Quote from Mythos:
I don't know what makes atheists, but the helping professions probably has a disproportionate amount of them. Or, maybe not. I am indulging in a luxury here, even asking questions like these can impair our ability to do our jobs, so most us don't think about it. We can't.
I'm in the helping professions. Questions are good. pre-Judgements are something else. Questions move toward knowledge and solutions. pre-Judgments shut down consciousness, preventing solutions. Solutions exist. Questions find them, pre-conclusions hide them.
Let your compassion guide you. Already it has led you to question the thinking process. That is good. Do not underestimate the power of the heart to bring forth a higher intelligence, a higher awareness and greater solutions to existence than you would ever have anticipated. This is why so many times people will experience a miracle of healing in the face of death; They think, 'I only have six weeks to live', and then let go of external demands. The mind loses all importance, and loved ones become dearer than ever. All of a sudden the heart-fire burns brightly, whether through grief, joy, contentment, or resignation. Only then, through the fire of the heart, is a miracle possible. Most people facing death go ahead and die to the world of structure, and then at last they really live. Because when you live in the heart, you live immortally; you live eternally.
The issues of life are like a broken points in a circle of wholeness. They are very specific in nature and can be repaired only with correct assessment. From the beginning of consciousness, man has searched for the "Grand Plan", in hopes that he would discover some holistic imprint for all existence and then learn to administer it as a technology. If such could be done, then the ultimate panacea --the cure for all ills -- could simply be laid upon the Earth like a golden blanket, and
no more problems! If such a thing existed, it surely would be the most valuable commodity upon the earth!
There
is a holistic imprint. But it cannot be summarized in a blueprint, nor monopolized by technology.
That imprint is love. There is no matrix, gridwork, or blueprint large enough to catch it all!
Still there are no panaceas. Even love must be given and nurtured with respect for particulars of reality and restored at the points where it has been broken. It is the nature of holistic reality that any fracture or disruption of order is very particular in kind and occurrence, yet the contributing factors may be many or varied. The very idea of a panacea is a misconception of workability.
It is characteristic of the naive, the desperate, or the mercenary to gravitate toward archetypal concepts which can be represented as panaceas. The hope is to cover all bases with a generality that promises to correct hidden ills without ever acknowledging or delving into them. When I said long ago that a man couldn't be redeemed from his ills without confessing them, I was not being accusative or invasive. Actually that was a very scientific statement for those days and times.
It means that you must be subject specific in your handling of life! You may break a circle at any place you choose, but I assure you that it can be rejoined only at the very place of the fracture. There are no magic circles that descend in polite generalities and repair problems without exposure and clarification of them. Nor can you handle one problem by polishing something else which was not broken. If the foundation of a house is cracked, you are
not going to fix it with a new roof or camouflage it with landscaping. The same is true of broken relationships, broken plans, and broken hearts. Find out where the break
really occurred. Fix it there...or not.
The critical mass today in all technologies is not with the science itself, but in human expectations about it. For example, the field of high-tech medicine has brought countless blessings to mankind --answers that were only dreamed of a hundred years ago. Its accomplishments, however, have been so dazzling as to suggest a new panacea for all human ills. This is a more dangerous illusion than you might think, because whenever anything is regarded as a panacea
then unrelated injuries will transfer their symptoms to that domain.
Let's consider, for example, a man who has suffered financial failure. Instead of confronting and handling it in a subject-specific way, he may have a heart attack.
That way a panacea, which he believes in -- medicine --, might come to the rescue and give him the new lease on life he needs. Chemical medication, in general, has come to be regarded as a panacea, even though many human ailments are not chemical in nature. Now a world full of distress is transferring its symptoms into chemical dependency.
It is the nature of all panaceas to illicit transference. Eventually they fail to provide all the solutions promised, but in the meantime they become a magnet for ills that need to be dealt with in other ways. You should be careful to understand that any problem will transfer its symptoms to whatever it believes contains the solution, but the eternal truth is that solutions will be found only in relation to actual causes. Respect for this should be ingrained in any scientific procedure. this is an infinitely workable universe, but you cannot make it work by avoiding its issues or by hiding behind generalities that promise you a rainbow for breakfast.
These phenomenon are not limited to physical health. Any panacea is a dangerous illusion. Eventually all panaceas will self-destruct. Education, for example, is very beneficial, but general education enforced by public regulation is not the panacea for social ills that is was believed to be. Now all the ills that it cannot handle have transferred their symptoms into the public school system.
The best example I can give you on the perils of panacea is that of money. Money is a marvelous lubricant for life. It keeps the wheels turning, but the hope that it can cure the ills of the world has brought all the evils of the world into its domain.
This is a subject-specific universe which honors the presence of its Creator in all things.
Can the idea of God not also be perceived as a panacea --a cure all? That all depends on whether they're referring to God as
an idea or
as reality!. In reality, God is subject-specific, a guiding force in all that is. When one knows God in reality, he has all the answers potentially in front of him.
Where is there not God?
It is the job of science to address the workability of particulars and to strive for explanations and understanding within categories of common probability. This is an unassuming pursuit, but a very noble one, for it will take man to the threshold of infinity. Such attitudes generate respect for life, for infinity, and all particulars of existence. Infinity is the universal factor that allows quantities to be translated to quality and qualities to be translated to quantity. Therefore it relates to the transmission of potential in every dimension of reality. It is through this function that the particles of infinity synchronize with the power of love. Perhaps this is why man gravitates toward panaceas, because he instinctively seeks for contexts of commonality and predictability. The instinct is healthy, but the mistake lies in man's reliance upon archetypal formulas, which have been artificially imposed
upon life instead of being distilled from life's intrinsic nature and true tendency.
Discernment, acknowledgment, and workability are humbling attitudes, but without them you do not have science. Through them, you have the love connection -- the caring for particulars that moves live forward, and the devotion to workability, which is a primary impulse of love.
It is imperative that man change his viewpoint and look toward physical infinity and the reality of God if he would bring forth upon the Earth a brotherhood of peace and prosperity. Within this change of viewpoint he will find both the physical and the spiritual answers for which he has been looking. The purpose of science is to expand understanding of life and to make life work.
Since man is dealing with energy defined by the principles of conservation, he understands it only as a scarcity. This is reinforced by the fact that the primary source of energy he can perceive and understand is solar supply. This supply is suffused through the whole planetary system and works its way up through all the patterns of life. Because there is limitation and dependency within this system, there is also competition. Thus the strong, the aggressive, and the highly conservative forces dominate. As long as man's primary supply of energy is subject to such scarcity, there will be no system of social democracy that can last long upon the Earth.
Science is the pursuit of workability, developing consciousness about how life works, and applying that consciousness toward solving the problems of living. Any activity which employs that attitude and process is science. True intelligence is innately humble -- not in a self-effacing way -- but in the way of innocent perception and workable discernments of reality.
There is a key to the universe. All the answers are right in front of you. Its secrets are unlocked by formulating your question. Without the right question, the answer is invisible. Therefore, approach reality with a humble, inquiring mind, open in heart and perception, and free of judgment. If you will ask the right questions, all will be revealed!
Namaste,
Jesus
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