Peace on Earth

I am Gnostic in that I have had a personal and direct experience of God and oneness and I KNOW God. I do not follow any Gnostic dogma. I can see from my perspective see that all dogma of every religion is a lesser law of man. This truth does not inherently diminish their validity. What it does is clarify that all humans follow human laws. Natures laws are closer to Gods Laws but even a careful study of nature will not reveal the ultimate truth. It is through the thorough study of self that a human can witness God directly and the way of God, and the way God works, which I would not use the word law to describe. When self is revealed it is the substance of God that is revealed. It is LOVE! Not trite luv ya babe, not romantic “I love you” not passion not parental not unconditional not brotherly but all of these loves and more, all at once, all now, to create actual substance, which is the foundational structure for the material universe.

Follow whatever laws you choose to. I believe it is empowering to know that we make and follow our own rules. We decide together what works and what doesn’t work. What "hurts too much to ever risk feeling that bad again, so I am going to create a law to hopefully prevent future pain." If we test every law against the pleasure/pain principle, we can get a clearer idea of the laws we need to follow and the laws it is time to change. When we know the truth, that the pleasure/pain stems from the God substance from which we are all made, then that gives honor to the laws we create. But I shy away from giving any law the credence of divinity because every single human in the physical realm is burdened with ego to some extent. The ego in this framework is a limiting factor. The ego places boundaries on a human and because of that ego we need the laws in the first place. Animals do not have ego in the way we do and that is why they also do not need laws in the way that we do.

Attributing laws to God is why the world is at war, and will always be so, in my ego laden opinion. Understanding God as only something outside of ourselves is also why we will always be at war. The ego is what preserves our identity as something other than the Truth, which is, that we are all ambassadors for God, fashioned from the stuff of God’s love. That other person that I am about to hurt is loved by God as powerfully as God loves me. That other person who is a sinner and a human rights violator is passionately loved by God. Our immovable ego will  not allow us to see our fellow humans as the darling children of God, but that is how God sees them all. Our ego has created this delusion that these other humans are not me, are not God, and are not lovable. When the truth, available to anyone with the will to allow your self to set aside ego, and experience the indisputable truth that our essence as well as the essence of everything in the physical universe is God’s Love and divinely lovable.

Ok so reality check, here we are in the physical world carrying around our burdensome ego’s. Easier said than done to set them aside. How are we to get along with each other? Some where down the line some one has to have the balls to bear the pain and not kill the next person. “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my Father, prepare to die” this is my favorite line from the Princess Bride and it encapsulates this never ending cycle of death and murder. Something about justifiable homicide is so satisfying to our ego, crime drama is our number one genre of entertainment. The answer is to feel the pain. I am not advocating masochism. Simply stated if each of is takes one moment to feel the pain we have just been dealt, before we act the world will become a better place. If we can manage to take it a step further and put ourselves in the other persons shoes and feel their pain that they are acting from we will be well on our way to world peace. I am adamantly against contrived sacrifice and pain. Many religions institutionalize sacrifice through limitations on diet and actions so to elicit this ideological state of sacrifice. Some cultures go way further to the point of causing bodily harm like circumcision to forms of hazing. Life is already painful enough just growing up in a human body. God or fate or destiny or karma or whatever you want to call it already lays out for us many “opportunities” for pain and sacrifice, we need not manufacture these opportunities. Maybe a naive utopian fantasy but if my consciousness has the ability to create reality, I might as well put it out there. If we honor these tragedies of our lives as these great natural opportunities to experience pain and sacrifice, maybe me can manage to endure the pain and tragedy we are dealt by circumstance. If we can manage to bear the pain without causing further pain or trauma for anyone else our personal spiritual evolution advances to the next level. My personal direct experience of God was achieved or received through just one of these tragedies that I chose to bear the pain and sacrifice my ego to the circumstance. Hands down, the scariest thing if ever did in my life, was to face the pain full on, and feel it all. And it HURT…BAD…. And then God healed my pain with LOVE! all the love there is! and the pain was as if, it never was, gone like it had never been there. My heart filled to beyond capacity with love.

I still get irritated that for me the window through to God opens through pain, not an easy portal to go through. I hope and believe there are other ways to get there but this is the way I know to be true. But now knowing this truth, that by feeling the pain I can connect to God and once I do connect to God the pain is completely healed, I am now mostly often able to bear out the painful circumstances of life without generating more pain for others.

Imagine dropping a bouncy rubber ball into a clear plastic box. It will have a lot of energy and keep bouncing around a while. Now imagine dropping a bean bag into the box. It just drops and stays there and silence ensues. Being reactive like the rubber ball continues to generate negative energy, sometimes it even escalates. Being like the bean bag and feeling and bearing the pain of your life’s circumstances, disburses the negative energy and generates peace.