God Loves Us Unconditionally
and is the spiritually wisest entity I know but is not omniscient
Introductory Thoughts from Prior Works
God is wonderful. God is omnipotent, but does not generally interfere and is not quite omniscient. God can be spoken with and reasoned with — God is open to changing their mind. We talk to each other the way I would expect to talk to a parent who knows much but values their son’s observations, intuition, and intellect.
Religions have been designed to be believed and thus construct God as a deliverer of human wants if we do as we are told, which God is not. So people either blindly believe in God because the lie of what God is is believable, or reject God because the God defined by religions cannot co-exist with the reality that most people do not get what they want, or are not actually happy, and a world full of seemingly senseless tragedy and really bad things happening to good people.
So my view, which I shall deliver as a truth but the fact is it would be hubris for me to proclaim that I can actually understand the Universe:
“God” does not care anything about money, politics, war, famine, or even who lives or dies, and to the extent God affects any such outcomes it is only to keep things from going too far off the improv-script. Nor do the Gods give a hoot about religions, as religions arise from the human-need to construct a controlling mechanism.
Today’s Thoughts
Yesterday I had my first channeling session with my psychic medium, Ane, in over nine months. The intention for the session was for me to have an actual conversation with my dearly departed soul partner, Sitara. Ane graciously offered me a free session because she had read in a recent story of mine and sensed my pain and need for deeper contact than:
I talk to Sitara every day, many times, especially lying in bed at night, as I did here in this poem, titled Oh Darling, inspired by Ravyne Hawke’s prompt to write a poem personifying a goose down comforter.
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I talk to Sitara, both out loud and silently, as if we are having conversations. I think she can hear me but I cannot hear her. I trust that my thoughts and responses are influenced by her telepathic communication, but hearing or seeing someone verbalize for her is a whole other experience. I have not been able to afford a channeled conversation through Ane since March. Every night I lament this and tell Sitara how much I look forward to speaking with her and hearing how she is doing in Heaven and enjoying her soul work of guiding souls that died in the manner she did through the tunnel to heaven.
As I suspected would happen, God, who presents itself to Ane and me as an elephant named Rama,
popped in at the beginning of our session. Rama said, paraphrasing, “when you stop caring about claps and comments your writing will move to the next level and you will write a book.”
This thrilled me. Not because of the prediction. It thrilled me because for several weeks I have grappled with the self-awareness that I am very attached to the comments and highlights from a few writers whom I admire, including, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Kira Dawn, Anthi Psomiadou, Rebecca Romanelli, Thief, Ravyne Hawke, and Amy Marley, and when they do not read my poems and essays it bums me out. I realized that I crave these comments because I never received affirmation from my parents and thus never felt adequate love. So that Rama knew of these thoughts of mine thrilled me.
Yet, I realized, while aware of my thoughts, Rama did not grasp the genesis. Rama thought I might be tailoring my writing to receive affirmation and that is what Rama sought to discourage. About thirty minutes later, Rama popped back into the session, we discussed this, and Rama left pleased.
Thus, spiritually wise but not omniscient, and a parent to which a child can explain its thoughts.
Sitara and Ane had spent an hour before we got on the phone discussing reincarnation and soul contracts. Many of us in the non-Abrahamic-religious spirituality camp believe in these concepts. I wrote this as part of a 16-minute essay back in March:
“I view the Lifecycle Improv Scripts as Larry David’s show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, on steroids — imagine 100 writers drafting a lifetime worth of improvisational scripts and the negotiations and debates as to who gets to play what roles in each other’s lives… I love the irony of this oft-quoted and misunderstood saying: “Man Plans, and God Laughs.” This statement is used to diminish the role that free-will has upon our lives — that we cannot defeat the universe’s scripts. The irony is that while our higher powers have to approve our scripts/outlines, we wrote them. I wonder what goes on in the Executive Producer’s lounge as Zoroaster and Vishnu and Shiva and Rama and Kali and Kama and the rest of the heads of our tribes negotiate the interplay of their charges’ life spans.”
Sitara had said to Ane that God signs off on the scripts to try and make sure that a soul does not take on more than it can handle, but sometimes the soul does get overwhelmed. I know this sometimes leads to suicide attempts. I also know sometimes it leads to a soul being granted an early exit if a walk-in can be arranged.
I texted Ane after the call:
“You asked in the conversation if that means God can be wrong. There is no right or wrong. God cannot predict the future. That would eliminate free will from the equation. If God allows a script that ends up being too much for the soul, that doesn’t mean God was wrong — it simply means the soul didn’t rise to the potential that God saw as possible.”
So, again, God is as spiritually intelligent as anyone can possibly be but not omniscient.
For more of my thoughts on suicide, please see this five-minute essay, which also presents a unique perspective on soul contracts and abortion:
In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
