Friday, November 12, 2004

100% male and female, part two (apologies for the crappy writing)

this is a continuation of the previous blog, 100% male & 100% female.....

trevdiesel said: "Consider a suggestion that we as individual humans may never - or SHOULD never - reach 100% male and 100% female.... because we already are. Said a little differently, if creation (including humanity) is interwoven to the fact that it is not billions of individual consciousness, rather ONE consciousness in MANY FORMS, then in this UNITY there is already the balance. Other people (but are they really OTHER?) complete the balance. It's another example of moving from "I" to "We.""

first, thank you for comment - this avenue is certainly worth driving down. i really dig the idea that "God is out there", in and around and through every person and every thing.

a couple things i'd like to mention about the previous post i wrote about this:

when male and female will become one, thereby becoming neither male nor female, then we will see God. in this case, "seeing God" will come in its time, maybe (maaaaybe) even as one culminating event for all people simultaneously. we are on our own journeys towards God, billy graham and salman rushdie alike. to strive towards perfection in our lives is to say that we think it is possible to achieve that goal. it's a much higher goal than martin jischke's 1.5 billion dollar goal for purdue, but in my estimation it's more valuable and just as attainable. however, where i am uncertain is whether we will attain that goal while in our physical bodies, or if our spiritual selves will have to leave mortality to finish the task. that said, i also see many signs that point to heaven being an earthly place. whatever that looks like, global perfection will certainly have to be a joint effort, thereby deducing that God will draw all things back together to create perfect harmony.

i was unclear in the first post - it seems to me that our individual journeys, even while being mystically tied into everyone elses' journeys, are not necessarily journeys that end at our physical deaths. these journeys have been going on since the dawn of man, and may continue for ages more; all of them tied in to each other (i.e. the current living population learning from past experiences, learning from dialogue with other living things, and leaving a legacy from which future peoples can draw) and leading us to perfection through a very long, arduous process. i've heard some say things that sometimes lead me to believe that they think things will culminate in their lifetimes; well, perhaps someday when someone says that, it'll be the perfect truth of the matter. but i think more importantly we have to realize that what we do now IS perfection culminating. if we take that to heart, if we stop living like we're the x generation and nothing matters, then the change we wish to see in the world will be us (thank you for that, gandhi).

at any rate, our souls are separate from our physical bodies, so the whole male and female becoming one and becoming none thing truly must have something to do with a terrestrial event. our souls do not literally have gender, but perhaps if they are a certain piece of God, as Trevor suggests, then in some way that may have an influence in their lives; in other words, a soul is simply God in us. with that, we are all part of God and all of God, and the male and female part of us should not, in universal terms, "get in the way" of our duties as humans.

from that, several things can be deduced; for instance, our physical bodies are not only "vessels" to give us existence on earth so we may interact, build, destroy, and generally maintain the planet - they also are our way of reproducing, expressing our inner selves through outward actions, language, attire, and so on. the physical body is necessary for the perpetuation of God's ultimate plan.

so at this point, i'm changing subjects as fast as a bullet train, so that's that for now. basically, i agree God is in us all - as all separate parts making up the whole, or the whole in all, or some with God in them and some not - who knows? but what makes me feel closest to our Creator at this point is that God is a great mystery and worthy of our trust.

perception and evaluation of thoughts is a good process and creates great dialogue. i realize this wasn't very well written, mostly because of the 5 days lapse between starting and finishing it; but i wanted to get some more thoughts out there and see what happens. if nothing happens, so be it. but if something comes to your mind for or against, please feel free to share.

1 comment:

Trev Diesel said...

Good thoughts. That posts definately filled in some holes. I particularly like the thoughts about our bodies being the vehicles in which our souls interact with each other, ourselves, the world. It's just a groovy concept that we don't think about very much. Our souls are separately located, but interact in this "playground." It's indeed a wicked playground at times, but a playground nonetheless.