Giants in Patagonia, mate! (Limitless, RoS, LB, KB)

Purpose

This will serve as a record of my work with several subs in a new stack dedicated to achieving some goals centered around sustainability, networking, and work/genius as co-participation with God.

Here is the list of subliminals I am currently using:

  • Limitless (for the ability to quickly grasp concepts in business and taxation law, learning how to achieve mutual shared goals within the context of the existing frameworks that exist in my country)
  • Love Bomb (for pushing me towards cooperation with others and ensuring those bonds remain strong)
  • RoS (as I consider my continued journey as one whose salient point is co-participation with the Divine Being and related concepts within my own religious framework, as a way to promote excellence and to keep my actions on point and purpose)
  • Khan Black (to provide the additional energy needed to help Limitless to do its work, as well as to aid the manifestation of RoS)

These are not necessarily all run at once; rather I layer them into a stack, often not running the entire loop but running microloops or partial loops in accordance with the density I feel from the stack.

I also often use Paragon Ultima V2 both as white noise and also for physical health, usually in the context of just before bed or during meditation. Other subs are occasionally inserted on an as-needed basis.

Title of this thread

In the Expanse series, S02E11, when Colonel Janus is arguing with Dr Iturbi there is this dialogue:

Iturbi: ā€œDo you think Magellan would have circumnavigated the world if he had followed mission protocols?ā€

Janus: ā€œHe didnā€™t make it all the way around, he died trying!ā€

Dr. Iturbi: ā€œHe saw giants in Patagonia, mate!ā€

Itā€™s this type of spirit of adventure and ā€œlimitlessā€, out of the box thinking, or genius thinking, in the context of a small team of people, which characterizes the spirit of what Iā€™m going to accomplish with this stack.

Restrictions on shared content

  • I will avoid directly referring to the people Iā€™ll be co-operating or collaborating with, to avoid jeopardizing the project(s) or the privacy of others
  • I will avoid oversharing on specific topics or actions taken, except where necessary to demonstrate the effects of the subs
  • I may spend time discussing some spiritually focused topics where it relates to my thoughts or experiences using the subs (specifically RoS), but this is not to be taken as a full or even partial exposition of my own internal belief system, nor as a suggestion to others on how to undertake their own journey. I also need to balance sharing with my own privacy, and may leave things out that would over-expose that.

Preface

This account opens some several weeks before my participation in a local business assistance program run by our government ends, an experience covered in my previous journal ā€œRoad to Alexandria (IG: UPX)ā€.

My experience in that thread had me learn the Rust language from scratch along with OpenXR and Vulkan and several third party libraries in order to write a data analysis program that runs inside a virtual reality headset from scratch, and then (so far unsuccessfully) attempt to sell it or obtain support to continue its development.

Having recognized the extreme difficulty for me as a non sales focused individual with limited networking skills to run a successful business on my own, but also recognizing the undeniable value of my skills to others whose lifestyles, ideals and projects I can endorse, I realized the best course of action would be to cooperate with other people in a completely different type of venture which furthers and improves the community, and earn my livelihood as much as possible through this co-operation.

As the saying goes: ā€œThink globally, act locallyā€.

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Although I have been gradually transitioning my stack away from Index Gate for some time now, since I have to choose an arbitrary point for the start of my cycle, Iā€™m settling on last nightā€™s loop(s) as the start of the new cycle. This then makes this Day 2.

Stack (Day 1): Limitless, RoS (10 minutes), KB (4-5 minutes), Paragon Ultima V2 (full hour). This overlooped due to falling asleep during Paragon meaning additional exposure.

Current state: some recon from last night (possibly enhanced by late sleep and over-consumption of cigarettes), gathering thoughts, motivation: low-medium.

I will use the abbreviation CTS within this thread for meaning the level of connectedness I feel to Source/Divine Being at the time.

Current CTS: low-medium, ordinary waking consciousness. Need to work on this through my typical communion techniques before starting resolved activity below.

Resolution for activity today: Begin to rewrite a document I had started for primary potential colleague (I will label from hereon out PPC, SPC, etc, to avoid names or roles) to focus more on the game plan as a whole, adding subsections for the content I have already collated through use of Limitless and changing styling to make it more readable. BHAG is to get it all done tonight, more reasonable goal is to complete it tomorrow if my strength of resolve/mental focus flags.

Observations: Earlier video content watched on YouTube gave me inspiration/wider perspective on a special topic of non-primary interest: evidence in early history of polydactylic (more than five digits on a limb) giants and subsequent, often inbred bloodlines sharing the same characteristic. There are some fascinating studies of polydactylism in early Native American culture, as well as petroglyphs five metres high or more of men with extra digits, and stories within the cultures themselves. Chaco Canyon had 3 out of the 96 skeletons found with an extra digit on a limb. This dovetails nicely with biblical stories and other cultures that also describe polydactyl gigantism. Although Gemini gave me some good information here about at least 5 cultures that share these characteristics, I probably wonā€™t go deeply into investigating this further as I have much more important content to consume and things to do.

Weather has been cloudy lately, causing subtle shifts in mood. I also observe my extreme desire to get things done as quickly as possible while I am still obligated to work on the original business, so that reliance on external systems of payment/livelihood is reduced as quickly as possible. In that respect I connect the possibility of future IT work with the new project potentially once all the structures are up and working, although I am acutely aware of the potential risks to the continuity of that type of work that are arising in the world at the moment.

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Day 2: Additional observations and actions.

In my conversation with a friend last night that I mentioned elsewhere, one of the things that came up in our discussion was the fact that I had made a lifetime study of many different spiritual traditions, although I did not mention to him my shift in 1999 toward hermetic philosophy and specifically targeting the origins of the modern day forms of spirituality through working backwards through history to find more authentic forms from which the later ones derived.

After difficulty with performing my usual methods of connection this afternoon, after some rest and consumption of food and video content, it dawned on me to do some research about methods of direct communion that might be written about in the Christian literature, and especially from early or reputable sources such as the methods of saints with demonstrated miracles to their name. Iā€™ve already been aware of one technique in the past from Psalm 46:10 - ā€œBe still and know that I am Godā€, which can have several different interpretations, but has been used in the sense many know it today.

I wanted to go deeper though and find what I could find that lined up with other authentic traditions, other than literally talking in ones native language, known as oratio, and the act of reading and meditating on scripture. None of that necessitates or needs to effectuate direct communion. It feels more like (to me) the idea of a lady coming up to a man and saying ā€œmy, youā€™re a handsome one!ā€ and politely curtsying, but never reaching the full kiss on the lips or the bases after that. So I did my searches via DDG, not trusting the dark lord of search engines with such a query :wink:

After a bit of adjustment of my query I came up information about the descriptions of experiences by Teresa of Avilia and St. John of the Cross (leaving out Eckhart who was also mentioned due to other things which have been made clear about the clarity of his vision). I was surprised to find that Johnā€™s description was an almost perfect description of samadhi:

St. John speaks of the movement from meditation to contemplation ā€œwhen individuals have finished purifying and voiding themselves of all forms and apprehensible images,ā€ and ā€œabide in this simple light (to) be perfectly transformed in it;ā€

You could not find a more perfect definition in a regular religious text of samadhi than that, where the forms contemplated disappear and union occurs. This was exactly what I was looking for, and the type of miracles attributed to him even when alive are testament to the fact that his processes as described are precisely in line with other original traditions such as that of Patanjali. It is perhaps unsurprising given Teresa of Avila and Juan were at the same monastery that their techniques of union, although different, are very similar and follow a similar formula to the eight limbs of yoga.

I now have two, maybe three texts I can read through to deepen my own existing techniques, and I plan to begin that read through tonight before bed, then wake in the morning and begin the process of the document reorganisation I mentioned earlier.

Edit: success! before bed, sudden flashes of insight after reading some of Juanā€™s poetry and commentary by a member of the Societas Mariae, a vision across the years of my life of when I was on course and when veering off course occurred, and confirmation of the correct path to continue with these subs and the projects in the right ways. Memories of my readings of Hafiz and Rumi, also members of this same great wedding ring of souls. Knowledge of where Al Khemia fits into all that and my desired future. Noting this here to remind myself of this tomorrow, and also, RoS and Love Bomb are obviously doing their job.

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While starting to read your last post, I thought immediately of the both Saints youā€™ve found yourself. If you should ever want to talk about them, Iā€™ve read a fair share during my studies.
I have a few editions of St. Johnā€™s poems. Always different translations, each so beautiful in their own way.

Here is one of the most beautiful musical Versions Iā€™ve ever heard.

If you would like a few hints on interesting mystics, just ask me, as the forum theologian.

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I remember reading your post on the SuperSaiyan thread explaining about your experience there. Itā€™s good that we have a diversity of different experiences in the field to draw from on the forum, although I get so little time to read other peopleā€™s journals.

What strikes me about Juanā€™s writings is how much it has in common with other students of the Open and Closed Books (so to speak) that I have read. And it also reminds me how much of this material is simply inaccessible nowadays unless you know where to look.

For example, the approach of George Washington Carver to botany and agriculture came from the manā€™s deep faith and contemplation which was on a similar level to that of Juan, who said that ā€œBecause the creation shouts the creator to the attentive heart, the man or woman who sets out on a serious pursuit of God uses the finite order as a stepping stone to the infiniteā€.

I must admit, my own experiences in that regard are not that different, for example there were times in New Zealand while photographing and walking the various hot springs near Rotorua where examining a bush or the mud boiling up from under the ground I would grasp deep insights about the connection that such sub-volcanic places of geological activity had to the production of the metals. Or when staring at veins of gold trapped within rock at abandoned gold mining locations. Yet when I would speak of such things to others professing to study Alchemy, many would laugh at such simplicity, as if they knew nothing of this method of discovery clearly hinted at in many books including the wordless illustrations of Splendor Solis.

Now, granted, I did start my reading on this topic with the writings of Thomas Dubay on these saints, but I am capable of indexing into the collected works and confirming what he says. Iā€™ve jumped around a little in his writing, but it is nice to see his words reflecting some of the insights that Iā€™ve had, and adding more to them in many cases.

I must say though, what has always baffled me somewhat has always been how saints, mystics and prophets can almost always agree upon truth and how it is reflected in the religious texts, while the outer bodies are filled with disagreements, contradictions and even nowadays outright rejections of the original message. This is not always the case, but it seems to prove true way more often than it proves false.

I suppose the cause of this is clear upon deeper reflection, when one considers the author of the value system of the modern world, but it never ceases to amaze and it has all too often been a source of confusion (which is its whole point), because those who profess to be of a faith are all to often such only in letter, and not in spirit. Like someone claiming to be a mechanic because they know how to change a flat.

Anyway, appreciate the offer. Would love to hear your thoughts on such things at some point, if you feel called to share them.

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Day 4.

CTS: slightly above medium, not fully connected but more than baseline due to recently responding to a friend on a spiritual post and having some comradery with housemates.

Weather: Was better today, actual blue skies! I spent some time in the sun this morning thanking God for the warmth and light and inspiration.

Stack/Current State: Had a dayā€™s break, and then ran a similar but reduced stack again. This morning after a long period battling the enemy putting ideas in my head, I had a brief relapse into PMO. Whenever this happens (less and less frequently), I tend to compensate by turning the entire energy of it as much as possible back towards God as a kind of middle finger to the dark forces through internal transformation, and itā€™s definitely helping to lessen the frequency, as are my other practices.

Actions Taken: Yesterday and today I worked on the document mentioned previously. Unbeknownst to me, it was Kingā€™s birthday long weekend today. I found a site after some discussion with the Gemini AI which was actually helpful for my needs! God, imagine that! They must have to fix that, lmao. I spent some time discussing this site and the implications for our project with PPC. I feel like I get a bit further every time I talk with them, although it is very easy for us to drift off topic into unstructured conversation.

I got paid today, so I got food and drink. Trying to remain temperate with my consumption of luxuries and even to restrict food intake where possible. Not always possible due to smoking and the expiration date of some foods.

I also responded as mentioned to a friend who had previously posted on FaceBook with a post to the effect that ā€œonly the Orthodox Tradition nowadays creates saintā€™s, and not just good menā€. I have been trying to point out to him the danger in the path heā€™s treading; after all, Christ exhorted us to love everyone, all of our brethren. And it is not just a coinkydink this came up directly after I had been investigating the methods of the saints myself and receiving confirmations of the spirit vs letter. I read through 1 John 1-5 and the simplicity of the message spoken by the Master was so simple, I keep wondering why do people overcomplicate it so? It doesnā€™t even need to be done in a specific religious format to be effective, and Jesus spoke of many flocks which would eventually brought under one shepherd.

And yet, here we are, with the Orthodox fighting with the Catholic fighting with the Protestant. All of whom are fighting with the Islamist who acknowledges and respects/loves the very same prophet they do.

I sigh and give it back to God. I even said to my brother: I love you, and I pray the Spirit of Him be upon you, and peace. I have more important assistance to render to people closer to home.

Moving forward: Tonight I enjoy my own little bit of bread and wine, I probably wonā€™t work anymore on the document tonight. Sometimes you just need a break from pushing forward all day every day Hyundai. I had some good positive interaction with my housemates today, for which Iā€™m grateful. Tomorrow hopefully I redouble my efforts with finishing the document.

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Technically today is Day 6.

Actions yesterday: Paying bills, contacting family, mostly ordinary stuff.

Additional actions: Further research on behalf of PPC towards the topic of the document and potential project, for which PPC was grateful and it gives them something actionable to investigate.

Document I mentioned previously is going to take some time to complete. Research today helped me begin to get an idea for some figures around the project, but it is still quite vague. With one week until I have to be getting sidetracked with other obligated activities, Iā€™m trying to pack as much into each day as possible.

Further observations: The friend I mentioned in the prior post continued to miss the point of what I had warned them about and even spewed some hateful rhetoric where a particular spiritual activity I had mentioned to illustrate a point was compared toā€¦ letā€™s just say, the forced sexual act, to avoid the charged term that was used. I had tried to ignore the reply, but this provocation could not be ignored. I listed out my scriptural references one by one, and made to clear I would not be responding to further inflammatory responses of his. I have better things to spend my time on than arguing with this person, who I now have feelings of pity and disgust for where they were once a close friend. Still love them as a brother, but perhaps it is time for me to remove them on FaceBook to avoid drama llamas.

CTS: low right now, but during time just before sleep I have been achieving pretty good CTS. About to try to raise CTS again as these are the witching hours where I am.

Dream activity has also been high and fairly meaningful, although quickly transitions from consciously remembered to stuck in the subconscious and not recalled easily. Iā€™m hoping to change that as I improve baseline CTS.

Donā€™t want to hijack your thread, but I just remebered this post in my old journal and wanted to share one of my favorite poems.

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I woke from long dreams fraught with meaning and rich detail, which in the liminal spaces I was sure were a teaching to me. Yet when I raise my body from the pillows, the blinds are rudely drawn back, and I can remember nothing. Back inside the body of darkness, of opaqueness and clouded remembrance.

A nagging electricity runs in my gut, ever present even as I chopped the vegetables for my sustenance. Yes Iā€™m probably craving a smoke, since the last one was crumbs smoked on waking up at 2am, and Iā€™m out of tobacco. But that doesnā€™t seem to be the cause of the electricity. I donā€™t know what it is. Itā€™s not even geomagnetic disturbance time, if you believe the reports being given by the observatories. Yet thereā€™s this nagging sense of unease in the gut.

ā€œYeah yeah, so take a Pepto Bismolā€, LOL. Not that type of unease. I often get this nowadays, and Iā€™m pretty sure it has to do with sensing stuff going on in remote parts of the world. All I can do is get on with my day. Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll find out what set it off sooner or later.

I still see in John of the Cross that same fervor of the mystical Islamic poets, the Sufis, but most so Hafiz and Rumi, those troubadours of Arabia.

It is perhaps no coincidence that his namesake, the disciple John, wrote so lucidly on the same topic. I had been drawn recently to reading, and re-reading 1 John (having already read the Gospel of John), and my struggles with the friend on FaceBook mentioned previously was around getting him to see the stark simplicity of the message given in that Epistle, in order to destroy the false notion that we need specific rituals in order to grow in closeness to God.

Christ having the wisdom of God in him, and transmitting that to all of his disciples, including the Beloved Disciple, knew that in the fullness of time his Church would lose its way and that the true believers would be no more than a remnant. If the Church needed to follow specific intricate rituals in order for holiness to be there, all that would be needed to wipe out the believers would be to cut off access to those rituals, or change them. And indeed, the enemy attacks the ritual in the modern Catholic church, attacks the doctrine, tries to turn the Church as an institution to the secular world view, to co-opt it.

But in his mercy, he inspired the epistles of the apostles (try saying that three times fast!) and gave us 1 John, among other things.

I found this on Youtube today after all those attempts to show that friend the simplicity of the truth. I havenā€™t watched it in its entirety yet, barely scratched the start of it, but already I see Iā€™m not the only one to have seen what I see in 1 John. A message that in reality transcends any institution of religion.

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ā€œAs for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?ā€ ā€“ Rumi

One of my favorite Rumi quotes. The mystical wine of the troubadours which far surpasses the crushed grape :smiley:

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Sigh.

I am still sticking to my decision that I told my friend not to respond to his post anymore, but stillā€¦ what a mess of egotistical, rant driven intellectual garbage!

My other friend from one of the orders I used to be involved in also commented on this personā€™s post telling him he was wrong and that it was intellectual dishonesty/logical fallacy, and got attacked as well, while our friend told us that we were ā€œattackingā€ his particular Church just for disagreeing with them and trying to share a different perspective. Although I didnā€™t respond, I did at least react with a laugh emoji. It was all I could do in reality for now, because my friend was reacting to things from a purely emotional point of view and seeing things that werenā€™t there.

With that being said, I have to say my conviction in the correctness of my own perspectives, verified by Limitless and RoS, has left me in a position where I am a lot less concerned by this over-reaction by one close person than I might have been previously. Iā€™m not second guessing myself; Iā€™ve examined my own position, and can stand up to the emotional reaction better than I did at a previous time when someone tried the character assassination technique against me previously. Additionally, Iā€™ve had other wins to tell me that Iā€™m on the right track in pushing forward.

I didnā€™t go into great depth in discussion with PPC today, thatā€™s coming tomorrow. But the outcome is that after a lot of discussion with Gemini this morning where I probably revealed too much info to the AI, I realized the structure I was going for was overly complex for their purposes, and that we could accomplish the same in a much simpler manner.

Also, my mentor called me today, and Iā€™ll be sending him what he needs to close out the year soon. There was a sense in this ā€œclosing out the yearā€ which was somewhat depressing but also a sense of wisdom, and his comments left me feeling gratitude, because they felt I had come quite an evolutionary journey during the year, perhaps more so than other participants in the program, otherwise they would not have phrased things the way they did.

Iā€™m still somewhat confused in how Iā€™m going to make it through the next couple of weeks of obligations for support, but I have faith in God and myself in connection with the latter.

Today at the shopping center I practiced intentionally feeling love for the other people around me, and desires for their own well being, focusing on their spirits. There was a little bit of weirdness in interactions, but generally it was a positive reaction from those around me. I feel like LB and RoS are doing their job, as are the other subs. Iā€™ve been considering a loop or two of RICH or NR or something similar to see if it helps; Iā€™ll leave that decision for another day.

The weekend is just around the corner, and with it a chance to wake up early and visit the bookshop Iā€™ve been avoiding for months thanks to my cloistered way of life. Iā€™m strongly considering this or other possibilities as an option tomorrow, because I need to maximise the options to run into people who could help me or become new contacts. I need to step outside my comfort zone.

Stack: Remains largely the same, with breaks for processing.

Weather: Somewhat ornery, blue skies alternate with really cloudy days

CTS: Medium-high. This may change in the early hours of tomorrow, but will hopefully go out as I go on an excursion to open up to others.

Other observations: Have been researching the different perspectives on the third person in the trinity, the HS, and connecting with the latter. @Lichtenauer feel free to chime in or DM me your perspectives on that topic.

Edit: Adding, amazing conversation tonight with $goodmate. Upshot of this is I may have an opportunity to use my skills as an amateur ā€œpastorā€, or psychologist, or mentor, or whatever you want to call it, to help guide someone else towards being their best self in partnership with whatever their definition is of the higher power. As well as the opportunity to do some networking. That is very edifying. It seems like my direct attempts to convey to that power my desires to help society in return for my continued existence on this planet may be being heard and answered.

Gratitude for that. I guess weā€™ll see how things go.

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Bookshop journey didnā€™t go ahead. Perhaps the fact that I stayed up till at least 1am had something to do with that :stuck_out_tongue:

I come across information connected to my path in the weirdest of places. SomeOrdinaryGamers Youtube channel for example. You wouldnā€™t think there would be any information of value in videos about random deep web sites, but actually his latest DW videos had some very cool, if eccentric, content. Itā€™s not like they provide at this juncture any information I havenā€™t seen before, but itā€™s nice to know of individuals who we share beliefs in common with. I wonā€™t mention which websites I found interesting; some of them I havenā€™t even visited yet to delve deeper, but I probably will at least give them a cursory look over to see if they hold any information of value (while holding the divine mental salt shaker). And at any rate, they make for interesting viewing during moments of boredom or downtime.

Today is going to be mainly a content consumption day, but mainly the type of content that lifts one higher.

Now editing this post to add commentary from today:
Despite all its involvement in censorship, YTā€™s algorithm does seem to deliver to me occasional nuggets of gold. I found a video of a motorcycle enthusiast who in the past had visited several different churches in his area, and had been given signs by God that caused him to leave those bodies. The video was titled with a verse from scripture, 2 Peter 2:3. I read through the entire section and then some because I like to get context. It amuses/excites/inspires me to find that even despite his stiffness Peter said in this second of epistles things which further cement my own position and that of the guy who did the video, but also more deeply illuminates a common error.

2 Peter 2:10 warns against ā€œthem that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitiesā€ (emphasis is mine)

At first glance these verses appear to be a call to conformity to the systemā„¢, but they are not. What they are pointing out is that the materially minded confuse the effect for the cause, and forget that the reason that men/women in these bodies do evil is due to being led away from God, often by those ā€œpowers and principalitiesā€ mentioned elsewhere. And thus they hate one or another group of their fellow men, and end up fulfilling the words of John that ā€œhe who hates his brother is in darknessā€.

This is a powerful scripture, and one that perhaps explains why so few good men are said to survive until the end or be ā€œrescuedā€, because it is so easy to miss the truth of what is really going on in the face of such a powerful illusion of puppetry. Peter gives me much to chew on.

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CTS: Just above medium. Did some exercises relating to this on my trip down the shopping centre

Weather: Indecisive, rainclouds and blue skies at once

Stack: Last night / yesterday I ran a complex loop of quite a few ZP interspersed with Paragon (Ultima) and Alchemist ST3 QV2.

Observations: Yesterday was intense (in a good but striving way), today was mainly meh. I had a brief experience with the demonic at the shops, with a boy-man who was clearly drunk wearing a beanie and muttering expletives at me and acting in a threatening manner. The advice I have heard in the past from exorcists about demons (and the guy was clearly not entirely himself) is to ignore them, and donā€™t give them the attention they feel like they deserve. Itā€™s a power diffusing technique, they want to create fear and take you aware from your connection with Source.

Although I noticed them and they remained in the periphery of my consciousness, I deliberately focused on grabbing food and throwing it into my cart without paying them head. The guy then looked around in a confused way and headed back in the opposite direction.

Itā€™s not the first time Iā€™ve run into that kind of spirit. Itā€™s usually pretty clear as someone who has partially open inner vision to tell when youā€™re talking to the owner of the body and when youā€™re not. The human spirit has a quality to it that is easily distinguishable, just like the alien, hateful and often self loathing feeling that comes from the fallen ones is quite unique. There are specific types that tend to come my way more often than not, ones which tend to have specific sins. Not that itā€™s a common thing. I donā€™t think Iā€™ve run across more than about 4 or maybe 5 in the course of a year. But they are getting more frequent as time goes on.

Next topic: Even though the subs have not yet stopped PMO entirely, they have largely reduced PMO to MO or simply M, often with some degree of conscious awareness and resistance leading up to it. Itā€™s like spirit and my pursuits are gradually reducing the connection and appeal of that down towards zero. First through recognition of the ugliness and falsehood of the P, and then through gradually increased permeation of conscious awareness through the body. I could probably improve things more with a loop or two of KB ST1, but I have to try to keep my stack light for now.

The video I posted on the IG thread got me thinking about certain topics within the domain of consciousness, including one that came up before that and recently. Its like my mind has been chewing on it. I suspect that this is RoS and co at work. It has to do with the effects of quieting the mental chatter and working with the inner silence. The quieter the inner mind gets, the more one can feel/sense the things occurring in the external world, and then when combined with the unity techniques, you can begin to really get a sense of knowledge and communication from outside of your body, without owning those sensations/feelings as your own.

I can see within my inner eye how this works, in terms of waves colliding upon waves and generating a kind of internal hologram of the world around that point. It reminds me of how I perform energy work when I use Reiki, which I have not done in a while. There is a sense of ā€œlookingā€ at a point outside of your vision, whether directly, or indirectly via the palm centers of the hand conveying that information to the mind. Itā€™s a ā€œlookingā€ without actually looking. The pineal seems to be simply what centralizes all of of that light into a single image. Even these words do not provide a perfect description. And yet I can visualize it.

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Government in the Greek original is kyriotaetos.
You can see Kyrios in it already. In this context I would rather translate it as ā€œThe Lordā€™s Ruleā€ than government (through humans).

interesting. my version has ā€œkuriotesā€, which is translated as either ā€œmasteryā€ or rulers. Iā€™ll have to dig deeper. What source are you using?

Edit: nm, found it in the interlinear. its in the genitive. this is one of those rare cases where the genitive noun can be used in multiple senses.

Your stack is very thoughtful. For myself and purely for myself I would take stack of RoM with Khan Black stage 4 (after some time with all stages and specially stage 2) and Ascension Chamber optional. :shushing_face:

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Potatoes Potatoes. Kuriotes still contains the same root: Kyrios.
During my studies I rarely read peter, mostly Paul. But IIRC when for wielding power they used a term containing kyrios it was mostly in reference to God. For worldly powers Paul used other words, even though I canā€™t remember them.

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I actually used AC in the stack last night for a change. Sometimes I tend to change the stack periodically just a little bit and then change it back, just so I donā€™t get too used to the same subs over and over again.

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There is actually a difference between kuriotes and kuriotatos. Luckily in this case I was able to quickly figure out that the software that was giving me the corresponding Greek wasnā€™t giving it to me in its appropriate declension, just providing the root word.

kuriotatos is an interesting one, it terms out the same word used for dominion or government (the state of being a lord over something) can also be used to denote possession, and context is key to figuring out which meaning is meant. Also kuriotes can relate to a particular rank of angels. In this case the context, doxas, doesnā€™t fully resolve the ambiguity. Interlinear translates it as ā€œglorious onesā€, KJV translates as ā€œdignitiesā€, Geneva translates as ā€œthem that are in dignityā€. In my relatively limited experience with Greek, this is a common issue, it is a very contextual language where words commonly have multiple meanings, and the Greeks loved to use word play and abstract thought. The accepted (KJV/Geneva) translation seems to be government and dignitaries, but it could probably be used in a more general sense.

I do know though that the KJV/Geneva meaning makes sense in the context of the primary rule outlined in 1 John, being a form of warning to the rebellious to love the individual but not their sins against the people. It could also be taken as ā€œreputationsā€ if Iā€™m not mistaken, but both terms being concrete does seem to make more sense.

Edit: I also think the context seems to be resolved more satisfactorily when looking at the verse directly afterwards, which contrasts this attitude against the perspective of angels towards these ā€œdignitiesā€ (or dignitaries)