Does God Exist? Part 2

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Back again with the conclusion...<br><br>The

significant figures of all religions and spiritual practices

as well as by the scientific geniuses that shaped

our understanding of the world todate all tell us the

same thing. They urge us to go within in order to know

intimately what is without. The religious/spiritual figures

talk about the chakra system and specialized, profound

knowledge that is found at each of the seven major chakras.

Those scientists don't yet have an articulatable

understanding of the chakra system, so they tend speak of

trusting one's instincts and intuitions and following the

directions indicated. Both groups are saying that the

step-by-step, building block approach that most people think of

when they think of science or when they have a "show

me" attitude to anything has limited usefulness and

that there is another, better way of developing

knowledge, a way that is more wholistic and involves taking

a gestalt approach, studied a subject as a whole

rather than as merely a sum of its parts.<br><br>There

is endless arguing about which method is better. The

argument is about which method is easier. Some people

think it is much easier to use the step-by-step,

building block approach because when entering the unknown

it is safer to proceed slowly. They would argue,

"How can you study a thing as a whole when you don't

know what that thing is?'<br><br>The wholistic

fraternity says, "What's the point of proceeding on a

building block approach without first having a blueprint?

The structure will simply fall down or otherwise

overwhelm you." They say it is better to develop an

overview, a gestalt first. They add that it is possible to

have that overview if you spend the time to develop

that ability. <br><br>You don't get to present a piano

concert at Carnegie Hall by tapping out one note on a

piano. You have to have years of intense practice, and

have intense desire and have an innate talent before

your skill and artistic levels are high enough to give

that concert. So too with wholistic thinking. The

purpose of meditation, hatha yoga, rigorous self-inquiry,

rigorously following a moral/ethical code for decades is to

eventually produce that ability to see things as a gestalt.

If someone wants to call that "seeing God

everywhere" let them. You can call that cosmic gestalt

whatever you want. But first you have develop it. And that

takes time and practice. <br><br>Then all of your

questions will be answered. Hope this helps.