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Recieved: 2000/03/14 14:08
Subject: [K-list] Pathos was The Creation of the Fear Monster of Physica
From: Wim Borsboom

From: "Wim Borsboom" <aurasphereATnospamhome.com>

Dear Larry

You wrote amongst other quotes:
>Patho- words that have the primary meanings
>of "feeling" or "sensation".

> believe we are speaking basically of the same thing...only, I don't know
> what my Higher Self was trying to tell me...do you have any clues?

Many Greek words that start with the root 'pa' have to do with *feeding*,
*caring for*...paoo. Words like pater, pais, pathos. Even the Latin pasco
(to lead a herd or flock), pastor (shepherd), panis (bread), pasta and
passio (suffereing) are derived from this root.
The English 'food', 'feeding are derived from same. Via fodian, fedan,
fuoten,fodjan,pat. The feeder (father), the fed (the child, ped-).
Dios Pater, the provider god (Latin Jupiter).
In Greek pathos (Latin passio) originally had the meaning of being fed,
being cared for, undergoing, letting it happen, being taken care off, ...
eventualy it also got the meaning of suffering, experiencing hunger, pain
and anguish. In Latin the word passio (suffering) and passivus (passively
undergoing) express the same meanings. Initially in English the word
suffering did not have a 'pain connotation', it simply meant "let it be",
"experience "(as in "Suffer the little children").
So Larry, your interpretation of feeling, sensation is apt, but we can
expand it more towards experiencing with extra energy...Pathos.

The original self, which I believe you tend to call the 'Higher Self', uses
pathos as feeling, experience, sensation, undergoing to experience of being
energized, fed so to say by energy, the stuff that is the origin of the
original self, drinking from the fountain of eternity. Compassion or
sympathy is what a bodhisattva applies in dealing with beings that are
energetically malnourished... one lets the 'sufferer' participate in the
being energized. So 'pathos' is the sensation mechanism of the higher or
original self, "the five skandas," as Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara calls it.
Sympathy or compassion or loving kindness is the mechanism or gesture of
healing... feeding...caring for...

I feel pathos as unconditioned energy flowing through me (soma, amrita,
nectar) feeding me, nurturing me, conditioning me to share it universallyy
with anything and anybody around me...unconditionally.
Love,
Wim

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