Life Divine
Truth-Consciousness, God, Reality, All That Is, is really indefinable. It exceeds all definitions. We really don’t have words for it but it’s important to try.
Like it’s important to try to tell someone how much you love them. As soon as you try to describe it, you limit it. There’s a phrase Neti, neti. If you try to describe that Reality through particular properties, then your thoughts almost violate its true nature and you just arrive at another limited, divided version …but it’s important to try.
That’s a common fault of religion… it’s this but it’s not that… it endorses heterosexual but not homosexual, which, of course, describes the mind of man but not Truth-Consciousness, for Truth-Consciousness holds that all is unified and that nothing is outside of it and that includes those who are different than you and those that have hurt you. To believe that God made You and that you’re OK but Those who are different than you are somehow rejectable makes the argument that God did not make them.
Truth-Consciousness holds that opposites are not opposites but a paradox that the human cannot understand. Opposites are married to one another. Truth-Consciousness holds that it is the maker of the multiplicity, the many, and that the many are God...and yes, that includes the ones who have hurt you, stolen from you, betrayed you…and your mind can’t get this. In fact, it doesn’t even want to get this.
This need to separate, to divide, to label right and to label wrong, is one of the causes of your suffering and until that chasm, that divide is overcome, you will not know peace. For the Many are God.
Developing and training your mind to transcend this divide can require a lot of patience and strength; it requires a lot of humility to see and admit your own stupidity and mental limitations. Now, everyone else sees it and knows about it, so that can make it a little easier to admit when you realize this. They also see your talents and exquisiteness, too, so I don’t want to leave that out.
To begin to at least understand to consider what consciousness is, I invite you to develop a unified field of perception, you have to learn to see everyone and everybody, all events and situations equally and without separation and this is tough because of the mind’s need to be right.
Truth based on division, truth based on separation, on prejudice, on belief is not Truth but your personal illusions. It is the unconscious play of unreal thought. The ordinary person does see himself as a separate being, separate from others, separate from himself, separate from God.
The result is always the same: suffering.
One of the most questions that arise in this discussion is why would the All That Is do that? Why would it manifest in so many different forms much less why would it choose to manifest at all?
So, let’s consider one possibility. Let’s use another example: looking through a travel magazine, you read about the Caribbean. You look at the photos. Do you want to know or do you want to experience?
Now, imagine you have children but you have to be gone for a couple of weeks. Each day your children are on your mind; they know you love them but you’re not there. You know they love you but they’re not with you. You know it, but what do you want?
I invite you to consider that this is the game of evolution…the unfolding of the All That Is manifesting in physical form in order to experience itself…and how many ways are there to experience yourself? How many different ways are there live? There is no number, said differently, there is no beginning and there is no end…for the options are infinite and so is the vast consciousness in which all physical forms are held in balance and safety as the great labour of evolution unfolds.
So, the next suggestion, the next invitation is not hard to consider…that the Divine comes into physical form not just to experience itself but to realize itself in physical form, to divinize its physical existence...and so, you can consider its purpose is to create a divine existence, to create heaven on earth and that each form is a vessel for the becoming to occur.
But when you add the dark divisions, the unlimited stupidity, the stupid separations we exact upon ourselves and others, you can easily see why evolution, not to mention your own individual process takes so long.
No school, no religion, no philosophy, no doctrine, no therapy has been able to spiritualize mankind…so, there must be something else and I’m suggesting that that something else is consciousness.
Let me read this synopsis to you, a summary of a body of work referred to Godel’s Theorum. It was a mathematical theory with significant evolutionary applications was authored by an Austrian logician named Kurt Godel in 1931.
He made a brilliant discovery involving the translation of an ancient paradox in philosophy into mathematical terms. It had to do with a conflict between the finite and the infinite and the use of mathematical reasoning to explore mathematical reasoning itself. It stated that any mathematical system beyond a certain degree of complexity contains statements which can neither be proven true nor false.
Godel asserted that when these limits of complexity were reached, that one must, through the use of insight, go beyond the limitations of that closed axiomatic system and intuit a system of higher complexity or "Meta-system" which contains the solutions and proofs of the lower ones. The implications of "Godel's Theorum" go far beyond the world of mathematics.
When Godel asserted that "mathematical proofs are demonstrations within fixed systems of propositions", he also implied that insoluble problems which occur at one level, as a result of the fixed system of propositions at that level, can be easily solved by moving to a new, more comprehensive system in which the fixed propositions are more inclusive.
When his theory of metasystems is applied to the study of quantum physics, it describes exactly the process which the Nobel laureate, Ilya Prigogine discovered, that there are systems within systems of graduated complexity and harmony. The higher or meta-systems are characterized by different laws and principles which contain the solution to problems existing at the lower levels.
Ilya Prigogine described the movement into higher systems of harmony as being produced by the release of energy which follows the collapse of the lower ones. It is an inexorable evolutionary principle which may be observed in the periodic destruction of many political, economic and religious institutions prior to periods of great reformation.
What Godel's Theorum represents for the everyday person dealing with car repairs, getting to work on time, paying the bills, getting the kids to the dentist and trying not to get sick is understanding that your mind is not going to get you out the mess that it itself has made: negative self-talk, self-doubt, fear, insecurity, separation, anxiety, powerlessness, hopelessness, that there’s a different metasystem to which we have to aspire in order to transcend the lower level mind.
And that different system is consciousness which only involves your mind to the extent that you begin to train your mind to rise above its endless, habitual cycles of gloom and doom. The true purpose, once again, of your mind is to learn about truth, about consciousness, to organize that truth and to have the courage to live out of that truth. But the mind cannot produce that truth which existed before your existence.
If you only look below, all you’ll see is below. This path, this yoga isn’t about having a spiritual experience or meeting the Dalai Lama or having an out of body experience. It’s not about meditating on the mountain top. It’s about understanding that every step forward is going to met with resistance by your old mind, its craving for the familiar cave, its chains, its acceptance of death as a way of life.
Where you think you’re going to find peace and lightness and love and kindness, you’re going to discover the atrocities of mankind, the injustices of men, the relentless greed, the poverty of spirit, the stupidity of unconscious beings but instead of rejecting them and running from them, you begin to embrace and allow.
Evil has to be allowed because it exists in humans but it must not be accepted as a Truth. Truth is never expressed in the negative and that includes the worst of human beings.
Each step upward is met by a step downward. The more light you embrace, you more darkness you will know for this is the price of awakening, the price of enlightenment. This is spiritual realism and not a naïve, shallow “Namaste, everybody.” This is truth to know and work to do.
As Aurobindo says in his cherished work, Savitri, “The day bringer must walk in the darkest night.”
The higher the height, the deeper the foundation that is needed.
But instead of being whirled and twirled around in the unfolding of your life, you learn how to create and live from the center of your being, knowing how to organize, direct and undertake the Truth, the learning that becomes the path that you walk. There is a growing confidence of the consciousness-force within you, of the mathematical balance of light and dark that it initiates, of the inch-by-inch, day-by-day transfiguration of your being by using all of the events in your life, good and bad, particularly the bad ones as devices to reach the summit.
The transformation of the individual is the keynote of the definitive evolutionary process. the primary evolutionary necessity. To become a center of conscious self-expression of the divine in the middle of the mess, in the middle of everyday life. If the only thing you arrive at is that the object of your life is to survive, to be entertained, to practice lifelong addictions and patterns to avoid confronting the barriers that not just part of your life, but are barriers that you created in order to grow, then you will be greatly disappointed in the experience of your life. So, I invite you to consider embracing the difficulties, the setbacks, the failures as part of your evolutionary path. Put aside the notion that the pain and the suffering you encounter is meant to harm you…it is meant to awaken you. The negative conspires with the positive to produce the evolutionary path. And its purpose is to produce in physical form a divine existence…that is its objective.
Self-realization is a progressive comprehension, a slow, unnoticeable, invisible cumulative effect that eventually breaks through. So, don’t go seeking salvation or release or cures until you’ve been thoroughly beaten up, thoroughly battered and bruised…or you’ll have more work to do and the salvation won’t stick. In fact, we could take the unified property of consciousness even further by saying that you are incomplete without unifying with all others, that the One is incomplete without the Many.
So, here is a summary of some of these thoughts. Consider what they mean to you as an individual and how you can begin to see the world and your life differently:
· The family is incomplete without all members.
· Mind can only lead to a relativistic perception.
· The results of observation are always dependent upon the observer.
· Relativity is the apparent reality; absolute laws lose their validity.
· This is nature of the great illusion.
· There is no fixed point of observation in relativity.
· What this means is that perception is just that, it’s your perception but it isn’t Truth and this can be so enlightening and so comforting and so peaceful.
· For only Truth can lift the burden of human birth imprisoned in Time.
· The inseparable and endless differences, the very ones that destroy civilizations and wage genocide and justify suffering are the very ones that we as a humanity will learn to embrace, to love into submission and lead into a new world and a new consciousness.
· Not by thinking but by being and in that process, we will access a different meta-system, a different knowing and a new way of life and it all begins with you, the individual.
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