Mystery School - The Pathways Institute Mystery School

I was thinking today about fundamentalists and my projections on their relationship to "God". I imagine that they focus in on a particular ideology or ideological theme, and then use that as their filter to see the world. It's a sharp focus, where only that which is approved of is allowed in, and everything else is automatically not that. Much denial here.

Someone then who is more open, or of a "peace love and light", sees more because they are more open to other ways of seeing. Still, everything runs through the "Good" filter. God is good. God is everything. Everything is good. Less denial here, but still short of the goal, in my view.

Lastly you come to the individual is sees the spiritual quest as one to add meaning to his or her life. Not to name or to put a face on God, and not to label life as good or bad, but to truly accept that the wonder of God remains in us, no matter the quest and no matter the labels. That we are finite God is not.

The goal then, I believe, is to live life in the wonder of knowing that we have been gifted with the most wondrous gift of gifts.

No matter the name of our God, no matter the face, no matter our rules or lack thereof, so long as we miss this point, I believe we are condemned to the eternal hell of disconnect from the true nature of God. That God is love, love is all there is, and we, my friends, are the living embodiment of love.

To live in hell, then, is to deny our own demons. Those people and things we say, with authority, are not us. I'm not that demon. I do not do those terrible things. I would NEVER want to been seen that way.

The way then, to salvation, to connecting with the true nature of God, is to own our demons. To stop denying them. To stop judging everything. To consume our own hidden truths until we are no longer haunted and tormented by them, and instead, to dance with the gargoyles on the outside of our own personal temples. They have invited us in, it would be wrong to assume they are there for someone else. After all, there isn't anybody else.