SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT “METAPHYSICS”

There are many brands of metaphysics, many concepts, many practices—some of them very strange, “outa sight!” as the kids say. But metaphysics is a science, the fundamentals of which are precise and capable of comprehension. Within the bounds of these fundamentals there is no difference in any of the “brands” that have grown around them—but the organized brands have a way of getting away from the fundamentals, eventually to ignore, distort or even attack them.

On the human scene and within the judgemental framework of conditioned mortal thinking, the world does not have a single organization, Christian, Jewish, metaphysical, mystical or ‘heathen” THAT PRESENTS A CONSISTENT METAPHYSICS. There is a woeful wonder even as to what the fundamentals are. In fact, there isn’t even a consistent definition of the term “metaphysics,” let alone any kind of agreement on its precepts.

Human existence, the appearance of life in matter, offers many paradoxes that have never been resolved intellectually—never—despite the attempts of scientists, theologians, philosophers, mystics and metaphysicians throughout history. It has been said they will never be explained. Now, from the highest voices at some of these organizations comes the word that the “belief and dream” needs no explanation. But, if this were the real “answer” it would have received the appearing such that its problems and their accompanying agonies would at least be understood.

The “dream” has been called the product of “dualism” but that explanation has done nothing for the world but bring its dualisms into increasing attention on the one hand and confrontation on the other. The dichotomies of paradox grow, the pace of the “dream” quickens and the handwriting of apparent cataclysm is not only on the wall but on the floor and ceiling as well. A graffiti of fatalism announces the demise of flat-earth foundations and the earth already trembles.

Religion has been dishonest from the first, promising things it cannot deliver. How can one be “bound back” to an Identification that has never been divided nor fallen away from Itself? What exists outside Allness to be returned to the fold and “saved” thereby?

But metaphysicians supposedly know this already and are studying the ”higher religions” because of the failures of theology in their personal affairs, but their branded version of crystallized, conditioned metaphysics doesn’t appear to be doing them much good either. The time has come to show that metaphysics is not an end in itself and that the precepts presented in its name are often as off-base, preposterous and misleading as those of “old theology.” Only worse—because it panders to the most basic instinct of all: to be a healthy, wealthy, wise and happy HUMAN.

Please understand. This is no attempt to knock either theology or metaphysics. There is a place for churchdom in the appearing of human affairs. There is also a place for the higher religion that calls attention to the scientific precision of all tangibility. But since these essays are directed to those interested in the comprehension of the “Absolute,” the Real, the Unqualified, unbound Truth, it is time to unearth some of the dishonesty that has grown to be called “Science”, but isn’t Science at all—but a lot of mystic mumbo-jumbo professing to be a gateway to Utopia, a pathway from sense to Soul and the “scientific answer” to everything. To begin with sense to ARRIVE at Soul is to walk an infinite pathway forever, never arriving, never recognizing the goal to be closer than fingers and toes, the Already Self, Itself.

The grand door opener of “old theology” is its offer of salvation to the sinner, the promise of heaven after a physical death for those who do thus and so. The metaphysician looks down his nose at this “primitive” concept and prides himself in bits and pieces of esoteric “Truth” not understood by those poor folk who “worship the blood of Jesus,” “Heaven is right here, right now,” shouts he, as he goes about his professed heaven slashing the “Jesus cult” to bits with a nasty tongue, healing this part of his heaven, overcoming that part of it, protecting still another part, and dividing it all into a good and bad, a real and unreal, a true teacher and a false prophet, a Christ and an anti-Christ.

What is the “door opener” of metaphysics? That is, what does IT promise? We listen to the lesson sermons and ministers, read the publications (That are authorized), examine the journals, monthly letters and listen to the tapes only to hear the same …(missing words….) theology is making, and has been making for five thousand years without a modicum of success in getting their followers to LIVE, LIVE, LIVE their professions. Misunderstood metaphysics proffers a great goose, offering a golden egg of HEALING for all HUMAN problems. It promises heath and wealth. It offers a solution to every worldly inequity—marriage, business, scholastic, health, wealth, happiness or whatever is supposed to constitute a prosperous, pampered personal experience.

As a metaphysician, I can say there certainly appear to be many sitting on the front rows of the churches complaining of being unable to find their healing or the promised land or the golden egg that the DECLARATION of “God is ALL!” is supposed to deliver.

Really now, in the absolute sense, is there any more honesty in holding out the promise of a healing than the promise of “salvation”? Or of an “abundant experience” in place of “the Holy Spirit”? Metaphysicians may appear a happier lot on the surface, but under the veneer of a pretended “absoluteness” of many, lies an arrogant and aggrandized personal sense of self, riddled with doubts, bent to the ground by weight of an awful guilt, bound hand and foot in fear of violating this or that principle, rule or regulation of the “textbook” or the “manual”—and for all their “demonstrated” freedom, they remain terrified at the thought of not getting the daily lesson or reading anything that doesn’t have the imprimatur of officialdom, or follow a procedure that was not precisely outlined by Mary, Joel, Earnest, Jesus, St. Peter or Society, none of whom even remotely have the Ultimate Authority of the divine Awareness presently reading these words! AMEN.

The Divine “Metaphysics” begins with the Principle, not the problem. The honest view doesn’t throw the human scene out the window calling it naught by a dream. It allows the Principle to disclose the scene’s reasons for appearing, and those reasons are ever to delineate the Principle.

The Real metaphysics doesn’t promise a happy human existence but discloses the impossibility of a human to have an existence—AND FULLY EXPLAINS WHY THE APPEARANCE OF A “HUMAN” AND HIS BELIEF OF A LIMITED EXISTENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

The honest religion of Light leaves nothing dangling, sluffing nothing off as imponderable paradoxes that “just can’t be explained.” The honest Way doesn’t rattle about progressive footsteps but explains; in simple terms, that WE ARE THERE—and that the “progressive footsteps” are the appearance of our letting go the lingering notions that we are NOT there!

The honest philosophy doesn’t have us climbing through “states and stages” of “spiritual unfoldment” but has us LIVING OUT FROM THE PRESENT POINT OF PERFECTION, there, flinging off the former cloaks of concepts that has us crawling, scratching and grasping our way up the leg of some distant god, hoping to eventually arrive at a holy navel of rebirth THEN rather than NOW.

The honest “teacher” of the Truth LIVES the Light he is and speaks to his view of himself (people) about their UPRIGHTNESS, not their faults (that merely delineate their faultlessness), not their sins (which bespeak their sinlessness), not their weaknesses—because the honest metaphysician perceives that the REAL, and the apparent human foibles that delineate It, are all one REAL, not a dualism at all.

And the honest Awareness of Light lives as the Light he finds himself to be discloses he SHOULD live, without compromise, and without fear of the coldness that ensues when his former cloaks of ego are thrown into the abyss of lessons learned, called memory.

The honest philosophy doesn’t hedge about the appearance of “dualism” but EXPLAINS the whys and hows of it, for every aspect of it—ultimately to disclose that that appears divided is not a dichotomous dualism at all, any more than the Symphony and its delineating notes (harmonious or discordant) are anything but ONE Symphony disclosing Itself to Itself.

The honest metaphysics doesn’t hush nor hedge on the subject of sex and gender, but EXPLAINS it, fully, completely, honestly, without mental reservations or concessions to an anthropomorphic propriety nor how before the inevitable crucifixion of sex deluded arguments that see everything through the eyes of sex alone.

The honest metaphysics doesn’t give vague, vacuous, vomiting explanations of the appearance of birth and death, but DEMONSTRATES the Life that death delineates—and LIVES the effervescent, unbound, eternal CHILDLIKENESS that judgeless awareness eternally is.

The honest metaphysics doesn’t incessantly discount the validity of “pain and anguish” but points out the reasons for the appearance of them and validates the proof that mortal suffering is not the dualistic opposite of Tranquillity but is the POWERLESS delineation of it—Tranquillity the eternal Fact, the delineation, Omniscience’s knowledge of all Tranquillity is not and could never be.

And finally, the honest “teacher” of metaphysics does not leave nor forsake one while his dreamlike night of the fiery furnace is lived as the fiction it is and wherein the philosophic postulates of a Here and Now Perfection are discovered BEYOND intellectuality, beyond surmise, faith or intellectual doubt.

The time for our intellectual honesty to give way to a lived honesty has arrived—an arrival to shake the earth, reverse the magnetic polarity of its thinking, loosing and letting fly the tectonic plates of magnetic materiality, even while our former shields of protection vanish, allowing the naked Child we are to be bathed in a rain (reign) of Light unbelievably bright.

These are not just “psychic” events I speak of, but mental, physical and spiritual as well—all the same Event, disclosing Itself tangibly as Identity: Identity known omnisciently even as Omniscience knows Itself.

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