X-Message-Number: 11030 From: , Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:43:27 -0500 Subject: Fwd: Re: soul At 09:38 PM 12/31/98 -0800, Hara Ra wrote: <x-quoted>>>Does anybody here believe in the soul? If so is it a tangible force? >>What would happen to it in the even of Cryostasis? > >My partner Andrea is a cryonicist and believes in soul. She doesn't care >much for Cryonet, due to the admittedly nerdy rationalist atmosphere on the >list. I have CCd this note to her and feel free to make contact... > </x-quoted>Hello Michael, Yes, I do very much believe in the soul. Or, I should rather say: I know and experience my soul, quite tangibly at that! Just one breath and becoming still and I am fully in it. At One with That, with the great mystery of being, of life, of mind. I have had too many experiences of the numinous and am dwelling more and more in the peace and the ecstasy of this sacred union, that I could even begin to ignore or deny or doubt the reality my soul. I will copy a letter I sent to Cryonet when I unsubscribed, since I was asked for my reasons for unsubscribing. I don't believe it was ever posted: "I am pursuing (besides being a signed-up cryonicist) an entirely different avenue towards immortality. It is a conscious 'labor of love' to manifest the Eternal in the body. This process began for me when I met the Mother (in Pondichery, South India) and became familiar with Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, which begins where other spiritual endeavours end. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother brought not only the vision but also the reality of a true transformation of our current half animal/half human species into a true divine human being. He calls it the Supramental Being. An essential part of that transformation is the defeat of Death. When the mind is silent and open to receive the promptings of a higher consciousness and the vital (the emotional body) is cleared from all its turmoil and is peacefully at one with the Beloved (this is where all traditions end), the space opens for the very cells of the body to become conscious and to surrender to That, to choose only to manifest, what I like to call, the Divine, which is the Truth of our being. (Not some outside God!) I became a cryonicist, because I don't believe that this transformation, the divinisation of the body, can be fully realised in my lifetime. And rather than reincarnating, yes I do believe in reincarnation too (!), and having to start all over again with the forgetting, the formation of the ego and then all the work of becoming conscious again, I have leapt to the possibility of returning with all of my present and ever evolving awareness intact. What an exciting adventure! So, thank you for asking your question! It prompted me to finally express myself to the cryonic community. I guess, I was waiting to see if there was any opening for this kind of an awareness. Please do post this and if any responses occur, could you fwd these to me, or suspend my unsubscription for a while?" If you feel so inclined or have any further questions, please email me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrea van de Loo <<> Blessed be the Great Mother who transforms us all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <x-color><param>red=0;green=0;blue=65280</param> --- Internet Message Header Follows --- Return-Path: <<> Received: from repop2.jps.net ([209.63.224.239]) by mail.brewsternet.com ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 8:31:24 GMT Received: from andrea (209-239-194-23.oak.jps.net [209.239.194.23]) by repop2.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA20295; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:29:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <<> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:08:46 -0800 To: From: Andrea van de Loo <<> Subject: Re: soul Cc: In-Reply-To: <<> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" </x-color> Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11030