Karma & Cosmology Part I
When you look at the original teachers that are behind the religions you will find very great beings. If you look at what those great beings taught, you will find many things in common. You will also find conflicting information as well.
Imagine if you had four people describing the world, each one of them living in a different part; one living in the frozen north of Russia, one in the blazing hot Sahara desert, one living in Santa Monica California, and the last living in Columbia. Wouldn’t these people describe the world in a very different way? Heck two people living in the same house would describe the world in very different ways.
This is how it is trying to describe spirituality. Even the most masterful people I have read says Life cannot be fully understood from our limited perspective. We do not even have the words in our languages to accurately and fully describe the intricate nature of Life and the spiritual causes behind it all. But when I took all of these different teaching and assimilated them into my life I found together they painted a three dimensional picture of reality.
It is important that we do not take one single story as the ultimate truth. But this is what most religions do. They are only stories meant to give us a clue and stimulate an inner memory. A different story from a different culture is no less meaningful than the one that comes from your culture. So now I am going to paint my own picture of the larger nature of our spiritual existence. Although I do have some experience in the spiritual dimensions that extend beyond the physical, it is limited. Thus much of this comes from all that I have read and my inner guidance which has helped me piece it all together.
God is all that is. There is nothing outside of God. Thus we exist within God. Our breath, our life, our very being is God…every single one of us. We are all God separated out into individually focused entities. Each entity experiencing creation from a different perspective. Each entity able to interact with God via the other entities.
There is a collective reality and individual realities too. The collective reality has persistence, and from our perspective it is seemingly evolving. However from the eternal perspective of God all of it is happening at once and is complete. This does not mean there is not freedom of choice for us as ego-beings, or that our destiny is predetermined. What it does mean is that reality is much bigger than we can comprehend, and that all possible realities exist, including the choices that you do not make.
Our lives are much longer than one might imagine. We enter the “Idea of Man” as Daskalos (a Greek mystic) puts it, and from that point on we embark on a series of physical incarnations, one of which you are experiencing now. It is at that beginning point that we are all the same, but from that point forward we forever differ one from another. The difference is due to the different choices and experiences we all have.
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