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Love for Nature and spiritual growth

r2d2009

Member
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Contacts with living nature are essential for spiritual growth. Retreats to the forest or to other natural landscapes are one of the important ways of “exposing” oneself to God so that He can teach us more effectively. “In forests seek My instructions!” [40: Leaves of the Morya’s Garden. Call]. This is where one can expand oneself as a consciousness over the harmony of the environment — in contrast to “sitting” in the head chakras while living in the city, “feeding” oneself with information about people’s earthly desires and getting polluted by energies of their negative emotions.

Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.

It is also beneficial to expose the body to sunlight, especially in the morning when the sunlight is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.

It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have an “artificial sun” — a quartz lamp — and to have sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to ultra-violet radiation can easily cure catarrhal infections if performed right after appearing of their first symptoms. Light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make a cough go away quickly.

Summer and autumn is the time for collecting and storing mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.

Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special places of power — zones that have a significant energy impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining the consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.


… Early spring morning is the time when nature confers on us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of the consciousness.

Those who like to sleep until late have much fewer opportunities for spiritual advancement.

… Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of sublime SILENCE, HARMONY. The energy of the consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.

… But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water reminds us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to deeply feel the beauty of spring!

… Nature also consists of a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which, as a rule, are more refined as a consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most people. An average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of LOVE and PEACE and has a right to say that he or she started to develop spiritually.

Moreover, only in open natural landscapes — in contrast to “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide the refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.

… Let me repeat that emotions are states of the consciousness. And the consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of the consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator.

God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of the energy of the consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?

… Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouses in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of these big, beautiful, and passionate birds. But the majority of those who have been there, were cutting short those beautiful songs of love with gunshots, pain, blood, and death… And enjoyed themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.

Raised in the tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings, atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people…

… In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks fly smoothly over glades, forest openings and lakeshores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “grunting”, sends to us waves of love emotions of these lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one who sings the best… Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him… He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love… And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other… — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset…

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Love for Nature
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
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Contacts with living nature are essential for spiritual growth. Retreats to the forest or to other natural landscapes are one of the important ways of “exposing” oneself to God so that He can teach us more effectively. “In forests seek My instructions!” [40: Leaves of the Morya’s Garden. Call]. This is where one can expand oneself as a consciousness over the harmony of the environment — in contrast to “sitting” in the head chakras while living in the city, “feeding” oneself with information about people’s earthly desires and getting polluted by energies of their negative emotions.

Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.

It is also beneficial to expose the body to sunlight, especially in the morning when the sunlight is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.

It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have an “artificial sun” — a quartz lamp — and to have sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to ultra-violet radiation can easily cure catarrhal infections if performed right after appearing of their first symptoms. Light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make a cough go away quickly.

Summer and autumn is the time for collecting and storing mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.

Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special places of power — zones that have a significant energy impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining the consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.


… Early spring morning is the time when nature confers on us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of the consciousness.

Those who like to sleep until late have much fewer opportunities for spiritual advancement.

… Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of sublime SILENCE, HARMONY. The energy of the consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.

… But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water reminds us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to deeply feel the beauty of spring!

… Nature also consists of a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which, as a rule, are more refined as a consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most people. An average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of LOVE and PEACE and has a right to say that he or she started to develop spiritually.

Moreover, only in open natural landscapes — in contrast to “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide the refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.

… Let me repeat that emotions are states of the consciousness. And the consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of the consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator.

God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of the energy of the consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?

… Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouses in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of these big, beautiful, and passionate birds. But the majority of those who have been there, were cutting short those beautiful songs of love with gunshots, pain, blood, and death… And enjoyed themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.

Raised in the tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings, atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people…

… In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks fly smoothly over glades, forest openings and lakeshores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “grunting”, sends to us waves of love emotions of these lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one who sings the best… Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him… He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love… And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other… — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset…

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Love for Nature
I really liked the text you written here :) inspiration Delux
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
The OP reminds me of Baruch Spinoza's use of "Nature" as another name for God, and he did so because he believed that they are so intertwined so as to not be able to separate them. Einstein felt the same way as he repeatedly said that he believed in "Spinoza's God".
 

Audie

Veteran Member

You are talking about self indulgence, loving
yourself, with "nature" as a backdrop.

We noticed your thing about how atheists
are mass murderers just waiting for an excuse.
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Contacts with living nature are essential for spiritual growth. Retreats to the forest or to other natural landscapes are one of the important ways of “exposing” oneself to God so that He can teach us more effectively. “In forests seek My instructions!” [40: Leaves of the Morya’s Garden. Call]. This is where one can expand oneself as a consciousness over the harmony of the environment — in contrast to “sitting” in the head chakras while living in the city, “feeding” oneself with information about people’s earthly desires and getting polluted by energies of their negative emotions.

Although cities, being big cultural centers, are also necessary: there are libraries, as well as other excellent opportunities for intellectual development. It is also easier to find like-minded people and partners on the spiritual Path there.

It is also beneficial to expose the body to sunlight, especially in the morning when the sunlight is particularly tender. This light exists not only on the material plane, but also penetrates other — the subtlest — dimensions inside our multidimensional organisms, reviving them, filling them with its pure power.

It is good for people who live at high latitudes to have an “artificial sun” — a quartz lamp — and to have sun-baths at home. This is also a wonderful remedy for various diseases. For example, exposure to ultra-violet radiation can easily cure catarrhal infections if performed right after appearing of their first symptoms. Light burns on the chest and the back made with a quartz lamp — where mustard plasters are usually applied — make a cough go away quickly.

Summer and autumn is the time for collecting and storing mushrooms and wild berries, which are very important components of pure nutrition.

Any time of the year meditations can be performed at special places of power — zones that have a significant energy impact on human beings. They are very different and can be used depending on this for healing oneself, for talking to God, for refining the consciousness, for increasing personal psychoenergetic power or for dissolving oneself in God and Merging with Him.


… Early spring morning is the time when nature confers on us the greatest harmony and bliss — when birds start singing even before dawn and the entire space around us gets saturated with the energy of their love. Attuning to their state allows us to get closer to God and constitutes attainment of a certain level of refinement of the consciousness.

Those who like to sleep until late have much fewer opportunities for spiritual advancement.

… Sunset time in spring also provides a wide variety of the subtlest impressions. During this time the singing of birds gets superimposed against the background of sublime SILENCE, HARMONY. The energy of the consciousness “spills” out from the body by itself and expands over the forest saturated with bliss, filling it and merging with it. In this way the consciousness becomes more mobile, more fluid and established in harmony and inner purity.

… But at any other time of the year a morning or an evening spent in the forest or by the water reminds us of the spring dawn or dusk times. They are very important for those who have learned to deeply feel the beauty of spring!

… Nature also consists of a multitude of living beings: animals, plants, which, as a rule, are more refined as a consciousness and enjoy incomparably greater inner peace than most people. An average modern person has to come a long way in order to attain their level of LOVE and PEACE and has a right to say that he or she started to develop spiritually.

Moreover, only in open natural landscapes — in contrast to “boxes” of city apartments and “corridors” of streets — is it possible to expand, to open wide the refined consciousness in order to literally grow its size.

… Let me repeat that emotions are states of the consciousness. And the consciousness is what we are. Depending on what states of the consciousness we experience — we can be closer or farther from the Creator.

God in the aspect of the Creator is the highest degree of refinement of the energy of the consciousness. Is it clear to us now, which direction we should move regarding development of our emotional sphere?

… Very few people have witnessed what is going on at a display ground of black-grouses in spring, when pre-dawn mist gets filled with loud ecstatic singing of these big, beautiful, and passionate birds. But the majority of those who have been there, were cutting short those beautiful songs of love with gunshots, pain, blood, and death… And enjoyed themselves with voluptuousness of sadist-murderers.

Raised in the tradition of having a “right” to kill animals, not having absolute inner taboo against inflicting any suffering on other living beings, atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people…

… In spring evenings, after the sunset, when twilight is enveloping the forest, male woodcocks fly smoothly over glades, forest openings and lakeshores overgrown with shrubs. Their song, consisting of beautiful, soul-touching tender “grunting”, sends to us waves of love emotions of these lovely birds. In the shrubs, over which the males fly, sit female woodcocks — choosing the one who sings the best… Here — this one! She flashes to show herself to him… He rushes after her, seized by passion of bird’s love… And then they spend the night together. In the morning they fly apart, having become tired of each other… — to look for new adventures and new friends at the next sunset…

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Read more:

Love for Nature

Terrific.
 

r2d2009

Member
You are talking about self indulgence, loving
yourself, with "nature" as a backdrop.


I think that it’s better to love nature than not to love ...
In this love there is a “dissolution”, a feeling of nature as oneself ...
In this feeling, selfish self-love dissolves and disappears.
It is difficult to understand, it must be experienced, felt.
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
It is true that being in a natural environment is very healing and inspiring.

There is another side to it though.

I have spent a lot of time alone in the Australian bushland, sleeping under a sheet of corrugated iron, with just a water tank, miles from civilisation.

It is a beautiful experience, especially after a few days when the mental chatter stops.

But I also noticed things which were illuminating and not so idyllic. I noticed that most creatures were constantly struggling to survive for example.
I noticed that nature is very harsh and often cruel.

If you spend time in nature with too many comforts, you miss a lot.

I once spent a night in a howling storm that dropped so many large old-growth trees all around me it looked like Tunguska. My humble shelter was nearly blown away as trees and huge branches fell around me in the pitch dark, for many hours. The wind was screaming like a squadron of jet fighters. There was a strong possibility that I would be killed or badly injured by falling trees.

In the morning, I wandered through the wreckage that had been an idyllic mountainside.

I came across a kangaroo, confused and more or less penned in a corral made by tree trunks.
The kangaroo let me walk right up to her, which I found strange. Then I noticed her dilemma - she was old and had cataracts in her eyes. She had learned to survive blind, because she knew all the tracks and smells. But now, she was disoriented and in peril.

Nature isn’t all beer and skittles. We wax lyrical about harmony and beauty, but there is also the non-stop demand to survive, to compete, to reproduce. And that creates suffering.

I learned that nature isn’t a kindly grandmother.

I also spent many wonderful nights staring into the flames of my campfire, being left breathless by the beauty of the night sky, wandering all day through bushland.

I spent six weeks out there once. I didn’t want to come back.

Yes nature is beautiful. But also dangerous and harsh. Nature doesn’t care about you. It is not a picnic, unless you insulate yourself from it with various luxuries.

That is the kind of enlightenment that comes from being truly immersed in nature.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I think that it’s better to love nature than not to love ...
In this love there is a “dissolution”, a feeling of nature as oneself ...
In this feeling, selfish self-love dissolves and disappears.
It is difficult to understand, it must be experienced, felt.
It is true that being in a natural environment is very healing and inspiring.

There is another side to it though.

I have spent a lot of time alone in the Australian bushland, sleeping under a sheet of corrugated iron, with just a water tank, miles from civilisation.

It is a beautiful experience, especially after a few days when the mental chatter stops.

But I also noticed things which were illuminating and not so idyllic. I noticed that most creatures were constantly struggling to survive for example.
I noticed that nature is very harsh and often cruel.

If you spend time in nature with too many comforts, you miss a lot.

I once spent a night in a howling storm that dropped so many large old-growth trees all around me it looked like Tunguska. My humble shelter was nearly blown away as trees and huge branches fell around me in the pitch dark, for many hours. The wind was screaming like a squadron of jet fighters. There was a strong possibility that I would be killed or badly injured by falling trees.

In the morning, I wandered through the wreckage that had been an idyllic mountainside.

I came across a kangaroo, confused and more or less penned in a corral made by tree trunks.
The kangaroo let me walk right up to her, which I found strange. Then I noticed her dilemma - she was old and had cataracts in her eyes. She had learned to survive blind, because she knew all the tracks and smells. But now, she was disoriented and in peril.

Nature isn’t all beer and skittles. We wax lyrical about harmony and beauty, but there is also the non-stop demand to survive, to compete, to reproduce. And that creates suffering.

I learned that nature isn’t a kindly grandmother.

I also spent many wonderful nights staring into the flames of my campfire, being left breathless by the beauty of the night sky, wandering all day through bushland.

I spent six weeks out there once. I didn’t want to come back.

Yes nature is beautiful. But also dangerous and harsh. Nature doesn’t care about you. It is not a picnic, unless you insulate yourself from it with various luxuries.

That is the kind of enlightenment that comes from being truly immersed in nature.

As opposed to immersion in virtue signaling and
self indulgence?

As city girl, I cant say I have done anything remotely like
what you describe.

I am guessing you dont go about telling folks of the
mystic value of your wilderness time.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I think that it’s better to love nature than not to love ...
In this love there is a “dissolution”, a feeling of nature as oneself ...
In this feeling, selfish self-love dissolves and disappears.
It is difficult to understand, it must be experienced, felt.

Great false dichotomy there.
Your post seems dripping with self indulgence so the
dissolve bit is not too credible
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
As opposed to immersion in virtue signaling and
self indulgence?

As city girl, I cant say I have done anything remotely like
what you describe.

I am guessing you dont go about telling folks of the
mystic value of your wilderness time.

I occasionally do, despite my hard line, if I sense they will respect it.
Well, depending on what you mean by mystic value.
That phrase could mean a lot of very different things. I am ever the ignostic.
I get the irony in your remark though.

Maybe one day we will discuss it, but not now. I just wanted to put some balance in the discussion.
 
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r2d2009

Member
Great false dichotomy there.
Your post seems dripping with self indulgence so the
dissolve bit is not too credible

Do you have experience living with immersion in nature?
Tent, lakeside and campfire cooking?
And around there is only silence of the forest, birdsong, the sunsets and no city?
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Do you have experience living with immersion in nature?
Tent, lakeside and campfire cooking?
And around there is only silence of the forest, birdsong, the sunsets and no city?

"Living with immersion in"?

Translation?
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Yes, it is google-translation...

I whant ask you - have you experience of living in nature (as tourist) for a long time?


Anyone who would say this- atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people…
has no (zero) wisdom to pass om to others.

As for "spiritual growth"? What you write represents
what you have grown into,
I hope you dont really sully the wilderness with
your presence.
 

r2d2009

Member
Anyone who would say this- atheists, as well as members of mass sects in our country, easily switch to mass killings of people…
has no (zero) wisdom to pass om to others.

As for "spiritual growth"? What you write represents
what you have grown into,
I hope you dont really sully the wilderness with
your presence.

You are writing something that is completely irrelevant to this topic.
How does nature provoke mass genocide?
 

Audie

Veteran Member
You are writing something that is completely irrelevant to this topic.
How does nature provoke mass genocide?

I will stick with what I said. It is entirely pertinent to
your fatuous claims of spiritual growth. And, of course,
your ugly and false claims about people you dont know.

Prejudice, bigotry. You post drips of it.
Ig city for you.
 
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