In browsing about this glorious blog space called Mindsay, I often encounter people I’ve come to know as really quite exemplary human beings, speaking rather harshly against this concept many of us refer to as ‘God.’ Is it GOD they are attacking, or the common, religious CONCEPT of God?
The purpose of the following is not to debate the existence of ‘God’ or lack thereof, but rather, it’s intended as more of a somewhat unreligious perception of this enigma we all profess and deny, worship and hate, pray to and blame, love and fear. Is he or isn’t he? And if he is, WHAT is he? WHERE is he? And WHY doesn’t he DO something to fix all that is wrong?!
If something has been said and said rightly, why try to put the same concept in different words?
The following article was written by a wise man I’ve had the privilege of knowing and learning from for several years. Just a mortal man, still struggling just like you and I, to get it all right – just a mortal man, still growing, still changing, still ‘evolving’ if you will – just a
mortal man, too humble to publish his wise meditations in too many places, so I’ll publish it for him. I’d love to give him the credit for this wisdom, but am not at all sure he would approve. For it is our belief that this wisdom resides within us all, and that the most effective way to access it is to simply KNOW that it IS available to us all.
Due to its length, I’ve opted to publish it here, in 5 separate installments. Feel free to enjoy, disagree, discuss, but please, do all graciously and in love and consideration for one another.
Awakenings hereby humbly presents…
God Is – Part
God is omnipresent and all-powerful. If we believe that, we must believe that there is no other power and that God is everywhere. We may see a particular scene and interpret it as a sick person, a poverty stricken person, an evil person – but has God ever been sick, impoverished, or evil? Then we have a contradiction somewhere. It must be that our interpretation is in error. God never made a mistake, yet man blames God for an imperfect creation and petitions Him to correct it. What is really needed is for us to correct our thinking and see the creation as it is…a perfect reflection of a perfect God. That does not mean that the sick, impoverished, evil world does not exist. It does,
but only as a product of the mind. It was not created by God. It was formed by human mentality. God, therefore, will not make it go away. The mind that formed it must unform it. All things were created by God in a six step process described in Genesis Chapter One, and all that was created was very good. This leaves no room for imperfection.
When we get to the second chapter, creation is finished so although there can be nothing new added, the changes we see are all projections of Adam’s mind. When I speak of Adam, I am referring to the Adamic nature that still symbolizes the human condition. God put him in charge of creation and with his authority, he could name anything, and that is what it would become. Adam is still doing this today. The world is an image of whatever Adam thinks it is. When Adam began naming animals and such, he was still a whole being. The creatures in his garden would have reflected wholeness. After he partook of the knowledge of good and evil, there was judgment in his voice and the world around him reflected the conflict in his perspective. God had nothing to do with this dualistic world. It was formed by Adam’s dualistic mind. It is the “fallen” state of man in which he divides his universe into good or evil conditions, and has lost his ability to see the perfection in him and around him. He has decided to avoid the evil side of his thinking, while desiring the good side. He is unaware that both sides are of the same fatal tree that caused his condition in the first place. In reality, good is no more desirable than evil. Health, no more desirable than sickness. All pairs of opposites must coexist. To be rid of disease, we must let go of health as well. To eliminate evil, you must cast out good with it. In the garden of Eden, there was neither extreme. There was perfection and balance with no pairs of opposites, and no desire one way or the other. To return to that state of perfection, we must undo the transgression where we acquired a knowledge of good and evil. We need an ignorance of good and evil and a knowledge of God. We need to let go of all desire for good and all desire to be rid of evil. After these many thousands of years of struggle, we should know that it’s a losing battle anyway. The church was engaged in the same futility, rebuking sin, condemning sinners, and setting up rules with which to measure our sins, and all it produced was more sin consciousness which in turn produced more sin.
Part 2 coming up next