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From: v129nlgw@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (PAUL HOWARD)
Subject: Re: The end of god
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In article <Cx4FwF.H6H@beaux.atwc.teradyne.com>, pnorton@beaux.atwc.teradyne.com (Peter Norton) writes...
>svonesh@lib.uwo.ca (Sue Vonesh) writes:
>>
>>Hi, 
>>     I've got to respond to this - I've heard a lot of crazy nonsense
>>touted as rational thought in my time, but this post about "BECOMING
>>GOD" has got to take the cake!  You are kidding, I sincerely hope!
> 
>Actually, it is about 'Being God'.  As far as I know, God does not 'become'.
> 
>>Anyway, IMHO it's all hogwash, if only because mysticism has no direct
>>link to religion of any kind. As for Christ "freeing-up neurons", I've
> 
>Ah, at last, a mind unsullied by any experience of either mysticism or religion!
> 
>>never heard anything so silly!
> 
>When you let go of repressing your Christ nature you will see what those
>neurons which were involved in its active repression are capable of.
>The Universe is a very silly place, indeed.

OM I God!  Interesting topic.  First, let me introduce myself.  I am.
Alternatively, I am a Yogi currently training to be a Kundalini Yoga teacher.
I've studied nearly 4000 pages of Yogic scriptures, and am a mystic in the
stage of illumination, as well as a Reiki practitioner.  Mind if I put 
in my $0.02?


First of all, it is true that no one can become God, for we already are.  God
is eternally omnipresent as the Self of all.  The evolution of the universe
is God's experience of being infinite as well as every degree of finity,
though Absolute Reality is non-duality.  Our five senses direct the attention
away from the self, which is infinite, and cause it to perceive the diverse
objects of the universe.  The separateness of the objects of the universe is
a universal truth, that is, it is perceived by all creatures with the same
sences, but the senses are deceptive.  Our five sences each only perceive
a small band of the universe.  Our eyes only see light from X frequency to 
Y frequency, yet we know that other frequencies exist.  The equivalent is 
true for each of the other senses.  This is true as well for our sense of 
touch, in that our touch only perceives matter of a certain energy-density.
I think most of you would agree that thoughts exist in time, but where do
they exist in space?  They exist everywhere, but our five external senses
do not perceive them.  Again ask yourself, where and when are you.  None can
answer anything but "here" and "now" no matter where you go, or what time it
is.  Where is the past?  Where is the future?  Neither exist.  All that is 
is the eternal here and now, which I am.  That brings me to the point of 
Yoga, which is the realization of the union of the individual consciousness 
with universal consciousness.  When the mind is directed out the senses to
the universe, time and space are perceived.  This mind creates the ego,
or the illusion of separateness of the self and each of the objects of the
universe.  This is the basis of maya.  When the attention is directed inward
in self inquiry to such a degree that the universe is forgotten, 
self-awareness occurs, which is the realization that the self is All That Is, 
that the self of one is the self of all.  That is omniscience, omnipresence, 
and omnipotence.  Let me leave you with a quote from The Yoga Vasistha, 
the English version titled The Supreme Yoga, "This world-appearance is a
confusion: even as the blueness of the sky is an optical illusion.  I think
it is better not to let the mind dwell on it, but to ignore it."  And another,
"That individualized consciousness itself is known as the jiva or the 
individual soul, when the potentialities are in an extremely subtle state.
And when all this jugglery of the jiva ceases, that itself shines as
the supreme being."   OM
	
Namaste,
Paul Howard

