One God
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Submitted by tyhikargaja on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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One God
The Ideal
Religious people receive from within their own psyche the image or realization of the type of God or Goddess they need in order to give their soul a voice. I use the word "receive" because the unconscious mind furnishes that which the conscious mind needs to be illuminated -- if the person is open to such illumination. I believe the unconscious mind is the contact point between the person's soul and the Spirit of God.
Each of us has a psychological bias, or archetypal preference that is the "language" of our own individual soul. The cacophony of humanity's religious expressions is a result of the many psychological dimensions of all people.
The Supreme Being has the characteristics of Love, Light, and Justice that many people envision for their God, Goddess, or Great Spirit. Those are the characteristics that unite much of humanity on spiritual grounds. But the totality of a Supreme Being or "One God" -- one which encompasses the universe and all beings -- is much more than just the Light.
Each person projects onto God the characteristic which they need to relate to, in order to express themselves spiritually. It is much like a lover projecting his or her ideal hopes and expectations on the one they love -- who may be quite different from the projections. Each of us "sees" and finds comfort and salvation in our personal Ideal God.
The Real
The works of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, et. al., the personal dream-vision experiences of ordinary people, and the writings of the sages of history, all show conclusively that the Supreme Being has innumerable characteristics. For to be the "One God" to so many people who have so many needs, requires an infinite array of characteristics. Every archetype within the human unconscious is an aspect of the One God.
We are all part of a divine dance, an intricate interwoven pattern of life and death. All of...
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