Love and the Way

The idea that the cosmos is "indifferent" does not imply that it is malevolent. All the foolish anthropomorphisms about a personal God who is a "big daddy in the sky have been dropped and abandoned. It takes no rocket scientist to determine that "God" is not interventionistic." These are Pollyanna fairy-tales of only wishful thinking. God is no caring grandfather or father, no genie, and no Santa Claus. But, on the other hand, God is no psychotic Jehovah.

In fact, God is no external person at all. "God" is the very best that exists in all sentient minds throughout the galaxies. God is the sum total of all wisdom, and all Love, in all sentient hearts everywhere.

Clearly, this is by no means limited to the earth-- a kind of revived geocentrism. So, we start with the simple premise that mind does exist. This is experiential rather than theoretical for all of us.

The second part of our premise is that goodness, valuable and positive qualities, exist within mind. That, too, is largely experiential, and is also evident by non-biased observation. While mind or consciousness contains much of horror and nightmare, it would be lop-sided and biased to claim that it contained no goodness.

So, wehn you gather all the best of all the goodness from all the sentient minds in existence, you have "collected" God. That collection IS "God." This is the meaning of the mysterious declaration of mystics that, "God is Love."

This is not pantheism, which defines "God" as the sum total of the material cosmos. For it presents God, not as matter, but as Mind. (Still, this is not true dualism, for "matter" is also Mind, being dream only.) So, "God" is Mind, not cosmos. This Mind dreams the cosmos into bbeing, but does not become the cosmos any more than you become your nightdreams.

Further, God is not only Mind, but is exclusively all the positivity found in all Mind. God is all the Love, none of the fear. God is all the wisdom, none of the folly. God is only positivity, by definition. "God" is all the good stuff, as the etymology of the word suggests. All that is "outside" Godmind is nothing, or mere illusion.

Does this mean that hatred is unimportant? Just ignore it, and it will go away? No, for that is childish thinking too, just like "big daddy." The people of wisdom are the people of Love. Yes, a cosmos that is dream could well be a monstrosity in itself. A cosmos in which "evil" serves immediate improvement could be equally monstrous and psychotic. That is why the very CORE, the essence, the indispensable, is Love. That is why the center of all my teaching, and of the whole Enlightenment Tradition, is "agapology"-- the psychology of Love. Without Love, the whole philosophy unravels and falls apart. It could indeed be interpreted to be unloving or uncompassionate as a mere intellectual explanation. And, in history, it has been so misunderstood and distorted. So, that is why the philosophy of the Enlightenment Tradition must be received as an indivisible whole. Any recipe tastes bad if you leave out its most abundant ingredient; and the philosophy of the Enlightenment Tradition is indeed distorted if you accept it in part only. Without Love, it "tastes bad" to the sensitive heart, for it is literally "spoiled." If, for example, you accept the perfect balance of karma, or of Soul-choices, but without Love, you could imply a totally heartless and unfeeling view of the cosmos.

The average Protestant, Catholic, Jew, or Muslim would call me an "atheist," because I do not believe in her interpretation of "God," which I see as a silly and desperate fairy-tale. So, in our shared quest for truth (reality), we share very much in common.