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The Myth of Spirit
The Myth of Spirit
The Myth of Spirit
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The Myth of Spirit

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These last years have been so terrible for sensitive people. In order to survive, I wrote daily. These are daily essays I wrote about Spirit, how it is not only a healthy way to think about the world and our place in it, but that when we truly live as though we are Spirit, the world makes sense. It may seem a leap to see it just in one sentence, but I assure you this is not a way of hiding from the world. I am out there with the best, fighting for our futures. But how we think about this place, our world, makes all the difference in how strong we are for the fight. I hope this helps.

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Release dateMay 23, 2021
ISBN9781733016025
The Myth of Spirit
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Jack Bresette-Mills

Hi!Write me at jackmills@mac.com and I will likely write you back. I hope you enjoy my books.

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    The Myth of Spirit - Jack Bresette-Mills

    Introduction

    Depression is the most natural result of an awakening consciousness. Its arrival is proof of our capacity for empathy, an acknowledgement that the world, at least the human part of it, should be much better than it is.

    We awaken to the lives of others, and we see injustice. We see systemic racism and inequality, unearned suffering on a mass scale, and we believe we understand that so much is wrong with the world, the situation is so bad, the evil so entrenched, that the whole thing is hopeless.

    Although nearby and close to oneself things may seem tolerable or stagnant, as one sees into the greater world, at first sight the negative is everywhere more apparent than the positive; and the farther one sees, the more hopeless seems the world. This awakening, which is a first true enlightenment, places oneself at an abyss at which one sees clearly where things could or should be, with absolutely no way to get there. The more sensitive the person, the deeper/wider the abyss and the more hopeless the feeling.

    Without a bridge, one may be forced to turn back to small matters and distractions; or rather than embracing apathy one may give up all hope and plunge into the abyss entirely. If one could possibly awaken far enough or broadly enough to span the abyss, one would see the saints and mighty shakers of the world waging battle for the good, those beings among us keeping this whole thing on track and moving forward, people fiercely waging peace. Seeing these amazing people, standing among them, becoming aware of their work, we will want to join with them, and with this further awareness we are saved.

    The bridge can be as simple as an idea that is wanting, or it could be someone in our lives who has already spanned the gulf, who has the look in their eye that awakens us, someone who sees what is happening to us and gives us the strength to hang on. It takes quite a bit of luck, first to awaken at all, then to discover a bridge over the depression at what we see, then to awaken further to cross over to join those pushing forward for all our sakes.

    I hope this book is a bridge for someone.

    Introducción

    La depresión es el resultado más natural de una conciencia que despierta. Su llegada es una prueba de nuestra capacidad de empatía, un reconocimiento de que el mundo, al menos su parte humana, debería ser mucho mejor de lo que es.

    Nos despertamos a la vida de los demás, y vemos la injusticia. Vemos el racismo y la desigualdad sistemáticos, el sufrimiento no ganado en una escala masiva, y creemos que entendemos que tanto está mal en el mundo, que la situación es tan mala, que el mal está tan arraigado, que todo es inútil.

    Aunque las cosas cercanas a uno mismo pueden parecer tolerables o estancadas, como se ve en el mundo más grande, a primera vista lo negativo es en todas partes más evidente que lo  positivo;  y  cuanto  más  se  ve,  más  desesperado  parece  el  mundo.  Este  despertar,  que  es  la  primera  iluminación  verdadera,  se  coloca  en  un  abismo  en  el  que  uno  ve  claramente  dónde  podrían  o  deberían  estar  las  cosas,  sin  ninguna  manera  de  llegar  allí.  Cuanto  más  sensible  es  la  persona, más profundo / ancho es el abismo y más desesperado es el sentimiento.

    Sin un puente, uno puede verse obligado a volver a los asuntos pequeños y las distracciones; o, en lugar de abrazar la apatía, uno puede abandonar toda esperanza y sumergirse en el abismo por completo. Si uno pudiera despertar lo suficiente o lo suficientemente amplio como para abarcar el abismo, vería a los santos y poderosos agitadores del mundo librando una batalla por el bien, esos seres entre nosotros que mantienen todo esto en marcha y avanzando, la gente libera la paz con fiereza. Al ver a estas personas increíbles, pararse entre ellas, tomar conciencia de su trabajo, querremos unirnos a ellas y, con esta mayor conciencia, somos salvos.

    El puente puede ser tan simple como una idea que falta, o podría ser alguien en nuestras vidas que ya haya atravesado el abismo, que tenga la mirada en sus ojos que nos despierte, alguien que vea lo que nos está sucediendo y nos brinde luz. La fuerza para aguantar. Se necesita un poco de suerte, primero para despertar, luego para descubrir un puente sobre la depresión en lo que vemos, luego para despertarnos más y cruzar para unirnos a aquellos que empujan hacia adelante por el bien de todos.

    Espero que este libro sea un puente para alguien.

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    What does Spirit care for our struggles? We protest, we resist, we march: what more mundane use of life? Ahh, life! you say. Then you live? Could not all life be mundane to the Spirit? Then why life at all? Why would Spirit descend so far into matter as to become commonplace? What does Spirit lack to chain itself down to such depravity as hunger, boredom, helplessness?

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    ¿Qué le importa al Espíritu nuestras luchas? Protestamos, resistimos, marchamos: ¿qué uso más mundano de la vida? Ahh, la vida! tu dices. ¿Entonces vives? ¿No

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