ARTICLE 19

CAN THE MYSTERY OF GOD BE RESOLVED?

We begin to answer this exciting question by a quotation from Karen Armstrong’s book A History of God. She states the following on the cover of her book:

“As soon as they became recognizably human, men and women, in their hunger to understand their own presence on earth and the mysteries within and around them-humans began to worship gods.”

Weaving a multicolored fabric of historical, philosophical, intellectual and social developments and insights, Armstrong shows how, at various times through the centuries, each of the monotheistic religions has a subtly different concept of God.

At the same time she draws our attention to the basic and profound similarities among them, making it clear that in all of them God has been experienced intensely, passionately and often, especially in the West, traumatically. Some monotheists have seen darkness, dissolution and terror, where others have seen light and transfiguration; the reasons for these inherent differences are examined, and the people behind them are brought to light.

Question: If this is an article about God, will you show how and why the levels of a human described in HP/SOS are relevant to our belief in God?
Answer: Great question. By showing a history of human belief in Pagan gods and monotheistic Gods we can start to understand why humans believe and practice the many religions on Planet Earth.

Humans have witnessed three major historical periods in which God is viewed as playing three roles. We can title these periods as processes of human evolution in which the belief in a theistic God changes into the “birth” of a Universal God.

Let us look at these three stages more closely:

1. Theistic dualism in which a supernatural God is the creator of the universe. This period of history produced authority ruling human behavior (sacred and secular). It also produced war and struggle between humans practicing different beliefs, but it also included awesome creativity in which humans evolved from living in caves to evolving civilizations utilizing amazing technologies. Its ethics were determined by God’s Commandments where a clergy kept its population obeying these Commandments by threatening an afterlife in hell if they were disobeyed.

2. The death of the theistic God in which humans awakened to their creativity but where greed often dictated and justified behavior. Ethics changed from accepting supernatural commandments to making individual choices. The strong nations controlled the weaker ones. The human self often replaced God with one’s personal self as being the creator of one’s world. The split between the rich and the poor widened as personal power and wealth were more important than civilization as a whole. This, however, is also a stage in which each human has the potential to be responsible and empowered over his/her own reality.

3. The birth of the Universal God in which science and psychology produce verifiable evidence showing a synthesis of the wisdom of the past, present and future. A new humanity is born in which each human recognizes the interconnection of everyone and everything as a reality. A new “God” is realized in which humans are its intelligence, design and presence. A new morality is born in which humans replace competition with cooperation. Science now includes the Science of Spirit, also known as Holographic Psychology^®. This stage awakens to eternal existence in which parallel universes and multiple dimensions are explored.

We can now understand that these changes in how humans relate to God are not a result of a changing God but are a result of a changing human in how s/he understands his/her world and themselves.

Question: Are you telling me that a human is incapable of comprehending a “God” concept? That humans are incapable of comprehending a God that is “greater” or “transcendent” to a human’s understanding?
Answer: Yes, yes, yes. A human in his/her early stages of expression was incapable of reading or writing. Reading and writing are a late development in human evolution. That is why the first human orientation to god concepts came in the form of mythical stories in which the gods were made in the image and likeness of humans with greater powers. How can a human be aware of something beyond his/her scope of comprehension? It will take recent centuries before human understanding is capable of practicing reflective analysis of his/her current beliefs and the degree of acceptance that s/he has in any area of expression.

Question: What has made it possible for a human to examine his/her scope in any area of expression?
Answer: Years of philosophy in which certain humans were motivated to question the “given” of his/her culture. In more recent years humans have discovered differing schools of psychology which produced research into the behavior that is constructed by one’s philosophy (cosmology or world view).

Question: Is this knowledge available to every human?
Answer: Yes, HP/SOS research suggests that this knowledge is an evolutionary process in which humans fit into three different stages or levels of understanding. HP/SOS has built a structure using the different psychological schools to expose these different levels of human understanding. The following basic replacement beliefs represent some of the explosive changes that take place as a human processes through these three different stages or levels of understanding.

REPLACEMENT BELIEFS EXPOSED
BY HP/SOS RESEARCH

1. Humans do not relate directly to their world or themselves.

Most humans have learned to read and write over the past six thousand years. The first symbolic language has been made in the image and likeness of humans, a language of subject or object, person, place or thing. Humans are ruled by authorities, both secular and sacred, who have made the rules and regulations of every culture. This orientation to “outer” authority has established the belief that learning is coming from the authorities. Animals and birds are observed “teaching” their young which validates this belief that “learning” is from one’s external world or environment. HP/SOS names this stage of understanding “first reality” because we accept what our parents and mentors “teach” us which becomes our “belief-system”. These beliefs become definitions that humans defend from birth to death. It is this basic belief of first reality that justifies our reactions to our environment using what is known as “the pair of opposites” (we love or hate, are sick or well, are rich or poor, or happy or sad and so on).

With greater awareness, HP/SOS exposes a change that takes place in the first reality cosmology of “learning” from an external to an internal source. The science of physiology has discovered that we do not relate to an external world, we relate to our brain and its current conditioning. Reactions to people, places and things are not based on an “out-there” world but on our current brain’s conditioning. Understanding relates to our inner beliefs not to an “out-there” world. We relate to a “virtual reality” determined by our beliefs.

2. Human language is not about truth or facts.

HP/SOS names this understanding “second reality” because it follows “first reality” where a human has accepted definite meanings and feelings for language and its use. Two changes have happened in a human’s second reality. First, a self, person, I or ego has been “born” in which a human can reflect upon his/her own beliefs and the behavior they are producing. HP/SOS names this ability “awareness of awareness”. The second change is a result of an individual’s new ability of being reflective of one’s current beliefs rather than an “out-there” world. This reflective capability allows an individual to be responsible for his/her current beliefs with an ability to choose options. Beliefs are firing neurons in one’s conditioned brain that in first reality are accepted as truth or fact.

HP/SOS exposes a first reality human habit that for countless centuries believed that statements about one’s world were true or factual. Humans are not stating truths or facts about their world after achieving second reality’s location of comprehension. Humans in second reality are aware that statements are opinions that are currently believed. This is why second reality uses verification to test one’s beliefs and the behavior they are producing rather than arguing their truth or factual nature (as definitions).

3. Learning does not come from an outside person, place or thing.

HP/SOS names this level of understanding “third reality” because it represents a complete change in a person’s cosmology. This level helps a human understand why HP/SOS has two steps or stages in second reality. First, early second reality can still believe that learning is from outside sources. Second, advanced second reality has awakened to his/her transcendent aspect that answers his/her questions of where potential is located prior to actualizing change. This results in a freedom, responsibility and empowerment known by very few humans throughout history. This is when cause and effect changes to acceptance by degree. This explains why every religion and prayer works for humans. Humans are not using their own potential, they are using an infinite nature or universal mind without knowing it in first and early second reality.

HP/SOS believes that third reality is an awakening to one’s eternal nature. Plato’s article (Click Link on this website to Read Article 12 - Plato’s Theory of Knowledge) is about levels of understanding that explain the complete change that happens at this stage of understanding in which a human awakens to his/her transcendent aspect as the source of learning. The teachers of first and early second reality are realized as facilitators or validations of awakening within the “learner”. This is why cause and effect of first and early second reality changes to acceptance by degree. Learning has always been inner awakening rather than outside cause.

4. Learning and creativity is not a dynamic of the human brain.

HP/SOS helps us understand the workings of multiple dimensions and parallel universes. Our structure also helps us recognize the difference between a “mind” that is universal and a “brain” that is individual. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “UNIVERSAL” BRAIN. OUR SOURCE IS UNIVERSAL, INFINITE AND UNLIMITED, HOWEVER, ITS EXPRESSIONS ARE INDIVIDUALIZED.

Humans will copy other humans for centuries before the importance of uniqueness is discovered. After discovery, the human has a capability to be responsible and empowered (creative) over his/her own personal beliefs and the realities that’s are determined by those beliefs.

The unity of our ground of BEING expresses as awareness of awareness which produces cooperating individuals that are evolving through three levels of understanding. The human brain functions like the hardware of a computer where the universal mind or transcendent aspect operates as the software.

5. Language is not about the things it symbolizes.

HP/SOS helps us understand why humans have had so much struggle throughout history. First reality understanding is unaware that our senses are not what relates to our “out-there” world. For countless centuries humans have used their differences as a justification to change and control others. It is a very recent human that is aware of his/her brain being the control center of his/her reality.

Only after second reality is a human aware that it is not our senses that give meaning and feeling to our realities but rather our conditioned brain. Until a human is aware of his/her conditioned brain s/he believes that s/he is relating directly with his/her world. Only after his/her reflective capability is a human aware that his/her language is not about his/her world but his/her meaning and feeling are about his/her “virtual reality” believed to be in first reality the “actual reality”. This is why change is so difficult for most humans because they are unaware in first reality that it is their “virtual reality” that is governing their behavior.

A human’s language exposes his/her current self-image, not his/her world.

6. Understanding is the awakening INFINITE I AM.

HP/SOS presents the next chapter to Dr. Ernest Holmes’ Science of Mind textbook because it explores universal mind as the source of creation rather than some transcendent being (god or goddess) that is separated from his/her or its creation.

To understand universal mind as a human’s source requires a conscious awareness of a connection rather than a separation. That connection begins with second reality’s location of comprehension within one’s own brain. It takes another paradigm shift before a human is aware of his/her connection with his/her transcendent aspect. HP/SOS uses graphics of Dr. Carl Jung to show this connection he named the “collective unconscious”.

This connection validates “learning” as inner acceptance by degree rather than from outer cause by someone that is separate from the learner. This was the awesome discovery of Dr. Ernest Holmes when he stated in most of his writings that the universal mind and the human mind were one and the same mind. Yes, humans are awakening to their divinity which was represented by Jesus, The Christ, when he declared “The Father and I are one”.

7. An individual’s personality is not the individual being described.
HP/SOS exposes that all language is a metaphor representing symbolically the current meaning and feeling of an individual. One’s acceptances become one’s current personality until replacement takes place. Words are always one’s current “virtual reality” and are never the “thing itself” being described. An individual processes through numerous levels or stages as s/he awakens to his/her immortality. Each level or stage can and usually does produce a different personality. Words are not things. Words are symbols of one’s current beliefs. As feeling is realized as one’s right brain’s INFINITE connection, one becomes aware that s/he is a co-creator with every other human being. Cooperation replaces competition and love replaces struggle. Life is seen as a school of eternal actualizing of an INFINITE I AM.

8. Language is about levels of understanding of an INFINITE I AM, not levels of an individual human.

HP/SOS uses language to structure human evolution in the different ways in which a human awakens to his/her INFINITE I AM. A human’s first reality begins its conscious awareness as a separate human being that lives and dies. The HP/SOS structure is able to include all of human history with its diversity as examples of these early stages or levels of his/her INFINITE I AM that are actually eternal in nature when comprehendible.

It is not a human being that is evolving, it is an INFINITE I AM that has a process of awakening to “its” eternal nature. From the sleeping mineral, to the awake vegetable, to the aware animal, to the self aware human, to the DIVINE AWARE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS.

Humans discover in second reality that “heaven” and “hell” are levels of awareness, not geographic places. Where and how humans live are the manifestation or current demonstration of his/her current mental equation of his/her current understanding.

HP/SOS justifies every step of enlightenment a human makes as being important. It does not matter what culture a person lives in as s/he begins his/her journey into the eternal. All are welcome because all are included.

Question: How does a human know the degree of acceptance that s/he currently is expressing?
Answer: Great question. We had no way of knowing the answer to that important question before self-image psychology and the current studies of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. We now are aware that a person accepts change to the degree of his/her current scope. We also know that a person’s scope is determined by his/her acceptance of excellence or limitation in any area of expression.

Question: Please explain how acceptance by degree corresponds to excellence or limitation by degree.
Answer: “Feeling” (one’s current self-image identity) doesn’t know language, it only knows to validate the level of acceptance corresponding to feelings of excellence or limitation (the law of correspondence or attraction). That is why the universe can only say “yes” as Dr. Holmes stated so often. Humans are an awakening INFINITE I AM to the degree of their current acceptance. Self-image psychology exposes this law that has been known historically as the law of correspondence or attraction. That is why HP/SOS uses panentheism rather than pantheism when stating that “ALL IS GOD”. Every form of creation is an aspect of universal principles that express partial aspects in every form of creation. However, every form of creation is not expressing all of eternity in each expression. Universal principles replace the subject/object language of first reality’s “God” being a She, He or It that is separated from creation. Second and third reality of HP/SOS research require the use of a process language model rather than the subject/object model of first realty.

Question: Are you saying that individual expressions of creation are potentially every universal principle?
Answer: Another fantastic question. Yes, potentially every form of creation has pre-existing unlimited universal principles to express, however, the fact that change is realized in all three levels or stages of the HP/SOS structure, it is quite obvious that eternity has countless levels (multiple dimensions and parallel universes) yet to be experienced. That is why “excellence by degree”, after second reality, becomes a reflective gauge in which a person is “informed” (as feed-back) as to the “acceptance by degree” of excellence or limitation being practiced currently in every area of his/her life.

Humans discover that their current reality corresponds to the degree of wholeness s/he is currently capable of accepting.

Question: How and why is change so difficult?
Answer: Your question is the beginning of wisdom. Until an individual is motivated to question his/her current reality, change is not a question in which the individual “feels” responsible for required change because in first reality s/he usually believes that it is his/her world that needs to change. Change is a form of learning in which his/her current beliefs are challenged. Humans have lived for countless centuries in which the “group” or culture of his/her birth determined his/her reality. Only after an individual awakens to an idea of difference or change will that individual be motivated to act on that new idea. This has always put that individual at risk with his/her “group’s” current acceptances or beliefs. Historically, a new idea that challenges an individual’s “group” or culture has led to trouble for the individual.

Question: How and why is an individual capable of entertaining a new idea of change if his/her current beliefs are incapable of comprehending change or difference?
Answer: Your question hits the jackpot. Individuals have been “trained” to accept the “group” beliefs of the culture they were born in. Most have lived and died without any urge (motivation) to challenge those beliefs making up their reality. Unless there was something built into the human nature to desire change, humans would still be living in caves (some still are).
This question of what motivates change is the basis of philosophy and science.

Questions about reality historically produced philosophies of the nature of creation as material only, mental only and spirit only. Arguments for one point of view have primarily been met with an opposite point of view. A human did not think of proving his/her point of view, s/he merely chose one or the other. It has been the lack of awareness to answer your original question of “what motivates change?” We have not been capable of obtaining a testable answer until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such questions and answers are the research of

HP/SOS.
Until the science of psychology evolved during the twentieth century with its three differing cosmologies (philosophical world views of behavioristic, humanistic and transpersonal psychology), humans had no science developing a synthesis that included the testing of the changes in behavior that resulted from the different psychological schools.

HP/SOS recognized that the different schools of psychology exposed an evolutionary nature of a human being that is capable in his/her higher levels of understanding to have a reflective capability to analyze his/her own personal evolution as the different levels are experienced. As a human awakens to his/her personal connection to the transcendent aspect of “universal mind”, the source of motivation to practice change is finally answered.

Humans awaken to a nature that is eternal and unlimited in potential. Humans awaken to an ability to choose options to their current beliefs with a strong and necessary desire to practice those options, attaining change.

With a universal base to consciousness, responsibility and empowerment are natural processes in every decision. This is a natural process in which the individual I am is replaced with the conscious awareness of an INFINITE I AM.

This transformation exposes the uniqueness of every individual as a participant in his/her personal destiny to accept and express excellence in every area of his/her life.
 

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