Imagined Evil
Imagined Evil
The word “evil” is a play on letters. Evil can also be spelled “veil” or “vile” or “live” . To me evil is a veil. Evil means illusion or hidden truth. But evil is so deeply ingrained in our thinking that we are its pawn. We have imagined evil and therefore we experience it. God gave us the freedom to imagine either good, evil or the Infinite Good. We have chosen the first two, and not the Infinite Good. Thus we experience what we choose. If you are ready to explore your Third Alternative, hang on for the ride of your life! We have explored every other alternative imaginable to deal with anxiety except the only one that will work. Isn’t it time we try Number Three? I admit it takes guts, but aren’t you tired of feeling like a gutless anxious wonder?
Join me in exploring the World of Reality, the science which has a chance, the world of the Infinite Good. There’s not a crowd on this highway. There is no stampede here. So take your time. But I warn you, as soon as you open this question, you will get a reverse on Pandora’s Box. Every imaginable evil will fly out if you even dare to ask such a question! Every repressed biased story about evil that ever was put in Pandora’s Box will fly out at you and say “Oh, yeah, what about this?” What about Hitler, what about Bin Laden, what about the terrorists, what about rapists and child murderers? What about the devil? What about hell? Evil is not even hidden behind a veil. Evil is the most obvious fact in the universe. Evil is vile. Evil destroys life. Right? Wrong!
Hang on. What’s wrong with this picture? Who said evil exists? If the Infinite Good is the most hidden fact in the universe, it would be behind a veil. Are we conscious or unconscious? Are we victims of the Matrix or not? Did Jesus come for nothing? Did Jesus believe in evil? Did he expose the hidden truth that sets us free? Did Ghandhi and Martin Luther King and Buddha see a world we don’t? if God is the world, maybe we haven’t even seen the world yet. We are so blind that we don’t even see Reality! Reality is hidden behind a veil of our own making.
When the tempter taunted Adam with the idea that the knowledge of good and evil was the final truth, Adam bit. So do we. We still do. Admit it. We haven’t entered the kingdom of truth yet. The kingdom of reality is still hidden behind the veil of illusion. I hope by now you are outraged and spitting mad. At least check it out. What more can I ask? But again, be warned about Pandor’s Box in reverse. Every evil thing ever stored in your subconscious data bank will rise up to challenge what you call your logical mind. You will argue until you are blue in the face about this. But at least you won’t be snoring so loudly that you can sleep through the next six years.
You have six years to sort out this koan, to find out if evil exists. That’s it. Just six years. And it will take that long. So get going!
It took me six years, on top of 60. Maybe you can shorten the learning curve. I hope so. We don’t have 60 years plus 6. We only have 6. Six years to clean up our evil mis-use of imagination. In just 6 years, whatever you imagine will come true immediately. Are you ready for that one? Now God has blessed us with time. It takes time now for imagination to incarnate. But in six years, time will be gone and imagination will incarnate immediately. What a mess that is going to be if we haven’t cleaned up our favorite story, the story of evil.
What if we are still caught in our victim story by then? We will be acting out our anger and resentment all over the place. We will be self-destructive. We will be scape-goating right and left, just like now, but our powers will be much greater. Clean it up. There are no bad guys. There is only God, behind a veil of superstition and projected shadows. Only the Infinite Good exists. Start today. See only the absolute good in your neighbor. Take the risk. If God is the Infinite Good, evil can’t exist, except in the pitiful story which we call reality. We have no idea what Reality is. Jesus saw nothing but the Kingdom of Reality, and we have barely had a glimpse of it, even until now. Its not too late, clean up your vision. Throw away your dark glasses. There is nothing but light anywhere.
Okay, suppose I am nuts! Suppose I am the most foolish optimist you ever heard mutter a word? Okay. But suppose Jesus was right? What would you have to lose besides your so-called sanity? Suppose history has been wrong? We don’t have a lot of evidence that history has been so great so far, do we? Look at the atrocities we see daily on the news! Are they not the result of the Matrix view of reality? Has love created even one of these atrocities? Even the chimpanzees do better than that!
Take a year off from your anxiety story, if you can. If it doesn’t work, you still have five years left to re-marry your story, and re-join the Matrix. Or just try taking off one month, or one week, or one day. Yes, just start with one day. And then you can do another day.
Start with today. Do not criticize anyone or anything today. Do not nag anyone or anything today. Do not complain to or about anyone today. Do not blame anyone or anything today. Do not threaten anyone or anything today. Do not punish anyone or anything today. Do not bribe anyone or anything today. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Tell yourself that only the Infinite Good exists in reality, whether you believe it or not. Believe it or Not, said Ripley. Of course you can’t believe it. How could you! No one does, except perhaps God, and we have no idea about how His mind works! Just today. Just a little scientific experiment! What can you lose, except your anxiety!
Don’t look at me so cross-eyed! I’m just asking you a question: What if evil does not exist? What if we have all been wrong, all along? What if the verdict of history has been teetotally wrong all along? Just suppose. You have a lifetime to find out. And that’s all you ever have to find out. Do you get it? The answer to that question is all you ever have to know. Get it? If you don’t get it, you get to keep your anxiety.
The word “evil” is a play on letters. Evil can also be spelled “veil” or “vile” or “live” . To me evil is a veil. Evil means illusion or hidden truth. But evil is so deeply ingrained in our thinking that we are its pawn. We have imagined evil and therefore we experience it. God gave us the freedom to imagine either good, evil or the Infinite Good. We have chosen the first two, and not the Infinite Good. Thus we experience what we choose. If you are ready to explore your Third Alternative, hang on for the ride of your life! We have explored every other alternative imaginable to deal with anxiety except the only one that will work. Isn’t it time we try Number Three? I admit it takes guts, but aren’t you tired of feeling like a gutless anxious wonder?
Join me in exploring the World of Reality, the science which has a chance, the world of the Infinite Good. There’s not a crowd on this highway. There is no stampede here. So take your time. But I warn you, as soon as you open this question, you will get a reverse on Pandora’s Box. Every imaginable evil will fly out if you even dare to ask such a question! Every repressed biased story about evil that ever was put in Pandora’s Box will fly out at you and say “Oh, yeah, what about this?” What about Hitler, what about Bin Laden, what about the terrorists, what about rapists and child murderers? What about the devil? What about hell? Evil is not even hidden behind a veil. Evil is the most obvious fact in the universe. Evil is vile. Evil destroys life. Right? Wrong!
Hang on. What’s wrong with this picture? Who said evil exists? If the Infinite Good is the most hidden fact in the universe, it would be behind a veil. Are we conscious or unconscious? Are we victims of the Matrix or not? Did Jesus come for nothing? Did Jesus believe in evil? Did he expose the hidden truth that sets us free? Did Ghandhi and Martin Luther King and Buddha see a world we don’t? if God is the world, maybe we haven’t even seen the world yet. We are so blind that we don’t even see Reality! Reality is hidden behind a veil of our own making.
When the tempter taunted Adam with the idea that the knowledge of good and evil was the final truth, Adam bit. So do we. We still do. Admit it. We haven’t entered the kingdom of truth yet. The kingdom of reality is still hidden behind the veil of illusion. I hope by now you are outraged and spitting mad. At least check it out. What more can I ask? But again, be warned about Pandor’s Box in reverse. Every evil thing ever stored in your subconscious data bank will rise up to challenge what you call your logical mind. You will argue until you are blue in the face about this. But at least you won’t be snoring so loudly that you can sleep through the next six years.
You have six years to sort out this koan, to find out if evil exists. That’s it. Just six years. And it will take that long. So get going!
It took me six years, on top of 60. Maybe you can shorten the learning curve. I hope so. We don’t have 60 years plus 6. We only have 6. Six years to clean up our evil mis-use of imagination. In just 6 years, whatever you imagine will come true immediately. Are you ready for that one? Now God has blessed us with time. It takes time now for imagination to incarnate. But in six years, time will be gone and imagination will incarnate immediately. What a mess that is going to be if we haven’t cleaned up our favorite story, the story of evil.
What if we are still caught in our victim story by then? We will be acting out our anger and resentment all over the place. We will be self-destructive. We will be scape-goating right and left, just like now, but our powers will be much greater. Clean it up. There are no bad guys. There is only God, behind a veil of superstition and projected shadows. Only the Infinite Good exists. Start today. See only the absolute good in your neighbor. Take the risk. If God is the Infinite Good, evil can’t exist, except in the pitiful story which we call reality. We have no idea what Reality is. Jesus saw nothing but the Kingdom of Reality, and we have barely had a glimpse of it, even until now. Its not too late, clean up your vision. Throw away your dark glasses. There is nothing but light anywhere.
Okay, suppose I am nuts! Suppose I am the most foolish optimist you ever heard mutter a word? Okay. But suppose Jesus was right? What would you have to lose besides your so-called sanity? Suppose history has been wrong? We don’t have a lot of evidence that history has been so great so far, do we? Look at the atrocities we see daily on the news! Are they not the result of the Matrix view of reality? Has love created even one of these atrocities? Even the chimpanzees do better than that!
Take a year off from your anxiety story, if you can. If it doesn’t work, you still have five years left to re-marry your story, and re-join the Matrix. Or just try taking off one month, or one week, or one day. Yes, just start with one day. And then you can do another day.
Start with today. Do not criticize anyone or anything today. Do not nag anyone or anything today. Do not complain to or about anyone today. Do not blame anyone or anything today. Do not threaten anyone or anything today. Do not punish anyone or anything today. Do not bribe anyone or anything today. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Tell yourself that only the Infinite Good exists in reality, whether you believe it or not. Believe it or Not, said Ripley. Of course you can’t believe it. How could you! No one does, except perhaps God, and we have no idea about how His mind works! Just today. Just a little scientific experiment! What can you lose, except your anxiety!
Don’t look at me so cross-eyed! I’m just asking you a question: What if evil does not exist? What if we have all been wrong, all along? What if the verdict of history has been teetotally wrong all along? Just suppose. You have a lifetime to find out. And that’s all you ever have to find out. Do you get it? The answer to that question is all you ever have to know. Get it? If you don’t get it, you get to keep your anxiety.
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