Made in the Image; ITS&FYD.ch1,pt5.

EARTH STRUCTURES, or How We are Built. pt 1, Made in the Image.

In which we explore some of the features of being human beings, as in, the way we are built. This part is about 'Made in the Image' and what that might mean.

Who are we?

You as reader are a separate single human being who is a part of an enormous whole which we really cannot encompass, and are not meant to; it’s a Bigness.

This Bigness has an energy and some sort of design or control that we don’t really comprehend. We call it God, the Universe, Life, and we can also use the term Nature which does not have to be limited to just our planet Earth. (On the other hand is Nature on Earth going to be eternal considering what we are doing to it?)

What are You as this Spark or Part with a Mind?

We ‘come in’ with some built-in features.

·      We are Made in the Image of God

·      We have a Psyche/Mind of a particular structure.

·      We have filters.

·      We have a very large, mostly unknown potential – our ‘promise’.

·      We have a pack of expectations and assumptions from our previous lives.

·      A ‘larger design’ for our lives including Contracts, which we’ve chosen while off-earth, which we forget about when we are born.

Man is Made in the Image of God.

The difference between man and all (?) other forms on Earth is that we have an internal awareness; which is another difficult concept to define.

It is not ‘I think therefore I am’, it is ‘I am aware that I am thinking, therefore I am’. This self-awareness is of key importance. We have an awareness of our external world (Life ‘out there’) and we also have an awareness of our internal world (our self ‘in here’).  They are two different things, and we know that. We can shift our attention from one to the other, although we can’t attend to both at once.

Our inner awareness is our own Mind which can perceive things for itself. It is entirely individual with its own point of view. We think of it as ‘my self’.

Within our minds are…

Things we are conscious of, which is what we present to the outer world; our ‘outer self’,

And things we are unconscious of, which are actually completely unknown to this ‘outer self’, living deep within an ‘inner self’, and these ‘selves’ are split.

The conscious does not know the unconscious (by definition).

The difference between human beings and God is that God does know Her Inner Self, and therefore it is not unconscious. She has worked out how to learn about Her Inner Self and goes on learning because She loves doing so and Creates Life with it and explores it because it is enormous and there’s always more.

God does not need an external world because God is in everything. All Life as we know it is God’s manifestation of/from Her Inner Self.

But, we need an external world ‘out there’ to show us who is ‘in here’ for our own self. Life is serving us as a mirror for us to look into if we want to.

Our minds are built like God’s; they have to be.

It is as if God has understood that Her human creations need an external world in order to find out about their own internal world, and that it is extremely difficult to do it any other way. We need these conditions of our lives on Earth to find and understand our own energy/power/effect for ourselves, as well as how to use that energy/power/effect. The implication here is that the more we know and understand our inner selves, the more we are able to come into a unity of our own.

Another point I wish to make here is that our internal world and our external world are as large as each other, and they affect each other each way.

We think that the world affects us, and it does, but we are generally unaware that we are affecting our world.

Hence the primary instruction of ‘Know Thyself’.

The big risk of man being made in the image of God is that man will start thinking that he is actually god, which is an inflation (which see below). This is cured by time sooner or later.