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Thu 4 Mar, 2010 07:01 am
Who are we really in the now?
The essential complete you, or your whole real essence, is a field of awareness that interacts with its own self (Soul) and then becomes both mind/brain and body. In other words, you are consciousness or spirit, which then conceives, constructs, governs, and becomes the mind/brain and the body. The real you are inseparable from the patterns of intelligence that permeate every fiber of creation.
At the deepest level of existence, you are an infinite eternal Being, and you are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. There is no other "you" than the entire cosmos. The God + cosmic mind create the physical universe, and the personal mind/brain (Soul) experiences the physical universe. But in truth, the cosmic mind and our personal mind are both permeated by "God the Infinite Consciousness". "God the Infinite Consciousness" is our source, and all manifestation is inherent within it.
"God the Infinite Consciousness" observing itself creates the notion of observer, or the soul; the process of observation, or the mind; and that which is observed, or the body and the world.
The observer and the observed create relationships between themselves; this is space. The movement of these relationships creates events; this is time. But all these are none other than the "God the Infinite Consciousness" itself.
In other words, we are "God the Infinite Consciousness" with a "localized point of view" An aspect or facet of the great reality we call God. And yet our whole system of thought divides the "Great Observer God" from the observed us; it divides the "God the Infinite Consciousness" into a world of objects separated by space and time.
The "the intellect of the brain" imprisons us momentararly in a cage of fictitious images, a web of space, time, and causation. As a result, we lose touch with the true nature of our reality, which is powerful, boundless, immortal, and free.
The intellect of the brain". Mistakes the image of reality for reality itself. It squeezes the soul into the volume of a body, in the span of a lifetime, and now the spell of mortality is cast. The image of the self overshadows the unbounded Self, and we feel cut off or disconnected from "God the Infinite Consciousness", our source.
The real you is a non-material soul and therefore not subject to the limitations of space, time, matter, and causation. The soul, the spirit, the essential you, is beyond all that. In this very moment, you are surrounded by a pure consciousness. Pure consciousness illuminates and animates your mind and body, and it is powerful, nourishing, invincible, unbounded, and free. Pure consciousness, "God the Infinite
Eternal Spirit", animates and sustains everything in existence, which means it is omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (present in all locations simultaneously), and omnipotent (all powerful). "And when we learn and grow and evolve into understanding we shall be all those things also, indeed co- creators with God.
@Alan McDougall,
Alan McDougall;135869 wrote:
Who are we really in the now?
The "the intellect of the brain" imprisons us momentararly in a cage of fictitious images, a web of space, time, and causation. As a result, we lose touch with the true nature of our reality, which is powerful, boundless, immortal, and free.
I think this relates to the practice taught by Meister Eckhart where a person sits and asks: who am I? Then an answer comes to you and you let it go and ask again: who am I?
@Alan McDougall,
Who
aren't I? What
isn't me? We all know the blurry practical answer, but what is the philosophical answer....assuming one differentiates....
@Alan McDougall,
Such a ultimate focus to the elements which defines yourself are not in fact usefull in any way. They are here just to satisfy you.
Because once you start to think about life and any stimulative factors which made people to be "good" or "bad", why should be so important the way which makes you to think about them?
@Alan McDougall,
There is no real me...Human beings conceive of themselves spiritually, and are infinites, and reality, that is to say: Being, is something we are always in pursuit of and never in possession of...
@Alan McDougall,
We often pretend to be more or less than we are, something else, more exotic ..what the others desire. We reward ourselfs with little lies to others and ourselfs.
Sometimes the facade demands we are humble, but facade sometimes crackles and another person breaks trough ..the question is then, if this new personah who breaks trough only reveal itself less than 20% of the time, then the 80% is the true self?
..or is it when we relax and facade will fade that is the true self?
OR! When we get stressed to the point that we gets tempted to take a shortcut? Or in the moment of need that we sacrifice ourselfs?
Yes, we all may have high ideas of what we are, but only a pressed situation will reveal it, not our imagination that will blind us.
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