Dare to Look...

Is this a topic for discussion?

Sure. Of course. Discuss at will.

Airlight,

I do not mean to be rude but is this an attempt to discuss Buddhism or Pantheism? I am trying to discover your intent.

I'll step out there a bit. This is a question that makes you think a little. Technically we are in the image of God. Thought and creativity come first, then manifestation follow. So, we are co-creators with God and we must dare to discover that within ourselves. Although I'm not sure which direction you were taking this post, that is my final answer.

Boagie-

No offense taken and I wasn't attempting to discuss anything. I like the quote and so I posted it. If I was trying to discuss it I would placed it else where other than in the quotes. Like most quotes I left it for one to ponder and that's the intent. Discussion is fine too, of course.

It's pertinent to me and this forum as it is, to me at least, another way of looking at Russell. You have to decentrate considerably to look through your eyes as GOD gazing upon GOD or concentrate considerably. A lot of it depends on what you think GOD means to begin with but also it suggests that a mediocore approach will not accomplish this.

Russell says something to the effect of you are always walking into a mirror of yourself. He says there is only Light. So with that in mind I view GOD as all there IS and attempting to recognize that moment to moment is one of the points of Russell's work (again to me at least) - hence - Dare to look through your as GOD gazing upon GOD.

Looking through you eyes has the connotation that the observer is inside as in the Kingdom of Heaven is within. To me the quote is Russellian eventhough he apparently would never say you are GOD because you are not the idea but merely the representation, reproduction,...the image, as Justin says, and the idea is GOD and GOD alone IS.

Looking through your eyes as GOD gazing upon GOD is a tool to help one climb out of the jungle and make this realization - that GOD alone IS - The Universal One.

Hope that helps.

Love One Another-

p.s. I'm still looking for the spell check and just poking my head around to see what's here. I guess it's off to the races now...btw where is the spell check?

Bit of a Koan, and probably as effective a vehicle for expansion of consciousness as any discussion, so long as it is pondered a long, long time.

1)The idea of empathy with GOD, and how does that empathy feel?
2)Can you overcome your fear of blasphemy, to the point of the acceptance of the death of your soul itself, which probably is the fundamental fear of mankind.. Like a story out of Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" which I have been so kind as to cut and paste here for you...

If you gaze at God, as God, then (I think) you look upon I AM.
"I AM" is simple, but try to describe that in the sphere of its complete extrapolated context.

"All words are qualification and/or limitations." Joseph Campbell

Amen, Brother Boagie.