| I grew up a middle American white atheist. As an intellectual, it was obvious those who practiced “religion” as conventional American Christians were hypocrites and fools. American Christianity to my young mind was little more than a social club. And then I traveled the world. I came to know Godhead through the line of Mahadeva. That is to say, India and Shiva revealed to me something of the human spirit and how we as Man relate to God. In the decades since, I have reformulated these conceptions without the dressings of any particular religion, Hinduism for instance. Here is the divine order as I have come to account: Supreme Divine Aspect Totality of All Universal Potential Godhead Manifest form Truth Emergent being Self I think the atheist and those of spiritual ascent may both agree that “universal potential” and “Godhead” may be synonymous, and find some common ground. As for what face or story or interpretation of Godhead one comes to recognize or conceptualize I like to say that is it not Godhead who is the deceiver, rather Man who deceives himself. Existence is divine. What one makes of it is one’s own path. The terrible burden of free will is that existence is savage, and one must “chasten” their God, for they love their God, and they must perish by the wrath of their God (to paraphrase Nietzsche's Zarathustra.) I do not have faith. I am one of principles and devotion. |
Sounds like a recruitment pamphlet to me.
"Be a decent human being" has always been my guiding principle. Doesn't need 1,000 pages of explanation or buzzwords or concepts designed to elevate the 'knower' above the ignorant. Doesn't need any hidden knowledge.