From: serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb)
Subject: reality, godheads and freedom
Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:10:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.110424.1@firnvx.firn.edu> waddell@firnvx.firn.edu writes:

>In article <1h7tvhINNj0d@cascade.ens.tek.com>, 
>   davidh@cascade.ens.tek.com (David Hatcher) writes:
>> 
>>    Why, when we are already so caught up in the trap of creating our
>> own reality do we need even more tools to create even more of our
>> own reality?
>> 
>>    My desires are not to create my own reality, but to attune more and
>> more to the realities that life itself has to offer. I desire the intimacy 

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>On our trip back to the Godhead ( although some incarnated here on earth
>may still be on the journey away from Godhead, most of us have reached our
>own outer limit and are on the return trip ) we must remember our 
>destination but we have the choise to choose the route and to enjoy the
>trip.  As in driving a car, don't become so focussed on where you are going
>that you don't enjoy driving the car or don't notice the sun shining through 
>the leaves or miss the spark of eye-contact when you let someone cross in
>front of you.  I remember once on my way to my riding lesson, the highlight
>of my week at that time, that I was so enjoying going over the jumps in my 
>mind that I missed the turn to the stables and was half-way home before I 
>realized it.  So it's important to remember where you're going too.

>As long as we are incarnated in the physical level, or any of the levels 
>short of the Godhead, we each will be an "I" but that does not mean that
>we can't work in symphony with the other's, all co-workers with the Godhead.
>We each choose how we will be channels, either consciously or unconsciously.
>Each of our choises have consequences and add to our reality and thus we 
>create our own reality.

Both of these posts puzzle me.  First, what the heck is a "godhead"?  I 
distrust those sorts of abstractions.  Why do you, or why does anyone, need 
to imagine some sort of god or godhead or supreme entity in order to lend 
meaning to existence?  That puzzlement also goes with the first post -- why 
do people need to think there is more to life than simply creating reality?  
Perhaps all that exists is some vast "everything" or "sein" (for German 
speakers -- literally translated "sein" is "to be," but may better be used 
here in a way of "is" or "all that is" or something like that) in which we 
are a part, individually, but which does not have some sort of godhead like 
existence.  Perhaps we are connected to other parts at some level, but have 
the freedom to create realities -- in tandem with others or alone, through 
something like synchronicity -- with complete freedom to explore and create, 
learning more and expanding our thoughts, with no end purpose or some rather 
bizarre idea of reuniting with some godhead (which sounds sort of boring, 
and if we are to reunite than why even separate?  Seems illogical).  If that 
is the case, we are on a journey with no end, whose purpose we decide.  I do 
think that there is some natural unity which means that everything I do to 
you or to anyone I do to myself, but that is obviously unprovable.
    So, in other words, why do we have to put some sort of entity above 
us -- some thing we are trying to attain, in order to define our worth?  
What's wrong with just a view of spiritual freedom, operating multi-
dimensionally perhaps, but without some godlike plan or purpose?  Plans, 
gods, godheads, and the like strike me as quite illogical as well as 
intuitively uncompelling.  Yet there is a spirital realm to life that has 
gone unexplored.  Maybe newage religion could be a religion that rejects the 
past adherence to dogmas, plans, gods, godheads, holy people, etc., but 
retains a belief in the need to explore the spirit as well as the flesh, and 
go beyond the limitations of scientific epistemology.
    Happy new year!,
             Scott, U. of Minnesotas
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