Gaskin on God

[ArmsMerchant]

Stephen Gaskin was probably the pre-eminent metaphysicist of the 60s hippy movement. (If you want more info, wiki has a good article on him.) What follows is a quote from his book, " . . .this season's people," which I think is relevant and profound.

"You can't understand God. You can't define God, and you can't contain God.

"But you can, if you don't look at yourself, BE God.

"The way to keep from looking at yourself is to be so busy doing your best that you don't have anything left over to look with.

"You can't know the totality of God with your finite mind, because God is infinite, and your material plane intelligence is finite--it cannot contain an infinite thing. But if you aren't pressing about the totality, and just relax and observe what's in front of you, you are knowing God, because that's all there is to know.

"There is nothing else to know; and the knowledge, the knower, the thing known, and the act of knowing ARE ALL ONE and ARE ALL GOD.

"You are the eyes with which God looks, and the mind through which God understands itself."

[ArmsMerchant]

Bumped for the edification of new members..

[killallthewhiteman]

seems like a cool dude.

i especially liked the "look in front of you" one

[---Beany---]

Yay.
I am god experiencing this part of myself, through the filter of this body.
If only I could exact my godly powers, but then again that would fuck up the reasons I came to be in this body. .... but to counter that argument.... if I were here to experience the beauty of loneliness, surely being able to shoot lightning from my fingers would help facilitate that

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by ---Beany---

surely being able to shoot lightning from my fingers would help facilitate that

I think that would be a siddhi, the sort of thing masters tend to deplore, and warn students against.