Epiphany, god and all that.

Do fragments come from epiphany?

        The source of my epiphanies is meditation. My epiphanies are worded.  Suddenly or not so suddenly I have a fragment, a set of words not necessarily grammatically correct.
        My initial reaction is to believe that they are true.  I believe that is the result of my own egotistical desire to find myself and my epiphanies superior to others.
        After consideration involving the judgment of the truth of the epiphany against the truth of the witness of my life, sometimes I conclude the epiphany is the truth with doubt.  Sometimes I alter the epiphany.  Almost always the fragment is worth reconsideration.
        I do not know where my information comes from.  I am the author of the notes of my meditations.
       My epiphanies are not always a single flash.  Rather they frequently begin with an emotional interruption and continue for a time.  During that time meditation is the tool to bring the knowledge to a conscious level before I forget it.  Even then, after writing it down I usually must study it, edit it and even risk changing its meaning so that someone else might understand it.
         I have practiced meditation in many forms.  I include dreams, daydreams, drunken solitude, drug experience, transcendental meditation, monk walks, dream walks, rain walks, affective dreaming, and thinking. The simplest is the thoughts and images that come to me in the morning before I am fully awake.
         Like everything else in my life the magic doesn’t always work. Sometimes my meditations are productive and sometimes they get downright boring. They are especially poor when I am centered on violence and myself.  However as a single selection of all my life experience the state of meditation has been more rewarding than any other state.  Rather than reading what I write or doing what I do, find your own identity.   Find understanding within your own meditations.

Do fragments come from God?

         There are as many choices as there are moments.    At first you choose the faith you are given.
         How might we view the Godhead?  There may be a unity (no matter how you look at it there is one God). There may be a trinity (There are only three ways to look at God.   They are views of God as creator, human being and spirit. ). There may be an infinity (No matter what you look at it is only a view of everything).
         Some believe in a unity of God, that is there is one God.  Some believe in the Trinity of God, that is that there is the father, son, and Holy Ghost. I believe in the infinity of God, that is there is God in us all and not separate but part.
         Yet in your choosing you live within fate unfolding (God is the human manifestation of the unification of all fate unfolding).  Your choosing is your expression of everything.  It is not a matter of control.  Fate is in control (most often called God, Allah, karma, or Jesus).
         Have you had a moment of doubt? Not Allah, God, Jesus or Buddha would damn you for it. If you accept that moment with wonder rather than fear you will share a common wonder with other faiths.  There will be a bridge to peace. If you find you live with the morality and ethics of other faiths though the motivation be different there can be love between you for you live in a common way.
         After you accept that you have no control you will find it easier to get peace in your heart.  After you find materialism and winning unimportant you’ll be able to make yourself small.  With humility will come wisdom, then wonder.
         As fate unfolds you will see your taste.  You will like fate unfolding.
         As fate unfolds you will know you are part of fate.  You will know you belong in fate. You will feel the belonging and call it love. Driven by fearless curiosity you will wonder about what comes next.  You will like and love fate.  Although you will keep your faith as it belongs within you by cherishing fate, absolute knowing will become unnecessary. Wonder will be enough. With wonder all paths have hope for all paths might be true.
        We come to the realization that we are part of everything and that everything is grander than humanity.  This is the love of everything.  This is the love of that which is no matter how you call it.  It sits in the background yet cherished more than life.
        If you believe in cause and effect, then you believe in karma.  If you believe in creation, which is that something can start from nothing, then you believe in grace.  I witness that grace and karma have both been active in my life. It can be thought that those who escape karma live in grace.

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