If you've read Frank Peretti's "This Present Darkness", do understand "New Age" thinking, and what about it?
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If your question were clearer, I'd be happy to try answering it.  Check my non-math answers if you want some "new age" opinions.
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I know a bit about Hakuin, but I'm not familiar with "the great doubt."\n\nHowever, I looked it up, and my understanding--cursory as it is--is that a sudden realization comes upon a student of Zen after a perhaps years-long process of coming to.\n\nSo, it's both.\n\nWhich, given the practice of Zen, is fitting.
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Hi! Yes, I do. The past, present and future exist inter-dimensionally and your "knowing" is a form of energy that descends upon you from SPIRIT. This energy is filtered by your conscious and subconscious mind. We interpret this energy in various ways and it works itself into our "dreams". I'm glad you listen to you "dreams" and your intuition. I always say : Awareness is the first step.
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I love your question, and I could elaborate forever, but I'll be brief.\nPast, without a doubt. That's what has brought me to where I am today. I would like to review the reasons, the rights and wrongs. Relive the beautiful moments as well as the dark ones, with the perspective of time. Even if I can change nothing, I would love to understand.\nAs for the future, the beauty of it are the thousands of unknown possibilities. I don't want to know what's coming: let it surprise me.\nAnd that's it. Now I'll daydream for a few hours, and wallow in nostalgia.
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Now, to me, this sounds quite beautiful.  You have tapped, apparently without trying, the magnificent power of mind.  \n\nYour (all) thoughts are powerful,  more than we realize while "here" in the physical.  It seems to me that you are seeing other lives that you live. (I use present tense because time as we know it does not exist). \n\nWhatever it is, it is part of your growth into the realization that you never left home...that is, the truth of what "God" is.
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They believe it is "New Age". I was raised UPC, still recovering.
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Only if you believe in time.\nAs a student of Zen buddism I have come to think of the here and now, this very instant, as eternity.\nThere is no future and past. Where do these things exist?\nOnly eternity exists in this very instant.
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Lin-chi lived roughly from 810 to 866 A.D., in the Tang dynasty; this book was collated by his disciples soon after his death. He stands in the Ch'an (Japanese Zen) school of Mahayana Buddhism. This school emphasised immediate enlightenment over doctrinal concerns. The teaching goes something like this. \n\nThe prime concern of Buddhism is to free the mind from clinging to the world. The root of this clinging is distinguishing sense experience into good and bad, desirable and undesirable. Such dualistic thinking needs to be transcended. Ultimate reality is wholistic, without distinctions. However, if there are no distinctions in ultimate reality, then the immediate world and our everyday life itself is part of this ultimate reality (for to distinguish it from this reality would itself be dualistic thinking). Put another way, the Buddha nature is not esoteric and other-worldly, but permeates everything. So our own Buddha nature or (in more Taoist terms) our True Human-ness is not something to be sought for, but something that already exists in us. We must be brought to realise this, but trying to realise this takes us further from this realisation. Instead, the realisation (enlightenment) must be immediate, unmediated, unreflected-upon. (I must apologise for this clumsy exposition. Both Watson and Watts explain this much more clearly)\n\nThus Lin-chi's teaching is concerned with exhorting his students to realise their immanent Buddhahood.
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The term New Age has come to mean a lot of things.  Just plug in the term in Google, sit back and pick out what you think fits.\nTo me, New Age means enlightenment.
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My friend, anyone considering ANY form of Christianity or worship of ANY Christ should do so only after reading the eye opening text The Hiram Key by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight.  Their research into Masonic ritual has led them to uncover truths long kept secret by the Church for more than two thousand years.  The book is both frightening, and at the same time seems to be authentic.  It discusses the Illuminati (and NOT the Dan Brown Illuminati everyone seems to be so familiar with), Freemasonry, and their links to early Christianity; the origian teachings of Jesus Christ, before the Church decided what should be written.  The book is powerful, and revealing.  I reccomend it to anyone with an open mind who is seeking a high truth than whta is given to us by those who know nothing!\n\nAve,\nShawn
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Buddy, your query holds weight in all of its concern, yet to monotonous these days to my knowledge. Since I have soothed such a query in past, I am withdrawn to another fabrication. Yet my previous answers weaved in a way can subside your curiosity as well. Consume a chunk of your time reading it. It may also answer your other questions: -\n\nThe concept holds itself in such an abstruse enigma, that centuries have failed to decipher its existence in a logical form. Scores of fiction writers have sculpted sci-fi books upon the behavior of time. We all have speculated over the so-called ‘Time Travel’ and have rummaged over the numerous possibilities that it may offer.\n\nFor the sweet sake of knowledge, once in a while, just sit down and think over the existence of time. When one questions ‘What is life?’ one is indirectly doubting his flow in time. Sometimes, time bears mercy upon you and hastens up, yet at other times, bestows upon you the curse of its viscous flow.\n\nYet, in reality what WE call time, is nothing but a theoretical fabrication that we, humans have crafted so as to better understand this “Fourth Dimension”. We assume we recognize time and its workings, yet mark my letters, we know absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G. We mortals imprint everything that we perceive in our brain, and then we analyze over it, yet never in its crude form. We find ourselves confined to the rigid boundaries of our senses. We bear to our knowledge the sphere of our vision and touch.\n\nThe notion bears itself in utmost simplicity. We can only conclude on matters we are able perceive in a correct mannerism. We do not bear such a sense organ nor are we able to implement over 4% of our brain, so as to perceive the concept of time in a proper ideology. Therefore we cannot chisel a concept concrete enough to bear the yoke of our questions.\n\nWe foolish mortals don’t even have the ability to measure time in its proper state. The state of time is always subjected to our memory, thoughts, personality, the circumstances, and innumerable other factors. You can’t even correspond two events in the same mannerism! Fragments from your memory are always erased, resulting to the unjustifiable way in which we perceive time.\n\nYet we can ALWAYS speculate! And we HAVE speculated! In such speculations, we have come to many ways to understand time. Scientists were entangled in similar doubts, yet they fashioned a theory that best satisfied the debatable world of ‘Philosophical Physics’. The theory states that time is completely relative to the individual who experiences it and furthermore a relationship exists between the three basic dimensions of space and time, leading to the birth of the space-time ideology. (I swear they stole the idea from me!)\n\nAnother speculation (Fasten your seatbelts for a Psycho Ride!). Suppose time is a fabric. (A complete supposition) A vast expanse of infinite non-molecular material. This fabric is existent yet not perceivable by our limited senses. If we are to possess a way to make a ‘cut’ in this fabric, we CAN gain access to two different periods in time. But then again, that is theoretical, and humanly impossible. \n\nSo far we have considered time to be a concept in whose relation we all exist. But in technical truth, time is relative to every individual! What we consider time is the manufacture of us mortals. What if time exists independently for everyone? When one perishes, he actually repeats his so called 'life'. Perhaps the period from the Big Bang to the collapse of the universe has repeated itself millions of times already! There is no telling, for there is no concrete platform, to which we can relate existence. We just have to relate everything to everything else!\n\nNow those are speculations. No one can state them correct or incorrect, for one does not bear a perception that great. Perhaps we are just the play-stuff of a superior colossal existence. Then again, what is existence?
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I remember reading Fox.  Enjoyed him a lot, as I recall (I have been out of metaphysics for years...sort of "graduated" to a higher level).  \n\nI don't remember reading the Golden Key (I'd seen it on the bookshelves at church, --Religious Science-- but it was so long ago...); scientific prayer, as with all prayer, is effective, yes.  Ernest Holmes' concept of spiritual mind treatment remains for me a beautiful approach, and powerful.\n\nNice to see a metaphysician here.
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yes --back to the past--the more truth we know , the more we see the shallowness of Christianity and Judaism, and start to get back to the --earth based religion and to Hinduism --were revelation came from a gurus deep meditations, on reality .\n\ni saw a show were they played the ---om---- sound on a oscilloscope , and the image on the scope was the same as the --yoga yantra--painting of --om. so how did a yogi get it right thousands of years ago--with out modern electronics to prove it??\n\nthe--[  COLLECTIVE MEMORY  ]--has been in existences from before time began---all thing can be known , from deep meditation.this is why i feel that we need to go back to the past , , or revisit  the past religions, to get to the deeper truths.\n\nyou cant get any deeper , than worshiping --life force--as god,\n\nim not sure what is beyond life force--a invisible --living energy--,\n\nI'm sure  their are universes full of things man will never think of, and will never hear of....our minds can only go so far, and when you travel the astral plains, with out your mind---man that hard to remember when you get back. ha ha \n_________________________________\n\nits hard to think of --some thing beyond the \n\nINVISIBLE  NOTHINGNESS---OF NOTHING
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Yes I believe in reincarnation and another plane of existence. I have had an NDE and it opened my eyes to what is going on out there.
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I think there's a lot to be said for the ideas - in books like Dallas Willard's "Divine Conspiracy" and NT Wright's new one "Simply Christian" that we will have a job to do in the afterlife.\n\nIn other words, I think we will be, in some sense, responsible for the new creation. I'm thinking, in terms of Bible references, of places where Jesus tells the parable of the talents, or where Paul talks about people getting in "as through fire." \n\nNT Wright is very interesting to read in this regard. He points out that many of the references to the afterlife hint at us being brought back to a renewed earth, with the New Jerusalem almost being lowered down to this earth - this renewed creation. It sounds weird to you, I am sure, if you are used to thinking of the afterlife as our soul going up to Heaven. But if you read the Bible with this new way of looking at it, so much makes sense.\n\nSo, I think that, based on what we do here, how long we are Christians and what we do with that time we are given, we will have more or less responsibility for God's creation after death. Remember, Jesus' woe sayings - he hinted that it works that way in Hell, as well. He basically hints that there are layers, or degrees of both punishment and reward. That's how I see it.
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Wow, I just got done reading that poem. He is a great poet. \n\nThis is what I think he is saying in his poem. He talks about his "thirtieth year to heaven" his birthday, and the child. Turning 30 is kinda traumatic. He woke up to a beautiful day, decided to take a walk, soaking in nature and his home, everything that is familiar to him. It reminded him of a birthday in his childhood. Beautiful... then suddenly changing to gray fog and rain. He is and never will be that child again though that child is still alive inside him, knowing that he was happy then, missing that time of his life, knowing that time is always shoving you forward always closer and closer to death. But then at the end he can remember that he is lucky to be alive, though the sadness is still tainting him.\n\nThat's just my idea.
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SO...........? What's your point?  I have been to this page many times to view some sick minds.  \nI hope you people get your knees straight with the Living God before it is too late.  Dump your lousy sun-god and see the light.  Can't you see a devil staring you in the face?