Life Matters, E.C.Nemeth [robert munsch read aloud .TXT] 📗

them such a state would seem ludicrous and the height of foolishness.
There is an interesting digression here. It is the contemplation of the fact that God is inevitable.
Consider reality without God and before the universe existed - no stars, no galaxies, no planets: no trees, no people, no life. Nothing manifest. Nothing unmanifest. Just nothing. An infinite nothing: no thoughts or words or feelings. Nothing going on, no now, no tomorrow. The absence of any absence at all. Not even a vacuum of nothing. Not even nothing itself. It is not a stillness or a sense of something missing for even those terms are relative. Instead of what exists, even as we perceive it, imagine there being no being of any kind - no isness. Hold the idea of this nothing in your mind a moment.
Now try and release even this idea for there are no ideas or anything in existence. It is not even a place or a space because there is nothing. Try and contemplate this concept a moment. Picture this non-thing as reality. Try and discover its secret.
A lot of times, logic requires the use of subjective instead of objective reasoning. It is imperative, at times, to completely submerse the psyche in the subject - to become the subject, so to speak. Only from a perfectly subjective viewpoint can true objectivity arise.
If there is nothing, there is nothing forever. If there is something, there is something forever.
Do you see?
The fact that you exist, right now, even with so much misunderstood and yet remaining to remember or learn, proves that existence is universal - that it is eternal. And eternal existence is what God is. God is the Immortal Isness: the Source of all sources; the alpha and the omega; the beginning and the end; the root of this and that.
If there was no God there would be nothing. If there is something there must be God. It is that simple.
The fact that this mind experiment is difficult to follow through to the stated conclusion is a good example of the slipperiness of the ego mind. For the ego mind is the manufactured replacement for the universal mind of God, which we share with all creation. It is the exact concept we directed the ego mind to keep from our awareness. Misunderstanding is a tool of the ego mind. Only facts can be misunderstood, and only because of a flaw in the logic employed to interpret them. Truth is simply known, with certainty. To know requires faith. And faith is based on beliefs.
Believe it or not
To continue this train of logic would be to state that if one doesn’t know then one must be supporting a set of false beliefs. And false beliefs can be of two kinds: personal and universal. Both must be examined in order to sort through the convoluted knots of circular reasoning they have induced. This part of the process is mostly experiential, for it is one thing to understand that we are all one, for example, but completely different to personally experience the same thing. We need not overly concern ourselves with this issue, however, because it is inevitable that opportunities for this type of experience will arise in stride with the reading of this book.
A word of advice here would be to move toward the fear in everyday experiences, for that is where the situations designed for growth are waiting. Move out of your comfort zone, out of your self-imposed box. Do something new and out of the ordinary. Live fully. Take some chances and act spontaneously. The opportunities for comprehension and the dissolution of false beliefs will thus be drawn towards you.
The identification with the ego mind requires a period of time where the truth superimposes itself on the accepted and normal reality. For a while the ego mind might react vigorously in protest to the validity of such events. It has many tools it can use to one way or another bring the self back in line with the accepted dogma of reality as it is currently understood. That is the ego’s function after all, given it freely by the self. But as the weight of evidence mounts the truth becomes harder to ignore. The truth gains merit, in our minds, as more of it reveals itself to us. The mounting body of evidence pointing toward the truth, in turn, must be supported by like beliefs. This requires that false beliefs be examined carefully and allowed to dissipate. False beliefs retain a great deal of the energy invested in their formation and that used to prop them up as plausible. This energy seeks to maintain the integrity of the false belief and so it must be channeled in other directions. Only then will false beliefs dissolve away back into the nothingness they always were.
False or mistaken beliefs usually come in a set that freely associates both the personal and the universal types. One supports the other in a circular system that rests on the confusion that results by mixing false personal beliefs with universal ones. So, as an example, the universe is seen as very large while we seem to be puny in comparison. Or, the rich seem to make their money on the backs of the poor, by exploitation or by improper collusion with other rich and powerful people. These are some of the more mundane examples of mixing false beliefs. They are propped up by far more insidious beliefs. An example of this kind might be the belief in original sin as a common flaw in the human species. The belief that we are weak, sinful, and incapable of becoming whole predisposes the believers to all sorts of other false beliefs. These other beliefs support the belief in original sin and its ramifications. It is these core beliefs, which are also false, that the scrutiny of false beliefs in general will reveal. Core beliefs are designed by the individual as a means to ensure forgetfulness of the truth.
Core beliefs and false beliefs both personal and universal will be explored more thoroughly in the coming chapters. For now it is enough to understand that beliefs are not believed in unless they prove themselves to be true in everyday life. It is the experience of validity they engender that must be examined carefully. Whether true or false, beliefs color our world and draw our attention to them. Whenever we experience an event we interpret it according to our beliefs. The experience then proves our beliefs, regardless what we believe.
It is here that we can again speak more directly about creation in terms of the Creator. The Creator, in a sense, also bases creation upon core beliefs. Of course, since the Creator is omniscient God's beliefs are certain and wholly true. It is for this reason that creation must also be functioning exactly as planned and with full beneficence for all, without exception. This is why it is stressed that the individual does not know because if any experience is judged as bad then it cannot be the truth since God created only the good. Often, it takes only a widening of perspective to understand this.
When an experience is perceived to be bad or painful or fearful it indicates the presence of beliefs about the self or the world that aren’t true. At that moment there is an opportunity to examine the thoughts running through the ego mind. There will be a certain bias or slant to the litany of the ego mind at such times. Certain phrases or words or a general theme will be repeated often. That is the reinforcement of the false belief, the place where the ego mind does an abrupt about face. It takes certain liberties and assumes to state obvious facts that are to be accepted without question. From these dubious facts it quickly jumps to conclusions that are designed to hide the real issue. The ego mind is the thing hiding the fact that you are not your ego mind. The ego mind does not want you to see that it is but a small locked room in a mansion of many spacious rooms. Nor does it want you to see that there are in fact no rooms at all, only this marvelous expansive spaciousness. It is this spaciousness that is your true home.
The Circle in the Dot
So completely reversed from the world’s thinking is the truth that it is difficult to explain using language, a device already predisposed, because of the purpose it was invented for, to keep separate what will always remain one. It is foremost an experience. It is intuited, felt or sensed outside of the usual senses. The truth is known, with certainty. Truth is timeless. Truth is the cause and the effect. Truth sends shivers down your spine and raises the little hairs on the back of your neck. Truth is earth shattering. Truth is Light. Truth is Love. Truth is God.
The Source created in Its likeness Another. Knowing this other as part of itself The Source gave itself in totality, pouring All of its love into this other.
The other, bestowed with All There Is, begot another in its likeness. Not knowing this other as itself The Other divested itself of its riches, and the begotten beget All There Is Not. But The Source of All continues to hold the truth of each of the begotten. In certainty, the thought of love continues uninterrupted.
In Truth, The Other is The Source, and knows it with quiet certainty. With infinite love The Other pours itself into The Source, only to be born again and again.
“Reality abhors a vacuum,” laughs The Creator.
The Other, The Created, chuckles in agreement, “Reality is inevitable.”
The dance of creation continues.
The koan of the circle in the dot depicts this idea well. In general terms the koan implies a never-ending series of levels of detail, that expand in all conceivable directions simultaneously. More specifically the koan refers to the dot as the individual identity and the circle as the scope of awareness of that identity. Every circle is at least a potential dot, every dot a potential circle. Ultimately, however, the Circle in the Dot is the Truth expressed in a way that is hard to ignore. The Circle in the Dot is The Creator and the Created. The Truth is shared. The Truth is creation because in creation is both the Creator and the Created seen clearly in their true symbiotic relationship.
The serpent swallows its own tail. What eats and what gets eaten?

Chapter Three
DOING
quantum, the main distraction, duality, projection
The two paths
Once the primary diffusion of All occurs and the primary concept of unity is established, the construction of the universe continues with the creation of the present and the paradox. Here, the under-lying concept is plurality - the observable existence of a plethora of phenomena. Choice is the hallmark of this level since universal information is incredibly vast and a focus must be selected in order to experience a manageable portion of reality. Without this focus experience as we understand it would be impossible.
A discernment must be made regarding perception. There must be a line drawn, so to speak, between this and that. The line of being made the original discernment of the individual’s permanent identity that never ceases to be. The line of doing extends this idea further by formalizing the identity. This formalization is necessary in order to push outside what does not belong on the inside. The pushing out requires a very precise boundary to be formed between the individual and the outside world. Only then can events be experienced.
The idea of the quantum arises from the need to keep the individual identity inviolate. If identity is