July 10, 2023 – B

What kind of God is it 
that has to be taken on faith?

That has to be believed in
due to being apparently nowhere around?

One who is a complete fiction
created by the priests who are paid to function
as intermediaries excelling in 
talking people into seeing what isn't there!

As a viable alternative to that "God,"
I present to you: Transcendent Reality--
something everyone recognizes instantly
even though no one can say what it is,
and all are left with "Wow! Just WOW!"
as the only thing that can be--
or needs to be--said.

There is no--nor can there be--theology
of the Transcendent.
No doctrines.
No dogma.
No words.
Just seeing/feeling/sensing/knowing,
"As the Moved before the Mover."

Physical reality is grounded upon spiritual reality.
We call it "spiritual" because it has no material properties itself,
but is readily apparent through the material world
in the places and people who are "transparent to transcendence"
(Joseph Campbell)--
primarily through experiences with art, music, nature
and the right kind of conversation,
the right kind of company.

Indigenous peoples have always known the visible world
to be upheld by the invisible world,
and have always worshiped the "cracks," 
the "thin places" (Parker Palmer)
where the invisible world shines through--
places that are "transparent to transcendence."

Human beings are as close to transcendent reality
as the physical world gets
by virtue of our ability to know the unknowable
and exhibit in our way with each other--
in our company--in our conversation--
"the imminence of transcendence"
by living, as the old Taoists would say,
"aligned with the Tao,"
"at one with the flow of life and being,"
balancing and harmonizing Yin and Yang,
physical and spiritual
visible and invisible
in the way we conduct ourselves
in each situation as it arises
to make apparent what is always real
and always "right there"
but not always evident
because of "the noise of the 10,000 things."

We mediate the invisible within the visible
when we are "at our best,"
and live as "the Christ--the anointed one,"
entrusted with the task of Hermes, 
the messenger of the Gods,
living as those who are "transparent to transcendence"
in the ordinary times and places of existence.

Transforming the experience of the moment,
of the here and now,
everywhere we go.

May we all live so as to make it so!

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