by joelbear 14 Replies latest jw friends
What if we were never one and never will be?
What if instead of a universe between a big bang and a big crunch (and its imaginary representations of self-enclosed oneness) there was only the endless drift and interplay of difference?
How could we tell? What would that change?
Us and our fellow carbon-based life forms.
What if instead of a universe between a big bang and a big crunch (and its imaginary representations of self-enclosed oneness) there was only the endless drift and interplay of difference?
In that case one would not be one and it wouldn't matter.
we are different but we are still one
it is what we are moving toward, its the only finality possible.
Joel Bear:
You might be interested in what A Course In Miracle has to say on the subject. This selection is from a Chapter entitled Reason & Perception.
"Listen, --Perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person, or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you."
"The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since."
"Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light fefore your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. "
"This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. Accept the vision than can show you this, and not the body. You know the ancient song, and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still."
