Imagine, if you will, being in a darkened room and sitting there alone for all eternity, a presence in the midst of nothingness. Grasp all you want, there is nobody and nothing there. Now imagine that nobody else is there because you are the only one that has ever existed. All the people that you believe exist, are really nothing more than figments of your imagination. You will soon understand that there is a certain horror about being God, and an eternal lonliness that knows no bounds. This is not an emotional lonliness, it is an absolute lonliness that is real beyond all belief. This would be the end result if man in his individuality believed he were God. However, God is not man and therefore "heaven" is far more profound than darkness and eternal lonliness. On his own, man can do nothing. A proper understanding of deification is in order, particularly because the idea is held in such contempt that people have disregarded it altogether even though it is the end result of salvation no matter how much Christians deny it or hate the thought of being glorified.
In order to "create" God goes into himself, into his own eternity and seeming "emptiness" and creates a world whose size is indefinite, a world filled with diversity of creation, apparent plurality, and beauty that is utterly incomprehensible in its totality. God's will is not really a will at all as much as it is a spontaneity that makes up that which he is (and is not). We do good to ask ourselves, with what has God created all these things? The simple answer to that question is "nothingness". Everything that we see and experience on any given day is composed of nothingness from the infinitely small to the infinitely great, and what's more is that God has let us all in on the big joke even though many have refused to believe that God has a sense of humor. Many of us have taken things far too seriously without first attempting to understand why things are the way that they are. Let me explain.
Did God at some point just decide, "Hey, I'm going to create a world for myself!" and then miraculously "all of a sudden" (from everlasting time prior to the beginning of the universe) bring that universe forth from his nothingness and his eternity? Why didn't he decide to create it earlier? Or later? Or perhaps we believe that time only began with the universe? The evolutionists have the monopoly on how things came to be in this fallen world of ours. The premise of evolution is that complex life developed from simple forms of life. In other words, things started from simple atoms and molecules and gradually moved in complexity to form simple cellular life, plant life, and finally animal life. Sure, it seems to make sense except for the fact that when scientists actually began to investigate it further, the entire theory basically fell apart. When men began to develop stronger microscopes, it became apparent that even something as simple as a single-cell organism was composed of tiny molecular machines (motor proteins) that were mind-bogglingly complex. In other words, from the very beginning, things were already complex, there was no development, there was an instantanous creation. The premise of the evolutionists utterly failed when stacked against the truth. And even today their nonsense is taught in schools.
But it doesn't just stop there either. When men began to spread across the earth and devise ideas on the nature of the earth, they moved from an elementary understanding of the earth as being flat with a dome of water covering it, to it being a sphere, to it NOT being the center of the universe. We can thank geometry and telescopes for that, both creations of white men who are an emanation of God, as it were. But these are merely scientific finds and even they are limited in their explanation of what life truly is. Ultimately they succeed at limiting the ultimate, which can only be uncovered by a thorough examination of self and God. You see, the problem is that if scientists had an eternal shelf-life, they'd come no closer to solving the grand puzzle of human existence. They have convinced themselves that there is nothing transcendent, and they have really just deceived themselves. The problem is that every time telescopes see further, or microscopes smaller, there is nothing but confusion. Entire volumes of scientific findings have to be rewritten because new scientific truths come to life. Why is that?
The problem is that even though physical matter appears real to us, it is made up of atoms and molecules that are essentially empty space or (you guessed it) "nothingness"-the same stuff God used to create the known universe because there was nothing but nothing available to him. The further into space we look, the further into matter we look, we are shocked utterly to find that everything we see and perceived is made up of empty space. We used to beleive that Atoms were the smallest particles in existence, only to later find the sub-atomic particle. In a word, the more we look into things, the more we are forced to create new ideas to describe the physical universe which refuses to appear anywhere because when we look closer, it simply disappears. That is true of everything in creation. However, no matter how hard we try, we cannot escape the strange reality that the equation of the universe is always 0 + 0 = 0. Yes, God is so incredibly clever that it defies the imagination. Great is his majesty that he can create such diversity by simply stacking zeros on top of zeros and making it appear as 1s, 2s, and 3s. When I first realized this, I was utterly dumbfounded by it. He abrogated mathematics and defied the laws of physics to bring forth a nothingness that appears to be a somethingness.
We are told by scientists today that the human mind is little more than the firing of synapses through neurons, etc. They tell us that thought is created by matter when it is actually the other way around. It is strange that we have not realized that the human mind does not follow the same laws physical matter does. Therefore, how can the mind be a product of matter? Mind utterly transcends matter because thought cannot be weighed or measured, nor can the consciousness that emerges from the mind. For the most part, we don't even know what consciousness is. And as odd as it may sound to some, the truth of the matter is that the universe exists merely by virtue of the thinkers thought. Matter cannot be created or destroyed the scientists tell us, yet thoughts come and go and leave no residue or weight by which we can measure them. In a word, thoughts are the only thing in creation that have absolutely no obvious measurement or dimension. How can they be the product of matter which is weighed and measured in many diverse ways? The scientists were wrong again.
"That Daniel has become a real fuckin asshole." "I think he has lost his mind." "Yeah it started off pretty good, and then he got all weird." "Too mystical for me, see ya later." Sadly, for me I thought things were just getting interesting. I have no intention of stopping now.
I'm only answering the question that eventually all of you will have to answer. You may indeed believe that I have lost my mind, but I can assure you, that I have more sanity than most. So let me explain why the theme of this blog has radically changed since the beginning of this year.
Several months ago while sitting at home, having a beer after work, the facade utterly dropped before my eyes. I stood up, dropped my beer on my living room floor and was gripped by a terror that I can scarcely describe to any man. It is a fear that has no human origin, but comes from an uncovering of the facade of human existence and the profound realization that there is nothing to life but an infinite void that is filled to the brim with a sea of illusion. To be as descriptive as I can, this would be like waking up one day and realizing that you are the only one that exists and all of life (including those you love) is an illusion meant to protect you from the reality that you are alone in an eternal nothingness. I thought that I was dying at that moment, and all I could ask myself is how this could be. This experience is the beginning of the breaking apart of the facade that I am speaking about. That facade is none other than the fallen creation which is beginning to pass away for some people. Little do we understand that judgement has already begun to happen and the future is going to get immensely strange and interesting. But I must go back a little ways, to the age of 23 when this was shown to me for the first time. I now proceed to the final nail in my coffin. You have been warned.
One night while reading a book in my study, I began to have a weird sensation come over me. It was as if the book I was reading had been written by me. I simply couldn't understand the odd familiarity I had with everything that was in my perception at that moment. Little by little my surroundings began to reveal themselves as not "outside" of me, but rather inside of me. It was almost as if my existence reversed itself. Soon I had lost all communication with what I was, and found myself in a void that I first thought was outer space. And as strange as this may sound to some, it felt entirely natural to be in this place, which I understood at that moment to be "the mind of God." As I began to enter into this strange state bits and pieces of information were beginning to reveal themselves to me. I remembered things, details of life that I had never known before, everything that I wanted to know was made available to me in an instant. However, I began to realize that the further I went swimming into this mind of God, the more I began to lose my identity as "Daniel". That was the payoff, in order to move further, I had to lose a piece of myself and the further I went, the more I began to realize the unreality of my existence as this man. Coming to the pinnacle of this experience, it felt as if I moved my hand I could move my presence to the other side of the universe. Soon I came to the realization that I had experienced what I can only call the core of all existence, and I remembered being all things that had ever walked, lived, breathed, or slithered upon the earth yet remaining somewhat distinct from them all. I was still aware that back in some tiny room with a desk and a bookshelf there was this kid laying flat on his face, possibly dying.
Soon I came to a blinding presence. By this point I believe that I experienced what has been often called the "Beatific Vision", and remember being told that I had the choice to leave or remain forever. While I don't remember making an actual choice, I do remember "remembering" my identity as "Daniel" and being thrust back into my pathetic little life in a dingy corner of the universe in a tiny wisconsin town. I surely didn't want to leave and would have sacrificed everything to stay if I could have. As I came to my senses, my girlfriend asleep in the other room, heard me mumbling under my breath, "That's enough, Lord, I cannot take anymore! Please stop!" I remember feeling intense waves of residual ecstacy at the knowledge of eternity and being a partaker in the fullness of God. The joy was so intense and powerful that I had begged God to stop. Strangely this experience shattered my entire life. I awoke and entered into years of depression and rebellion against God. I always imagined heaven to be a perfected world and God to be a mere man. This was far more intense, far more profound than anything I could possibly imagine. My participation in that strange world was utterly demanded. I wasn't just an observer of things, I was a part of the grandeur of it,a spark of his genius that had become condensed and solidified into a lie that made up the totality of what God is. Because God is infinite, he must be everything and nothing. There is simply no escape from that, he must become all things, real and unreal-being and non-being. To this day I am not entirely sure why my reaction toward it was so harsh and why I fell into the most pitiful state of sin I had ever found myself in afterwards. I suspect it was my failure at denying myself, and the knowledge that there was a heavy debt upon me due to years of selfishness and inner tribulation.So what does this experience at 23 have to do with my fear at 33? It has everything to do with it. I spent ten years undergoing a catharsis that would prepare me for the visitation I knew would come again. I saw something I wasn't supposed to see. I had been let in on the big joke that in all actuality existence is pure joy and a part of the infinite body of God that inhabits every place. That fear existed only because it was the final shield my false individuality had put up to protect itself from the truth of all human existence. God stood in front of me girt with spear and shield fully prepared to put an end to the facade called "Daniel". And over the years he whispered gently in my ear, "Are you ready yet?" and everytime I simply answered, "No. Not yet." But years of denying myself, raising a family, and being a Christian man prepared me for what I didn't see at 23 because I wasn't willing. I willingly faced the void and plunged myself headlong into it. And in that place I uncovered what had been lost so long ago, the real Christian faith and the nature of the love of Christ.
The human body is made up of many stacked zeros. The flesh is composed of atoms and molecules that reveal their emptiness upon closer examination. No matter how much we magnify it, it will always reveal itself as empty. The individual mind creates its false personhood and lives under the assumption that its individual personality is real. It views its physical body and says, "this is mine." However, the body as I mentioned is ephemeral, made up of the same emptiness as all of physical creation upon closer examination. God is looking through the eyes of every man as a scientist looks through a microscope. We are confounded because we have mistaken the microscope for the man. We suffer insofar as we are anchored to the falseness of being human. Matter, it would appear, is basically condensed or solidified spirit. That is it. The curse of the fall is that man no longer became a partaker of the fullness and continuity of God, but became a separated entity. There was no choice in this, it had to occur as a part of the divine plan, and just as it has occured, it must also resolve itself. This is now what is occuring in our world, we just don't see it yet. Interpreting symbolism isn't man's strong suit anymore. When the veil of the temple was torn in half, the process of resolution and reconciliation had begun. It is now moving toward its inevitable conclusion and fast. The fear we have of this divine emptiness (which is really freedom and liberation not limited to a corruptible nature) comes only because we fear the death of self. But this "self" is an impostor and always has been. We used to be able to see this as little children if we stared at ourselves too long in the mirror. We just knew that if we continued, something weird might happen. My painful and very fearful realization was due to the clinging I had done to the ephemeral personality that is a product of the fall of man. I fear death only because I associate all reality with "Daniel," but when "Daniel" is not my essence, but rather an after affect of what I (and everybody else) truly is, the everything and nothing of God.
God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and utterly infinite. He is indeed everything from the individual thought, to the most horrendous occurence. But he loses nothing of himself, because he is the never depleted fount of all things, and is the source of eternal life. Evil exists only because the facade of separation from God is a temporary reality in our world. Eventually the life of all men will be tried with fire. They will be made painfully aware of the unreality of the individual because if God is infinite there is no place for the fallen man to exist. New Jerusalem is coming, and it is coming fast. Hell is reserved for all those that have believed in the facade and have not understood the infinitude of God and the implications of that infinitude. Until men are willing to face the lonliness and terror of losing themselves, they have no chance of inheriting the kingdom. When Christ uttered the painful words, "Eloi, Eloi Lama Sabacthani" he understood what it meant to take upon himself human nature. In that moment, he made clear the true meaning of the Christian faith and the final mystery of God. For this reason alone, he was given all authority in heaven and upon the earth and is the only name through which men might be saved.
John Chapter 17
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
"But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
"O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
John Chapter 17
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
"But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
"O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."












