DWQA Questions › Tag: divine perspectiveFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesFrankl wrote: “… even a man who finds himself in the greatest distress in which neither activity nor creativity can bring values to life, nor experience give meaning to it, even such a man can still give his life a meaning by the way he faces his fate, his distress. By taking his unavoidable suffering upon himself he may yet realize values. Thus life has meaning to the last breath … The right kind of suffering—facing your fate without flinching—is the highest achievement granted to man.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics282 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “It goes without saying that the realization of attitudinal values, the achievement of meaning through suffering, can take place only when the suffering is unavoidable.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics263 views0 answers0 votesFrankl quoted the great psychiatrist Dubois: “Of course one can manage without all that (dealing with a patient’s existential spiritual crisis) and still be a doctor, but in that case one should realize that the only thing that makes us different from the veterinarian is the clientele.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics262 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Freud once said, ‘Try and subject a number of strongly differentiated human beings to the same amount of starvation. With the increase of the imperative need for food, all individual differences will be blotted out, and, in their place, we shall see the uniform expression of the one unsatisfied instinct.'” But Frankl by dint of direct experience, not supposition, knew better: “But in the concentration camps, we witnessed the contrary; we saw while faced with the identical situation, one man degenerated while another attained virtual saintliness.” Freud’s is the atheist’s “untested” perspective, and one we assume is shared by the interlopers. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics274 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics260 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Previously the only obvious philosophical tenet that entered into the doctor’s work was the tacit affirmation of the value of health. Now we need to worry about WHY he (the patient) needs the health.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics272 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “A doctor should not prescribe a tranquilizer care for the despair of a man who is grappling with spiritual problems.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics257 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “It is philosophical dilettantism (or amateurism) to rule out, for example, the existence of a divine being on the ground that the idea of God arose out of primitive man’s fear of powerful natural forces. It is equally false to judge the worth of a work of art by the fact that the artist created it in, say, a psychotic phase of his life.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics257 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Man should not ask what he may expect from life, but should rather understand that life expects something from him.” Can Creator share with us what Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol require from the human individual? In other words, what remains within the domain of the individual to work out? Is it true that prayer and the LHP can make choices and leaps of faith easier, but cannot MAKE those choices? Are the choices themselves, the leaps of faith, left to the individual to accomplish as in the saying, you can lead a horse to water, but cannot make it drink? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics260 views0 answers0 votesAnyone who takes more than a passing interest in multicultural spiritual topics will inevitably encounter the writings of Carlos Castaneda. Wikipedia has this to say about Dr. Castaneda: His … “books were ethnographic accounts describing his apprenticeship with a traditional ‘Man of Knowledge’ identified as Don Juan Matus, allegedly a Yaqui Indian from Northern Mexico. The veracity of these books was doubted from their original publication, and they are now widely considered to be fictional.” Yet for anyone who takes serious time to study his works, it seems almost impossible to draw that same conclusion. What is Creator’s perspective on Castaneda and his life’s work?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness288 views0 answers0 votesIt seems incredible, to live our western secular lives, and be almost completely ignorant of the extraordinary spiritual heritage possessed by American indigenous peoples. Castaneda’s mentor, Don Juan Matus, is a most mysterious figure indeed. From the time of the Spaniard Cortez, indigenous shamanistic traditions have been brutally suppressed and pushed into the background. Castaneda writes of Don Juan in The Eagle’s Gift: “He told me that if I wanted to fly, I had to summon the intent of flying. He showed me then how he himself could summon it, and jumped in the air and soared in a circle, like a huge kite. Or he would make things appear in his hand. He said he knew the intent of many things and could call those things by intending them.” All this sounds extraordinary, but we know Jesus could do these things. The Hindus have a word “siddi” to describe these capabilities that we regard as “miraculous.” The message was that these abilities were obtainable by anyone with access to a knowledgeable mentor, and who was willing to dedicate themselves fully to the pursuit. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness282 views0 answers0 votesIt seemed the key and focus of learning to perform miracles in the waking state was to learn to first do these things in the dream state. Without mastery of the dream world, there could not be mastery of the physical world. Nearly all of Castaneda’s training was focused on gaining mastery of the dream world, or the “second attention” as Don Juan called it. It is assumed that the second attention is a synonym for our intuitive faculties. Our waking state is the first attention. Mastery of the second attention or intuitive faculties was the principal pursuit of the shaman and the source of his knowledge and ability to be used in service to his people. The sorcerer, on the other hand, is one who works to attain the same mastery, but only to serve the self and the pursuit of power and control over others. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness247 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda wrote: “The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle … The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on Earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle’s beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life … for awareness is the Eagle’s food.” This seems like an incomplete description of the Creator of All That Is. Accurate to a point, but missing the quality of love, and the desire on the part of Creator for partnership with his creations. This is further reflected in this passage: “The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the Eagle is too insignificant to move the whole.” As powerful as he was, was Don Juan missing the forest for the trees? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness257 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda wrote: Don Juan “said that there is nothing more dangerous than the evil fixation of the second attention (or evil mastery of the intuitive faculties). When warriors (or seekers/seers or shaman/sorcerers) learn to focus on the weak side of the second attention nothing can stand in their way. They become hunters of men, ghouls. Even if they are no longer alive, they can reach for their prey through time as if they were present here and now.” How big is the problem of dead evil sorcerers? Are these some of the human hybrid spirits that seem to have partnered with the fallen angelics? If they were particularly adept sorcerers when alive, might their powers even exceed that of some of the fallen angelics, similar in the way that Anunnaki spirits manage to control and repurpose the fallen angelics for evil aims?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness273 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda wrote: “… all archaeological ruins in Mexico, especially the pyramids, were harmful to modern man. He (Don Juan) depicted the pyramids as foreign expressions of thought and action. He said that every item, every design in them, was a calculated effort to record aspects of attention that were totally alien to us. For Don Juan, it was not only ruins of past cultures that held a dangerous element in them, anything which was the object of an obsessive concern had a harmful potential.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness322 views0 answers0 votes
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