The God Delusion – An open letter to Richard Dawkins

Dear Mr. Dawkins,

Apologies if I should have said Dr. Dawkins, but the book is way over there and I don’t want to move.

I have been reading “The God Delusion” and it is excellent.

Brilliantly argued.

Your logic is flawless.

The rationality is unbreakable.

Every point is excellently made.

But all of it is irrelevant.

Trying to prove that God doesn’t exist with rational arguments is just as pointless as trying to prove that God does exist with rational arguments.

You are arguing against people who’s arguments are as pointless as your own.

This book is primarily an attack on Faith. I think Faith is a beautiful thing and those that have a true pure faith are for want of a better word blessed. 

I agree with your motives on many points. I completely agree with you when you attack people’s misuse of faith. I think that the misuse and misrepresentation of faith has been the cause of many terrible acts through history.

But that is not the main motivation behind your book.

As I said it is primarily an attack on Faith.

The thing is you can’t attack faith with logic or rational arguments. 

There is no logic to faith. It just is. (I know people try to argue rationally in favor of, and against faith but really you can use logic to prove just about anything you want).

There is nothing wrong with faith. There can be problems with actions taken in the name of faith but that doesn’t make faith wrong.

The interesting thing about your book is that the most prominent illumination in it is the strength of your own faith. 

Your faith that there is no God!

It’s still faith.

Let’s all have a little more magic in our lives!

You are monumentally greater than you can ever imagine

This world is beautiful, I have no doubt of that.

All you have to do is look at it to see it.

It is beautiful everywhere.

Yet we fear to look at, and see it.

We fear to see the beauty in nature.

We fear to see the beauty in other people.

We fear to see the beauty in ourselves.

Do you know that you are monumentally far greater than you could ever imagine?

I’m not saying that in a feel good you’re so special kinda way.

I mean it.

It’s a fact.

Consider all the good that’s in every person in the world, in every person that ever lived,

I know we can see badness in people and at times its hard to see anything else,

But seriously you know there’s good in the world,

You know there’s good people,

And you have to admit there’s good (even a small amount) in what you might perceive to be the worst of people,

Now imagine if you gathered up all that good, all that beauty and could put it in one place, in one container,

It’s all in you.

You contain all that good.

I don’t mean that potentially you could be that good. You just are that good.

Consider a car that can go at 250 miles per hour, but the owner only drives it at 60 miles per hour. You don’t say the car can only go at 60 miles per hour. It’s a 250 mile per hour car no matter what.

So matter what you do. You are that good and even better. You are far better than you can imagine.

You are everything you see.

you are this entire universe.

You are God.

So stop hiding away in this little word referred to as the perpendicular pronoun in “Yes, Minister”,

Stop believing you are just “I”.

You are everything.

I don’t mean you are part of everything.

I don’t mean you are connected to everything.

I really mean you are everything.

Don’t try to understand this, It can’t be understood with a rational mind.

It can only be known.

Just know it.

Just be.

That body you’re driving around is just a shell.

Next time you consider your body don’t say “My body”, refer to it as “This body which I use” (It’s a very liberating thought).

Use the word “I” as little as possible

The word “I” tries to squeeze you down, make you small. Imagine trying to compress your entire essence into “I”. Try not to use language to know who you are, I wish I didn’t have to use language to write this.

You are so much more than “I”.

Don’t be the little mouse scurrying back into it’s hole,

Fly out and up into the light.

Be.

I didn’t want to use the word “you” so much in this blog, but due to my limitations with the language I knew of no other way to say it. (I didn’t want to use the word “I” either but there you go…)

Look out at the beauty of nature and know that it is you.

Don’t just think “This is me”.

Thoughts are too limiting.

Feel it.

Know it.

This body which you use is just a tool.

Thoughts are just tools.

Use them. Don’t be them.

You’re conscious mind cannot possibly conceive the amount of goodness and beauty which is you. Just know that it is. (You’re conscious mind is probably trying to refute this right now, tell it to shut up for a while).

Try to fathom the vastness of the universe…You’re goodness is immeasurably greater than that.

Consider it.

Know it.

Feel the lump in your throat.

Feel the warmth in your chest.

Feel the light in your heart.

Your conscious mind and ego tell you of all your “Must Do’s”, “Should Do’s”, and “Could Do’s”.

If you could just know your true nature you’d never entertain that for even a second.

You may have seen the movie “The matrix”. There’s a scene that goes something like this:

NEO: “You mean I’ll be able to dogdge bullets?”

MORPHEUS: “No, I mean when you’re ready you won’t have to…”

What Morpheus means is that when Neo’s aware of his true nature bullets won’t be able to harm him (It’s deeper than that but it serves for here).

What that example means to us is that if we’re aware of our true nature the “Must Do’s”, “Should Do’s”, “Could Do’s”, etc won’t be able to affect us,

For example, (and perhaps most importantedly) We won’t feel the need for money.

Look at a bird soaring…It never thinks, it just does. It doesn’t need to plan, it just is.

Look at a beautiful tree reaching for the stars…It’s so beautiful and it does that without the least effort. Just naturally.

Look at you and me out there trying to make enough to survive…Is that natural? Is that our natural state of being…I don’t believe that it is.

Everything that exists is you…If I ask you to appreciate that, what will you say? “When you have time!”

What I’m asking you to do is the hardest thing in the world and the easiest thing in the world.

• Easy because you already know all this. It’s your true nature to know.

“It’s like a splinter in your mind” (Matrix again).

• Hard because you feel so attached to everything else, to the “I”, that you don’t want to, don’t know how to, can’t remember how to look at who you really are…

Know your true nature.

Go to nature.

Nature knows.

Go to nature and you will know better.

Turn away from what you feel you should know, and turn toward what you know in the deepest recesses of your being to be true.

The greatest challenge to all of use here is to remember who we are.

Know your true nature.

You are more good than your conscious mind can ever fathom.

Just be.

What we say about people who have died

I was just reading an article about Heath Ledger (The class actor playing “The Joker” in the new Dark Knight movie) and it got me to thinking.

Initially when Heath was cast in the role of the Joker there was a lot of controversy about it. A lot of people thought he couldn’t do it or the part wasn’t him etc. (He wasn’t another Jack N… playing himself).

I, for one, was delighted with the choice and couldn’t wait to see what he’d do in the role.

Sadly, as most of us know Heath passed away some months ago not long after the movie was completed.

Since then, and especially recently there’s been a lot of praise for what he’s done in the movie, with several people suggesting he should be nominated for an Oscar.

Anyway, where am I going with all this!

I was chatting with my friend the other day and he asked the question

“But would Heath be getting all this praise, or be considered for an Oscar if he hadn’t died”.

Ok, the truth is that Heath has been getting this praise since the movie started filming, most people just didn’t hear it.

That’s not what I’m getting at though.

What my friend said didn’t surprise me, because it’s something you always hear in such circumstances.

Like if someone you know dies, people always praise, and compliment that person, and you hear people remarking what a lovely person he/she was.

There seems to be a common belief that this stuff is not sincere, and is only said because the person in question has passed away.

I think the opposite is true.

I think that it is in such situations that we only actually tend to speak a real truth about the person.

In situations such as this it’s more acceptable to be honest.

I think that many people fear to speak positively in such an emotional fashion about a person who is still living for a number of reasons, such as:

• The person is competition to them (specifically to their ego, I think unless you are very enlightened you’re ego tends to feel some sense of competition or threat from everyone).
• They will be seen to be biased in some way.
• They don’t want to be seen to have an emotional connection to that person.
• They withhold their praise, in case they’re wrong (don’t want to be seen to be backing the wrong horse).

These are just a few, but I’m sure there are many other reasons.

When a person has passed away, you have nothing to lose in speaking positively about them in an emotional manner. The person is not a threat, and society allows you to be that way about the deceased. A lot of your inhibitions are lifted.

What’s my point?

Well, simply, my point is that when a person speaks positively like this of someone that has passed away, it is in most cases real, and nice, and positive.

It should be respected for what it is and not judged.

The world would be a better place if we all tried to feel, and speak like that about the living more often.

Although, we all know some BS’ers too!

Enjoy it all!

Fear’s Trap

I want

to get out

of this dirty old skin.

I’m sure

there’s a heart

nestled within.

Fear will

no longer

fence in the truth.

Fear

is a barrier

to thoughts

running smooth.

Sum it all up

with

one single word,

Fear

makes living

an empty

world.

I

will not fornicate

with fear anymore.

Fear

we are over

I’ll see you no more.

But

when fear

is gone,

inside there’s a  gap

fill it up

quickly

or fall back in fear’s trap.

The Lord’s Prayer

Just a few thoughts on The Lord’s Prayer, or the “Our Father”…

I’m still processing my thoughts on this one so please bear with me

If we start with the assumption that we believe we all come from, and are part of a single universal soul, which through the power of intention/the law of attraction/the power of subconscious/what ever you want to call it, can manifest desires or thoughts, then the prayer takes on new meaning.

Is it possible that taking what Jesus said in too literal a sense that we lost the true meaning of the prayer?

Ok, the prayer…

Our Father, who art in heaven (Everything is the physical manifestation of a single soul or spirit. It makes sense then to see this as a parent figure. Why a male parent…don’t know yet!)

Hallowed be thy name (We revere the name of our creator/seed/originator…Why wouldn’t we!)

Thy Kingdom come (To be at one with the universal soul/infinite intelligence/God/whatever name you wish to give it is the desire of many (if not all perhaps…more on this later)

Thy will be done (Ok, this is interesting. The idea of the law of attraction basically means that if you think and believe it, then it will become real. So if you truly desire something, then the universe makes it real. Originally the sentence “Thy will be done” was taken to mean that we should do what God says, but in this case it can mean that whatever the universal soul, or infinite intelligence (which we are all a part of) desires will come to pass

on earth, as it is in heaven (Things thought of or created in the subconscious/soul/infinite intelligence, are made manifest in the material world/conscious reality)

Give us this day our daily bread (Is this just an intention of desire…”Daily bread” representing whatever we desire)

and forgive us our trespasses (If negative thoughts enter our subconscious then we manifest negative desires, so to create what we actually want in a positive sense we need to forgive ourselves/love ourselves)

as we forgive those who trespass against us (As above if we harbour ill intent toward toward ourselves or others we will manifest negative effects, so we need to carry only positive thoughts and intentions for both ourselves and others)

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (I need to think on this more, but again as we can see, at the very least it is encouraging us toward positive thoughts and intentions rather than the opposite)

Looking at the prayer from this perspective it would appear to me that it is a form of intention manifestation. I need to think on this some more but I thought I’d put the idea out there anyway…

What are your thoughts?

I created life, or life created me?

So, I’ve been practising the law of attraction

My thought processes tend to be naturally negative. This I believe is mainly due to nurture

I grew up in an environment where you were encouraged to worry, encouraged to think the worst, encouraged to prepare for it

I’ve been working on changing that…working on changing my thought processes

My income for the past number of years has been at the level of barely surviving and I’ve been living in fear of the day it’ll all blow up in my face and I’ll end up in jail or something

Recently (about the last few weeks mostly) I’ve created an intention to make enough money to pay all my bills etc, and have a little more for myself to survive on

I’ve worked very hard on manifesting this intention

• I keep it on my desk and beside my bed
• I think about it when I wake up, and before I go to sleep
• I recite it when I’m driving and in the shower

I’ve seen little signals from the universe that it’s working. Little winks from the universe as I’ve seen someone say

Wednesday of this week I decided to destroy a part of my life that I use to hide in

Habits I use when I’m scared or upset. Places in my psyche that I run and hide. I’m sure we all have them. For some people it’s probably drugs or drink, for others sex. They’re just easy to illustrate examples. Mine was none of those but I realised that as long as I have this place to hide I will never go forward so I destroyed it. As I told some of my friends I’ve “burned all my ships”. In other words there’s no going back

It was not just a place I hid, but also a very special part of my life, and something that’s been with me since I’ve been a child

So I was excited.

There’s no going back

I’m heading out into a new world

Things are going to change

What happens today?

I get a letter from Taxman that I have overdue taxes and I have 7 days to pay it off or other wise there will be action taken against me

I have nothing like the money that I need to pay it off

When was the letter sent? …14 days ago!!!

What time do I receive the letter? …6pm on Friday evening!!!

So now I can do nothing about this all weekend

Just when I make a decision to move on with my life!

Just when I’ve made the biggest personal sacrifice of my life in order to grow and move on I’m hit with this huge and horrible challenge

This reminds me of the end of “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho. (If you haven’t read it, it’s well worth it)

I believe the answers to most of, if not all of, life’s questions are hidden in that book

It’s about a boy who abandons all to follow his dreams

Anyway, at the end of the book, just when the boy reaches the place he’s been searching for something bad happens to him. Something very bad

But he’s been told that just before you achieve your dreams the universe will challenge you greatly to see how badly you want it

So in the end he…well I won’t spoil it for you

Is that’s what’s happening to me

Am I being challenged by the universe just because I cut all my ties and destroyed all my safe places so I could head out on the road to my dreams?

I know that to some people what happened to me is small, but it’s all perspective. To me it’s big…huge

So maybe I just gotta work true this to prove how badly I want it

Prove to who though? God? …The Universe? …Myself?

Only one way to find out…

So what do I do next…

Be True

I am of the moment that burns in us all,

I am of the finite behind the great wall.

I see through this vest to the ocean below,

The infinite burning is where i will go.

Dissolve this great nothing, destroy this foul fear,

Let us out in the open release all our tears.

This love trapped in me, this passion, this soul,

To be one with that is my ultimate goal.

My heart burns brightly to escape its great jail,

Cut away this void anchor and let us set sail.

We’ll light up this world with our love and our heart,

This small spark of passion is only the start.