Big claim, available for all readers to test in experience/understanding … this document represents as far as I can comprehend the unification of all the traditions and most significantly the inner, often secret facets of them i.e. Kabbalah. Christian mysticism, Sufism, Vedanta, Tantric schools, the high Masonic degrees etc. I would think and hope that you will feel a thrill of recognition as you read this … with the dawning realization that none of us is separated from our sincere brothers and sisters, no matter the differences in symbols, myths and cultural stories. I am experiencing a personal healing of conceptual pain from past, more shadowed judgements tossed out by those who taught us our traditions. I know that as you read this, that ancient, habitual, cultural judgements will be stirred, but at the same time it is calling us to see the Unity we inhabit and we can read words that surprise us; power words that are common in origin and intent to remind us of our Unity (cf footnotes). All of this, even the seeming differences, exist within each of us. We can allow this co-existence and also allow peace to enter.
It seems to me, that the relative is honoured here, within a Song of Praise to the Absolute and both are seen as integral to our human source and experience. The ultimate realization is that each of us is experiencing a call to allow for this larger understanding to play out in our own lives and experience as we learn to let go of separative judgements in order to bring our own disparate parts into harmony by our inner work.
It is long and deep and requires some patience to pursue this and my understanding is meagre … those of you like Ray and Scott who have much stronger connections to your respective traditions may be able to help the rest of us come to further insight and I encourage you in the most heartfelt way to attempt to do so. I believe that this is what we are here for.
Link to Gerald O’Donnell’s New Year 2010 message
Please leave whatever comments might occur to you, so we might wrestle with this challenge together somehow. A most cheerful and blessed New Year to all of you, David
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Footnotes in the headlights:
This all strikes me as the ultimate message of Basic Goodness
His use of Ra ”the one across” and David Wilcock’s bedrock reference in The Law of One material which is spoken by Ra. Also appearing as: The Egyptian Sun God.
While the Tantric schools are non-theistic and therefore do not speak of the One, Unity is the Absolute pointed to continually.
Could Zen be somehow associated with Zion?
I remain, full of concepts, while having mixed minds most thoroughly in this life with Rod (non-conceptual buddhist), Ray (non-conceptual Hebrew), Rainer (non-conceptual Shambhallian) and Scott (non-conceptual Christian), constantly encouraged to go forward, allowing everything by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
In some ways, this is all going too quickly and I am going to have to leave cookie crumb trails in public for some of you, in order to not have duplicate efforts. Here is one for Scott, if interested in the Gospel of Thomas as a sermon topic. (article by F. F. Bruce, who is)
What might be a multi-coloured herring showed up doing this work. It certainly is part of the 2012 theme.
