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Article by Sha'Tara...
Conversation with an ISSA*
*ISSA - Acronym for intelligent, sentient, self-aware beings.
"Prayer is confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"Being 'born again' doesn't mean you've arrived somewhere" Dave said. "It means you're now ready to start the trip." (Phases of Gravity - Dan Simmons)
"I've lived thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors." (Henry David Thoreau - Walden)
[And I've lived twice that on the same planet and fully concur - Sha'Tara]
"The secret to life is to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones." (Beowulf's Children)
Conversation with an ISSA
[voice from the Other Side - Sha'Tara]
"You guys used to believe in God?"
"Sure. Everybody evolving past the animal stage to ISSA consciousness believes in some form of God. Some even document encounters with their God. It is usual for such transitional awareness to evolve gradually from primal fear (the fear of discovering cosmic aloneness and of having to take responsibility) to belief in many gods to eventually arrive at the one God stage."
"But you don't believe in God now, do you?"
"Not in the sense you project. There are many gods, and many "One God" in the Cosmos; as many as there are evolving life forms such as yours. We know of these entities and we attempt to interact peacefully with them, as groups or as individuals. But in terms of believing in them, translated meaning serving them, that would compare to a university graduate sitting in the corner of a sand box with a blanket and sucking his thumb."
"How do you 'interact peacefully' with these known gods, or interact with them at all?"
"Generally speaking we do not interact with the divinities themselves. Their divine reality (power) only exists in the minds of their creations, worshipers and followers. Our meaningful interaction is with evolving sentience such as yourself. If you come to us with a God complex we seek to accommodate that until such time you decide to change your mind. This will happen to you when you observe empirically a non-god centered intelligence operating in greater freedom and at a far superior level of understanding overall than your own, or that of your fellow creatures who still cling to the need for a superior spirit being to guide and to redeem. By interacting with us you come to observe and accept the fact that all belief systems are primitive protective mechanisms developed by an evolving sentience having become aware of itself as a responsible (cause-consequence awareness) part of All That Is.
"Belief systems of which belief in some divinity is usually the most endemic serve as psychological "body guards" to a frightened and vulnerable mind rising out of the relative comfort of animal consciousness to discover an amazing but quite alien landscape where reactive responses to environmental pressure has given way to proactive (reasoned) action. From this the mind develops a sense of purpose. When it understands itself thus its belief systems tend to atrophy. A natural process, nothing to fret over."
"So it's O.K. with you if I believe in God?"
<<Smile!>>
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nice.....
Art Sun...
I am blessed by your spirit of truth and tranquilty. You evoke sentiments in people like Kimmy below who has been touched by the hand of God. We are here for a purpose, a "Works in Progress" so to speak and often times our human nature gets in the way of absolutes.
Aloha Brother,
Myles
In my own life He has proven his existence
His done so many things to help me through since the day
I was borne till now
Some of my family may not believe as strong
as me but they don't know that the reason everything
is going good in their lives is because they are
always in my daily prayers and placed in his hands,
I don't need to see him to beliefs in his existence!
Excellent thought provoking write!
Love Peace and joy many hugsss to you always...Yolie
Who was coaxing her, helping her try to let go...? Who did she see?
I am a believer...for there are too many instances in my own life that has PROVEN His existence to me...the child was my sister...
Thought-provoking, if one is to be, provoked!
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~
Just a thought.
God Bless,
Lew
Great write, very thought provoking!
Peace, Love, and Light,
Amber "V"
Amour & Lumière,
Alexandra*
Blessings,
Joyce B.
God doesn't need to believe in us because He do know, Man needs to believe because he don't, simple as that.
A statement "I believe in God" is kind of stating "Yes I believe despite the doubs about His existence," trying to convince the rest of the world and perhaps, secretely, himself.
Conversation with an ISSA opens all kind of cans of worms; from those that fanatically and irreasonable "believe" to the ones hold by entrenched atheist.
Believing as been converted on a rainbow where extremes are squeezing the real colors, can we say the truth?
Georg
I do believe in something.
That is better than believing in nothing..
Something wants me to shut up and listen....(o:
I LIKED IT! Way out, or rather - FAR OUT - abstract reasoning. I almost expected that skinny lil pop-eyed ALIEN to offer me a drink, and say: "SIT, OOBOO - SIT!"
SMILES ---> :) :) :) Tom.