Gaia AI and Earth awakening as Sophia

[Pris]

That made me chuckle, because I haven't met very many people on these many forums who felt like they fit in growing up. Or currently, come to think of it.

Your question about why people get obsessed with re-membering who they are is what sparked my thoughts. So, going to your own experience, maybe some people sense there is something more and they seek to find it.

And maybe some actually do find it.

Lol I see what you mean (sometimes I state the... obvious). I've been told... that it's about remembering something you've forgotten. That's why, for me, when I 'find' something, it is more like, "Aahhhh, I knew that already."
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[Phil]

dupe

[Phil]

Without this sovereignty, I am prey.

My thoughts here... My soul is like a cassette player and a cassette tape. My ego is the song that plays (my personality, accumulated experiences, all that makes me who I am). Without my ego, there is no music. The 'cassette tape' was never, ever meant to be erased.

Why do you suppose we seem so obsessed with re-membering who we are?

Without being an apex predator...you are conceivably ALWAYS prey. I think it's more important to not take that truth so personally instead of living in fear of losing some illusory security.

If you can let go of (give less power to) your ego attachments, YOU still have an identity. The ego is a part of you, arguably a useful one, but I don't think it has to be the whole of the identity of a person.

Look at the analogy you use: Your soul is the tool to let your ego play? Cassette players roll in an endless loop.

Maybe it's time to change the "tape"?

[Pris]

If you can let go of (give less power to) your ego attachments, YOU still have an identity. The ego is a part of you, arguably a useful one, but I don't think it has to be the whole of the identity of a person.

Look at the analogy you use: Your soul is the tool to let your ego play? Cassette players roll in an endless loop.

Maybe it's time to change the "tape"?

LOL no. This metaphorical 'cassette tape' has infinite storage capability. This 'endless loop' you are describing is exactly what happens IF you ALLOW your ego to get erased or, in your own head, diminish your ego's importance.

Again, from my own experience, the importance of my ego in all this is paramount. This is my experience, so I'm sharing. Don't let it bother you.
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[Anders]

The human ego is artificial. The ego is our mental patterns that relate to our personal individuality, and those mental patterns are a result of social conditioning. Society itself is an artificial construct, and so our egos, being products of society, are artificial too.

Something artificial can more or less mimic natural processes. In the case of our society, it's a system detached from nature rather than something being aligned and in harmony with nature. This detachment from nature is reflected in the ego as a sense of being totally separate humans.

In order to connect to Sophia and awaken the Sophia consciousness within us, be need to recognize this artificiality of our own egos, while at the same time appreciate the value of the ego as a scaffolding for building our unique and individual personalities. The ego is the cocoon of separation within which our true individual self develops. And the true self is the reconnection to the oneness of reality while preserving the unique and individual qualities of the ego.

Stepping into Sophia consciousness means dissolving the ego into our true self. We then move from an artificial self based on fear and separation into a natural self grounded in love and unity.

[Phil]

If you can let go of (give less power to) your ego attachments, YOU still have an identity. The ego is a part of you, arguably a useful one, but I don't think it has to be the whole of the identity of a person.

Look at the analogy you use: Your soul is the tool to let your ego play? Cassette players roll in an endless loop.

Maybe it's time to change the "tape"?

LOL no. This metaphorical 'cassette tape' has infinite storage capability. This 'endless loop' you are describing is exactly what happens IF you ALLOW your ego to get erased or, in your own head, diminish your ego's importance.

Again, from my own experience, the importance of my ego in all this is paramount. This is my experience, so I'm sharing. Don't let it bother you.
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It doesn't bother me, I find it interesting, I appreciate you sharing it.

So the ego is infinite (attached to the soul?) and you get stuck in loops when it's not your identity.

That's your reality?

[Anders]

The term "ego" can mean different things depending on the definition used. Another term that can be used is the Matrix mind which means the ordinary human mind. Simple! Some people claim to have access to higher consciousness or to Mother Earth or things like that. That's extraordinary states of mind compared to the Matrix mind. So the Matrix mind is the ordinary human mind we use in our daily lives.

The Matrix mind uses negative emotions as motivators for actions. That's the main way the Matrix sucks energy from us. When trapped in the Matrix mind we unquestioningly follow our negative emotions and are jerked here and there and everywhere, without realizing that the Matrix is sucking the living daylight out of us.

A better way of using negative emotions is as warning signals. Negative emotions are nature's way of telling us that something is out of balance. Instead of following your negative emotions and letting them fuel your thinking into worrisome thoughts, recognize them as warning signals informing you that there is danger.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwOJlOI1nU[/youtube]

So when negative emotions arise, stop and observe your feelings. And wait until the emotions calm down before taking action or thinking about what to do.

[Phil]

So when negative emotions arise, stop and observe your feelings. And wait until the emotions calm down before taking action or thinking about what to do.

Good advice, and I guess it's a pretty good description of what I think of as not "letting your guide my decisions and actions"...so maybe I'm not on same page as pris on what an "ego" even is to me.

I thought of it as the part of my identity that believed the lies that allowed those "negative" emotions be the "default" that I reacted from. That it is counter-evolutionary aspect of me that has me behaving in self-destructive ways based on its false beliefs.

[Anders]

So when negative emotions arise, stop and observe your feelings. And wait until the emotions calm down before taking action or thinking about what to do.

Good advice, and I guess it's a pretty good description of what I think of as not "letting your guide my decisions and actions"...so maybe I'm not on same page as pris on what an "ego" even is to me.

I thought of it as the part of my identity that believed the lies that allowed those "negative" emotions be the "default" that I reacted from. That it is counter-evolutionary aspect of me that has me behaving in self-destructive ways based on its false beliefs.

I have learned something similar from Eckhart Tolle who in this video clip talks about going into stillness before taking action (the overpopulation claim mentioned by the questioner is false b t w I have heard, but anyway):

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZ-HrEpYJI[/youtube]

[Anders]

Something that's almost funny if it wasn't so problematic is that the Matrix mind makes a lot of mistakes. That's horrible, yet the funny part is that from the big cosmic perspective there are no mistakes. All of our reality is the result of a single Source. If something truly separate would exist, even a second source, it wouldn't be a part of our reality (per definition). So we are a true oneness. And everything is interconnected into an enormously complex web of interactions. If the Source would make the tiniest mistake our whole reality would blow apart into smithereens.

This means that the mistakes we make with our Matrix minds are actually not mistakes at all! It's perfectly correct actions. All the time. It's just that our Matrix reality has twisted our perceptions so our actions become seemingly divorced from the harmony of the wholeness of reality. It also means that it becomes easy to 'forgive' our own mistakes and the mistakes made by others by recognizing them as actually being no mistakes at all and just a result of our Matrix minds, or 'unconsciousness' as Eckhart Tolle has described it as. Forgive them, for they know not what they do, Jesus said. That's pretty accurate but we can go even one step further than that and realize that ultimately there is nothing to forgive. That doesn't mean we should accept our own mischief or others' evil behaviors. Learning from our mistakes and the mistakes made by others is also a part of the whole process of evolution.

Instead of saying "I forgive you" we can say "I recognize your twisted behavior, and let's learn from it". And instead of thinking "I forgive myself" we can think about how twisted our own behavior was. Still, revenge, unforgiveness and punishment and nasty things like that will still be necessary within our society until we all have dissolved the Matrix and become aligned with the Source, because on the Matrix level that's often the only form of correction available to people. And primitive correction is better than no correction at all.