Dennis Metaphysics: An Adventure in Self-discovery

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9698926-9-4
Verlag: CAPCO International
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Have you ever wondered why you are here, where you came from or if there isn't a bigger picture? Do you know the Creator's purpose? How about yours? This book is about Metaphysical concepts, which, in reality, are Spiritual concepts. That's because meta means beyond and physics refers to the physical. Metaphysics, then is that branch of Philosophy that deals with the non-physical or the Spiritual. This book starts with the premise that we are spiritual beings existing in a physical universe, each with a specific purpose. It explains the nature of creation and our role in it, and it sheds considerable light on many of life's Bigger Questions, such as the ones cited above. As well, this book provides clear explanations for many of the spiritual concepts that are important to understanding our own spiritual nature, e.g. the densification of energy, past life regression, channeling, laws of the universe, extraterrestrials, meditation, creating the future and a whole host of others. As we learn more about these concepts, we understand better where we fit in, we become more the architect of our destiny and less the victim of chance. As well, we can glimpse the beauty, order and magnificence of the divine plan. Indeed, developing these insights and understandings is a great adventure, and importantly, an adventure in self-discovery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dennis, Peter

Leseproben

What Is God? Likely, our first concept of God was something along the lines of an older, bearded gentleman who was wise, powerful and who somehow pulled the strings that orchestrated human affairs. Over time, our concepts evolved and matured. We probably began to understand that God really didn’t have a body, a gender or human limitations. Then, it began to get complicated. As our concepts matured, so did our questions. Where is God? What is His involvement with humans? How powerful is He? Where do we fit in? What are we supposed to be doing? Is He really pulling all the strings or is He allowing us the use of free will? What is the grand plan? Why did He create us, or anything for that matter? Is He perfect? Why does He allow evil? Did He actually create it? Does He change? Etc., etc. Of course, organized religions provide some answers, as do mystics, gurus, scientists, preachers and others. Some tell us that they have the answers or their books do, or it is within each of us. Some say God is a being. Some say a force. Some say a spark of consciousness. It seems that the more answers we have, the more questions we develop. But, our concepts do evolve and we do edge closer, not likely to a final answer, but closer. God Is All That Is. You will notice too, that God goes by many different names: God, Allah, Jehovah, Infinite Creator, etc. The one that I like best is: “All That Is.” It is a term that you see frequently in the metaphysical literature and it is one that I believe captures the essence of what God is. Many spiritual leaders, mystics, church managers, etc. tell us that God is omnipotent and universal. From this, I conclude that God is all – everything, everyone, everywhere, everywhen. God includes everything and everyone. There is nothing outside of God, including you and me. We are all included. We are aspects or expressions of God. We are a part of God and God is not separate from us. God Is Not A Person. As well, God is neither a person nor a being. It is too simplistic to personify God. We did this when times were simpler and we still do it today with children. God does not have a location, a body or a gender. Another point: We often refer to God as He or Him but God includes both genders and is not limited by either. It would be more accurate, I believe, to refer to God as “It” but to many of us who use the English language, this is the pronoun we apply to inanimate objects or things that we value as less than human. That aside, I am going to use “It” when referring to God and I will intend at least as much respect as implied in personal pronouns. I also believe that God does not suffer the human weaknesses of anger and ego. There are references in the Bible to God getting angry. As God includes everything and everyone, does it make any sense that God, in all of Its perfection, would be angry at Itself, or at any part of Itself? Isn’t anger really unresolved frustration? Do we really think that God would be frustrated or incapable of resolving it? I don’t believe for a moment that God is susceptible to anger. As to ego, wouldn’t it be a little like egomania to insist that One’s creations engage in worshipping their creator? What possible need would God have for the worship of humans, again, which are a part of Itself? Isn’t it more likely that the idea of worship is a human construct, perhaps the product of an organization engaged in the enterprise of leading large populations of worshippers? So, if God isn’t a person or a personality with human weaknesses, what is It? God Is Pure Consciousness That Includes Everything. Well, I believe that God’s essence is consciousness and everything that exists, exists within that consciousness. I believe that that consciousness manifests as a force that includes and permeates everything and everyone, and holds everything together. There is no thing and no one that isn’t included in God. Nothing can exist outside of God. There is no “outside of God.” And, there is no separation from God, except by illusion -- more about that later. God’s Purpose Is To Experience and Create. To get at this, let’s go to the beginning. Of course, for God, there really was no beginning but there was for the physical universe. So, before the creation of the physical universe, God existed and God reflected on everything and, God being everything, God reflected on Itself. In this reflecting, God knew that it knew everything. That is, It had all knowledge of everything, actual and potential. It realized, however, that intellectual or cognitive knowledge was not as rich a knowledge as the knowledge that comes from experience. So, simply, God set out to experience all that It knew about cognitively. As well, by nature, God is a creator, the infinite creator, and It could do nothing other than create. And, It did it from a twofold basis: One, unconditional love for Itself (meaning everything and everyone) and two, from a sense of fun. So, with this drive to experience all, with this natural creative urge, and with a sense of fun, God set out on a creating mission and It created a “playground” in which to experience all that It knew about cognitively. God Fragments Into Powerful Parts To Experience Limitation And Separation. Now, being God, we would expect that It would not want to miss anything, so to cover all the bases, God fragmented Itself into powerful, parts or aspects. These aspects divided and the divisions subdivided and the subdivisions divided further and so on until we got to ourselves. Sub, sub, sub, etc., divisions or expressions of God. In this way, all of these subdivisions, aspects or expressions of God, could spread out, so to speak, to create, to explore and to experience every thing and every idea that actually or potentially exists. As the subdividing went on, it eventually got down to us. It unfolded something like this: Imagine a group of powerful entities deciding what they would choose to create, explore and experience. Remember, these are powerful, creative, spiritual entities with no limits. What would be interesting for them? Well, they hit upon something that was very novel and different for them. They decided to pursue the idea of “Limitation.” Now, imagine if you were all-powerful, had no limits and wanted to experience limitation. How would you go about it? Well, one way would be to create an arena or a universe containing limiting elements, things like time, space and matter. In order to make it work, you would have to introduce one other key element. That is, if one was truly unlimited and was going to experience limitation, one would have to somehow put aside or “forget” one’s true unlimited nature. So, this forgetting process was invented for all of those who incarnate into this universe. That is, everyone born into this universe “forgets” his/her true nature in order to experience limitation and “play the game.” We have to. Otherwise, how could we truly experience limitation if, all along, we knew that this was really just an illusion that we had created and the real us actually had no limits? We couldn’t play the game fairly, could we? Now, in addition to being unlimited, God was also unified, meaning, all was one and one was all. In deciding to experience limitation, God also decided to experience the opposite to unification, namely, separation. To pursue this idea, God/we have created the illusion that all isn’t one or that you and I and God are all separate from one another. Just to intensify the impact of this illusion, we created a universe of polarities, e.g. black and white, up and down, hot and cold, positive and negative, male and female, etc. Summary. So, here we are, aspects of God, creating, playing and experiencing in a realm or universe of limitation and separation. And, we are doing this while other aspects of God are busy experiencing other universes with other conditions and circumstances that they have created for the purpose of experiencing other ideas that God knows cognitively but not experientially. We are Multi-Dimensional and Holographic. Now, given that we are essentially powerful, unlimited aspects of God creating this physical universe in order to experience all that we can in a universe of limitation and separation, how could we do this fully? Remember there are only limits once we incarnate but there’s an incredible, unlimited intelligence behind the creation of this experience that makes it all work and enables us to get the most from it. To get the most from it, it was decided to make the beings experiencing it, namely us, multi-dimensional. Why restrict experience to only one dimension when the possibilities are so much greater? We are multi-dimensional in at least two ways. First, we live many lives simultaneously but, in our “limited” human minds, we separate them in time so that they appear to be past, present and future lives. That is to say, at a level “higher” than ourselves, we create many personalities. That is, our higher self fragments into many aspects, each of which takes on its own personality and is born into a different time period. Some are male some female, some are rich, some poor, some are nice, some rotten, etc. until that entity has enough aspects to engage in all of the experiences that it wishes. Here’s where the plot thickens. The second way we are multi-dimensional is that, each time we come to a decision point, we fragment further to explore all of the alternatives. For example, if we decide to get married, we do and we don’t -- we experience both. One aspect of us goes one way and another goes another. Further, if we do decide to marry, we could marry any of a...