💞”who the Other is and who I am are beautiful threads in one seamless relational matrix that has been anointed since the beginning as the Word who was with God, who was God, and through whom all things were made.” 💞:
I like to borrow from what Richard Rohr says about Scripture [see below]. I have adopted it and redacted the statement to fit my beliefs. I believe that the Bible from the Hebrew Scriptures to the end of the Christian Scriptures portray on a macroscale what is always and everywhere true for the individual person.
In other words, the Bible reveals the process of human development on an individual level which is mirrored in the narrative arc of a people, the Jewish people. The Bible illustrates how we grow in holiness (wholeness) in a remarkable way because it shows how we begin our spiritual journey by seeing God “up there,” and experiencing God’s power as all powerful, sometimes jealous, sometimes wrathful, and sometimes revengeful. By the end of Christian Scriptures in the Bible, God’s very nature is revealed to us. We see a God whose power is…
This comes close to articulating what I see as THE holy grail as symbolized by the vase/ face gestalt I frequently use as my profile picture. One day I’ll have the words and art to ARTiculate it 🕊️🏆🤍
The following may be of interest to a few. It is a dialog between a fellow member of small online community for those interested in both Christianity and the Law of One.
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Friend: Doug, your summary (*see below) of Christianity and the Law of One: The Jesus Event is really good. I’m of the opinion that if an article can’t be summarized clearly and succinctly, it’s probably a hard read of fuzzy thinking. Here’s what stood out for me in the summary: “The Infinite Creator is a Trinity–a union, or “complex,”–of three aspects whose nature is imprinted in every created thing.”
I have a really hard time with “orthodox” trinitarian theology or belief, especially as expressed in the Nicene Creed. It doesn’t help that reading the history, you find that there were all kinds of interpretations and understandings by these native Greek speakers, and…
The following is from my email response where I was asked to read over a certain teacher’s spiritual stance. This teacher summarized his point of view:
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The essence is that the Buddhist way diminishes the function of the individual self which is basically something to get rid of. Buddhists phrase this in various ways and maybe not so bluntly but that is what is really entailed. However, Christ redeems the personal self from its corrupt state and transforms it into a godlike being and that is the whole purpose of creation and why there is something rather than nothing. It’s also the only way that can really bring out love. Universal compassion has meaning in Buddhism but love can’t because love requires the full reality of the individual, and that’s full reality not provisional or only real on a lower level reality. Since the Mahayana, Buddhists…
By Doug Esse The following is my response to a fellow seeker who had read my post: A Meditation for Balancing the Energy Centers as Informed by Counseling and the Law of One. He wondered if I had any thoughts about someone who may have the “other challenge,” that is, what does one do when there […]
✨🕊️favorite part of the above article🕊️✨ go and read the whole thing! Just blogging this part to remember.
LoveIs An Encounter With the Other
Among many qualities of divine Love, one thing rises above: Love is an encounter with the Other that causes such delight and joy–all the while there exists the ever undergirded gnosis that the Other is not in any way ontologically different. In other words, to experience unity from this kind of nondual perspective, there is a gnosis (lived experience) that unity is “diversity maintained and protected by Love.” That the One and the Many is a “Unity-of-Diversity” which can be enjoyed at the nondual level as an ever-present rooted and radiant intimacy.
Even if one moves into the “emptiness” of awareness (as in, “emptiness is form and form is emptiness”), it is an emptiness that is experienced nonetheless as a plenum; that the void and emptiness of pure awareness as a kind of “darkness,” is actually pure Light–just undistorted Light since infinity, itself is undifferentiated at the highest level. Yes… we are moving into conceptual thinking about things that are nonconceptual or transconceptual, and this may not help with the gnosis of intimacy.
God Is Personal, Too
So what would?
An exercise that I have asked some people who pose similar questions as you is this: What would it be like for you to do an experiment and attempt to see God as a personal being with whom you can dialog and form a relationship? Yes, the Infinite Source is Energy, and Awareness, and all of that. And yes, the Infinite Source transcends manifestation and is beyond the illusion of form. But what about Ra’s notion that the Infinite Source, which is Intelligent Infinity, desired to experience Itself through creation?
Indeed, the phenomenon of “relationship” is itself a nature and function of Love and is through relationship, the Law of Three (with its affirming force, denying force, and reconciling force) provides the thrust for the evolution of God. Said differently, the way the Creator experiences Itself through creation is through the engine or action of the Law of Three. And in order for the Law of Three to be the primary mechanism behind evolution, relationality has to exist. And in order for relationality to exist, Love has to exist. And in order for Love to exist, there has to be a subtle “I-Thou” quality– or put in another way, “Not One or Two, but both One and Two.” So, seeing the Creator or Reality as a Divine Person is just as valid and real as understanding that there is no Godhead but only nondual, undifferentiated awareness.
The enjoyment of a truly robust nondual awareness (esp here in 3rd density Earth) is to not be attached to either framework but to enjoy either one at will… or even better, to hold both of them together as true without needing to favor one over the other: God is both impersonal pure awareness and incredibly personal who cares about you, specifically. Ra says something similar here: 53.9 “…We may note that in a universe of unending unity the concept of a “close encounter” is humorous, for are not all encounters of a nature of self with self? Therefore, how can any encounter be less than very, very close?”
God does not offer Himself to our finite beings as a thing all complete and ready to be embraced. For us, He is eternal discovery and eternal growth. The more we think we understand Him, the more he reveals himself as otherwise. The more we think we hold him, the further He withdraws, drawing us into the depths of himself.*
Teilhard de Chardin
This so fits my own experience of God. The divine-human love affair really is a reciprocal dance. Sometimes, in order for us to step forward, the other partner must step a bit away. The withdrawal is only for a moment, and its purpose is to pull us toward him or her—but it doesn’t feel like that in the moment.
Richard Rohr from The Universal Christ
In Psalms 13:1 David laments, as we humans often do, that God has forgotten us. “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?”
I think it is human nature to get out of alignment with who we really are in Christ and focus on what is seen, the actual illusion that is matter, what has already manifested, the conditions around us, instead of staying in the dance stepping forward as God steps back. In Abraham-Hicks terms, this is the leading edge of co-creation, between our inner being and Law of Attraction (which is God in all infinity). As Abraham and Richard Rohr both say, when you “get it” you don’t get a certificate of completion. It’s a moment by moment movement and journey, not a destination.
I think God has no edge, but we certainly do. We stop just before the edge and look at what is already manifested in our lives, tell sad stories of suffering, stuckness of where we’ve been before thereby creating more stuckness. But God is always right there waiting for us to say yes to him in each moment, to know that we are being held, loved, and guided toward what will bring our truest self the most joy.
According to Abraham Hicks, life will always give us contrast, which isn’t negative. As soon as we get to what we do want, or what we created yesterday…life will show us some new contrast of what we do want and what we don’t want. If we look at what we don’t want, it is we who are creating more of what we don’t want and turning our face from God, as we focus on our creation instead of God.
(hmm🤔 idolatry?)
The contrast helps show our inner being (Christ within) to move away from the unwanted and keep dancing toward joy with God Eternal. For Eternity.
Jesus came to give us the courage to trust and allow our inherent union with God, and he modeled it for us in this world. Union is not a place we go to later—if we are good; union is the place from which we come, the place from which we’re called to live now. We wasted centuries confusing union with personal perfection. Union is God’s choice for us in our very imperfect world. Divine Love has no trouble loving imperfect things! That is just our human problem. If God could only love perfect things, God would have nothing to do.
Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.
Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed
Into its radiant jewel-like essence.
I bow to the one who has made it so,
Who has crafted this Master Game;
To play it is pure delight,
To honor it is true devotion.
by Jennifer Welwood
This poem is so beautiful. I’ve been reading The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr and I’m in love with the Christ I see in everything…. This poem speaks to me of duality and the space between in non-duality… The Trinity and the holding tensions that is symbolized by the cross. I can’t even put it to words… But my life is transformed. I’m so grateful god found me. I’m so grateful for everything!
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