What are We Doin’ Here?
In case you’ve just arrived
on the scene and haven’t read the articles on God, heaven, angels, etc., here’s
a quick summary of some of the spiritual stuff we’ve discussed.
In my opinion (or wild guess
– your choice):
1. God is likely not an
individual entity but rather a total of all of the love, wisdom and power that
exists in all creations.
2. Heaven may be just
another existence or set of dimensions that coexists with ours.
3. Heaven’s inhabitants
(angels, whatever…) are individual entities (sort of “spirit”-types) who are
just a normal part of this existence.
4. We humans may be just
another one of these spiritual entities who are spending a short time here on
earth occupying an animal body.
So why have I come to these
conclusions? Because at this point in my
life, these are the only semi-logical cinder blocks that I can slap together to
create some type of a foundation for an understandable (for me anyway) reason
for our human existence. If I try to go back further to the reasons for God’s
existence or a logical purpose for “heaven”, I wind up slamming into the
proverbial wall. Right now all I can do
is assume that the all-encompassing power of all creations that we have
personified into a god or gods exists – and has always existed – just because
“that’s the way it is”. The other
existence (or existences) that we normally refer to as “heaven” are there (or
here) for the same reason – although I do strongly feel that there is probably some
type of “love” foundation supporting the presence and activities of these
existences.
So what are we humans doin’
here on earth? With the above foundation
in place, the answer to this question is a bit more obvious. We’re here to learn! If we are indeed just another one of the inhabitants
of heaven, we’re likely somewhere on the road between “Just Startin’” and
“Almost There” in a developmental process.
Assuming that “There” is probably unachievable, “Almost There” would be
a desired destination. The more closely
we approached that level of development, the more capable we would be of
performing whatever tasks that needed to be accomplished. Or maybe the main goal of the “system” is
simply development of the individual entities that make up the system. It would seem that this would tend to make
the overall system stronger.
If we also include as a
major part of our development, learning the true meaning of love right along
with the knowledge and wisdom factors, we would wind up with an absolutely
kick-butt organization/environment. Then
if God really is the total of all of the love, wisdom and power in all
creations, each little bit of individual development would pop “him” up a notch
or two on the old scale. Everybody and everything benefits! That seems like a pretty cool goal to me.
Dang, what if it really is
that simple? The system (the
all-inclusive “everything”) exists just to develop and get stronger. Because we’re part of the system – and likely
a fairly important part – our job is to develop and get stronger too. That’s it!
That’s all we gotta do.
So what would help us
accomplish this fairly quickly? I know –
we could take the fast track and go to school for awhile. How about enrolling in the
We could be exposed to all
different kinds of situations (some cool and some yucky) and have a pile of
varying experiences that would relate in some way to the things we needed to
learn. We would be given a lot of
latitude in how we approach this learning process – the resources we use and
the decisions we make (it’s a freedom of choice thing). We would give it our best shot (which
frequently may be nothing more than stumbling through a given set of
circumstances to have the experience of feeling the emotions associated with
these circumstances) then – we’d get to go back home. Cool!
Nah, it couldn’t be that
easy! This God and heaven stuff just has
to be extremely complicated. It’s far
too important to the welfare of man and all of creation to be that simple. Hells bells, I’m sure we’ll need millions of
books – and articles – and radio & TV programs – and videos & audio
tapes to even start to scratch the surface of such a complex subject. And… we’ll need thousands and thousands of
folks talkin’ about all this complicated stuff to large groups of people at
least once or maybe twice a week. And –
we need at least four gazillion different opinions on how all this complicated
stuff works (OK, make that four gazillion and one…) along with all of the
recommended procedures that we just gotta follow to make certain we’re
complying with all the rules…
I know, it appears that I’m
being a butt about this, but that’s really not the case. We all are only doing those things which we
have been led to believe we should do.
We are all only thinking those things which we have been led to believe
we should think. And yes, this is a type
of programming thing. No, it’s not “bad” at all – it’s just the way it is. My intent in the previous paragraph was
obviously to illuminate the complexity of our current belief systems and to
promote thinking and positive questioning of our personal beliefs. We humans do at times, have a tendency to
extrapolate toward the super-complicated.
And – if we stand back and view the world’s diverse and frequently contradictory
spiritual and religious beliefs with an unbiased viewpoint (good luck, Leroy!),
it’s easy to see just how complex the situation has become.
Soooo… to keep my old brain
from overheating, I’ve decided to use the KISS principle. For those few of you who have never been
exposed to this acronym, it has absolutely nothing to do with the well-known
rock group (and no, I’m not “that” Gene Simmons even though I think it’s pretty
cool to have my name associated with – yes, I had my name first –such a successful
group). KISS stands for “Keep It Simple,
Stupid”. So that’s my approach to
spirituality. It works for me!
Yep, I think we may be here
at the U of E (University of Earth, remember?) for a few years just to have
some experiences, to learn more about love and about ourselves and to develop
& gain an appreciation for this great creation. Then when we’re done here, we’re goin’ back
home. I don’t know about you, but I think it’ll be a real kick in the butt to
find out just what the hell this stuff is really all about. Cool! What
an experience!
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