Alpha to Omega

When I was in college and Alan Watts was hot, I thought enlightenment was a sudden flash. Bang–Nirvana–I'm now an enlightened being. That's like thinking God literally created the universe and then rested in seven 24-hour days. Enlightenment is more like the creation: it can start with a big bang of insight, an epiphany, but it is a progressive, constantly evolving process of awareness. The creator is reflected in creation. We reflect the creator and recapitulate creation in our own lives–we start with a big bang and evolve over time. Time magazine arranged a debate [ 9/30/2006 ] between the scientist Richard Dawkins, author of the recent book, The God Delusion , and Francis Collins, a Christian biologist. In the very last sentence in the debate, Dawkins, a self-proclaimed atheist, states: If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything any theologian has ever proposed. I think this statement stirs t...

I’m sure you’ve seen this before: Namaste’ is an ancient Sanskrit word that means… I honor the place in you where the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of truth, of light, of peace, and love, And when we communicate with that level of awareness, WE ARE ONE! I saw this tonight and thought how complicated it is; it is so rational brain. Doesn’t “We are one” cover it all? Isn’t that enough to ponder. This strikes me as what we do in Western thinking; we try to define it, to bring in the scalpel of reason and break it into its parts. But that’s the whole problem. My creed: I believe in God, the rest are details that separate us. All-One (a daily reminder being on the Dr. Bonner soap I use) is enough to spend a lifetime trying to integrate into who I am/we are .