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Originally Posted by sun-toonŽ
Here's an interesting piece on siphoning from Bronte Baxter's "Splinter in the Mind" blog stretching the idea energy siphoning into consciousness assimiliation:
Enlightenment: From Siphoning to Assimilation
Bronte Baxter wrote:
It seems the idea of whether or not we should surrender our egos to God, or universal Oneness, is the dividing line between spiritual paths. Do we take our individual sovereign consciousness and become actual co-creators, or do we merge into the void. Personally, the void holds no attraction for me, especially since it's not a void at all, it's another conscious mind...a very large one, and it's not mine. Therefore I do not want to assimilate with it, and I'm tired of being deluded and siphoned by it.
Just the act of thinking like this is liberating. It takes the siphoning concept all the way to the top...because it is above, as it is below.
There is an outside to all of this. |
Jeeze, she makes it sound almost sinister. She sounds like she has a beef.
Bronte also says,
"Our personal energy signature – the soul or ego, individual self– that which makes us creative, original, reasoned, deliberate beings of action – that is taken from us. Or more precisely, we give it away."
Makes me think that she sounds like someone who spent "17 years of her life teaching (Eastern) meditation" and never did have her own enlightenment experience. Although she calls herself a 'New Age Heretic' she points out that her favorite books are ones on manifestation. Hm.
Pretty true, though, that most of those who 'assimilate' are willing to give it away. (Some find themselves in the Void not by their choice, but by the choice of something much Bigger than they. The true "Void" being, itself a Stargate to the Divine - a 'place' exceedingly, extremely RARE to find oneself.) Maybe, as one could infer, she tried for 17 years to "give it away" and no-One came along to receive her. I wonder what she would've written if, during that 17 yr. period, something HAD come along and ultimately received her? Ah, perhaps there's the beef?
A war doesn't need to exist between the manifestors like Baxter - and the ones who manifest but also contemplate other possibilities beyond their own mind - beyond the personal - and into the Transpersonal. The ones that choose to explore the Transpersonal need not feel foolish for trying.
She also says,
"Brahman is that consciousness that feeds and depends on physical matter, creating and devouring it at will, as humans breed then slaughter animals on a farm for food. When meditators have cosmic visions of themselves as all the universe, this is the consciousness they identify with. By uniting with and surrendering to it as their Higher Self, they become possessed by the entities who have taken charge of (and perhaps created) the physical universe."
Eastern religion is filled with destructionist gods as well as other types. And even in Christianity - 'The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.' It's just life as we know it.
The entities that are in charge of the physical universe are not all destroyers. Perhaps they
have engineered the human brain and heart reaction of the enlightenment experience. From all accounts of it though, the ones who had it didn't complain about the Union itself.