Welcome to the Club

We human beings have been taught many different things in our differing individual lives. We have been conditioned in different ways depending on our cultures, our life experiences, our religions, or lack thereof. Yet we are one human race, living interdependently upon this planet. This is a world we have never experienced before. The present moment is, as it has always been, new. No matter what we think, or what we think we think, or what we've been taught to think, or what we've been taught not to think, we, as individuals, can't say with certainty what is really true or not true, because so much depends on our conditioning. We, in this one articulation of a limited view of reality, offer this version of an open mind, and base it on the assumption that we humans have, and have always had, that limited view of reality, or what we might call "truth." It has been based on our experiences in these mortal bodies.

We are living in a collection of stories, told to help explain reality, by those who came before us. Sometimes the moment calls for an update, and we are all in this together. We are conscious creators, and the stories we tell make a difference in the lives we experience.

We are finite beings, in these physical bodies at least, whether we assume an after life or not. Therefore, in what appears to be an infinite world of energy, we cannot possibly have a total understanding of our place in the world, nor can we understand the total nature of creation. This philosophy does not reject any truth, it just acknowledges that every truth, or belief, is just as right or wrong as the next one, depending on our limited perspective. So no matter what we believe, and no matter how devoutly we believe it, we can still acknowledge that none of us have a monopoly on "truth."

Most religions suggest humility before "God," yet how can we call ourselves humble if we claim knowledge of the very nature of existence, especially if we are simply reading the story from a book printed at the hands of man?

We live in dying bodies, temporary beings living in measured time. But we live in a universe in the midst of infinities. Behind impermanence is the Great Is, that which has always existed, will always exist and never "existed;" the Thought behind Creation, The No-thing that is beyond time and understanding. The Great Creator. That which is No Thing and Every Thing.

"In the beginning was the void." Or "in the beginning was the Word."

Or as it is expressed in 1 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching:

"The Dao that can be expressed is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. 'Non-existence' I call the beginning of Heaven and Earth. 'Existence' I call the mother of individual beings."Everything is perfect. Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. What path? No path. Just an open mind. We are only the human race. There are no requirements. All the enlightenment has been written by the Genius of mankind for thousands of years. It’s everywhere you look, buried beneath the surface of what has been hiding it from us. The lie. The lie that we are separate from God. The lie that we are fallen. The lie that this is not still the Garden of Eden, that this is not still heaven we are living on. Heaven and Hell are right here on earth, not up in the sky somewhere. We invent our existence, because we are the conscious creators, at the beck and call of the will of the All.

We are small, we live here. The sun and the earth, the perfect symmetry of the universe and our little galaxy, all spinning perfectly so that we get life every day, in the form of light. It’s a miracle. We are at the mercy of the Universe. We live only by the miracle of life. Birth and death, decay and resurrection.

We are nature. We just happen to think about it. We have the weight of existence on our minds. We think, therefore we are confused. In stillness, action. In action, stillness.

Here we are. We don’t understand everything, and we never will. We just keep expanding and evolving. What is true is what we say it is. We are the deciders. What beliefs and what actions will be most beneficial to all life on earth?

Can we spread a message of light, love, hope, faith, beauty, grace, joy, wonder, truth and peace? Can we transcend this story we have been told about our fallenness? We are gardeners, not only of plants, but of thoughts. We play a roll in this game of life like all the rest of matter: the rock, the cockroach, gravity, water, dirt, fire, ant, tree, and lion. We have to decide when we want to hit the delete button on ideas that are no longer helping us create a better reality.

The idea of sin, that we are dying as a punishment for some ancestral misadventure, is this more than just an out of date conceptualization of the fear of decay, a way to understand our suffering? Death is necessary for life. Each of us in our death is a sacrifice to life. Would we be better served by finding a more holistic way of looking at one of the major guarantees in life, which is in this case, death? Can we tell ourselves that we are here to care for life and to pass the garden on to future life, instead of continuing to live in a story that tells us that our job is to have dominion and control over what God gave us? What would it be like to tell ourselves that Mother Earth and Father Sun give us life, that their dance and endless love for each other is the magic that needs no greater god?

Are we reflections of that perfection? Are we the Ubermensch? Did consciousness evolve on this sun soaked earth, just as we did? Have we never been further along than we are now? Is every day another potential step away from Hell, and toward Heaven.

Have we been serving delusion, distraction, selfishness, greed, and separation. Have we been ignoring our higher self, the superconsciousness of which we are all a part? The Ultranet. Are we at the doorway of the day we have never experienced before? Is it time for the evolution of the human mind?