A DEEP SEA CHAT
A couple of weeks ago I got into a 'chatcontact' with someone. This was the first time that I had actually met someone through this medium. It didn't take long for both of us to realize that we tuned into to each other quite well. It got so intense that we even spent quite some nights 'talking' to one another. I was rather impressed to notice that it was possible to develop such a good contact with someone without hearing or seeing each other.
When you add to the experience of all kinds of physical sensations, feelings and emotional releases it reminded me of how wonderful it can be to actually communicate on about the same frequency with someone else. It was also fascinating to realize that we hardly mentioned anything directly related to the ascension paradigm, or to whatever spiritual orientation. Somehow that wasn't necessary.
A CACOPHONY OF THOUGHTS
It was after this episode that I returned to see what had happened at the noble realms forum and the desteni forum and I even added a thread on the latter dealing with christmas. It took me a while, but after a few days it dawned on me that there really is a cacophony of thoughts all around us. All those people with all their different backgrounds, interpreting the words of others in their own unique way, adding thoughts and ideas from their own perspective, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings within other people.
Whenever people try to clear up a misunderstanding they use words which often introduce new misunderstandings, leading to other people adding yet other ideas. Although it can all be very interesting to listen to or read all these different ways people look at the world, it can also prove to be a rather energy-draining practice.
TO HARMFULLY SCREAM FOR PEACE
Instead of retreating from the webscene I would like to find ways to deal with these cacophony of thoughts. Don't get me wrong, I am simply another transmitter of thoughts amongst the many. I do still believe, however, that I want to train myself in harboring as many harmless thoughts as possible. I also want to protect myself from those voices that I consider the most harmful.
An interesting phenomenon is that of the harmfully screaming peace lover. These people tend to scream their ideas of what is at the root of our current sufferings to everyone they meet. They don't refrain from calling other people all kinds of names in order to show them how wrong they are (and how right they are themselves). Even though they undoubtfully act and think from a sense of helping the world, they use a method of communicating that I consider to be rather harmful. They tend to exaggerate matters into extremes, like people who think that it is wrong to eat animals. Some of them tend to get angry at those who do still eat animals and they might call them ruthless meat-terrorists or something along that line.
Despite their good intentions they emotionally charge their ideas with such an amount of hate towards those that disagree that they tend to feed harmfulness instead of reducing it. Although you might disagree with people like Bush, Ahmadinejad, working slaves, love-and-lighters, bankers, meditators, christmas lovers, rapists etc. I think the tone of voice is the most important thing, even more important than the contents. Instead of creating more polarity it might be a wise approach to speak as harmlesslessly as possible.
I haven't exactly been the perfect role model for harmless behavior and my points of view tend to deviate from the average perspective that modern western man seems to hold, but I have come to realize that any spiteful charge that you add to your words can distort the message and possibly even poison it, adding more chaos to the cacophony. I start to believe that no matter how bad a situation is, if you manage to react from a balanced joyful state of being, you are likely to reduce the cacophony.
Gibbon
December 2007