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from one of my posts to http://pods.zaadz.com/yes_heaven/discussions/view/120318
YES was it for me, too. before and after my hardcore 'christian' years. i am thankful for my time there, tho i missed out on the era where free sexual love was practiced. they really ingrained in me the practice of listening to the inner voice. that inner voice, which assured me that it was Jesus, led me to a God that was much bigger than the one they seemed to worship. a god that embraces all paths like the sun shines on all beings.
think of that!!!!!stars shine so completely that thousands of light-years away to a minuscule speck of a planet, to a miniscule speck of my eyes it is ever present. so first you've got to get the scope of this, a light-SECOND is 286,000 miles, the earth is 8,000 miles in circumference, so roughly 36 times around the earth every second. times 60 sec, times 60min, times 24 hours, times 365 days, times 1000's of year. now that's how far that light travels and further. and then think of the sphere that would generate and every point as small as my eyes (and thru atmosphere) on that sphere is still getting light.
anyway, now Infinity is my God. and infinity is big in so many ways. in infinity, that star example is crushed into a nothing, into an atom-sized prick of light in another world just as big as the star is to me. and over and over and over again each concept of infinity is dwarfed by Infinity. and that is just one direction of the physical dimension. the other direction of the physical is to the miniscule, again, we can (well we can't) magnify infinitely small. i think you can understand that the atomic level is so small that we really have no possible way to grasp as to have small it is, and then in Infinity further and further magnification (if it were possible) would reveal further and further, infinite complexity. and that is only the physical dimension.
then there is time, without any beginning. scientists used to say it began with the big bang, but now they say that the big bang repeats itself over and over and over, etc. and that is only one direction of time, turning to the miniscule increments of time there is no smallest moment. in a nanosecond, only 1/100000000 of a second an infinity of events happen.
and then there are the dimensions of consciousness, which are ….
and then infinite other dimensions.
Infinity, my God
yes, and christianity, and many (infinite?) other sources have blessed and cursed me, if i think of it that way.
but now i want to share a view of the bible that i feel for me is The critical enlightenment spark of my life. this is not something anyone else has to believe, and for truth i only half believe it.
in genesis, the story of the garden of eden says that eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is what got adam and eve kicked out. it says that it was a disobedience of god that was what got them kicked out, but i think that the crucial point is that the 'fruit' of that tree is what did it. i recognized that eating that 'fruit' means judging things as good and evil, and even as good and bad. so when we divide things into good and bad, we divide god into two. then we say god is good and the devil is evil. and then everything is not god, and That is what kicks us out of the garden of eden.
so the whole bible is only stories of people out of touch with the one true god, because they keep eating from this 'tree'.
now a paradox arises, if saying this is good and this is bad is wrong (bad), then we are still eating of the fruit if we say, i'm not going to judge things as good or bad, because that's bad. it's not bad to eat from the 'tree'. so… what is the solution?????
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