I believe that we have become what our society and our culture over time has told us who we are: single dimensional beings, finite, with a beginning and an end, out of the dust we arose and back into the dust we shall return, and so on.
For those who follow the kind of faith that espouses a deity who believes we are sinners, then we are that too, tainted forever by "original sin" (I've never really figured out what that is exactly) and forever striving as "fallen" creatures to better ourselves, to be pious, do good works, etc, in the knowledge that if we do we are going to move beyond this mortal coil and find ourselves in "heaven" and in the arms of final forgiveness and redemption.
Or for the unlucky ones, not so much.
But what if all of this is a massive untruth or a lie? What if this version of ourselves is something that has been constructed by World Ego to keep ourselves enslaved to our passions and our sense of unworthiness, to keep us small and in the thrall of our priests and elders who "know"? To keep us from knowing just how magnificent and truly holy we all are. That, in fact, we exist as a perfect symphony in the eyes of the One Creator who created all of us as reflections of Itself, wholly perfect and wholly divine, exquisitely and perfectly synchronized one to the other so that It can live out Its creation through our eyes. And that the perceived differences we hold one to the other, our sense of duality, our perception of ourselves as "fallen" and in the thrall of "evil" is a construction of the ego, not of the Divine, or of the Creator at all.
And that once we release ourselves from our self-constructed prisons of fear and ego we will begin to marvel in our multidimensional nature and start to perceive ourselves as a sacred and living mystery, as sacred trees, trees of life, with our branches reaching up to embrace Heaven, whilst rooted firmly into the heart of our beloved Earth. Listening and being woven into the Music of the Spheres.
For those who follow the kind of faith that espouses a deity who believes we are sinners, then we are that too, tainted forever by "original sin" (I've never really figured out what that is exactly) and forever striving as "fallen" creatures to better ourselves, to be pious, do good works, etc, in the knowledge that if we do we are going to move beyond this mortal coil and find ourselves in "heaven" and in the arms of final forgiveness and redemption.
Or for the unlucky ones, not so much.
But what if all of this is a massive untruth or a lie? What if this version of ourselves is something that has been constructed by World Ego to keep ourselves enslaved to our passions and our sense of unworthiness, to keep us small and in the thrall of our priests and elders who "know"? To keep us from knowing just how magnificent and truly holy we all are. That, in fact, we exist as a perfect symphony in the eyes of the One Creator who created all of us as reflections of Itself, wholly perfect and wholly divine, exquisitely and perfectly synchronized one to the other so that It can live out Its creation through our eyes. And that the perceived differences we hold one to the other, our sense of duality, our perception of ourselves as "fallen" and in the thrall of "evil" is a construction of the ego, not of the Divine, or of the Creator at all.
And that once we release ourselves from our self-constructed prisons of fear and ego we will begin to marvel in our multidimensional nature and start to perceive ourselves as a sacred and living mystery, as sacred trees, trees of life, with our branches reaching up to embrace Heaven, whilst rooted firmly into the heart of our beloved Earth. Listening and being woven into the Music of the Spheres.