Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
OVERCOMING PARADIGMS
OVERCOMING PARADIGMS
Just being alive testifies to the spirit of God in you, without more.
Life itself is indissolubly linked to the infinity of God is that is dynamic and unlimited in us.
Death terminates this form, this season, in life, in time & space. God is beyond time & space.
Being unlimited, however, the spirit and power of God flows through each of us in this time and in this space, subject only to God's divinely imposed constraints on time and space.
It is meet that fish be fish, not flowers; that man be man, not mountains; each occupying its unique niche relative to earth.
But man is master of this earth, since man can kill everything else, including himself; or save anything else, including himself.
Man can fly, swim, run, crawl, walk, build, grow, harvest, heal, teach, navigate, calculate, talk, shoot, throw, write, preach, reproduce, reason, deduce, investigate, all over , inside, and even off the earth. Verbs bow to the power of man's potency!
Man's only limit in this space and time is man. Some men convince other men of lack, of inadequacy, of incapacity, of inability or even impossibility!
This predicate and paradigm, whether religious or scientific, is imposed on "other" men, in order to empower their patent and permanent imposition of rule over them, over their mind.
By imprisoning their minds, and bodies, these imposers, née imposters, also paralyze their subordinate men's implicit and innate imaginations, which are their ineffable links to God.
There are and have been many gods and deities on earth. Each such was fashioned by man, in his own image, in succession, as as certain means of ruling, of explaining, of rationalizing, of teaching. Each one is from man.
Each holy book that was ever extant was written by man; was interpreted by man; was edited by man; was imposed by man.
Fortunately, each holy book or scientific book incorporated precepts, rules, myths, facts, and principles from prior books.
So, we are beneficiaries of all knowledge that has gone before us, directly, even as our successors will benefit from us.
Wouldn't it be wonderful for them to know that whether they conceive of themselves as our beneficiaries or not, that they still have a direct link to God, by reason of life, itself, and by reason of their imaginations?
Albert Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. http://www.goodreads.com/…/556030-imagination-is-more-impor…
Genesis says the same thing as Einstein about knowledge and imagination; it essentially says that "To know is great. But to imagine is greater." https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/…
Overcome every paradigm on your mind and every lock upon your imagination and be free!