Pardon Our Mess

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Bane of Language

We greatly mistake our ability to manipulate symbols (human language) as the most telling sign of our intelligence.But what if it is our sickness instead? Perhaps words, symbols and language are the bane of mankind, not a boon at all! Many have said so before, but I don't think we really understand how much harm language could be causing. All life on Earth is at stake.

Can We?

Who am I? I am you, right now, reading these words written by someone you think is not you, but is. I know exactly what you are thinking this moment; And exactly what you are feeling. You are the one who wrote these words after all. If you think not, then you and I - we - are yet deceived. Eternity and infinity are one and the same. You cannot be eternal unless you are also infinite. A pure heart can see this plainly. Can you? Can we?

Intuition vs. Gut Instinct

There are those who say that intuition is overrated. But maybe it is not intuition that they are knocking. We also have a thing called “gut instinct” that is not the same as intuition. Our gut instinct comes from hardwired instincts. It tells us when to be afraid (often when there is nothing to be afraid of), as well as when to get aroused (even very young children will respond to adult sexual cues by becoming physically aroused, that is, by getting an erection, which is the cause of much confusion for both the adults and children who encounter this reaction). Clearly, gut reaction is not always rational. Our intuition can actually warn us when our gut reaction is inappropriate. For example, we intuitively know that a child's sexual response to adult sexual behavior, or an adults sexual arousal to a child's sexual qualities, is not an indication that adults should have sex with children. But because of our society's propensity for ignoring intuitive insight, many adults use their gut reaction to children (sexual arousal) to rationalize seeking out sexual relations with immature juveniles. This would be an example of how ignoring intuition can get us into a lot of trouble. But, it is only an example, not a model of intuitive deviancy. Gut instinct is more of a feeling, or emotional response, which explains why it is often called “gut feeling”. But intuition by contrast, is a kind of “inner voice”. Intuition can often invoke emotional responses, which are then mistaken for gut reactions. But intuition itself is not a feeling at all. It is important to be able to distinguish our “gut feelings” from intuition if we are to benefit at all from the later. Perhaps realizing that the only reason we end up confusing gut feeling with intuition is primarily because we have been conditioned to ignore intuition from a very young age. And ignoring our intuition requires constant effort, and hense energy expense. This makes it possible to “reverse engineer” the intellectual structures that we have installed inside our mind in order to block out our intuitive voice. We have only to focus on where our intellectual energy is going when we are at rest. This is something that happens, intuitively, when we meditate, thus leading to many personal “insights”. Of course, when I say, “inner voice”, I am not talking about psychotic voices in our head. However, I believe, based on personal and intimate experience with such “psychos”, that such voices are often intuition trying desperately to be heard. But, this psychotic voices are filtered through the speech centers of the brain, and hense lose nearly all of their intuitive power. Human language, as I have explained in other blog posts, is not suited for conveying intuition. So what intuition actually “sounds” like is not something anyone can tell you. But, I can tell you that intuition is not a gut feeling, or psychotic voice. I call it an “inner voice”, but even that description is desperately lacking. You must come to know intuition first hand. It is the only way.

Pride and Shame

Pride and shame, shame and pride; where one takes root, the other will hide.

Pure Language?

Why would a genuinely intelligent entity need to manipulate symbols? Even our most precise languages, of math and science, inevitably fail to truly represent the things they purport. They are, after all, only symbols, not the things themselves. I think that a truly intelligent being would understand, manipulate and communicate via reality itself, and not bother with symbols at all.

Praise All-ah

I have said that I am God. But, after thinking about it some more (oops), I have decided that I am not God. To claim that I am God implies that I am singular, because the pronoun "I" is singular. But, in the sense that the term "God" is commonly used, it cannot be singular. "God" implies a separate (more powerful) being from the one using the term. And, if there are separate beings then there is more than one. So, in bowing to the convention of language I must capitulate my assertion that I am God, and admit that I am not. But, WE are! In every sense of the term "God" that I have just expounded on, WE are God! No, we are not gods. That would mean that each one of us as an individual is God. We are not God as individuals, WE are only God when WE are taken together as One. God is a WE, not a He or a She. WE created the Universe, WE are all powerful, WE are all knowing and all present. But, only in the sense that WE are connected as One, never in the sense that we are individuals, or in any way separated from each other. So, to experience God (i.e. enlightenment) is to recognize and embrace this connection with all other people, and things! In fact, in the truest sense, WE are not God either. Everything is! So, perhaps we should just say, All is God, and leave it at that. Praise All-Ah!

Letting Go

“Let go; let God!” I have steared clear of these words in the past because they are badly tainted with Christian ideas of God. But, if you realize that God is no more, and certainly no less, than the unfathomable intelligence behind all that we experience (a.k.a. The Universe), then letting go, and letting God, becomes the very key that unlocks the door inside of us that opens to all of infinity. Heaven, salvation, bliss, ultimate truth, real power, true love, Nirvana and of course enlightenment are all references to what lies beyond that door. So why shouldn't we take this advice seriously? It is the key to our happiness, and to discovering and attaining our deepest need of all; the need to be (to know that we exist). You might think you already know that you exist, and no doubt on an intellectual level this knowledge seems plain to you. But if you still struggle against the illusion of death then it can only be because you have not yet accepted the knowledge of your existence in your heart. This is the well known “hole” inside of us that we perpetually and vainly seek to fill with all the delusional trappings of our experiental reality. We try to fill this hole with not just money, sex, drugs and power, but also with many other “fake gods”, such as righteousness, family values, and so-called morals. But ultimately what we attempt to do in all these cases is to establish our presence by exerting some form of control over our experience. It does not matter if the control we project is good or bad, just so long as it is control, and hense, evidence of our existence. But the truth that snaps at our heals and constantly threatens to rob us of our hard earned sense of existence (and purpose) is that nothing we do will last forever. In fact, the greatest influence possible by any one human (say, for example, a Christ, or Buddha) is clearly limited to several thousand years, perhaps tens of thousands at most. But even if one man could make a mark on the universe that lasted for over a billion years, when the mark is gone, so is all evidence that such a man ever existed. We can deny the inevitable erasure of such evidence in innumerable ways, and most religions focus almost all of their energy on exactly that. By imagining that what we do in this life will effect how we spend eternity is one way that religion attempts to dupe us into thinking we can escape that ultimate truth that seems to want nothing more than to destroy everything we have (our memories of our experiences). Yet, what we don't realize is that no finite experience will ever “live forever”. The very definition of finite demands that it has an end as well as beginning. Only something infinite, without end or beginning, can “live forever”. And that “something” exists inside of us, and all around us at the same time (anything infinite in time must also be infinite in space, since we know that space and time are all one and the same these days). It is the source of all finite experience, and whether we identify with it or not, it is ultimately who we are! But, we can't identify with our infinite selves if we turn to finite reality (and reason) for answers. This should be obvious, but for some reason such a self evident truth commonly elludes the most adamant soul searchers. Probably because the illusion of reality is so convincing. Yet, if it were not convincing then what would be the point? Seeking control, and hense confirmation of our existence (sometimes perceived as “love”) through finite experience is grasping the “golden sand” that can only seep through our fingers like in Poe's famous poem (A Dream Within A Dream). The only way to realize our true power (i.e. The Love of God) is to stop grasping at something that simple observation will tell us doesn't even exist! It seeps through our fingers no matter how tightly we clasp it, because it is only an illusion. We must let go of the illusion, or what Poe calls a dream within a dream, in order to realize the one true experience; which is who we are. That does not mean grabbing ahold of anything, or exchanging one idea of God for some other. It means letting go completely, just letting go, nothing else. Letting go is how we wake up from reality.