If God exists he or it would have to be having some connection or be part of all of us. In other words omnipresent. Therefore it must be possible to find at least some common denominators in the way we individually experience God and the God Connection.
And so it must be possible to formulate a UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of GOD, a Definition we can all agree with.
I think that would be an interesting objective for the God Connection Congress in May 2013!
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Science is the consideration and action of forming conceptual systems of comprehension of different aspects of reality. Sciences are systematic conceptualizations.
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One of our assumptions is that there is some entity we call God. Another assumption is that we read the letters forming this word from left-to-right. I take the mathematician’s word for it that there is no proof that God does not exist, which incidentally leaves the atheist in a vulnerable position. Even if there is no personal God or a God of the type of which Nietsche declared he is dead, one would be wise to consider the possibility of one.
There are two opposing trends happening in earth affairs, these are:
I was never happy with the derivation or etymology as it is called of the word meditation. The dictionaries usually say it is from Latin meditatio, a thinking over.
I studied it out some more and worked out a different derivation as follows:
medi-tare: from ‘medi’ – Latin locative of medius=middle
(similar to medi-terranean, which means from the Middle Land)
So meditate means: “Seeking or finding the middle, midpoint or center”.
In other words locating the still center, (static source) of things, or communion with God if you wish. This makes a lot more sense to me.
And what is more this word can now be properly aligned with other activities that have a similar purpose.
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There may be several types of knowledge, but there are only two important ones.
What is given out under the heading of science or given out by schoolteachers or in textbooks is generally considered knowledge.
What comes out of books such as the bible or out of ‘channelers’ or mediums is another matter. Some call this beliefs, speculation or nonsense, depending on the point of view of the speakers.
When you wake up in the morning, remembering your dream, you know something as well. In other words knowledge does not equal knowledge.
We can distinguish knowledge derived from what you can see or hear from knowledge of for example what you remember or know from previous lifetimes or of things you feel that you just ‘know’.
Scientists usually disregard or categorically exclude the latter from the realm of knowledge and classify it as fantasy or worse.
However if we distinguish mind from matter and the spirit from the flesh, it well behooves us to distinguish sense knowledge from inner knowledge!
Therefore there are two main types of knowledge:
1) Knowledge derived from the senses, observation, experimentation.
2) Knowledge from within, intuition, revelation, (divine) inspiration.
Thus we can say there is inner knowledge and outer knowledge. The main error and problem of many scientists has been not to balance these two types of knowledge.
The great philosopher of all times said:
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” Immanuel Kant
He was wrong!