Footprints

Time magazine describes Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century. If what he says is true, it gives us something to think about, and if it is partially true, it still gives us plenty to think about, and if everything he says is untrue, it certainly would give us something to think about.

The more of his recent articles I read, the more I read my own ideas. I'm beginning to think that his spirit guides know my spirit guides socially and are sharing ideas at the Celestial Bar.

For example, 'the only fact that you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain, the 'I am this' is not.'

I've had this thought early on in my adult life, and isn't it the most extraordinary thing? Isn't it highly improbable that here I am? I never cease to wonder at this. Whenever I am disheartened and tempted to become a dye in the wool materialist, this 'I am' comes back to stare me in the face - it's too ridiculous. I know I'm not to start on any 'I am this or I am that', but here I am in all my glorious complexity!

'God has managed the amazing feat of being worshipped and invisible at the same time...Although it doesn't seem possible to offer a single fact about the Almighty that would stand up in a court of law, somehow the vast majority of people believe in God, as many as 96 percent according to some polls...
One bald fact stands at the beginning of any search for God. He leaves no footprints in the material world' (from How to Know God).
(deepakchopra.com)

Now, if you have made up your mind that the material world is all there is, and deny all other possibilities and make it your mission to spread the word (as do Richard Dawkins and the Brights at the-brights.net) then you need read no further. And if you are open to the possibility that God exists, but will only accept court of law truth, the same applies. And if you are open to the possibility of God, and are absolutely convinced you cannot know anything about it here in spacetime, and that no contact is possible, and you would never try for that reason, then don't read on. Stay with your faith, stick to your decisions. What are you still doing here? Go on, be off with you!

Now, for those of us not yet eliminated, can we accept the following starting point:

There might be a universal truth, not material or accessible directly by the senses, which despite our subjective positions, experiences and thoughts, we could have access to.

If you are drawn to the idea of universal, eternal truth, which although it can't be measured as defined by ordinary science, can be worked towards, prepared for, and received, then try this idea:

We have within us, given to us, the means of access to this truth, tailored to our own nature (this might be expressed as our being the 'children of God').

General Mission: We souls on earth need to work on coming together and finding this uniting universal truth.

We can have (and most certainly will have for this is the time of independence) different paths, different methods, different experiences, different points of view, but we each have a unique contribution to make, and are heading towards one universal truth. (This is very different to everyone having his or her own individual interpretation and making lots of money selling snake oil, or floating off on a detached cloud of bliss, and generally dispersing on multiple spiritual paths that lead nowhere in particular). This is one-pointed. This is work. It is not unscientific, in the sense that there are not as many realities as there are experiencers, and no way of measuring it. There is a universal meeting point, and we are the instruments of detection.

Anyone still up for it?

Our job is to access it, polish it, perfect it, bring it forth in our own lives. To continue to develop and perfect our 'instrument' of detection, which is our very being, in all its multifaceted glory, waiting to be discovered. Only when we all manage that will suffering end. I think you might call it atonement, in the sense of reconciliation. But we don't need to wait for the ultimate communion - each instant of our lives is available for us to touch universal thought.

If we can go with this, just to the point of trying it out, or trying to understand it, then let us begin.