Share feelings. I’ll set my laptop on fire if necessary.
Jim November 23rd, 2009
Could someone please share something from their deepest feelings – something from the depths of your heart and soul? Hello!! Is anyone out there??? Earth to humans! Come in humans! May Day, May Day! S.O.S. Can you hear me?! I need rescued from the land of artificial living. Would someone please step out from behind their role, script, mask and persona, and be real? I don’t care what you “think.” I want to know what you feel. Is there something…anything..please!
Do you feel anything? What? This is not a trick question. Please don’t get all wound up in your head about why I’m asking or what it means. Okay? However this relates to you, fine? If you drill down to your deepest feelings, what’s there these days or right now.
No mental gymnastics, okay? If I get some analytical/mental response I’m going to throw my laptop out the window or set it on fire. There’s no underlying theme to this post except wanting to know what you’re feeling deeply these days. If you have to think about it for a while, that’s okay. I feel things deeply. I know you do too. What are your deep feelings? If you tell me, I’ll tell you. Deal?
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Wow…I love the comments everyone is offering! Looking back on my previous two posts, I wish I had put less emphasis on the word metanoia and more on what it IS. Maybe that would have helped those who are new to the concept not to get caught up in mental constructs ‘about’ it. Only speaking personally here, I had to get out of my mind to begin to experience ‘it’, the ‘Oneness’ I’ll call it. For me, it’s always heart-initiated.
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Without consciously knowing it, I was resistant to leading with my heart in the past. Always relied on my mind to do the ‘heavy lifting’. I am very analytical by nature and grew up in a fundamentalist, legalistic, household. I became the ‘black sheep’ of the family when I turned my back on fundamentalism. I knew there was more to the Gospel than a spreadsheet of do’s and don’ts. I went on a gut-wrentching search for liberation/joy/oneness. That search took me down many paths, eventually bringing me to this website and what Brian and Audrey talked about ‘rang true’ for me in a deep way. Jim also talks about the trap-door into these deeper feelings and I find that’s such a good ‘visual’!
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As Brian said, our personalities, backgrounds and life experiences are all different, but we have a common denominator in the kingdom, which is within. I’ll support digging deeper into the experience of Oneness here in any way I can. I’ve purposefully left my comments about entering into ‘it’ or ‘Oneness’ very simple. It starts with Willingness and an open heart and I sense that emerging now with others! Joel…keep going!
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Doug, I’m so touched by your experience yesterday! There’s a lot of wisdom in what your wrote, and that you were able to feel the love of the one you lost by opening your heart!
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BTW, I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with my fundamentalist relatives yesterday. I used to approach them with emotional distance (being nice and polite yet emotionally guarded over old hurts), but just went with an open heart yesterday. Surprise, surprise…others met me there too!
Old Pete, J Reitman, & John C,
Your words speak deeply to me, especially regarding the freedom from legalism! Yes! Only recently have I been able to venture back into the Bible and read the Good News with new eyes…or, I should say, new heart.
I would love to love to be included on this journey.
As you dance in your intellectual minds, and you reason on the truth of you life. As you Analise, as you theorize, and demand a knowledge that your mind can know, leave room for the truth your heart can feel, and always welcome any messenger of truth.
love the truth
Doug
I think i can help you to feel not just the love in yourself but the love in every part of gods creation, but you will fist have to shed the cloak of every bit of the phony belief you have ever had about religion, and start in the beginning of the universe with GOD MAKING YOU JUST LIKE HIM AND HIS BOY.
When your mind stops saying I’m crazy, and your heart starts saying, holly crapollie, then you took your first step.
Its all good if you dont take that first step, cause you ll still end up in the arms of God with your last step, but you can walk every step form this moment to that one with the same joy, peace, and happiness the moment you feel your heart.
Love the truth, Doug
I can so relate to what Doug has said about the need to shed the cloak of every bit of the phony belief you have ever had about religion.
There is an enormous difference between the Christian RELIGION (just another one of the world’s religions) and the Christian FAITH!
This is the conclusion that I came to after having been forced to reconsider just about everything I had ever been taught about 14 years ago. As my friend once said, “Peter, you have the knack of asking the awkward questions to which there are no easy answers”.
I have tried to share something of my journey since first asking the question, “What is the purpose of life?” in 1966 – over 40 years ago.
The story begins on my blog where I have set out a few questions about the whole FOUNDATION of the Christian religion.
Are you ready for a challenge?