SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS

It has been foggy and rainy the last couple days. It appears wet and sodden. But in reality we have received no measurable rainfall. Jamie dug a few potatoes yesterday and the ground is still like cement.

The more I write about how we can bring paradise to Earth, it occurs to me, that the most important thing is JUST BE NICE. The last part of this blog is an answer to the comment on the last blog. I can't answer the question why and I can only surmise the how. I am not sure we can know why as long as we are in this dimension. We do not and cannot realize unconditional love while trapped in these bodies. A few people have experienced it briefly and many more have received a glimpse of it. Pure unadulterated joy and love is in our dreams and we know we will discover it.

The origin of duality seems to appear as soon as we decide to separate from Source. We then continue to choose between being one and being separate. There is much to write about duality and I will cover it in the future. I will contemplate more on the answers to the commentator's questions. Perhaps I can be clearer.

ANSWER TO THE COMMENTS

How does one answer those questions? These are probably the most fundamental questions and ones the unaided intellect cannot answer. I always wanted to understand everything intellectually. Once, while meditating, I had the words go through my mind that, "there are some things so unknowable, there are no questions leading to them." It gave me comfort. I didn't have to intellectually grasp everything. Yet we still yearn to make sense and order of our universe. We still need conclusions.

I base my conclusions on others experience gleaned through reading and my own 'aha' experiences. You know, when you are reading something and it suddenly joins with your intuition in such away that you feel an 'aha', "that sounds right". But it all begins with what Aldous Huxley called the perennial philosophy. The skeleton of this philosophy, passed down by lore and reflected in the Garden of Eden story, is that man left source {God} to experiment with creating separately. He became so enthralled with experiencing himself through his bodily senses that he gradually forgot that he was part of source. In this story, Source or God is unconditional love, free to experience itself through creation. It is viewed as the energy, the plasma, of the universe.

As we forgot who we were, and became more cemented in our idea of separateness, the idea of higher and lower and better and worse entered in. Ego was originally only an aid to self preservation. Since our bodies were fragile and we were disconnected from group mind we needed a way of protecting our selves; of warning our selves of danger. Fear was originally a self protective device; a response 'in the now' to alert the body that danger was present. With the introduction of a hierarchy of humanity, ego became invested in maintaining the status of the individual and fear became generalized and future oriented. As we became more separated, the value of individual status became more accentuated and humans became ego driven. The egos solutions are always very primitive. It was originally conceived of as a protective device, pure fight or flight. Because we have become sophisticated, we disguise from ourself, that the ego urges you to kill your opponent. Your opponent is anybody that threatens your status. Therefore, we need societal structure, laws etc. You can take this thinking to its logical conclusions.

The flight part of the ego is raw terror; fear of being killed. This fear is the source of what we call evil and fuels the darkness.

Darkness is the investment one has in his/her separateness. Our egos invite you to put all your energy into protecting our station; it is always at the level of death. As I see it "we are one" and our collective egos form the darkness that is opposed to the one.

How do you know anything beyond what our five senses tell us? I have learned a great deal from other peoples "spiritual" experiences. Folks who have dedicated their lives to meditation and learning "what is" have much to teach us. In the end we have only our own intuitive feelings to guide us.

To sum up LOVE is everything, all else is illusion.

I know this doesn't really answer why. We need to keep chiseling away at these questions until the why is manifest.

Love and Peace, Gregg