The Creativity of the Godhead 2

[Dr Kate Hudgins]

I read a book years ago called the Gods of the New Millenium that I  
highly recommend for those of you who can have a taste of believing  
what Adam says here.  It gives actual science that supports some of  
what he says.  Very interesting.

Kate

On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> (Responding to the item below, the photograph of the Yes, yes.  
> Sombrero Galaxy. Yeah, I know someone from there, fellow named  
> Pedro. That’s his joking name—it’s really quite un- 
> pronounceable—but was communicated to me from his translation- 
> telepathy gizmo. He was here on a visit—you know those flying  
> saucer sightings?--- and we were chatting about the whole shebang.
>
> It turns out that "Pedro" and his kin have this interesting  
> theology of sorts: The whole cosmos is still part of a greater  
> cosmos that includes all psychic stuff, all the dimensions reported  
> on by people in mystical and psychedelic and shamanistic trances.  
> And all this is part of the still-cloudy mind of an awakening god- 
> field that, in their belief, is still somewhat embryonic!
>
> Rather than partaking of our (to him, primitive) tendencies to  
> elevate our god concept in a patriarchal king-like way, their  
> people (well, they’re not actually people—it would be hard to  
> describe what they are, something like resonant energy fields)  
> imagine God to be more in need of nurturance, care, attention.  
> Rather than obedience, our duty (in their mythology) is to find out  
> what the embryo or newly-born God needs and to make sure he gets  
> it. Forgive the gendered pronouns—there’s no gender implied in  
> their language or their theology.
>
> Not that this God is any less wondrous to them than He is to us!  
> Perhaps more! (They are advanced enough to be able to manage inter- 
> galactic travel, after all. And they have a much better sewage  
> system and teamwork to pull off such collective endeavors.) Even  
> though their development is not as materially-"carbon" based as  
> ours, it is no less complex, and they project this understanding of  
> embryology on the heavens. They know it’s a projection, a  
> provisional model, but they also know that the development of  
> theology goes along with the development of science, and is  
> necessarily a developing process, a creative process. There’s no  
> illusion for them that they are anywhere near getting the actual  
> whole "truth" or picture. They’re happy if they can just improve  
> their models bit by bit, and occasionally with a paradigm shift  
> here and there.
>
> Anyway, for Pedro’s people, embryos are marvelous, engaging in a  
> zillion complex transformations and differentiations that they  
> study, and every time they discover yet another way God does it, it  
> opens up two other mysteries. So studying the cosmos is for them a  
> religious activity.
>
> Apparently they never went through a phase that idealized words as  
> if they were truths, that confused legend with history, or myth  
> from fact. They find that our planet’s dominant species being in  
> turn dominated by this illusion to be curious. So religion for them  
> is like science for us, always in a process of creative re- 
> formation. I told ‘em about Moreno and they said that just maybe  
> part of their insight might have gotten reincarnated in his mind- 
> body. (They have an interesting theory of reincarnation that is  
> more like shuffling cards: Everyone is made of a number—more in  
> the range of 40 - 70—soul fragments that arise from a similar  
> number of other beings—like the cards are constantly re-shuffled— 
> and these account for our preferred imagery, talents, weaknesses,  
> body structure, temperament, and so forth.)
>
> Anyway, back to their embryological theology—which, to say again,  
> is clearly a provisional model—they are quite aware that the  
> Greater Wholeness of the Cosmos cannot be known even to their  
> advanced civilization—but they theologize as a process of theory  
> building because it is just part of the overall creative process of  
> mind: The embryo in the sense of its many transformations is near- 
> infinitely intelligent, and yet is only barely conscious, in the  
> sense of being self-reflective. For this, we are needed—all  
> sentient creatures in the cosmos. To the extent that we can wake  
> up, become more sentient, we function as the operational brain  
> cells of God. Let’s say that God needs a google (that’s ten to  
> the hundredth power) brain cells to not only be energized, but to  
> also be as inter-connected and coordinated as the puny ten billion  
> brain cells in our minds are, then the implications of that  
> theology is that we all have to wake up more and to cooperate more!  
> Stop all this fighting and killing and being mean and selfish!
>
> Well, this was nice to hear, in some ways—as it supported my  
> general moral inclinations to be nice; but it approached it from a  
> somewhat shocking angle: God needed us, but wasn’t this parent- 
> figure who would "save" us—whatever "saving" entailed—something  
> that seems like it would compensate for our folly. No, rather than  
> using religion to avoid responsibility, if we believed the way  
> Pedro’s people did, we would be called to more responsibility.  
> Whew! I told him I didn’t know if folks I knew down here would buy  
> that. He shrugged.
>
> Well, I thought I’d pass along this story of this encounter. (As  
> John Lennon sang in "Imagine": "You may say I’m a dreamer, but  
> I’m not the only one.")
>
> Warmly, Adam "Gigglemeister" Blatner here where it’s been cold,  
> but not as cold as some places...
>
>
> Subject: The Creativity of the Godhead
>
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> The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted  
> best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. �
>
> The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as  
> spectacular as its appearance.�
>
> It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.
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Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP

Clinical Psychologist
Director of Training
Therapeutic Spiral International, LLC
ww.therapeuticspiral.org
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