Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Ineffable AHA!

The non-thought aha To people who have only experienced logical aha's, The concept of an aha or understanding to a point of clarity could exist and yet be impossible to describe via words is ineffable to them. Yet, once you have the non-verbal aha of understanding, you don't care about it being difficult to describe because its very existence within you is the first step in finding what has been missing. These aha's exist either as images and feelings or as sounds and feelings. The inability to describe it to those that have never experienced image/feelings aha of profound understands will argue with the totally incompatible logic of, "If I haven't experienced it, It isn't real nor is it a valid context for you to explain yourself." One way the logical verbal linear process will insert itself into your consciousness is where you have a conversation in your head to an audience you know that is there. (It may be represented as a friend, a famous person, an audience in an auditorium, or someone of authority. In the course of "watching yourself" converse, you understand what you are explaining, as you explain it. This private internal dialogue is the feeling based aha being transmuted to logical understanding. And since it is word based you will either understand it as you write about it or you will understand as you talk about it. And this process of writing or speaking can be actual or imagined in your mind. It's still the same gestalt to the logical process. Long before you settle into a definition or mental model about God, there can be this knowing you already have a relationship with whatever ever this mystic mystery is, you will find out. Your definition of what the Kingdom of GOD may change over time but your desire and commitment to enter or experience it will never waver. The most accurate theology I have discovered is Panentheism. It explains GOD as both Creator and Created and as being the sum total of all reality and yet transcendent of reality. The aspect of GOD that is transcendent of time and space is what I call SOURCE. All reality not transcendent of time and space is filled with Gods. Panentheism does not refute this. Panentheism is also compatible with science as it assumes there is an infinite number of realities and a totally Ineffable Oness Source. Panentheism is compatible with the ancient mystic teachings that creation is how God explores and understands God. The world of duality is how SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS explores itself. This eternal, non-created awareness is both infinite and unbounded. All realities play out within in its matrix.

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