How these dialogues come about?
They come on the foundation or basis of what I've already been
thinking about.
You could say they come from my mind.
You could also say they come from the conscience, or the
intuition, or from the spiritual world, or from God.
I don't want to make an absolute claim that they're from God.
That would be putting blame on God, if they're not correct.
It is rather similar to Plato's dialogues, where he imagines the
two parties, and constructs a conversation. Plato called this
process "recollection". He said that all true wisdom comes
through recollection -- that our inner soul already knows all
Truth.
Also, just think -- Shakespeare was very creative with the
dramatical format.
In any case, I do believe that a kind of universal consciousness
or knowledge or wisdom works through this method.
I imagine it could fail, or I could fall down or make a fool of
myself if someone asked a more concrete question on factual
information, or if someone tested me to see if this was real or
not.
Nevertheless, I think there is great validity to this.
The way I do this, is, when I feel a special inspiration or
desire, I get a notebook, and dedicate this time, and ask
questions "to God", and then wait to hear what kind of answer
pops into my consciousness -- not by rational thinking, but by
intuition, or inner voice.
Then I write it down.
Sometimes the idea comes as a thought or image, and sometimes I
actually receive a dictation word by word, without knowing what
will come next, or whether the sentence even makes sense, until
the end. Then I read it, and, sure enough, it is something
inspirational and insightful.
In a way, you can think, our rational mind and concepts block our
spontaneous creative and imaginative processes. And those are
more close to the "universal consciousness", or God, if you will.
God is a property of all people, all living things, all things
completely. Then, it is natural that we should be able to tap
into Him/Her/It as a creative or information or encouragement
source. God is the root of each of us. So when we reach into our
inner soul or mind, we find something universal and unifying and
connected to others, to all reality, to universal consciousness.
A warning, or course: I take responsibility for whatever I say,
write, or "receive". A person must check to see that what he says
and does is principle, moral, true. And be careful who to give it
to. There is no excuse for doing evil, saying "It is for God" or
"God told me to do so." Many evil is done in the name of religion
or of spiritual intuition.
We have to have that filter of our mind, heart, and common sense.
I think we should have a certain "humanism" to temper our
religious fervor, no matter what religion or faith a person
belongs to, and that includes communism too. I think this kind of
humanism, as belonging to the human race, requires one to value
all people and all existence, and to use that as a basic standard
of value to double-check whatever we are thinking to do, whether
in politics, war, love, religion, business, family.
Reflecting on the 20th Century, a century of the worst travesties
against humanity, all those injustices were in the name of some
cause, and ignoring principles of humanity.
Yet, on the other hand, humanism itself has shown to be frail and
incapable of standing up to the ravaging ideologies of fascism,
communism, religion, capitalism, nationalism.
Anyway, we dissolved the Unification Church, and now we are the
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, so perhaps we
can avoid some of the worst foibles of human nature, by
dissolving our own organization, before anything gets out of
hand. Have you ever seen anybody do that before?
Buddha said something interesting: "When you've got it, let it go
(deny it)." I've heard it said another way: "Whenever you realize
or accomplish something, the next moment it will get in your way
(become a stumbling block to you)."
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