POP23 - Where
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Psychiatrists have a quick test
which they determine
whether a person is sane or not.
They determine whether a person is oriented
to the three spheres of reality.
Do they know -
- Who they are?
- When they are?
- Where they are?
"Who are you?"
The psychiatrist asked.
"Jesus Christ,"
was the reply.
"Who told you that?"
asked the psychiatrist.
"God",
was the reply.
"No, I didn't",
came the voice
from the next cell.
We all have our reality tests.
We do it in accordance with our paradigms -
that is to say our world views.
In these next three emails I am going to present
a new paradigm about
- who,
- when and
- where we are.
The idea here is NOT for you to believe the paradigm.
It is for you to understand it.
Proofs will be presented later.
First we will begin with
"where" you are in-
1. A paradigm of the origin of this world.
The people asked Moses,
"when did the world begin?",
and He wrote the story of Creation,
in the Book of Genesis.
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What He gave them
was a paradigm
(a view of the world)
that was comprehensible to them.
He did NOT tell them that there were
other planets in the solar system,
other galaxies,
about the immensity that the Hubble shows to us.
Ever since the development
of the telescope
Astronomers have thought
with just a bit more powerful telescope
(the general plea today is for one 15% more powerful)
they would be able to see to the edge of the universe,
(or the origins of The Great Bang,
as they put it.)
They have just never mastered the concept of INFINITE.
What is to make them think,
that just as if one gets beyond this solar system,
that there are other solar systems, in this galaxy,
and if one gets beyond this galaxy,
there are other galaxies,
and that if one got beyond this "island universe"
there wouldn't be "other" island universes?
INFINITE is something Different from BIG or MORE.
Even then, the astronomers deal
with only the PHYSICAL (visible) universe.
The SPIRITUAL REALITY,
of which the physical reality is only a shadow,
is INFINITELY (that word again) more immense.
And so where are YOU,
in all this IMMENSITY?
Short answer:
Planet Earth.
Physical Shadow.
Locating one's self
is sort of like the school child problem
of sending a return address to God.
Name,
street,
city,
province,
country,
planet,
solar system,
galactic arm,
galaxy,
galactic cluster,
island universe,
island cluster,
where does it end?
The problem is that one is dealing with an illusion.
The illusion of space.
The illusion is that it is reality,
but the REALITY is much more IMMENSE than the illusion.
In fact, the concept if Immensity is inadequate,
so long as it denotes size.
Even Einstein and the advanced thinker physicists,
say that no matter how real it seems
we must remember that Time, Space and Matter,
are illusions in our minds.
NOT that there isn't a REALITY.
A MUCH DEEPER REALITY.
But, for the man on the street,
these ideas have been incomprehensible.
Of course they have been discussed by all philosophers,
down through time, way back to the Greeks,
and Plato and Socrates.
They have been dealt with more in Eastern Religions,
and in a few Western Religions, such as
Christian Science, and to some degree by Swedenborg.
But, for the most part, the man in the street,
while he hears about these ideas,
he really has just not caught on.
The idea still abounds,
that the earth is the center of the universe.
The center of creation.
That all of creation revolves around the descendants of Adam.
Physically created in seven days.
That it is going to end,
and everything with it.
That the center of it all
is the advent about 2,000 years ago
of one particular individual (Jesus),
on this one particular rock,
whirling about this one particular star.
When infants first become aware,
their Universe centers around their momma,
and their bassinet.
Later to their nursery and members of their family.
Eventually to their community and school.
Gradually to their citizenship in their country.
Most people, today, have not yet grasped the idea
of their citizenship in The World.
Their relationship to a Universe and Cosmos beyond that -
completely eludes them.
Children, in their infancy, naturally have infant concepts,
of creation and the world about them.
This applies to mankind as a whole.
An infant race, like the human race
(we only have a few thousand years of recorded history)
has infant concepts.
Young people and teens,
often think they have all the answers and understand everything.
That is the way many people are,
with their pat answers, "The Bible says".
For a child, everything revolves around them.
For a childish race, everything revolves around it.
In its mind,
God created everything for It.
The purpose of everything is It.
The question is,
where are YOU in the universe.
To answer that
you have also to answer the question of
when
and
who.
Next time -
when.
Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org