Thursday, August 25, 2011

Nothingness Is Not The Ground Of Being

When I define the “ground of Being” I see the material/supermaterial Spirit-Will as this ground, this Essence. But this is not the ground of Being claimed by most religious mystics over the centuries. They saw, and see, the experience of the ground of Being as the end of the path, they describe it as like a time before the beginning, they see “nothingness,” with no desire to do anything in the ground of Being. This leaves the question why and how did something come from nothing?

The great mystical error, which is also stunningly arrogant, is confounding the empty yet still physical and blissful Soul-State with the ground of Being. Indeed after much discipline and meditation designed to block or stop all material desires of the flesh, one can attain the empty blissful Soul-State. But this is not the ground of Being, this is not God.

The Soul-State of the Revealed Religions can tell us what it may be like when we finally attain the fulfillment of the evolution of the material-supermaterial world, which is not the same as the abandonment of the material-supermaterial world.

It is through the Spirit-Will, the Essence, not the Soul, that one can see the purpose of Existence as the endless evolution of life to Godhood, activated by the Spirit-Will.

Again, this means that something does not come from nothing. Godhood is not nothing, and the Soul-State of attaining nothingness does not define the ground of Being or Godhood.

The Soul-State and the Spirit-Will are goals of the Twofold Path. The Soul-State is involutionary, the Spirit-Will is evolutionary. But the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul is no longer the central and only goal of religion, it is subsumed in the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

Think of this anti-life quote : "I made a pillow of my mother's bones and remained in an undistracted state of tranquility."(Milarepa).  The arrived mystic with no desire to do anything, and no impetus whatever, can be released from this Great Spiritual Blockade.  Life needs to be allowed to evolve to Godhood in the cosmos.

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