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Short Memo: (Expanding a repost) – Considerations for Seeing an Unseen God

I miss praying. It was very centering. Very calming. But I now follow a God who has never been seen or written about. Any attempt to create a spoken prayer would be misguided. It would certainly be influenced by one’s culture and previous exposure to other religions. There is no escaping influence. And there are no words that can adequately attune to an unseen God with no literature as a reference point. There are lines that must be drawn. Even the concept of prayer itself can be faulted and directly the result of influence. Prayer may not be a means to reach this unseen God.

How does one communicate or envision an unseen God? I still believe in communication. I still believe in omnipresence. I think it is that omnipresence, that cosmic equation, that has been misunderstood and packaged incorrectly with previous religions that were all intended to be a means of control and dominance. My God does not interfere or have a spirit of dominance. My God can be envisioned through a calm state of tapping into the subconscious signature that aligns us all. I experienced a “vision” of God as woman. I also experienced a “vision” of God as a man. I also experienced an ongoing long-term “vision” of God taking on different personas, all intended to allow me to question Her/Him and discover the answers to questions previous religions never could. Questions that were only meditations and configurations in theoretical theology. That experience seemed to last for weeks before I snapped out it.

So, if God will allow me to communicate with Her/Him, that means God will certainly be willing to communicate with anyone who opens their minds and hearts to the single structure of ongoing self. We only know what we know. We are only able to ask what we are capable of asking. Each to their own ability. Each to their own structured heart. And what if that heart is corrupt? What will happen then? Will God still communicate through a spiritual presence? I think so. Though, of course, it may not be what that individual wants to hear, so, because of that, they may simply not hear the truth. Discipline is involved. I am not able to express this adequately, but some form of discipline and acceptance of self in an honest manner must be involved to hear God. That acceptance of self must include having to admit to oneself where they went wrong, what they have done to others, the reality of the harm they have contributed to directly or indirectly on the fate and well-being of other living lives. That is a holistic truth. It is a sequence to steps to the reality of the forms of spiritual consequence.

Perhaps within that acceptable, limited form of realization comes a place where one can hear the brutal truth of God and how God sees both the individual self and the social, participant self. God sees us in a collective state, but does not forget the individual’s experiences and the harm and pain they have endured. God is ready see through the lines of distraction of this reality and show or reveal a more magnetic presence of your own self-interest and commitment to knowing the truth. That is all I can say about this unwritten, unseen God of ours. At least at this time. This morning. The experience of the present moment – in my thoughts and the temple of my self-control in magnitude of order.