Splinter in the Mind

[Elizabeth]

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<p>There's much food for thought in this website. The reader comments are very good also and I've just had a number of new insights! Hope you enjoy it. The writer says that mantra repetition vibrates or dials up a deity. (I think our Swerdlow symbols, colors and tones do that as well.) A mantra practitioner constantly reaffirms their devotion...not to the source of all creation...but instead to the lesser gods. </p>
<p>Well, this would explain how in my 13-year-involvement in a Hindu flavored new-age cult--the deeper into the practices I went, the more "Dante's-inferno-hellscape-astral-experiences" I encountered. I was dialing up the demons...who knew?</p>

http://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/mantra...rld-order/

[Elizabeth]

"...The kind of meditation you practice sounded much like my own – a removal of attention from exterior objects and a focus inward, which results in a sense of peace and expansion – experience of our innermost levels of being. I should say, your description sounded like what I do until you mentioned chanting – that to me is a dangerous arena, as all the chanting practices I’m aware of invoke mantras and similar god-related words.

Chanting, in my experience, creates a passive, hypnotic, endorphine-rich state that is designed to resonate with the energy signature of the god whose name or mantra is being chanted. This opens the door to possession – a blissful experience but possession nonetheless. One’s own ego seems to dissolve in the grandness of the Oneness, but what I believe is actually happening is a dissolution of personal self-hood, with the personal will being replaced with the will and self-hood of the god.

This increases with practice until a state of “enlightenment” is reached where “I act but I do not act” – where one witnesses one’s thoughts and actions in a detached, non-involved way, as if “Something Else” is acting through them. Indeed, something else is. This is the ultimate breakdown of one’s personal will, one’s doership – that which makes us human." (Bronte Baxter--Author of Splinter in the Mind.)

This was a familiar state of mind..."witness(ing) thoughts and actions in a detached, non-involved way..." that I had while doing Expansions practices.

[Elizabeth]

Bronte Baxter has a warrior's spirit and urges us not to be complacent or passive. She's an excellent writer and has seen through many deceptions; esoteric and physical - just not Alex Jones yet. Still, an article worth reading. 

http://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/2011/0...-my-watch/