[HappytheStripper]

Who is God? What does God stand for?

The word God is generally associated with religious belief, and long considered to be the creator (masterplanner) of the universe and the source of everything.
Most religions traditionally ascribe to God certain character traits that can be understood either literally or metaphorically, such as will, love, anger, and forgiveness. However throughout the course of time there have been three fundamental religious beliefs.

Islamic/Christianity/Buddahism

It seems to be that even Religion has an evolutionary process which seems to inherit and mutate according to popular beliefs and knowledge of the time.

Is it that God is residing within each and everyone of us as a higher power? The more we belive it to be the higher the power?

Certainty is though, humans need something to believe in - for what does man have without belief or question?

Imagine having been a part of the evolutionary thousands of years ago when man was trying to figure his existant surroundings. That woulda taken just a few hundred years to come up with fire and it was the mesotopians to discover the wheel and build the first monumental buildings and structures. Who did they beleive in?

Is religion just a need for secular survival whilst scientists try to uncover why we are here.

Hey its xmas I been sitting here awhile now. Do any of you believe in Santa?

[mkirkpatrick]

The answer to that question HTS,or Ashley,what does God stand for is; Good orderly direction=God.Or ego=ease God out=ego!Or reversed DOG-do only good=DOG.


regards michael.

[Lloyd Gillespie]

Originally Posted by HappytheStripper Who is God? What does God stand for? Hey its xmas I been sitting here awhile now. Do any of you believe in Santa?

Santa makes me happy ___god does not...!

Regards,
Lloyd

[michellemfry]

When you think of the canine, remember the wolf. Then think of you alone in the woods. Where will your downlooks upon the bloodline take you? Man bred the dog out of the wolf. We cannot turn upon our own creatures after we have changed them from the grace and power of wolf to the working field animal. Please open your eyes and hearts. They know not from where they come. If they did, they might hate us.

[baudrunner]

Santa makes me happy ___god does not...!

What arrogance.

Firat to presume that if God exists that he be respnsible for making you happy. Or you blame him for your being born.

He's just a Dude who's been here a whole lot longer than you.

"Ooh! He's so mean! How could he let all those bad things happen! Boo-hoo!"

..tch..Really!

[mkirkpatrick]

Good orderly direction=GOD.


regards michael.

[HappytheStripper]

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger . . . is as good as dead.” --Albert Einstein

The Great Unknown

Imagine one of our ancient ancestors, suddenly stricken by illness or a near-fatal accident. Hovering near the brink of death, an ordinary person suddenly finds him or herself locked in an immersive visionary experience of shadowy figures, muted voices and blinding luminescence.

The cosmos opens its enfolding arms and infinity spreads out in a timeless panoply that dissolves all fear, all separation from the Divine. Fear of death vanishes in a comforting flood of bliss, peace and dazzling light – the ultimate ‘holy’ connection. Overwhelming conviction arises that this is the more fundamental Reality. The welcoming gates of a personal heaven open…

Suddenly back in the body, returned to ordinary reality, one is left to interpret that transcendent experience to oneself and others. This near-death experience may not have resulted in physical demise, but it has led to the death of the old self – the personal self -- and the rebirth, rapture, or resurrection of the soul or spirit. It brings a surge of emotions, conviction and even transformation in its wake. The soul has taken a journey from which one cannot return the same.

A descent into psychobiological hell can lead to a transcendent journey toward Heaven…or perhaps the yawning abyss of the Void. Shamans, priests, prophets, mystics, and gurus arose to show the Way of navigating these nether regions, of finding healing, the eternal moment, a peaceful heart, and unity.

Our human progenitors had to directly confront existential issues of survival, adaptation, stress, mating, birth, loss, and death. They gradually developed stories about the basics of life – social, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual existence. They created myths, beliefs about creation and our creation to give meaning to life. They developed rituals, ceremonies, and practices to heal body and mind, mark life passages, and placate forces beyond their control. These accounted for their origins as well as voices, visions and experiences that seemed to come from the great Beyond.

The brain is hard-wired for mystical experiences to modify the threat of our hostile existential reality. Metaphysical explanations developed for the essentially unknowable, for sudden and irresistible seizures of ecstasy. Some of these accounts were more sophisticated than others depending on their cultural background, but all shared a common core by defining the mystery of the relationship between mankind and the Unknown. It might be called a peak experience, spirit possession, epiphany, religious rapture, nirvana, satori, shaktiput, clear light, or illumination. The difference is only one of degrees of absorption, of fulfillment.

The god-experience is a process, a subjective perception, rather than an objectively provable reality. Distractions cease, replaced by the direct impact of oceanic expansion, sudden insight, childlike wonder, ecstatic exaltation above bodily and personal existence, dissolution in a timeless moment, fusion, gnosis.

It is direct perception coupled with high emotion and deep realization of what appears to be ultimate truth. It rips away the veil of illusion, revealing the pure ground state of our existence without any emotional, mental, or belief filters. Left with only pure awareness, the natural mind is finally free of earthly trappings. Bathed in emotions of joy, assurance and salvation, Cosmos becomes a living presence. Immortality is sensed, so fear of death vanishes.

Many called that numinous mystery God. In some sense, religion is a reaction to what actually is. But to many, when it comes to their religion, those are fighting words – for theirs is the true way, the only way. Heaven on Earth cannot be achieved so long as those two realms are separated. God comes down to earth in our own psychophysiology, dwelling within us.

[mkirkpatrick]

We are outposts of Divinities intention,outworking the universal law of evolution,and growing in conscious expansion towards total realization of Being,thereby completing a
cycle of many aeons of duration.



regards michael.

[Infinite Consciousness]

Originally Posted by HappytheStripper “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger . . . is as good as dead.” --Albert Einstein The Great Unknown Imagine one of our ancient ancestors, suddenly stricken by illness or a near-fatal accident. Hovering near the brink of death, an ordinary person suddenly finds him or herself locked in an immersive visionary experience of shadowy figures, muted voices and blinding luminescence. The cosmos opens its enfolding arms and infinity spreads out in a timeless panoply that dissolves all fear, all separation from the Divine. Fear of death vanishes in a comforting flood of bliss, peace and dazzling light – the ultimate ‘holy’ connection. Overwhelming conviction arises that this is the more fundamental Reality. The welcoming gates of a personal heaven open… Suddenly back in the body, returned to ordinary reality, one is left to interpret that transcendent experience to oneself and others. This near-death experience may not have resulted in physical demise, but it has led to the death of the old self – the personal self -- and the rebirth, rapture, or resurrection of the soul or spirit. It brings a surge of emotions, conviction and even transformation in its wake. The soul has taken a journey from which one cannot return the same. A descent into psychobiological hell can lead to a transcendent journey toward Heaven…or perhaps the yawning abyss of the Void. Shamans, priests, prophets, mystics, and gurus arose to show the Way of navigating these nether regions, of finding healing, the eternal moment, a peaceful heart, and unity. Our human progenitors had to directly confront existential issues of survival, adaptation, stress, mating, birth, loss, and death. They gradually developed stories about the basics of life – social, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual existence. They created myths, beliefs about creation and our creation to give meaning to life. They developed rituals, ceremonies, and practices to heal body and mind, mark life passages, and placate forces beyond their control. These accounted for their origins as well as voices, visions and experiences that seemed to come from the great Beyond. The brain is hard-wired for mystical experiences to modify the threat of our hostile existential reality. Metaphysical explanations developed for the essentially unknowable, for sudden and irresistible seizures of ecstasy. Some of these accounts were more sophisticated than others depending on their cultural background, but all shared a common core by defining the mystery of the relationship between mankind and the Unknown. It might be called a peak experience, spirit possession, epiphany, religious rapture, nirvana, satori, shaktiput, clear light, or illumination. The difference is only one of degrees of absorption, of fulfillment. The god-experience is a process, a subjective perception, rather than an objectively provable reality. Distractions cease, replaced by the direct impact of oceanic expansion, sudden insight, childlike wonder, ecstatic exaltation above bodily and personal existence, dissolution in a timeless moment, fusion, gnosis. It is direct perception coupled with high emotion and deep realization of what appears to be ultimate truth. It rips away the veil of illusion, revealing the pure ground state of our existence without any emotional, mental, or belief filters. Left with only pure awareness, the natural mind is finally free of earthly trappings. Bathed in emotions of joy, assurance and salvation, Cosmos becomes a living presence. Immortality is sensed, so fear of death vanishes. Many called that numinous mystery God. In some sense, religion is a reaction to what actually is. But to many, when it comes to their religion, those are fighting words – for theirs is the true way, the only way. Heaven on Earth cannot be achieved so long as those two realms are separated. God comes down to earth in our own psychophysiology, dwelling within us.

Happy, is left with only pure awareness, stripped of all material Bs. This is the most exquisitely clear true post that i have ever seen on any forum as told by HTS this is the true "Elegant Universe"

I am not ashamed to say i cried as i read it and the love of God washed over me cleaning me from head to foot and bathing me in bliss in every pore of my being.

THANK YOU HAPPY ! May all life on this beautiful blue planet experience the "Elegant Universe" as you describe it. May God envelope you in wave after wave of intoxicating bliss all the days of your life your message gives hope - "peace that passeth all understanding" - and love - to a helpless humanity dying in its materialism.

This is the T.O.E. and the way to T.O.E.

IN GOD'S INFINITE LOVE

William

[michellemfry]

Wow! I think I just saw a miracle, again. I am so spoiled, Happy.