April 17, 2025

I want to address the matter of God
but it is difficult to do because words get in the way.
The word, God, is so "loaded" as to be meaningless as a word
because there is no way of knowing what its reference is. 
To what is it referring?
We have to spend all our time saying what we do not mean,
which clouds the matter so that it becomes not clear at all what we do mean.

What I mean is that God is the best part of us.
God is what we know as the transcendent Numen within.
God is the Metaphysical background music of our life--
of all of life and being--whom we "know," recognize,
realize, understand, comprehend, to be one-with-us
as the heart of our existence, here, now, 
as in "Peaceful abiding, here, now."

We see/sense it in our children when they are
"just being themselves."
We are that, too, though it is deeply hidden within us,
but there, nonetheless.

Joseph Campbell calls it "the radiance within."

Connecting with "The Radiance" is the Holy Within us.
We are Holy! Not in the sense of the Creator God of The Universe (We will be so much better off 
when we stop thinking of
Creation at a particular point in time, 
and simply understand that all that is has always been,
and as conscious human beings, we are taking our turn
at consciousness, or our return to consciousness, 
maybe for the millionth time).

The hint that this is so lies within our own Radiance, 
our sense/awareness of the Holy within us.

We know it is so, but we do not believe it is so.
Because we have been taught to believe other things.
And we have to get to the place of realizing, recognizing,
that we are indeed Holy,
that we might start treating ourselves and one another
as though it is so.

Which will transform the world, the Cosmos, 
and all that is therein.

But how to do that? Be still, be quiet, be silent.
Sit alone with yourself and Sense. Feel. Listen. Watch. See. Hear. Know. Understand. And be moved by what you sense, feel etc. The Radiance is real, true, not to be denied.

It is where we come from.
It is who we are.

Namaste. The God in me greets the God in you.
And it is our place here, now, to know this is so,
and to begin living as though it is.

Namaste.