tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post1726027759914952142..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: Sleepwalking to EmptinessWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-45543103655600971952019-02-27T22:22:00.186+00:002019-02-27T22:22:00.186+00:00Nothing more than you have done. All anyone can do...Nothing more than you have done. All anyone can do is point the way and if that is ignored it is the responsibility of the one doing the ignoring. But you may be sowing seeds that will sprout later when the person is more open to deeper reflection.<br /><br />One more thing I would say is that no one says he is a good person if he is aware of spiritual things. Are you a good person? Seriously, if anyone asked me that I would have to say no, I am not because I am aware of all the many ways in which I fall short. You might remind much people of what Christ said when he was hailed as good " Why call me good? There is none good save one, that is God alone" William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-69414834768673129402019-02-27T22:05:48.184+00:002019-02-27T22:05:48.184+00:00I try to talk about the spiritual realities to fri...I try to talk about the spiritual realities to friends, but meet resistance all the way. They say that the point of life is to live it and not think about life after death because there might not be any, and if there is, then it will happen anyway. There is no knowledge of what is required to assure life after death, and when I try to explain, they say that they are good people, and if there is a God, and he cannot see that, then he is not worth bothering with. More than that, he is being unfair, and expecting too much of humanity in expecting them to acknowledge Christ. <br /><br />I think that this is the view held by most people, not just friends of mine.<br /><br />What can I do?Tobiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17440968389956347350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-64889607165722312822019-02-26T20:56:33.988+00:002019-02-26T20:56:33.988+00:00I cannot say clearly how I had entered
the wood; I...I cannot say clearly how I had entered<br />the wood; I was so full of sleep just at<br />the point where I abandoned the true path.Dante Alighierinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-88676773845880906092019-02-26T19:28:49.166+00:002019-02-26T19:28:49.166+00:00Thanks Francis. Let's hope you're right an...Thanks Francis. Let's hope you're right and that more and more people do start to rub their eyes, remove the dust and wake up. I suspect, though, it's going to take some real suffering, as it often does, before that happens. Whenever anyone say something like that they are accused of wanting it to happen but what they really want to happen is for human beings to start to live as human beings should, walking in the light of God.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-21335001414061278872019-02-26T18:33:57.643+00:002019-02-26T18:33:57.643+00:00An excellent post.
I spent the better part of my ...An excellent post.<br /><br />I spent the better part of my twenties and early thirties in the state you described above. It took a great deal of effort, focus, and sacrifice (or what I believed to be sacrifice at the time) to change my course. I don't regret waking up from sleepwalking for a minute, but many people actively prefer sleepwalking. <br /><br />It provides comfort, pleasure, acceptance, and prestige in the short term, and the short term is all that matters to most. In the long term all of the benefits of sleepwalking turn out to be illusions. But not now, and that's all that matters to most people. <br /><br />As you mention, however, the one thing sleepwalking existence does not provide is real meaning. I believe the even the most dedicated sleepwalkers realize this; they just refuse to do anything about it because they see no reward in changing even though they know they must. <br /><br />Regardless, I am somewhat optimistic. If I succeeded in waking up, others can as well. Whether time will run out on some people first is another matter entirely. <br /><br /> Francis Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11063224017320651978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-36035289897269389422019-02-26T14:16:08.380+00:002019-02-26T14:16:08.380+00:00You are quite right that there is this great hunge...You are quite right that there is this great hunger for something more, and that is reflected in Donald Trump's election and Jordan Peterson's success. I'm not sure how widespread it is or how far it would be willing to go or how much it would be willing to sacrifice but it is there. I think it's mostly caused by the realisation that the demands of the left have gone beyond the point of sanity yet it seems that there is still a majority of people in the Western world who do go along with the madness. But perhaps the minority who don't is growing and that is cause for hope.<br /><br />How do we help them? I wish I knew but it seems the best thing we can do is to show them that there actually is something else. Because anyone born since the 1960s has been subjected to the leftist view of the world as the one that is both good and true. They don't know any other point of view or, if they do, it's painted as out of date and based on hatred. We have to proclaim as loudly as we can that there is another way and it is the true way. <br /><br />We also have to rescue Christianity from the lop-sided view that love your neighbour means deny the reality of sin. Love without truth is mere sentimentality and just weakens both the one loving and the one loved.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-13770188365164759312019-02-26T13:42:38.750+00:002019-02-26T13:42:38.750+00:00I'm not sure anyone truly understands what'...I'm not sure anyone truly understands what's going on at a mass scale. My father and I have found that, in North America, there is a growing hunger for something nourishing and real. It's mostly unconscious at the moment, but one sees signs of it here and there. <br /><br />For example, the election of Donald Trump indicates that huge amounts of people are doubting the Official Truth, but there's no positive replacement Truth yet. The success of Jordan Peterson shows that the young are in open spiritual starvation.<br /><br />Our drug and suicide epidemic indicate that people are taking their existential suffering quite seriously - they're killing themselves because of it, in droves. I don't know what to do about it. Everyday I think I've got crippling problems, I'm the odd one out in society, but then I get the terrifying inkling that I might be relatively healthy. What should we do? How do you help these people?Epimetheusnoreply@blogger.com