Yes. It has been a very long while since I have posted on this blog. Many things have been happening in my life. Some that have not been for the best and many more experiences that have shaped me into a much better person. Regardless, I have grown and gained and now I wish to share some of what I have learned in hopes that a reader may be inspired just as much. So here goes.
In most of my past entries on this blog, I have written about Man's Divine Potential and similar topics and that is not about to change with this post. But now, there is further work (at least for me) than simply contemplating a higher ideal. Much more. For many, there is knowledge of a life that can be lived in power, liberty and grace; and yet this often clashes with what most see in the world around us. Many people will say that how can humanity be godly with so much discord, strife and just plain evil in the world? How can there possibly be a divine man amidst the ignorance, hatred and fallibility of so many societies in our world? How could I possibly know that I am an heir of God Herself, and yet fall so short of such a lofty ambition? And so on and so forth.
While I hate to make generalizations, there is so much "evidence" claiming a world such as ours to be wicked, base and all around false. We see corrupt governments, wars taking masses of lives, religious movements (such as the Westboro Baptist Church) claiming God's hatred and judgment of humanity, terrorism, institutions fighting to rob minorities of their civil rights, mass pollution of our planet and even such a horror as the shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Given such calamities, it is easy to see how so many people lose sight of the holy (the whole) in such a broken and fragmented world.
In my own seeking, I have come across a similar issue. As my own spiritual experiences grace me with further power over my own life, it causes me to wonder just how far I can go towards goodness while still manifesting my selfish dreams for myself in the world around me.
The simple answer to this problem is very simple however (and I have experienced it personally). The higher up the seeker travels towards God Realization, the less the machinations of human greed, hatred, fear and "evil" affect her. After a certain while, the seeker realizes that she truly is one with the four great powers of the Godhead: Omnipotence (All Power), Omniscience (All Intelligence), Omnipresence (All Life), and Omni-benevolence (All Goodness).
In other words, as the seeker becomes one in her divine potential, it no longer becomes mere potential, it becomes the basis of her identity. She is one in Deification. She is so intune with her highest self that she has the power to create anything in her life, access to all the knowledge she could possibly desire, life eternal and a consciousness that transcends the very earth, and most importantly she has a heart overflowing with love, mercy, joy and peace, and cannot possibly consider doing anything that would cause harm to anyone or anything. She lives solely in Bliss and from such a height, the world literally bends over backwards for her. She is no longer affected by the world and she is no longer attached to what the world may bring her.
But what does this have to do with dealing with a hopeless world? Everything!
As one becomes God Realized, they realize just how much of the world around them is vanity and illusion. The problems we face on a daily basis mean absolutely nothing. Our feuds with our neighbors, our grudges with murderers, our hurts and jealousies, our selfish desires for riches and fame, and even our need to prove our point in the face of bigotry and injustice all mean nothing. It was all illusion. This world truly is the matrix blinding us from reality (just like that strange science fiction trilogy).
But does this mean that our skyscrapers and cities, our forests and lakes and mountains, and even the love we have for our spouses, our children and our companions are illusions too? Does this mean we become contempt towards our world and hate all within it because they do not see the light we see from our lofty seats of consciousness? Absolutely not either.
The planet we live on is real. The people you meet in your life are real. The connections we make in the world are real. The wisdom we gain is real. Our growth towards our divine potential. That is all real. What is not real is everything in between. Our projected hopes, fears, attachments, desires and hatreds are not real. They are machinations of our rational natures (or Egos, if you enjoy that term) trying to make sense of everything we experience in the world. And yes, that can have the negative consequence of categorizing many things foreign to us as creations of a Satanic force.
In a moment of prayer once, I asked to the heavens: How can an omnipotent and omni-benevolent god allow so many injustices and perceived evils to exist? The answer was very blunt but also very true.
My answer was: Because People Are Stupid. Or a less demeaning way of saying the same thing: Because people can be fallible. And looking it over: It is so true.
Every minute of every day, we have choices. Do we choose to live in the joy that is our birthright? Do we choose to live a life in which we love those who do us wrong? Do we choose to hate the things we fear or do not understand? Do we choose to grow in knowledge and understanding? Do we choose to seek revenge for wrongs against us? Do we advocate justice? The list goes on and on.
The point is that we can choose to live in a world where we see miracles or we can choose to see despair at every corner. We can choose to grow godward and become a saint to others or we can descend further into our mortality and look for ways to prove just how right we are and how wrong someone else is.
We can live as God Realized beings and create a world of pure goodness. We don't have to live in the consciousness of seeking an anti-christ.
And guess what? Even though most do not condone the shootings in Colorado nor the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church does not mean that we must live in a frame of mind in which we seek revenge nor does that mean we just ignore it either. The young man responsible for the Aurora massacre was never going to find his heart's desire in performing that act nor will petitioning for the death of that young man heal the hearts of those who lost their loved ones that fateful morning.
Part of rising up against evil is not to debase yourself against a wrong doer. It is to rise above such actions and realize that the so called evils we see are just as illusory as our own feelings of revenge for those who commit those errors.
LVX Amor!
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