Friday, June 10, 2005

Rant

One expression that I hear people routinely use is that "This is my personal truth".
And anytime people use the word truth, they generally use it in a pompous way.
There is no such thing as 'personal truth'. You may have a personal experience, an experience maybe truth for you subjectively but you don't have personal truth. Truth by definition is objective, it can't be something exclusive and personal.
People who routinely use this "this is my personal truth", go pick up Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom (aka Intuitive Thinking as Spiritual Activity) or his book Truth and Knowledge or go just pick up a book by any philosopher that talks about truth so that you can hurt your brain and get over your little egotistical self when you talk about "personal truth".
I don't object to people saying this is my personal experience because hey, that is an accurate statement. You can also say my subjective experience or based on my limited experiences (because after all we are not all knowing and have not experienced everything there is to experience.)
I am starting to chill now so my rant energy is dissapating.
I think people that tend to use the word truth the most are the ones who know and live truthfully the least.

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Hmmmm

I just finished reading Caroline Myss' book, Invisible Acts of Power. I find myself occasionally reading these types of books and wondering if I am a good person and how can I be a better person. This book has a lot of stories from people and it talks about the chakras. People share these stories of synchronicity or getting help from G-d or giving help to people because of an intuitive sense.
Anyways, I find myself feeling inadequate as sometimes I am impatient about things. Where are these people anyways? In my Foundation Studies course and in my study group, we do bring up these types of conversations but I would like to see that more outside of these situations.
I guess what I am saying is that I'm wondering if these people share these types of stories with people or just to a select group. I guess if I want to hear people share these types of stories, I'd have to share first.
I'd like for my life to be more synchronized. I can see that there is an intelligence to the universe but I think I sometimes am out of sync with it. It's my impatient nature! I'm just impatient in certain areas of my life as I am a fairly calm individual.

Enough of this!
We had a reunion for Foundation Studies on Saturday and we got our certificates. Not everyone showed up. Past alumni from previous years showed up but half was from our class. We socialized and we had 2 instructors introduce to us 2 classes which are considered Foundation Studies 2 (there was no FS2). I don't think I will take any classes. I told them I was interested in seeing some scientific workshops or geometry as Steiner has a Light and Warmth course, has done geometry and concepts related to the Fourth Dimension. The RS Centre offers a course on pretty much everything Steiner has taught. I think they had a geometry course.
We are also getting written feedback on the presentations we did. I told the class director not to be afraid to use words like genius and brilliant when writing my report.
I sure don't have a self esteem problem!

I don't really have much to say in this blog that is interesting but I am desperately craving someone to comment on my blogs. Is there anyone out there who is just reading this for amusement???
Well thanks for reading my blogie
Paula