The Importance of What You Believe Posted in: Divine Expression, The Role-play Game, The Self Divine

I suggest that the importance of what you believe to be real and true is best measured not so much by how close it is to reality, but more by how much it contributes to the setting of the stage upon which you play out the adventure of your life. I suggest our beliefs are a major force in creating context for the theatrical performance that is life. …

Against My Will or Role Play? Posted in: Aggressor-Victim, The Self Divine

If we are divine beings/of-god, engineering situations in this world that enable us to experience the tastes we are after, for me that status would seem at odds with anything ever happening against our will. After all, the very notion of expression of divinity, be it collectively or individually, suggests that we are always willing and eager participants.

Yet what about the aggressor/victim scenario? …

Flies in the Face of our Divinity Posted in: Divinity, Freedom From Judgement, The Self Divine

I propose we are divine, part of God, or in other words, we are ‘of God’. And because we are not anything but God, in that sense we ARE God. And that we are also NOT God does not change that we ARE.

That being the case, I suggest that judgement of wrong or right/good or bad/punishment or reward flies in the face of our divinity. …

Imagine Religion Without Judgementalism Posted in: Divine Expression, The Self Divine, What are we doing here?

… there would be no prescription/judgement of

wrong or right
what we should or must do
the goal of life
the lessons to be learned

… scary or liberating?

I propose that whatever way we choose to express our divinity, that always perfectly fulfills our purpose.

… crazy or profound?

Let me put it another way. It is the choosing more than what we choose that expresses our divinity. …

One; Different; One and Different Together Posted in: Divinity, One And Different, The Self Divine

One

If I think I am God … then, looking at my experience of life and the world around me, I might question Why am I doing this to myself? … How does it serve me? … etc.

Different

If I think I am not God … then my questioning might be more along the lines of Why is God doing this to me? …

There is No Should Posted in: Belief and Truth, The Self Divine

Imagine no religion … or a religion where there is no presumption of a single ultimate goal.

There would be:

No context for judgement of good and bad.
No context for judgement of sin or piety.
No context for judgement of right and wrong, and in fact all the choices we make would be simply regarded as manifestations of our of divinity, regardless of level of self-awareness.

Always Perfect Posted in: Divinity, Perfection in Seeming Imperfection, The Self Divine

I propose that we are always perfect. Perfect and prefectly situated. Seeming imperfection is always the result of erroneous assumption as to who we are and what we are about. After all we are part of God. We are God in that sense. So how could it be otherwise?

Consider for a moment the case of Dorothy, the sweet and innocent young girl who gets lost in a storm, survives miraculously … only to be pursued by a nightmarish green skinned woman and an army of flying monkeys … wait a minute, isn’t that a film? …

It is not so much that God is getting something that He wants … Posted in: Divinity, One And Different, The Self Divine

It is not so much that God is getting something that He wants from what is going on here in the material world, but more that He is simply manifesting something He is: the Supreme Enjoyer. His supreme enjoyment includes ‘enjoyment’ of the myriad of pleasures, including those ghastly and horrific, facilitated by self-ignorance in the material world. Without them His enjoyment would not be complete! …

Life is a Good Read Posted in: Belief and Truth, Divine Expression, The Role-play Game, The Self Divine

We all enjoy reading a good book. A book with a well-conceived plot, rounded characters that we can relate to and empathise with, an eventual triumph againts all odds of the protagonist, and so on. And with a good book we get to enjoy a huge range of emotions from the comfort and safety of our living room. And those emotions can seem every bit as instense and vital as their real-life counterparts. …

The Who and Why Posted in: The Self Divine, What are we doing here?

Who are you, and why?

Typical answers to this question might include:

I am a human being
I am a man/woman
I am a « name of your profession here »
I am a soul
I am a soul in a human body

A Hare Krishna answer would probably be I am servant of the servant of the servant … I know because I was one! …