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Tue 9 Jan
I was surprised this morning by a redoubling of creative energy. Wasn't aware of this energy's unamassed availability until recently, and so wish to explore it more often and more deeply, than before.
I realized recently that I have always felt a certain heartfelt kindness towards other people that has frequently transcended the ordinary. A kinship that has felt at times almost like it was at an atomic level. I've always been fascinated by deep soulful connections with people, and generally bask in their warmth as often as possible in an attempt to live and experience a connection with something greater than myself.
I never thought that I subscribed to a God concept that was a personal absolute (i.e. a separate Being larger than ourselves with the powers of creation, sustenance, and destruction), but I certainly did have notions of a primal force that possessed those powers, lingering deep within us somewhere. However, I now feel like my conception of it thusly was skewed. (Now also, the objective witness can clearly see in that description a reflection of traditional Hindu God concepts, borne no doubt out of my early [impressionable] readings in philosophy and spirituality from the Himalayan yoga tradition.) This Reality, if you can even call it that, is far beyond a conception of it even as a primal formative force. It just IS, and always has BEEN. It's impossible to think of something like that in concrete terms, much less discuss it objectively.
This concept of Self, the I AM, replaces any external notions of God in the clearest way. This sphere of consciousness, this mirrored ball inside of which the Light is continuously reflected for eternity (is there is such a thing as "eternity"?), is nothing other than God itself.
How is it that we came to conceive of God as an objective, external force? Was it for the purpose of controlling society through fear of retribution and hell? Would it be more valuable in the long term if we were to discard that notion in order to look within?
How obtuse. Who really cares about your "concept" of it? That's just fodder for the mind to chew on. Are you LIVING it? Are you living in awareness of your Self, living in harmony with your self and your environment? More simply put: ARE YOU?
You ARE. I AM.
I was surprised this morning by a redoubling of creative energy. Wasn't aware of this energy's unamassed availability until recently, and so wish to explore it more often and more deeply, than before.
I realized recently that I have always felt a certain heartfelt kindness towards other people that has frequently transcended the ordinary. A kinship that has felt at times almost like it was at an atomic level. I've always been fascinated by deep soulful connections with people, and generally bask in their warmth as often as possible in an attempt to live and experience a connection with something greater than myself.
I never thought that I subscribed to a God concept that was a personal absolute (i.e. a separate Being larger than ourselves with the powers of creation, sustenance, and destruction), but I certainly did have notions of a primal force that possessed those powers, lingering deep within us somewhere. However, I now feel like my conception of it thusly was skewed. (Now also, the objective witness can clearly see in that description a reflection of traditional Hindu God concepts, borne no doubt out of my early [impressionable] readings in philosophy and spirituality from the Himalayan yoga tradition.) This Reality, if you can even call it that, is far beyond a conception of it even as a primal formative force. It just IS, and always has BEEN. It's impossible to think of something like that in concrete terms, much less discuss it objectively.
This concept of Self, the I AM, replaces any external notions of God in the clearest way. This sphere of consciousness, this mirrored ball inside of which the Light is continuously reflected for eternity (is there is such a thing as "eternity"?), is nothing other than God itself.
How is it that we came to conceive of God as an objective, external force? Was it for the purpose of controlling society through fear of retribution and hell? Would it be more valuable in the long term if we were to discard that notion in order to look within?
How obtuse. Who really cares about your "concept" of it? That's just fodder for the mind to chew on. Are you LIVING it? Are you living in awareness of your Self, living in harmony with your self and your environment? More simply put: ARE YOU?
You ARE. I AM.