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  • Nico Cost
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    Life is materialized consciousness. Matter is a denser aggregation state of energy.

    The consciousness of the mind is a further elaboration of the soul on Earth. The mind has its simple life functions such as regulating the heartbeat, which are the unconscious processes. On top of that, man is aware of more complex matters of life and can give free rein to his will with his mind. With that will, for example, man can consciously regulate his own heart rate. Man becomes aware of the bigger picture and his role in it. The mind is still developing in order to realize man’s potential.

    Can we conceive and create the next step in our evolution? If so, with our minds or by other means? If not, what to do instead?

    Nico Cost
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    Krishnamurti is right as everyone is right for himself. In order to find his truth, Krishnamurti also traveled and constructed a path which he then also dismantled. Disbanding it was a logical step for where he was, but at the same time he thereby deprived others of a path by which they could arrive at the same point. Who was he to determine for others what was a right path? At the same time, it is fine because in doing so, he continued to follow his own path. It does indicate the relativity of a single person, however wise. He closed a road, but in doing so also created a new road/truth. Some love it, others don’t even see it. We are all Krishnamurti. Most importantly, we are in motion, no matter which way we go. Nor can it be otherwise that we are in motion, for to move is literally to live. Nothing stands still, everything is a spiral.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 4 Feb 2025 … Open Thread #51498
    Nico Cost
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    Interesting article from Martin Armstrong on his website:

    Distributive Bargaining

    It’s about Indiana University Professor David Honig’s interpretation of Distributive bargaining (win-lose) versus Integrative bargaining (win-win). How Trump and the US think and act versus how the Global South thinks and acts.

    From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.

    Nico Cost
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    I tried to make you ‘feel’, but all you do is ‘think’. I guess we live in different worlds and can only meet when I visit yours.

    in reply to: 18. Provisional Manifesto on the options of being a human #50996
    Nico Cost
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    When you are a kidney cell and I am a kidney cell and we ‘talk’ to each other discussing what we shall do today, we surely can but cannot deny we’re both part of the same creature the kidney belongs to.

    Your brain does not see your soul, but your soul does see your brain.

    We’re in two worlds, but you only describe the material one. That’s what the brain sees and the thinker can only think about.

    in reply to: Spiritual Healing – september 2024 #50922
    Nico Cost
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    Coincidence does not exist and Ken Wheeler posted the following on his substack:

    https://kenwheeler.substack.com/p/genuine-theurgy-and-liberation-primer

    Nico Cost
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    Beautiful Amarynth, thank you.

    D. Unknown, when a child learns to ride a bike then he has to learn what balance is. A parent or supervisor helps the child, but cannot actually explain what balance is. The child has to learn to feel it himself, he cannot reason or think of balance. The same is the case with all those spiritual things that touch the unseen.

    Indeed, what makes it difficult is that when we feel “something”, we then try to explain it with our thinking. It must then fit into our worldview, otherwise we are left with nothing but to ignore or reject it. We have trouble with “knowing something approximately”, but that is exactly the path we are allowed to take in order to become more conscious anyway. More and more allowing the feeling, thinking about it (because, after all, we live in a material world) and not being afraid to ‘let something just be, without a clear explanation’. It will come, when the time is right.

    Nico Cost
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    Do you love yourself by thinking it or by feeling it? Do you love yourself? How do you find out?

    Nico Cost
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    Speaking of arrogant, I find it incredibly tiresome to be right most of the time but also usually only get it after the fact. I am clairvoyant, clairsentient and clairsentient from birth, so I “see” much more than others. That does not mean that I am always right, so I want to be open to others and other insights. On the contrary, I also have a lot of doubt and allow that. If anyone is critical of that clairsentience, for example, it is me to myself. But because of that life experience, I no longer feel like trying to convince others or putting a lot of energy into choosing approaches that please them. At times I am brief, at other times extensive, at times I am kind and at other times confrontational, at times I ask questions and at other times I am firm in my vision, according to what suits me and often according to what I think and feel can be effective. If someone benefits from my interventions, that’s great, but most people need more time (read: more lives). I know that because of this (what I write) there are plenty of people who find me irritating and a conceited brat. However, that is not my business, and it is not my loss. This is a slightly further insight into my psyche, but at the same time only one of the inputs.

    Most people are much more spiritual than they think they are. Thinkers get stuck in thinking, but do use their intuition. Indeed, the great thinkers among us, such as Einstein, for example, eventually understand that their intuition makes the lead and their thinking makes the goal. Without a preposition, there will be no goal. You cannot explain intuition scientifically and thinking cannot understand how feeling works. Moreover, thinking takes itself for a fool because it is always behind the times. You always decide to buy something from your gut and then think up the arguments later. Thinking thinks it is in control. Thinking sees only the outer world and not the inner world, it uses the five Earth senses but depends on the Cosmic senses. Our soul extends into our body but at the same time is connected to the unseen world. Thinking cannot reach it and does not understand it, you can only feel this and then try to explain it with your thinking. When you believe in God, it is not in your thinking but in your feeling. Thinking tries to ignore or repel what it cannot understand and explain, whereas we feel whether something is true or not. This is also what we see when dealing with loss of loved ones. We can be at peace with it earlier in our thinking, but still be at peace with it for years in our feeling. Thinking does not understand feeling. Our feeling is our real life and our thinking is how we try to control that life. There is so much more to elaborate on this, but for that it is especially necessary to allow intuition and let thinking follow. Knowing that our thinking will often be in resistance and do a lousy job. You will usually have to be content to “know it” approximately. It will always remain foggy.

    Nico Cost
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    Hi D Unknown, it might be helpful to clarify my understanding of “feeling”. I see “feeling” here as intuition. Something jumps into your mind, as it were, and suddenly you “know”  “it”. A variant is that you read something or hear something and your body gives a specific reaction that makes you know it is true or false. So this is different from our sense of “touch” where our body literally feels something in matter.

    You are right that when we feel something in this sense and thus allow our intuition, we can then find something from it in our thinking. The feeling then has to be translated and made fit into our worldview. So it is quite difficult to remain pure when what you get through is not so obvious.

    When dealing with others, it is helpful to find a balance between being/staying yourself on the one hand and connecting with those others on the other. It is not very effective to be purely yourself if the others find your selfhood irritating and turn away from you. Knowing yourself is important, for yourself and therefore for your dealings with others. When you know about yourself that you are very different from the average people around you, then you can also think of something you can do to find a better fit. Or you should be satisfied with the current situation and not take offence when people ignore you. When this becomes extreme, you will literally be expelled from the group. Then don’t be surprised.

    For myself, I like to spend most of my time by myself and thus alone. I can easily engage in company and make contact easily, but superficiality tires me and depth tires others. On birthdays, people avoid me because I ask questions that challenge and focus on personal development and expansion of consciousness. Most people are not interested in that. A few do and they enjoy coming to me. That is also nice for me, because it is nice being together if the other person also wants to go into depth. In general, I don’t have much in common with people and I find animals much more pleasant to deal with. That also makes me quite different from the average, but I am okay with it and accept the situation as it is.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 16 Jan 2025 … Open Thread #50766
    Nico Cost
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    When you’re in for a laugh, although even humor is a matter of taste …

    in reply to: Spiritual Healing – september 2024 #50636
    Nico Cost
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    A third meditation exercise: I Am

    Many masters have shared the power of “I Am,” and I would like to devote a specific exercise to this.

    The exercise only takes a few minutes and you don’t need anything for it other than a quiet moment in silence.

    You sit in a position that is comfortable for you with your eyes closed. Breathing is calm and regular.

    With both feet on the ground you are aware of yourself. Relax your body and then take three slow deep breaths.

    Take turns saying the two words “I Am” slowly one by one in your mind.

    First the word ‘I’ and as you do so turn inward with all your being. You absorb everything around you and your whole body goes to your core deep inside. Go inward to your Self, the ‘I’.

    Then the word ‘Am’ and as you do this you turn outward with all your being. You show your whole being to the Universe. You create your Self here on Earth, you are and thus ‘Am’.

    You repeat this a few times and then you do the same by speaking it out loud. So discover the difference between speaking it out loud and in your mind.

    After this short exercise, sit quietly for a moment and try not to think about anything. You are just in the moment, in the now. With this you allow your being into your world. Don’t try to understand this with your mind, but feel how your body responds to it.

    This is all an exercise and you don’t get a diploma for it because it’s not about any result but the movement to a broader consciousness. It is about the practical practice, not about what you believe, think or understand. It is one step on the road of a thousand steps.

     

    in reply to: Spiritual Healing – september 2024 #50635
    Nico Cost
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    Very good points Dimitar. Most of the stress we suffer comes from our mind and it is full of emotions. Our health suffers because of those emotions.
    It does beg the question whether we should control our emotions or be allowed to be above them. Perhaps you mean the same thing, but when we resist something, such as emotions, we also make it bigger and more important than it needs to be. We have to deal with emotions, but we don’t have to let ourselves live by them. When we are sufficiently detached from our emotions, then we are also less affected by them and can distance ourselves from them even sooner. Control suggests a mental block and then the emotions go into our subconscious where they will always emerge at some point.
    A deeper healing is to look at where the emotions are mainly coming from. When you take things personally, you will be touched each time. Then stay at a distance and just look at it.

     

    Nico Cost
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    Hi D Unknown,

    You suggested I (and also others) could also make such a list of definitions. I could, but don’t feel I should. It’s not my ‘thing’. Maybe, maybe later. Don’t know. They way you approach your journey is different than mine. We share the interest of spending time in self-development, but with another approach. I guess you think a lot and I know I’m trying to feel more than think. What do you think all those others do? Do you see you’re very very different than most of them? Do you realize your approach is very very different than all that others? Do you think all that others would like to do the same as you do? Do you see how people react on you and your approach? It’s part of the game you know.

    Hugs, Nico.

    Nico Cost
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    Yes, this all is from the unseen world. Do you think you’re only here in this physical world or can you imagine you’re at the same time also in that unseen world? Probably you read about verbal and non-verbal communication where non-verbal communication is far more important and present than verbal communication. The same is (can be) true for human communication and spirit communication. There is so much more we cannot see nor touch.

     

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