Originally Posted by Karmoh
Recently I picked up a book in a coffee shop by Ken Wilber, The Simple Feeling of Being. While sipping coffee I came across a statement that actually rocked my non-dual world.
Why does Spirit bother to manifest at all, especially when that manifestation is necessarily painful and requires that it become amnesiac to its true identity? Why does god incarnate?
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My thoughts are offered as just another view of the proverbial elephant.
Non-dual would seem to me that everything is equal. All existance thoughts, actions, happenings, experience are all therefore just other faces of God. There would be no one to say that one face of God is better or worst than another. Not even different but just a view from a different vantage point.
Why then incarnate? Maybe it is not a why but an evolving. If consciousnes stretched out in one place and contracted in another the contracted place could have become physical reality. Still non-dual but another face fully connected like two sides of a coin. The evolving contracted non-dual continues to evolve through matter as earth (with its very limited level of consciousness) through plants and up the food chain. Each level still fully connected to non-dual but with a greater degree of ability to be in consciousness and with greater awareness of consciousness at that more evolved level.
At the level of man the subject now has an object. Like parents who are the subject having children who are apart from them ( but a part of them) which is now physically separate. The children have become the object. We can see ourselves growing and evolving in our children.
Like a tree or vine that continues to grow and have new buds that come out each year. The tree or vine is the subject and the buds are its objects. Each generation of man are the buds along the evolving tree of life.
Non-dual remains as the center, and expands outward with its outermost edge as the evolving edge, as the now of physical reality. If you like, this can be willfully directed by God or could be an integral instinct of non-dual to continually become whatever it can become.
As previously described in the tale from Flatland our ability (consciousness), at the dimension we perceive reality and spirituality, may make higher dimensions incomprehensible. To us we perceive that God (non-dual, subject) has evolved through us to be able to look back and "see" God or non-dual as if we can see to the ultimate. Compared to the edge of future evolving forms to channel consciousness we may just be like rocks. Or are we it? The end of evolution? Are we the best that God can do? I think not.
Sorry I got a bit carried away. But I wrote it so I will post it as is.
Michael
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