A powerful spiritual exercise is to periodically write down how you define God.
What are your beliefs? There is no right or wrong and our own ideas are likely to change from time to time.
Doug Eagle starts us off and he has challenged us to share our ideas about God.
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DOUG EAGLE THINKING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
Hello, my name is Doug, I’ve been thinking about the world, and how it is viewed by everyone, and why there are so many differences , and conflicts in the world. That’s why I came up with a concept that brings it all together for me, and here it is.
We live in three worlds.
When I say world, I do not mean physical world. The worlds, I’m talking about are what we create in our minds, and we experience for ourselves, as real. I cannot experience any of your worlds, for they are yours, and yours alone.
The world of imagination, is where thinking occurs, where believes reside, and where the first blueprints are built.
The inter-active world . Is where, we have agreed-upon means for things. This is the world of the body. Each person has a different version of this world, however we have a lot of things in common, otherwise we would not interact. This is the world of the now or the present, also the realm of the five senses.
The mysterious world (real world) is where we come from, and what we are made of. No one has seen this world, in it’s entirety, it’s beyond comprehension,
The world of imagination is unique to you. This is your inner world, you share with no one. This is where the past, and future reside. This is the world where change begins.
It is up to you, how you, use your imagination. This is where beliefs are set in motion. This is the place where you can change your perspective. This is the only place, where you can change how the past effects you, and you can play with the future, but it’s only in the present moment in which this is possible.
The inter-active world, is the world we share with others, though with different viewpoints. Your are in this world when you read, listen to, or watch someone else. This is the world of the five senses, and where science resides. This world is where conflicts occur, because everyone has a different view of this world.
This is where you bring your ideal, and concept from your own imaginations, and share them with others. This is also where you pick up other peoples idea, and make them your own, because you change them to fit your view point. This is also the world of action, because this is where things happen now.
The mysterious world is all pervasive, which means it is everything, and everywhere, all there is, there is no place it is not. We built the other two worlds, with the mysterious world.
In the interactive world we can find tangible representation of the mysterious world, in the form of objects, symbols and concepts. (The best example of this is money, and this is how Eric Butterworth describes money in his book spiritual economic “money is the tangible representation of an intangibles universal substance “ .) However they are not complete representations of the mysterious world, because complete understanding is beyond our comprehension, because everything we know, or don’t know resides in the mysterious world.
You are part of the mysterious world, and the mysterious world is incomplete without you.
There is a mysterious part of you, that you are unable to understand, in your human form. Though in human form we do get a glimpse of this mysterious part of us. Which where unable to describe, this experience completely to others. Thus we go into our imagination world, to come up with concepts, and Ideal, to try to describe this moment. This is the birth of spiritual beliefs, which resides in the imagination world, because were unable to corroborate it with the five senses.
In closing
I see my interactive world part, of my three worlds concept as an adaptation to (we live in a computer simulation) concept. Instead of living in a computer, we live in the real world, but what we perceive is a simulation created by our mind. When we interact with the real world, we creat our own simulation of the real world. Which is one of a kind for everybody. This explain why there are so many different prospective on any given subject.
The imagination is where we use this ability, to create simulation, and come up new possibilities, and experiment with them in the form of thought experiments within our mind, to see how it might work in the real world.
The mysterious world is all there ever was, all there is, all there ever will be. The imagination world, and interactive world, are just title, or names for an aspect of the mysterious world. In much the same way when some one ask you who are you? You say father, mother, son, daughter, sister, brother, Jane, John, plumber, golfer, and so on and so on. This are just title or aspects of who you our, there not a complete picture of who you are, they represent aspects of who you are, and you are much more.
In addition
I cannot help but see, that this concept is similar to the Trinity.
Where the imagination world represents the father, because that’s where concepts, and ideals are conceived.
Interactive world represents the son, because that is where ideals are materialize, and gain physical form and can grow and change as they interact with other concepts, and ideals. That makes me wonder, if were just concepts
The mysterious world represents the Holy Spirit, because it is everywhere, and everything.
Sincerely; Douglas