It is close to mid-day and it is only 56F. There is a brisk breeze from the West. I can feel Autumn taking hold and the anticipation of Winter. {I shouldn't think like that} The first hard frost isn't far off; perhaps this week.
Is there another word for, all-that-is, besides God. I hesitate to use the word God because it may make my agnostic and atheist friends cringe. So many people in our society, have been crippled, or at least wounded, by religion.
I was one of them. I was raised Catholic, attended a Catholic grade school and suffered the usual torture. I gave up religion by the time I was fourteen. I joke that I had to choose between God and masturbation. It wasn't completely a joke. It was not intellectually or morally tenable, that a person, would suffer damnation for being human.
I was always a searcher. I read volumes of philosophy, read the bible through, twice. I read the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita and anything else about theology, or an explanation of 'being', I got my hands on. It didn't shake me from my agnosticism. It did tell me a great deal how man struggled to explain his being.
It wasn't until I was over forty that I begin to let in information that would support something labeled "God". It began with my interest in spirituality. I read all the Edgar Cayce material, the Carlos Castaneda books, Alan Watts and much more. When I explored reincarnation, using hypnotism, and researched near death experiences, I knew there was more to reality than I could intellectualize. I had an experience once that indicated, "There are things so unknowable, there are no questions leading to them." I knew I couldn't embrace everything with my intellect.
I thought of myself as an atheist, at one point; but, if an atheist is a person that believes there is no God, I was probably an agnostic. If one says, they see no evidence that there is a God, that is one thing, if one says I believe there is no God, that is another. A belief, is a belief, it limits learning. It creates a demarcation; an intellectual line in the sand.
I am getting off track. I wanted to explore if there was another word I could use for God, that would not cause cringing, among those who are religious adverse.
On my search I think I have discovered that, all is energy. I think this energy has a source or at least a perpetual existence, perceiving this energy as love makes life pleasant. It appears to me that the human organism, arranges energy with its senses, and perceives according to that arrangement.
It only makes sense, if one wants to be happy, to perceive all as love. It appears that we can 'see' the energy any way we are determined to do it. If we perceive love and oneness we will 'see' [create] in one direction. If we see fear and separation we 'see' something else.
In my personal journey, I see myself as energy that is temporarily split from the whole. I think that, it is perceptual, and nothing can really be split form the whole. That is what 'Oneness' is.
Substituting Oneness for God might work. Any ideas? Maybe an answer will come to me.
I will continue this discussion another time. I have dirty dishes awaiting me and I need to have brunch.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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