Believe Me, Jordan

[@katierice1111]

So many yeses! Awesome.

[@Florin_Dragoș_Minculescu]

Hi, I apologize in advance for any difficulties that may arise due to cultural differences, but also due to the fact that English is not my native language, but I want to share some aspects that, at least for me, helped me a lot in times of confusion and even in situations of despair. First of all I want to say that I have been an involuntary practitioner of heart prayer. I say I was an involuntary practitioner because when I discovered the prayer (I was around 16 years old, approximately),in trying to say it as correctly as possible, I found myself in an ecstatic state, which obviously passed after a while, but after that event my mind continuously ran the prayer of the heart for about 10 years. When I say it ran without stopping, I don't mean it in a metaphorical sense, literally, when I woke up, my mind was running the prayer of the heart, when I was talking to someone else, the mind was running the prayer of the heart, when I had situations where, while sleeping, I became conscious from the fact that I was dreaming and I also was realizing that the mind was running the prayer, so as soon as the consciousness was awake, what appeared in its field was the prayer of the heart. If necessary, I could think about the practical dimensions, but the mind kept running in the background the prayer of the heart. Somewhere in 2005, under the most bizarre conditions, I sat and consciously observed that thought - prayer that was running without my will ( because I tried out of curiosity to stop that thought, several times and I didn't succeed) and from the perspective of awareness, by consciously observing that thought, I became aware that I am more than that thought, I discovered that I am also the dimension that simply notices that thought. The moment I experienced the awareness of "more" than I knew I was, the thought of prayer disappeared and in its place I realized a silence - unceasing presence. Since then I have gone through all sorts of stages, some of them not as graceful as I would have liked. Now, about the confusion part, every time it appeared, if I did nothing, it inevitably led to a state of despair, but even if it was despair, it was enough to turn my attention to that silent presence that took the place of prayer and the intensity of despair was significantly diminished. Then I noticed that if I was attentive enough, when the confusion arose, by focusing on that silent presence, clarity would appear, so the confusion would gradually disappear. In other words, in periods of confusion, but not only, it is always useful to be aware that they are observable, and prayer helps, because it shifts the focus from confusion or despair, which means that they have an impact directly proportional to the attention with which we invest them. I want to make it clear that this approach is not one of Vedic philosophy, although the similarities are obvious - Saint Maximus the Confessor and Saint Athanasius and others speak of the Trinity approach by referring to God as a mind without a body. I, myself am an Orthodox Christian. P.S. Jesus Christ himself gone through that point of despair : " Eli, Eli, lama sabahtani?", meaning that we are not alone even in the moments when it feels like there's no God. This acknowledgement helps for the moments of doubts, too, because it implies that the beneath the doubts His presence is there. God bless us!

[@christianbaxter_yt]

As a person playing the guitar and picking songs at church more often than not in my life. This was extremely fascinating

[@ZacParsonsProjects]

I had no idea that we would go there, but I’m happy that we did. I’m ready to love music again.

[@christianbaxter_yt]

@@ZacParsonsProjects it’s so good to hear that Zac, I went through a season similar with music in the healing process…

[@mattvm00]

An Elder: "you've metabolized experience into wisdom...you have a truly vocational calling to give that someone woth no esense of exchange...a gift that is overflowing" Beautiful.

[@TheDaysGrimm]

Great conversation

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Rubin podcast is good stuff

[@christianbaxter_yt]

Yes!

[@ChadTheGirlDad]

Classic

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Part two!

[@mostlynotworking4112]

22:58 spirit of geometry vs spirit of finesse (pascal). Propositions and geometry. Participatory and finesse

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Follical frenzy

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Game B brew

[@christianbaxter_yt]

The 4 B’s of…

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Belief Behavior Belonging Beauty beholding

[@mostlynotworking4112]

🐝 🦋

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Do Zac’s kids watch the projections? 😂

[@ZacParsonsProjects]

They might tune in to see how their hair and make up looked... :) But to be clear they were happy to appear. I'm sure my son will be on here one of these days...