Monday, December 12, 2005

GAP between our thoughts


“The practice of meditation takes us on a fabulous journey into the gap between our thoughts, where all the advantages of a more peaceful, stress-free, healthy, and fatigue-free life are available. But they’re merely side benefits. The paramount reason for daily meditation is to get into the gap between our thoughts and make conscious contact with the creative energy of life itself. In this uplifting book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explains the soul-nourishing meditation technique for making conscious contact with God, which the ancient masters have told us about.
“You have the potential to be an instrument of the highest good for all concerned and to be a literal miracle worker in your own life. No person, government entity, or religious group can legitimately claim to do this for you. ‘In fact,’ says Dr. Dyer, ‘I agree with Carl Jung, who said that one of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.’ (Dr. Dyer helps you have this direct experience by leading you through the meditation technique on the enclosed CD.)
“When you master getting into the gap, stay there for prolonged segments of meditation, and experience what you bring back to the material world, you’ll truly know the answer to the question: ‘Why meditate?” (Wayne W. Dyer, Getting into the Gap: Make Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation (Book with CD) [Hay House, 2002] dust cover

dust unto dust.

Mr. Dyer seems to want to get in the gap to get rid of the gap: The idea that “I am separate from God” is a figment of our egos, says Dr. Dyer.

“Indivisible oneness is the energy that turns a seed into a maple tree or a watermelon or a human being or anything else that’s alive. It’s invisible, omnipresent, and absolutely indivisible. We can’t divide oneness. Meditation offers us the closest experience we can have of rejoining our Source and being in the oneness at the same time that we’re embodied. This means that we have to tame our ego.”
(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Getting in the Gap, Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation (Book with CD) (Hay House), 2002, p. 5.

Pantheism. “This is an identification of the universe with God. With this view there is a blurring of the distinction between the Creator and the creation as well as an attack upon the personality and nature of God. Pantheism tends to equate God with the process of the universe and states that the universe is God and God is the universe. This is not true because God is the creator of the universe (Isaiah 44:24) and therefore separate from it.”
www.carm.net/dictionary/dic_p-r.htm

He has read (or osmosed) Emerson; and Derrida – l’ecart? The gap, separation. The Hebrew Bible? God is and always will be separate from human beings. To know in the Biblical sense (“And Adam knew his wife Eve” Genesis 4:1). If one wants “to know” God, one must be as separate from Adam as Eve is. Knowing – intimate, voluntary. I want to know God? Does God want to know me?

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