Not surprising, Janet, for Truth (as the Common Thread in All it must Be) should reflect Everywhere, and in Everything, with varying degrees of Radiance and Fidelity -- One only needs "eyes to see It" and "ears to hear It."
Thank you Paricia, Heidi, Rosa, Janet, Rebecca and Poddar -- the feedback and encouragement is both welcome and appreciated.
Dear Stanley, (another "mini-data-dump" not necessarily for everyone):
My "Non-Dual Friend," Charlie Hayes, is fond of saying that there is only Nothing (The Absolute No Thing) and either semantics (for those intellectually inclined) or Bull Shit (for the Average Joe).
In other words, only that which is Absolutely Changeless is Ultimately Real and anything else is the "Dung" that St. Paul refers to in the New Testament when he says: " I count all things (relative concepts of Being) but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ (as the Aware Presence of Being or Knowledge I AM) my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things (worldly or carnal concepts of Being), and do count them but dung (Charlie's BS), that I may win Christ." (Phil 3:8)
Charlie is also very fond of the Tony Parson's insight that what we actually have "appearing" before us is an apparently endless stream or flow of "NOTHING (The Absolute Father) BEING (The Father Incarnate and/or Supreme Identity as the Son of God I AM) EVERYTHING (The Holy Spirit or Creative Vibratory Energy of All in Ever-Changing Manifest Form).
As such, Stanley, making a distinction between "Temporal Appearance and Changeless Reality and/or Awareness" is really the "crux of the matter, as that which "comes and goes" is never ultimately Real by Absolute Standards; and, as such, must be classified as an "appearance" ("maya, illusion or dream" are three other word pointers that have some validity) with respect to the "One Constant Single Observer" of All (That which knows I Am -- The Absolute One).
RE: If what is ultimately real is God's present awareness of being I Am, and not what we think, then isn't what we think an intuition of what God appears not to be?
[Rich Note: Although a highly technical point, Stanley, although the "Present Awareness of Being I Am" may be categorized as The Ultimate or Supreme State of Being (I AM), It would still fall short of the Absolute Reality (which as No Thing would be Non Being and so beyond that), which is prior to the Pure Vibratory Being as It's First Issue or Born.]
Ultimately, what I "think (including "I as I think I am"), feel, see or hear," although a temporary state of the Pure Being (or Aware Presence) I Am, cannot Be the Totality of That (or Being In and of Itself). In this regard, I would further suggest that what we think is a reflection of a "Latent divine or Absolute Potential to Be" (or innate quality of Being) that manifests (or becomes actual) as a function of the degree of particular attention one pays to its possibility.
As far as what we think being "an intuition of what God appears not to be," (which is a mind stopper, if there ever was one), one could probably say that as God as the Pure Being I Am is "No Thing" and, as "thinking" needs "things" in order to "think," anything we can think could not be what God Is.
RE: "…but too often I try to play with them and don't just accept them as the artworks they are."
Of course, "toying with them mentally" is one way to avoid facing the heartfelt "Divine Music" they might otherwise evoke, pondering them with the Head, becoming still and then listening with the Heart is as good a way (short of Pure Intuition) to harvest the Truth offered as any.
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Dear Stanley, (another "mini-data-dump" not necessarily for everyone):
My "Non-Dual Friend," Charlie Hayes, is fond of saying that there is only Nothing (The Absolute No Thing) and either semantics (for those intellectually inclined) or Bull Shit (for the Average Joe).
In other words, only that which is Absolutely Changeless is Ultimately Real and anything else is the "Dung" that St. Paul refers to in the New Testament when he says: " I count all things (relative concepts of Being) but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ (as the Aware Presence of Being or Knowledge I AM) my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things (worldly or carnal concepts of Being), and do count them but dung (Charlie's BS), that I may win Christ." (Phil 3:8)
Charlie is also very fond of the Tony Parson's insight that what we actually have "appearing" before us is an apparently endless stream or flow of "NOTHING (The Absolute Father) BEING (The Father Incarnate and/or Supreme Identity as the Son of God I AM) EVERYTHING (The Holy Spirit or Creative Vibratory Energy of All in Ever-Changing Manifest Form).
As such, Stanley, making a distinction between "Temporal Appearance and Changeless Reality and/or Awareness" is really the "crux of the matter, as that which "comes and goes" is never ultimately Real by Absolute Standards; and, as such, must be classified as an "appearance" ("maya, illusion or dream" are three other word pointers that have some validity) with respect to the "One Constant Single Observer" of All (That which knows I Am -- The Absolute One).
RE: If what is ultimately real is God's present awareness of being I Am, and not what we think, then isn't what we think an intuition of what God appears not to be?
[Rich Note: Although a highly technical point, Stanley, although the "Present Awareness of Being I Am" may be categorized as The Ultimate or Supreme State of Being (I AM), It would still fall short of the Absolute Reality (which as No Thing would be Non Being and so beyond that), which is prior to the Pure Vibratory Being as It's First Issue or Born.]
Ultimately, what I "think (including "I as I think I am"), feel, see or hear," although a temporary state of the Pure Being (or Aware Presence) I Am, cannot Be the Totality of That (or Being In and of Itself). In this regard, I would further suggest that what we think is a reflection of a "Latent divine or Absolute Potential to Be" (or innate quality of Being) that manifests (or becomes actual) as a function of the degree of particular attention one pays to its possibility.
As far as what we think being "an intuition of what God appears not to be," (which is a mind stopper, if there ever was one), one could probably say that as God as the Pure Being I Am is "No Thing" and, as "thinking" needs "things" in order to "think," anything we can think could not be what God Is.
RE: "…but too often I try to play with them and don't just accept them as the artworks they are."
Of course, "toying with them mentally" is one way to avoid facing the heartfelt "Divine Music" they might otherwise evoke, pondering them with the Head, becoming still and then listening with the Heart is as good a way (short of Pure Intuition) to harvest the Truth offered as any.