Find Your God - A Pilgrim's Guide to the Cosmos
(243 pages ~ 84,000 words)
The author: "The meaning of the cosmos is its purpose. The purpose of the cosmos is its meaning."
Drawing on challenging ideas from the world of science and from the profound traditions of mysticism and spirituality, a new, and yet ancient, definition of God emerges.
The book investigates when, where, how and why consciousness appears. It probes the levels of animal and human consciousness and how species relate and communicate with each other. It follows and records the growth of awareness and sensitivity during the author’s own spiritual pilgrimage. The book explores the sometimes-bizarre coincidences and synchronicities that occur as we move closer to the Tao, the implicate order of the Cosmos. It examines the paradox of the mind-brain problem as revealed by recent research into Near Death Experiences. The mind-brain question is also approached through quantum physics research. New ideas regarding the mind-brain problem arise, ideas that help formulate more precise questions about the nature of our consensus reality.
The urgent need for humankind to attain higher levels of awareness is a constant theme and the author draws on the spiritual insights of the great minds of science, from Einstein to the following quote by Dr.Danah Zohar to reinforce this call for change.
The book is replete with examples of mystical insights that help to remove the mystery from this broad field of spiritual study and practice. The author’s experiences of altered states of consciousness, including meditation, dreams and personal visions, are recounted so that everyone can understand the esoteric terms of mysticism and better appreciate his or her own experiences.
"There is a spiritual interpretation of God here that goes beyond the Judeo Christian myth. In my work, I have been examining what went on after the big bang and reconciling the idea of God with quantum theory. What’s so exciting is the way in which it reveals consciousness built into the cosmos from the very beginning.
It is part of the move away from a God separate from the universe a sort of chemist shaking a test tube to the idea of a transforming God who is himself transformed. This may well provide a new version of spirituality for people to replace the old creation myth. It fits in well with the strong anthropomorphic principle which says that consciousness was built into the cosmos from the beginning, and with good reason."
The book, Find Your God, concludes with the radical idea that there is no enlightenment. There is only continuous enlightening because reality is verb, a process, a reaching for total communion with the Consciousness of the Cosmos.
If the cosmos is a giant thought process, as Sir James Jeans speculated, the author of the book, Find Your God, urges: "My God, keep thinking."
Chapter Index
| 1-16 Definitions. Explanations of meditation. Awakening. Meeting the teacher. Vision of Jesus. First Symbolic Death |
| 17-18 Climbing the mountain of spirituality. First Kundalini energy surges. |
| 19-26 Culture and nurture during the formative years. Defining "Finn Sisu" The appearance at puberty of Horus, the hawk, my totem animal. |
| 27-32 Seeing and accepting consciousness and feelings in all our farm animals. Biophilia |
| 33-38 The 12-year-old poacher receives the teachings of Jim, the First Nations trapper. The crazy teen years. Hot rodding, boozing and brawling. Horus invades my mind. Recognising my totem animal |
| 39-42 Polishing the mirror begins. Cathartic learning from children.
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| 43-44 A second vision. Flying like a kite.
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| 45 Experiencing "The First Cause", Pure consciousnesses. The Blue Pearl, Muktanda’s gift. |
| 46-51 In LOVE, with a Fox. Love force tames a Fox and a baby Raccoon. Experience of oceanic love. |
| 52-58 Synchronicity-coincidence, idealism. Another visit from Horus. Spontaneous bliss. Recognising order, recognising pattern and consciousness in our environment. Native prophesy.
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| 59-62 Definition of communion. Communion defined as the actual experience.
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| 63-76 The Turning Point. An insight and awareness of hypocrisy triggered by The Crow and Ravens. The Ravens demonstrate their aesthetic taste.
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| 77-80 Mantras and yoga postures. Biophilia. The turtle visits and grants insights and wisdom through a startling coincidence. The revelation of the Hunter. A spontaneous altered state causing a permanent change in attitude and values. A series of Synchronicities and Coincidences.
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| 81-90 Dream consciousness and discovering the ability to interpret dreams. My head a ball of light. Case studies. Discussion of the Witness state of awareness.
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| 91-94 No Time. Time as a man made construct. Flexibility of time.
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| 95-97 Time, Psychics and altered states of consciousness. Accurate psychic predictions. |
| 98-101 Chaos, Cosmos, Mind, Brain, Time. The Primary role of consciousness. |
| 102-104 Channelling. I receive a new name from some other plane that is highly prophetic and productive of insightful conclusions.
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| 105-113 Cosmic Consciousness and Quantum physics |
| 114-117 A visionary visit to the Astral plane.
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| 118 Love and bliss.
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| 119-124 A flashback to union organizing battles demonstrating who and what I was.
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| 125-129 The sequence of the evolution of consciousness and the paradoxes encountered |
| 130-132 The limits of our Newtonian physics. Entrapped in language. Definitions. |
| 133-135 Religion as the exercise of power and control. Church control. Political control.
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| 136-137 Defining the word faith. |
| 138-142 Defining Magic, Meaning and Miracles |
| 143-148 Channelling and associated attitudes revisited. Prospecting poem.
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| 149 The big Guru. Solar flares. Does our ambient magnetic field configure our reality?
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| 150-157 A question about our sacrifice.
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| 158-161 An interpretation of Adam and Eve in the Garden.
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| 162-178 Androgyny, our destiny.
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| 179-201 A walk on the Wild Side. Multiple levels of consciousness. Leaks in the space-time membrane |
| 202-204 Waiting for the Butterfly.
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| 205-225 Weird coincidence and hidden links revealed. Interelations "As above, so below."
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| 226-229 Chaos and anti chaos.
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| 230 Rescuing Shroedingers Cat.
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| 231-242 One Last Symbolic Death. The latest word on the role of Horus in my life.
A summary and closing quotations.
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| 243 Postscript. The New Darwin.
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