Word Gems: Soulmate, Myself: Omega Point: Inferential Life Part IV

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Soulmate, Myself:
Omega Point

The Inferential Life: Part IV

Omega Point and Universal Consciousness

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what! never die?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), essay Immortality

I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. “What! will it never stop?” the child said; “what! never die? never, never? It makes me feel so tired.” And I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, “The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God’s presence."

In this essay, Emerson discusses how a sense of immortality might be discerned from one’s thoughts, inclinations, and proclivities. However, he stops short of asserting that this might be reduced to a formula or law of the mind.

At the end of the writing, Emerson refers to a legend from Indian mythology. A boy named Nachiketas is granted three wishes by Yama, Lord of Death. The first two are ordinary in nature, readily blessed by Yama. But the third caused hesitation for the dreaded god. Nachiketas wanted to know if there is survival of consciousness. Yama asked him to request something else, but the boy held firm to his query. Finally, Yama relents and, in the very last words of the essay, offers response – among the wisest precepts in the entire WG library:

the soul reveals its own truths

"The soul cannot be gained by [external] knowledge, not by [concerted endeavor toward] understanding, not by manifold [studies in] science. It can be obtained [only] by the soul [itself] by which it is desired [according to its own plans and timetable]. It reveals its own truths."

Editor's prefatory comment:

"Inferential Life, Part III" was meant to conclude this series.

But, some months ago, I received a reading from a gifted psychic-medium. I don’t often do this anymore, but decided on it for my birthday.

Near the end of the session, I said to her, “I want to ask a question I’m not supposed to ask, but – do you have a sense about the timeframe of my transition to the other side?” I explained to her that, I’m getting on in years, and I know too much about how things work over there, and I’m really eager to start my new life.

She said, to the effect, my Spirit Guides weren’t ready to sign off on this quite yet. There’re some things I need to write before checking out.

I was dismayed and offered demurral: I’ve written so much, and I’m tired, and, as far as I’m concerned, it wouldn't matter if I never wrote another word. And anyway, I have nothing more to say, the well is dry.

She then said, what amounted to, they aren’t buying it: You need to produce ‘capstone’ writings. Not necessarily something brand new but of the character, "if you could read just one thing on WG, this would offer what's most important."

Many months later it occurred to me that an explanation of the primacy of Universal Consciousness might serve this purpose.

In "Inferential Life, Part III", I'd offered this:

We are extensions of Universal Consciousness. God is not just in us, but part of us. We are ... individualized “consciousness units,” and, in a real way, there is no “me,” and there is no "you," but only an extension of God.

The absolute foundation of "the inferential life" -- this natural religion, this natural wisdom -- is a better understanding of Universal Consciousness (UC).

Each of us – this “us”, this “I”, this sense of individuality – in fact, becomes a model of, is isomorphic to, the whole -- UC at large.

UC, in the main, is unknowable, because God’s mind ever remains, as ancient mystics used the phrase, impenetrably cloaked in a "cloud of unknowing"; therefore, we ourselves, as projections of UC, will also never be completely mapped, tagged-and-flagged. There’s too much human potential residing within the “inner cosmos” to actualize and harvest.

However, we can know some things of the essential nature of UC. And I’d like to explore these “inferential” aspects of ultimate reality with you now.

We learn about God, about Universal Consciousness (UC), by closely observing our own spirits, which are linked, and one with, UC.

Eliza Duffy, channeled from the other side, Heaven Revised: “I, who prided myself upon being a close and correct observer, a careful analyzer of all that came under my observation, and a deep and original thinker, have been overwhelmed with astonishment, not to say chagrin, in discovering how little I knew of even the surface life around me; how still less of that deeper and inner life which is the real and actuating power of humanity, but of whose existence there is so little realization until it comes to the surface here…Truly, yes, without disguises or concealments; and we shall learn to know ourselves as well. This self-knowledge is not acquired at once. I realize that it is only beginning with me; for when I have come to a thorough knowledge of self, I shall have acquired a knowledge of all things, even of God."