You dont need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you dont know you are, and therefore you try to know and dominate the future, and you believe prophets and things like that. Well, prophecy is simply contaminating the future with the past, projecting what we know upon the unknown. And thats why, really, things like Astrology, although interesting, are rather ridiculous. Because if you know the future theres no surprise for you. A completely known future is past, youve had it. The universe is fundamentally a system which creeps up on itself and then says BOO! and then it laughs at itself for jumping and you see every time it does it it forgets that it did it before so it never becomes a bore. To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever that is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing your hearing your talking your thinking your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars. And if you dont know that, if you dont feel that, well naturally you feel alien, you feel a stranger in the world. And if you feel a stranger you feel hostile, and therefore you start to bulldoze things about, to beat it up and to try to make the world submit to your will, and you become a real troublemaker. This whole sensation that were brought up to have, of being an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin, facing outside us a world that is profoundly alien to us in the sense that what is outside me is not me, this sets up a fundamental sensation of hostility and estrangement between ourselves and the so-called external world Alan Watts
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:23:30 +0000
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