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I have a secret: I've had thoughts of being enlightened, dreams even, since I was a teenager.
I eventually gave up with that and moved on to other things - like actually desiring living here on Earth. It's amazing, considering how overpopulated we are, how many people have to work to get there. And then desiring to be here worked its way back into what it means to truly be here 100% - with everything I am. Channeling has been part of it for me. I was introduced to the Michael Teachings at 14 years, and immiediately felt a resonance, not just with the material, but with the energy behind it. I found out years later that I had arrangements both as a student and as a channel. But part of that attraction was this idea of enlightenment: connecting with a being beyond all the suffering of the physical plane, learning to see things as they do, and therefore being above all this misery. I can laugh at it now, because it really is funny. I took all that way too seriously. We need more clowns in spirituality. That's part of "light", you know? It took me going through clown training myself to find that - that helped me more than my stay in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. I learned a lot there, but it was only when I learned to laugh (not to mention help others laugh!) at all this "shit" inside myself that I could even begin to allow it in its perfection. But as they say : "That was Zen, this is Tao!"
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  written by Matthew, May 02, 2009
It's not only a downer - when I get oh so serious, I find people tend not to listen to me. There's intensity, but no fun, and people feel that as tension. I can preach to the converted - those who might already have the same world view - but the energy doesn't feel good to most others.
 written by twocrows, May 02, 2009
hnnh!
maybe THAT'S why I have about twice as much traffic to All that Is than to PP&D. I hadn't thought of that. Write comment
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Some of this was due to teenage angst and pain, no doubt. You know how it is: sensitive teenager overwhelmed with things he can't change dreams of transcending the space time continuum and living a life of joy. Like Donnie Darko in a happier ending. It's the view of enlightenment - oh so common! - that holds enlightenment as on par with a perpetual dose of heroin.
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when I'm actually _thinking_ along spirit lines, I can do it pretty well.
but, as you may have seen when you visited 'preserve, protect and defend' I can get into the mindset where it all seems far too real to me. that's a major downer.