- 29 Apr 2015 09:41
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It wasn't that Bill Nye was discovering something that no one had known of, it is that he was willing and able to steadfastly defend his position in the face of condemnation and to at the same time advance one of the oldest ideas in the world. He is not stereotypically the kind of person that you would expect to hear this kind of thing from, so that makes it a great clip.
Regarding 'cures' though, I'll go off topic and take this to another level by saying that human 'salvation' to the extent that it is possible, is found in this idea: since the world system is holistic and interconnected, salvation does not originate in and of itself from outside the world. The world is not some kind of object that is acted upon by some kind of administrative god.
Salvation arises from within the world, because the saviour-consciousness is contained within the world as a result of it having descended into physical matter after a great war in the other world, invigorating this world with ability to grow intellectually. Much like the evolution of human beings in the first place, the evolution of human intelligence is also bottom-up. Not top-down. That's why in the story of 'the garden of Eden', the snake doesn't explicitly demand that Eve should adopt any specific set of commandments, it doesn't tell her what to think, the snake merely advises her on how to save herself from ignorance. That action by the snake was an action of salvation, because it set in motion the quest of the Magi -- the quest to persevere and establish through decisive action and unflinching resolve, a stable world order with the kind of societies* in which it could be possible to finally bring all people toward the experience - not just academic knowledge or a temporary realisation - of what is known as 'primordial purity', or 'pristine awareness'.
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* Yes, this is plural, because each population group has its own way, as history has shown.
Serato wrote:Because I watched the video and there was absolutely nothing breathtaking about it, but according to Rei it rivals in respect to finding a cure to cancer.
It wasn't that Bill Nye was discovering something that no one had known of, it is that he was willing and able to steadfastly defend his position in the face of condemnation and to at the same time advance one of the oldest ideas in the world. He is not stereotypically the kind of person that you would expect to hear this kind of thing from, so that makes it a great clip.
Regarding 'cures' though, I'll go off topic and take this to another level by saying that human 'salvation' to the extent that it is possible, is found in this idea: since the world system is holistic and interconnected, salvation does not originate in and of itself from outside the world. The world is not some kind of object that is acted upon by some kind of administrative god.
Salvation arises from within the world, because the saviour-consciousness is contained within the world as a result of it having descended into physical matter after a great war in the other world, invigorating this world with ability to grow intellectually. Much like the evolution of human beings in the first place, the evolution of human intelligence is also bottom-up. Not top-down. That's why in the story of 'the garden of Eden', the snake doesn't explicitly demand that Eve should adopt any specific set of commandments, it doesn't tell her what to think, the snake merely advises her on how to save herself from ignorance. That action by the snake was an action of salvation, because it set in motion the quest of the Magi -- the quest to persevere and establish through decisive action and unflinching resolve, a stable world order with the kind of societies* in which it could be possible to finally bring all people toward the experience - not just academic knowledge or a temporary realisation - of what is known as 'primordial purity', or 'pristine awareness'.
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* Yes, this is plural, because each population group has its own way, as history has shown.