August 23, 2025

All churches everywhere are enigmas, revealing and concealing at the same time, being the truth that denies the truth, right and wrong simultaneously. We have to know what we are dealing with when we are dealing with the church. God and Not-God, here, now, all at once, all of the time.

We have to know what we are dealing with when we are dealing with the church (And everything else as well). Meister Eckart put the church in its place with this telling remark: "The final leave-taking is leaving God (the God of theology) for God (The Psyche, the Source, The Foundation of all things).

God is Psychic reality, not a spiritual being.

So when Jesus said, "The Father and I are one," and "When you have seen me you have seen the Father," he was talking about God as Psychic reality. Everybody else thought he was talking about the God of theology. We can see how that might confuse things from the start. However, once we have the "Rosetta Stone," and know how to see what we look at, it all falls into place, and we get it--and comes to life the words of the poet (T.S. Eliot in "Little Gidding") "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."

And so, we have to know how to see what we look at, and come awake in the emptiness, stillness, silence, as those who know what's what for the first time.