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MysticPhD · 09-15-2013, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mordant

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Originally Posted by MysticPhD

You misunderstand this mystic, mordant. The problem with your expectation of an ACK is that you are looking for one that would come from a physical person. It is the right brain that receives . . . not the left. It requires that you remove all the distraction of your personal attentiveness to the outside world and its physical signals. That is why we meditate into deeper and deeper altered states. That is the reason for the ".Be still and know that I am God." that Miss Hepburn refers to. Women are already far more right brain sensitive (on average) than men so when they practice it . . . they can invoke the sensitivity more readily even without the altered states.

If you want to test it for yoursellf, mordant it would require that you attune your sensitivity to the state of your entire body . . . nothing outside of it. If you meditate try to perfect this withdrawal from external stimuli to focus only on the internal. When you think you have a feel for the default state of your body . . . then you invoke the ACK request and note what changes in your state. That is candidate one. Ask a yes/no question that you know the answer to is yes. If you get the same change of state . . . that is confirming info. Ask another that you know the answer is no. If you get the same change of state . . . it is discomfirmed. If you do NOT get the same change of state . . . it is confirmed. Rinse repeat as often as you wish until you are consistently getting ACK's to Yes answers and none to No answers. Then ask yes/no questions you do not know the answer to and when you get an ACK (Yes) do your best to find out if the answer really is Yes. Rinse repeat. When your responses are consistently correct . . . that should do the trick. You will know what change of state corresponds to God.

You have actually found consistency despite god not being you and potentially having different priorities or concerns or definitions than you? How would you ever know if you haven't simply found self consistency? After all you are disconnected from the outside world and listening to yourself. When doing that, wouldn't you expect to hear ... yourself?

How would myself know the correct answers to questions I do not know the answers to?

mordant · 09-15-2013, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticPhD

How would myself know the correct answers to questions I do not know the answers to?

A stopped analog clock is right twice a day. I'm asking if you have found consistently correct answers and how you know they are correct and whether they are correct from your perspective or from some other perspective.

MysticPhD · 09-15-2013, 02:03 PM

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A stopped analog clock is right twice a day. I'm asking if you have found consistently correct answers and how you know they are correct and whether they are correct from your perspective or from some other perspective.

Consistently, Yes. Satisfied they are not from me. The only way to have faith in it yourself is to test it yourself. Acquire the right brain discipline and sensitivity necessary . . . if you have the time, the patience or the interest. It takes some time to discern the actual ACK from the many candidates you might have if your discipline or assessment of the default state is incorrect. I am content and have no need to convince anyone else . . . just witness to it.

Caveat: Try to use non-trivial questions that have some spiritual component to them . . . but are answerable to your satisfaction. God really has little interest in our physical existence and concerns except as they affect our spiritual development.