{"id":1246,"date":"2018-12-12T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2018-12-12T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:35:27","slug":"heaven-nirvana-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/heaven-nirvana-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven, Nirvana &#038; Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heaven, Nirvana &amp; Enlightenment\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSq4lQ9cwOY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ancient words that point at an experience that anyone can have who is open to it. Modern understanding has given us new insights into ancient methods that help a person open up to these experiences or states of consciousness. It is also important to recognize that a large segment of society does not want anyone to experience Heaven, Nirvana or Enlightenment, which is why they condition people to reject the very idea that anyone can experience this.<\/p>\n<p>Outline of conversation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 Most people have heard these words but don\u2019t know what they really mean.<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Words that point at something very good<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Ancient people have talked about them<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Religious and spiritual people talk about them<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Often talked about or imagined as impossible to experience<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 The everyday experience that we don\u2019t realize is amazing<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Enlightened people just realize its value<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Practice makes perfect<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 How to practice<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 A community can help to remember<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Mind programmed by society to forget;\u00a0\u00a0Others benefit by our forgetting<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 NOW is all that is real; thoughts of past or future are distractions from the reality of NOW; ego\/survival mechanism over activity motivates us to look at past and future and ignore NOW<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Heaven is healthy; relaxes the body and removes dis-ease, tension, and stress<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 How Neurotransmitters work<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 How the practice serves humanity, radiating outward that others can feel.<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Often to simple for complex minds to accept o Jesus pointed this out when he talked about being like a child to enter heaven<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Thoughts as toys to play with and enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient words that point at an experience that anyone can have who is open to it. Modern understanding has given us new insights into ancient methods that help a person open up to these experiences or states of consciousness. It is also important to recognize that a large segment of society does not want anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,17,45],"tags":[113,159],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-christian","category-mental-health","category-jesus","category-lovefear","tag-beliefs","tag-enlightenment","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}