MONOTHEISM

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Hello and a warm and heartfelt welcome. The common definition of monotheism is; 'Monotheism, belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God. As such, it is distinguished from polytheism, the belief in the existence of many gods, from atheism, the belief that there is no god, and from agnosticism, the belief that the existence or nonexistence of a god or of gods is unknown or unknowable. Monotheism characterizes the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and elements of the belief are discernible in numerous other religions.'

I would like to offer another explanation and increase anther aspect. I feel the books of the religion only explain the different worship of God, their name and their prophets. I would suggest there is no need for the way you worship or the law laid down by human hierarchy of priesthood and prayer or worship comes from the heart, of course I am not suggesting that priesthood and holy Vatican, San Hedrin and Mosque Maryam and other High Official Bodies are harmful.  At this point I would add if faith in the one God is required and a religion of one's choice is preferred in order to increase that faith and reverence then that is fine by me and no insult or slight was meant and if I hurt or antagonised some I deeply and respectfully apologise. May I add that many Shamans and ethnic faiths as it were worship the Great Spirit or just Creator and in my view are monotheistic. I am monotheistic.

How I arrived at monotheistic was through the NDE, the Koan, Nowhere to hang my Hat, The empty Atom and Quantum Metaphysics and of course meditation as simple as ' Looking without Bias, Attention without Intention, Witnessing without Judgement and so on'.

At the risk of repetition I would like to offer again a simple fact that 'hit the spot' when researching 'Who am I' and all the intellectual summaries endeavouring to define it and a wise saint guru saying 'when you no longer have to ask it you know the answer' if you can define God then in my view one may have missed the point. Many give up and just accept they don't know the answer, I don't know the answer but I didn't shy away or get bored seeking it, I went to the root.

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When I was four in 1942 I had an NDE and wondered why until later years when it became clear to me (written about in SHACK) as of The Koan,  The Hat, The Atom and so on and what I am repeating here please forgive the rhetoric, turgid and unnecessary repetitiveness.

At the synagogue at the Yom Kippur and New Year  one year and I had skipped many after my Bar Mitzvah and had sampled some Mosque and Church worship and was introduced to Buddhistic and Eastern Philosophy and I had long loathed the blood bath of the old testament and other ancient diatribes, at that meeting at that day it clicked. It was a shock and I took it home and never entered a place of worship in any faith again accept to sit quietly and meditate.  

I felt that as a an embryo, a foetus it feels as as the mother does and some evidence it feels  independently, because cells inside and outside the body and in jars and petri dishes have proven, that the embryo is only conditioned to feel and retains that feeling without understanding its meaning or content. Like saying to a dog I love you or hate you, it feels the energy or vibes and feels safe or not. The baby enters the world, not as yet having or understanding a faith or even its name (HERE IS NOT THE STUDY OF REINCARNATION OR NOT) it is a relatively clean slate but for the feelings it retains in its nervous system from the womb. (there is a lot of work on this and I did a lot of this my presentations and some research into the primal scream and so on).

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Then the baby is given a name, some in later years like it not----the point being it was not our choice, then introduced to a faith or not again not our choice---then the life style , social and cultural upbringing---again not our choice----I am not saying it wrong or right and maybe one is quite happy to go on these tram lines for life with a few variances here and there. This may seem perfectly safe and secure and the norm and others with different paths may feel the same, however there may come a time when one's path is challenged and then either fear, tolerance or war comes about. Because of inculcation one has become fed and clothed for many a year and the path so trodden has become reality, the way and the refuge and perhaps never examined or questioned.

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That morning in the Synagogue my NDE came to me and looked at the men in old gear and they looked just like lost sheep, old, just hoping the new year will be prosperous and free from pestilence and so on and as the religion, with the bias and the laws and I wondered who am I really

am I just a descendent of a race 5,000 year old. it worried me and I then had the Koan with Sensei some time later and this did me in, I had entered another mind set, a set of comparatively no mind as it were and Sensei said' you will never see the world as others,' how true this was, I felt free at last, and he said 'now your troubles begin'. How right he was, if I puzzled about why me and the NDE as a kid and my parents telling me it was a dream and me deeply knowing it WAS NOT.  So who really was I. Attending a lecture one day a story about the Buddha holding up a flower in the clear blue sky, SUDDENLY I KNEW and hurried out of the University lecture, to be remanded the next week and I realised it. The sky seemed to be a clear blue a deep feeling in meditation and in that stillness how did the flower arrive, who put it there, like natives in Borneo who first saw a plane flyover and thought God had arrived, natives who first saw TV and tried to see the pictures inside the set and took it apart, like the post mortems and bodies cut up through forensics and the mind and soul where were they, just electrical impulses by the body when it was born and the electric magnetic currents generated by the cell and heart pumping and at death --NOWT.  

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I then realised everything I knew I was taught, I am a clone. I did not have a choice, I didn't blame my folks just sad I realised this too late or was it ? I was born into a Jewish family but actually born free, who put that flower in the sky of course my conditioning, the flower is OK it is just an example how the mind gets cluttered up as image 6 and the more we have that knowledge the bigger our degrees and prestige happens, I can see we like this until we taste what is behind all this. It is perfectly alright to become an academic, business man and so on until I reached this; all these concepts and structures 'make the mind it is the content of the mind that makes a concept of mind' and these are drifting sands and time as eras change and if one makes this the 'end and be all of ones life', the reality that seems so strong and fortress like and perhaps senility, Alzheimer's then what, the baby had awareness sharp and yet not comprehension what happened to it as it grew the content clouded that awareness that was consciousness, the witness to empty mind in true meditation and that one never loses only to the thief of inculcation. 

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As a human obviously one needs some elementary basic conditioning and there is a way to keep the inculcations by choice and not use them as reality, like a vehicle to serve your needs but not be a slave to them and as the only reality. For in fact there is no ultimate reality, only those one puts their faith in them, their beliefs in them. The problem arises when we so solidify our beliefs and traditions they can become our strong unshakeable solid security and feel vulnerable  when doubt arises and so become so adamant that we will fight to the death if challenged and PRESS the button if all else fails to win a at all costs and be right and the task of the ego is to maintain that at all costs. Even if one is convinced they are useless, a waste of space and so on and feeling always on edge even suicidal and depressed and say 'there is nothing or no one to help me', in a strange way if they keep this belief up that in a way becomes their fortress

When the puppy and the baby are given their names, they hear a sound and it is after a while the baby realises that sound is my name. the puppy has a similar reflex action. That's the day inculcation sets in and is stamp number1.

GEOFF aka SHACK

Am I a monotheist I am not sure if I fit into any category or definition and yet I lean towards that as as symbol of that unsaid, unspoken no thing some thing (GeoShack)  YOU KNOW I AM NOT REALLY A MONOATHEIST .ACTUALLY  have no definition.  I am only a monotheist as human being BUT my essence is not definable.  Geoff also SHACK just a label for the corpse.

You see some say 'I am that'---what is that?----here we go again -----must we always have a reason to feel secure. GS