I've gotten behind a bit on A New Earth, have some catching ip to do, and I hope I can catch Elizabeth Lessor, too.
I've had cd's by her in the past, can't recall what now, but stories about her past and her experiences, I spoke with her once, she was delightful. Her voice is very calming, I listened to her once on a drive X country alone.
I wouldn't mind meeting Elizabeth, or Tolle.
Oprah, well, she is really all about drama. ( But Oprah’s great, a fun person I think.
‘Oprah’ is about Oprah, She takes the world along on her ride whatever it is at the time. It's interesting.
Right now Oprah is exploring awareness, so everyone else is exploring awareness. It's kind of humorous. (if you think about it)
While she is exploring awareness and observation, her reality show is exploring drama.. (well I don’t watch Oprah, so I can’t say what she is exploring now)
A bundle of contradictions?
Oprah's life is not dedicated to consciousness, it is dedicated to Oprah. If Oprah is on a diet, we're all on diets, if Oprah's doing charity, we're all doing charity, if Oprah is interested in poop, (lol) we're all interested in poop. Very dynamic woman, Oprah.
If she is looking at consciousness, we're all looking at consciousness. Weird...The woman opens her mouth and makes a fortune. I should be so lucky, I could also amass a fortune with my chitter chatte!
It could be confusing to people, her ‘show’ verses her production of Tolle and A New Earth, but who knows, maybe this will shift her life from drama to peace and awareness we al seek?
I can't wait to see. I find it all very provocative.
I am reminded of when I had Avasa here from Wales and Shakti from Italy. A woman joined the group from Austin, she was the Oprah of Satsang that few weeks, dominating the Satsang, and rephrasing all that Avasa was saying ( rather than just asking him to rephrase it). She had sat with Gangaji, and was sure she was ready to be a teacher.
We're all teacher's, however, we just don't necessarily decide how we'll teach or what people will learn. Most of us are unconscious, wanting to be conscious teachers. It’s funny.
The brain, I want to discuss the brain again, and mental illness, etc.
I am certain that manipulating, and rationalizing, causes the brain to make new circuits and pathways that disturb the perfect brain we begin with. ( Just as making creating circuits can heal a disturbed brain). Of course, some of this happens because we are children who are not living in a healthy home and needs aren't met, or we experience some trauma that causes cognitive dissonance. (This can be a crazy spouse, who is very convincing.) I had one!
In religion, Christianity, for instance, there is a warning about manipulating and rationalizing, and so forth.
Christ spent considerable time (as spoken of in the Bible , ) talking about hypocrites. I think hypocrisy is caused by manipulating and lying to yourself and to others. Personality disorders etc. all stem from these practices.
When we have clarity about what we've done, it is called grace, because it enables us to straighten out our thinking, and operate from a clear, clean place of being, a more sensory right brain experience that is also involved with intuition, and some left brain activity.
Taking on 'beliefs' when one has this type of right brain experience re-involves the left-brain domination and from these beliefs we create there, we get the fundamentalists radicals; hypocrites, religious people who talk religion, and prayer, and who create havoc in peoples lives and never makes amends. These are out of control, but believable people,( because most of us want to believe people are what they say they are), but don't look at what people say, look at what they do.
Some people work hard to gain the cooperation of those who might help convince themselves they are self righteous people.
These people aren't to be confused with people who are 'confused' by manipulative people and who are trying to understand what the heck is going on by talking to other people in perhaps a very confused manner. (because being with manipulative people is very confusing).
The best thing you can do when you notice you are becoming confused around a person, who sends mixed messages, is get away from them. Run; don't walk to he nearest exit. And don’t go back.
The best thing you can do if you know someone who is being manipulated and confused by someone or a few people, is to confirm to them that they are being taken advantage of ( ask questions) and help them find a way to get out, at least temporarily so they can see the difference between sanity and insanity.
People, who are cynical most of the time, are dangerous people, self absorbed and usually intelligent enough to mislead others. People who claim to be something but who go against what they say they are, or believe in, are to be avoided at all cost.
People whose hearts aren't open, (right brain is heart, and works with inspiration (you can usually trust an artist), but left brain dominate people have closed narrow minds, because the heart is closed, thinking is then very limited, not broad and they are shallow or they talk a lot on code to confuse you. They have no compassion, but judge you instead or advise you, rather than listen to you and hear what you need to say.
Awareness, consciousness is expansive, people who have expansive minds, are usually balanced, but if they are hooked on being full time teachers, I would take a closer look. Can a person be quiet, and alone and not teaching and be happy? If so, they are probably safe.
People who are searching are admirable people, people who seem to know it all, (act over confident, or can't make sense, or are cynical) well, might be problematic.
And people who aren't good for their word, and don't carry through, aren't to be trusted and don't deserve your time.
People who don't support you when you ask for support, but who are arrogant instead, and who can't take a stand for right and wrong, aren't friends or family, have closed hearts and limited minds.. Please...make new friends. You don't need these people. They are usually lacking in integrity.
If you want to be a balanced person, you have to understand mumbo jumbo isn't helpful. If it doesn't seem to make sense, maybe it doesn't, But on the other hand maybe you have a closed heart and closed mind and can't understand because you are too limited, (dysfunctional).
I don't think of functional people as someone who goes to work everyday and gets a weekly paycheck, many alcoholics-and drug addicts do that, doesn't mean they are functional people. Function refers, to me, to how well the mind works, and is balanced with heart (compassion, listening, interested in learning, growth, change)
Right and wrong are always good indicators.
Look for good character, avoid bad character.
Creative endeavors are helpful for all people to balance the brain. Tasks like mold making is creative, but also requires thinking, it is very stimulating problem solving, and positive. 3 dimensional work helps the brain to balance, And of course, this is not done in our schools. Don't we want balanced children?
What we are, isn’t feeling or thought, what we are is something that uses feeling and thought in a balanced way.
We are good, we are good!
But if we aren't behaving like the good people we are there is an imbalance, a misunderstanding about what we are. If we don't recognize it and admit it, we are a danger to ourselves and to others. We aren't genuine, honest and balanced, and we can't know the goodness we are.
