Riffin' On's Response to Riffin' On's Practical Response to Mystery

... pt. 2

I mean fully, with all of this high concept, zany philosophy stuff to do something…rather bold, and seemingly off-brand. Having been raised catholic and having attended catholic school through 8th grade, I have an intimate knowledge both of the Bible as well as that…whole…scene…which I personally do not enjoy, but that is neither here nor there…I believe. I really do. But holy baJeebus did there seem to be a disconnect between the world in the Bible, a world in which technology did not exist, but magic, at times, often did, in the vicinity of God-men, and our modern world…

Truthfully, we live in the presence of miracles in our day and age. There are anecdotal accounts surrounding the gurus that gained some popularity in the West during the flower power era that purport many many different people encountering miracles in the presence of bright teachers that some construe as clairvoyant, on many different occasions… that was 60-70 years ago.

If you start to poke around, there are plenty of personal stories out there in a number of contexts floating around, stories of people having experiences they believe to be miraculous, in addition to there being entire cultural institutions that young people can latch onto to reliably find themselves in the presence of some sort of…higher something (the Grateful Dead tour).

It’s still my resolute belief that any exploration of anything will ultimately yield towards becoming a vehicle for transcendental wisdom, or that it at least has the potential to. Divorced from this high concept lingo, when this happens spontaneously in people’s lives, it usually is pertaining to the potency of love or living a noble lifestyle or the benefits of living in service to your loved ones in some respects…

This is the function of Being. When God first introduced himself by a name, he said “I am who I am”. There’s a lot to unfold there.

Essentially, any exploration of who “I am”… your self-exploration… is an exploration in the nature of God. This is the determinism we are locked within. When we respond wisely, we live in bliss. When we do not, we suffer.

Secondly, God has a nature, and this nature orders the cosmos in live time. Thus, to study nature and it’s ways is to study God.

To extend on this, God’s nature is incredibly loving, so this says something about the flow of phenomena across time and how it intersects with the quality of life for the individual… in a very general sense. This is why you tap into Universe and live “in balance”… you’re queued up for some dope swag if you walk the path.

To be is to be in the throes of God. He is whoever is…He is being, He is the is-ness. So life must be a curriculum on God, and that alone, and I really see no need for anybody to get scabies or to have a U2 album automatically uploaded to their Apple devices under those parameters ever again, so that must be the specific purpose of life, and we need to get busy people... And then once you are presented God’s nature as simple and all-loving, you can use the sword of discriminating wisdom to live more effectively…literally cut through the bullshit in life by resolving the bullshit by channeling the spirit in live time like some sort of chivalrous badass who probably smells good.

To do a stark pivot, when we turn to the story of the resurrection of Lazarus in the Bible, there really are not abstract takeaways that do the situation justice. The sheer immensity of…that man being alive again…you can’t say that it probably happened so God could really provide irrefutable proof that Jesus, by turning himself over to the Father as he explains in John 14, a technique he extends by His grace to all others in that chapter, had a mastery over death…well duh.

There’s just something to it where the commentary is weak relative to the content when it comes time to wrap it up. It’s a crazy miracle. Apparently the name Lazarus translates from Hebrew to mean “God has helped”… this resurrection is a manifestation of his inevitable destiny. It’s his moment of self-becoming… he falls fully into the shadow of his name.

And that self-actualization…that crazy moment…the fact that such a crazy miracle is part of it, in addition to the presence of Jesus… I think that is a pattern that has repeated endlessly across the eons in its own ways…maybe moreso in a preventative than a resurrective fashion, but nonetheless…

Obviously the God of the New Testament wanted us to know that we live eternally…that our forms spring forth and animate spontaneously as dictated solely by God’s will…that even death, which seems much smaller now, can be recalled… if you really reflect on it deeply, the subtext to it all is that God is all, God is good, and you can always ask for things to be better. If something is to be kept at bay or defeated…it very well may need to be, so defeat it with God’s love. Turn the head against the tail.

And honestly, the real enemy of God has always seemed to be anything which enfeebles people. The sincere hope is that everyone across time will have enough available to them in their vicinity that life works if they work it. That it’s fair…and I do believe God provides this service, which is profound, and oft goes nearly entirely unrealized, consciously.

But nonetheless, sickness and decay creep into the picture, and have to be stymied in the same old ways once again, by employing the wisdom of some sort of timeless and unyielding curriculum on the nature of phenomena…

Life is abundant…health is endless… God’s love is without limit, and is within reach. It demands discriminating wisdom on behalf of the individual…which means the masses, but the framework of society is as such that we all have lived enough experiences and have enough tools available to us to easily transition towards a foundation of being that is moreso rooted in the abundance of Infinity/the service of God.

Nonetheless, forms decay across time…and one would construe that this is because form, ultimately, is a major hindrance considering what awaits. The fact of the matter is that life persists, lasting beyond death in every scenario...our presence never need leave this plane, and waiting out there is everyone who has ever lived, just beyond the wind...

Lazarus was resurrected in form, but his consciousness remained relatively unchanged across the period of his death/resurrection- his life probably had a shocking consistency to it given the circumstances. But if we are to take that God’s will orders the cosmos, perhaps a resurrection is moreso in congruence with all of our previous experiences than we realize…we are living in the midst of mystery, undeniably, and all of us are experiencing weirdness in our hours of solitude that we never divulge to others, that we seem incapable of divulging even…

With the right kind of discipline/curriculum we *pop*, becoming something entirely new...