Essential Good

In unity there is no either/or One of this century's most riveting reports of a 'running and returning' dynamic was documented in a recently produced short film by "Continuum". Interviewing Edgar Mitchell about his experience of looking back at our small blue planet 'of choice'... he mentioned, briefly, the story of G-d taking Abram aside .... Looking out from the Apollo, he could more fully recognize his beingness, as proverbial "stardust". When an astronaut leaves this watery biosphere we call earth .... he experiences what could be described as a "Chilocosm", defined as the interpenetration of a thousand different levels of cosmic creation in contrast to our earth which is defined within a limited space and time ....

... and it is our consciousness of ourselves as Godly 'creatures' that outlasts both the 'ah-ha' moments and the near or full death experiences, ... as when we witness that in a day a child has drowned ... Reply

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Looking past the problems When G-d took Abram aside before he changed his name He told Abram to gaze at the stars and his children woild out number them. The point is, the point of view we take when we look at the irritations and pains and troubles we encounter, which are real. Will we look down on them and see how small and short lived they are or look up at them and feel like we are going to be crushed by them, like a wave upon swimmers, Reply

Maybe the core is evil Some people think that the world was created by an evil being to separate us from the Divinity beyond itself.

So you cannot assume that we all regard the underlying reality as wholly good, or even partly good.

My former spouse used to tell me, every day, that the world was evil, and that there was a thin veneer of pleasure to tempt us to remain in this world instead of committing suicide, as we should do based on the evil of this world.

This idea lies at the heart of gnosticism.

Knowing that many people have believed, or do believe, that this world is basically evil, what is your reply?

For your statement as to what lies at the core of "all" our thoughts is simply untrue.

Not all of us have this at our core. Some people's thoughts profoundly disagree. Truly they do, difficult as it is to imagine. Reply