Fascinating stuff, Kimberly, thanks! It’s true, I think, that some take the whole Gnostic schematic way too literally. I cannot imagine more stupid, self-defeating advice than “run to the Void”.
If somebody refuses the Light doorway, the very least worse thing that will happen is that they become a wandering spirit on earth, exiled from heaven and earth.
I should say that I don’t really equate “the Void” with the depths of outer space, at least from the spiritualy-sighted POV. The great Christian mystic Jacob Boehme once pointed out that “every parsec of space is inhabited”, a mind-blowing notion, but sensible, I think, if we consider the universe to be a living organism. In other words, there is no place in the universe where “nothing” really exists. Of course through our material eyes, most of the universe *is* intimidatingly a nothingness.
There is such a thing as the Void, I think, as in “being rendered non-existent” or being shuffled off to some outer darkness outside the dimensions of time and space. Boehme, like D Fortune, indicated that if a soul really, really effs it up - which is pretty rare, but it happens - the actual atomic and sub-atomic particles that compose the soul are taken apart and thrown back into the divine matrix to await new use.
Kimberly, one thing I gotta say - it’s not that I really object to your term “Meat World” because it really is a world of lotsa meat, but, hmm, I dunno, “Meat World” sounds to me to be a bit dismissive, you know, like a put-down. Maybe I’m associating it with Archie Bunker’s “Meat head” put-downs, I dunno. But I’m thinking maybe “Biological World” or “Bio World” would be better, not only bc it would include plants and trees, etc., but bc our material world, as rough and tumble as it is, is still pretty durn wondrous and beautiful, and deserving of high praise. That’s just my notion anyway.
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Date: 2025-02-26 11:27 pm (UTC)If somebody refuses the Light doorway, the very least worse thing that will happen is that they become a wandering spirit on earth, exiled from heaven and earth.
I should say that I don’t really equate “the Void” with the depths of outer space, at least from the spiritualy-sighted POV. The great Christian mystic Jacob Boehme once pointed out that “every parsec of space is inhabited”, a mind-blowing notion, but sensible, I think, if we consider the universe to be a living organism. In other words, there is no place in the universe where “nothing” really exists. Of course through our material eyes, most of the universe *is* intimidatingly a nothingness.
There is such a thing as the Void, I think, as in “being rendered non-existent” or being shuffled off to some outer darkness outside the dimensions of time and space. Boehme, like D Fortune, indicated that if a soul really, really effs it up - which is pretty rare, but it happens - the actual atomic and sub-atomic particles that compose the soul are taken apart and thrown back into the divine matrix to await new use.
Kimberly, one thing I gotta say - it’s not that I really object to your term “Meat World” because it really is a world of lotsa meat, but, hmm, I dunno, “Meat World” sounds to me to be a bit dismissive, you know, like a put-down. Maybe I’m associating it with Archie Bunker’s “Meat head” put-downs, I dunno. But I’m thinking maybe “Biological World” or “Bio World” would be better, not only bc it would include plants and trees, etc., but bc our material world, as rough and tumble as it is, is still pretty durn wondrous and beautiful, and deserving of high praise. That’s just my notion anyway.
Thx again for essay!
best,
Will M.