Apr 15
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Tell the World What You Believe – Part Eleven
I only see what will confirm what I want...subconsciously Ignoring Ignorance
Brad Cullen admits publicly that he doesn’t know squat. Some wise person has suggested that until you understand a writer’s ignorance, you may want to presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Consistency requires me to be as ignorant today as I was a year ago; my goal, therefore, is to be as inconsistent as possible, without relinquishing what is perfect and true.
“I don’t know squat” borders on willful ignorance (or blindness) either/both are terms used in law to describe what those who knew or should have known that something for which they were ultimately responsible because they had the authority to change whatever, tries to plead innocence because they didn’t know.
Its just another trick keep you free of the maze.
“I don’t know squat” has to do with something, in my mind, that is far more significant. There is a SOURCE of all knowledge that is available to anyone willing to pursue it, “I don’t know squat” forces me to interrupt the crap going around in my mind that is insisting that “I know what I know” and rush to our (your and my) SPIRIT-PARENT to get what was promised and that is, being guided into all truth.
Here is where I confess that my belief has come full circle. I started at the advanced age of 24, when in a state of feeling desperate and not knowing what else to do, I cried out, “Jesus, if you are real, take over my life, I need help!”
Up to that point I had steadfastly proclaimed that I was an agnostic, because it was impossible to know which of the thousands of religious sects had the truth …my argument to any approach by someone trying to get me to believe that their particular view was the “only way,” was quite simple …and I adjusted it to suit whoever it was trying to convince me, I would say something to the effect: “You are telling me that __________ is the truth when somebody who is a _________ and believes that you are wrong and tells me that his way is the truth …I think it is possible that you are both crazy, now leave me alone.”
Can you learn from the book or just understand the theory?
Somewhere along the way I had absorbed the belief that Jesus might actually be something and somebody connected to God, if there was one. Now, after my initial desperate plunge – let’s get a bit theatrical here – “into the arms of Jesus,” I had a couple of weeks of peace for the first time in my life.
Then I made a fateful and almost fatal decision that I needed to learn more about him. “Learn” …as in get knowledge or, as I would say today, “listen to the lie that I needed to eat of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
Somewhere along the way I had also absorbed the belief that the best way to learn about Jesus was from the Bible. This belief led me to into something else I talk about today, “Bible bondage.”
While still in that vein of thought, that I had to learn about Jesus exclusively from the Bible, or some teacher who understood the Bible better than I …I began to focus on the words of Jesus in the original language, exclusively. The more I read what he had been quoted as having said, the more I came to realize that there was a huge separation between what he said and the teachings and practices of organized, unorganized and disorganized Christianity; while all the differences are too numerous to detail in a short article such as this, there are five key points to what I believe about Jay and even more strongly today than ever.
'Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables."
1) What he taught/teaches about praying.
2) What he taught/teaches about our relationship to our SPIRIT-PARENT.
3) What he said/says about what to do in order to BE who he was as a man, living in the presence and power of our SPIRIT-PARENT.
4) What to do to avoid the scourge of physical death and what to do to live as he lives now, multi-dimensionally, with and in our SPIRIT-PARENT.
5) What Jay is quoted in the Gospels as having said, and what he says to me today, regarding our potential equality with, again, who he was and what he did as a man and who he is and what he does today in his ascended state – and that is emphasized with a clear directive then and now, not to even allow ourselves to be referred to as being spiritually superior to anyone …that we all, Jay included, have only ONE leader, teacher and guide in all phases of LIFE (both physical and spiritual) …and that ONE is who we refer to as our SPIRIT-PARENT.
Now then, let’s briefly get into the conversation I had with publisher and webmaster, Ryan Bruce, which led to the title, Ignoring Ignorance, of this segment of Jay’s and the rest of the group’s insistence, that I tell the world what I believe.
You can eat of either tree...anytime.
I have been writing for a number of years about the “unwitting” ignorance of Christianity about what Jay was quoted in the Gospels as having said …not wanting to label the disparity between the universal practices of some Christian groups and what he said with the judgmental (on my part) precursor “willful” to the term ignorance.
Ryan and I were having a dialogue about this ignorance when an awareness for the first time of something that occurred either actually or figuratively (the lesson is the same, either way) in the interaction about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the early chapters of Genesis. It was the ONLY tree that our SPIRIT-PARENT had specifically instructed that the fruit of it was not to be consumed. It is a shame that the story, it is filled with symbols, and in those instances rather obviously not literal, that it be relegated to having no spiritual value.
For some, there is only one tree, with two perspectives.
The story surrounding the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was that they were duped into eating the fruit and the rest of that story is still being played out, primarily due to religious interpretation and teaching.
What struck me so forcefully was a bit of information buried somewhere in my unconscious mind and surfaced with amazing clarity: Adam and Eve could have just as easily eaten the fruit growing on the Tree of Life! In a flash of insight I told Ryan that I had always assumed that ignorance meant a lack of knowledge …what it the word actually sprouted from the word “ignore” (?) Neither Ryan nor I had ever considered that possibility before – nor their poor choice in listening to the lie of serpent rather than eat the fruit from the other tree which would have afforded them eternal life right then, rather than plunge them into the eternal cycle of life and death.
I’m being shown something that is vital here and requires a detailed teaching that dovetails into what I believe. For now, I’m being shown that I have chosen the Tree of Life and what has made that available to any individual wanting it …and that the title Ignoring Ignorance is for the purpose of highlighting the continued ignoring of the preferable tree in favor of the one that makes us think we are as wise as our SPIRIT-PARENT whose edict was not to eat of it and the consequences if we do. (MORE TO COME).
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