2006-9-8 03:33:00
[Editor's Note: The text of the original article was edited by JJ Dewey and re-published below.]
My Friends,
Great questions. You are definitely several steps above the Sunday School class I mentioned [in my previous post].
Several members of the Keys discussion group did respond. Here are several questions I liked.
I'll start with my favorite and in doing this I should in no way diminish any other question asked. There were many very good ones that we just will not have time to cover.
Here's the one that gets the gold star. It comes from Ash who asks:
"Do you need my help, and if you do, what is the best way I can help?"
JJ:
The natural inclination is to take the opposite approach and ask God to help us and tell us about ourselves and tell us what to do.
Ash comes up with the interesting question as to whether or not God, or the higher lives, need our help. Maybe they don't need us, but if they do then what kind of help do they need? Is it possible that what they need from us is much different than we suppose?
What makes Ash's question different is that most people would not even consider asking it. Why? Because many feel that God is beyond needing help of any kind. Ash questioned orthodoxy here and in doing this he is going against the grain, and going against the grain will lead to knowledge if a person is open and receptive.
Every life in the universe needs help from other lives higher and lower in some way. Seeking out another life and actually asking if help is needed will manifest the love of God.
His other two questions were also very good. I've written quite a bit about them, but one of these questions would make for a good audio presentation in the future.
"How can I have your constant presence with me?"
"How can I tell if what I'm 'hearing' inside from the spirit is my inner self, or the devilish self? Or, how can I be more 'in tune' with the spirit, and know that it is the true spirit that's communicating to me at that moment?"
JJ:
Another interesting question comes from our friend Dean. He asks:
"How is it possible that anything exists and why?"
JJ:
This is a question that is most mysterious in my mind. I would word it this way: "How is it that anything exists at all?" If only one rock existed in the whole universe it would be amazing and perplexing enough, but every possibility exists.
We know that something exists out there because we experience it. Descartes thought long and hard upon this and came up with "Cogito, ergo sum" -- or -- "I think therefore, I am."
We know we are here, and that there is such a thing as form, thought and existence, so our real questions must circulate around what we perceive to be reality. How the foundations of reality came to be is a thing I have never even seen an attempt to explain. Creation, yes. Many thinkers have attempted to explain this, but how existence, or God came to be is another thing.
I'll end with this question. Why is the art of asking questions so important to the seeker? Why does it take an advanced consciousness to ask a question that leads to new knowledge?
"To see the truth you need to see the lies."
-- From the television series: "Angela's Eyes"
Copyright © 2006 by J.J. Dewey, All Rights Reserved