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HOW TO FIND AND USE THE TRUTH
1-17-10
My journal contains a letter to my sister that says some things I love.
I wrote, “I have always been a heretic but I know there is a reality
above and beyond the earthly. I don’t understand a lot about it but I do
know how to contact it and it is simple: just love it. As Einstein
urged, even love the mystery.
I also know how to use it. Just love people. The only two reasons to
seek it and have it is to find a joyful way of life and to help your
brothers and sisters along the way. As you love people, everything you
need will flow naturally to you. I promise.”
I am sometimes asked to do eulogies for agnostics and even atheists. I
am happy to do it. I know from the first chapter of John that they, too,
possess the Light of God. John said, “He is the Light that shines on
every man coming in the world.” Unfortunately, there are people who do
not look for this Light they have been given and they are, therefore,
unable to learn to use it consciously.
They have always believed revelation is a continuing thing. Many of them
unconsciously respond to it and do incredible things as far as loving
people and life and the Earth and God’s little creatures. Every time any
of us love, we are using that Original Light.
I’m a mystic. Meaning I simply worship God and live in awareness of
God’s presence without straining to be doctrinally correct. I long ago
decided from my study of church history that much of the sweet power in
the message of Jesus was shorted out by the politics Emperor Constantine
slathered on the early church, especially the bishops who picked the
books of our bible and the doctrines that would be crammed down out
throats.
Jon Mundy is one of my favorite mystics. I do not care much for the
Course in Miracles that is his primary source document but our spiritual
paths have been very similar and many of our experiences are resonant.
George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, reminded me that revelation
was not limited to a handful of people. Jesus told us when he left he
would leave the Holy Spirit who would explain to us the things Jesus
spoke and lead us into all the Truth. He surely meant alll the Truth we
might need to live a spiritual life because no one possesses and
understands all Truth.
I have been asked, “If you don’t hold to all the doctrines and creeds of
the organized church, how do you decide what to accept?” How about the
ones that make sense to you and your own God-given intelligence? Jesus
said, “The Truth will set you free,” so how about accepting thr ones
that set you free? How about the ones that work in your life?
Like I said in that letter to my sister, we will be able to find the
truths we need if we love people. It’s a shortcut to heaven, as Jesus
revealed as he was dying. The last thing he did before he left this
place was to load up an old dying thief and take him to paradise with
him. If that doesn’t tell the whole cotton-picking story, the whole
cotton-picking story cannot be told.
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