based on the information I have collected, no one knows what the “Ultimate Truth” is or even if it exists. There are various religions of various popularity, spread across virtually every culture, all attempting to discover “The Ultimate Truth.”

My personal belief is that Earth and humans are a VERY small part of the overall picture, and confining oneself to one physical world, or even worse, to one religion, will limit one who chooses to do so. Be happy if you have found your path, even if it is a limiting path. It’s fine to share your discoveries with others, but realize that not everyone will be or will want to be on that same path and all paths may “Ultimately” lead to the same truth in one form or another.

It seems that the truth gets lost in interpretation, or perhaps the truth IS the interpretations which exist in religious silos. It’s possible that the “Ultimate Truth” lies in the absence of any interpretation. I think that the key here is to respect others for what they believe even if it doesn’t make sense to you, because it’s very likely that what you believe doesn’t make sense to them either, and that’s ok.

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I’ve been frequenting the Astral Pulse forums for about 20 days now and I have read at least that many ways for achieving the altered state of consciousness called an OBE.  The techniques are important, but if you look at each technique, it seems that the key to success boils down to one single thing, which is not falling asleep, at least mentally.  This seems very foreign to me and takes extreme focus to pull it off.

I have been asking myself why I require so much intense focus to change the way in which I fall asleep, and the answer is more obvious than you might think. When you consider that it took your entire life to learn how to fall asleep you will then suddenly realize that it may take the entire remainder of your life to change that habit, well maybe not that long, but it will take time.

This is not just restricted to the world of out of body experiences and transformations of consciousness. The reason I noticed this was not OBE related at all. I have recently switched to the Chrome web browser and love it, however I can’t stop clicking on the IE icon. I have spent the last 3 days clicking on the wrong icon and then literally a fraction of a second later kicking myself for clicking it.

That’s why when we want to change old habits, our most important path is being awake to our experience. We need to pay attention to what we are doing and notice every little thing. We must realize that if it takes days to reverse a habit of clicking a simple computer icon, that it may take weeks, months and possibly years to change our sleeping habits. These habits are hard coded and must be rewritten.

The irony here is that when we break these habits we realize that the waking life that we have been experienceing was nothing but dream itself. It’s only through breaking these habits that we can set our spirits free and experience life rather than being stuck in patterns of inertia.

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