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  1. Yes, but is fun to share it with others. Lex
  2. Hello Steve, About logic: you are right, things are not always that logical. For me it is totally logical that I am the totality, but that has a reason. Once, early one morning, I was sitting on the edge of my bed and the thought popped up, out of the blue: "If a Force is causing the Universe, then ​I AM that (spiritual) Force" (Dec. 2002). As from then I accepted that perspective. I could understand "I and the Father are One" from that perspective: the Created and the Creator are one and the same - with the possible difference that the Created operates within the boundaries of being created, whereas the Creator works in the Unlimited. Language is - as always - such a predicament. Lex
  3. Hello Joseph, As you know, I am new to these PC Fora; I got there via Bishop Spong's website. Spong strongly advocates to re-invent Jesus, which I think is long overdue, and the consequence of that would be a totally new direction for "following Jesus". I'll try to get better informed about PC before I vent my doubts - if any. Totally different topic: The website asked me to introduce myself, and I tried, but could not make it happen. Any hints? Warm regards, Lex
  4. Hello Steve, "Who am I?" - looking at that question the Zen way is one option; Zen can be rather fuzzy. But you can also look at it cool-headed, and yes, "logically". When there is an Unlimited Force, giving rise to this Universe (and probably many other Universes), which is an assumption, than any limitation arising from that Force also IS THAT FORCE, albeit with the limitations of being limited. A drop from the ocean is still ocean. So I did not need a koan to answer that question - it was pure logic: if there is a Creative Force, then I am that creative force. I have to admit I got a hint from Eckhart Tolle, who said:" You are Consciousness, underlying all Form". Some people approach this from the quantum-field angle, but I suspect that quantum physics ultimately can only work within the 'material' realm. One may have to search beyond that level, a terrain as yet untrodden by science. An interesting window can be NDEs, Near Death Experiences. I know that the medical establishment is not fond of those, too unscientific. I don't know what the church has done with it in the past; I suspect rejection, because too threatening. But there are tens of thousands NDEs, from all over the world, and they are worthwhile to take notion of. A particularly lucid NDE is described in Anita Moorjani's "Dying to be me". Has NDE already be subject of a Forum? If not, it might be interesting to start one.
  5. Thank you Joseph and romansh, It is such a fascinating and utterly important topic: Who I really am. While talking with others about this is notice how difficult it is for many to accept their greatness, to really accept that they ARE the Source. We have been so ingrained with the notion of being the lesser; that is so difficult, and perhaps also scary to accept. After all, we used to burn those who dared to say "I am God" - Meister Eckhart just escaped that by dying before the church got him. After many years of editing I finally summarized this notion in a kind of personal mantra: "My Source, I am thankful for this very moment accepting who I truly am compassionate with All". But once I got to this place my whole perspective of reality changed - and things get less and less important. At the same time I have this struggle between "accept what is" and becoming more critical. For example: I have my doubts about "Progressive Christianity" - their aim is too low. If you really want to start a modern belief system based on the present insights of the "Nature of Reality", you must let go of the term Christianity, because Christ is indelibly connected with a theistic and predominantly western belief system - and that is just what Bishop Spong is trying to dismantle. Bother (I am fond of Winnie the Pooh, a book for 8 to 80+, which I am).
  6. I am new to this already fairly old topic, but so be it. I think the question "Who Am I?" is possibly the most important question somebody can ask her/himself. The fun thing is that it is not really such a difficult question to answer when we realize that behind everything we observe, experience and all that we do not observe or experience is what you might call God, or Moving Force, etc. --- and that WE ARE THAT MOVING FORCE. This has been said over and over again (Meister Eckhart: "Ich bin Gott, aber nicht auf göttliche sondern auf menschliche Weise"; it looses a lot when you try to translate that). But the realization that we really are that Force, individually and collectively, gave me a refreshingly new perspective. Personally I prefer to name that Force IC, short for Infinite Consciousness. And that new perspective led me to the following answer to the question Who I AM: "I am Infinite Consciousness, expressing Itself as Me". Quite simple, actually.
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