Re: RELIGION Salatin's comment on Chicken Souls for the Soup

[Guest guest]

> > Native Americans believed you could sometimes talk to a tree, and

> > even Harrod Buhner says the spirit of plants tells healers

> > how to use the plant for medicinal purposes, and that all

> > plant-based cures are a result of either God Himself or the spirit

> > of the plant telling the healer which plant to use for what and how

> > to do it (smoke, tea, etc.).

>

> Yes, I think it's an interesting question to contemplate where our

> thoughts come from

>

> Do they just magically come out of nowhere? Could there be a source

> or sources beyond the chemistry of our brain? Is it just random brain

> chemistry?

>

> Where do the great inspirations come from? Is it just pure luck? Or

> is there some more fundamental process occurring that is an integrated

> part of nature and being?

>

> Are our thoughts even influenced by our diet?

>

> As you can tell, I have more questions that answers

>

Working,auditory,visual and immediate memory are determined by brain

neurotransmitters and diet of course.

Find it hard to believe that everyone here has never thought or felt

something to be so that they never read, heard of, saw in another, may

be the result from life experience or may be untranslatable to life

experiences altogether.

Why do humans shoot themselves repeatedly in the foot with

preconceptions that make possibilities impossible?

Wanita

[Guest guest]

This is the perfect opportunity to shed a little light from the east

on the idea of soul and creatures. An inspirational quote from my

teachers' teacher follows:

" To get a human body is a rare thing, make full use of it. There are

four million kinds of lives which a soul can gather. After that one

gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore, one should

not waste this chance. Every second in a human life is valuable. If

you don't value this, then you will have nothing in hand and you will

weep in the end. Because you are human, God has given you power to

think and decide what is good and what is bad. Therefore, you can do

the best kind of action. You should never consider yourself weak or a

fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because

you didn't know, but now be careful... After getting a human body

if you don't reach God, then you have sold a diamond at the price of

spinach. "

Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (affectionately known as

Guru Dev)

1871-1953

Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath [1941-1953]