The Day that God Died
When God Died
God is dead, and we have killed him
Nietzsche
The death of God announced by Nietzsche over 100 years ago has resulted in a “profuse
sequence of breakdowns, destructions, annihilations and revolutions” which we read about everyday in our newspapers. And yet now there are new sciences and spiritualities emerging.
Indeed man may now be defined as the latest expression of the cosmic earth process, as that being in whom the cosmic-earth-human-process becomes conscious of itself.
Thomas Berry
God is being re-born in human consciousness through “…prayerful, meditative and mystical experiences as those states of grace as the mind-body system attunes to the primary field of Being and, for a time, has the accumulated knowledge of the patterns stored in the mind of God.” Jean Houston
And what is that primary field of Being? And what is that accumulated knowledge? Houston suggests that we are searching for the Beloved. After the death of God and almost all of our traditional values, we find that God and man are becoming conscious of each other again in some new ways, in a process of the “beloved searching for the beloved.” Interesting, isn’t it? We had to throw out all of our traditional static concepts about ourselves and our life and risk the possibility of total loss or re-discovery. We risked experiencing meaninglessness and annihilation to find what was real. We invented new words and new languages, and discovered that the old ones had some hidden meaning and power. We might still use the words “God” and “love” but such words would have to have a more profound experiential meaning than just shibboleths.
When God died, love died, and mankind went into years of war, darkness, existential despair, violence, illness, drugs, insanity and secularism. We tried everything and began to find out what works and what doesn’t. It wasn’t enough just to be told. We had to know by experience. And we discovered that love power is fundamental and that the source of that energy is the Sacred Within. Never has God had so many new names. Everyone has his own name for his Higher Power. Some have named this higher power Science, some have named it Security, some have named it Individuality, some have named it Music, some have named it Love, some have named it Mystery, some have named it Cosmos, some have named it Unity. What is your name?
God is dead, and we have killed him
Nietzsche
The death of God announced by Nietzsche over 100 years ago has resulted in a “profuse
sequence of breakdowns, destructions, annihilations and revolutions” which we read about everyday in our newspapers. And yet now there are new sciences and spiritualities emerging.
Indeed man may now be defined as the latest expression of the cosmic earth process, as that being in whom the cosmic-earth-human-process becomes conscious of itself.
Thomas Berry
God is being re-born in human consciousness through “…prayerful, meditative and mystical experiences as those states of grace as the mind-body system attunes to the primary field of Being and, for a time, has the accumulated knowledge of the patterns stored in the mind of God.” Jean Houston
And what is that primary field of Being? And what is that accumulated knowledge? Houston suggests that we are searching for the Beloved. After the death of God and almost all of our traditional values, we find that God and man are becoming conscious of each other again in some new ways, in a process of the “beloved searching for the beloved.” Interesting, isn’t it? We had to throw out all of our traditional static concepts about ourselves and our life and risk the possibility of total loss or re-discovery. We risked experiencing meaninglessness and annihilation to find what was real. We invented new words and new languages, and discovered that the old ones had some hidden meaning and power. We might still use the words “God” and “love” but such words would have to have a more profound experiential meaning than just shibboleths.
When God died, love died, and mankind went into years of war, darkness, existential despair, violence, illness, drugs, insanity and secularism. We tried everything and began to find out what works and what doesn’t. It wasn’t enough just to be told. We had to know by experience. And we discovered that love power is fundamental and that the source of that energy is the Sacred Within. Never has God had so many new names. Everyone has his own name for his Higher Power. Some have named this higher power Science, some have named it Security, some have named it Individuality, some have named it Music, some have named it Love, some have named it Mystery, some have named it Cosmos, some have named it Unity. What is your name?
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