Monday, December 19, 2005

A GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR THIS SITE, Part Five

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The Beginninglessness: Scientists in labs have now been able to reproduce the events that unfolded as this universe began: in a vacuum, a particle can simply manifest; other particles also form and then they all interact…being conscious of other particles. Eventually, in the case of this universe, the pace of their interactions resulted in an explosion of unimaginable force, followed within seconds by the formation of the first atoms (hydrogen and helium, which are still the most prevalent atoms in a universe that is like any body...mainly space). Those two interacted (atoms being conscious of other atoms) and began the chain of events that resulted in what is called “this universe.” The particles had existed infinitely since neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed. Since no creation ever occurred, no creator could exist. Since All has always been, infinitely, no beginning happened and no end will happen. Infinity is infinity and was “as infinite” before the manifestation of the consciousness That You Are as it will “be infinite” following the unmanifestation of the consciousness That You Are.
The Expanse of Infinity: Many persons can easily imagine “infinity” after their “death” while at the same time ignoring the reality of infinity prior to, prior to all they perceive now. Infinite is infinite, not merely a “post-something infinity.”
Infinite Cause: Persons seek to assign blame to one person or event or to one cause for "this" or for "that," pointing to a single cause. Those persons absorbed in magical thinking also want to claim the existence of a “Single or Prime Cause or Causer.” The fact is that all happenings are caused by the accumulation of all prior happenings.
Discontinuity: Persons look one way on the outside (the image) but feel another way on the inside; persons feel “torn into pieces” and thus suffer the misery of discontinuity which happens when they try to combine the real with image. No image is real but is taken by persons to be real as a result of “not being true to Self.” The illusion of discontinuity is especially taken to be real when a form that was once observable is no longer observable, such as happens when persons claim someone “died”; in fact, nothing was created and nothing was destroyed. All that seems observable is not what it appears to be at all. All appearance is illusion. The belief by persons that “appearances are real” will set the stage for persons to be trapped in the illusion of discontinuity and thus fail to know the unicity. From that perspective, persons will wrongly perceive that they are split, disconnected, separate and apart from. Sensing that they are disjointed and not whole, they will assume that they are in need of someone to make them feel whole or connected. Needs and wants and desires that always accompany fears will begin to drive persons. Destructive behaviors—that erroneously appear to persons in the relative to be constructive—will happen.
Infinite Continuity: Infinite continuity points toward a universe or universes that are limitless, unmanifested reality in which mass, events, and concepts like "time" seem to appear and seem to be real as the result of a belief in duality whereby imagined distinctions are assumed to be real. Infinite continuity makes clear that all is one, that reality/consciousness is all there is, and that nothing exists separate and apart from That Reality. There are no parts that are connected or interrelated. There are no parts at all. Nothing is relating. Conscious-energy is All there Is. The Realized, knowing that truth, only know the continuity; persons, not knowing the continuity, are trapped in their perspectives of duality and believe in separation and the judgment that always accompanies the belief that they are apart from. The result of the belief in being apart from is (a) the misery of feeling disconnected or (b) the ego/arrogance of being "good" or "better" and eventually "the best." Ego inspires more misery and all that persons call "relationship problems" in the relative. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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