I the Divine Infinite walked the Vast Unploughed Fields of Nothing

[Alan McDougall]

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Adore, appreciate, esteem, reverence me and prize me the giver of life show your love by virtue of worship. I am the word of life and the arm of the absolute and lead all to the omega-point.

THE VAST UNPLOUGHED FIELDS OF NOTHING BY ALAN

Aware of infinite potential in vast unploughed fields of nothing, I strode with great beams of cosmic light toward the infinite horizon of eternity, sowing seeds of existence before the timeless moment of creation. I am the boundless Mind, Original Self-Awareness the cause of everything, relative to nothing I am “This”. On the panorama of bleak blackness, I rode on the back of the Absolute, sowing universal energy.

Reality was my aim and the beauty of my achievement. Illuminating the darkness with beams of dazzling radiant glory was the first event of reason. I formulated in my mind the first number and called it “One”,

With the now realities of the fundamentals of’ “one, and ‘zero”, I made everything. I am the Prime Mover and there was no proponent to my First Cause. I am the Immovable Rock and the Alpha point. I took these first numbers and weaved them into the fabric of the reality, creating all the limitless universes on the infinite timeless foam of nothing, which now makes all up existence. Indeed, I am the Almighty One. If you are, wise. “Do one thing, RESPECT me. THE GREAT LORD OF ALL LIFE

God rested and dreamed

I experienced time only in my dreams said God. God first dreamed. The cup of dreams ran over like unto rivers that overflow their banks. For God dreamed Infinity of dreams in an instant, and the Infinity multiplied by infinity for an Eternity created all possibilities in one awesome now. It was the Realm of Chaos. God began to create outside the Absolute Realm and started the first realities based on dimensions and textures.

For eons, slumbering God just observed the dreams. God delighted and God began to alter the flow and pattern of His dreaming state by switching from observer to participant. For God grew tired of the confusion and started controlling his dreams until they became patterns of joy that grew with beauty, precision and majesty. When God learned moved from his rest his time of chaos was over and the dawn of the Perfect Realm began. Moreover, the universe sprang into being. Chaos changed back to order.

Time - Actually the use of the word time here is inaccurate, but it will have to suffice for lack of a better term. From God's perspective, there is no time, only an ever changing now. Our use of time is a way to express beginnings, ends, and is used here to mark the beginning and ending of chaos.


I am the painter and the painting, singer and the song, the dance and the dancer, the stage and the actors, the writer of the script of existence. I am all these things who am I? I am Ultimate-All the Absolute Totally of all existence, yes, I am This, and do you exist? Then why cant to I exist? The imprudent ask where you are, the wind blows on your cheek and you ask ‘where are you? The oceans roar and you ask,’ ‘where are you? The stars glow and you say mysterious one, ‘if you would only show yourself, blood flows in your vessels and you say ‘what are you? Indeed, I am the First Cause and the Immovable Rock.

I am the encompasser and enfold all things within the substance of my being. Resonating with profound unfathomable vibrations, creation trembles at the passing of my presence.

I am the stalker of the soul, the defeater of death. I am Supreme and take the abstract, and convert it into concrete matter.

I dwell in composite bright light, which is the breath of my life. I now look with delight upon the beauty of the garden of my creation, sparkling out of the darkness of infinite universes. In eternal joy, I survey my prime creation and called it life.

I set and start the clock of eternal time while dwelling outside in the ever-now moment

I am the creator of the totality of all existence known by many names and titles but you must all refer to be by the title that must never be confused by anyone. I AM THAT and I AM THIS
I AM SIMPLY:

That which is that which

“IS”

By Alan McDougall18/11/2007

[billl]

Is it limited to this interpretation?

[NikolaiI]

I think someone who is actually divine would not demand worship. Divine saints, such as Francis of Assissi, or others, have always been humble more than anything. And besides, asking complete strangers to love you and worship you is a bit... Strange?

[islandclimber]

but this is almost as bad as fundamentalist christianity.. is it not?

[Alan McDougall]

Guys it is just a little essay not a scriptural text to be taken seriously and OH!! I despise fundamentalism in all its forms regardless of its source

Take Care

Alan

[NikolaiI]

Guys it is just a little essay not a scriptural text to be taken seriously and OH!! I despise fundamentalism in all its forms regardless of its source

Take Care

Alan

Yes, but "Bow to me, I am God," is not a usual or casual thing to say in an essay.

[Alan McDougall]

Yes, but "Bow to me, I am God," is not a usual or casual thing to say in an essay.

Why not I have never come accross such a restriction in my essay writing before or is this some forum rule??

OH!! I did not write "Bow to me" I "wrote respect" me which is very different A person respects their earthly leaders why should they likewise not respect the Lord of Life?

[billl]

If it is an essay, then is it a non-fiction essay?

[Alan McDougall]

If it is an essay, then is it a non-fiction essay?

Why must an essay be nonfiction, what should I call it, A story or A document, what?

[billl]

I think there could easily be fictional essays--satire, for example.

So that was fiction, I take it. It was an early post from you, and, considering the content, it shouldn't be a big surprise that people got thrown off track a bit. Usually something like that would be in maybe General Writing, not Religious Texts. You could still call it an essay. It reminds me of some of the excellent poetry you can sometimes find and comment on in the Personal Poetry portion of this site.

[NikolaiI]

Ah you are right. But "RESPECT me. THE GREAT LORD OF ALL LIFE." (Capitals yours) is hardly more casual or usual. :)

One might ask, are all of us the divine infinite?

[Alan McDougall]

Ah you are right. But "RESPECT me. THE GREAT LORD OF ALL LIFE." (Capitals yours) is hardly more casual or usual. :)

One might ask, are all of us the divine infinite?

What about this!

Who are we really in the now?

The essential complete you, or your whole real essence, is a field of awareness that interacts with its own self (Soul) and then becomes both mind/brain and body. In other words, you are consciousness or spirit, which then conceives, constructs, governs, and becomes the mind/brain and the body. The real you are inseparable from the patterns of intelligence that permeate every fibre of creation.

At the deepest level of existence, you are an infinite eternal Being, and you are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. There is no other “you” than the entire cosmos. The God + cosmic mind create the physical universe, and the personal mind/brain (Soul) experiences the physical universe. But in truth, the cosmic mind and our personal mind are both permeated by “God the Infinite Consciousness”. “God the Infinite Consciousness” is our source, and all manifestation is inherent within it.

“God the Infinite Consciousness” observing itself creates the notion of observer, or the soul; the process of observation, or the mind; and that which is observed, or the body and the world.

The observer and the observed create relationships between themselves; this is space. The movement of these relationships creates events; this is time. But all these are none other than the “God the Infinite Consciousness” itself.

In other words, we are “God the Infinite Consciousness” with a “localized point of view” An aspect or facet of the great reality we call God. And yet our whole system of thought divides the “Great Observer God” from the observed us; it divides the “God the Infinite Consciousness” into a world of objects separated by space and time.

The “the intellect of the brain” imprisons us momentary in a cage of fictitious images, a web of space, time, and causation. As a result, we lose touch with the true nature of our reality, which is powerful, boundless, immortal, and free.

The intellect of the brain”. Mistakes the image of reality for reality itself. It squeezes the soul into the volume of a body, in the span of a lifetime, and now the spell of mortality is cast. The image of the self overshadows the unbounded Self, and we feel cut off or disconnected from “God the Infinite Consciousness”, our source.

The real you is a non-material soul and therefore not subject to the limitations of space, time, matter, and causation. The soul, the spirit, the essential you, is beyond all that. In this very moment, you are surrounded by a pure consciousness. Pure consciousness illuminates and animates your mind and body, and it is powerful, nourishing, invincible, unbounded, and free. Pure consciousness, “God the Infinite

Eternal Spirit”, animates and sustains everything in existence, which means it is omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (present in all locations simultaneously), and omnipotent (all powerful). “And when we learn and grow and evolve into understanding we shall be all those things also, indeed co- creators with God.

[NikolaiI]

Hm. Nice explanation. I agree with parts of it:


As a result, we lose touch with the true nature of our reality, which is powerful, boundless, immortal, and free.


At the deepest level of existence, you are an infinite eternal Being, and you are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. There is no other “you” than the entire cosmos. The God + cosmic mind create the physical universe, and the personal mind/brain (Soul) experiences the physical universe. But in truth, the cosmic mind and our personal mind are both permeated by “God the Infinite Consciousness”. “God the Infinite Consciousness” is our source, and all manifestation is inherent within it.

I'd have more to say latter.

[blazeofglory]

This seems really touching and I feel the ideas do kind of interest me.

[NikolaiI]

There are many ideas from ancient Hinduism within what you write. That God is the source. That, fundamentally, we are the Atman - infinite, indivisible, beyond time, space, and all else - there are many things which have been attained and written about. Sages have come to states paralelly in which they could only describe in sketches of words, which generally matched up. They said similar things such as, "you were never bound." So there's a level where one realizes, one never suffered, one was never bound.

There's a very well known and ancient proverb in Hinduism which says, "God alone is real. All else is nothing." What is God? The infinite. It's mathematical. God, the Absolute Truth, is the source of all worlds, beings, of everything. The infinite, it's a mathematical structure kind of. Everything is evolving toward God. Unconscious God evolving toward fully Self-conscious God. As God is the source, of all, therefore all is contained in God, and also contains God. Therefore, there is nothing outside of God, and everything eventually winds down to God.

You might like to read some books by Swami Vivekananda.

"Herein lies the whole secret of Existence. Waves may roll over the surface and tempest rage, but deep down there is the stratum of infinite calmness, infinite peace, and infinite bliss."

"The Background, the Reality, of everyone is that same Eternal, Ever Blessed, Ever Pure, and Ever Perfect One. It is the Atman, the Soul, in the saint and the sinner..."

That is God - the Infinite, the omniscient sage who is all beings. Everyone is that Sage - is Christ, Buddha.

[Alan McDougall]

There are many ideas from ancient Hinduism within what you write. That God is the source. That, fundamentally, we are the Atman - infinite, indivisible, beyond time, space, and all else - there are many things which have been attained and written about. Sages have come to states paralelly in which they could only describe in sketches of words, which generally matched up. They said similar things such as, "you were never bound." So there's a level where one realizes, one never suffered, one was never bound.

There's a very well known and ancient proverb in Hinduism which says, "God alone is real. All else is nothing." What is God? The infinite. It's mathematical. God, the Absolute Truth, is the source of all worlds, beings, of everything. The infinite, it's a mathematical structure kind of. Everything is evolving toward God. Unconscious God evolving toward fully Self-conscious God. As God is the source, of all, therefore all is contained in God, and also contains God. Therefore, there is nothing outside of God, and everything eventually winds down to God.

You might like to read some books by Swami Vivekananda.

"Herein lies the whole secret of Existence. Waves may roll over the surface and tempest rage, but deep down there is the stratum of infinite calmness, infinite peace, and infinite bliss."

"The Background, the Reality, of everyone is that same Eternal, Ever Blessed, Ever Pure, and Ever Perfect One. It is the Atman, the Soul, in the saint and the sinner..."

That is God - the Infinite, the omniscient sage who is all beings. Everyone is that Sage - is Christ, Buddha.

My thinking about deity is more closely links to the Hindu idea of the Ultimate Divinity, I cant imagine the Infinite One sitting on a throne somewhere in the heavens.

I like the comment "God alone is real", after all are we not just a beautiful thought in the mind of God??

[NikolaiI]

Wouldn't God be singing and dancing? Anyway, isn't Infinite One reasonable to call God?

[Alan McDougall]

Wouldn't God be singing and dancing? Anyway, isn't Infinite One reasonable to call God?

God works fine for me!!

[NikolaiI]

I really think you would like these poems: http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/sri_aurobindo/the_sonnets

Those are the sonnets by Sri Aurobindo, or also, this link is for his general poetry:
http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/sri_aurobindo/selected_poems

This is one I like. I like about half of the sonnets exteremely much.

This poem I believe describes Sri Aurobindo's vision of God - as many of his poems do - merely in words, in poetry, how else can one? And I have had the same vision and thoughts of Him, and when I read this poem, it describes the same feeling in me when I have seen that view of God. God can be viewed from many places. But I've also seen, or felt, that vision of God which is somewhat poignant; but not really - and God as brooding, bodiless, infinite, taking all into his heart. In Vasinavism we say that God is all-attractive; the source of beauty, wisdom, power, peace, bliss, so many things, being the source of all these, attracting all the minds of the universe. Or in this poem, "gathers all things into his heart forever." Very beautiful. But overlooked. Unknown. So it seems. Or maybe has admirerors but they are all silent. :)

Ocean Oneness

Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;
White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;
A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,
Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.

Identified with silence and boundlessness
My spirit widens clasping the universe
Till all that seemed becomes the Real,
One in a mighty and single vastness.

Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,
Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,
And, sole in a still eternal rapture,
Gathers all things to his heart for ever.

[blazeofglory]

The thinker and the thought are not two different entities. One and the same.