Logic #13 Faith, Children of God, Service

 As our faith in God grows, so does the purity of our heart. An increase in faith means a decrease in the doubt that leads to selfishness. Faith brings God into our lives and our hearts. When we are pure of heart we no longer attract the negativity that leads to spells of darkness. We are open to the reality of God's light. The best way to free ourselves from suffering and trouble is to bring God into our lives. It is our negativity and selfishness that attracts conflict and personal turmoil. Having God in our lives, brings us the surety that delivers the results of our needs. He is the provider. When He is home, we will be provided for. God provides us with everything we need, it is fear and doubt that keep us in a place of suffering and insufficiency. I think God is a reality that instantly fulfills our being. It is the degree to which we are distant from Him that is the problem, not His lack of caring. He is always reaching out infinitely. When we dwell in the narrowness of selfishness and ego identity, we are focusing on a reality that is inherently limited and confused. When we turn to the reality of God, we turn to organization, evenness, and dependability. We turn to infinite abundance, which is the nature of His spirit. I think when it comes down to it, it is our innermost attitude, the attitude of our soul, that determines our wellbeing, and not our external environment. It plays a part, yet it ultimately comes down to how we view the world and ourselves, who we are in our heart. When we turn to God, we turned to the truth, which is that we are not an isolated separate being, but one who is One with the Creator. The tale of our sorrows and setbacks, of our greatness and ambition, of our mediocrity, these stories we tell ourselves are ultimately just stories. They are our temporary reflections on the life we have lived so far. We are not a soul especially flawed, or especially great, or especially mundane. We are a soul that possesses the infinite potential to unite with it's creator. We have flaws, we have ambition, we have setbacks, we may be mediocre, yet we are not the separate individual we believe ourselves to be. We are not these stories that we tell ourselves. We are not bound by anything, good or bad. Good and bad is relative, the stories we tell ourselves that pertain to each are equally untrue. We are children of God, whose true identity is is that of the infinite mind of God. We are infinite being. We may have limitations, but they only go so deep. What may make us great in the eyes of ourselves and others does not belong to us, and both high and low are the same in the eyes of God. As long as we live in these fantasies, we we be isolated from Him who is Supreme. Any belief we have that says this is who I am as an individual, keeps us from God, because in saying and believing it, we keep it to ourselves, we clutch at it, and we turn from our Creator, who never stops showering us with infinite uplifting energy. We must give away who we are as an individual to fully reap the harvest that is God's infinite eternal blessing. We must forge our identity in the transcendent Him that is not discolored by possessiveness. This is why this is the path of the Angel, the selfless, the servant. What holds us down is anything we keep for our self. The truth is we do not need anything. When we do things for ourself, we cling to what we have. When we do things for God and for others, we learn to let go of what we have, including the hold we have on our own identity. I do not think we belong to our self. I think we belong to each other. When we cling to ourselves, we bring down everybody else. When we let go of ourself, we uplift everyone else. We do have the power to do this. God gives it to us in every moment. When we become a servant to God we learn to skillfully use this energy to uplift the world, if we refuse this, we end up shitting on it. I feel like so many of us are ready to do so much more, we just haven't realized this yet. We are so much more capable than we imagine ourselves to be. We don't realize what a gift He is and what He has given us. Unfortunately we turn to evil without realizing it, it seems like there hasn't been enough wisdom throughout society to prevent this from happening. However evil society is or becomes, this is nothing compared to the infinite benediction of God. This does nothing to tarnish His will and truly is merely and extension of Him. All aspects of Creation come from God and are apart of His mind. The evil in the universe is merely a part, that regardless of how it appears of what we believe about it is under the authority and design of God. All parts are seamlessly interwoven in the eternal play of life, all conducted by the same conductore, the transcendent Spirit that is God.  

No ego, Universal Being, Love

 I have been seeing more clearly recently how identified I have been with what I see now as the imaginary ego-personality of other people. I have see in spurts the single transcendent soul that is the true nature of the individual self and it creates a stark contrast to the dream-like fantasy that is our belief that there are other people who are the one and only Bob, Julie, Emily, Steve. I don't think these people really exist. I think what exists is the infinite soul that resides within the dream illusion that we call myself and yourself. Everyone is the same person, and there is only one person, who really isn't a person at all, but is infinite being. The individual self is an illusion, or a dream. Reality is simply being. I have been so immersed in catching up with this newer stage of development, blue conformist, that I forgot about this.. Also so immersed in letting go of my own ego will/desire complex and merging into Emptiness that I have not been accessing these deeper insights. The other people that we believe are real are merely our own ego. We just call one part me and mine, and the other part, you and yours. There really is no difference, it is all in the head. I also have been looking at dogs and realizing that they have the same soul as we do. There are, in fact, I believe human beings. There source and being is the same as ours. Our root consciousness and being is identical. I think this is true for all living beings. I watched a hornet struggle to escape the fire of our propane fireplace and could sense it's sentience. It felt like me. I see how all living beings are One and apart of the same life and that in a way each is equally worthy as each is the same Universal Being. What is wonderful about this, is that it uplifts they who perceive this because the world becomes a place full of worthy beings, there is no high and low, but an evenness that is the inherent righteousness of life. Each life form has a perfect place among the whole, and all of us are equally the Whole. The Whole is a being that is a whole in many places. What respect we can have, what dignity this gives us. With this awareness and attitude, how much easier it is to put aside the harsh feelings we hold for many other beings we co-exist with, and how much easier it is to adopt an attitude of universal love. When we drop the notion of separate self, and the dichotomy of high and low it presents, we may see each being as ourself, as unblemished Oneness, and be open to the wisdom that is needed to engage with each unique being on the path. He is very unstable, and very violent, yet he is my brother, I cannot bring myself to hate him, because I love him. I cannot bring myself to harm the world, because it too is my brother. 

No matter how deeply rooted the ego is, it's roots are limited, the sea of infinite love is eternally abiding. Eventually it's waves of righteousness will wash away the hate and grief in our hearts and free us to love one another unconditionally. This is the power that will overcome all obstacles and bring the human race to a Unity in open understanding, peace, and love. The true nature of our self is like a germ or a seed waiting to explode into life and fill it's habitation to the brim. It is a spark that given the proper soil will ignite and consume the world in a holy fire. It will destroy all boundaries, prejudices, and conditioned perspectives. It will completely undermine traditional world views and take human kind through a series of progressive steps towards fully liberated consciousness. 

Love is unstoppable. It is infinite, it is abiding. It is who we are. Love is the seed of evolution. As parts of the whole, we awaken to Love as Love over lifetimes. Yet Love is already perfectly complete and abiding. It is the Real, the Always, and Forever. The illusion of being a part, is nothing but this, an illusion. Reality is Real, and Real is Love. The divine flame cannot be quenched, nor dominated. It is Liberty and Liberty is the triumphant Real. Regardless of who you are, or how you are, or where you are, this is who you are, who you have always been, and who you will always be. You are always going to be completely free. This truth liberates us from suffering regardless of the climate of the outer world. Maya is always undergoing change, there is nothing we can do to stop this, and nothing we need to do. Real freedom lies in conquering the delusion within our hearts and realizing the abiding Divine Love within. Each one of us is the flame and the whole. Each of us is perfectly complete. We are the same self, which is Self, which is Eternity, Liberty, Freedom, Victory. You cannot be conquered, you cannot be defeated. You are the infinite Divine Flame that is the Universal Soul. 

Logic#12 Devotion, God, and Religion

I think increasing understanding of the nature of the universe will lead to an increased sense of purpose and direction. It will also clean up my innerspace. Cleaning up the innerspace will sharpen insight which will fine tune the sense of purpose. Hopefully all in all awakening to a deeper more fulfilling being and radiance. A general fitting organization. It feels like everything is reworking in the background. I feel confident that as things get aligned with God (Upwards facing star) things will smooth out. What a blessing to know the truth about God and to be ready to have Him in one’s life. To be able to trust something so completely and to have something so trustworthy. What a gift He is in this turbulent world. It surprises me how ignorant man can be to the reality of His supremacy over all that is. Not as a tyrant, but as an even-handed force of cause and effect and unchanging spiritual law. It is this force and law that we can depend on, as well as the root of both which is He himself, the source of all things and the Highest Law. The intricacies of karma and universal design are born from God and are woven of His substance, this is why placing Him above all else is the most sensible thing we can do. All law, all wisdom high and low, is born of the Highest Order which is God’s immutable substance and being. Devotion clearly becomes a practical matter when such is clearly perceived. He traverses down through all dimensions of being and sets the entirety of the universe into motion all according to His perfect infinitely intelligent will. God’s will truly is perfect, Perfection does exist in it’s full expression as Him. It is a reality that is the hidden Reality that is this reality.

 Through devotion we transfer our allegiance from selfish pursuits to a Higher spiritual aim. It requires a change of heart, it is personal, which is why devotion suffices. We are personally enslaved to our own desires, we believe in ourselves, why not believe in something that we can trust not to continually throw us in the dump? We must change this basic belief if we are to grow beyond it, beyond belief. To do so is not a step backward, but a step forward. It is much more logical to follow God. It is insanity to follow the pre-rational whims of selfish-thirst. It is a lack of logic and reason that leads us to believe in the wisdom of self-serving ends. When we awaken to the greater body of the universe that exists beyond the veils of Earth bound ignorance it is easy to accept the spiritual hierarchy in which God is supreme and center. It is clearly visible that God’s order flows from a spiritual center outwards throughout the universe. Here, it is natural to orient oneself towards this in a devotional manner. It is through devotion that we learn of Him and His way, of the true nature of the universe, and make our way towards it’s center. I believe this is the path of Angels, or servants of God. We are caught in His current because we are finally open to His will, released sufficiently from bonds of Earthly and spiritual ignorance. Here, we recognize a path of servitude and self sacrifice or selflessness lies before us. It is through this shedding that we become light enough to behold Him.

God does not belong to any particular religion or to any kind of religion. The true religion of God is one that is not bound to outward forms, that exists within established religions yet is frequently obscured and misinterpreted, misused by them. God is an ideal perfect force that cannot be marred by those who do not clearly understand aspects of His being. He is transcendent, this is why He is God. These religions are groups of people and individuals misunderstanding, not God Himself erring. His intelligence is transrational, transconceptional, transcendent of doctrine, tradition or tenant. Religion does it’s best when tradition, doctrine, and tenant correspond to real needs of the people it serves. When it is flexible and transforms as people change. When it doesn’t meet people where they are or how they are, it becomes stagnant and decays. When it does, it thrives and the people in it thrive. I think that perhaps it is best if it is understood as an outward form that is a tool for humans to employ, but not to become enslaved to or overly dependent on. When we feel we cannot bear the weight of our conscience we often become dependent on things that do not serve us, and we over-emphasize the value of these things in a way that distorts their true value. This ends up distorting our original aim, our purer intentions and creates established practices that do not accurately represent spiritual truths. If we are afraid to fully examine the reality of our human condition, we choose to support lesser truths and to live in ignorance. God does not dwell in the half-light. He can be seen from the half-light while He shines aloft fully radiant and free. If we wish to communicate His nature effectively, we must see how it is the religion of the heart and not the outward religion of convention that leads to His Infinite Kingdom. When you recognize how naturally the heart is a devotee of the many forms of life, it becomes easy to acquire the habit of devoting oneself to God.

Logic # 11 Gather and evaluate

 Still wondering what the hell is going on. Consciousness is a very interesting thing. It has been very difficult for me to understand. It is very interesting. I am wondering what terrain I am moving through at the moment. It is interesting that all the differing things I am experiencing are happening all at once in this moment. Somehow flashing before my eyes and evolving within me. Somehow they are all connected in a meaningful logical way. I think that how I see things now and what environment I see them in is very important to understanding the big picture of what's going on. Even if it is a mystery, it can be understood. Mysteries are mysteries until they are solved, and then the answer is obvious. What is the setting of this mystery? What is the atmosphere? What players are involved? What is the next logical step to take to solve the mystery? What options do I have? So far it has been hunker down and gather more data. Is this still valid? I think it may be hunker down and gather more data...and..perhaps start exploring the terrain I have discovered. Continue to map it out and make new discoveries. It seems like I have a whole new world to explore..a world that is astral space..I can go anywhere. I can do anything here. What are the consequences of my actions? What are the means by which interact with my environment? What are some things I am interested in establishing here? What is all of this leading to? What is the end game? What gets in the way of making progress here? What is useful helpful, necessary? What is going well? What isn't?

Logic # 9 The Eventuality of the Kosmos

 Through God, I think that each soul will be perfected. I think it is the nature of the soul to expand until it fully realizes the infinite. I think when we reach a certain point in our development, it isn't as much about developing our own will and our own power as much as it is about working with God to bring our soul closer to him. I think here doing things on our own may be a hindrance because here it is important to cultivate faith and belief. Not independence and might. Here I think we are asked to participate in the universal pantheon at play before us in a spirit of good faith which brings about the eventuality of the fulfillment of our soul. I think here the struggle is to deny our selfish impulses which provide in the short term and in doing so that we may establish a longer term strategy that also considers a wider field of play. By denying our selfish impulses, seeking self gain in the immediate moment, we allow our vision to expand to this wider field of view. We allow ourselves to recognize their is a wiser way to go about things, because things aren't as simple as we thought. I don't this transformation is the end game, but one step of many along the way. I think it is a necessary step, as is and was the process of cultivating a genuine ego that proceeds it. This transformation is a maturation of self and an expansion of the ego to a broader and more inclusive self. At this stage I find comfort in the realization that I can trust in the process in a way that I couldn't at the selfish ego stage before. Prior to now I felt that I had to resist the universe to gain power and to establish myself. It is a relief that I can trust in it now to eventually push me in the right direction. It is a relaxation of my self boundary, which provides a general relaxation that I haven't felt in a long time. I don't think I have had this faith in things since I was a child. It's like trusting the universe to hit the ping pong ball back to you and to play a game with you so you can figure better figure out what is going on. If you genuinely are here, it will work, not that it won't be messy, but it will work, and God willing, it will get better. It is really what you have to do at this point. To trust and to move forward, into a new terrain, which is the expanded field in front of you that is what I believe to be some kind of lower mental astral plane, Bluuuuuueeee........This is why this stage feels the way it does, like you are soaring, like you are brightly shining. Because you are, because you sense of self has expanded into a pure mental plane to probably what is your astral body which is floaty/flyee/shiny energy. It is nice to know that the universe can be your friend. 

It probably isn't true that success here will solve all your and the worlds problems, but it will solve some. I thought I had it in the bag when I was mastering the last stage and I was definitely wrong...I think this stage can solve a lot of problems because it is the stage that will for sure put the ego in it's place. I am guessing that to get through this, and I mean move your whole being through it, not just wake up to it, you really have to rise above your bad habbits, which are bad because they are both selfish and driven by really wound up impulsive tendencies that are rooted in sense desires. As I see it now, this stage is the purifying of the persona, or of the individual. I could be wrong. I think it is the angelification of the self because in putting your sense driven desires and impulses behind you, you put other people in front of you. Also, if you are genuinely doing this, you are also doing it in the name of god and opening yourself up to a heavenly pantheon of which God is the center. From my vantage point, you can't come out the other side an asshole. I don't fully understand what the other side will look like, a dimension driven by Order and Reason, but I imagine it is something like what King Arthur is like to his Knights, in a perfect version of this myth. If this is the case, then yes in fact it may solve all your problems...we'll see though. If it does perfect one's moral center and one's belief in oneself, and one's faith, then you may be pretty much done with suffering. I am not sure though. It seems like there is still a hell of a lot more development to happen after...It is difficult to say when I have yet to pass through it. It seems like it may bring one into perfect communion with God, which is dependent on an unshakeable faith in Him. If one does not doubt, then how could they fall? If one's impulses are put in check, how could they act selfishly? It really does seem to me like putting down the sword for good. I don't see any going back. I feel like you can't proceed until you purify the self. Perhaps the next stage is merely the expansion of one's ability to generate an already perfected goodness. When I reached the pinnacle of red ego I did have all the power in the universe. I still do, I just choose not to use it (most of the time) selfishly. I cultivated the strength to wield it, it is just that at this point one's dominating will that they turn against the universe, automatically is turned back against themselves, so regardless of your power, you cannot outcompete the universe. What you fail to realize is that you're competing against yourself in endless strife. The ego wants to be all powerful, even if it is, it won't succeed. It becomes illogical to continue. It becomes logical to learn how to work with the universe instead of against it. I allowed myself to play through the ego dilemma so I could authentically realize it's limitations and sincerely move past it. I didn't know at the time what would happen when I did, I really wanted to rule the universe, but I did know that I had to let it happen so I could move forward. I also didn't know where I would end up: Logic. But here I am.  Genuine intelligence, smarts, this is what logic is. It really is a relief from what becomes unsettling egoic tension. What I am afraid of, is that I will only overcome certain things, and that the inherent blind spots of this position dominated by Logic will also prove to come short in the end. I think I am also afraid of what I will see when I grow into Reason/Order...

Logic # 8

 It seems a mathematical certainty that given time I will be brought closer to God, my faith will grow stronger as will belief in myself. It seems that this is the given nature of the natural evolution of things in a logical universe. It seems that this is the current that carries me and the realm in which I currently abide. With more surety will I move forward as I tune in the the divine testimony of the Lord. He teaches us the true nature of the universe, one unveiled of the ignorance with which our sense imbededdness garbs our perception. It will turn my attention and dependence from what provides worldly security to what guarantees salvation and protection of my Soul. Everything here is generated from God and all our wellbeing comes from our attunement with Him. When we depend upon God for sustenance, we will be amply provided for. When we disbelieve and take refuge in doubt and selfishness we will find ourselves sorely lacking. Only the self-application of these declaration can prove their veracity and fully illumine their full significance. Doing so is equally the process that cuts away sensory desire and worldly attachments. Such is the automatic power and process generated by the lower astral realm of Logic in which the Soul begins its initial flight Heavenly towards the Divine. This seems to be the upwards pull we know as upliftment and levity

Logic# 7 Living in Love

 I haven't written anything in a while. I have been having some really interesting things happen. Things I did not expect. I have been feeling a lot of love from God recently. From and towards. I feel like God's love pulls us towards the fulfillment of our lives and probably more truly, our souls. I think that if we are open to Him and give ourselves to Him to the dharma, then we may free ourselves from suffering by finding upliftment through God's spirit. I think what this boils down to is deeply accepting who we are and what is. This allows us to be ourselves, to open up ourselves and to rid ourselves of the weight of our being. I think through this we eventually become magnetized to God's spirit and are pulled upwards towards Him. I think at this point we have turned nature to our benefit, and it becomes an accelerating force of Good and towards Good in our lives. We have become an ally of the universe and we begin to rise above the temptations of Earthly desires. Our will becomes polarized towards Heaven rather than Earth. I believe that if we study the Dharma and apply it earnestly in our lives we may overcome the chaos that is born of sense temptations and rise above the folly of our ignorance. I believe there is much to learn here. I believe that on this upward path Faith is a certainty and doubt is born of ignorance. Faith is the truth that God is Supreme and that our Soul is safe with Him. It is only a fear that we may be harmed and that righteousness is not law, not a reality. Faith is in the reality of the Soul and of God. Fear and doubt and belief in Satan or separateness are completely unfounded and unreal. The path of Faith is the path of realization of what already is, not a creating of a new perfect world or new relationship, but a realization of Life without the scars of the darkness of ignorance and a bond that already exists between our Soul and God. Our Soul is free now. It is spotless. Faith is the process of transitioning to see this, not creating a new life or a new relationship. As humans we experience this process as being reborn in the sanctity of God's love and in the basket of his steady Law, but we are merely opening our eyes to the reality of our Souls that has never ceased to be. Nothing can touch the sanctity of the Divinity of our Soul. It is eternally and perfectly protected by God. Faith is the process of learning to trust in the established balance of the existing Law of the universe Governed by God and Holy and Good. This law I believe is Logic. It is the code that binds and gives structure to the universe. It is perfect because it is ideal. With God, perfection becomes possible. It becomes a reality that we can inhabit, that we can perceive. It becomes something we may embody. The process of this upliftment is an awakening to the lower astral realms, which are mental, and to their role as the fiber of the physical universe. The astral is the womb of the physical. The physical is truly nothing but mind and what is mind is nothing but soul and what is soul is nothing but Spirit. Something like this..On the path of upliftment we may fully realize the perfect nature of our Soul, which is Spirit.