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Hello from Jonas
By: Jonas Date: May 4, 2014, 3:40 am
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Hi!
My name is Jonas and I came in touch with the teachings of AJ
through Johan. Johan is someone I know through a mutual friend.
Since I was young I was interested in spirituality. Because of
my academic studies I became somewhat of a nonbeliever. I
discarded al my 'special' experiences as nonsense. Since
recently I started to really want to change the way I live again
in that I want to make good choices in my live, add something
beautifull to society, and be 'real'. I started to watch more
and more teachings and learned some stuff on an intelectual
level. Recently I started to always say the truth, be honest
about my judgements about other people to these people.
It was really scary and my brain just curled around in terror. I
found out a lot about what it means to be loving, what it means
to be a man, how I viewed women, how I was hard to myself etc. I
told my girlfriend that I flirted with other girls. This made
her rethink our relationship. It was really scary. But now we
have come to the decision to start dating again and really
getting to know eachother again. This makes it all much more
exciting again. I empowerd her to be equal to me.
One of the things I learned was that I had to make choices in my
life that would add to my feeling of well being. One of them is
surround myself with people who are searching as well. That's
why I am here.
I have lots of questions some of them I am afraid to ask, but
will do. It also just still feels weird if I think about the
identity of AJ. On the other hand I really do resonate with his
teachings. The latter made me choose to at go for try it and not
have judgement before experience.
One time I asked myself the question what real knowledge is.
Then one night a few days later i had a conversation in a dream
where I got told: 'Do you know that you are a match if you
haven't been lit up.' (sorry for my english)
I hope this forum will grow. Maybe I can add something useful to
the discussions.
Jonas
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Re: Hello from Jonas
By: Johan vd Berg Date: May 4, 2014, 4:14 am
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Hey Jonas,
that's a nice surprise to see you here. How did you find the
forum? I wouldn't say we know each other through Guido, by the
way, we went to school together for a short period of time...
But nevermind :)
Very nice to read your story of being a seeker, and also
experimenting with some of the teachings, such as becoming more
truthful. If you really experience the fear when you do it, you
know you're really changing something. Very nice that you've
tried it. Hurray :)
Beside being honest to people around you, it's probably even
harder to be honest to yourself, at all times. At least I've
found that much more difficult, to never hide away from, or
gloss over the dark feelings in my own soul.
The dream where somebody said "does a match know it's a match
before it's lit?", when we talked about it, sounded to me like
"experience is a crucial ingredient of knowledge" in particular
in relation to God and Gods Love. :)
Anyway Jonas, very nice to see you here, welcome to the forums,
and don't hesitate to ask the questions you want to, because
you'll not receive judgment here, I believe.
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Re: Hello from Jonas
By: pierrejoseph Date: May 4, 2014, 5:38 am
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Dear Jonas, be welcome to ask any question you like. This Forum
is well organized by topic and this is a great place to discover
more about The Way I feel thanks to your friend Johan who did a
great job.
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Re: Hello from Jonas
By: Victoria7 Date: May 4, 2014, 7:48 am
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I feel there is only one real knowledge and that is experience
based. a good example is Thomas Aquinas. He wrote 1000's of
pages about God; many that have been very influential in
Christan Theology. However, he had a religious experience and
after he said 'all I have written is like straw' , meaning that
the knowledge he had for his experience of God was so much
superior to all his intellectualising and philosophy and
theology.
Hope this helps. Welcome to the group. Xx
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Re: Hello from Jonas
By: Veronica Date: May 4, 2014, 3:28 pm
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Welcome!
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Re: Hello from Jonas
By: pierrejoseph Date: May 4, 2014, 7:37 pm
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Lovely said Veronica. We cannot know unless we experiment God's
Love. However, I feel a loving Forum can inspire and guide many
people to grow their desire for Love and trying the greatest
experiment in the universe again and again and again... This is
my desire for this place and it is the Forum place I have known
for that until today. :)
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