Tuesday, October 13, 2009
God?
Does this mean that us Atheists are not as included in the Oneness as those with God fantasies? Personally I would rather believe in Santa Claus, he has a believable location and no natural disasters are attributed to him. The Jolly Old Guy seems like a better choice than the big bad guy in the sky. Your exercises lead to Enlightenment which contains within it a realization or certainty of connectedness ... It stands on it's own merit. If you need fairy tails, please indulge ... but it will seem silly to those who don't.
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Our shared universal experience of the well-springs of life passion and love manifesting in our bodyheartmindspirit IS our oneness. The Book of Exodus references this as Eheyeh asher Eheyeh (YHWH). Others reference this in many other ways as well including the word G!D. The reality beyond the word is what counts since the reality and our relationship with this reality (or lack of relationship) is what ultimately counts. And yes sometimes the way we use names and labels can help us to enter into that reality and in other situations we may use names and labels as a distracting fantasy to distract us from the same truth. And just to be clear that can apply to the word "atheist" as well as to the word "God".
ReplyDeleteI am confused by your post. Are you giving feedback that says that the exercises exclude atheists and indulge fairy tales of God? God being another name for the Divine, the Spark, the Mystery, the All That Is, the Universe, the I AM.
ReplyDeleteWould love to understand your experience more!
Oh, and everyone and everything is included in the Oneness...names or no names.
ReplyDeleteI would be curious to hear more about what's behind your response on a personal level.
ReplyDeleteIn doing the practices, which to me are simply a mirror, my response to them shows me the ways that I hold myself in separation. Given that I have had, at least in relationship to your post, different responses than you, it seems like a powerful opportunity to see how your response is about you, rather than about the practices themselves (or what they might seem to be inferring).
As I haven't gotten any sense of feeling "not as included," or of a "big bad guy in the sky" or of "silly fairy tales" through reading the practices, I wonder why that's showing up for you?
I am a border line Oneness drop out, because I am an agnostic. The repeated references to 'God' and 'Jesus,' are offensive to me.
ReplyDeleteThere is a message of Oneness that does not HAVE TO include this mythology!
I am not the Lone Ranger, so what's your plan for not continuing to offend us?