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enlightenment

  1. Tomef

    Is religion just a protracted daydream?

    Casting our minds out to try and picture the unknown or invisible seems to be a natural human activity. We all wonder about what other people think and feel about us. Under pressure or expectation we can project catastrophe or pleasure into possible futures. This ability presumably started with...
  2. SalixIncendium

    Is Enlightenment a Choice?

    Does one, at some point in their life, make a moral or ethical conscious choice to become enlightened or to have enlightenment experiences? Is it experience, mystical or otherwise, that either leads one to the path of enlightenment or to automatically 'become' enlightened? Or does one become...
  3. SalixIncendium

    Is Magic(k) the Same As Enlightenment?

    It was suggested in another thread that 'magic(k)' is a personal transformation and realization and is an aesthetic and word that means the same thing as 'enlightenment.' Agree? Disagree? Why? Edited for omission of the word 'and' between 'aesthetic' and 'word.'
  4. SalixIncendium

    Enlightened or Divine?

    I, along with seven other members from our local Vedanta group, sat down for a discussion with Swami Sarvadevananda yesterday. In that discussion, we spoke about figures such as Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and a few others. Swami Sarvadevananda as well as a few others that were there...
  5. SalixIncendium

    Enlightenment

    How is enlightenment achieved in your religion or form of spirituality? And so the atheists/anti-theists don't feel left out, can you achieve enlightenment in your worldview? If so, how?
  6. Shanmugam

    The Journey of a seeker - My story

    Hello everyone... This is my first post
  7. Lorgar-Aurelian

    Brotherhood in ideals

    I think a lot of us whether or not we recognize it are brothers and sisters. Most of us love, most of us search for truth and most of us don't want to see wrongs done to someone else without reason. We don't want the people of this world to suffer anymore than the have to. We may be vindictive...
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