DWQA Questions › Tag: spiritual heritageFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesA practitioner asks: “Creator has often mentioned moral principles for living and these have historically been presented in major religions, passed on in societies, and are represented again in GetWisdom. However, some say that moral understanding is not best absorbed from authority figures but constructed through personal experiences, interactions, and reflections. Individuals integrate new moral insights with their existing moral beliefs to form a coherent moral perspective. To what extent is it through reflection that individuals assess the consequences of their actions, reconsider their moral principles, and adjust their behavior accordingly? How can LHP practitioners best grow their moral perspectives?” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Subconscious Mind75 views0 answers0 votesA practitioner asks: “Many people have behaviors that are unhelpful at best or harmful to themselves or others. People generally know this about themselves but do not make changes. Despite many models of behavior change developed by researchers from psychology, sociology, public health, etc., reflecting a broad range of approaches to understanding and influencing behavior, their effectiveness is often limited and short-lived. What can be learned from these shortcomings and limitations? What is a better perspective and tactics for deeper and more permanent change in, for example, alcohol consumption, exercise, and healthy eating? Would making specific requests targeted at specific behaviors in LHP-DSMR requests be best?” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Subconscious Mind79 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “Creator has previously shared the Ten Divine Principles for Living, suggesting there is an objective morality independent of human thinking which people can become more aware of by studying sacred texts or communicating with Creator. Human secular philosophy has also developed theories on how things should or ought to be based on mainly three perspectives. The first perspective from human secular philosophy is based on rules, duties, and obligations.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Divine Guidance94 views0 answers0 votesHe continues: “The second perspective from human secular philosophy is based on happiest outcomes for the greatest number.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Divine Guidance87 views0 answers0 votesHe continues: “The third perspective from human secular philosophy is based on what kind of person one should be and how one should live.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Divine Guidance78 views0 answers0 votesHe continues: “To what extent are the Divine and Human perspectives irreconcilable?” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Divine Guidance85 views0 answers0 votesHe continues: “Is the human philosophy of morality simply misconceived? Is being religiously moral more helpful?” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Divine Guidance99 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 Consciousness258 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 Consciousness261 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 Consciousness226 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 Consciousness240 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 Consciousness257 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 Consciousness296 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda wrote: “Your compulsion to possess and hold on to things is not unique, he (Don Juan) said. ‘Everyone who wants to follow the warrior’s path, the sorcerer’s way, has to rid himself of this fixation.’ My benefactor told me that there was a time when warriors did have material objects on which they placed their obsession. And that gave rise to the question of whose object would be more powerful, or the most powerful of them all. Remnants of those objects still remain in the world, the leftovers of that race for power.” For a tourist to pick up such an object found in ancient ruins and take it home, can be dangerous in the extreme. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness238 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda wrote that Don Juan said, “… the ultimate accomplishment of a warrior (seer, seeker, shaman) was joy.” Sounds like everyone’s after the same thing, the bliss of divine communion, divine partnership perhaps, with Creator and Creator’s infinite love? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness225 views0 answers0 votes
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