Living with Open Hands (4.0) (Resonant Voices)

“Stillness is where you meet with the essence of things…In stillness we can begin to let go of external voices, stereotypes, and clichés that crowd out original, personal and internal voices. Those discordant outer voices fade away in stillness. Stillness is a place of rooting oneself in a much larger field of being.”(John Fox, Finding What You Didn’t Lose) "When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and neither fight nor flight will save us, there may be salvation in sitting still. And if salvation is impossible, then at least before perishing we may gain a clearer vision of where we are. By sitting still I do not mean the paralysis of dread, like that of a rabbit frozen beneath the dive of a hawk. I mean something like reverence, a respectful waiting, a deep attentiveness to forces much greater than our own." -Scott Russel Sanders  “With silence, problems appear in a less somber light, in their ...

 And other thoughts by Jim Parker A [Conservative] Religious Guide to Sabotaging Your Life: 1. Begin with the premise that there is something hopelessly and incurably wrong with you. 2. Believe that your humanity is an affront to God, an obstacle to overcome, and an evil to repress or eradicate. 3. Pin your hopes on the afterlife, and don’t get too interested in the herelife. 4. Mistrust what you most deeply feel. 5. Give others the power and authority to determine what your beliefs, values, opinions, goals, desires, and views are. 6. Fear, reject, condemn, and close yourself off from anything that doesn’t fit with what you got from the above. 7. Focus on behavior modification, checklists, do’s and don’ts, obedience, and keeping the rules when it comes to living your life. 8. Give up or kill off all your needs and desires as a sign of spiritual maturity and call it "dying to self." 9. Make sure everything and everyone in life is assigned a label or put into a box. 10. Label s...

 The essential quality of the infinite is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is convey in the word "spirit" whose root meaning is 'wind or breath'. That which is truly alive is the energy of spirit, and this is never born and never dies. (David Bohm) Consciousness is never static or complete but is an unending process of movement and unfoldment.”  (David Bohm) There can be no determinism when all things are in a continual state of becoming or unfolding and enfolding. ABOUT THE FILM He was one of the 20th Century’s most brilliant physicists. Albert Einstein called him his spiritual son. The Dalai Lama relied upon him as his “science guru.” So why is it that hardly any of us know the name: David Bohm? By telling the little-known story of David Bohm and evoking the realms he explored in his research, INFINITE POTENTIAL takes us on a mesmerizing and immersive journey into the mystery of Consciousness––through the use of hypnotic music and rich visual tapestrie...

  Religious Trauma Syndrome by Marlene Winell https://journeyfree.org/  Part 1: RTS - It's Time To Recognize It Part 2: Understanding RTS - Trauma From Religion Part 3: The Trauma of Leaving Religion https://broadview.org/former-fundamentalists-describe-the-trauma-of-leaving-their-faith/ Religious Trauma Syndrome is the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination. They may be going through the shattering of a personally meaningful faith and/or breaking away from a controlling community and lifestyle.  RTS is a function of both the chronic abuses of harmful religion and the impact of severing one’s connection with one’s faith.  It can be compared to a combination of PTSD  and  Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). This is a summary followed by a series of  three articles  which were published in  Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Today . Religious Trauma Syndrome ...

"Thought creates the world and then says, 'I didn't do it'. (David Bohm) “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” (Carl Jung) Here's more about conditioning from Krishnamurti: "All thinking obviously is conditioned; there is no such thing as free thinking. Thinking can never be free, it is the outcome of our conditioning, of our background, of our culture, of our climate, of our social, economic, political background. The very books that you read and the very practices that you do are all established in the background, and any thinking must be the result of that background. So if we can be aware—and we can go presently into what it signifies, what it means, to be aware—perhaps we shall be able to uncondition the mind without the process of will, without the determination to uncondition the mind. Because the moment you determine, there is an entity who wishes, an entity who says, “I must uncondition my mi...