Friday, April 13, 2007
Looking for Mister Goodgod
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Which brings us to my favorite subject tonight, 'Found Ideas.' Culture is pervasive and complex and rarely are we as individuals able to come up with a genuinely new idea. But we can find 'new' ideas if we are willing to look around. True, those 'found ideas' will not be original - we will not have created them - but they will be new to us, and therefore worthwhile. So this section is devoted to that subject.
Most of my 'found ideas' were found in books I have read. Here are a few: (Whoa! I just found Osho on the web! I did a search for The Mustard Seed and eventually arrived at a video of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)! Wow! ('Osho' is a name Bhagwan adopted about 1989.) Oh... my... god! What a find! Whew. Which brings us to the following 'found idea' from The Mustard Seed:
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'The God has died into this universe; he cannot remain aloof; he is in it, he is lost in it. That's why you cannot find God. You go to the Himalayas, to Mecca, to Kashi, or anywhere you like: you will not find him anywhere, because he is here, everywhere!'
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Pure Pantheism. This conflict between Western and Eastern ideas of God are explored in the book, The Private Sea, by William Braden. The question is between a god who is immanent and a god who is transcendent. The LSD Experience seems to point to a god who is immanent, and that has been my personal LSD experience. Jesus never showed up during my Acid Trips, even as an hallucination. Nor did I ever get the feeling that god was watching me as I tripped my brains out.
Which brings us to my favorite subject tonight, 'Found Ideas.' Culture is pervasive and complex and rarely are we as individuals able to come up with a genuinely new idea. But we can find 'new' ideas if we are willing to look around. True, those 'found ideas' will not be original - we will not have created them - but they will be new to us, and therefore worthwhile. So this section is devoted to that subject.
Most of my 'found ideas' were found in books I have read. Here are a few: (Whoa! I just found Osho on the web! I did a search for The Mustard Seed and eventually arrived at a video of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)! Wow! ('Osho' is a name Bhagwan adopted about 1989.) Oh... my... god! What a find! Whew. Which brings us to the following 'found idea' from The Mustard Seed:
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'The God has died into this universe; he cannot remain aloof; he is in it, he is lost in it. That's why you cannot find God. You go to the Himalayas, to Mecca, to Kashi, or anywhere you like: you will not find him anywhere, because he is here, everywhere!'
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Pure Pantheism. This conflict between Western and Eastern ideas of God are explored in the book, The Private Sea, by William Braden. The question is between a god who is immanent and a god who is transcendent. The LSD Experience seems to point to a god who is immanent, and that has been my personal LSD experience. Jesus never showed up during my Acid Trips, even as an hallucination. Nor did I ever get the feeling that god was watching me as I tripped my brains out.
