Our Purpose

Edit 5/1/10: I apologize for not realizing this sooner, but this post may be misinterpreted if you have not read this first: Religion is Art

I use a convention of capitalizing Truth to mean the universal Truth that is God. You can experience Truth, but you cannot be told Truth (except possibly through art, but art is an experience so you aren't really being told). Lowercase truth is the day to day understanding of truth. You can be told or witness truth but you cannot experience truth. truth is based upon perspective, Truth is above perspective.

You cannot use a pronoun when talking about God. A pronoun cannot apply to God. The word God doesn’t even apply to God, it is just a filler word. It means something that we cannot comprehend. But remember that this is not because God thinks God is so much better than us, this simply is the way that it is. AND now for (probably) the first time you’ve heard it HERE is the reason why:

I was petting my cat and thinking.

I know why we are all here. Our purpose. Why God put us on Earth. It is to further God. I do not mean to say that this is an act of selfishness! Selfishness cannot apply to God, for God is all. Everything is a part of God for God is the whole of existence, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is not Godly arrogance, but simple FACT.

God is the universal consciousness that guides existence. To attempt to understand God we must first understand what consciousness IS. What you ARE. You are nothing more than a network of interacting neurons. An interacting network of extremely basic, elementary parts that ( in some way we do not yet, or perhaps cannot, understand) form a whole greater than the sum of its parts namely, YOU. This isn’t symbolic, it isn’t fairy tale. We know this, we have opened up our heads and looked inside and this is what we have found: a mess of tiny little cells just sending tiny little bursts of energy.

Think now about society. What is society? Society is a very complicated network of very complicated individual parts. It works a little differently, yes but how can we say that the effect would not be similar? How can we deny that the network of billions of extremely complicated humans forms a form of consciousness, a Human consciousness that we simply cannot comprehend because it is far more complex than us?

Now think about EVERYTHING. Everything that exists in our universe. It all interacts. Our universe is an Awesomely complex network. And yes it forms a consciousness: God. This isn’t crazy talk, just think about it. Consciousness is nothing more than a complex network, the universe IS a complex network. On top of this when you apply this logic you come up with a being that would have characteristics that explain pretty much every important description of a universal consciousness from pretty much every human religion. Is this REALLY a coincidence?

We are: God furthering the possibilities of existence. Early on, the universe was much simpler because it was made up of simple parts. God grew by adding more complexities, growing God to understand more. We are the most complex aspect of God that we know of. Our PURPOSE is to further ourselves so that we further God because we are God and this is what God does.

We must recognize that we are an inseparable part of God. When we learn to heal ourselves we are able to fully connect and BE God so that we may DO God's Will. This isn't a bossy thing though. God isn’t sitting up in some clouds telling us what to do. And God isn’t a dickhead either. We have to heal ourselves (Concept of Original Sin) before we can truly connect with God but it is not because God is disgusted by our impurity as Christianity implies. It is not because we are unworthy (Otherwise God would be considering part of God unworthy. Even the Church teaches that we are all part of God and this is TRUE), but it simply is a fact that when you are so concerned with your own problems in life you simply are not capable of BEING yourself. When you do not have the courage to do what is right, you cannot do God’s Will because you don’t have the courage to do it. Not because God hates cowards. God hates NOTHING, God cannot know HATE except through us as individuals; we have the only expression of hate.

God provides Truth and some people have interpreted it into laws, but these laws are short lived! Truth does not change with time but written word DOES. This is FACT.

THIS is the Good News that Jesus was trying to explain to us 2000 years ago, but we forgot about Truth the moment we wrote it down in a book in the form of parables and laws. Jesus taught us to treat all people well and to help them to HEAL themselves because we are ALL part of the same WHOLE. No person is any better than any other person because EVERY person is God. The only problem is that we are damaged and caught up so much in our own lives that we have FORGOTTEN how to be a part of the WHOLE. Sin is not something that God is mad at us for, it is much more like a distraction. We must stop thinking in these ways of self-righteousness and begin to help others to be righteous but we CANNOT do this except through God in OURSELVES.

We MUST begin to heal ourselves before we can help others to heal. As soon as you start to connect to God and heal, God will show you the rest of the way and give you all of the hope, strength and motivation to do it (but you must know how to talk to God FIRST). As God teaches you how to heal you can share what you learn with other people. The only way to do this is through example and openness.

The Good News is that we are all actually part of God, not symbolically. You are no better than any other person, you simply have found Truth. It is not your Truth. If you treat it as your Truth it becomes truth; you will believe that you are better than others and you will not be capable of sharing God’s message because you will lose your connection with God. You must share Truth with everyone, BUT before you can do this, you MUST believe that the person you are sharing with is your total equal. Before this, you simply are not fit to do God’s Will because you do not believe God’s message. When you have truly connected with God you will have no choice but to believe God’s message because to experience God is to experience Truth for God is Truth and Truth is undeniable.

At least. . . this is what God told me today.


Later I am going to write about how I have been able to find connections with God. It is a very difficult topic to write about and mostly I will just be sharing things that I have learned and connected from various religious experiences, as well as new experiences I continue to have.

I really need community input on this! Together we can enhance our understanding of God and life. Share your experiences and always seek more. Communicate! My viewpoint is limited because I am only one person. What I write above is only my best attempt to transcribe Truth into truth in modern day English with modern Scientific understanding. I think I did a pretty good job but I am not an enlightened being, I have only captured tiny gems of Truth in my understanding. Together we can bring these gems together. Together we are able to think more as God because we become more than ourselves. This why community work and group gathering is encouraged in so many religions.

A Little Dream Magic to Improve Motivation and Solve Your Problems (Why do we dream?)

This is a technique that I came up with today. I was speaking to my close friend, trying to help her address a personal issue. She told me that she had been thinking about it yesterday and that she assumed she would feel better today but when today came she only felt worse. I thought, and said "Well, if you think about something all day, you are bound to think about it when you sleep." She had been thinking about something upsetting all day long and felt lethargic and depressed the next morning as a result!

From this thought I developed the following technique for improving your optimism and motivation in life as well as solving all of your problems and achieving your dreams (Pretty much)

For about 15 minutes before you go to bed every night do the following thinking:

First concentrate on all of the positive things in your life. Feel thankful for every little thing that you have. Do this for about five minutes.

Next, consider all of your aspirations and dreams. No matter how extreme they are, fill yourself with hope. Visualize yourself achieving these goals. Do this for about five minutes.

Third, think about the problems/difficulties you are facing in your life or any questions you have that you are struggling with. Consider possible solutions in as hopeful a manner as possible. Now tell yourself that everything will turn out for the best and believe it, have confidence. Reassure yourself that you are capable and that the answers will come with time. Do this for about five minutes.

Concentrate finally on a sense of peace and hope, fall asleep with this feeling

Theory:

This will serve several purposes:

1) Your mind will also work on your problem, when you wake up you may have the answer! Even if you don't quite have the answer, you WILL be closer to understanding. Science has proven that thinking about problems before going to sleep helps your mind to solve them.

2) Visualization has long been taught as a step to success. By visualizing what you want you are focusing your mind on the things you care most about doing. So your brain will be thinking all night figuring out ways to make it possible!!!

3) Your brain will continue to think in this positive manner while growing overnight, ingraining optimism and motivation into your brain's pattern. Note that your brain's pattern is also referred to as YOU.

4) We know from experience that thinking about something bad before sleeping makes you feel bad the next day.

5) Relaxing and thinking relaxing, comforting thoughts will help you to fall asleep quickly and restlessly

Notice the first three. This technique will help you: develop the solutions to your problems, find the path to your dreams and give you the motivation to implement both!!!

This technique will help you to achieve your dreams. Perhaps whatever force which is guiding us taught us to take advantage of these facts by teaching us prayer?

I believe that if we have an intelligent creator this may be the REASON that we dream. It provides us with a way to program our desires into our subconscious mind in order to actualize them.

Changing your mind is the first step to changing your world. Take the step. Now!