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Re: creation


Message written by

Craig
August 22, 2011 at 09:52:13:

In Reply to
creation
posted by
kim marine
August 10, 2011 at 09:52:58:

 
Hi Kim,

You wrote, "God is not a spirit, but He created light so that we could in turn create a reality in which we will learn lessons."

Yes, God is not a spirit because a "spirit" exists, in the sense we believe the physical realm "exists." Take the "He" out of your descriptions of the Higher Power. Use Source, Higher Power, or other word or phrase that doesn't suggest that the Source is either humanlike, exists in a physical sense, or is separate from anything that does exist. The source is the creative power from which springs what we see as existence, and our consciousness. We have a difficult, perhaps impossible, time understanding a creative force as not having a personality or personhood. We assign human emotions to the Source, envision the Source as thinking and feeling, and appeal to the Source as though this were a person listening. Instead, we need to focus on the outworking of the source. That's what we can sense and understand.

As Amit Goswami said, "There is nothing but God." Our consciousness, the physical universe, the other planes of eternal life, all are what might be called the mind of God.

You wrote, "We create our bodies out of light and they are an illusion."

The "we create" will tie you in knots. It's better to suggest that "humankind has created." Over millennia, humankind's thoughts, sentiments, and actions have resulted in the realm we're living in now. And today, we participate in creating that realm, but we can't undo or recreate what millennia of humankind have already created through thinking, feeling, and action. It is stable, meaning we can see how it evolved from who humankind has been, and someone from another contintent could visit our city and see and experience the same thing we do and others will do. We don't "create" in the sense of making a hot fudge sundae appear. We as part of humankind are the consciousness that participates in giving a history, a physicality, and a stability to the physical realm. But we do it because of whom we are, not because of what we intentionally want to create. If humankind were loving and compassionate, there would be less or no evil, disease, and suffering. Humankind is violent, self-absorbed, insensitive, and ignorant about spirituality. So the environment, the Earth, has disfigured things such as disease and suffering. We create the world, but in concert with everyone else and all the previoius generations.

And we do create our own lives within this universe humankind as created. We can be happy or miserable. We can make others happy or miserable. We do that ourselves. We create reality in that sense by what we do and whom we are.

You asked, "But, is our life an illusion, or a real part of God?"

"Real" is relative. Is a thought real? What is real is experience. That's all we know, but it's central to our incarnation. We have experiences. They're real. The rest is just the stage on which we have experiences. It is constantly changing. The world of today is entirely different from the world of 1,000 years ago. Does that mean that world wasn't real? Or that this world isn't real? Both are just scenery. What's real is our experiences. And from them, our eternal selves grow and become. We are real. The world is scenery.

You wrote, "Then I thought I must do everything "just right" in order to please God, but I am having a totally different experience now that i am conscious."

Yes, you have changed and grown. But you are you, and you will always be, although you will become. Meantime, the world you lied in when you were not conscious no longer "exists." It went away. It was just scenery for the drama that is your life. You remain, and you are eternal.

Love and peace, Craig

 



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