KALI'S DOMINOESSuffering occurs because we do not recognize Kali’s Domino Effect. To recognize it is to surrender, but before surrender occurs, we need to experience a profound witnessing of the Truth. This witnessing will occur during the exercises that follow this section. Read this section first, and hold it in the mind until experience makes it real.
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the properties of thought
To begin to comprehend Kali’s Domino Effect, we have to pay attention to the properties of our thoughts. Thoughts are responsible for life, and without thought, there would be no manifest universe. Thoughts are clustered into beliefs, ideas, concepts. They have a range of qualities varying from the ethereal to the physical. There are three variations:
Ethereal: We experience ethereal thoughts when they pass through the mind without producing any emotion or the urge to act out. They arise as a prompt for other thoughts, and though they appear random, they actually play a role in the Domino Effect of ideas that lead us into our experiences.
We can be resting on the settee only to find ourselves thinking about the neighbour’s new cat. Since we are not emotionally involved in the neighbour’s lives, and as we are not especially enamoured by cats, the thoughts do nothing to trigger us emotionally. If we observed our thought chain though, we will see other thoughts arise in response to the cat thoughts, which then leads on to more, until we find ourselves having forgotten the cat and onto some other subject entirely.
Impulsive: An impulsive thought urges us to move, to act out.
When the thought arises; ‘I have been fired from my job, and I have no-where else to go’, it creates an emotional reaction of fear, which prompts us into action. We may cry, grab Kleenex, phone a friend, Google for new jobs. This thought propels us into a flurry of activity that leads us down a specific road of experience.
Manifesting: A manifesting thought creates a physical reaction in the body or in the environment, or it creates a physical manifestation of an object. We are not always conscious of manifesting thoughts until we make a definitive effort to identify them, though we are cognisant of their effects.
Manifesting thoughts govern the bodily functions. They beat the heart, breathe the lungs, function the kidneys and so on. Specific sets of thoughts (ideas) manifest different types of disease in the body, and eliminating these ideas makes disease disappear. Manifesting thoughts are responsible for our bodily urges; sexual arousal, needing the toilet, thirst, hunger. They are responsible for the weather patterns in the natural environment surrounding us, because collective thought is responsible for the climate conditions in which we exist. Rare individuals are able to manifest objects in their hands purely by thinking them into existence, and some are able to move objects in the same manner.
- Ethereal
- Impulsive
- Manifesting
Ethereal: We experience ethereal thoughts when they pass through the mind without producing any emotion or the urge to act out. They arise as a prompt for other thoughts, and though they appear random, they actually play a role in the Domino Effect of ideas that lead us into our experiences.
We can be resting on the settee only to find ourselves thinking about the neighbour’s new cat. Since we are not emotionally involved in the neighbour’s lives, and as we are not especially enamoured by cats, the thoughts do nothing to trigger us emotionally. If we observed our thought chain though, we will see other thoughts arise in response to the cat thoughts, which then leads on to more, until we find ourselves having forgotten the cat and onto some other subject entirely.
Impulsive: An impulsive thought urges us to move, to act out.
When the thought arises; ‘I have been fired from my job, and I have no-where else to go’, it creates an emotional reaction of fear, which prompts us into action. We may cry, grab Kleenex, phone a friend, Google for new jobs. This thought propels us into a flurry of activity that leads us down a specific road of experience.
Manifesting: A manifesting thought creates a physical reaction in the body or in the environment, or it creates a physical manifestation of an object. We are not always conscious of manifesting thoughts until we make a definitive effort to identify them, though we are cognisant of their effects.
Manifesting thoughts govern the bodily functions. They beat the heart, breathe the lungs, function the kidneys and so on. Specific sets of thoughts (ideas) manifest different types of disease in the body, and eliminating these ideas makes disease disappear. Manifesting thoughts are responsible for our bodily urges; sexual arousal, needing the toilet, thirst, hunger. They are responsible for the weather patterns in the natural environment surrounding us, because collective thought is responsible for the climate conditions in which we exist. Rare individuals are able to manifest objects in their hands purely by thinking them into existence, and some are able to move objects in the same manner.
THOUGHTS create EMOTIONal responses which affect the body
Thoughts control us; they are the puppeteers of our actions. When we have impulsive or manifesting thoughts, so we have emotions that are matched, and these emotions propel us into activity. They also affect our physical body responses. Everyone has unique thought-emotion associations, which is why we respond so differently to similar situations.
Have you noticed that
Have you noticed that
- when you are nervous about an upcoming event, your body reflects what you are thinking? Perhaps the event is a first date, or a presentation you might need to give at work. Maybe you are about to meet new people, or are waiting for approval on a bank loan. Depending on your personality type, you are likely to get a physical response ranging from ‘butterflies’ in the tummy, to feelings of nausea and maybe even sickness.
- when you are over-worked and tired, that you are actually thinking stressful thoughts that affect your emotions? And then your body shuts down and becomes congested with flu?
- when you have very negative thoughts about life and your place in the world, that it creates the emotion that we call depression? Do you notice that when you are depressed, you just don’t want to do the things that you used to find so stimulating? Do you recognize how heavy the body feels, and that no matter how much sleep you have had, you feel lethargic? Do you notice how when the depression is severe, you can’t even find the will to get out of bed, let alone go about the usual routine of every day living?
- when you receive bad news, you get a tight squeezing sensation in the chest?
- when you have a difficult decision to make, that you get emotions of uncertainty about which path to take? Do you sometimes experience headaches because of uncertainty?
- when someone close to you leaves you, or dies, you get a dreadful pain in your heart?
- when you are afraid, you get tummy upsets like diarrhoea and sickness?
- when you’re happy, you have more energy at your disposal?
- after only one or two rounds back at the gym (after months/years of neglect), you feel happier, more attractive, and that people actually comment on how good you look? Can you see now how your thoughts are reflected in your emotions and how they can lead to physical body responses, as well as being a prompt for action on your part?
THE DOMINO EFFECT
In a Nutshell
This is is a simplistic description of Kali's Domino Effect:
1. Thoughts arise in the mind.
2. They create a reaction.
3. This reaction catalyzes a chain of though-reaction processes.
4. It starts beyond the moment of birth and ends beyond 'death'.
5. Everybody and everything in the universe belongs to a collective chain-reaction of events that make up one long continuum of movement that we call worldly life.
6. This movement is not random. No event is random. The reaction was sparked from the 'beginning of Time' and is designed to destroy every wall that the ego has up, and it is designed to bring to the surface every idea that needs to be destroyed.
6. We do not think in a vaccuum. Every thought that we have comes from the same reservoir of thoughts that everyone else's springs from.
7. There is only ONE reservoir of thought. That which appears to be the individual mind is actually only a person being defined by a set of ideas allocated to him or her.
8. We do not choose what we think at any given moment.
9. Thoughts happen; they arise in the mind. We do not do the thinking process.
10. Thoughts are dominos that are being pushed against each other. They fall within the collective consciousness.
11. As each of us undergoes experience and transforms, so the changes have an effect on the collective psyche.
12. The world heals together, collectively, each of us playing a minute role in the holistic healing of humankind.
More Detail
We are brought into this world by Kali, intact with a powerful fortress of beliefs hitherto created, stored and until now, unchallenged. In this world, She places us into a carefully designed system of mirrors and dominos that over time shatters this structure and frees us of the tyranny of the mind.
The DNA of any being is the physical manifestation of the journey that we will travel in any given lifetime. Simplistically explained, it is a ‘line-up’ of ideas that will be challenged as we pass through our lives. In the DNA is a record of who we are physically, emotionally and mentally, and the human body and our emotional and mental structures are holographic interpretations of this.
The DNA ‘line-up’ of an individual is linked to the DNA of everyone that we will meet, and contains the story of every situation in which we will find ourselves. Kali, in other words, has organized our ideas in such a way that we will be forced to confront them instead of pretending that they are not there. There are no new ideas created in Kali’s world. All that we have created in other universes is brought with us as baggage that must be released. It is these ideas that are lined up in our DNA.
The Domino Effect occurs begins for us personally as we start our human life, and it originated at the beginning of Time, as Kali created it. As we are born, so the influences of family, community, culture, education, religious groups, friends, acquaintances, pets, events etc, trigger the rising and falling of our daily thoughts. No thought arises without a trigger, and every thought produces a thinking process that leads from one event to another. There is no random episode that occurs. No coincidence, no stroke of luck. Everything occurs because of our collective thinking processes, and we interact with each other through the events that take place as a result. None of us exist in a vacuum. We are delicately tied up with each other spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. We are exactly where we are supposed to be at any given moment in time. We are thinking exactly what we are supposed to be thinking, we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing.
The Domino Effect is a metaphor for one thought toppling against another, ideas falling as we are led into various experiences of life, some gentle and good, some unpleasant, some tragic. Whatever our experience, we are affected by it, for it triggers the rising and falling of ideas which lead to more experiences and interactions.
We Don’t Do Anything, We Don’t Decide Anything
There is nothing that we do voluntarily; there is nothing that we decide. It all occurs with the rising and falling of our thoughts, which are triggered by events.
We are who our ideas demand that we be. We have emotional reactions to our thoughts and when an event occurs, our reactions are predictable even if it appears otherwise. We never choose a reaction even when it feels as if we do. Our emotions dictate what we do, and so we do it. Kali knows us, and places us exactly where we need to be, in situations that provoke a predictable response so that She can exact Her plan for the destruction of an idea.
We might imagine that we have a decision to make regarding a move to a new city. Kali already knows us. She knows if we will or will not go. She knows the chain reaction of ideas that will spark into activity spontaneously. We respond based on the picture of reality that the mind projects and our emotional reactions to that picture. We are not capable of doing anything else. So we do not make any decisions. Where we find ourselves, brings new challenges, a breakdown of ideas. Kali’s Dominoes determine where we find ourselves, not us.
We Cannot Do Anything ‘Wrong’
Since we do not make decisions, we cannot also do anything ‘wrong’, nor can we do anything ‘right’. Everything that we do was always going to be done, because Kali’s Dominoes dictate events and provoke our reactions. The life that we have led has had everything that we are embedded in it. If we have been lazy and indolent; if we were alcoholic; if we were abusive, rapist, murderer; if we have been kind and generous, loving; if we have been studious and focussed; all of our attitudes to life and our resulting behaviours have been deliberately brought to the surface for us to play them out and experience and confront them. And the people around us who encountered our behaviours, were there to benefit from our actions, whatever they were.
We Are Already Surrendered
We talk much about surrender, and how hard this is, yet we are already surrendered to God because we are here in Kali’s world. Kali has us on her Wheel of Life and is ensuring that over time, we let go of our human nature.
What ‘surrender’ truly means is that we wake up to the idea that we are surrendered. A lot of our pain comes from the idea that we are still in charge of our destiny. We struggle against what is occurring, thinking that it should be some other way, that we should be someplace else. We fight and suffer, not realizing that we have given ourselves up to God and are now in Kali’s hands, unravelling the knot of human misery.
Since we never do anything to guide our own destiny, we also never ‘do’ surrender. Surrender is a wake-up moment when we realize that there is nothing we can do to alter our path through life. It happens at some point in life, at a point when the last domino of illusory control falls.
Nobody to Forgive, No Forgiveness to be Earned
We have only ever experienced our own ideas through our interactions with people. Though we have hurt people, and we have been hurt by people, there is no-one that needs to forgive us or no-one for us to forgive. The real meaning of forgiveness is to surrender the ideas that caused any hurtful interaction to take place, and that usually happens by itself. To enter into the frame of having to forgive someone comes from ignorance and human arrogance; the concept arises from our illusions of grandeur.
This is is a simplistic description of Kali's Domino Effect:
1. Thoughts arise in the mind.
2. They create a reaction.
3. This reaction catalyzes a chain of though-reaction processes.
4. It starts beyond the moment of birth and ends beyond 'death'.
5. Everybody and everything in the universe belongs to a collective chain-reaction of events that make up one long continuum of movement that we call worldly life.
6. This movement is not random. No event is random. The reaction was sparked from the 'beginning of Time' and is designed to destroy every wall that the ego has up, and it is designed to bring to the surface every idea that needs to be destroyed.
6. We do not think in a vaccuum. Every thought that we have comes from the same reservoir of thoughts that everyone else's springs from.
7. There is only ONE reservoir of thought. That which appears to be the individual mind is actually only a person being defined by a set of ideas allocated to him or her.
8. We do not choose what we think at any given moment.
9. Thoughts happen; they arise in the mind. We do not do the thinking process.
10. Thoughts are dominos that are being pushed against each other. They fall within the collective consciousness.
11. As each of us undergoes experience and transforms, so the changes have an effect on the collective psyche.
12. The world heals together, collectively, each of us playing a minute role in the holistic healing of humankind.
More Detail
We are brought into this world by Kali, intact with a powerful fortress of beliefs hitherto created, stored and until now, unchallenged. In this world, She places us into a carefully designed system of mirrors and dominos that over time shatters this structure and frees us of the tyranny of the mind.
The DNA of any being is the physical manifestation of the journey that we will travel in any given lifetime. Simplistically explained, it is a ‘line-up’ of ideas that will be challenged as we pass through our lives. In the DNA is a record of who we are physically, emotionally and mentally, and the human body and our emotional and mental structures are holographic interpretations of this.
The DNA ‘line-up’ of an individual is linked to the DNA of everyone that we will meet, and contains the story of every situation in which we will find ourselves. Kali, in other words, has organized our ideas in such a way that we will be forced to confront them instead of pretending that they are not there. There are no new ideas created in Kali’s world. All that we have created in other universes is brought with us as baggage that must be released. It is these ideas that are lined up in our DNA.
The Domino Effect occurs begins for us personally as we start our human life, and it originated at the beginning of Time, as Kali created it. As we are born, so the influences of family, community, culture, education, religious groups, friends, acquaintances, pets, events etc, trigger the rising and falling of our daily thoughts. No thought arises without a trigger, and every thought produces a thinking process that leads from one event to another. There is no random episode that occurs. No coincidence, no stroke of luck. Everything occurs because of our collective thinking processes, and we interact with each other through the events that take place as a result. None of us exist in a vacuum. We are delicately tied up with each other spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. We are exactly where we are supposed to be at any given moment in time. We are thinking exactly what we are supposed to be thinking, we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing.
The Domino Effect is a metaphor for one thought toppling against another, ideas falling as we are led into various experiences of life, some gentle and good, some unpleasant, some tragic. Whatever our experience, we are affected by it, for it triggers the rising and falling of ideas which lead to more experiences and interactions.
We Don’t Do Anything, We Don’t Decide Anything
There is nothing that we do voluntarily; there is nothing that we decide. It all occurs with the rising and falling of our thoughts, which are triggered by events.
We are who our ideas demand that we be. We have emotional reactions to our thoughts and when an event occurs, our reactions are predictable even if it appears otherwise. We never choose a reaction even when it feels as if we do. Our emotions dictate what we do, and so we do it. Kali knows us, and places us exactly where we need to be, in situations that provoke a predictable response so that She can exact Her plan for the destruction of an idea.
We might imagine that we have a decision to make regarding a move to a new city. Kali already knows us. She knows if we will or will not go. She knows the chain reaction of ideas that will spark into activity spontaneously. We respond based on the picture of reality that the mind projects and our emotional reactions to that picture. We are not capable of doing anything else. So we do not make any decisions. Where we find ourselves, brings new challenges, a breakdown of ideas. Kali’s Dominoes determine where we find ourselves, not us.
We Cannot Do Anything ‘Wrong’
Since we do not make decisions, we cannot also do anything ‘wrong’, nor can we do anything ‘right’. Everything that we do was always going to be done, because Kali’s Dominoes dictate events and provoke our reactions. The life that we have led has had everything that we are embedded in it. If we have been lazy and indolent; if we were alcoholic; if we were abusive, rapist, murderer; if we have been kind and generous, loving; if we have been studious and focussed; all of our attitudes to life and our resulting behaviours have been deliberately brought to the surface for us to play them out and experience and confront them. And the people around us who encountered our behaviours, were there to benefit from our actions, whatever they were.
We Are Already Surrendered
We talk much about surrender, and how hard this is, yet we are already surrendered to God because we are here in Kali’s world. Kali has us on her Wheel of Life and is ensuring that over time, we let go of our human nature.
What ‘surrender’ truly means is that we wake up to the idea that we are surrendered. A lot of our pain comes from the idea that we are still in charge of our destiny. We struggle against what is occurring, thinking that it should be some other way, that we should be someplace else. We fight and suffer, not realizing that we have given ourselves up to God and are now in Kali’s hands, unravelling the knot of human misery.
Since we never do anything to guide our own destiny, we also never ‘do’ surrender. Surrender is a wake-up moment when we realize that there is nothing we can do to alter our path through life. It happens at some point in life, at a point when the last domino of illusory control falls.
Nobody to Forgive, No Forgiveness to be Earned
We have only ever experienced our own ideas through our interactions with people. Though we have hurt people, and we have been hurt by people, there is no-one that needs to forgive us or no-one for us to forgive. The real meaning of forgiveness is to surrender the ideas that caused any hurtful interaction to take place, and that usually happens by itself. To enter into the frame of having to forgive someone comes from ignorance and human arrogance; the concept arises from our illusions of grandeur.