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Date: December 01, 2016 at 12:36:16
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: cognition of negative emotions |
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You will remember talks about lying and
how the first form of lying is always putting things to your advantage,
slightly twisting what happened, as when a person says: "I says to her
. . . she says to me," etc. Now if a person is negative and therefore
ungenerous, he or she may describe something that happened in regard
to a person disliked and the result will be truth in a sense, but half- truth.
You know it is said in ancient literature that devils are very
clever and ingenious but they only know half-truths. Goodness always
looks stupid in comparison with the cleverness of negative 'I's that are
lying. I wonder if you have ever noticed negative emotion in the
faces round you, noticed the expression in their eyes, and noticed how
they are only watching. Think for a moment from what they are
watching and what they want to catch. Think of the collection such
'I's will make in your life-album of incidents. Perhaps you all know that
when you are negative and suspicious everything that is said only pours
oil on the fire. I remember when I once had to deal with some insane
people, who are wholly under the power of negative emotions and nega-
tive thinking, how the slightest movement I made was always interpreted
in favour of their negative ideas from which they instantly deduced all
sorts of things that were partly true. Negative 'I's are really insane 'I's
in us. A person in negative emotions always notices very quickly what
you have neglected but takes no cognisance of what you have done. In
this respect his negative emotions give him a certain cognition, often
very deep and subtle and yet always wrong. The curious thing is that
negative emotions always can find proof, and if you join all these proofs
together then you will be overpowered by life. You are really stitching
together a pattern of life in which you eliminate everything that really
goes against these proofs and, as you know quite well, you are ignoring
the good side and simply holding on to the cognitions of the unpleasant
side which have their own truth. The result is that you come under the
truth only of negative emotions and, as I say, such truths are false,
because they do not take in all sides. Perhaps sometimes you may
catch a glimpse of this side of your being which is negative, and what it
is making in you every day. It is not a god but a very nasty little worm,
a very tiresome little spoilt child, a most unpleasant thing to become
aware of. People glorify negative states. They feel it is right to worry and
be identified. However, this is not true. One must do one's best to
climb out of this pit, if possible. It is possible. But it is not possible if
the Work has no real essential hold over you, for otherwise you will
feel justified in your negative and painful life-emotions. And not only
this—but these negative emotions will feed you with their own
cognitive side, so that you will always be able to prove you are right.
I will conclude by quoting some of your observations of the cog-
nition of negative emotions:
(1) "In myself I have observed that negative emotions stimulate
into unusual activity 'I's of an unpleasant nature: suspicion,
feelings of not being valued highly enough, resentment, etc. make
one abnormally sensitive to the possible meanings of another
person's words, intonations, emphases, glances, hesitations, and
so on. To some extent such negative emotions are indirectly
cognitive, but not likely to be accurate."
(2) "Spiteful 'I's for instance can be extraordinarily clever at
finding just the right thing to say that will hurt. If we could be
half as clever as they are, in finding in our ordinary life-contacts
just the right things to say, we should make a very different thing
of these contacts and connections. But negative emotions are not
cognitive in relation to one's life as a whole—they are completely
blind there."
(3) "Negative emotions like jealousy and hatred can develop a
certain cunning and knowledge of people but merely to advance
their own ends. A person who is jealous or hates someone might
know a great deal about their victim, perhaps even more than
someone who loves mechanically, which is so often just a projection
of self-love."
(4) "As long as we are joined to a person by negative emotion,
we cannot possibly know that person. We see him through a
distorting medium. I have often noticed the reluctance I feel to
admitting in people I dislike even such good as I know them to
possess."
(5) "I am just beginning to see how very blind and stupid, but
at the same time how incredibly clever in a crooked sense, a
negative emotional basis can lead one's actions to be. I am
beginning to see that when I start from a negative starting-point,
the crooked lawyers in me can produce easily an apparently very
well reasoned case, which is false from start to finish."
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Date: December 02, 2016 at 14:38:43
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cognition of negative emotions |
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Yes, as long as people are stuck in the negative, its a low vibration and that's just where the politics and all the stuff going on in this world of negativity wants us. We need to stay in our own God given power.
Even just doing Earthquake watches is detrimental to my own well being... yes I know I have said it before... but just am understanding more... I have got to get OUT of it totally.
Besides, the watches I have done have done no one any good- just to make a general area watch is really not helping. But I do think the human body is connected to the Earth, more than we need to be or rather more than is healthy spiritually to be.
We can go on all day about our connectedness, with each other and Ma Earth- but IF we are not rising above, we are in affect pulling each other down.
I want to soar and leave here. So I am working towards what will enable me to do so. I cannot make other want to do this along with me. People have to make up their own minds/spirits and get the hell out of the matrix... before we were flesh, we were spirit/soul and if we really want to return to that state-
we are reminded , one who told us, my kingdom is not of this world... and the kingdom of God is within.
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Date: December 05, 2016 at 10:06:41
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ...as above, so below... |
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...makes more sense to me than god creating a physical
universe whose only purpose is to escape from. I'm
pretty sure the kingdom of god can be found both within
and without. At least that's been my experience.
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Date: December 02, 2016 at 17:29:51
From: hannah, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cognition of negative emotions |
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what an awesome beautiful testimony of the living word.
This other has pondered leaving 4 several days not in any dark sense but more like a weekend pass 4 good behavior. Maybe sensing higher vibration.
Keep on a purrin
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