All creatures shout God, says 14th century mystic Meister Eckhart. The only way to get to this, in my opinion, is again in a line by Meister Eckhart , "we must be as we were when we were not."
In other words, we need to decondition ourselves. This is the deep, non-literal story of Christ's being virgin born. The virgin mind is one that is deconditioned.
Have we become "un-grounded" by "worshipping" and conditioned to believe in some Platonic ideal existing as a man far above the clouds that refuses to get His hands dirty?
How does that relate to our top-down governance, which is bought and sold by corporations and banks? What are the consequences of our living like this?
Is God's rule bottom up (akin to Rob Kall's passion) or trickle down (Reagan's metaphor) a reflection of how we should be living? The God we choose has ramifications for how we live.
Neither, the debate is about how we see ourselves in the world. How we define God is how we define ourselves. Rob's "Bottom Up" way is about self-empowerment. Which one does God choose? Whichever one you choose. The debate should be what are the ramifications of one over the other.
My thumb's up is with Rob, which does not mean he gives his thumbs up to this article. God exists as everything and has to exist in everything since Infinity does not exist independent of anything. Yet, Infinity is limited in its being unlimited. If there were no one except you, how would you see yourself reflected without the mirror of the cosmos?
Remember the commandment, "love thy neighbor as thy self?" Is it time to actually practice what we preach? Can you see your ego in the eyes of the Koch Brothers?
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