Gos is Love

I know what I shall focus on, shall write about -- Love, the most powerful force, the most invasive and transformational energy in the Cosmos. My intellect wishes to understand God but God is beyond understanding. However, God is Love. All our spiritual ancestors say this. My heart says this. The prime spiritual equation is (God = Love). Now I have a chance of knowing what Love is. I may not be able to grasp God but I can and do know Love. And when I know Love, I know God. My quest becomes more doable. I wish to know this most powerful energy in the Cosmos, this transformational energy more deeply. Know it with my heart, with my head, with my actions. I shall focus on and write about Love.

"For it is Love that brought us here, and Love will see us home."

Cross Word

Cross Word

Jesus' hands nailed, fixed, unmovable on the horizontal isolation -- the scientific world of this and that, of the muttering of matter. No mercy here.

The vertical says different. Jesus' feet firmly grounded, nailed, affixed -- once and for all. His head the limitless, the eternal, uncaught by horizontal time. 

Jesus' great heart at the intersection of the spiritual and the scientific -- the cross road where God and humanity meet. 

Religion and science not stopping places. Jesus leaves the cross, leaps into the arms of infinite embrace. Nailed to the cross of space and time, we know, we understand.

We get off our cross. We walk around.

The warm embrace of God.

Fractals of the Cosmos

As fractals of the cosmos, we humans have three cognitive powers: Sensory (Be sensible!), Intellectual (Think!), Imaginative (Receive! Explore! Create!).

The sensory operates at the physical level. The intellectual operates at the mental level. The imagination operates at the spiritual level. 

We are a tripartite package. The three operate as a team. Each affects the wellbeing of the others.

Christian Doctrine

What I learned this morning at Christianity school: Christ consciousness is the true Christian doctrine. Thus, as Christians, we open to and continue opening to Christ consciousness. This is all the doctrine we need. Being human, however, we want to put it into language. This is where we get into trouble, argument, and disputation. Read the sayings of Christ and read of the actions of Christ -- by this Christ consciousness is absorbed. Read deeply. Christ consciousness becomes our consciousness.

eyes of fire

Though my heart and mind are open to all the paths that teach the embodying of love and understanding, my root guru is Jesus. I love that Dude. Walker through the world telling stories, getting tired and weary and angry at times, compassionate with the downtrodden, popping the balloons of the know-it-alls, patient and gentle with children and with the childlike, and all with a great sense of humor and irony, my Teacher. 

One of the things I love about Jesus is that no matter how much I screw up, he just looks at me with no judgment and a slight smile and says okay, get up, let's move on. And we do.

How does a person have a relationship with that which is invisible to eyes of flesh? Hey! It's like Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." And as Henry Corbin said, Use your "eyes of fire."

Tribes

Tribes. We are each and all members of tribes. We claim membership in our tribe, our tribes. We feel comfortable with our tribal kin. Tribes can be of blood kin, of mindset kin, of gender kin, of political kin, of physical action kin, of mutual interest kin, of religious kin, of spiritual kin.

Tribes are by nature suspicious of those outside the tribe. A tribe is enclosed, has a skin to it not easily penetrated by outsiders, those outside the tribe. A tribal alarm goes off when a non-tribal person becomes too close, too familiar. 

The tribe is relatively blameless. It is all those outside the tribe who cause all the trouble. Too bad "they" are not like "us."

Our tribal warfare is killing us. 

How do we do differently? Tribes are not going away. It is our nature.

The answer is simple. Expand our tribal tent to include everyone.

But, but, but … you say. 

We must get our heads out of our buts and just do it.