Monday, August 1, 2011

Shechinah...

According to the Talmud, the Shekhinah, the Indwelling, is the Divine that resides within the life of the world, dwelling on earth with the Jewish people and going into exile with them when they are exiled. While the traditional Jewish image of the transcendent God is male, in the kabbalah, that image has been accompanied by the feminine image of the Shekhinah—the inner glory of existence. (http://telshemesh.org/shekhinah/)
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TranslationGod's Presence, Kingdom Description The Shekhinah is a Talmudic concept representing God's dwelling and immanence in the created world. It was equated with the "Keneset Yisrael," the personified spirit of the People of Israel. According to a Rabbinic tradition, the Shekhinah shares in the exiles of the Jewish people. Therefore, the redemption of the people of Israel is inextricably linked to the remedying of an alienation within God him/herself, introducing a bold new element into traditional Jewish Messianic eschatology. It is through the Shekhinah that humans can experience the Divine. The passivity of the Shekhinah is often emphasized (equated with its femininity), as the recipient of forces from the higher Sefirot. (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Shekhinah.html)
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Encountering the Shechinah, The Jewish Goddess RABBI LEAH NOVICK 204-14.from Nicholson, Shirley ed. 1983 The Goddess Re-Awakening She so pervades this lower world... that if you search in deed, thought and speculation, you will find Shechinah, for there is no beginning or end to her. Rabbi Joseph 13th-cent mystic
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Blah, blah, blah...

Thank you for visiting this blog. This blog has been dedicated to something that is of no importance to us. In effect, the knowledge contained in this blog would have hampered the process we’re perpetuating. To have the privilege of experiencing reality, let alone define it, has been a roller-coaster of bliss and astonishment.  

Bliss is when we suddenly know, experience the truth. Many of us have had these experiences. Words have been and still are hard to find to explain these moments of bliss, generally we feel a connection to everything around us. To be part of a whole.

Astonishing for me was that with what we know today, we can explain this knowledge or gnosis with simple observations. These observations led me to a truth so simple in its core that it took me years to really, seriously examine it.

Now after almost a decade of bliss and astonishment I have to conclude that what first came to me is actually true.

Because of the constant bliss and astonishment I’ve been explaining my findings over and over again, coming from different angles, different religions, different philosophies all in all different mind-sets, telling us the same thing. This ‘Final Gnosis’ or ultimate knowledge of why we are here is in no way the end of our quest, it’s the beginning.

In short:

We now know that we’re a product of life’s evolution. Survival is the name of the game. To survive life needs to adapt to its ever changing surroundings, failure means death. The prevailing secular scientific western ideology claims that random changes within the reproduction process causes evolution.  I’d like to contest to only one word here, and that is ‘random’. I do not deny any form of chance being part of our evolution, but the random should be replaced by the word serendipity.

Out here we learn that there is no definable goal or purpose to life, somehow it’s all in vain.  These are the conclusions of people with no experience of original pain. These are supermarket induced philosophies. They are not able to see the source, because they never feel it.

Distinguished scientists, philosophers accept that we are the result of evolution, hence they know that to continue this billion year old ‘process’ we’ll have to leave the planet to survive. How funny is it that we are the first life forms that did just that.

When you think about it just briefly, you will know that without something like us humans, life will not be able to leave this planet.

So there you are, we, you and me, are part of an overall attempt to create a life form which is able to leave this planet. More simply stated; a life form that is capable to adapt to the seemingly infinite space surrounding our planet.   

All this might sound a bit rough. Yes, it makes sense that humans have been evolved so as to adapt to the ‘universe’ but what initiated it?

In contrast to popular believe, life has a purpose. It’s purpose is to live. To adapt to whatever killed the dinosaurs necessarily created us, humans.  The goal of life is closely related to the origin of life.

This origin of life will be my main focus point. It’s the life force or forces. These three forces culminated into us. They explain the trinity on several levels, being western traditions or eastern.  

It is this trinity of consciousness that tells our story and explains our predicament. The shocker is that we’ve known about them forever, defined them, used them in metaphors over and over again.. but we never saw their significance until we finally reduced ourselves to what we are; products of millions of years of evolution and recent arrivals to the scene. Only as recent as 50 years ago, the cataclysmic history of life was unknown. During the seventies we first found evidence of major catastrophes almost ending life. The most well-known is the event  65 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs. 

In short; we’re here to make sure we will be able to survive whatever event that  killed the dinosaur . Abrahamic religions call this God. Eastern thoughts name it the Tao.

But we are the source of it all.

The life forces that compel us to do what we do we’ve known for aeons. But our purpose transcends plain survival. To us life asks more than how to live. It asks us to sacrifice ourselves to a higher goal. So we submit to her will and seek a higher goal. This can only go on for so long. As soon as we ask ‘higher than what?’ the quest ends.  

The purpose of life lies in her origins. When we define the life forces we’ll know our purpose.

Pain is the original instigator of life, lust is the preferable state to be in, fear is losing the preferable state.

When life began her first action was feeding. Not reproducing, but feeding. Extrapolate: why does life feed? Because if it doesn’t it grows hungry. Grows hungry from where? From lust. Pain and pleasure, the most common conundrums in search of meaning, lie at the core of life’s first interaction with her surroundings, feeding. Hunger is the force that forced her, but lust precedes hunger as we all know. When hunger and lust are experienced, fear will arise. Fear of pain, hunger.

Hunger, Lust and Fear are the trinity of our consciousness, to survive Love must follow. The other becomes crucial when we will have to leave Earth. So to love thy neighbour is a prerequisite for survival.





    









  


Our predicament in three verses...

Hunger: It was Pain that induced the beginning of Living.
Lust: the first Desire is to avoid Pain.
Fear: this Desire to avoid Pain, creates Fear. Litterally the Fear of Pain.
So begins being, consiousness....

Succesfully avoiding Pain *Hunger* resulted in evolution.
Evolution is a strategic, thoughtful, purpose driven process designed for Life to keep on living.
So far it worked very well, Life's about 3.5 billion years old.

Throughout Life's history, she learned to adapt to most anything that stood in her way to avoid pain.
But there is one thing she became aware of only recently. Something that inflicts pain so violently and is so dangerous to her quest of Living, to adapt to it a complete new strategy had to be devised. We humans part and parcel of this strategy...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Lesser God

This blog is dedicated to the authentic Gnostic texts and how they are based on revelatory events that gets us near the Final Gnosis, the knowledge of why we’re here. These texts symbolize and tell of our creator, Life. And of her goal; survival. Gnosis is not limited to Christian Gnosticism, Gnosis we find in all cultures and in all times. What is the accepted definition of gnosis? Let’s start with the most accessible definition of Gnosticism, the first phrases on Wikipedia, and see if we can find a ‘lesser God’ or Life as a creator instead of an almighty One.

Gnosticism (Greek: γνσις gnōsis, knowledge) was a group of ancient religions that combined different elements from Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism (especially Zurvanism), Neoplatonism, and eventually Buddhism and early Christianity. It taught that some esoteric knowledge (or Gnosis) was necessary for salvation from the material world, which was created by some intermediary figure (or demiurge) instead of God.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism-

I thought this to be a good start for this blog.

Saturday, January 1, 2000

Final Gnosis: Plato's The World's Soul

'And he made her out of the following elements and on this wise: Out of the indivisible and unchangeable, and also out of that which is divisible and has to do with material bodies, he compounded a third and intermediate kind of essence, partaking of the nature of the same and of the other, and this compound he placed accordingly in a mean between the indivisible, and the divisible and material. He took the three elements of the same, the other, and the essence, and mingled them into one form, compressing by force the reluctant and unsociable nature of the other into the same.'

Fear is the element described here as one of the three elements; hunger, lust and fear. Without it we, Life, would still be 'unchangeable'.