Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
Yes, your human body is knowable, but not by one of the cells in your body, similarly you as a part of the whole of existence can not know the whole.I can understand that there is a whole -and that it is made of the same things as the parts.
I can see what its perspective would be generally -but not specifically... not all of the details -at least not yet.
The whole exists and is therefore inherently knowable -and so able to be reverse-engineered.
Transition self-identification? I disagree. No sense being made an individual just to melt back into the whole.
Aligning with the whole is another story, but we were made rulers of ourselves and part of reality.
Universal law should be followed, but variety -such as created by our differences as individuals is one of the things that makes life awesome.
Biblically, God has new names already prepared for us -so the fact that we are all not the same is obviously important.
You presently believe you are an autonomous entity separate from the whole whereas in fact you are an expression of the whole, as is a star, planet, flower, etc.. Transcending the ego self is a matter of realizing the deeper reality within you that is doing the expressing, at the moment you self identify with the expression rather than the source, the effect rather than the cause.
True, the next evolutionary step is not a leap to being God, but being one with, ie., an angel of God. But to realize this higher state, one must first know what and who we are in the context of the fullness of creation, and that means being born again at a spiritual level. So long as you self identify with the mortal body, that is what and who you are, when your body dies, what are you? That which is born of flesh is flesh, unless you are born of the spirit in this life, you will not see the Kingdom of Heaven. Somewhere in this life, self identity must be realized in spirit to fulfill the promise of God, and that requires a transition from the present self identification with flesh!
This does not mean that you cease being able to function in the flesh, but you know it is the expression of the spirit.
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