SEEKING GOD: WHERE TO SEEK HIM?
If we ask any normal person, regardless of Gender,
Nationality, or Race, who claims to believe in God, to introduce us so we might
also know Him…we might expect unlimited descriptions of that God any of the
seven billion humans living on the planet might describe. So, with that
conclusion, there is no doubt, that seeking God is an individual, process,
because we are always unable to verify another person’s individual god they
become familiar with.
I do not put my self up on any higher pedestal than any
other seeker of God, and admit that I am just another unknown seeker among the
other 7 billion humans on the planet, who at some time in our lives, become
curious enough to wonder if there really is a God that has created us, and if
so, why does He use the Path of making Him/Her/Its Self invisible, to every one
claiming to know Him, other than self proclaimed Sects that claim to not only
know Him, but are in daily contact with Him, and are very anxious to introduce
Him to the world, and us…for a fee, such as Tithes, Dues, Sales of their Books,
or Donations to contribute to their Building Programs of Worship Edifices,
Churches, Temples, Cathedrals, or Meeting Halls, Ashrams, Retirement
Communities, etc.
I feel inadequate to write, or share any thing on the
Internet, when I see the unending wonderful Web Sites, with just about every
instruction any one ever wrote regarding God. Every Religion has its
Scriptures, which I have read samples of most of them, during my last 40 year search
to have a one on one, face to face meeting with, that Mysterious Invisible God
who chooses to hide from most seekers, including me! Religious Clerics, of the
Priest Craft are too numerous to count, and each offering to enlighten us with
the god they know, ….for a Fee.
Well, after sampling many of the various offers, seeking
God, during my last 40 years, I have come to the conclusion that not a single
seeker of the 7 billion humans on planet earth comes even close to knowing our
Cosmic Creator we call, or refer to as “GOD” , but each of us having our own
individual interpretation of just Who God is, what He looks like, Sounds like,
where He lives, or operates from, or why He has any interest in our individual
day to day floundering around in linear space time, on planet earth.
My Blog offers samples of some of the places I have searched
for God, but, other than serving to keep my Faith in some type of an after
life, or individual survival of what ever “me”, or “i” really am, other than a
spark of God’s Fire, or drop of His Ocean, I have to admit at this time of my
search, that my understanding of Metaphysics seems to end up at the starting
point, or where the Alpha meets the Omega claimed in the Bible. That’s why the
Symbol, “0 “ in Occult Literature esoterically hides the fact that in spite of
every material creation haven been created, at some distant point in Time, all
creation is impermanent, and must eventual return to its point of origin.
The Bible teaches we are created in the Image of God, and
that God is Spirit, and must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth. So, each of
we 7 billion individual humans on planet earth must contain an “Image” of God’s
Invisible Spirit, which created our bodies and keeps us alive, moment to
moment. I have shared many Philosophical possibilities of how our individual
spirits team up with our physical bodies to experience the Play of
Consciousness, here on earth, so God may expand His Creation as He sees fit,
for His pleasure.
“Seeking” God is as easy as listening to Sermons, Lectures,
Work Shops, being initiated, taking courses, or reading. But FINDING God, is
not as easy as claimed by the Priestcraft
I just experienced my 73rd Birthday a few weeks
ago, and am more aware of my limited mortality…in this body, than ever. I am in
pretty decent health, for my age, and other than the usual aches and pains, and
problems of an aging Male, I am not expecting to die any time soon, yet I fully
know that my remaining time left in this body could be taken away any time. I
live each day, ready to depart, should I be called to leave, with full Faith
that should my Creator take my spirit from this body, that He has His Plan, “
His” Plan, that He has yet to share with me, regarding my future Missions
between now and the time when I return to Him, as a drop in His Ocean or a
spark from His Fire, as the Alpha meets the Omega! Or, if the Atheists and
materialists are correct, in that it all ends here, with no survival, or after
life, than, so be it. What we will never know should never hurt us.
With the above introduction to what I feel like sharing, at
the moment, because its been on my mind for a few days, and won’t go away, I
feel I better log it in to my Blog before it goes away, and might be of value
to another seeker who stumbles on to it in some time in the future.
AS an Ex Preacher, I have obviously tried all of the types
of Prayer, or praying that Christians shared or wrote about in the past. I have
always taken the path of listening to claims of those who claim to know God before
rejecting their claims, to first try to follow their instructions, or way of
praying, before rejecting the results. Well, if the reader starts at the
beginning of my Blog, and reads all of my Christian Seminary Theses regarding
the subject, my story is all there, along with my failures and successes. Along
with my Christian experiences, I have also shared some of my Rosicrucian,
Martinist, and Sant Mat experiences. ALL of these experiences have assisted me
to KEEP what ever Faith I experienced, up to the time, but, as now, none of
them ever satisfied my desire to meet, God, Face to Face, and SEE Him, Hear
Him, and Bask in His Glory!! Oh yes, I have had many, many experiences of
Bliss, expecting to meet Him any moment, and that He was ready to stop hiding
from me, and expose Him Self to me! But,…..I have come to my conclusion that
until I depart ALL physical Materiality, once and for all, and return to Him,
than, that part of “i”
that is the individual spirit that I AM, only observes, or
witnesses, the creations that my mind creates. ( Mostly illusions. )
I have been a Devotee of Meditation, since I was 45 years
old, and have tried quite a few different Techniques, in addition to the Sant
Mat, Rosicrucian, or Martinist Meditation Techniques I was initiated in to.
During Meditation, we are seeking God, and listening, rather than when by
Prayer, we are either asking, or begging for Him to grant our desires. I have
done plenty of begging and asking for all kinds of favors from God. I have
prayed for favors for my self, as well as for others, and have experienced many
answers to Prayer. But, in Meditation, we are ONLY seeking God, or Images of
Him. The Sant Mat Teachers teach that we experience God by Light & Sound,
and during meditation, if successful, we may see glimpses of Light, see images
of the sun, moon, star, or images of Inner Masters. I have experienced all of
those, as shared in another post on an early peak meditation I had.
Paramahanda Yogananda taught that God expresses Himself as
Light & Sound, but he taught that by breathing through the nostrils,
imagining that the spinal column is hollow, and watch the inhaling of Air
descending in to the lower body areas, then returning back up the spinal column
exiting the top of the Medulla Oblongata , the tube that links the top of the
spinal column to the brain, where the Pineal Gland sits at the Third Eye Level
in the forehead behind the two physical eyes, reveals memories stored from past
lives there, which is like a Pine Cone, with different layers of memories. In
fact, there is a large Pine Cone Icon sitting in front of the Vatican, and the
Pope carries a Pole that has a Pine Cone of the top if it, so He must be
knowledgeable regarding the symbol it is linked to, i.e The Third Eye. Yoganada
describes the Third Eye, inside, as a 5 pointed Star that is encased by a blue
sky with a gold ring around the round spherical object. I have never see the 5
pointed Start, but I have seen the glittering diamond shaped image inside the
blue sphere, and I have also seen the gold ring. But I have never seen them all
together, only one at a time. There are many variables that might be involved,
to be able to successfully experience these images, such as diet, life style,
health, ago, and for sure, past KARMA. So, I am pleased that I am able to still
experience some of these images during meditation, so it keeps my Faith secure
enough to keep meditating, when ever I have a chance, or wanting to seek God.
Like most seekers, I could just as well wait until I die and
then find out what will happen, but, I prefer to seek a Preview of what I
expect to experience once I leave my physical body for a one way trip. I prefer
not to be taken by surprise. I hope to consciously pass from this Realm to the
Spiritual Realm, when I die, the same way I do during meditation, which is an
exercise of “Dying While Living” as the Apostle Paul said he did daily.
Until we meet again, either here,….or There,..I remain,
Eternal Flame
