Neutral Reality of Empath Study

[Drouach]

Fellow Empathicans...

I've thought for a long time that when we discuss empathy and empaths, and hearing each other stories, that we should rise above personal bias and personal religion.

I see when someone has a religion or spiritual path it creates a mental paradigm that they see the world with. But the thing is your neighbour may have a completely different paradigm.

The truth is somewhere in the middle when it comes to physical and mental reality.

Empaths are real, empathy is real. We learn more about what it is when we discuss it with each other.

Now...point of my post. I would like to see more empaths committed to discussing the reality of their existence without spiritual or mental bias.

The world has empaths that are:

Christian
Moslem
Buddhist
Hindu
Wiccan
Druids
Satanists
Republicans
Athiests
Panthiests
Monotheists
Universalists
New Age
Pick-a-path Religion
And so on...........

If we are ever really going to work this out, we have to avoid the over-use of spiritual terms or psychic terms that are caught in our own individual paradigms.

We can't mention: Gifts of the holy spirit, Chakras, The Goddess, Satan, Flying Spagetti Monster, Athiesm, Magic psychic bubbles....without at least acknowledging that it's a spiritual belief, and not a indisputable fact.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't discuss the spiritual stuff...but I would like to see more people acknowledging that it's their theory.

Myself I'm eager to learn from other empaths about the nature of their reality, and their spiritual thoughts.

Your thoughts on this?

[Solya]

Mhmm, the words "empathy" and/or "high sensitivity" are usually enough to make people talk about it over here. I generally do not mention spiritual terms most of the time, because I work with children and need to preserve a certain kind of neutrality in these matters. I teach kids how to deal with their sensitivity based on a lot of varying techniques... guided meditation/visualisation, getting creative with paper/paint/pencils/anything you can think of, yoga, exercises from a book about strengthening children's social skills... you name it... and one doesn't have to mention the Flying Spaghetti Monster in those at all, really.

Most of what I was taught in relation to empathy came from teachings about the aura, the chakras, psychic energy and so on. These are things I personally believe in and the first techniques I use in relationship to my own empathy are based on these teachings. I generally open up to other teachings -- especially scientific research on the subject! -- and take what I will from it. It's not like I'm stuck in one specific mindset. My work and my own curiosity/will to learn new things prevent that from happening.

I, however, get supremely annoyed with empaths taking the mindset of "if it works for me, it will have to work for you too". It makes me twitch. There's such conviction of one's path working for everyone... really... never ceases to amaze me.

[Drouach]

I, however, get supremely annoyed with empaths taking the mindset of "if it works for me, it will have to work for you too". It makes me twitch. There's such conviction of one's path working for everyone... really... never ceases to amaze me.

I guess we can all be a little guilty in that area. Humans are like that on most paths: & politics etc. :giggle:

[Wertdagf]

when you get a bunch of entitys together in reality and have somthing such as death to violently separate them. what will you do? when you have pain, loss, and sadness. what is it that you want? You have a choice to be the solution or the problem. which flag is it that you would harald under? I have chosen to learn and and am starting to freely express that information and it will always be used to save those who cannot save themselves and maybe sometimes inneffectively to open the eyes of the blind. I will not give this idea or understanding a name because it is a direction not a location.

instead of having people point their compasses twards good and compassion we have them twist it to point at the name of a book or a person. all physical all fallible.

[Lady Shalymar]

I'm a scientist at heart. My major is microbiology and genetics so I love the nitty-gritty. While I consider myself a very spiritual person I can never erase the scientist from that.

You make a good point that empaths are found in all religions. I had actually never attributed my empathic ability to one religious path or the other as I've followed a few paths and been empathic in all of them.

To me empathic ability is no different that any other ability that we humans have. It's not "out there" or "supernatural" or anything like that. It's an ability, some have it, others don't, and there are various degrees of strength in that ability.

Just because modern science hasn't found a way to quantify empathy doesn't mean that it won't ever. Magnets were considered magic until someone figured out how they work.