RAY NASCENT: JULY 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Duality Trap
2 Web
Sites Of The Month
2 Higher Self Tech
3 Beyond The Dream
3 Guru Corner
Theme For Volume 22
of Ray Nascent:
What is alien to us? Isn't anything that is unfamilar to us
deemed alien? If it weren't deemed alien, it might have a name
rather just a description. In a multidimensional world, there
is really nothing alien to us. Everything is a part of us. Whether
we remember it or not, it still doesn't make it alien although
it may still seem unfamiliar. Some people call it the shadow
self. Others call it extraterrestrials. And still others call
these manifestations other-dimensional
focuses. This newsletter explores the gift of "unofficial information":
That information that comes to us as strange, unique, and slightly
out there. In a multidimensional world, everything that is out
there is first "in here" and so we go on to explore yet another
fascinating aspect of Self. To Contribute to Ray Nascent:
Email all submissions to the
editor. Recommendations,
criticisms, articles, and photos are welcome. No payment for
submissions is rendered unless otherwise contracted with the
individual.
Copyright © 2005 by Claire Moylan. All rights
reserved.
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Duality Trap: Arrogance
Recently, in a German tabloid
interview Tom Cruise was asked if he believed in aliens. Cruise
replied:
"Yes, of course. Are
you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?"
"Millions of stars, and we're supposed
to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things
out there, we just don't
know,"
Whether we agree or disagree with Tom Cruise's statement, one
thing is for sure: our truths are not necessarily other people's
truths. As usual, what may be deemed to be the absolute truth
in Tom's belief systems can be just a reflection or one aspect
of a phenomena that isn't fully understood. What may be "alone"
to Tom may be "at One" to others. What may be aliens
to
Tom
may be
"other
selves"
to
others.
What
may
be little gray men to some may be hallucinations to others. There
is definitely something going on out there (or in here, as the
case might be) but what is the actual truth behind it all? Will
there ever be one
truth
that
fits everyone?
Arrogance is not, as some may suggest, believing
what we want to believe despite evidence to the contrary. Rather,
arrogance is not allowing others the choice
to believe
what they
choose to believe and discounting other people's personal truths
based solely on our own personal truths. This entire world is
experienced through belief systems. We would
not be
in physical
form if we
didn't
agree
to use them as our tools for experiencing this physical reality.
What belief system we choose to align with is purely a personal
choice. We can choose to believe in Martians or we can choose
to believe in Science. We can choose to believe in God or we
can choose to believe in no God. We can choose to believe in
Psychiatry or we can choose to believe in Scientology. In the
end, these belief systems become our personal truths -- however
they
are
not absolute
truths.
When arrogance meets arrogance, in terms of two people unwilling
to accept each other's points of view regardless of whether agreement
is there or not, what we automatically create is conflict and
hostility. This is our choice. Differences in beliefs do not
require conflict. It is our choice in how we meet differences
in our lives. Everyone has a right to believe whatever they want
to believe -- even
Tom Cruise or Matt Lauer -- even if those two truths are in that
moment diametrically opposed. In the end, it matters not whether
Tom Cruise believes in aliens or whether Matt Lauer takes prescription
medications. These are personal choices and do not require agreement
from anyone outside themselves for acceptance to take place.
In order to dissapate the automatic reaction that
takes place when we encounter personal differences, it is important
to learn to speak our truths in ways that assert who we are but
do not discount another individual's reality. Or sometimes silence
may be chosen as a valuable tool as well. By expressing allowance
in our own lives people begin to feel free
to allow
others their
choices as well. By doing so we will learn that the only true
"War of The Worlds" lies in the inner conflicts we choose to
have within ourselves that we create in our own reality.
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