Heart of Matter: “The Question Is?”
“The question we have to face, theologically, is this: If divinity is transcendent, personal being, what does this mean in terms of consciousness and the psyche? Is God a shorthand term for the infinite wholeness of potential life, the collective unconsciousness, or is God the transcendence of consciousness itself?”
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God, Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
“La pregunta que tenemos que afrontar teológicamente, es esta: si la divinidad es trascendente y es un ser personal, ¿qué significa esto en términos de conciencia y psique? ¿Es Dios un término abreviado para la totalidad infinita de la vida potencial, es un producto del inconsciente colectivo, o es la trascendencia de la conciencia misma?”
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God, Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
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I often sense that perhaps the question, and the many ways of wanting to”know” are being over stretched and complicated. I had the great good fortune to study with the Indian Master, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, for 25 years. Every morning we would chant the “Guru Gita” in transliterated sanskrit with the translation into English underneath the verses. One of my favorites was, “those who know, don’t know and those who don’t know, know. ” I am not suggesting that we stop searching and looking for words,etc. to help us on our individual journeys, however, the more I repeat these words, the more I feel calmed and grounded. Also, Repeating, the verse, “Be still and know that I am God” and then leaving each word out as I repeat this until I arrive at BE, all seems to fall into place.
I think that every simple contemplation in the openness of ‘unknowing’ brings with it all of that which we have questioned, all that we might have learned and enhances awe.
Or is there an “or”?
If God is not a personal being, I trust the “ground of our being” to find a way of communicating Godself to the countless souls who have simply offered their prayers to the God they can imagine. I imagine that the existence of a non-personal God would eventually prove to be the “joy of humanity’s desiring” in some way that the human race, created or evolved to be relational, can find “eternal life to the full.” Cogitate how humanity may, we ought to trust the Ultimate Mystery to make our futures wonderful.