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Published on February 19, 2005 By AndyBaker In Philosophy
Okay, I wrote this stuff some time ago but didn’t post it cuz I can be misinterpreted as an oaf. But I’m drunk now. So I don't mind. Here it is cut and paste. People can make their own minds up.

The Cosmic Story Part II

We’ve all asked the questions, "Why are we here? Is there any purpose to life? Is there life beyond the veil of death"? Well I possess answers to these questions via a quick-route method without necessarily having 'grown' into them. I’m psychic, you see, so I’m cheating. But due to the natural laws of growth it’s humanity's destiny to awaken to this stuff anyway. So take it or leave it,

(1) When we die, our soul continues to experience Life on the Other Side. There, we retain our individuality, live full lives in Heaven, and exist for all eternity. It is there that we are at our most alive and vibrant.

(2) We freely choose to incarnate on physical planes such as earth as many times as we like, in order to face challenges and trials which don't exist in Paradise. A good way to interpret the nature of our short lives on earth is to perceive them as quick trips to the gym, which advance spiritual strength and growth.

(3) The hardships and tribulations that we face on earth are of our own choosing, not God's. For each trip to earth, we choose our own bodies, we choose the timing of our incarnation, we choose the conditions of our upbringing and the challenges we face. (The greater the physical challenge, the greater potential for spiritual advancement. Hence, disabled bodies, for example, are actually blessings in disguise.)

(4) Our earthly minds are deliberately 'veiled' from the Whole Truth in order for our soul to experience challenges of a deeper kind. (i.e. concepts such as "fear", "loneliness", "pain", "hatred", "ugliness", "insecurity", or "doubt" etc. are incoherent in Heaven. They can only be experienced in realms such as earth-life, and our deeper goal is to rise above them and conquer them from within. If we were always aware of the Whole Truth, then the challenges would cease to be).

(5) Our degree of wisdom, inner peace and spiritual enlightenment is determined generally by our soul's level of growth and advancement. i.e. materialistic or shallow folk might be beginners at the game of life, whilst wise and spiritually mature folk have probably done the rounds many times before.

(6) The quickest way to advance spiritually and to cultivate positive karma, is to love, and to adhere to principles of goodwill, forgiveness and integrity.

(7) For the vast majority of souls, death is a highly positive experience. It is like being released from a dark, stuffy room, walking into a breathtaking world of freedom, beauty and light.

(8) The quality of our inner-experience on the Other Side is determined generally by the amount of spiritual wealth we have accumulated on our journey so far. People who have deliberately caused much evil and damage on earth, like Hitler, will experience an inner feeling of darkness and guilt when they arrive in Heaven. They will see the bigger picture and will be aware of the consequences of their actions to others and to their own soul. Oftentimes these people will automatically incarnate back to earth - or to another physical planet - in an attempt to `burn off' their negative karma. (It is difficult to balance out negative karma in Heaven, because the challenges don't exist there.)

(9) Ultimately, from the soul's reckoning, nothing really matters, because we are all eternally secure and constantly loved by God. Love and enlightenment is our ultimate destiny, and all the dramas of earthly life are really part of a big 'game', played out by souls in human costumes to fulfil a divine Plan. Whilst in this physical realm, it is indeed like living in the Matrix. Even though most people assume that this is the "real world", and that our earthly life is the be all and end all of our existence, there is a Real World beyond our earthly awareness. The difference between our situation and the situation portrayed in the movie 'the Matrix', is that the ultimate nature of reality is actually LOVE.

(10) From the divine perspective, the universe is a piece of art. It's like a huge kaleidoscope with many dimensions, swirling, dancing and expanding. Even though the universe seems so big, and we can feel so small, from God's point of view, physical size makes no difference at all. We all possess deep intrinsic value in God's eyes, regarldess of how worthless or small we think we are.

(11) The 'substance', or 'physical laws' of Heaven is very different to our earthly dimension. It therefore makes no sense to describe life in Heaven in basic earthly language. Rest assured, everything makes better sense in Heaven than anything ever could on this crude God-forsaken realm.

(12) The Muslim story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is correct. (Surah 2.35-38). Christianity got misguided when it claimed that Eden existed on earth. The Garden of Eden refers to Paradise-Heaven, where humanity were created at the outset. When Adam and Eve chose to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they were driven out of Paradise to do exactly that. The Christian story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection is true. God intimately participates in the long journey of life, and Jesus’ life demonstrated this. Jesus came to earth as God incarnate to spread the most profound message humanity has every known.

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on Feb 19, 2005
Incidentally here’s Part One that I posted a few months ago under an alias. This stuff is taken directly from some inspired books I read, also written by psychics. (Whether you believe in psychics or not doesn’t matter. Just bathe in the logic.)

The Cosmic Story Part I

In the beginning, that which Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. Yet All That Is could not know itself – because All That Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. And so, All That Is … was not. For in the absence of something else, That Which Is, is not.

Now All That Is knew it was all there was, but this was not enough, for it could only know its utter magnificence conceptually, not experientially. Yet the experience of itself is that for which it longed, for it wanted to know what it felt like to be so magnificent. Still, this was impossible, because the very term “magnificent” is a relative term. All That Is could not know what it felt like to be magnificent unless that which is not showed up. (In the absence of that which is not, that which Is, is not).

The one thing that All That Is knew is that there was nothing else. And so It could, and would, never know Itself from a reference point outside of Itself. Such a point did not exist. Only one reference point existed, and that was the single place within.

Still, the All of Everything desired to know Itself experientially, and thus sought to expand Its experience of magnificence and goodness – attributes of Its intrinsic nature. This energy – this pure, unseen, unheard, unobserved, and therefore unknown-by-anyone-else energy – chose to experience Itself as the utter magnificence It was. It realised It would have to use a reference point within. It reasoned, quite correctly, that any portion of Itself would necessarily have to be less than the whole, and that if It thus simply divided Itself into portions, each portion, being less than the whole, could look back on the rest of Itself and see magnificence.

And so God, the Creator, conceived an Idea.

God saw the Idea of a new condition, called Life Expression, completely pictured in the mirror of His Omniscient Mind. In this mirror God saw the Heavens and the Earth shining forth brilliantly in the Cosmos – like a perfect Sphere – populated by forms of sentiency, endowed with intrinsic value and purpose. He saw Love, the divine creative Power, as the animating and vitalizing Force behind all Life, and His desire to give perfect expression to that Love as the potential and real cause and reason of Life.

God saw all this mirrored in His All-seeing, All-knowing Mind, which could only as yet perceive the Soul of things. Once the Idea of expressing this new condition was born, God had but to think - that is, to concentrate or focus His attention upon this Idea, and will it to come forth into expression - proceeding to attract the necessary elements from the eternal storehouse of His Mind - and, with His Idea as a nucleus, to combine, form and shape around it these elements into what is now called “matter”.

It was in this instant that God spoke the Creative Word. At once did the Cosmic Forces of His Will combine, ‘crystallizing’ into various elements of life substance and energy; until His Idea suddenly burst forth in substantial manifestation in the world of visible forms.

Thus, the Heavens and the Earth were created – the Celestial Realm, and later the physical planes, different dimensions in One Holy Creation – governed by laws and forces inspired by the informing intelligence of God’s Idea within.

It was at this stage that God looked upon His Creation and saw that it was good.

In the Heavenly realm – harmonious and exquisite - conditions were ripe for the creation of mediums through which God’s Divine Attributes could find conscious expression, conscious not only of their relationship to Him, but of their ability and power to exercise freedom and goodness, to experience life, and to comprehend magnificence. It was at this moment that God created Adam and Eve, made in His own Images and Likeness, in perfect expression, as souls clothed in celestial bodies.

This Edenic state was the first condition into which we awakened and entered into life expression, and is what is called the dwelling in the Garden of Eden. In Paradise, rivers, trees and animals exist in perfect harmony. Death, discord, hatred, pain or fear do not exist, and all living souls – including angelic races and celestial beings - possess an enlightened perspective and higher awareness of Reality and the true meaning of life.

In the middle of the Garden of Eden grows the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. At the beginning of creation, God told Adam and Eve that they were free to eat the fruit from any of the trees in Paradise, except for the fruit which grew on this particular tree. They were warned that if they ate of the fruit from the tree, they would taste “death”.

Due to Adam and Eve’s innate desire to explore, and enticed by the lure of the dark side of wisdom contained within this fruit, they disobeyed God and chose to eat it. Adam and Eve were thus drawn from purely Celestial delights, in order that they may “become like God”, knowing the full scope of wisdom - good and evil – and understanding the intrinsic nature of good. After eating the fruit, they were forced to leave their Edenic state in order to taste the fruits of evil and pain. God drove them out of Paradise, and at that moment did humanity fall – from Eden to earth. Living souls, created in the divine image and likeness, were now breathed into earthly bodies which had evolved from the dust of the ground and had previously housed mere forms of animal-consciousness.

Separated now from their Heavenly estate, and lost in the illusions of a broken world, humanity found themselves involved in conditions altogether new and strange. No longer living within a realm of complete security, joy and enlightenment, humanity were forced to experience foreign feelings of fear, doubt, loneliness, pain, and insecurity. With their earthly minds deliberately veiled from the Whole Truth, and living in a lesser cosmic realm where space and time are finite, and where things "wear out", they eventually forgot about their Father in Heaven, and instead became the gods of their own universe. By adhering to principles of survival of the fittest, 'might is right' and ego-power, they shunned spiritual powers of love, goodwill and forgiveness, thus giving rise to opposing flavours of consciousness such as “hatred”, “jealousy”, and “anger”.


And so here we are – living in this physical realm, where death and suffering are common place. Oblivious to our divine heritage and to the eternal life of love and joy that awaits us beyond the veil of death, (only a blink of an eye away from Heaven’s perspective), for the time being we now have to “till the ground” and “by the sweat of your brow to eat your food” - and experience the old chestnut “death”.

Yet ultimately, everything is part of the Great Plan. All fruits promote quality soul-substance and spiritual muscle – especially the fruits of so-called evil and pain. It is only through opposing forces that God can provide the discipline and experiences by which souls can learn to know unerringly good and evil. No soul can truly rise to the highest until it has tasted and eaten to satiation of the fruits of pain. And no man has been so taught and led to the limit of selfish indulgence that he learns the foolishness and emptiness of it all, and finally awakens as a Prodigal Son, and longs for his Father’s house and the place at His table for goodness and abundance which he discarded for the husks of the outer world, and he starts on his homeward journey to his Father’s Kingdom.
on Feb 19, 2005
Jesus came to earth as God incarnate to spread the most profound message humanity has ever known.


... although strictly speaking, the Buddha scooped the cream by disclosing the greatest secret of all. Yet it's one that most Westerners aren't ready to hear, (yet):

We are God.

If you follow the logic outlined above, you can't come to any other conclusion. We're all bundles of energy from the same Source.

Our religions have their own way of describing it. Hindus say that we are "sparks of God"; Christains say we are souls created "in the image and likeness of God"; whilst Buddhists say that we are God. It's all the same thing, ultimately.

“Is it not written, ‘Ye are Gods’?” - Jesus (John 10.34, referring to Psalm 82.6.)
on Feb 19, 2005
We are God.


Yes. God is within each and every one of us......we just need to recognise that and honor it accordingly.