sandy whitelinger
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We don't know any more than any else.
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What Do Enlightened People Know that Others Don't?
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sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Forget the switch. Where are my car keys.
james bond
Well-Known Member
Where they left the gosh durn car and house keys.
If they can't remember, then they know the Jedi mind trick in order to find them.
If they can't remember, then they know the Jedi mind trick in order to find them.
Foxic
Member
Nothing, for personal enlightenment is as self fulfilling and prone to unreasonable emotional bias as adherence to a personal religious belief.
That's a fascinating point! Do you think a person who wasn't themselves enlightened would be in a position to know that about enlightened people for certain? Or would you need to be enlightened to know that to be sure it was true?
Ponder This
Well-Known Member
Presumably people who are enlightened know what it means to be enlightened vs unenlightened...
while people who aren't unenlightened are presumably clueless.
That's a genuinely interesting question to me, PT. Thanks for raising that! I wonder -- sincerely wonder -- whether it's really that way? For instance, is it possible to be enlightened at a non-conceptual or subconscious level and never really become consciously aware that you are enlightened? At least not know you were "enlightened" in an intellectual way? What do you think?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I was wondering how the unenlightened crowd was able to tell the difference between who is unenlightened and who is enlightened without knowing themselves what enlightenment is so they could disguinish between the two.
It's so obvious now. Hire an enlightened consultant who is Truly Enlightened.
socharlie
Active Member
knows about endless great adventure beyond physical world...
Shadow Link
Active Member
If one were to invent a potion for enlightenment, I think "Creative Imagination" would be a main ingredient.
socharlie
Active Member
"Creative Imagination" usually have a back feed from outside that some call intuition.
dianaiad
Well-Known Member
The definition of 'enlightened:'
Definition of enlightened
1 : freed from ignorance and misinformation
- an enlightened people
- an enlightened time
- issued an enlightened ruling
Therefore, what 'enlightened people know that others don't," is...
more of whatever it is.
Now all you have to do is figure out what 'it' is.
syo
Well-Known Member
that humans are animals. it is strange that most humans separate themselves from the animal kingdom. they say a dog is an animal but a human is different than an animal. in reality we are nothing more or less than an animal. we are animals.
It's interesting that you would use that particular definition of "enlightenment". Do you think other people might legitimately use other definitions? Or is there something special about the one you used that precludes anyone using some other definition?
I'm not following you. Could you please re-phrase that?
socharlie
Active Member
my experience: creative imagination is fed by outside information, ideas of things I never thought of just pop up in my mind as of nowhere and no reasonable base that I was coming with those ideas on my own...sometime it comes through synchronicities and dreams.