" OUT OF THAT WHICH HAS NO NAME
Say what??? Somebody get this guy a java -he's obviously had five too many beers!
Ok, before you people take me off to the funny farm, give a listen. I was sitting around talking about godhood with "----", at times a frustrating pastime because he, like many in the arts, romanticizes such concepts or gives a lot of flashy generalities. I, myself, really do like the more airy scientific method as you will see.
"What does deity and ego have in common? You."
Why has everyone been looking or striving for "Deity"? Why, because they are afraid of dying! Who isn't? The work or fun here in this world is never done. Making sure people know where they are going after they die is the all- important thing, right? What I am talking about is that people really like goals. Identifying that goal gives them something to strive for, as everyone probably knows. We're talking about a special balance here. "Out of that which has no name... "That," in this case, is deity, or our goal. Remember that magic is all around and a part of us ( a real ego statement). Deity is the tool which we strive to control. Deity is not the end goal, it is a step, a point of awareness that people reach without meaning to all the time. What we as Gwyddons strive for is only a matter of being able to control that awareness as you enter that mindful state which we then call "god." When you think of life and all of its various parts as tools in a box, you begin to let yourself understand its workings as you go on to the next step, and it's all easier to take in and emotionally process.
The ego comes from becoming self-aware.
Realizing that emotions are the driving force in living things is a big step in understanding the tools to deity. Ego is the title given not only for your physical body, but for the toolbox you're given at birth that includes the higher self aspects. If this wasn't the case, then we would not have so many stories of gods that seem to have egos to bruise and there would never be any jealous or angry gods. So, to control the ego and work the tools of the ego, you allow the deity form of your self to shine through and realize that the two are the same.
Deity playing to the ego? In our book it talks about the Three Eyes of Kerridwen:
Walk with me through an idea here.
I would like those of you who know how to enter into a merged state to take a look at the unmanifested world. You will see a world that looks much like our own. Then superimpose a view of our manifested world over this scene and you realize that they are the same, just different colors, ok? Now, leave that merged state and come back to our world and you see that the unmanifested and manifested are indeed the same and co-existing at the same time in the same place. Now throw some desire and a goal in there and - WOW! you're a deity for that millionth of a second - and in order to get what you want you have to really want whatever it was. This sounds very egocentric to me.... Very selfish... "I want what I want and I want it NOW!" One merge later and you have it.
Since people say it takes a lot of energy/control to maintain a merged state you don't do it all the time, just when you need to. In the meantime, people around you and circumstances in your life keep telling you that life can't be that way because it wasn't before - then you strive to remember that it was, too, you just didn't realize it. Yes, I'm talking about conditioning. Conditioning is always going to be there and is always coming at you. So don't be surprised that all of this takes a lifetime to get control of, because it took a lifetime to learn the wrong things. Habits die hard and are easy to slip back into when you're not looking.
So deity is a controlled ego poised for action.
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