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Originally posted by NewAgeMan
What's the saying - let go and let God? That's simple, but not easy, and yet, it seems to be getting easier now for some strange reason, so many the orbits of the musicof the spheres are doing something systematic, but me I think it's nothing in any one system, but something much more wholistic and even more profound, an entire universe (one song) becoming aware, not of itself as a thing, but God realized, and if that weren't strange enough, solipsistically, at least from our perspective as the human being, it seems to begin and end here, by God's own insistence that the God-Man experience be included, even as the prized pearl in the gate or the very central jewel in His crown of glory, and so we as creatures, we really are something very special, but only when we ourselves come to realize that we're nothing of ourselves and everything to God who IS the everything already always, now (or increasingly) aware of himself through us, his children made in his very image (consciousness).
So that we can laugh again in a pure way and in an authentic way, so that the indignity of the injustice of life cannot stifle our joy, our laughter and our love, and when I say "our" I mean yours' and mine, AND God's!
Originally posted by punctual
Who is to say that superdeterminism is out of the question? perhaps we are like animals in cages whose free will only extends as far out as the cage allows. So while we perceive free will in this reality, we fail to consider the possibility that that free will only works locally.....so while we can do whatever we want while in the cage (i.e. exercise free will), there is something greater (predestiny?) moving the cage itself along a path which we do not have control over.
In any case, you dismissed superdeterminism as a possibility probably because you do percieve your life as one with many different choices....but could not such choices just be localized to your "cage"...
just playing devil's advocate here...
Originally posted by Abovo
Originally posted by awake_and_aware
[...] Please don't compare faith to science, suggesting that it is a valid tool for discovering the "truth".
There is an interesting theory which suggest that FAITH could, potentially, be the greatest problem solving tool known to man, indirectly that is? It is based on the idea that thought or the phenomena of consciousness modifies our genetic code or DNA. I'm no expert in this particular field but the idea is that the deliberate act of faith allows the genes associated with intelligence to increase in capacity; capability.
It can reasoned that a beings capacity for intelligence is analogous to infinite potential energy. However, how does one unlock this hidden, intelligence, potential? If thought; consciousness, hypothetically, is the active principle in DNA modification, then FAITH which is belief in something which can't be tangibly manipulated or scientifically proven could act as a catalyst for the expansion of an individuals capacity for intelligence since the 'object' of faith represents an unknown, undefinable, idea. The intelligence of a person must expand in an effort to solve or define; delineate this unknown?
This is the theory anyhow. Of course, the mechanism whereby this 'growth in capacity' occurs is much more complex, this is the simple idea behind it.
Regards
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
This idea is of such great potential import, and interest to me, that I'm going to include your post here in my Alchemy Thread in Health and Wellness.
I also think that the "key" to unlocking that potential resides in an Alchemical perspective towards the human being, but framed within the context of a "monistic idealism" (consciousness, not matter is primary) such that the free self, the liberated, creative self, the happy person, resides precisely prior to any distinction or impression and then via a sharp and instantaneous quantum leap (recognition), not of faith, but of gnosis (knowing) born of the capacity to allow one's conception of self and everything else, to dissolve in the "crucible of the Absolute" (to use an alchemical metaphor) - poof, we've been re-cognized by the consciousness of consciousness, the point of leverage or the "towrope" to a higher order of being and awareness, what might be called a trans or supra-rationalism, which is not divorced from either reason, or logic, and this then is what migth be called the "logos" or the spirit of truth ie: infinite intelligence, and in theory anyway - infinite bliss!
Originally posted by Abovo
reply to post by NewAgeMan
Glad to be of service.
Sat-cit-ānanda
Seen that, but had to go look it up on Wikipedia
truth, consciousness, and bliss
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by AllIsOne
reply to post by NewAgeMan
I humbly suggest that we have not even grasped 1% of how reality "works". QM is just a theory.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
"God cannot be explained, He cannot be argued about, He cannot be theorized, nor can He be discussed and understood. God can only be lived...
To understand the infinite, eternal Reality is not the GOAL of individualized beigns in the Illusion of Creation, because the Reality can never be understood; it is to be realized by conscious experience.
Therefore, the GOAL is to realize the Reality and attain the "I am God" (of God) state in human form."
~ Meher Baba, "God Speaks" (bracketed "of God" statement added by me)
"And as my father hath sent me, even so send I you."
~ Jesus of Nazareth
For additional context I was replying to you comment
reply to post by sinohptik
And the frame of reference I was referring to (again from Meher Baba) was that what we think of as some thing, even a system, including the whole of creation, while it resides seemingly almost in total, in a realm of an unknown uknown or what we do not not (cannot?) know, and don't even know we don't know, CAN be known when we examine the human being in the creation as something made, beginning with the end in mind, to become God-conscious or God realized, although any such realization can only occur from a POV which is transcendant of any personally held POV, in our case, not that of any "thing" what-soever, even ourselves as a thing or a process or as a "created being", but instead, the everything already always and forever, from which the original nothing, was creative of something, or a finite and discreet nothing expanding ad infinitum as the creation or what Baba would describe as a great big nothing, although still nothing at all - the point here being that God became LOST to his true indentity as originally intended in and through us as evolved consciousness made by consciousness for consciousness to contain consciousness (there being in truth, nothing else) by man's own interpretation of himself as exclusively resident WITHIN that creation as some type of thing, process or system within ever larger systems, lost to himself (eternal infinite everything everywhere always self) having been identified AS his creation or as being part of it via all manner of pointing (particular points of view).
But, as the pointless everything already always - as the impressionless, pointless, mindless awareness of nothing as nothing (including the self) in particular, a mere nothing or "nothing special" as Buddha called it, well then the nothing is then recognized within the framework of the everything everywhere already always now and forever - when the human being allows himself to be lost in God (die to self, die for God) and in so doing be re-discovered by God (Conscious of being Conscious) in eternity, relative to whom the whole breadth of nothing becomes re-cognized or re-absorbed in the Everything Everywhere or God consciousness of himself in the human being.
In the fullness of the eternity of cosmic evolution, man might be described as the new kid on the block so to speak, whereby the fully evolved human being is a relatively new phenomenon. Thus being last, he is first.
Man in truth is God, but there's no particularization of any seperate self in that, or at the very least the Man-God part of God, as intended and created to contain and to realize in the fullness of time and history.
Meher Baba states that this Man-God state means everything and any amount of suffering over the course of any amount of lifetimes, or even evolutionary cycles throughout the entire kingdom of evolutionary progression, in other words that this moment of re-cognition by the human being who dies for God, is what it's all for, and the reason it all happened in the first place, the neccessity of creation, that God would never be lost to himself, and instead would become ever more fully informed, and ever more conscious.
So while everything's changed, only one thing has not stayed the same!
By pointing and losing ourselves in the creation, God remains alseep in man, and not aware of himself as God, that's all I was getting at.
reply to post by DaRAGE
How is that free will? It seems like one great illusion of free will to me. And you do not know how depressed this has made me.