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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:01:57 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
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>In article <5v4jq99l9jejdklbf86m987ik4v43cbgjt@4ax.com>, mur@.not.
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:04:12 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
>> .
>> >In article <5qd6q9ppr74n6kr5dciqt3bei6g2nc8fbm@4ax.com>, mur@.not.
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:02:22 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
>> >> .
>> >> >In article <19bmp9hme2n7tg15gvfe17n76r9t4bnfj1@4ax.com>, mur@.not.
>> >> >wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:27:57 -0230, David Dalton
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >In article , mur@.not.
>> >> >> >wrote:
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>> >> >> >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:56:34 -0230, David Dalton
>> >> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> >> >4. mystic "live" sparks as opposed to dead normal static ones
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Where?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >The first one was in the center of my inner right forearm.
>> >> >> >I was barefoot at the time and the air wasn't very dry and
>> >> >> >I was standing in the middle of the room well away from
>> >> >> >any metal.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> How long did it last and what did it do?
>> >> >
>> >> >It didn't last long, maybe half a second, and it zapped
>> >> >me, but I didn't see any light. Also it felt more
>> >> >alive, like a hummingbird, than a usual static zap.
>> >>
>> >> Well if a deity had something to do with it then there doesn't seem
>> >> like
>> >> there's much point in trying to pretend otherwise.
>> >
>> >Since that first spark occurred when my then yoga teacher
>> >was demonstrating Valakhilyasana, I attribute the
>> >mystic sparks to Valakhilya, who in B.K.S. Iyengar's
>> >Light on Yoga are defined as thumb-sized entities
>> >that precede the sun's chariot. I refer to them as
>> >little messengers of the sun, and consider them to
>> >be energy beings and a form of angels, but not as
>> >deities to me
>>
>> My impression is that angels are messengers of deities as yours also
>> seems
>> to be, so they are still evidence of the deity and also that it's trying to
>> help
>> you understand something.
>>
>> >(though the sun is a deity to me).
>>
>> Why would you consider the sun to be a deity?
>
>I consider the sun to be a powerful conscious being
Why would you think that???
>that
>I revere, and hence it is a deity to me. I associate it
>with my sun stare of Sept. 5, 1991 and think that I
>contacted it then, wordlessly. Also M-class solar
>flares came a couple of days before onsets of at
>least four of my five waning crescent highs, and
>those highs all came during high to medium years of
>the solar sunspot cycle. I expected to come out
>of the low years a sunspot cycle after my first waning
>crescent high, but that did not occur, so I now hope
>the sun will bring me out of the low years during
>this current high period of the sunspot cycle instead
>(a little over a sunspot cycle later than I thought it would).
>
>Why would you find it unusual that I consider the
>sun to be a deity to me?
Because there's no reason to believe it is alive much less that it has any
sort of intelligence.
>None of my eight main
>deities are anthropomorphic or gendered. Also
>I have read that there is some evidence that the
>God of the Old Testament was originally a solar
>deity.
>
>Again my eight main deities are ALL, LOVE2, Universe,
>Galaxy, Sun, Earth, Moon, and Human, and they are
>defined on http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/deities.html .
>I consider myself to be a polytheistic pantheist.
I believe a deity would be alive and intelligent, leaving out most of the
things you're thinking about.
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