Cosmos and Sensuality

Yes, we treasure our Pneumarium family just a little more with every gathering! It was a very special gathering when we celebrated Cosmic Communion together. Following the cosmic symbolism of many cultures, we shared together the juice of the vine, and the "bread of life." Nothing on earth is more pleasurable than the discussion of Love and its infinite subthemes! It always heals both speaker and listeners!

In the final analysis, all is the Absolute. Hindu mystics say, "All is good, for all is God." God "indwells" the cosmos, for it is all His/Her dream. It is Mind, dreaming up the whole "external" and "material" cosmos. This is the view of the Enlightenment Tradition.

Re the novel Luminous Ecstasies and Passions. WARNING: It is controversial because it suggests, and openly declares, that sensuality is a good and positive part of life. The senses are a gift of God through nature. Many religious people think that sensuality is evil, undesirable,and even dangerous! They insist that spirituality absolutely precludes the sensual experience of the world! (A long time ago, I thought this way too.) But life is a much more positive experience if you can embrace your own senses as a good aspect, a gift of grace.

Of course, the senses can be misused and abused to harm yourself or others. This is never good; but this does not itself make the senses "bad." So, just a friendly warning: Although a deeply spiritual and "feel good" book, the novel does celebrate positive, honorable sensuality!:)

After being touched by the Light, a major shift occurs as you begin to know that God is the All, and the "Father" (Origin) of the all. (The gnostic Christians called the Absolute "the Father of the all.") We have visited that Mind in which God is "all in all." How exciting is that?:)

Looking at only the colors, in a light-prism, which in mystical tradition is called "multiplicity," we easily lose touch with underlying Unity. It's very easy to forget that all the light is the one, unified white light. We fall into the illusion that, in philosophy, is called "dualism." This is the terrible illusion that anything can exist outside of Mind, or the One. When we awaken to the fact that the entire cosmos is one undifferentiated Mind, we return to the opposite philosophy, called "monism."