The Ultimate Paradox: By Isidro Sid Martinez

The Ultimate Paradox

The mind reels at the idea that it may never really know anything.
It wants to know and explain it all. It is the mind’s function to compare, categorize, explain and know it all. And it does, from its own conditioned perspective! But does it really know anything, just because it can explain something based on some perceptions from the past?

How do you separate truth from illusion with an instrument that can only operate from the conditioned response that it is? It is impossible to actually know anything as truth; except that you cannot really know anything as truth. Can we leave the great mysteries as the great mysteries that they are? The unified field theory can only ever be the unified field theory. How can you prove that which inherently is without proof. It is like saying I can calculate how God operates and what God will do and how God will do it, therefore I know God. Quantum mechanics suggests that the observer affects the outcome of the experiment just by being the observer. Does that not indicate that what we experience as reality is a subjective experience? That we cannot experience an objective reality. I believe that the mind is a great instrument necessary for our earthly survival and for giving us endless streams of entertainment and sensory impressions but the mind can never know anything about anything. The faculty of knowing really does not even exist in our sensory-mind structure. Knowing falls into the category of the unknown; which is the ultimate paradox.

Review: "Your LIfe As Art" Course held 9/9-9/11/05

Robert Fritz Inc - Your Life as Art:

 I attended the course "Your Life as Art" held in Vermont during the 2nd week in September.

Robert Fritz, the author of "The Path of Least Resistance", "Creating" and most recently "Your Life as Art", along with his lovely wife Rosalind, provided three days of intensive training on the basics of creating your life the way you want. The basics included hands-on workshop training along with several assignments to be done during the evening. Participants came from many walks of life and from places as far away as New Zealand and even the Netherlands. You don’t need to be an artist to benefit from this course. You just need the desire to make you life a work of art.

What makes this workshop so valuable? For me, I can say, that the training made a big difference in how I look at my "current reality". Making the fundamental choices of being the predominate creative force in my life, being free, healthy, and being true to myself means I have to really see where I am in order to establish the impetus to create what I want. No more lying to myself! How does this relate to spiritual work you might ask? Well, for me, it means that my spirit cannot adequately be expressed or even flourish if I am hiding from myself the truth of my being, my likes and dislikes, and going through life feeling like things are really obligations rather than choices. Creating what I really want is what spirit wants. How much more spiritual can you get!

I would highly recommend this training to anyone interested in creating their life experience on their own terms rather than letting circumstances dictate their experience! A real milestone on the spiritual path!

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Review the Book: Your Life As Art

Robert Fritz Inc - Creating your life as Art

Robert Fritz Inc - Your Life as Art:
Robert discovered that there are four life-changing issues common to most people and found that, by exploring these issues from the perspective of structural dynamics, people are able to rethink their most essential life-premises. The issues concern identity, purpose and existence, freedom and control, and parental preoccupation. Exploration of these issues is an important part of Your Life as Art."



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Our Date with Death: By Isidro Sid Martinez

We are all so good at never considering our date with death. It seems like it is so far away that we doubt that we will ever have to face it. Sometimes something happens that exposes us to our mortality and then we go back to living as we usually live. We try to get things back to normal as soon as we can! Our loved ones also want it that way. It is like the odds of our death are no longer a consideration.

I want to let you know I speak form experience. I recently was found to have a very large tumor on one of my kidneys. According to the doctors, it was so large that it required immediate removal. The diagnosis was renal carcinoma in late stage. How could this be, I never had any symptoms, I felt just fine, but there it was on film. A tumor the size of a melon. The doctor said the prognosis was not good; at this stage it would probable spread. The tumor had probable become soft and would fall apart upon removal, making this a very difficult operation. I was told to get my affairs in order and report for surgery. On June the 21st I went into surgery for 5+1/2 hours. An artery sprung a leak and I required several pints of blood. The tumor had been removed along with the kidney, the adrenal gland, lymph nodes and two ribs. So there I was, still alive, but dreading the possibility of the cancer spreading and chemo and radiation, and all the pain.

Two day after the surgery the pathologist determined that my cancer was not renal carcinoma but something else, onco-sarcoma. A rare form that forms many layers of scar tissue and does not spread or recur if totally removed. Fantastic news, I had been spared, and I had dodged the death bullet. Now the healing begins. It has now been a little over two months. I am still in pain and the huge scar look really bad. My flesh has developed a ridge along the area where the rib was removed. It swells and gets irritated, by evening it is very uncomfortable just to walk or sit.
The chemo is horrible but I am told it is necessary insurance, just in case some cells are still in my system.

So now we get to the point of it all. I dodged the death bullet this time. What are the odds? My spouse became very distant, she was depressed, she wants thing to get back to normal as soon as possible. Why are they NOT back to normal now! Like I can forget this ever happened and just go on! I wish it was that way, but I have some physical processes still going on that keep reminding me. Even if we could forget, does it make sense to not consider our own mortality.

"Salvation belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think your ghost will do it after".......Kabir. Is not now the time to live, while we are alive?