Human relationship with the 'Higher Power' - Page 2

No decius your wrong. Plain and simple because you must know about your subject... which means your mind must visualize. Main poin there is YOUR mind. You are experiencing something much simpler than what I am refering to. I understand what you mean about it but you treat it like its the last step. Putting yourself in some one elses shoes isn't what I'm talking about. As your describing it the more we know about peoples lifes in poor 3rd world countries the more we will "be" them. However your describing a far more common and traditional idea. I'm refering to the boundaries of my mind. The actual skull itself binding me to a singular simplistic yet living consciousness.

"The more you know about it, the more you become it." It's the more you know about it, the more you sympathize with it. Empathize means you've gone through it and understand. Sure one can gain a bit of knowledge from others without first hand experience.

"Self-awareness in its primary stages makes one feel alienated and seperate from people (as Ancient said), however, this is only the initial stage." Please do not confuse your understanding of what I said for what I meant.

I mean it seems to me all your describing is seeing the world through some one elses eyes...

decius- you can not be the rock. thats not possible. much like you do not know if the blue i see is the blue you see. you can "think/empathize" all you want, and get as "close" as you want, but you will never "be" the rock because you do not KNOW what it is like to "be" the rock.

as said, you cannot KNOW what he is thinking. you can have a really good idea, and probably be right for that matter, but you do not KNOW it.

i hope that helps. if not, tell me off. im looking for some good judgment.

blahhh, my bad. I just did a quick dictionary search online of scientology and must have misinterpreted the definition ^___^;