Once one begins to realize that the material world is not as ‘solid' or ‘permanent’ as we might have imagined up until now, but rather is continually coming into being over and over again, from microsecond to microsecond and that it is Mind that sets the pattern for Matter to fall into, we can no longer look at the world in the same way.
We are given this temporary, limited framework for a short time in order to make whatever adjustments to our 'inner state' that we might deem necessary before entering into the Timeless/Spaceless place which is our True Home.
I remember hearing a story about the first Quantum Physicists who used to wear hip boots into the lab because there was more 'empty space's between the sub atomic particles than 'solid matter'!
I see matter as solid and permanent (in as much as it can be, like my body for example: real however temporary and knowing the life cycles of the cells etc.), but reality has been atomised by scientism, which is funded by the Vatican.
That said I couldn't agree more that we create our world. All roads lead back to Rome however, because they also gave us the tools to create this world; a double-edged sword.
If we find God it's quite possibly in spite of the church not because of it, but by the natural law they abide by, they are required to maintain a church structure until the 'second coming'.
If only people knew what 'second coming' meant in bio/psychological and scientific terms, and not religious-superstitious terms... such a violent schism between the two.
Anyway, I've read a few pieces and all I can say is power to you man. :)
Are you familiar with what is known as the 'Great Schism' in 1054, when the church in Rome stepped away from the Orthodox Church and became what we now know of as the Roman Catholic Church?
It's been all downhill for 'Christianity' since then.
But the First Church that existed for a thousand years before that has continued to exist to this day, although most of us here in the West have no idea that it ever existed.
The second coming of Christ is both, something that will happen at a certain moment in history and an experience that we can have at any moment.
This world is a 'stepping off place' into another kind of reality altogether, that we may enter into at any moment, if we so desire...
All that being said, I am not chauvinistic enough to claim that the Orthodox Church is the only way to achieve this - only the best one I've found with the best 'track record' of actually accomplishing it's stated goals and with an unbroken lineage of practitioners still applying it's principles.
Whichever Way you choose to take you there, I look forward to seeing in the next world, (which is everywhere present!)
I thought that you were predominantly a Vedantist when it came to your chosen spiritual path?
Surely they believe that the entire material world is being created/destroyed/recreated in every instant?
That the material world presented to us via our five senses is nothing more than Maya - an illusion?
Even so, an illusion or a mirage, it is a mirage with meaning and significance, within which we are meant to learn certain lessons, to grow beyond and eventually, make our way off the wheel of birth and death, no?
In the book of Genesis, God takes counsel within Himself before creating Mankind:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them…And God blessed them…”
(Genesis I:26-28)
We were created to be like God in ways that we can hardly even imagine anymore.
In the movie, “The Matrix”, it is Trinity who saves Neo in the end and reminds him of who and what he is meant to be:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zWzk5SiegtLGjnhC8
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-95644964?r=1nm0v2
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-69652348?r=1nm0v2
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevenberger/p/a-prison-for-your-mind?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1nm0v2
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-53747195
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-47217187
https://stevenberger.substack.com/p/an-interactive-work-of-art?utm_medium=reader2
https://stevenberger.substack.com/p/creation-by-mere-thought
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-43796712
Our inner state becomes our outer environment.
We are given this temporary, limited framework for a short time in order to make whatever adjustments to our 'inner state' that we might deem necessary before entering into the Timeless/Spaceless place which is our True Home.
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-47147563
Max Tegmark has an enthralling conception of the Multiverse… “https://www.amazon.ca/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Reality/dp/0307744256/ref=asc_df_0307744256/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292868487024&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7159226157579288556&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001328&hvtargid=pla-436067032065&psc=1&mcid=f4c5472ef49132fba680f89ce1de84f8
I remember hearing a story about the first Quantum Physicists who used to wear hip boots into the lab because there was more 'empty space's between the sub atomic particles than 'solid matter'!
Nice. Thanks.
I see matter as solid and permanent (in as much as it can be, like my body for example: real however temporary and knowing the life cycles of the cells etc.), but reality has been atomised by scientism, which is funded by the Vatican.
That said I couldn't agree more that we create our world. All roads lead back to Rome however, because they also gave us the tools to create this world; a double-edged sword.
If we find God it's quite possibly in spite of the church not because of it, but by the natural law they abide by, they are required to maintain a church structure until the 'second coming'.
If only people knew what 'second coming' meant in bio/psychological and scientific terms, and not religious-superstitious terms... such a violent schism between the two.
Anyway, I've read a few pieces and all I can say is power to you man. :)
Are you familiar with what is known as the 'Great Schism' in 1054, when the church in Rome stepped away from the Orthodox Church and became what we now know of as the Roman Catholic Church?
It's been all downhill for 'Christianity' since then.
But the First Church that existed for a thousand years before that has continued to exist to this day, although most of us here in the West have no idea that it ever existed.
The second coming of Christ is both, something that will happen at a certain moment in history and an experience that we can have at any moment.
This world is a 'stepping off place' into another kind of reality altogether, that we may enter into at any moment, if we so desire...
All that being said, I am not chauvinistic enough to claim that the Orthodox Church is the only way to achieve this - only the best one I've found with the best 'track record' of actually accomplishing it's stated goals and with an unbroken lineage of practitioners still applying it's principles.
Whichever Way you choose to take you there, I look forward to seeing in the next world, (which is everywhere present!)
💗
I agree the new world is everywhere present.
I've a passing knowledge of the Schism and write about it in a post, Phonetic Path to Modern Doctors if my memory serves. :)
https://youtu.be/L70QAhTIJiY?feature=shared
PS
I thought that you were predominantly a Vedantist when it came to your chosen spiritual path?
Surely they believe that the entire material world is being created/destroyed/recreated in every instant?
That the material world presented to us via our five senses is nothing more than Maya - an illusion?
Even so, an illusion or a mirage, it is a mirage with meaning and significance, within which we are meant to learn certain lessons, to grow beyond and eventually, make our way off the wheel of birth and death, no?
https://youtu.be/7MtzCXA07jU?feature=shared
The material world is much more malleable than we have been led to believe.
Our thoughts determine our lives. If we can free our minds from our conditioned responses, matter will follow suit.
https://youtu.be/Ph02o6K2aoo?feature=shared
The Holy Trinity - One God in three persons.
In the book of Genesis, God takes counsel within Himself before creating Mankind:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them…And God blessed them…”
(Genesis I:26-28)
We were created to be like God in ways that we can hardly even imagine anymore.
In the movie, “The Matrix”, it is Trinity who saves Neo in the end and reminds him of who and what he is meant to be:
youtu.be/Vy7RaQUmOzE
The same is true for us. It is the Holy Trinity who will save us and remind us of who and what we were originally intended to be.
Neo is the one and so is each and every one of us, if only we knew it…
You got it, babe
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-46593024
All the very best to you.
Stop by any time.