FINDING OUR PURPOSE - PART 1

MY BOOK "INSIGHTS" - A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT!

We sense, with some inherent knowing, that we are creatures of purpose, not mere drifting organisms, but imbued with some kind of innate mission. We have invented, through the long course of history, entire pantheons of gods, goddesses, and mythic figures to help us explain to ourselves how we came to be here, and just what we are to be doing.

These symbols of our destiny are the feeble attempt, by a bewildered humanity, to characterize and make real the most abstract of concepts: that there is in back of us, of all things, a Power, an Energy, a Consciousness, a Mind which, consciously or otherwise, injects purpose into the universe.

How can we know this Power exists? We know because we are here. After all, the odds are overwhelmingly against it. We believe there must be intelligence in the universe, because we believe ourselves to be intelligent. We think and so, as Descartes said, we exist.

The question then becomes, “Am I, (are we?), the sole intelligence, or am I an offshoot of a greater Mind, a Universal Mind whose purpose it is to appear as me? Am I alone with my thoughts?”

If I exist, and I must believe I do, then is your existence also real, or is it a figment of my consciousness? You, looking back at me, can think the very same thing. What we are is two points of view, and this role is fundamental to existence. Our individuality is characterized by our point of view, which defines us as unique and distinct beings. While there is certainly more to us than just our individuality, this is where we begin our self-awareness.

Let us contemplate that singular Power, that Universal Entity existing outside of time or space. It is the Allness, embracing all existence while not circumscribed by it. We are thinkers; It is Thought. We are conscious; It is Consciousness. It is the law in back of our mechanism, the Mind in which our mentality operates. At the level of Its universality, It has everything except a point of view. From the Allness of Being cannot come a particular outlook - from the Universal level of thought cannot come a sense of individuality, except through a process of mental fragmentation. This is what the Book of Genesis calls “the waters divided from the waters.” The “firmament” is our material world.

Our prime purpose, our raison d’etre, is our very individuality. Our first job is to be ourselves. Our perspective, our point of view, is our gift to that Something, that Power which is the very foundation of our being. We each exist for the purpose of bringing yet another point of individuality to the whole.

So now we are here- each with our unique point of view - what next?