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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (8520)	12/5/2001 11:02:19 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Adi Da (and traditional Eastern religions) suggest that whenever the sense of an "other" occurs, fear arises. And that this is the foundation-structure on which the ego is based. "Feeling to infinity" is constricted into the feeling of reactivity. That conception of an "other" is fundamentally flawed. Adi Da describes three types of "character" (egoic character). The "solid" character is primarily identified with fear, and attempts to deal with this fear through thought and mental processes; the "peculiar" character is primarily oriented to sorrow and tries to avoid this by "grand designs" and volatile use of emotionality; the "vital" character is most identified with anger, and tries to gain control of the situation through the use of energy and bodily action. Yes, it can be argued (as a justification by the ego of itself) that all this egoic existence serves the purpose of enabling beings to first learn about "themselves" and later discover to God. But they always already ARE God! Adi Da suggests that the action of the ego is UNNECESSARY. Namaste! Jim