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Originally Posted by sky123
Thanks Mo, the Editors Note jumped out 
' God does not in fact exist in the same way as created things which form the only object of experience for our natural faculties. Therefore, contact with supernatural reality is at first felt as an experience of nothingness.'
What do you think the ' Nothingness ' He refers to means ? |
sky123,
On first reading that the first thing that I thought about was the meditation that I practice. Attempting to shut my senses to all outside stimuli. To allow nothing to distract myself from pure solitude. Quoting from the website:
" I am quite sure that there is not a God in the sense that I am quite sure nothing real can be anything like what I am able to conceive when I pronounce this word. But that which I cannot conceive is not an illusion."
and furthermore: "Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other."
Perhaps you have had the experience of taking a tour in a cave and they turn all the lights off. One can absolutely see nothing at all....the very hand in front of your face is completely invisible. Rather than giving me a glimpse of the grave instead I think of being in the womb. Hibernating until you come to life. Perhaps we do not understand what vision really is until we experience blindness. I then think it is quite stupid of me to think that I can have a meaningful conception of God......He is beyond vision....beyond our imagination...beyond description. There was an old song I am reminded of....'20-20 vision and walking around blind'. We see....but we don't see....life begs us to embrace and pursue awareness....and on every level not just vision. I identify with the statement of the two men with no experience of God.....maybe the truth is that the denier(the one with no concepts of God) is the one that is nearer to God. Just my thoughts.....
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