08-23-2008, 12:01 AM
"The Fire From Within" , chapter 2 , 'Petty Tyrants'
chapter 6: "...there is no God. Only the Eagle's emanations , and there is no way to make promises to them."
Now, dear friends , as you may know , one of my catchphrases is Absolutism Is False , by which I mean that as mortal beings, we have no final knowledge , and
must be fluid and open to new perceptions. That goes for Atheism as well as Religion. Although Castaneda wrote the above as don Juan's statement, there
are many other statements that might put it in different context , within Castaneda's narrative. I arrived at my position from the study of not only
Castaneda, but others such as J Krishnamurti , and other transcendentalists, psychiatrists and theologists , such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ernest Holmes.
I am quite convinced that whatever a God might be, as a mortal I will never know , that God is of the Unknowable , as it should be , and that all I have to
discern is the Effects of the creation.
Another of my catchphrases is that--when I think I know who or what God is , it is no longer God. As God is unknowable , the known is not God.
Maybe that's just my conceit , but consider the benefits that humanity could gain from such an attitude. No more excuses for sabre-rattling religious
and cultural fundamentalists!
chapter 6: "...there is no God. Only the Eagle's emanations , and there is no way to make promises to them."
Now, dear friends , as you may know , one of my catchphrases is Absolutism Is False , by which I mean that as mortal beings, we have no final knowledge , and
must be fluid and open to new perceptions. That goes for Atheism as well as Religion. Although Castaneda wrote the above as don Juan's statement, there
are many other statements that might put it in different context , within Castaneda's narrative. I arrived at my position from the study of not only
Castaneda, but others such as J Krishnamurti , and other transcendentalists, psychiatrists and theologists , such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ernest Holmes.
I am quite convinced that whatever a God might be, as a mortal I will never know , that God is of the Unknowable , as it should be , and that all I have to
discern is the Effects of the creation.
Another of my catchphrases is that--when I think I know who or what God is , it is no longer God. As God is unknowable , the known is not God.
Maybe that's just my conceit , but consider the benefits that humanity could gain from such an attitude. No more excuses for sabre-rattling religious
and cultural fundamentalists!