26 August 2012
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The insight here is that humans engage in a struggle for power by
outwitting and outmatching an opponent in the mind. In this way the
winner is able to syphon energy from the loser. The third and the forth
insight go hand in hand here. Once we know that we can get energy from
nature, how can we be content to take it from other human beings at the
loser’s expense? It would be interesting to speculate on how we became
so dependent on other human beings for our energy. I know that we have
disconnected from the universal energy, but what caused this disconnect?
I have my own speculations according to my religious beliefs. In Genesis
2 God tells Adam that he may not eat from this particular tree, the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. Once the woman is tempted in Chapter
3 of the same book, both the man and the woman chose to disobey God.
This disobedience caused a rift in the previously harmonious
relationship between man and the Universal energy source. Penalty for
this comes in the form of both man and women “surviving” instead of
living. This quest for survival means that we have to some extent given
into our baser instincts; the competitive instinct employed by animals
that eat living, moving things to stay alive. We have and use their
instincts, but we lack their common sense, for even animals know when
enough is enough. Even animals commune with and respect nature.
One of the ways in which man was “supposed” to regain the connection to
the Universal energy was through Christ, not only his death, but his
teachings. For Paul explains in Romans 5 “18 Consequently, just as one
trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous
act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as
through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so
also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made
righteous.” (Romans 5: 18-19) Christ will say also “10 The thief cometh
not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John
10:10) What is this righteousness? What is this life? The righteousness
we have gained is Christ’s righteousness and the life we have gained
through Christ has put us back in the “pre-fall” status with the
Universal energy (which I call God).
God is of course very obvious in nature for those who look, for Romans
says “19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God
has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been
clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people
are without excuse.
But look at what happens. People begin to disregard what is clearly
visible (ie that God is the creator of all of this) for something that
they have created themselves (their own idols)
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor
gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish
hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became
fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to
look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles
(Romans 1: 19-22).
Now, understand that I am not coming against totems or crystals or
anything that is used to help connect one to the Universal Force. I am
speaking of considering the item without considering and respecting that
which brought the item and its living form into existence. It’s as
futile as attempting to connect to the Force through a conduit without
believing in the existence of the Force.
This of course brings us full circle. The process of syphoning energy
from another human being to that human being’s detriment is not the
right or best way to get energy, it is a manufactured mascarade for the
real way, getting energy from nature.
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