{"id":5,"date":"2007-07-09T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/do-we-understand-it-all.html"},"modified":"2007-07-09T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T12:01:01","slug":"do-we-understand-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/do-we-understand-it-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Do we understand it all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The comments on this blog are intended to take you to the intersection of Life and the New Spirituality. The blogwriter is the author of <\/em>Conversations with God<\/strong>, the global best-selling series of books.) <\/em>
\nWelcome to a new blog on Beliefnet.com. I am pleased to be here, and I hope you will find the explorations here inspiring and instigating. That\u2019s an interesting word to use, isn’t it? Instigating. <\/em>Hmmm\u2026
\nBy that I mean that I hope that what you read here will arouse your curiosity, open your mind to new possibilities, ignite your passions, and engage you in the process of life at a higher level than ever before.
\nWe are living in an age of co-creation. We are living at a time when we are becoming increasingly aware that the collective consciousness is something for which we are all responsible. The question now is, what are we to do about it? What can <\/em>we do about it? Is there any way for individual intention to be made manifest in global-impacting proportion?
\nAre there any solutions to the problems in the world today that we — you and I — can bring to the space? And what role do our beliefs play in all of this? How does our understanding of God and life and our relationship with each other affect our ability to individually and collectively create solutions to the dilemmas of life as we experience them in the first quarter of the 21st Century?
\nThese are the questions we will be asking in various forms on this blog. These are the matters we will be exploring and examining, discussing and dissecting in this space.
\nAs the weeks go by you will notice repeated references on this blog to the most exciting news of the past 100 years…<\/p>\n


\nHumanity is about to create a new form of spirituality on the earth.<\/em> It is inevitable. Why? Because the old form of spirituality is not working as well as we would have hoped. Not nearly as well.
\nThere is a reason for this. Our old form of spiritual expression very often creates more divisions than connections. Anyone can see this. Everyone<\/em> can see this.
\nSpirituality should be about connection. Indeed, it should be about the Highest Form of Connection. It should be about Oneness. Oneness, first, with our God, then a deep sense of Oneness with Life, and finally (but not least important), Oneness with Each Other.
\nI believe that what stops many people from feeling this sense of Oneness is humanity\u2019s present theologies. Most members of our species who have embraced any idea of God at all (and that is by far the largest number of us) have embraced what I have come to call Separation Theology.
\nThis is a theology that says that \u201cwe\u201d are over \u201chere\u201d and \u201cGod\u201d is over \u201cthere.\u201d We can talk to God and we can pray to God and we can bring God into our lives, but God is one Entity and we are another.
\nI realize that this is a simplistic description, but it is, essentially, how we have it set up. It is a capturing of the phenomenon. It is the phenomenon of Separation, which manifests itself not only as a thought that human beings are separate from God, but that we are also separate from the process of Life…and from Each Other as well.
\nThis Separation Theology has produced a Separation Cosmology (that is, an overall view of things that says that all things may exist interrelationally<\/em>, but their very relationship depends on their separation). This, in turn, has produced a Separation Sociology (that is, a way of socializing our species that suggests that \u201cyou\u201d and \u201cI\u201d are divided from each other intrinsically). And from all of this has emerged a Separation Pathology (that is, a set of behaviors that are plainly self-destructive).
\nHumanity is not stupid, however. Primitive, perhaps, elementary in its thinking, perhaps, but not stupid. And humanity has begun to lose patience with itself. We see very well that our old beliefs, our old systems and cosmologies and understandings and ways of being, simply no longer work. They are not Life Sustainable. They are, in fact<\/em>, self-destructive. One look at the morning news confirms this for us in unmistakable terms.
\nAnd so we have come to clarity. We are no longer kidding ourselves. And from our place of New Awareness, leading to a New Practicality, we want a spirituality (and a world) that works. Thus, we have come to a question. It is the most important question, the most critical question, we will ever ask ourselves in this first quarter of the 21st Century:
\nIs it possible \u2013 it is just possible<\/em> \u2013 that there is something we do not fully understand about God, about Life, and about Each Other\u2026the understanding of which could change everything?<\/strong>
\nThe exploration of that question will be the continuing topic of this blog. Welcome to the adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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