Monday, January 28, 2008

On The Reality of A God-Power - or Not

I'm a shameless read-aholic. I read labels, signs, just about anything that isn't pornographic. I may disagree absolutely with what I'm reading, wonder at the mentality of the writer, but if I don't read what the writer has to say, how can I debate it? If it's dangerous to true freedom, in particular?
Recently, I was scanning headlines, and one of them had to do with the question, "Is There Really A God?" A second one had to do with asking "Is God Dead or Alive?" As an in-the-bones Traditional and one of those females who always has at least one question, I find these two questions uproariously funny.
When you stop to think that both questions / essays were written by so-called leading Christian theologians, it is enough to make me laugh until I can barely breathe even now; more so because they were both serious. To sum up my reaction, it was "hahahahahahahaha-hoo-hoo-gasp-wheeze", with tears running down my face.
I nearly drove my elders to distraction with, "... I have a question" when I was a child. I was raised to work to puzzle
out the answers to my questions before I asked for help, so I really have a problem with those two questions. I mean, how can anyone wonder?
The answer is in the Traditional Teachings I was raised on. Our Creation Story teaches that initially, everything existed, but was formless. We call this 'being in the Void'. Suddenly, That Which Is Holy began to wonder what It was really like; what Its parts were; their natures; and so on. In order to find out, It began to separate a piece of Itself out from the Void; and eventually this solidified and became Inyan, the Rock which has, over the eons, become our Holy Mother, the Earth.
"Inyan" is pronounced "EE-yahngh", with the 'n' nasal as in French. Lakota is a nasal - glottal language.
As That Which Is Holy separated out the part that became Inyan, some of Its Power also seeped out and became the disc of the Sky.. The color of this Power is the shade of blue we see in the sky on a clear day. This is more or less, I suppose, why so many of us ITI People consider turquoise to be holy.
This process of separating Itself into Its myriad parts in order to understand what It is really all about continues now, and will until the end of time. What is called "God" by so many is thus absolutely real. There couldn't be a universe without It. And you couldn't exist either, let alone read this blog.
As for "is God dead?" - If "God" were to die, the universe would cease to exist. And you couldn't be reading this. If certain conditions are met, or not met, our Traditional Teachings provide that the world will indeed end.
Since I am the woman who Dances The Four Winds, which is a prayer to heal the Sacred Hoop of the world, it is part of my job to know if that is going to happen in the foreseeable future. I've been trying to get people's attention about human over-population since I was a child. The gross excess of humans on our Holy Mother the Earth these days have thrown her ecosystems into great imbalance. Global warming speaks eloquently to that.
Does that mean the world will end, from my view? Not the entire world. Not the universe, either. Humans have become a cancer in the web of life, and we are facing mass deaths of humans and some other species as a result of human cultural arrogance.
But "God" will continue; there's no question of that from where I sit.

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