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Book: The Dissapearance of the Universe - have you read it and did it touch you?

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MsKLo · 07/02/2011 20:36

I loved this book. I also love Conversations With God (books 1-3)

Would love to hear from others who have read it. These books really 'talk' to me and the whole concept that 'we create our reality' makes so much sense but is frightening and hard to adjust to as well.

I also have 'A Course in Miracles' which I am going to read when the time is right!

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faeriefruitcake · 10/02/2011 22:13

I've read extracts from it butI'm still umming about getting it.

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MsKLo · 12/02/2011 23:36

at last! a reply! thank you :)

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Conflugenglugen · 23/02/2011 16:03

Yes, I read it. Yes, it changed my life. Completely - although the groundwork had already been laid. However, I've realised that ACIM is not for me right now. I am in a phase of spiritual rebellion, methinks. :)

MissyKLo · 23/02/2011 16:44

Acim? Whassat mean?! X

Conflugenglugen · 23/02/2011 17:07

A Course in Miracles :)

MissyKLo · 23/02/2011 21:02

DOH! I am being a bit thick today! When you say spiritual rebellion what do you mean? I believe in the principles so much but find in everyday life, well, everyday life gets in the way...

It's almost harder as I 'know' how things are or how I should be but it is hard to 'live' like that, you know?

Conflugenglugen · 23/02/2011 21:18

:)

Well, it's hard to explain, but I think I just stopped trying to do things I thought I should do, but didn't really want to. I've stopped trying to explain anything to anyone. I have the strongest sense that no book is really going to have the impact that Disappearance and their ilk did when I "woke up" several years ago; because it was the waking up that was important. And now it's down to me to find my own truth and my own direction - just as I believe that's the same for everyone else.

I think it was Krishnamurti who said that "truth is a pathless land". Buddha apparently said not to believe anything, even anything he said, if it didn't speak to your truth. And when you start to step into that pathless land you realise that books don't work any more. Well, not like they used to. I start reading, then I think, "What's the point?" Because I think I have an inkling that I know enough to know that I am the only one who can start forging that path. DYKWIM? It's the strongest feeling inside me; but when I start to try and articulate it, words fail me. Which might be the point. Grin

Conflugenglugen · 23/02/2011 21:21

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."

-- Krishnamurti

MissyKLo · 23/02/2011 23:17

Yes that makes sense

It is kinda what the conversations with god books say - find your own truth etc and that is another reason why I love them so

It is about 'remembering' our truth etc isn't it

But it is still hard, I feel a bit spiritual lost at the moment and need to reconnect - would love to know more like minded people as not a lot of people want to know about this kind of thing

indigobarbie · 27/02/2011 12:50

MissyKLo do you feel lost in a way that you need to reconnect to yourself?

MissyKLo · 10/03/2011 07:07

Not sure if your post was sarcastic or not indigo? But no, I don't feel
Lost to myself thank you

indigobarbie · 10/03/2011 22:37

I certainly didn't mean to sound sarcastic, I'm sorry if this offended you in any way. I did have something in mind when I wrote that post on the 27/02, but at the moment I can't think of what it actually was I was going to say to you.

I wholeheartedly believe that we create our own realities based on our thoughts etc. I think I was thinking about your previous post where you said 'I feel a bit spiritual lost at the moment and need to reconnect', I didn't mean you were lost to yourself, just that sometimes I have to take a step back from the drama of daily life to reconnect myself to my higher self, if that makes sense.

I do incorporate my spiritual life into my daily life, as I can see things differently - I try to see the love and inter connectedness (as in we are all one) in everyone. I am leading a bit of a double life though, as I am able to cut through the drama of situations and sometimes see the synchronicities for what they really are - rather than the drama that those caught in the middle feel. I find myself increasingly unable to tolerate people who judge or talk about others, I just don't see the point. Who am I to judge anyone? I try hard not to do this, and really hate it when others pass comment on people they don't even know.

I am generally hanging around this forum to find more like minded souls, as you say - there aren't a lot of people who know, or want to know about this kind of thing. :) Sorry, I've made it all about me!

I haven't read disappearance of the universe, but it's time I did x

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