human potential

https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/without-spiritual-impulses-everything-will-lead-to-decadence-to-barbarism-to-the-fall-of-civilisation-2/

I don’t know why more people don’t read Emerson. He speaks exactly to our condition. Take this, from his journal of February, 1855, when he was 52.

“Munroe [his publisher] seriously asked what I believed of Jesus and prophets. I said, as so often, that it seemed to me an impiety to be listening to one and another, when the pure Heaven was pouring itself into each of us, on the simple condition of obedience. To listen to any second-hand gospel is perdition of the First Gospel. Jesus was Jesus because he refused to listen to another, and listened at home.”

There’s a world of wisdom in that little paragraph, and a world of encouragement. Why don’t more people read Emerson?

Courtesy of filmmaker Sofia Axelsson and interviewer Michael Langevin, here are 12 minutes of discussion about the nature of our transitions from this 3D world to the non-3D world we enter into at physical death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYgCAJfUhs

My blog has an entire page of links that will bring you various interviews. Go to www.ofmyownknowledge.com and click on Interviews.

 

https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/purposeful-action-2/

Just watched Sully, about the USAir captain who saved 155 lives by landing his plane in the Hudson on Jan 15, 2009 after birds disabled both engines.

i had thought, how are they going to make this dramatic when everybody knows going in what the outline of what happened, and that it had a happy ending.

But wow, what a great thing they did.

Instead of focusing on the event itself, they focused on the inquest after the event, when the NTSB was trying to determine if he had done the right thing. Then, with flashbacks to the event, they went through the story. Very well done. Hard to realize that was almost EIGHT years ago.

Worth watching.

Ernest Hemingway was smart, quick, experienced, and incisive. His novels are filled with life, and in them he says many memorable and valuable things, things that will enrich your life.

He also says a very few silly ones, and ironically, the silliest thing he ever wrote is quoted on every side as if it made sense. From A Farewell to Arms

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken place. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”

At best, this represents the despairing mood of a rather young man who was prone to fits of despondency. But look at those five sentences – really look at them.

Continue reading Death and life and an end to silly despondency

Those who have become familiar with the interaction of the 3D and non-3D world as set out in Rita’s World will not find this article challenging. Instead, the challenge will be to understand why people persist in not seeing.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer