Here is the starting point … All There Is is All There Is
But if All There Is is All There Is, then how can All There Is have any experience of Itself? How can All There Is experience Love if All There Is is Love?
Therefore All There Is has also created, apart from All There Is, that which is Not All There Is.
But because All There Is is All There Is, that must include Not All There Is!
This is the Divine Dichotomy, the basis of all that is.
This idea forms the basis of who we are and why we are here.
January 6, 2009 at 2:39 pm |
“All There Is is All There Is
But if All There Is is All There Is, then how can All There Is have any experience of Itself? How can All There Is experience Love if All There Is is Love? ”
If All There Is is comprised of many components, components of All There Is can have experiences of other components of All There Is. In this way, All There Is may experience itself easily. All There Is may experience love in much the same way.
“Therefore All There Is has also created, apart from All There Is, that which is Not All There Is.”
That which exists is a member of All There Is. If All There Is makes something, that something becomes part of the whole (and was part of the whole to begin with, but in a different configuration).
“But because All There Is is All There Is, that must include Not All There Is!”
All There Is cannot create anything that can be considered as Not All There Is, nor can anything be considered apart from All There Is; the set of All changes size to encompass All, by definition.
“This is the Divine Dichotomy, the basis of all that is.”
You have not put forth a dichotomy; if “Not part of All” cannot be extant, only imagined, by definition, “All” is all there is; since there is no choice, there is no dichotomy.
“This idea forms the basis of who we are and why we are here.”
I find that “To exist is to be part of everything” to be a much more concise way of putting it.
Or, more verbosely, “The iron in your blood was formed in the crucible of ancient stars. The proteins in your skin were once the food you consumed. The hydrogen in the water you drink once occupied the same space as every other part of the universe. We are literally star dust, and all those that follow us will have us as a part of their inheritance, both intellectually and physically, as we have with those that have come before us. Treat those in the future, and those that are present now, and those who have come before, with the same respect and reverence you hold for the cosmos, its beauty and mystery having been revealed.”
January 8, 2009 at 6:37 pm |
Hi Fordi,
Thank you for such a thoughtful response. I particularly like your “To exist is to be part of everything”. It contains such a wonderful notion of connectedness.
This post, as is a large part of this blog, is specifically dealing with the book “Conversations with God” from which the main idea of this post was taken. I like your phrase just as much – thank you!
Jon
February 7, 2009 at 7:04 am |
Ho you perceive all there is changes every moment. As you open up and raise awareness, all there is becomes somethign else again. Whatever you see is a reflection of something inside yourself.