As someone who has grown up in a very conservative Jewish Litvak background, i was allergic to the word God and everything i learned it represents. It is only in recent years and through my own inner spiritual Journey and pilgrimage of my heart that i came to know God as that omnipresent unified boundless presence you've spoken about here and keep speaking about in your videos. Seeing you, with a familiarly Hasidic face speaking such deep truth brother tears to my eys and I'd wish we could sit together for a Shabat dinner and marvel at the beauty and grace of mysticism and love.
Your story is so relatable! I can't agree more... Zevi often quotes Huxley, saying that "familiarity causes numbness", so when born into an environment were Divinity is a given, one might need to completely lose his belief in God, just to find it again, right under ones nose, bear and stripped from all the dogmatic context. Good luck on your journey!
@@SeekersofUnity Is there an email to correspond with you on? I have a few questions I'd love to run by you and potentially also if you'd like I'm open to sharing my incredible story on your podcast as i believe your viewers will find it interesting and useful
You might be surprised that having grown up in a very conservative Catholic family my path was very similar to yours. Mysticism, like poetry, posseses the intelectual freedom and flexibility to become the truly borderless language unifying various cultures and traditions. Or maybe, it's better to think of it as a bridge. A man must first discover that he posseses a deeply seated interior space which he must fill with meaning in order to become a complete human being. But the decision on what he uses as that "filler" depends on his sensitivity and discernment. Unfortunately, mystics never belonged to the majority of any population. We must resign ourselves to life in spiritual solitude. Peace.
“Forgive me Oh, Shiva! My three great sins! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that, you are omnipresent. In thinking about you, I forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to you, I forgot that You are beyond words.” ~ Shankaracharya
love that I clicked this to watch it when it had been up for 2 minutes, less than the length of the video, and it had a dislike on it already lmao happy to give this the first like! good content, when you take the time to watch it all the way through
This kind of "upgraded thinking" has been a loooong time'a comin'... Thank you again for a deep and powerful video. You say youer words with such power fueled by your love of humanity and desire for true peace... may you speak them into existence!
The problem I mostly have being a pantheist is the lack of community. Whichever company I keep I always feel like the outlier and this makes me feel lost. Something I really love about Judaism actually is the community aspect and I have often looked upon my Jewish friends with envy wishing I could join. This video made me tear up honestly and although I appreciate the community you are trying to create online I want a community I can really touch and be a part of in the physical world. I want it to be a part of every part of my life. 😭
Islam my sister is the best community you could join not only will you have 2 billion brothers and sisters around the world greeting you with A-slam alaykum (peace be upon you) but you would be worshiping the one and only God who has no partners whatsoever. The same God that revealed to Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and so on peace be upon them All the same message and that is to worship the one and only God and do not attribute partners to him. You would be on the truth that was revealed by God. The Quran which was the last and final message revealed by God preceded by the Gospel and the Torah and other books like the Scrolls of Abraham which all have either been lost or corrupted And thats why the Quran was promised to be preserved by God and is why it is memorized by millions.
286th to like! What i love about my Muslim brothers and sisters is that they know that the Divine needs no helpers. That what will be is as it always was to be, that everything is beautiful in its time. Thank you Zevi for the wonderful explanation of why we must radically change how finite humans with all our frailties must confess our limitations and strive against evil inclinations within us that grasp onto false interpretations in vain attempts to justify our failings. And of course, we are always listening to false interpretations and must throw ourselves upon grace and mercy in humility. There is no other way. Much love!
Ah of course. I was actually just talking with him about some work we’re hoping to do together in March, Inshallah. A pleasure to meet a brother of a friend, even if only virtually. Thank you Mendy for coming by and for your kind words. Much love.
@@SeekersofUnity Nice! Looking forward to seeing what you guys put together. I’m sure it’ll be great. Its nice to meet you as well. I’m glad we have a connection beyond our mutual love for this topic. If you ever find yourself in the Shechuna, please do reach out.
It really encourages me that there are people still with this kind of heart, I'm grateful for this and the work you are doing, if simply only because it's helping to advance all of us to a higher place. Thank you, and I hope I will have the means to support your work and growth, because I truly believe in this. Thank you.
Thank you kind friend for your kind words. I’m glad the work we’re doing has resonated with you so meaningful. Looking forward to having you join us in this holy work. Thank you. With love, Zevi
Whenever I think of the phrase 'God is dead' I also always think of a line from Jung in his commentary on The Secret to the Golden Flower. "The Gods have become our diseases." I think this adds a piece of the puzzle.
Aquinas' notion of God as existence itself, or more accurately, God is God's own existence, is a very difficult notion to maintain. For one, it seems that existence, by its very "nature", is always of something, not something in itself. Perhaps we should consider more, the Platonic and Neoplatonic idea that God transcends essence and existence.
@@danzo1711 You made a great point! Although, "God as existence" and "God transcending essence and existence" are two wonderful (and not necessarily conflicting) ways which attempt to describe all things ineffable and incomprehensible. When viewed through the idealistic spectacle, those two notions are both as abstract as they are valid.
Amen brother! I find dogmatism deeply saddening, especially when my sense of The One is so strong in my life. How can we be so close to God yet so far at the same time? We need an abundance of mysticism and we need to stop trying to force The One into a box. Let us all express our praise and awe for The Creator together. Every nation, colour, and creed united in our true identity.
You're project is such an important one for the current dialogues taking place and for my personal attempt of meaning making. I just watched the discussion between John Vervaeke and Paul Vanderklay on the “agentic” and “arenic” modes of spirituality representing theistic and non-theistic religions, respectively. You're project is very complimentary to their work as well. So many concerns that are brought against religious dogmas (which I've held as well) are being incorporated in this new living metaphysic of God that the West has been closed off to. I'll admit I still hold onto some semblance of the agentic quality in my personal seeking, but this content makes God feel alive again. 🙏
Thank you friend for your kind words. We're glad we could be of service. John is a close friend and we've done some awesome dialogos together on his channel and here. Check em out for some more good play ;) With love, Zevi
I've come to terms with my original motivation for seeking God in the first place. As a Trauma Survivor, I couldn't tolerate the idea that humans could have the last word on what was Good and what was True. I was raised to be an Atheist, by someone who was mean (still is). And if she was the best humanity could do, there was no point in living. As I sought for a God that I could Trust, I did a little wandering. Totally understandable. I settled on Jesus when I was a Sophmore in High School because of what He _said_ He stood for. It took over 20 years to figure out that _NO ONE_ in the "church" was taking Him at His Word and that it wasn't worth throwing the rest of my life away for any more of that. If God wasn't more developed than us, morally, emotionally, cognitively, politically, psychologically, philosophically, etc. then all that time and dedication was worthless. Since I left the church, I've been listening for the sound of Goodness and Truth and finding mostly little snips and bits here and there. I can never go back to naive faith, but I'm okay with sinking my life into a community of people who are willing to enact what a Truly Good God demonstrates and models for His/Her people. I'm friendly to any or all. But I can't commit to people who don't get it anymore. Incidentally, I suspect that you're going to "get shot at from both sides" on this. Those who don't want to "believe in god" because: "ideology", war and death. And those who want a more strict and traditional religious commitment. I pray that you will be given infinite patience and compassion for this project. And I pray that those who aren't interested will just keep scrolling. I was just commenting the other day on "The Modern Hermeticist's" chan that I envy Judaism and Islam for the amount of -innovation- theological experimentation they all got to do while the Christian Church was busy torturing people to death for even the appearance of an open mind. Crazy! Well, it's time to play catch-up! LOL Give me an emotionally mature god or give me death! 💚💙💜
Dude your words are poetry. Thank you Zevi. What a beautiful unexpected capstone to a truly monumental series. Thank you so much. A bold endeavour you seek to embark upon I wish you luck will be in the tailwind, cheering you on. You'll never hear it but it will push you further, I hope. I do not think we will find the we world we seek. We are the world we seek. Or something. Anyway, blow a kiss to you friend. Much love, Zevi. From Sandro.
Thank you Sandro for your kind words. I couldn't do work this without the loving support from each one of you. Your blessings mean the world to me. Thank you. It's a pleasure to serve an to seek together, to find that world or self or whatever we're all searching for ;) With love Sandro. Yours, Zevi.
Illuminating. The entire series. Excellent work. I'm afraid our biggest struggle at this moment is to raise awareness in the young generation that they have a soul, that their life has a non-physical dimension. At this moment, the only uniting deity I see is the god Mammon. The tragedy is that I do not foresee any change unless there's a worldwide calamity able to shake up human conscience next to which the Covid scare looks like a child's play. I do not blame only the young. I was there myself as well. I will await impatiently your further work. Peace.
Thank you Jack for your kind words. I’m so glad you’re enjoying this work. I fear the same with you, but hopefully the awakening will come by an overwhelming beauty and goodness, which will drive us to our knees in awe, praise and gratitude, away from our modern idols. We can only hope. With love and thank you for joining us, Zevi
"Our age is retrospective. We build the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his first work titled "Nature."
@@SeekersofUnity You’re very welcome. This video to me encapsulates a lot of what makes your project here so special; it’s very educational yes, but deeper than that, you bring such passion to it and balance taking real intellectual risks with precision and depth. You don’t just disseminate information but cultivate and foster ideas with both vigour and humility. It’s a real privilege to watch.
I hope this true. I really do. I am getting old now and there is no way I can believe in the religion I was born into, and I can't fathom there being nothing either. It makes no sense this thing is like a human, and it makes no sense it is not there and unknowable at all.
I've always loved the study of comparative religions, and their different approaches, as to how they approach God. However, what I like about your channel is you are trying to go beyond the outside forms of religions, to find that cosmic unity that exists, between different faiths. Having said that, I think a comparative methodology actually reveals an infinite number of aspects of the Divine. So one's religious approach to God reveals one particular aspect of the Divine, and that by studying another religion, another different aspect of God is revealed. I am not an authority on Judaism. However, I have been able to garner through reading a lot of material on Judaism, and watching many Rabbis on TH-cam, that Judaism is all about the action of bringing the Divine into this world by one's own actions. It is essentially a religion of agency, so to speak. And then you look at Catholicism, and the emphasis is on achieving the Beatific vision of God at the end of one's temporal existence in this world. And the emphasis here, is that nothing we achieve in this world can ever satisfy God or be equal to God. Hence there is nothing in this temporal world that is absolue, because God is greater than anything we can achieve in this world. To argue to the contrary against that before mentioned idea, is to make an argument for idolatry.
@@SeekersofUnity It is interesting that Miroslav Volf has articulated a succinct explanation, of how Christians and Muslims worship the same God. You can Google his lectures and writings on this topic. He included Judaism as well.
You just described the last two thousand years of Christian understanding of God, but at the same time tried to ignore Christianity ever teaching God like that. Have you ever mentioned St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mystics of the church?
You’re most welcome Erick 🙏🏼 i don’t think there’s one idea of God which the modern western world currently subscribes to. i think there’s a plethora and spectrum of God idea. In this video we we specifically objecting to one category of ideas, namely those which ‘other’ God.
There was an old comic that depicted a graffiti artist writing, "God is dead. Signed, Joe." When he walked away, G-d was ❌ crossed out and Joe was written over it to say, "Joe is dead. Signed, G-d."
Salam Zevi, Don’t stretch the Truth, as so to let it be contained within the falsehoods of people’s whims; For anything between Truth and falsehood, is only falsehood - even when it amounts to a strand of hair. Be careful of that. Wishing you peace, blessings and guidance to you all.
@@SeekersofUnity Peace Friends, I can only agree. Going by Rabbi Abulafia's advice also, given the constructive nature of language, the etymology of "God" is worth considering in why the anthropomorphism is so hard to shake. Allah, Elohim or Adonai, the Creator of both transcendent Heaven and immanent Earth, is the new/old "One worthy of worship" that must surely make a return, inshaaAllah. The imperial Sky-Father did his best, but Baka-Brahma may believe he is the summit when in fact he is (see the Pali Canon "Brahma invitation") firmly under Mara's spell. He is a spirit or jinn as much in need of Allah as the rest of us, and we are all in this together. Salaam.
My bad. I forgot to put up the volume. Sorry about that. Still finding my way around the editing software. Let me know if you can hear it with earphones.
Sure. I was born and raised in, and still identify with, the Chabad Chasidic community. Which belongs to the Orthodox branch of Judaism, even if that’s a misnomer ;)
@@SeekersofUnity thanks! There's actually a few Chassidic Jews here in Florence, although they are not organized (it's basically a small center for foreigners, next to the synagogue) and I'm always trying to catch them when they're open to talk and get to know them, but due to Covid they're almost always shut. Hopefully I'll be able to at some point in 2022 and I'm hoping to join a Torah study group with the local rabbi!
We want to avoid being fooled and fooling ourselves. We have no good reason to posit something if that something makes no difference. Is it a matter of interpretation? Is it a matter of admitting that the God that people used to believe in isn't there, and then find something else that is there to which we can apply the label "God"? It seems a bit dishonest, or at least confusing and needlessly so. Are the concepts to which we can attach the name "God" really all that similar to what people long ago meant when they said "God"? God has been ship of Theseused away, the name remaining but otherwise entirely changed. He no longer reveals, speaks, causes miracles, or is even a He at all. I don't mean to say the concept of something transcendent or universal or immanent etc. is not valuable or anything. I merely want to point out that what it going on and that it behooves one to be aware.
Am I the only one who is having rally hard time hearing the audio? I have both my laptop speaker and video volumes at maximum level but I still needed cc. I tested a few other videos and it is just this one. I don't mean to complain, just wanted to let you know.
Thank you Tessa. Ya, my bad. I’m still learning how to use this new editing software. My apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you for letting me know. It should sound fine with earphones hopefully 🙏🏼
I understand what you're trying to say (I think), but Elohim though has always been the same and at least partly presented in the Jewish Scriptures for centuries. He is a Father figure and our Creator (Yishayah 64:8, Mal'achi 2:10), not a physical or biological father.
@@SeekersofUnity I may sometimes get angry and write unconstructive comments but please don't take this personally. I love listening to you. Your voice, your intonation and especially your pronunciation of Jewish words. Sometimes I seem to just get lost when listening - almost as though what you are saying acts on a hidden part of my being. Too much? Maybe? But it how I feel. My anger stems from my own failed search for God (or whatever). For over 50 years I have searched and made commitment to that special journey. But after all this time I still have nothing that I can point to and say, 'Yes', this is it. Nothing at all. So, I guess that at times my frustration spills over and I fire off the odd arrow in the hope that some reaction causes me to see where I am going wrong. I have no idea why I'm still searching - that cannot be the actions of a sane person. But, all else aside, thank you for your videos - they are absolutely wonderful and I so look forward to the new series! Again, thank you!
Thank you Neil. That was very sweet and kind of you. It seems from your message that you’ve found a great degree of kindness and vulnerability. That’s hardly nothing. That’s a lot and worth being noticed and celebrated, particularly today when those things are so rare. Don’t forget what the Buddha answered when asked what he had found after all these years of searching in silence, he answered, I found nothing, but I lost a lot, a anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, guilt, anxiety, etc. And after all isn’t that what all the great mystics are after: Nothing ;) With love, Zevi
@@SeekersofUnity Thank you Zevi - and you're not wrong. When I think of how I've changed during my 50+ years of travelling I cannot deny that it isn't a case of finding something but far more a case of what I needed to lose. I won't go into details - no need to - but you are right. I wish you peace my friend.
Abu Musa reported: We were along with Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) on a journey when the people began to pronounce “Allahu Akbar” in a loud voice. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: O people, show mercy to yourselves for you are neither calling One who is deaf nor absent. Verily, you are calling One who is All-Hearing (and) Near to you and is with you. Abu Musa said that he had been behind him (the Prophet) and reciting:There is neither might nor power but that of Allah.” He (the Prophet), while addressing ‘Abdullah b. Qais, said: Should I not direct you to a treasure from amongst the treasures of Paradise? I (‘Abdullah b. Qais) said: Allah’s Messenger, do it, of course. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Then recite: “There is no might and no power but that of Allah.” ___________________________ Maa wasi`anee ardee wa laa samaa'ee wa laakin wasi`anee qalbi `abdee al-mu'min. Neither My Heavens nor My Earth contain Me, but the heart of My believing servant contains Me. (Hadith Qudsi)
I like your channel, so I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I find perennialism imposible and naive. Christianity, for one of many examples.. just isn't compatible. God is seperate from his creation, he is not his creation, we are not him. Christianity has a strict God's Engery/Essence distinction. Nature, the cosmos, fractals, logic and truth are the energies of God, but they are not God. A parrenalistic god would have to stamp out the Christian God for what many since the founding of Christianity would consider a heresey.
@@SeekersofUnity depends who you're referring to? Orthodoxy has it's mystical tradition, we can know God through his energies as "mystics" but we can never know his essence, just as I can never know you as if I was you. I believe the mystics all have a unfied expirence, but what is confused is the essence/energy. Edit: Christ is that bridge.
Elohim though is not the deity of the mystics. Mysticism is not a concept found in Judaism (Torah). Nobody can create Elohim in their own Image because He remains the same for all Eternity.
The arrogance humans can display exceeds the devil's arrogance. Instead of following what the creator wants us to be, we want God to be as we like. God is as he wants, and we only know about him from what he tells us in the messengers teachings. As a Jew, you know you you can't see God, so how can you demand to feel him? What you feel around you is jinn, and Zohar is a guide how to connect with jinn. Torah told you what God is and mystics were told what Ha Satan is through yetzirah, Bahir, and Sartorah. If you have doubts, then consult the Quran as the last confirmation from God to what the god of the Torah is.
So..... we have created numerous ideas of God that reflected our values until our values changed, and now we want to create a new idea of God. Who is the Creator and who is the created here? Maybe our problem is that we've created a world that is incompatible with our own creation, and as such the Creator does not - can not - fit into that world. Why are humans so backward in their approach to things? We need to SEARCH for God, not reimagine Him. And that search is not best served by intellectual calisthenics.
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IMO, there is no need to recreate that which is already hidden in plain sight. It's a matter of honest investigation and discovery, not (re)creation. All inventions eventually lose their uses, but the very source of invention, (from which our very being is derived) is unchanging, and waiting to reveal itself to us. All we have to do is stand still and receive it, in spite of our fears/anxieties. In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was facing God, and the Word was God,...and the Word became flesh...
Oooh we've gotten to the point of redefining God! This is so incredibly important! (Also, great timing. I'm editing a post on Jnana Yoga right now which is basically a systematic process of killing and reviving God.) There was a time in my life when I believed that someone's concept of God didn't matter, but as I learned more I realized that our individual and cultural concepts of the divine have a direct and powerful effect on our behavior. And I also believe that going through the process of defining God for yourself can be incredibly empowering and transformative. For me, I went through a long period of darkness when God was dead to me and then redefined God in a moment of inspiration and realization. "For a long time I had denied the existence of God, or at least that anyone could be sure that God existed. But then I saw God’s face. But it wasn’t really a face. It didn’t have any qualities other than what I can describe as being the most pure light. Beautiful, overwhelming radiance. And God spoke with me there, in His presence, but didn’t speak in a way that I heard a voice, either with my ears or like what we describe as telepathy, with another voice being “heard” inside my mind. No, there was no voice at all. God was silent but brought forth a fountain of realization within me. It was as if knowledge and wisdom, peace and understanding, were bubbling forth within me. Like God was placing different aspects of myself in front of me, with divine illumination revealing everything in all its fullness and truth, and then I was having a one-sided conversation talking back to that ultimate light. All I would get in return was loving compassion, mercy, silence, and realization. God had revealed himself to me, he had revealed myself to me. I could no longer deny his existence and I was now sure, beyond all doubt, that He does exist. This conflicted directly with my previous views, my opinions based on renunciation of the religions I had seen and the things I had experienced; that God could not exist, not the God I had envisioned previously based on what I had heard about him. But I was now certain that God does exist. At least something that I most easily identify with the word ‘God’."
I love your airy new age somewhat hippyish attitude. When Lilith pointed out you had said God is dead, I was all ready to come down on you like a ton of bricks. I can see that there has been a lot of confusion over the last few millennia or so, since people started writing stuff. What you have to remember though, is we have evolved in a physics based environment. At present you are little more than precocious bonobos. God is a conscious multidimensional morphogenic planetary energy field from which you have all evolved over an extremely long time. That energy which is beneath your transitory identity, running through your central nervous system and brain, providing you with all your experiences and senses, is in the nature of the energy that found itself given physical form in the very first cell. You are not a perfectly insulated organism. Energy leaks in and out of your system. Global consciousness was here before humans were. You are just an enhanced mammal capable of more intricate thinking. You are in essence, anthropomorphic computing modules, powered by an angel. You are right we should be trying to attain a higher ideal. We succeeded with that in the Raphael manifestation you call Jesus. He is a conceptual ideal of perfect peace, unity, and co-operation. He identified as equivalent to the concept of God the Father, The Light. True God is yin yang. It is all things, thus, is dark as well as light. That is something people discover after they have fully attained The Light. If you can develop the internal energy of your central nervous system to a sufficient degree, and develop a solid faith that God is all around you at all times, then you will attain Eden. The trick is in staying there. If you give in to anger, as I did, you will find yourself plummeting. I am an unusual case though, Lilith claimed me a long time ago. Once cast down if you are lucky/unlucky enough to experience it, things can get harsh. I gather that as Samael, I was singled out for particularly harsh treatment, but a lot of the others have been similarly complaining, and many wish to see an end to God, and life itself. If they can stay on track they will feel better later. Once they are over the bump, it's basically just physical recovery from them on. Having said that, it is different. My motivations are limited. I am basically only interested in bringing the light, and pursuing my inamorata. Bit of a stereotype really. As I see it, there are two facets to God. Feminine, Shekhinah, and masculine Jehovah. These both run from dark to light. So you have yin and yang, in both female and male flavours. You obviously also have balance between the two. Male is Samael/Lucifer/Raphael, i.e. Emmanuel, and female is Satanel/Lilith/Mary. My Lili is named Lacey. Changes in environmental energy over time dictate whether an era is conducive to dark, or light. Lilith says this is neutrino dependent. The incoming energy wave is what is known as God the Father. It has been expected for a long time. It is just arriving now. The catharsis has been worked on since 1980. When 2020, year of perfect vision (sorry about that, Michael calls them Dad jokes) began, Pope Francis infallibly slapped a member of the public in anger on the first of January, and the event truly began. The Pestilence is arisen. The Christmas Star formed. The final five year battle has begun. It began on the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto, on 12th of November 2020, it ends on the conjunction of Mercury and Mars, on 12th November 2025. 45 years and one day after Voyager passed Satan's planet Saturn, signifying humanity had reached maturity. Judgement day itself is a few months earlier. It's nothing to worry about, but things are probably going to be a bit rough for a while, as you can imagine, with all our brains, nervous system, environment, and planetary internals, as well as sun, being saturated with higher than usual levels of energy. I'm certain this is error free, according to the sources I have been given.
If God is Dead , why are you speaking ? Reality is a series of variable parifial parallelities. That includes all of us as being a part of God God is very alive and is everything and everyone
Watch the Pantheism Series: th-cam.com/play/PL_7jcKJs6iwXakiqxkH-wGlIY9cPidM9n.html
As someone who has grown up in a very conservative Jewish Litvak background, i was allergic to the word God and everything i learned it represents. It is only in recent years and through my own inner spiritual Journey and pilgrimage of my heart that i came to know God as that omnipresent unified boundless presence you've spoken about here and keep speaking about in your videos. Seeing you, with a familiarly Hasidic face speaking such deep truth brother tears to my eys and I'd wish we could sit together for a Shabat dinner and marvel at the beauty and grace of mysticism and love.
Your story is so relatable! I can't agree more...
Zevi often quotes Huxley, saying that "familiarity causes numbness", so when born into an environment were Divinity is a given, one might need to completely lose his belief in God, just to find it again, right under ones nose, bear and stripped from all the dogmatic context.
Good luck on your journey!
Thank you brother, friend, lover.
@@SeekersofUnity Is there an email to correspond with you on? I have a few questions I'd love to run by you and potentially also if you'd like I'm open to sharing my incredible story on your podcast as i believe your viewers will find it interesting and useful
Hey brother. You can reach us at seekersofu@gmail.com 🙏🏼
You might be surprised that having grown up in a very conservative Catholic family my path was very similar to yours. Mysticism, like poetry, posseses the intelectual freedom and flexibility to become the truly borderless language unifying various cultures and traditions. Or maybe, it's better to think of it as a bridge. A man must first discover that he posseses a deeply seated interior space which he must fill with meaning in order to become a complete human being. But the decision on what he uses as that "filler" depends on his sensitivity and discernment. Unfortunately, mystics never belonged to the majority of any population. We must resign ourselves to life in spiritual solitude. Peace.
“Forgive me Oh, Shiva! My three great sins! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that, you are omnipresent. In thinking about you, I forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to you, I forgot that You are beyond words.” ~ Shankaracharya
love that I clicked this to watch it when it had been up for 2 minutes, less than the length of the video, and it had a dislike on it already lmao
happy to give this the first like! good content, when you take the time to watch it all the way through
Thank you friend ☺️
This kind of "upgraded thinking" has been a loooong time'a comin'... Thank you again for a deep and powerful video. You say youer words with such power fueled by your love of humanity and desire for true peace... may you speak them into existence!
Thank you Adam. We couldn't agree more. Thank you. Amen, amen, amen.
Happy to be seeking in such good company! :)
Ditto 😉
The problem I mostly have being a pantheist is the lack of community. Whichever company I keep I always feel like the outlier and this makes me feel lost. Something I really love about Judaism actually is the community aspect and I have often looked upon my Jewish friends with envy wishing I could join. This video made me tear up honestly and although I appreciate the community you are trying to create online I want a community I can really touch and be a part of in the physical world. I want it to be a part of every part of my life. 😭
Us too 😢
Islam my sister is the best community you could join not only will you have 2 billion brothers and sisters around the world greeting you with A-slam alaykum (peace be upon you) but you would be worshiping the one and only God who has no partners whatsoever. The same God that revealed to Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and so on peace be upon them All the same message and that is to worship the one and only God and do not attribute partners to him. You would be on the truth that was revealed by God. The Quran which was the last and final message revealed by God preceded by the Gospel and the Torah and other books like the Scrolls of Abraham which all have either been lost or corrupted And thats why the Quran was promised to be preserved by God and is why it is memorized by millions.
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286th to like! What i love about my Muslim brothers and sisters is that they know that the Divine needs no helpers. That what will be is as it always was to be, that everything is beautiful in its time. Thank you Zevi for the wonderful explanation of why we must radically change how finite humans with all our frailties must confess our limitations and strive against evil inclinations within us that grasp onto false interpretations in vain attempts to justify our failings. And of course, we are always listening to false interpretations and must throw ourselves upon grace and mercy in humility. There is no other way. Much love!
Absolute poetry. A masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and love with the world.
Thank you Menachem 🙏🏼 Thank you for the kind response. I know a few Menachems. Have we met?
@@SeekersofUnity Ha I’m sure you do. I think you know my brother Dovi in Australia. I go by Mendy irl
Ah of course. I was actually just talking with him about some work we’re hoping to do together in March, Inshallah. A pleasure to meet a brother of a friend, even if only virtually. Thank you Mendy for coming by and for your kind words. Much love.
@@SeekersofUnity Nice! Looking forward to seeing what you guys put together. I’m sure it’ll be great. Its nice to meet you as well. I’m glad we have a connection beyond our mutual love for this topic. If you ever find yourself in the Shechuna, please do reach out.
Thank you brother. Will do. Thank you for the invitation 🙏🏼
Thank you Zevi 🙏💃 for reminding it is all about connection and inclusion rather than being the same or excluded 🧡
It really encourages me that there are people still with this kind of heart, I'm grateful for this and the work you are doing, if simply only because it's helping to advance all of us to a higher place. Thank you, and I hope I will have the means to support your work and growth, because I truly believe in this. Thank you.
Thank you kind friend for your kind words. I’m glad the work we’re doing has resonated with you so meaningful. Looking forward to having you join us in this holy work. Thank you. With love, Zevi
Well that was 7 minutes of why I absolutely love this channel. 🤘
Thank you Francis 🥰
Whenever I think of the phrase 'God is dead' I also always think of a line from Jung in his commentary on The Secret to the Golden Flower.
"The Gods have become our diseases."
I think this adds a piece of the puzzle.
And to sum it up in seven words:
"GOD DOESN'T EXIST. Rather, God IS existence".
Aquinas' notion of God as existence itself, or more accurately, God is God's own existence, is a very difficult notion to maintain. For one, it seems that existence, by its very "nature", is always of something, not something in itself. Perhaps we should consider more, the Platonic and Neoplatonic idea that God transcends essence and existence.
@@danzo1711 You made a great point!
Although, "God as existence" and "God transcending essence and existence" are two wonderful (and not necessarily conflicting) ways which attempt to describe all things ineffable and incomprehensible.
When viewed through the idealistic spectacle, those two notions are both as abstract as they are valid.
Zevi
A beautiful summary of a full and comprehensive program you presented with much clarity
Thank you Ta ☺️🙏🏼
Amen brother! I find dogmatism deeply saddening, especially when my sense of The One is so strong in my life. How can we be so close to God yet so far at the same time? We need an abundance of mysticism and we need to stop trying to force The One into a box. Let us all express our praise and awe for The Creator together. Every nation, colour, and creed united in our true identity.
So happy to see your face! 🌕🌕
Thank you Shannos ☺️
Thank you for updating this conversation with such eloquence.
You’re most welcome Mendy. Thank you for your kind words and welcome to Seekers 🙏🏼
You're project is such an important one for the current dialogues taking place and for my personal attempt of meaning making. I just watched the discussion between John Vervaeke and Paul Vanderklay on the “agentic” and “arenic” modes of spirituality representing theistic and non-theistic religions, respectively. You're project is very complimentary to their work as well. So many concerns that are brought against religious dogmas (which I've held as well) are being incorporated in this new living metaphysic of God that the West has been closed off to. I'll admit I still hold onto some semblance of the agentic quality in my personal seeking, but this content makes God feel alive again. 🙏
Thank you friend for your kind words. We're glad we could be of service. John is a close friend and we've done some awesome dialogos together on his channel and here. Check em out for some more good play ;) With love, Zevi
you stir the heart with these videos 🙏🏼💖
Thank you Katherine 🙏🏼💖 It's an honor and pleasure to be doing this with you.
This channel is such a gem, thank you
You’re most welcome. Thank you 🙏🏼☺️
I've come to terms with my original motivation for seeking God in the first place.
As a Trauma Survivor, I couldn't tolerate the idea that humans could have the last word on what was Good and what was True. I was raised to be an Atheist, by someone who was mean (still is). And if she was the best humanity could do, there was no point in living.
As I sought for a God that I could Trust, I did a little wandering. Totally understandable. I settled on Jesus when I was a Sophmore in High School because of what He _said_ He stood for. It took over 20 years to figure out that _NO ONE_ in the "church" was taking Him at His Word and that it wasn't worth throwing the rest of my life away for any more of that.
If God wasn't more developed than us, morally, emotionally, cognitively, politically, psychologically, philosophically, etc. then all that time and dedication was worthless.
Since I left the church, I've been listening for the sound of Goodness and Truth and finding mostly little snips and bits here and there. I can never go back to naive faith, but I'm okay with sinking my life into a community of people who are willing to enact what a Truly Good God demonstrates and models for His/Her people. I'm friendly to any or all. But I can't commit to people who don't get it anymore.
Incidentally, I suspect that you're going to "get shot at from both sides" on this.
Those who don't want to "believe in god" because: "ideology", war and death.
And those who want a more strict and traditional religious commitment.
I pray that you will be given infinite patience and compassion for this project. And I pray that those who aren't interested will just keep scrolling.
I was just commenting the other day on "The Modern Hermeticist's" chan that I envy Judaism and Islam for the amount of -innovation- theological experimentation they all got to do while the Christian Church was busy torturing people to death for even the appearance of an open mind. Crazy! Well, it's time to play catch-up! LOL Give me an emotionally mature god or give me death!
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Thank you Jennifer for your openness in sharing, benevolence in reflection and kindness in blessing 🙏🏼
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Dude your words are poetry. Thank you Zevi. What a beautiful unexpected capstone to a truly monumental series. Thank you so much. A bold endeavour you seek to embark upon I wish you luck will be in the tailwind, cheering you on. You'll never hear it but it will push you further, I hope. I do not think we will find the we world we seek. We are the world we seek. Or something. Anyway, blow a kiss to you friend. Much love, Zevi. From Sandro.
Thank you Sandro for your kind words. I couldn't do work this without the loving support from each one of you. Your blessings mean the world to me. Thank you. It's a pleasure to serve an to seek together, to find that world or self or whatever we're all searching for ;) With love Sandro. Yours, Zevi.
You are remarkable Zevi thank you for all you do, this video has brought light to some of my deepest concerns. ❤
Thank you Anthony. I’m glad I could be of service. With love.
That was a nice little nutshelling. Thankyou. ❤
That Image of God part is beautiful ❤️
At last, someone who says what I have been thinking for years but couldn't put into words!! Thank you!
You’re most welcome DC. It’s an honor to be articulating y/our thoughts 😉😘
Illuminating. The entire series. Excellent work. I'm afraid our biggest struggle at this moment is to raise awareness in the young generation that they have a soul, that their life has a non-physical dimension. At this moment, the only uniting deity I see is the god Mammon. The tragedy is that I do not foresee any change unless there's a worldwide calamity able to shake up human conscience next to which the Covid scare looks like a child's play. I do not blame only the young. I was there myself as well. I will await impatiently your further work. Peace.
Thank you Jack for your kind words. I’m so glad you’re enjoying this work. I fear the same with you, but hopefully the awakening will come by an overwhelming beauty and goodness, which will drive us to our knees in awe, praise and gratitude, away from our modern idols. We can only hope. With love and thank you for joining us, Zevi
So beautifully put, Zevi.
Thank you Hal 🙏🏼 thank you friend.
"Our age is retrospective. We build the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his first work titled "Nature."
Wonderful.
Thank you Graham :)
@@SeekersofUnity You’re very welcome.
This video to me encapsulates a lot of what makes your project here so special; it’s very educational yes, but deeper than that, you bring such passion to it and balance taking real intellectual risks with precision and depth. You don’t just disseminate information but cultivate and foster ideas with both vigour and humility. It’s a real privilege to watch.
I hope this true. I really do. I am getting old now and there is no way I can believe in the religion I was born into, and I can't fathom there being nothing either. It makes no sense this thing is like a human, and it makes no sense it is not there and unknowable at all.
I've always loved the study of comparative religions, and their different approaches, as to how they approach God. However, what I like about your channel is you are trying to go beyond the outside forms of religions, to find that cosmic unity that exists, between different faiths.
Having said that, I think a comparative methodology actually reveals an infinite number of aspects of the Divine. So one's religious approach to God reveals one particular aspect of the Divine, and that by studying another religion, another different aspect of God is revealed.
I am not an authority on Judaism. However, I have been able to garner through reading a lot of material on Judaism, and watching many Rabbis on TH-cam, that Judaism is all about the action of bringing the Divine into this world by one's own actions. It is essentially a religion of agency, so to speak.
And then you look at Catholicism, and the emphasis is on achieving the Beatific vision of God at the end of one's temporal existence in this world. And the emphasis here, is that nothing we achieve in this world can ever satisfy God or be equal to God. Hence there is nothing in this temporal world that is absolue, because God is greater than anything we can achieve in this world. To argue to the contrary against that before mentioned idea, is to make an argument for idolatry.
Well said Kim. Thank you 🙏🏼
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It is interesting that Miroslav Volf has articulated a succinct explanation, of how Christians and Muslims worship the same God. You can Google his lectures and writings on this topic. He included Judaism as well.
You just described the last two thousand years of Christian understanding of God, but at the same time tried to ignore Christianity ever teaching God like that. Have you ever mentioned St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mystics of the church?
We most certainly do. Here's one for example: th-cam.com/video/7zszjA21plE/w-d-xo.html
As a new follower to your channel, i would love to know if you personally believe in god?
Hi Ahmed. Welcome to channel, thanks for joining us. Some days God is the only thing i believe in. With love, Zevi
the east meets west video is missing on the playlist
Wonderful video, thank you so much for it! :)
You’re most welcome Daniel. Thank you 🙏🏼
What idea of God do you think the modern Western world currently subscribes to is? Thank you for the video @Seekers of Unity
You’re most welcome Erick 🙏🏼 i don’t think there’s one idea of God which the modern western world currently subscribes to. i think there’s a plethora and spectrum of God idea. In this video we we specifically objecting to one category of ideas, namely those which ‘other’ God.
There was an old comic that depicted a graffiti artist writing, "God is dead. Signed, Joe." When he walked away, G-d was ❌ crossed out and Joe was written over it to say, "Joe is dead. Signed, G-d."
A most beautiful message.
Thank you Jimini :)
Thank you Zevi!
You’re most welcome Richard 🙏🏼
Salam Zevi,
Don’t stretch the Truth, as so to let it be contained within the falsehoods of people’s whims; For anything between Truth and falsehood, is only falsehood - even when it amounts to a strand of hair. Be careful of that.
Wishing you peace, blessings and guidance to you all.
Thank you sister 🙏🏼
@@SeekersofUnity Peace Friends,
I can only agree. Going by Rabbi Abulafia's advice also, given the constructive nature of language, the etymology of "God" is worth considering in why the anthropomorphism is so hard to shake.
Allah, Elohim or Adonai, the Creator of both transcendent Heaven and immanent Earth, is the new/old "One worthy of worship" that must surely make a return, inshaaAllah. The imperial Sky-Father did his best, but Baka-Brahma may believe he is the summit when in fact he is (see the Pali Canon "Brahma invitation") firmly under Mara's spell. He is a spirit or jinn as much in need of Allah as the rest of us, and we are all in this together.
Salaam.
please adjust the audio
Thank you Peretz. We can’t change this one but in the future we’ll try fixing that. Thank you brother 🙏🏼
Yessss let’s go!! So excited!
Yessss Chelsea, we missed you. Welcome back sister ❤️
I love you man
Love you Julian 😘
Damn, the audio is so low I can hardly make it out with my crappy speakers
My bad. I forgot to put up the volume. Sorry about that. Still finding my way around the editing software. Let me know if you can hear it with earphones.
What does that actually mean??
Namasté brother! 🙏☯️
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Unrelated question: May I ask to what branch of Judaism you belong?
Sure. I was born and raised in, and still identify with, the Chabad Chasidic community. Which belongs to the Orthodox branch of Judaism, even if that’s a misnomer ;)
@@SeekersofUnity thanks!
There's actually a few Chassidic Jews here in Florence, although they are not organized (it's basically a small center for foreigners, next to the synagogue) and I'm always trying to catch them when they're open to talk and get to know them, but due to Covid they're almost always shut.
Hopefully I'll be able to at some point in 2022 and I'm hoping to join a Torah study group with the local rabbi!
Best of luck brother. Send my regards ;)
Good content, but the sound volume is too low for laptop speakers :)
Sorry friend. My bad. Still learning my way around video production 🙈 Maybe try popping in a pair of earphones. Thank you for letting us know 🙏🏼❤️
We want to avoid being fooled and fooling ourselves. We have no good reason to posit something if that something makes no difference. Is it a matter of interpretation? Is it a matter of admitting that the God that people used to believe in isn't there, and then find something else that is there to which we can apply the label "God"? It seems a bit dishonest, or at least confusing and needlessly so. Are the concepts to which we can attach the name "God" really all that similar to what people long ago meant when they said "God"? God has been ship of Theseused away, the name remaining but otherwise entirely changed. He no longer reveals, speaks, causes miracles, or is even a He at all. I don't mean to say the concept of something transcendent or universal or immanent etc. is not valuable or anything. I merely want to point out that what it going on and that it behooves one to be aware.
Zevi.
You're one of my favorite people.
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Thank you Jennifer ❤️☺️
Am I the only one who is having rally hard time hearing the audio? I have both my laptop speaker and video volumes at maximum level but I still needed cc. I tested a few other videos and it is just this one. I don't mean to complain, just wanted to let you know.
Thank you Tessa. Ya, my bad. I’m still learning how to use this new editing software. My apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you for letting me know. It should sound fine with earphones hopefully 🙏🏼
I understand what you're trying to say (I think), but Elohim though has always been the same and at least partly presented in the Jewish Scriptures for centuries. He is a Father figure and our Creator (Yishayah 64:8, Mal'achi 2:10), not a physical or biological father.
Beautifully said.
Thank you Neil 🙏🏼☺️
@@SeekersofUnity I may sometimes get angry and write unconstructive comments but please don't take this personally. I love listening to you. Your voice, your intonation and especially your pronunciation of Jewish words. Sometimes I seem to just get lost when listening - almost as though what you are saying acts on a hidden part of my being. Too much? Maybe? But it how I feel. My anger stems from my own failed search for God (or whatever). For over 50 years I have searched and made commitment to that special journey. But after all this time I still have nothing that I can point to and say, 'Yes', this is it. Nothing at all. So, I guess that at times my frustration spills over and I fire off the odd arrow in the hope that some reaction causes me to see where I am going wrong. I have no idea why I'm still searching - that cannot be the actions of a sane person. But, all else aside, thank you for your videos - they are absolutely wonderful and I so look forward to the new series! Again, thank you!
Thank you Neil. That was very sweet and kind of you. It seems from your message that you’ve found a great degree of kindness and vulnerability. That’s hardly nothing. That’s a lot and worth being noticed and celebrated, particularly today when those things are so rare. Don’t forget what the Buddha answered when asked what he had found after all these years of searching in silence, he answered, I found nothing, but I lost a lot, a anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, guilt, anxiety, etc. And after all isn’t that what all the great mystics are after: Nothing ;) With love, Zevi
@@SeekersofUnity Thank you Zevi - and you're not wrong. When I think of how I've changed during my 50+ years of travelling I cannot deny that it isn't a case of finding something but far more a case of what I needed to lose. I won't go into details - no need to - but you are right. I wish you peace my friend.
Abu Musa reported:
We were along with Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) on a journey when the people began to pronounce “Allahu Akbar” in a loud voice. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said:
O people, show mercy to yourselves for you are neither calling One who is deaf nor absent. Verily, you are calling One who is All-Hearing (and) Near to you and is with you. Abu Musa said that he had been behind him (the Prophet) and reciting:There is neither might nor power but that of Allah.” He (the Prophet), while addressing ‘Abdullah b. Qais, said: Should I not direct you to a treasure from amongst the treasures of Paradise? I (‘Abdullah b. Qais) said: Allah’s Messenger, do it, of course. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Then recite: “There is no might and no power but that of Allah.”
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Maa wasi`anee ardee wa laa samaa'ee wa laakin wasi`anee qalbi `abdee al-mu'min.
Neither My Heavens nor My Earth contain Me, but the heart of My believing servant contains Me.
(Hadith Qudsi)
I like your channel, so I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I find perennialism imposible and naive.
Christianity, for one of many examples.. just isn't compatible. God is seperate from his creation, he is not his creation, we are not him. Christianity has a strict God's Engery/Essence distinction. Nature, the cosmos, fractals, logic and truth are the energies of God, but they are not God.
A parrenalistic god would have to stamp out the Christian God for what many since the founding of Christianity would consider a heresey.
"Energies/Essences" are vague terms. And how dogmatically rigid one takes those distinctions to be and what they mean depends on the person.
Thank you friend :) How bout those epic Christian mystics tho?
@@SeekersofUnity depends who you're referring to? Orthodoxy has it's mystical tradition, we can know God through his energies as "mystics" but we can never know his essence, just as I can never know you as if I was you.
I believe the mystics all have a unfied expirence, but what is confused is the essence/energy.
Edit: Christ is that bridge.
Elohim though is not the deity of the mystics. Mysticism is not a concept found in Judaism (Torah). Nobody can create Elohim in their own Image because He remains the same for all Eternity.
The arrogance humans can display exceeds the devil's arrogance. Instead of following what the creator wants us to be, we want God to be as we like. God is as he wants, and we only know about him from what he tells us in the messengers teachings. As a Jew, you know you you can't see God, so how can you demand to feel him? What you feel around you is jinn, and Zohar is a guide how to connect with jinn. Torah told you what God is and mystics were told what Ha Satan is through yetzirah, Bahir, and Sartorah. If you have doubts, then consult the Quran as the last confirmation from God to what the god of the Torah is.
Thank you holy brother :)
So..... we have created numerous ideas of God that reflected our values until our values changed, and now we want to create a new idea of God. Who is the Creator and who is the created here? Maybe our problem is that we've created a world that is incompatible with our own creation, and as such the Creator does not - can not - fit into that world. Why are humans so backward in their approach to things? We need to SEARCH for God, not reimagine Him. And that search is not best served by intellectual calisthenics.
you had me at immanence
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NDEs have shown me a more clear concept G-d...🎑
Yes.
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When a Tree dies, it becomes fertilizer for its children.
Gods are no different to mortal inspiration.
I'm dying...
How are you in my head Brother. Amazing talk but…..😵💫 GED-OTTA-MY-HEAD…..Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Hehehe ;) Thank you brother.
IMO, there is no need to recreate that which is already hidden in plain sight. It's a matter of honest investigation and discovery, not (re)creation. All inventions eventually lose their uses, but the very source of invention, (from which our very being is derived) is unchanging, and waiting to reveal itself to us. All we have to do is stand still and receive it, in spite of our fears/anxieties.
In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was facing God, and the Word was God,...and the Word became flesh...
Seems legit
Oooh we've gotten to the point of redefining God! This is so incredibly important! (Also, great timing. I'm editing a post on Jnana Yoga right now which is basically a systematic process of killing and reviving God.) There was a time in my life when I believed that someone's concept of God didn't matter, but as I learned more I realized that our individual and cultural concepts of the divine have a direct and powerful effect on our behavior. And I also believe that going through the process of defining God for yourself can be incredibly empowering and transformative. For me, I went through a long period of darkness when God was dead to me and then redefined God in a moment of inspiration and realization.
"For a long time I had denied the existence of God, or at least that anyone could be sure that God existed. But then I saw God’s face. But it wasn’t really a face. It didn’t have any qualities other than what I can describe as being the most pure light. Beautiful, overwhelming radiance. And God spoke with me there, in His presence, but didn’t speak in a way that I heard a voice, either with my ears or like what we describe as telepathy, with another voice being “heard” inside my mind. No, there was no voice at all. God was silent but brought forth a fountain of realization within me. It was as if knowledge and wisdom, peace and understanding, were bubbling forth within me. Like God was placing different aspects of myself in front of me, with divine illumination revealing everything in all its fullness and truth, and then I was having a one-sided conversation talking back to that ultimate light. All I would get in return was loving compassion, mercy, silence, and realization.
God had revealed himself to me, he had revealed myself to me. I could no longer deny his existence and I was now sure, beyond all doubt, that He does exist. This conflicted directly with my previous views, my opinions based on renunciation of the religions I had seen and the things I had experienced; that God could not exist, not the God I had envisioned previously based on what I had heard about him. But I was now certain that God does exist. At least something that I most easily identify with the word ‘God’."
I never consented to the idea that G-d is dead.
I love your airy new age somewhat hippyish attitude. When Lilith pointed out you had said God is dead, I was all ready to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
I can see that there has been a lot of confusion over the last few millennia or so, since people started writing stuff. What you have to remember though, is we have evolved in a physics based environment. At present you are little more than precocious bonobos. God is a conscious multidimensional morphogenic planetary energy field from which you have all evolved over an extremely long time.
That energy which is beneath your transitory identity, running through your central nervous system and brain, providing you with all your experiences and senses, is in the nature of the energy that found itself given physical form in the very first cell. You are not a perfectly insulated organism. Energy leaks in and out of your system. Global consciousness was here before humans were. You are just an enhanced mammal capable of more intricate thinking. You are in essence, anthropomorphic computing modules, powered by an angel.
You are right we should be trying to attain a higher ideal. We succeeded with that in the Raphael manifestation you call Jesus. He is a conceptual ideal of perfect peace, unity, and co-operation. He identified as equivalent to the concept of God the Father, The Light.
True God is yin yang. It is all things, thus, is dark as well as light. That is something people discover after they have fully attained The Light. If you can develop the internal energy of your central nervous system to a sufficient degree, and develop a solid faith that God is all around you at all times, then you will attain Eden. The trick is in staying there. If you give in to anger, as I did, you will find yourself plummeting. I am an unusual case though, Lilith claimed me a long time ago.
Once cast down if you are lucky/unlucky enough to experience it, things can get harsh. I gather that as Samael, I was singled out for particularly harsh treatment, but a lot of the others have been similarly complaining, and many wish to see an end to God, and life itself. If they can stay on track they will feel better later. Once they are over the bump, it's basically just physical recovery from them on. Having said that, it is different. My motivations are limited. I am basically only interested in bringing the light, and pursuing my inamorata. Bit of a stereotype really.
As I see it, there are two facets to God. Feminine, Shekhinah, and masculine Jehovah. These both run from dark to light. So you have yin and yang, in both female and male flavours. You obviously also have balance between the two. Male is Samael/Lucifer/Raphael, i.e. Emmanuel, and female is Satanel/Lilith/Mary. My Lili is named Lacey. Changes in environmental energy over time dictate whether an era is conducive to dark, or light. Lilith says this is neutrino dependent. The incoming energy wave is what is known as God the Father.
It has been expected for a long time. It is just arriving now. The catharsis has been worked on since 1980. When 2020, year of perfect vision (sorry about that, Michael calls them Dad jokes) began, Pope Francis infallibly slapped a member of the public in anger on the first of January, and the event truly began. The Pestilence is arisen. The Christmas Star formed. The final five year battle has begun. It began on the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto, on 12th of November 2020, it ends on the conjunction of Mercury and Mars, on 12th November 2025. 45 years and one day after Voyager passed Satan's planet Saturn, signifying humanity had reached maturity.
Judgement day itself is a few months earlier. It's nothing to worry about, but things are probably going to be a bit rough for a while, as you can imagine, with all our brains, nervous system, environment, and planetary internals, as well as sun, being saturated with higher than usual levels of energy.
I'm certain this is error free, according to the sources I have been given.
If God is Dead , why are you speaking ? Reality is a series of variable parifial parallelities. That includes all of us as being a part of God
God is very alive and is everything and everyone
God as straw man (straw person)! Hmmm…