The Divine speaks through our feeling centers. Through our hearts, not our minds. The intellect (and the personality) is byproduct of physicality, a device designed to deal with the illusion of physical reality.
We sometimes get trapped by the cleverness of our minds and what it constructs for us to believe. However the mind was built to interface in the plane of separation. That is where we are right now. Behind the veil. Cast into physical bodies, forgetting where our real home in Spirit is between lives, so that we can journey in the earth plane each time we are born with fresh eyes and a new set of lessons to learn (or re-learn as the case may be).
We are all but tiny sparks of God, individuated consciousness, thrust into the physical universe to learn, and evolve, and work our way back to the source of all things. (our souls are like sea water in a glass bottle, part of the sea but temporarily separated from God)
The mind on its own cannot resolve the ultimate oneness, the seeming paradox that glues the earth plane together, and cannot break through the 'camouflage' we must deal with day to day here. Our feelings can, and they are what connects us to our higher selves, to the inner planes, and to the Godhead beyond. If we trust our feelings and open our hearts and 'allow', then the mind will usually follow ...
As to other reading material, of course we explore all 'manuals to spiritual growth', (and many are of very early Christian origin) to learn from the wisdom and experiences of all those advanced souls of any race, color, creed or religion that have gone before and have passed their knowledge on. Many of us just use this 'expanded' version of Christianity as a home base.
And, BTW, not all systems are unpolluted in some way by the agenda of man, but there are basic spiritual thruths that appear over and over again. Thus we are seekers on the path back to God. We aim to embrace spiritual thruths, and learn from the example of the great spiritual teachers, Jesus Christ being a prime example of one of whom we can pattern our lives after.
Whew
That was a mouthful...
;0)
Wiz
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The Divine speaks through our feeling centers. Through our hearts, not our minds. The intellect is byproduct of physicality, a device designed to deal with the illusion of physical reality.
We sometimes get trapped by the cleverness of our minds and what it constructs for us to believe. However the mind was built to interface in the plane of separation. That is where we are right now. Behind the veil. Cast into physical bodies, forgetting where our real home in Spirit is between lives, so that we can journey in the earth plane each time we are born with fresh eyes and a new set of lessons to learn (or re-learn as the case may be).
We are all but tiny sparks of God, individuated consciousness, thrust into the physical universe to learn, and evolve, and work our way back to the source of all things. (our souls are like sea water in a glass bottle, part of the sea but temporarily separated from God)
The mind on its own cannot resolve the ultimate oneness, the seeming paradox, that glues the earth plane together, and cannot break through the 'camouflage' we must deal with day to day here. Our feelings can, and they are what connects us to our higher selves, to the inner planes, and to the Godhead beyond. If we trust our feelings and open our hearts and 'allow', then the mind will usually follow ...
As to other reading material, of course we explore all 'manuals to spiritual growth', (and many are of very early Christian origin) to learn from the wisdom and experiences of all those advanced souls of any race, color, creed or religion that have gone before and have passed their knowledge on. Many of us just use this 'expanded' version of Christianity as a home base.
And, BTW, not all systems are unpolluted in some way by the agenda of man, but there are basic spiritual thruths that appear over and over again. Thus we are seekers on the path back to God. We aim to embrace spiritual thruths, and learn from the example of the great spiritual teachers, Jesus Christ being a prime example of one of whom we can pattern our lives after.
Whew
That was a mouthful...
;0)
Wiz