Thinking Hat On From a discussion in Women Mystics class: Are “conversations with God” really conversations with a Higher Power or just conversations with oneself?
I would proffer the idea that they are a great deal more than a conversation with oneself, simply because of the conscious act of attempting to communicate with something else is spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically different from having a conversation with oneself. I think this is true regardless of the existence or definition of God. There is immense power in the act of framing a thought for the process of communication even if it as simple as a raw emotion.
If there is the divine in everyone, then does it really matter, is there really a difference?
While there is the divine in everyone, would not it be presumptuous to assume that all of the divine is encapsulated within a single being? There are cells in our body that have our entire DNA strands. The code of our existence, but even though that cell is identical to many others that contain identical DNA, it still is but a small part of the entire being. It is a part of that being, but it is not the being. It can however communicate with it's neighbors and the being as a whole.
So there is a difference. The decision to communicate is a profoundly spiritual and complex one. If one accepts that the divine in each of us is a fragmentary part of the whole, then if we only direct our conversation inward, we are speaking to a very small subset of the divine, and one which although it fills its function, does not and cannot fill the function of all of the divine which is what we instinctively try to communicated with.
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Date: 2003-03-08 12:34 pm (UTC)From a discussion in Women Mystics class: Are “conversations with God” really conversations with a Higher Power or just conversations with oneself?
I would proffer the idea that they are a great deal more than a conversation with oneself, simply because of the conscious act of attempting to communicate with something else is spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically different from having a conversation with oneself. I think this is true regardless of the existence or definition of God. There is immense power in the act of framing a thought for the process of communication even if it as simple as a raw emotion.
If there is the divine in everyone, then does it really matter, is there really a difference?
While there is the divine in everyone, would not it be presumptuous to assume that all of the divine is encapsulated within a single being? There are cells in our body that have our entire DNA strands. The code of our existence, but even though that cell is identical to many others that contain identical DNA, it still is but a small part of the entire being. It is a part of that being, but it is not the being. It can however communicate with it's neighbors and the being as a whole.
So there is a difference. The decision to communicate is a profoundly spiritual and complex one. If one accepts that the divine in each of us is a fragmentary part of the whole, then if we only direct our conversation inward, we are speaking to a very small subset of the divine, and one which although it fills its function, does not and cannot fill the function of all of the divine which is what we instinctively try to communicated with.