To me a truly great mind is one that is not structured.
Educators would call it an “undisciplined mind”
… medicine might call it a “damaged mind” … psychologists might called
it a mentally unbalanced mind … I call it the mind of a child… a young child…
who stills believes all things are possible … I love children and I see time
and time again how our educational system, and our society rapes children of
true creative thoughts … The child is forced into conformity of thinking … told
this “all things possible thinking” is magically thinking … not reality … to take that a step further logically ... faith then can only be "magically thinking"...
Meditation when done well and often, allows the person to
dismiss core believes … This takes years of repeated meditation … as a Catholic… it is labeled “prayer and
contemplation” … On this note … repeated prayer … such as the Hail Mary is
nothing more than a “mantra”, given to mankind in the form of words (the rosary) … the power of that prayer is the meditation... not the words
Mantra’s
by definition are “repeated words” said over and over again, to shut down the
“thinking mind”… you say the Hail Mary long enough … you get bored with it …
your thinking mind will get bored with it … and it will drift away … that is
when a person can really get into the “zone” …
If you “use the Hail Mary”
correctly it is a very effective tool to reach high levels of spirituality … if
you use wrongly it locks you into “human thought” … Most “Mary cults” … use the
Hail Mary as a means to label the Virgin Mary as being as powerful as her Son … she is no
more powerful than you or I …she just has "absolute faith"... there is not doubt in her ... her faith is not just faith it is her "truth" ... Is faith "truth to you"...
(And Jesus said this in Scripture… in his words…
“Who is my mother”) …. The Hail Mary if used as “background music” to lure the
conscious mind to sleep is most effective …
I see the Divine Mercy Chaplet in much the same way … it is word cue … a
repeated word cue (a mantra) to still the conscious mind … Chanting does the
same… reading prayers or a book, even the Bible… I think is counter productive … to still the mind… such
things make the mind think more (the human mind that is) … and to get to the
“zone” … the human mind/ conscious thinking and thoughts are the “enemy” …
Must haves in deep
spirituality and mystical experiences
1) dismissal
of all human core believes
2) dismissal
of any laws of nature/science/ physics you have been taught
3)
Dismissal of any religions you have been taught …
if they involve “laws attached to them” … to me the saying giving to St.
Peter…. “what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven” was a warning to
Peter, by Jesus … such as “beware,
if you say it cannot be done, and your thinking binds it to human thought, on
earth it will not be honored in heaven
and hence it will not be done”… the use of the word “bound” by Jesus when
saying this to Peter… once you bind something there is a limitation placed upon
it …
The other warning to us all in regards to “binding” is within the “Our Father”… with the words “forgive us our sins as we forgive others”… Hence I absolutely believe that Peter was the “prefect Pope” none like him since … he was “normal and a family man”… and although he was pushy … I do not think he “bound anything on earth”… Peter was grounded in truth, his family/wife in poverty and in struggle
…When a man is grounded in such … they do not seek to bind anyone … clearly he came across as a man who was struggling with his own crap in life … literally called himself a sinner, remembered that he betrayed Christ and was not worthy … so he did not cloth himself with rules and dogmas which would define what worthy was …
The other warning to us all in regards to “binding” is within the “Our Father”… with the words “forgive us our sins as we forgive others”… Hence I absolutely believe that Peter was the “prefect Pope” none like him since … he was “normal and a family man”… and although he was pushy … I do not think he “bound anything on earth”… Peter was grounded in truth, his family/wife in poverty and in struggle
…When a man is grounded in such … they do not seek to bind anyone … clearly he came across as a man who was struggling with his own crap in life … literally called himself a sinner, remembered that he betrayed Christ and was not worthy … so he did not cloth himself with rules and dogmas which would define what worthy was …
4)
Love … must have … not as we as human beings
define love …it is not emotional, touchy feeling and in self …. As in your
needs … it is in the presence of the greater among us … who is God … love God first…
he will teach you to love self and your “self” will teach you to love others …
that is the order …
