I give thanks this Thanksgiving for life, life with Allee, family, etc. I realize very dimly that I am part of this whole God-Becoming-Everything. Lest that seem too proud, you are also, and everything and everyone else is, also. I like that phrase, \u201cbecoming-ness,\u201d actually. It could perhaps make for a good sermon.<\/p>\n
My life has not been stellar in any special category, but on balance, pretty good in many ways, though mediocre in many others, and distinctly inferior in lots. This subconscious question of \u201cHow am I doing?\u201d is fatuous, now that I think of it. To quote Popeye (the cartoon Sailor-Man comic character of the 1930s-1950s), \u201cI yam what I yam.\u201d It\u2019s a good thing to penetrate my illusions (or conditionings?) of having to be \u201cspecial.\u201d I\u2019m special enough, just as I am. It\u2019s taken me much of a century to get here, though. Internalized conditioning can be difficult to counter.<\/p>\n
Also, \u201cthe Becoming-Ness of God,\u201d in the sense of thinking as some Rabbi and Theologian did, that God is a Verb. What indeed if we\u2019re mid-way in the process \u2014nowhere near the end or culmination, but so far from the beginning that we have the illusion that we are at the summit! As if being able to think is the very summit of awareness. But indeed, we are all to far. <\/p>\n
Also, I rather like that idea that becoming-ness is a divine quality. We claim God is eternal but that is just waving our hands submissively. We have no idea what that means, but it denies God the thrill of becoming more, fuller, discovering, etc.<\/p>\n
Time is in a way another reflection on the way the world becomes, it\u2019s in process. It doesn\u2019t just \u201cbe.\u201d Everything flows, as some Greek philosopher\u2014Thales?\u2014noted. This inclusion of time in our cosmology is part of a peculiar brand of philosophy called \u201cProcess Philosophy.\u201d I was attracted to it. It began with the \u201cprocess\u201d philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1865-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000), which has been carried on by the Center for Process Studies at Claremont College. They tie in the reality that time is a reality, and everything that happens does so in time.<\/p>\n
Professor Whitehead died in 1947 but his insight has been carried on. For a time I was open to this view, but then came to a conclusion that there is a level beyond that: Mind! The problem is that many things may be considered to have minds, which experience time, space, and matter. <\/p>\n
Humans really think about thinking, and my intuition is that this generates or occupies a further dimension. Space is 3-dimensional, time is 4th dimensional, bare consciousness is 5 dimensional, and thinking about thinking is 6th dimen-sional. For about 2-5000 years, there have been those who have thought about this\u2014thinking about human-level reflections; thinking about thinking about thinking. At this 7th level, many things interweave, as poetry, music, more complex art. myth, magic, stories\u2014all begin to add to the richness of human thought. It\u2019s more than just thinking-about.<\/p>\n
At the 8th dimension God is known, a little, or maybe a little more than a little. It\u2019s obvious! What isn\u2019t at all obvious is how many more dimensions this intuitive dimension picks up. Maybe three or four or more. I certainly don\u2019t know. Prophecy happens.<\/p>\n
The problem is that we don\u2019t know much about this or \u201chigher\u201d or \u201cmore encom-passing\u201d or more \u201cessential\u201d roles, being that we are not all that different from the story character of Winnie-the-Pooh,\u201d \u201ca bear of very little brain.\u201d (Winnie the Pooh was a toy bear who had adventures made up by A. A. Milne for his son, Christopher and popularized as children\u2019s classic book.)<\/p>\n
That there is a \u201chigher\u201d realm has been witnessed to by saints in various religions, and perceived by \u201cpsychonauts\u201d who have taken LSD (e.g., Professor Houston Smith). Oh, yeah, they realized, it\u2019s so obvious. Indeed, what if in some future time more and more people realize this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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