[MD] New Age++

[MarshaV]

Heather,

I've come to view thinking as 99% forming and reforming 
expectations.  Very useful!  But, I've also come to feel there is a 
way to disconnect from thinking to experience a different way of 
knowing unfiltered by expectations.

Marsha


At 10:52 AM 1/31/2006, Heather wrote:
>Hello!
>
>By intellectualizing too much, I assume you mean,
>thinking or having too many words in our heads.  In
>other words, reasoning out the universe with our
>knowledge.  Yet, since we are only thinking this
>through using only the experiences and knowledge
>gained thus far are we not depending on knowledge that
>obviously lacks the answer at times since we have a
>question about something.  If we try to think this
>through using our own existing knowledge dug up from
>our memories in our individual skulls, then using this
>knowledge to understanding something when we don't
>have the answer to begin with is useless.  Now that we
>are discussing with each other this topic I will gain
>some of your knowledge, some of the knowledge this
>mornings sun and thus new day is bringing and so
>forth.  To depend on my knowledge, my intellectual
>abilities that are just exercising and using the same
>knowledge I have about the universe, without becoming
>aware of something new from somewhere else outside of
>my present knoweledge would be futile and get me
>nowhere but where I currently know.  I would agree
>with you that we are, "just
>blocked by our overestimation of intellectualizing",
>if by this you mean we think we can depend on what we
>know now to answer a question we ourselves have
>brought up to be answered by ourselves.
>
>Spiritual Adirondack
>
>--- MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Evolution?  Do you think that the experiences that
> > represent
> > enlightenment have never been available to humans of
> > the past?  Are
> > there other (than Western) cultures that are closer
> > to these
> > experiences and the resulting knowledge?  Don't
> > babies reside close
> > to this type of experience.  Maybe we're just
> > blocked by our
> > overestimation of intellectualizing?
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
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