Stephen Gaskin on how to 'Be God'
Stephen Gaskin was probably the pre-eminent metaphysicist of
the 60s hippy movement. This is what he had to say.
"You can't understand God. You can't define God, and you can't contain
God.
"But you can, if you don't look at yourself, BE God.
"The way to keep from looking at yourself is to be so busy doing your best
that you don't have anything left over to look with.
"You can't know the totality of God with your finite mind, because God is
infinite, and your material plane intelligence is finite--it cannot contain an
infinite thing. But if you aren't pressing about the totality, and just relax
and observe what's in front of you, you know God, because that's all there is
to know."
"There is nothing else to know; and the knowledge, the knower, the thing
known, and the act of knowing IS ALL ONE and IS ALL GOD.
"You are the eyes with which God looks, and the mind through which God
understands itself."
No one of us is any better or any worse than any other, each of us being an
individuation of the divine. Each one of us contains a god or goddess in embryo
which is waiting to fully manifest as we attain unity consciousness, and learn
to transcend fear and manifest total and unconditional love. This is what Jesus
was getting at when he said "The
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Very cool take on individual and communal divinity.
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I have now reached Taoism in my 56 year spiritual quest. I feel the touch of The Way here. Being new to InfoBarrel, I am seeing all the different forms an article can take. Your's is all quotes. Now I know I can do that, too.
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