Riffin' On the Bliss Age

“Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” Matthew 12:32

            In many ways, the “age to come” is the only age we’ve ever known, mysteriously, at least internally. The “Holy Spirit” is creation, manifest, whole…past, present, and future. Every experience of the material world, of realities both mundane and profound, are, at the deepest level, an experience of All, as much as they are simply an experience of the Holy Spirit, which itself is a vehicle for some sort of curriculum on God…life comprehensively and partial is the Holy Spirit, as much as it is also God, both the aspects of which can be known, and those which remain forever outside of human perception and conception. Man, even the Son of Man, himself, who is Jesus, has a dualistic nature (it’s overcome by resonating with the Christ identity through devotional practice). This at times has been called the human condition, but all beings with a subjective experience having an experience of time (mortality) have dualistic natures, and the living of their respective lives, as they ought to, whether for the sake of civility or survival, mysteriously bleeds this dualistic nature dry, and then they die, merging into eternal oneness while retaining an individuated identity and still remaining in dialogue with the entirety of material existence, now effectively merged with an omnipresent “spirit” that amounted to the entirety of existence when they were still embodied, but still individuated…still eternally just themselves...

            Life, as we know it…has probably gotten a lot better across time…our social world certainly has! That is what time does…mysteriously, however, the future has been meaningfully present in every experience of the now that we’ve ever had… and in that respect, nothing changes at one level, as much as literally nearly everything can change for embodied beings. Existence is blemishless, above reproach as an institution which somehow allows for eternal life/eternal communion with Source/eternal loving bliss. To say that life is anything but is both a painful lie, and a “sin”, by any technical standard.

            The church teaches that satan and hell are real. That’s just about the only sin, and you won’t find Jesus teaching it in the Bible. In fact, you’ll find things like today’s quote, which equate the world with God the Father, as well as the Holy Spirit…with non-exclusivity. These quotes will literally say that it’s “not okay” to “speak against”…the Universe as a spiritual process by which souls can come into spontaneous existence and then exist forevermore after the fact. That life is nothing but a  blessing from God, that God’s potency is total, that His Love is perfect, and that the idea of suffering persisting for any being that comes into existence, rather than that being escaping suffering and living on in eternal light, is a sign of a barbarism that spirituality itself is here to stomp out.

Identity is a trip derivative only of, and not at all qualitatively, God. There can only be Love. Anything else is doomed/nonexistent.

            You can speak against the Messiah himself, even, and will be forgiven. But to speak against life, as the Catholic Church truly has for thousands of years now… it’ll be forgiven, but it’s one of those things that is essentially equated with the potential for suffering in the very world… it’s definitely sent men to their graves prematurely because of facets of their God given identity, whether it be their sexuality or their race or their nationality… and it’s allowed for ignorance to exist within society to the tune of a majority of westerners, if not simply people in existence, never even thought that the idea of meeting God on this side of life was ever on the table for anybody who isn’t starcrossed with a lobotomy/the psych ward.     

    Modern history was important, don’t get me wrong. The establishment of empires, the creation of far reaching standards, the rolling out of trade amongst different lands and peoples…these things have paved the way for a sustainable and meaningful peace in the world, a peace that those with an abundance failed to manifest because of cultural lack, at that, in the past (we need each other’s wisdom, which was earned by our respective experiences, surviving)… these things have paved the way for a meaningful narrative/discourse on God, one which can account for…human society. The Church, with its attitude towards other world traditions, is holding out while white-knuckling a purity ring it gave itself while performing an unsavory Christ ritual in front of the bedroom mirror late one night long, long ago… for the sake of the purity of their tradition, and the man who had sort of a rough life all of those years ago…despite the fact that doing as much would clearly offend Him/His Values, as they are portrayed in the Gospels…

Still, the world we know is the only world that has ever been, and there’s been a consistent quality of life that flies in the face of everything we would expect about technology and its relation to physical well-being… we’re not living better lives than any other generation which came before, and who knows what kinds of weird technologies they had…. the “age to come” is the only age that’s ever been, and the question is how deeply you can penetrate it at each and every moment… can you manifest Heaven in all, Spirit in all? That’s what “salvation” or “enlightenment” was ever about, but what it’s seriously all about is the social mission…rising above suffering and serving the people you love. It’s a game.  

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