You Are Not Your Body; but you do have a body
It seems to me that more and more people are coming to this realization that as human beings, we are much more than simply our body, our machinery (in addition to realizing that our brain is part of that machinery…). However, it also seems to me that many of these same people are overlooking the significance of the fact that we do have a body.
It seems to me that many see the body as something to overcome, and that it serves no purpose other than this (or something like that). But from a truly wholistic perspective, the body is just as much a part of us as any other part, and it should not be neglected.
Notice that, in the story of Jesus, no body was left behind. In macrobiotic philosophy, there are seven types of human death, one of which does not include physical death. In reading Carlos Castaneda, I discovered that the Yaqui Indians of America seek to leave this world at a time of their choosing, and when they do so it is said that two crows arrive, and three depart.
So, then, yes, you are not your body, but as it is a part of you, one might consider that it is worthwhile to honour, nourish, and protect it through proper diet, exercise, rest, and attention.
I think soul mates are sorta like puzzle pieces and we have many people in our lives who come and go who can fit. I also think we change as people so those who used to fit might not anymore, letting life be the most adventurous thing we can experience.
what we find in a soulmate…
You Are Not Your Body
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The Influences of Lucifer & Ahriman
In Christian theology the forces of Christ are set against the forces of the devil who represents in one figure all that is evil, and one is exhorted to abjure all that is of the devil. This might lead one to wonder, “How is the knowledge of good and evil bad? Isn’t that what the devil in the Garden of Eden wanted to share with Adam and Eve?”
Steiner divides the devil into two beings, Lucifer and Ahriman, and shows us how neither is bad per se, each provides gifts to human beings that further our evolution, and that it is us who must learn to balance these gifts in our individual lives. His recommendation for a solution to the problem of the devil is to transcend the tendency towards either Luciferic frenzy or Ahrimanic tedium by creating a spirit-filled synthesis of the two in our lives from now on.
hmm…. yin and yang?
Interesting to note that it’s not just Christianity that’s focused on dualism… Notice that almost every major religious symbol incorporates a duality…
