The Challenge of One

The Challenge of One

The Great Taboo

The third greatest taboo in civilization is God. Society has successfully contained the Creator within religion, to help humans deal with His Reality. Each religion has their own flavor of God. If a society is not predisposed to the spiritual, science, the most junior of worldviews, describes reality as unconscious outside of the human brain. It is only molecules and energy, understood through the language of mathematics.

For the most part, God is an add-on to our pre-existing life. He supports our endeavors to lead a good life within the dominant culture. Some may live in a theocracy, where one religion's brand of God dominates, but God is still culture-bound to govern people.

To truly come to know God, one has to leave one's traditions, culture, and even worldview. God is a cosmological problem for human societies. God is natural. Civilization has evolved from the natural. It is fundamentally artificial, a product of the creative thinking that has lead humans away from Nature.

Then there is the problem of defining the nature of God. Some know that He has a specific consciousness. Others a non-specific consciousness. Others still realize that He is both, which opens the question of 'who am I' in relation to a Creator that is All, with His own specific consciousness. But if an individual is a part of God, then what is the nature of our specific consciousness. Let alone our relationship to All of Creation and to God's consciousness specifically. How does it all work, and how do we fit into the great scheme of things?

This creates concern about domination by an unseen authority over our lives. Then, interpretation of His influence on events is difficult to distinguish, which leaves us hanging further, wondering if we are in control for our safety. Our experience from history is that authority is threatening, and domination is bad. It leaves a bad taste in our mouth before even considering God. It is hard to trust anything in the reality we've created.

All of this, even before we consider our relationship to the reality we live in. Some know of Creation as molecules and energy. Others as a marvelous biological system of tactile life, like our own. While those who retain the Original Wisdom understand Creation as a multitude of consciousnesses, spirits, Created by God. The one thing God cannot do is Create inert matter. Everything is conscious, because it is Created. If it exists, then it is Created, with aspects of the Creator's consciousness within, the Truth of His nature.

So there is God with specific/non-specific consciousness, that contains infinite numbers of conscious spirits, Creation, that live on a plane that mortal humans are quickly losing the ability to perceive. Throw in the Will of God, and the mind starts to reel from being split between the reality we operate in, the physical/solid, and the invisible consciousness that includes our thoughts.

All these considerations have been taken up by religions, situated in cities, away from contact with non-human life, Nature. Modern humans have 'evolved' beyond contact with non-human life, content with just humans within their own imaginative creation, the artificial environment and survival system that supports modern life in the suburbs. Within an isolated, exclusively human, artificial environment, individuals must ponder God, Who is natural.

How does someone begin to contemplate, let alone re-awaken and live within One with such a profound foundation in the modern?

As products of a logical, scientifically based thinking, we divide everything up into small bits and then re-arrange reality to our liking. Modern people are not conditioned to accept something as 'whole.' We like to be in control, and breaking down what is whole is second nature. But God is Whole. Accepting God from this starting point makes it difficult to step into the future, where all religions and spiritualities are asked to contribute to humanity becoming One with God, the Earth and Creation that was always known, but we forgot.

Throw into the mix that God can only truly be understood through the heart, not the brain, and most people would go cross-eyed in their minds. Consciousness through the heart? It is only a blood pump and a metaphor for emotions. Society as a whole has lost the ability to perceive where its connection with All is found. The true heart has gone silent from the deafening strength of the modern mind, as God fades from modern public view, a few generations after most humans left their contact with natural life with the Land and entered modern cities.

The journey to God, suffice it to say, cannot be done exclusively through the mind, but must begin and be sensitive to the heart first, to give the mind direction in forming its meaning. Modern humans have enough problems controlling their lives, emotions and thoughts without adding something new. And to the religious, deeply immersed in the mind's considerations within its traditions, exploring God and Creation outside of religion's traditions is a scary thing. There is little foundation within society's institutions to promote an easy transition to the reality of God, Creation and humans as One.

Fortunately, for those who choose this path to the future, God only requires love and faith, and He will take you on the journey, as mankind transforms from civilization, 12,000 years of mind-and-knowledge culture, to re-discover the Original Wisdom that was always known, and is to Become.

An open heart eases the path to an open mind. An open mind comes from an open heart. An open heart means all things are possible. We are asleep as long as the true heart sleeps.

"Tell them, I AM ALL."