@@randybackgammon890 Not a quote but a factual observance and it means: The 'spiritual/religious' are stupid, deceiving/deceived and materially privileged ('blessed').
@@randybackgammon890 It's a factual observance - not a quote. It means: the 'spiritual/religious' are privileged and ignorant (or senile like Butler here).
The eyes of John shine so brightly .... they shine... pure...clean....and still.... I feel the presence of Jesus when John speaks... they are quite the same...
Dear John, it's been such a privilege, to spend an hour listening to, the most beautiful words, and wonderful wisdom, from "less than nothing " of a person. I hope it won't offend you if I beg to differ, and say that I'm sure I'm not the only one who loves and values you dearly as "so much more than nothing " ❤
I adore John and am so grateful for these videos. I love the way he views meditation and prayer as almost one. That's the way I tend to see prayer too. Thank you, John and Phil. ❤
28:11 John is already humble enough, I don't think he'd ever get disqualified from entering through the pearly gates. 29:20 I like that outfit. Purple pants with a blue and red plaid shirt.
I think I am in the presence of a realised saint when I listen to John. He is therapy. I am reading chapter 12 of his book Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment and it talks of his depression and dark night of the soul and being with Jesus in the desert. He knows! 💞💞🙏🙏
Infinite gratitude to John and Phil for all their time and effort in preparing these spiritual presentations and to Dimitris for putting this excellent selection together.
I really like this type of format. By way of comparison it seems best. The breaks in topic and beautiful film clips of nature allows us a chance to digest a bit . More importantly this video may prove to be my favorite because the wealth of spiritual insight here. I listen to John at least once daily.
Thank you for taking your time to reply. I have also thought it might be a great way to get "the work" out to have a few of John's longer talks on audible so those without continuous internet could listen to his inspiration throughout their day or travels. Possibly an audio download . Thanks @@SpiritualUnfoldment
i can't help but believe, based mostly on experience with god, but also scripture, that, yes, god does indeed desire for us to be happy and blessed in this world and in this life. which in my understanding is impossible outside of a walk of union, communion, oneness with/in god. for me that would be in christ jesus the lord. bless you all!
"Exile means modest manners, wisdom which remains unknown, prudence not recognized as such by most, a hidden life, an invisible intention, unseen meditation, desire for humiliation, longing for hardship, constant determination to love God, abundance of charity, renunciation of vainglory, depth of silence." Ladder of Divine Ascent. St John Climacus Step 3. John Butler. A hidden gem. Phil. The determined miner. Blessings 🙏 I dug up my copy of "thirty steps to heaven," by Vassilios Papavassiliou. Your videos have stirred something deep and it has been a few days of listening and seeing the embodiment of the Divine Ladder... A little, every day, as you say. I am doing my very slow Jesus Prayer. I had been rushing it. Your way is so much better. When you explained about going down, into the dark, and the mantra was the handrail, it made sense. I don't know where the Prayer is leading me, and I cannot see, so why rush and lose my footing? Then the Divine Ladder came to mind. We need to tread carefully, feet on the ground, hand on the rail... step by step. 🙏 Feet on the ground. Hand on the rail. Heading towards the light. Always facing the light. Step by step.
Dimitris, what a superb selection of segments with excellent transitions. Thank you so much. And thank you to John, Phil, and all who sent in or posed questions!
God bless You John, you have a kind soul. I love this man and I wish I could have a long chat with him. It would be a very wholesome interesting conversation.
Edward, thank you for your wise words. I have heard the voice of the Christ, the still small voice within and have resisted the Will of God due to fear, pride and egotistical tendencies and consequently I have suffered to the point of wanting to take my life, after 4 years of deep depression and hopelessness. But still I am here and just beginning to take a turn in my poor, miserable life. God bless you Edward always.
@@adeledesolla1404 The enemy voice is a noisome pestilence and will try to convince us that there is no way out of our pain I’m very happy that you connected to Christ Jesus peaceful still quiet voice that speaks out the heart of his beautiful spirit and love to us on a very personal and deep level directly to our heart God loves you deeply listen to him deeply love you Adele
@@edwardgavin364 Dear Edward, I don't know who you are, or where you are but you have given me comfort tonight and irrespective of my own inner battle to the point of absolute exhaustion, despair and suicide, the only truest dearest love in my life, is now the Master and Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you Edward for even replying you have comforted me in my mental and emotional anguish. God Bless you now and always. Adele de Solla from the UK
Dear John, recently I purchased one of your books after watching many of your TH-cam video's, which have helped me so very much! 🙏❤. Its like a Beautiful prayer from the heart reading your book! It is written with such magnanimous Love for all that is!!! Thank you dear John, this Lovely book I can pick up at any time to help quiet myself and bring me back to stillness! With Love to you, Thank you.....❤
John, dreams and visions can be direct warnings, insights from God... God speaks to us through image and experience, and our souls have a self nature to die to in service if Him and His creation.
Wow.. yes depressed all my life mostly...yet appreciating every little bit of Joy , a funny person, dog , a leaping cow today in my sights. I was in the delusional thought with others that Joy is always supposed to be and if you didn't have it , you were walking in some sin. The idea that suffering was a must to sanctify me had finally come ,yet nobody to share it with. Even still John, I find myself licking my wounds in self pity and wanting to just die and go home. Finally I get a jolt in me , pick up yourself, pull up your bootstraps child and go ye forward like a soldier. GET UP WOMAN. yes your mother and family rejected you and friends and so many but your Papa is God and He is training you , you little girl you little child grab the Father's hand and go ,go ,go.. So these wonderful mighty thoughts come and go. Sometimes I act and sometimes I do not but often I react to how horrible it all is and how I feel and how come , why and please help me Jesus. Constantly battling and then self punishment that I'm not being a good girl and the shame of the past hits my face like a cruel ice cold wind. So I wake up again and I fight to pray ,fight the thoughts of revenge or hate for the pain causers. Shouldn't I hate myself too ,for I cause my own pain too. Get up ,get up ,get up again and try to live in the moment as you John because if you're not where you're at you're NOT ANYWHERE RIGHT.... heeheehee.. yes I notice the butterfly and creativeness of what God all mighty puts in my sights and Jesus help me stay there longer than awhile and eventually day by day ,I will make it to His Heavenly world .
im constantly jumping back in forth in my interpretation of John's words as "oh wow this is wildly dangerous advice he's a bit of a nutter who's framework allows bad people to get away with bad things and inequity" and "holy cow I think he's onto something he might be a genius" nonetheless, I just like hearing him speak, he's captivating and also presents a very interesting and unique perspective, a true individual
i believe this one who can help us, this invisible presence, does have a name... i am. and can be described.. love, light, life. and what that is can only be experienced to be known.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (30 July [O.S. 19 July] 1754 (or 1759) - 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated both in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. He is generally considered the greatest of the 19th-century startsy (elders). Seraphim extended the monastic teachings of contemplation, theoria and self-denial to the layperson. He taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to acquire the Holy Spirit. Perhaps his most popular quotation amongst Orthodox believers is "Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved." Seraphim was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1903. Alongside his veneration in the Catholic calendar, Pope John Paul II also referred to him as a Saint.[1] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov
Thank you for the guidance it’s beautiful to be taken in the ghost itt sticks in my soul however it scares me sometimes because it makes me feel like I’m so stupid to not realize the truth
I like you so much dear John and dear Phil. Now, I have a little worry. John...do you have any plans, in the future, to put your blessed videos on CD? If anything should happen to TH-cam or if my lnternet or whichever instrument l use should fail, l'm afraid l wouldn't get to hear you talk. (I'm smiling to myself here because even as l am typing this l can hear John saying ..don't go letting these things worry you my dear...open your hands and let it go....you'll be able to hear me for as long as you need to 😄😄) But on a practical side....any CDs in the offing? 😄 God's Love be with you both Eileen...lreland
this man is so wise and gentle that if in an alternative universe he gets angry he’ll just say very calmly: _I am with a feeling of anger_ and make a 3 hour lecture about it
the hammerman of all saints church is alive and well, he hits with strenght as John speaks. Is he always doing so or only when someone comes to his church to speak about meditation?
@@FudgeTheFurry - I thought it was a very specific question, to ask about his heating haha! Health makes a lot more sense now. I hope he is fit and well.
Well you all seem to love everything John says. Personaly I think he has a rather dispariging attitude to human endevour much of which is a sincere enough disire for improvement..I think he's demisive of everyone else's attitude yet calls himself humble.'I'm just dust,' Well my loved ones mean more to me than that and so do most peoples.John's on to alot. But much of what he says could(and I'd level this critisism at many of the alleged utterances of the Hindu 'masters')be easily construed as the trivialisation of genuine human suffering
Hi Randy. Anything we say can be misunderstood if we take it out of context and the big picture. For example, you say: "I'm just dust,' Well my loved ones mean more to me than that and so do most peoples." Do you really think that John doesn't give a damn about anyone? Of course you don't (if you've seen some of his videos). So that's obviously not what he means by 'I'm just dust,'. You say: "I think he has a rather disparaging attitude to human endevour". But isn't him writing books and making these videos a human endeavour? So what's happening here? Is John contradicting himself? I don't think so. I think we have to sometimes listen to his words as we would to music, or a poem. Trying to get into the deeper meaning of what he's trying to convey. With what you say about the "trivialisation of genuine human suffering", yes, that I can totally relate to. "Two years of depression is nothing"? Really?? But again, I give him the benefit of the doubt and try to tap into the deeper meaning of what he may be trying to convey.
I disagree that all visions are just distractions and that we should never pay them any mind. Sometimes and to a degree they can be, sometimes and to a degree not, I think. For instance, I've had visions that helped me to understand other people's pain or see someone was in trouble. There are visions that give us a glimpse of God's love for us, visions that let us know if someone intends to harm us so we know to avoid them, visions that help us know if someone is going to die soon so we can advise them to prepare and make peace with their loved ones before they go, visions that help us understand others' traumas so we know how to assist them in the journey of their own healing, etc. If we have a vision, I believe it often can mean God wants us to pay attention to it and that we received it for an important reason. Of course, it's also important, like John said, to go beyond the visions to the unseen and unknown and not get stuck on them, same thing with anything in life. I also feel, due to personal experience, that darkness, death, and existence in a mortal body is not sin in themselves, but that shame and pride are the source of sin; shame and pride are 2 faces of the conditioned ego. I also draw a distinction between the conditioned ego and the inherent Ego; the inherent Ego is part of the Self, it is our default mode network, prefrontal cortex, and any part of the brain and nervous system that gives us memory and self preservation (such as knowing not to put our hands in fire, or knowing not to break our own fingers even though it would be as easy as snapping a carrot, or knowing not to climb into an enclosure with a dangerous, wild animal at the zoo), and the conditioned ego is indoctrinated into us and is a poison to our minds, hearts, even our bodies; it can result in chronic pain, strokes, heart problems, a chronic tension between the eyebrows, mental illness, and self destruction, the opposite of the inherent Ego and the Self. I think we essentially believe the same things mostly, just have different words, archetypes, and frames of reference. For example, when John speaks of darkness, he means ignorance, rather than literal darkness which is natural and complements the light.
I would say that what enhances the darkness most is ignoring it. It loves being ignored and grows from it. We need see it directly in the eyes. The church fathers taught extensivey on demonology. Spiritual bypass is not wholesome.
Does anyone feel as if he is slightly wrong in some of his awnsers? For example reguarding the question: why are we here. I would awnser it like this: life is abundance we are here to celebrate it. Note this celebration is that of a childrens view of discovering a new location where he has not yet been. To see everything as like the way a babie sees it; with amazement. To stop categorizeing things in good/evil ect green or red. To see everything with astonichment. It is when growing up you learn to categorise and stop see the amazing in everyday life. It is when you grow up you learn what sexuality is ect. There are other awnser i would also awnser in a slight diffrent way. But i do adore him and adore what he wants and is trying to do.
What i mean is. When a person grows up they learn how to sublimate the other sex in a sexual way with fantacies. Sex from what we see today. It is always based on the fantacies. Without the fantacy you would lose the glow. Has it ever happend to you. While haveing sex you space out and look at urself from a theird perspective and wonder how stupid you look? This is the fantacies failing to support your fantacy. I personaly dont know how sex work without this fantacy and i would like to see what its like. Maybe it would be a sex purly to reproduce a child or in a natural way of a animal for example cow, bird, dog. However this fantacy is a symptom of the human conciousness. So i dont know if we can go without it.
I like much of John’s observations, however the reality is, Evil does exist, and, in many ways it has power and influence irrespective as to if we believe it does or not…
Is it just me or has John been using more Christian language on his channel lately? Does he consider himself more exclusively believing in Christianity now, or is he still more of a blend of eastern philosophy which he sometimes describes using christian concepts? Forgive me if my question doesn't make sense
If we assume that there's nothing in this world but atoms and molecules, your question makes sense. If we assume that there may be something more to this world than meets the eye, John may actually be tapping into something.
@@fabsprout5301 Hey, thanks for asking. Some of Ramana Maharshi's descriptions of his awakening experiences have been vaguely likened to descriptions and symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy, and the ensuing occurrence of what's called "post-ictal psychosis." Definitely take this with a grain of salt, but here are some resources with much more information than I am able to provide: Ramana Maharshi TLE piece: wikivisually.com/wiki/User%3AJoshua_Jonathan%2FRamana_Maharshi_and_Temporal_Lobe_Epilepsy#Temporal_Lobe_Epilepsy "Patients with postictal psychosis had a high incidence of psychic auras and nocturnal secondarily generalized seizures. The most striking feature that distinguished postictal psychosis from both acute interictal and chronic psychoses was phenomenological: the relatively frequent occurrence of grandiose delusions as well as religious delusions in the setting of markedly elevated moods and feeling of mystic fusion of the body with the universe. In addition, postictal psychosis exhibited few schizophreniform psychotic traits such as perceptual delusions or voices commenting. Reminiscence, mental diplopia, and a feeling of impending death were also fairly frequent complaints of patients with postictal psychosis. Interictal acute psychosis and chronic epileptic psychosis were psychopathologically similar. Although acute interictal and chronic epileptic psychoses could simulate schizophrenia, postictal psychosis results in a mental state quite different from that of schizophrenic psychosis." Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8641232/ Some people discuss Geschwind syndrome as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwind_syndrome So point being, these mystics and saints might be right about the "grace" of their condition: that indeed, they may actually have a different neurobiology than the average person, making physiological conditions conducive to what modern, Western scientists would describe as a physical and/or psychiatric disorder or condition. This is of course just one point of view, so I'm not saying I totally agree with that, but I think it's worth considering.
@@julesdrums6167 thanks. Worth looking at. Also referring to the comment above, if atoms and electrons and photons are all there is, then I’ve no doubt that all kinds of brain states are possible, caused by a myriad of things. On the other hand, our perceptions are so narrow, that if spirituality and one-ness is real, it could also manifest a variety of brain states which might coincidentally overlap with those caused by natural causes. Who can really know? Egos and brains can’t know, certainly. My experience is that there does seem to be a level of knowing that is deeper than individual brains, that by definition cannot be described using the concepts of brains
@@julesdrums6167 Science has played an invaluable role in debunking pseudo-spiritual states and claims. So your remarks are definitely worth considering. But, as scientists, we should also be aware or our own limitations as humans, both in our perception of reality and in our intellectual ability (which are the foundations of science). Otherwise, our pseudo-scientific fundamentalism may deprive us of the quest to find a deeper meaning in life by dismissing what truly spiritual people experience, as "psychiatric disorders". True science isn't believing that reality is only what can be explained within its methods. That's just an arbitrary metaphysical belief. (By the way, I know that's not what you're saying).
Uhh...Russia in Ukraine....I'm not imagining that. And it has tons of power for the people of Ukraine and the people who care about them, whether we ignore them or not.
O John l enjoyed this video thank you and God bless you John 🙏🙌
This is just such a comforting compilation to listen to . Thank you John , thank you Phil
John Butler could give me directions to the men's room, and I'd come away feeling like he'd given me some life-changing wisdom.
Feet on the floor, mind the yellow puddle.
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resist the temptation to enter into the other room , lest thee be judged , and maced and hounded out !!
"Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved." -- St. Seraphim of Sarov
Spirit is a lie of privileged flesh.
@@williamoarlock8634That's an interesting quote.Where does it come from and can you explain pls what it means
@@randybackgammon890 Not a quote but a factual observance and it means: The 'spiritual/religious' are stupid, deceiving/deceived and materially privileged ('blessed').
@@randybackgammon890 It's a factual observance - not a quote. It means: the 'spiritual/religious' are privileged and ignorant (or senile like Butler here).
This is a gift of grace from our Lady Wisdom, through one of her most wonderful human channels.
John Butler ambassador of the unseen realms, whose beaming smile removes all cares about the journey and the destination. Bless you kind sir
The eyes of John shine so brightly .... they shine... pure...clean....and still....
I feel the presence of Jesus when John speaks... they are quite the same...
A wonderful compilation of truths from our beloved John. Thank you for this. :)
Dear John, it's been such a privilege, to spend an hour listening to, the most beautiful words, and wonderful wisdom, from "less than nothing " of a person. I hope it won't offend you if I beg to differ, and say that I'm sure I'm not the only one who loves and values you dearly as "so much more than nothing " ❤
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John looks younger and better now than he did when he first started these videos
I think that's because they're now using professional lights
I noticed that also!
I totally agree. I think the work he is doing by sharing and helping others is keeping him younger
I was thinking the very same thing
it's bc this is a compilation (see decription) :)
"I'm sorry I've lost the drift of what the question was" hahaha! Priceless!!
gems thank you John and Phil
So beautiful. Many thanks John and team.
WOW “This world is full of the blind leading the blind”
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I adore John and am so grateful for these videos. I love the way he views meditation and prayer as almost one. That's the way I tend to see prayer too. Thank you, John and Phil. ❤
I love this man . God bless him ♥️🙏
28:11 John is already humble enough, I don't think he'd ever get disqualified from entering through the pearly gates.
29:20 I like that outfit. Purple pants with a blue and red plaid shirt.
I think I am in the presence of a realised saint when I listen to John. He is therapy. I am reading chapter 12 of his book Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment and it talks of his depression and dark night of the soul and being with Jesus in the desert. He knows! 💞💞🙏🙏
Exactly in the right moment in the right point. Thank you for your help ... again. Thank you.
John should be made a saint
I'm starting to realize I might have been living my life the wrong way for a very long time. Have mercy on me a sinner. Amen
I would love to go to that church and drink some beers and meditate on life
Me, too, except cannabis and wine are my preferences.
Infinite gratitude to John and Phil for all their time and effort in preparing these
spiritual presentations and to Dimitris for putting this excellent selection together.
Thank you, Eric. :)
I really like this type of format. By way of comparison it seems best. The breaks in topic and beautiful film clips of nature allows us a chance to digest a bit . More importantly this video may prove to be my favorite because the wealth of spiritual insight here. I listen to John at least once daily.
Lovely comment - really appreciated. Maybe we can do more. Phil
Thank you for taking your time to reply. I have also thought it might be a great way to get "the work" out to have a few of John's longer talks on audible so those without continuous internet could listen to his inspiration throughout their day or travels. Possibly an audio download . Thanks @@SpiritualUnfoldment
Evgaristo pollì Dimitri and of course a big thank you to John and Phil!
Thank you Timothy! :) It was a blessing to make this.
@@dimitris.mouroulis yes, indeed. One day I would also like to make a visit to Bakewell... I can only imagine how wonderful it must have been.
Always help me when I’m down
John, rest assured that your advice is being heeded by millions of people. This is your enduring legacy.
i can't help but believe, based mostly on experience with god, but also scripture, that, yes, god does indeed desire for us to be happy and blessed in this world and in this life. which in my understanding is impossible outside of a walk of union, communion, oneness with/in god. for me that would be in christ jesus the lord. bless you all!
we're also given feelings along the way which call to be felt.
Profoundly beautiful... Thou art with me....⚘
The human condition is ignorance! Brilliant!
Much love to you john and phil
Love from Ireland ❣❣
Oh I wish to have his company! :) My meditation is listening to him!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! ❤️🌅🙏
"Exile means modest manners, wisdom which remains unknown, prudence
not recognized as such by most, a hidden life, an invisible intention, unseen meditation, desire for
humiliation, longing for hardship, constant determination to love God, abundance of charity,
renunciation of vainglory, depth of silence."
Ladder of Divine Ascent. St John Climacus
Step 3.
John Butler.
A hidden gem.
Phil.
The determined miner.
Blessings 🙏
I dug up my copy of "thirty steps to heaven," by Vassilios Papavassiliou.
Your videos have stirred something deep and it has been a few days of listening and seeing the embodiment of the Divine Ladder...
A little, every day, as you say.
I am doing my very slow Jesus Prayer. I had been rushing it.
Your way is so much better.
When you explained about going down, into the dark, and the mantra was the handrail, it made sense.
I don't know where the Prayer is leading me, and I cannot see, so why rush and lose my footing?
Then the Divine Ladder came to mind. We need to tread carefully, feet on the ground, hand on the rail... step by step.
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Feet on the ground.
Hand on the rail.
Heading towards the light.
Always facing the light.
Step by step.
Dimitris, what a superb selection of segments with excellent transitions. Thank you so much. And thank you to John, Phil, and all who sent in or posed questions!
Thank you, John! It was a blessing for me to make this.
Clearly conscience and a wonderful farmer, you are much spryer than your physical appearance, my friend. When I bloom I hope you share in my joy.
Thank you DrCherylMeier for sharing this
God bless You John, you have a kind soul. I love this man and I wish I could have a long chat with him. It would be a very wholesome interesting conversation.
Keep your mind steady on him and he will keep you in perfect peace Jesus Christ is able but we have a will too and we must say yes to his drawing us
Edward, thank you for your wise words. I have heard the voice of the Christ, the still small voice within and have resisted the Will of God due to fear, pride and egotistical tendencies and consequently I have suffered to the point of wanting to take my life, after 4 years of deep depression and hopelessness. But still I am here and just beginning to take a turn in my poor, miserable life. God bless you Edward always.
@@adeledesolla1404 The enemy voice is a noisome pestilence and will try to convince us that there is no way out of our pain I’m very happy that you connected to Christ Jesus peaceful still quiet voice that speaks out the heart of his beautiful spirit and love to us on a very personal and deep level directly to our heart God loves you deeply listen to him deeply love you Adele
@@edwardgavin364 Dear Edward, I don't know who you are, or where you are but you have given me comfort tonight and irrespective of my own inner battle to the point of absolute exhaustion, despair and suicide, the only truest dearest love in my life, is now the Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you Edward for even replying you have comforted me in my mental and emotional anguish.
God Bless you now and always. Adele de Solla from the UK
I love listening to your view of Christianity. 😊
Love John haha this is one of his funniest videos!
God bless you Mr. John 🙏
Dear John, recently I purchased one of your books after watching many of your TH-cam video's, which have helped me so very much! 🙏❤. Its like a Beautiful prayer from the heart reading your book! It is written with such magnanimous Love for all that is!!! Thank you dear John, this Lovely book I can pick up at any time to help quiet myself and bring me back to stillness! With Love to you, Thank you.....❤
Wunderschöne Sammlung von Kostbarkeiten
Beautifully simple and direct dearest John 🤍 Thank you 🙏
What a treat ,this compilation ! Wholehearted thank you!
What a beautiful compilation. Much gratitude to Dimitris for creating this.
Thank you, DROGE :)
Thank you for these lessons
I love that shirt, John, when you are answering the questions.
the everlasting arms indeed! ❤️
John, dreams and visions can be direct warnings, insights from God... God speaks to us through image and experience, and our souls have a self nature to die to in service if Him and His creation.
He is so charming I absolutely love the man
I’m really enjoying the new format for the videos. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us John❤️
Another great video! Thank you John
Love the dead pan delivery of the letter writers name at 29:52 😂
Simply wonderful. Thank you. X
🙏🏻 Amen. Brokenness, humbleness The way the truth the light. The Lord Jesus Christ. Home.✝️♥️😊x
Thank you John. I’m grateful for your insight. Much love.
Thank you.
Wow.. yes depressed all my life mostly...yet appreciating every little bit of Joy , a funny person, dog , a leaping cow today in my sights. I was in the delusional thought with others that Joy is always supposed to be and if you didn't have it , you were walking in some sin. The idea that suffering was a must to sanctify me had finally come ,yet nobody to share it with. Even still John, I find myself licking my wounds in self pity and wanting to just die and go home. Finally I get a jolt in me , pick up yourself, pull up your bootstraps child and go ye forward like a soldier. GET UP WOMAN. yes your mother and family rejected you and friends and so many but your Papa is God and He is training you , you little girl you little child grab the Father's hand and go ,go ,go..
So these wonderful mighty thoughts come and go. Sometimes I act and sometimes I do not but often I react to how horrible it all is and how I feel and how come , why and please help me Jesus. Constantly battling and then self punishment that I'm not being a good girl and the shame of the past hits my face like a cruel ice cold wind. So I wake up again and I fight to pray ,fight the thoughts of revenge or hate for the pain causers. Shouldn't I hate myself too ,for I cause my own pain too. Get up ,get up ,get up again and try to live in the moment as you John because if you're not where you're at you're NOT ANYWHERE RIGHT.... heeheehee.. yes I notice the butterfly and creativeness of what God all mighty puts in my sights and Jesus help me stay there longer than awhile and eventually day by day ,I will make it to His Heavenly world .
Beautiful video....thank you so much.... and it really beautiful to see John in the retreats talking with people.... Beautiful...
Thank you John. Namaste🌒🌕🌘
this reminds me quite a bit of when people share their near death experiences.
Thank you, John.
Thank you for your teaching God bless you astrid from Amsterdam Holland
Love this compilation
Amazing. Amen 🙏
im constantly jumping back in forth in my interpretation of John's words as "oh wow this is wildly dangerous advice he's a bit of a nutter who's framework allows bad people to get away with bad things and inequity" and "holy cow I think he's onto something he might be a genius"
nonetheless, I just like hearing him speak, he's captivating and also presents a very interesting and unique perspective, a true individual
i believe this one who can help us, this invisible presence, does have a name... i am. and can be described.. love, light, life. and what that is can only be experienced to be known.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (30 July [O.S. 19 July] 1754 (or 1759) - 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated both in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. He is generally considered the greatest of the 19th-century startsy (elders). Seraphim extended the monastic teachings of contemplation, theoria and self-denial to the layperson. He taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to acquire the Holy Spirit. Perhaps his most popular quotation amongst Orthodox believers is "Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved."
Seraphim was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1903. Alongside his veneration in the Catholic calendar, Pope John Paul II also referred to him as a Saint.[1] -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov
Thank you for the guidance it’s beautiful to be taken in the ghost itt sticks in my soul however it scares me sometimes because it makes me feel like I’m so stupid to not realize the truth
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I want that leather blazer John that is well nice! You take good care my friend and have a beautiful Christmas!
the leather jacket, the beard, such a badass
Old dude your making me think. Thanks.
"Less of me, more of God".
The way, the truth, the life ♥️
I like you so much dear John and dear Phil.
Now, I have a little worry.
John...do you have any plans, in the future, to put your blessed videos on CD?
If anything should happen to TH-cam or if my lnternet or whichever instrument l use should fail, l'm afraid l wouldn't get to hear you talk.
(I'm smiling to myself here because even as l am typing this l can hear John saying ..don't go letting these things worry you my dear...open your hands and let it go....you'll be able to hear me for as long as you need to 😄😄)
But on a practical side....any CDs in the offing? 😄
God's Love be with you both
Eileen...lreland
‘To be at the bottom of the league of nothingness!’
Owch. I think Jon hit it on the nail in this one...:< 54:45 does Jon have a dog?
this man is so wise and gentle that if in an alternative universe he gets angry he’ll just say very calmly: _I am with a feeling of anger_ and make a 3 hour lecture about it
Evil exists ad much as God does. If you ignore it it won't disappeat. We are in a spiritual battle even if Jesus has already won.
the hammerman of all saints church is alive and well, he hits with strenght as John speaks. Is he always doing so or only when someone comes to his church to speak about meditation?
How is John doing? Is his heating holding up to the Winter so far?
I meant to.say.health.but auto correct changed it to heating... Oh well ..
The question may still be pertinent 😂 His church looks chilly ⛄️
@@FudgeTheFurry - I thought it was a very specific question, to ask about his heating haha! Health makes a lot more sense now. I hope he is fit and well.
Well you all seem to love everything John says. Personaly I think he has a rather dispariging attitude to human endevour much of which is a sincere enough disire for improvement..I think he's demisive of everyone else's attitude yet calls himself humble.'I'm just dust,' Well my loved ones mean more to me than that and so do most peoples.John's on to alot. But much of what he says could(and I'd level this critisism at many of the alleged utterances of the Hindu 'masters')be easily construed as the trivialisation of genuine human suffering
Hi Randy. Anything we say can be misunderstood if we take it out of context and the big picture.
For example, you say: "I'm just dust,' Well my loved ones mean more to me than that and so do most peoples."
Do you really think that John doesn't give a damn about anyone? Of course you don't (if you've seen some of his videos). So that's obviously not what he means by 'I'm just dust,'.
You say: "I think he has a rather disparaging attitude to human endevour".
But isn't him writing books and making these videos a human endeavour? So what's happening here? Is John contradicting himself? I don't think so. I think we have to sometimes listen to his words as we would to music, or a poem. Trying to get into the deeper meaning of what he's trying to convey.
With what you say about the "trivialisation of genuine human suffering", yes, that I can totally relate to. "Two years of depression is nothing"? Really??
But again, I give him the benefit of the doubt and try to tap into the deeper meaning of what he may be trying to convey.
@@dimitris.mouroulis point taken
I disagree that all visions are just distractions and that we should never pay them any mind. Sometimes and to a degree they can be, sometimes and to a degree not, I think. For instance, I've had visions that helped me to understand other people's pain or see someone was in trouble. There are visions that give us a glimpse of God's love for us, visions that let us know if someone intends to harm us so we know to avoid them, visions that help us know if someone is going to die soon so we can advise them to prepare and make peace with their loved ones before they go, visions that help us understand others' traumas so we know how to assist them in the journey of their own healing, etc. If we have a vision, I believe it often can mean God wants us to pay attention to it and that we received it for an important reason. Of course, it's also important, like John said, to go beyond the visions to the unseen and unknown and not get stuck on them, same thing with anything in life. I also feel, due to personal experience, that darkness, death, and existence in a mortal body is not sin in themselves, but that shame and pride are the source of sin; shame and pride are 2 faces of the conditioned ego. I also draw a distinction between the conditioned ego and the inherent Ego; the inherent Ego is part of the Self, it is our default mode network, prefrontal cortex, and any part of the brain and nervous system that gives us memory and self preservation (such as knowing not to put our hands in fire, or knowing not to break our own fingers even though it would be as easy as snapping a carrot, or knowing not to climb into an enclosure with a dangerous, wild animal at the zoo), and the conditioned ego is indoctrinated into us and is a poison to our minds, hearts, even our bodies; it can result in chronic pain, strokes, heart problems, a chronic tension between the eyebrows, mental illness, and self destruction, the opposite of the inherent Ego and the Self. I think we essentially believe the same things mostly, just have different words, archetypes, and frames of reference. For example, when John speaks of darkness, he means ignorance, rather than literal darkness which is natural and complements the light.
how can i regain my faith....a question to John please
I would say that what enhances the darkness most is ignoring it. It loves being ignored and grows from it.
We need see it directly in the eyes.
The church fathers taught extensivey on demonology.
Spiritual bypass is not wholesome.
Does anyone feel as if he is slightly wrong in some of his awnsers? For example reguarding the question: why are we here.
I would awnser it like this: life is abundance we are here to celebrate it. Note this celebration is that of a childrens view of discovering a new location where he has not yet been. To see everything as like the way a babie sees it; with amazement. To stop categorizeing things in good/evil ect green or red. To see everything with astonichment.
It is when growing up you learn to categorise and stop see the amazing in everyday life. It is when you grow up you learn what sexuality is ect.
There are other awnser i would also awnser in a slight diffrent way. But i do adore him and adore what he wants and is trying to do.
I would agree with you Gabriel. Nothing wrong with sexuality either. Phil
@@SpiritualUnfoldment i agree it is neither good or bad. It just is 🙂
What i mean is. When a person grows up they learn how to sublimate the other sex in a sexual way with fantacies. Sex from what we see today. It is always based on the fantacies. Without the fantacy you would lose the glow.
Has it ever happend to you. While haveing sex you space out and look at urself from a theird perspective and wonder how stupid you look? This is the fantacies failing to support your fantacy.
I personaly dont know how sex work without this fantacy and i would like to see what its like. Maybe it would be a sex purly to reproduce a child or in a natural way of a animal for example cow, bird, dog.
However this fantacy is a symptom of the human conciousness. So i dont know if we can go without it.
30:02
I like much of John’s observations, however the reality is, Evil does exist, and, in many ways it has power and influence irrespective as to if we believe it does or not…
Is it just me or has John been using more Christian language on his channel lately? Does he consider himself more exclusively believing in Christianity now, or is he still more of a blend of eastern philosophy which he sometimes describes using christian concepts? Forgive me if my question doesn't make sense
Hi Emma. Just in case you haven't seen it, I think he pretty much explains this at th-cam.com/video/TUG6WD5QtcE/w-d-xo.html
Jesus Christ, who is God, is the Only Way to salvation.
Repent and turn to Jesus for the hour is late.
Is it possible that John is just one of the lucky ones with mild temporal lobe epilepsy, like Ramana Maharshi?
If we assume that there's nothing in this world but atoms and molecules, your question makes sense. If we assume that there may be something more to this world than meets the eye, John may actually be tapping into something.
Where do you get that “temporal lobe epilepsy” thing from? Is that a thing?
@@fabsprout5301 Hey, thanks for asking. Some of Ramana Maharshi's descriptions of his awakening experiences have been vaguely likened to descriptions and symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy, and the ensuing occurrence of what's called "post-ictal psychosis." Definitely take this with a grain of salt, but here are some resources with much more information than I am able to provide:
Ramana Maharshi TLE piece: wikivisually.com/wiki/User%3AJoshua_Jonathan%2FRamana_Maharshi_and_Temporal_Lobe_Epilepsy#Temporal_Lobe_Epilepsy
"Patients with postictal psychosis had a high incidence of psychic auras and nocturnal secondarily generalized seizures. The most striking feature that distinguished postictal psychosis from both acute interictal and chronic psychoses was phenomenological: the relatively frequent occurrence of grandiose delusions as well as religious delusions in the setting of markedly elevated moods and feeling of mystic fusion of the body with the universe. In addition, postictal psychosis exhibited few schizophreniform psychotic traits such as perceptual delusions or voices commenting. Reminiscence, mental diplopia, and a feeling of impending death were also fairly frequent complaints of patients with postictal psychosis. Interictal acute psychosis and chronic epileptic psychosis were psychopathologically similar. Although acute interictal and chronic epileptic psychoses could simulate schizophrenia, postictal psychosis results in a mental state quite different from that of schizophrenic psychosis."
Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8641232/
Some people discuss Geschwind syndrome as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwind_syndrome
So point being, these mystics and saints might be right about the "grace" of their condition: that indeed, they may actually have a different neurobiology than the average person, making physiological conditions conducive to what modern, Western scientists would describe as a physical and/or psychiatric disorder or condition. This is of course just one point of view, so I'm not saying I totally agree with that, but I think it's worth considering.
@@julesdrums6167 thanks. Worth looking at. Also referring to the comment above, if atoms and electrons and photons are all there is, then I’ve no doubt that all kinds of brain states are possible, caused by a myriad of things. On the other hand, our perceptions are so narrow, that if spirituality and one-ness is real, it could also manifest a variety of brain states which might coincidentally overlap with those caused by natural causes. Who can really know? Egos and brains can’t know, certainly. My experience is that there does seem to be a level of knowing that is deeper than individual brains, that by definition cannot be described using the concepts of brains
@@julesdrums6167 Science has played an invaluable role in debunking pseudo-spiritual states and claims. So your remarks are definitely worth considering. But, as scientists, we should also be aware or our own limitations as humans, both in our perception of reality and in our intellectual ability (which are the foundations of science). Otherwise, our pseudo-scientific fundamentalism may deprive us of the quest to find a deeper meaning in life by dismissing what truly spiritual people experience, as "psychiatric disorders". True science isn't believing that reality is only what can be explained within its methods. That's just an arbitrary metaphysical belief. (By the way, I know that's not what you're saying).
He is talking like Professor Dumbledore
Uhh...Russia in Ukraine....I'm not imagining that. And it has tons of power for the people of Ukraine and the people who care about them, whether we ignore them or not.
You callin my mum dust?!!??!
The guy don't make sense in alot of what he says , who is this guy anyway , he acts like he's Jesus Christ