Heavenletters

Dear Jochen and Santhan, this is a very valuable dialogue for me, as we consider the import of this letter. I come to understand my thinking so much better by the process of trying to communicate it, and better yet by reading your insightful responses and mulling over your views.

We are discussing important and complex issues that have been captured in this letter in deceptively simple phrases. My gut feeling, Jochen, is that your concerns (which, by the way, you articulate in a marvelous fashion) are multilayered in their complexity, but do not arise out the specifics of your understanding of the English language nor your native German. I will try to provide my impressions of what you and Santhan are saying by discussing some of the layers of the complexity that I am perceiving.

I believe that part of the problems we are discussing, perhaps a big part, involves the limitations of human language. Not any specific language, nor translations between languages, rather, limitations of all human language. If my understanding is accurate, Reality, as God is discussing here, is enormously multidimensional and, consequently, an exact understanding of this multidimensionality is beyond our human reasoning and beyond any precise description using our one dimensional languages (that are based predominantly on our physical senses). The way the Author of these letters transcends some of these limitations is to make generous use of metaphors, often describing the same concept through many different metaphors and with a lot of repetition. But any given metaphor can never be completely precise, it can only give a glimpse or an impression, and its benefit is lost if we try to push it too far.

I think this is the problem with the phrase: “….and the sense of fullness of love eclipses itself in your thoughts of it.” I interpret this to mean that our view of the “fullness of love” is changed in the same way that our view of the moon changes during eclipse, rather than the sense of this metaphor that would imply covering over of truth. You might say that the eclipsed view is no more true or false than the un-eclipsed view, they are just two different perspectives.

A second part of the problem relates to our view of the purpose of creation. Again, as I see it, many of our mystical traditions and some of our religions have included a bias against physical reality, implying that it is somehow corrupt and must be escaped or its illusions removed from our consciousness. To me, this is illogical, for why would our Creator create us and our physical world if it is only a condition to transcend or escape? Instead, I see our purpose as being to remain an integral part of the physical world as we raise both it and our understanding to new levels of awareness. The universe is already constructed totally out of the non-physical substance of love, it is replete with love, we have just somehow become blinded to this truth. We are not to escape or ignore it, we are to plunge ourselves completely into it while still seeing its true nature clearly. Again, as I see it, if our Creator could have accomplished His goals in a better way, the world would never have been created and we would not be experiencing ourselves as a part of it. Our thinking and reasoning processes are also a vital part of this process.

A third part of the problem relates to what I see as the multidimensional nature of the Heavenletters themselves. I view the letters as a sort of psychotherapy for mankind. The Author is the Ultimate Therapist who is writing the letters for everyone who is ready to read them. The therapy comes about as we read the letters and allow our minds to be reformed into a healthier state. For this effect to be manifest, our analysis and reasoning are unnecessary, we need only to focus our minds on the words, the ideas and the images. I call them multidimensional since they can also be useful to people who wish to analyze and intellectually explore, but their primary purpose seems to be to bypass the mind and speak directly to the heart. I wonder if a byproduct of their nature is that our logical minds may be easily misled by them.

My last point is more of an observation than a discussion of a problem. I think that our "Ultimate Therapist" has been utilizing the world’s sacred literatures for His therapeutic purpose from time immemorial. Each generation’s revelations are tailored to the time, the specific people and their level of consciousness. In comparison to the Heavenletters, many of these traditions may well feel like they come with a “heavy toolbox.” The message of the letters seems to be that we are now at a new stage of our spiritual evolution. There is no longer any teacher or scripture that is as ideal for us as the Teacher who speaks directly to us in our heart. We are now able to begin to hear and truly no manuals are necessary. To me, the Heavenletters and the Godwriting workshops are a way for us to help each other transform our understanding more efficiently than in the past and make use of a “new technology.”

My fondest hope is that your time in reading all this has been rewarded by at least moving us a bit further along in this discussion………Chuck