Author: Peter Dennis, See Bio.
Publisher: CAPCO International
ISBN: 0-9698926-5-9
2004
Metaphysics
An Adventure in Self-discovery
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Author: Peter Dennis, See Bio. Publisher: CAPCO International ISBN: 0-9698926-5-9 2004 |
Reviews Table of Contents Excerpt From Chapter One How to Order
This book
starts with the premise that we are spiritual beings existing in a physical
universe, each with a specific purpose. It explains the nature of creation and
our role in it, and it sheds considerable light on many of life’s “Bigger
Questions,” e.g. Who are we? What is our purpose? Who or what created
everything? What is the Creator’s purpose?
As well, this
book provides clear explanations for many of the concepts that are important to
understanding our own spiritual nature, e.g. the densification of energy, past
life regression, channeling, laws of the universe, extraterrestrials,
meditation, creating the future and a whole host of others. As we learn more
about these concepts, we understand better where we fit in, we become more the
architect of our destiny and less the victim of chance. As well, we can glimpse
the beauty, order and magnificence of the divine plan. Indeed, developing these
insights and understandings is a great adventure, and importantly, one of
self-discovery.
"I have been an avid reader of the metaphysical for years and have to say this book is one I have enjoyed the most. It’s clear, well-organized and a “good read.” The logical way in which the concepts are interpreted clarified many of my opinions and thoughts, and put them right in front of me in easy-to-understand language. I felt the words were written right to me, the reader, as if Peter was right there and we were having a conversation." Elaine Charal
"This book is dynamite! It explains many complex, spiritual ideas in down-to-earth, easy to understand terms and it is especially effective in explaining how to meditate and how to conduct past life regressions." Steph Lekosky
"Have
you ever asked a question on a complex topic and been pleasantly surprised when
given a common sense answer? Author and past college professor, Peter Dennis,
does that in his book, 'Metaphysics - An Adventure in Self-discovery'
where he explains metaphysical and spiritual concepts using a direct approach.
For the most part, this is a quick read. Referring to extensive research and
experience, he offers his opinions on various topics such as intuition,
reincarnation, channeling, spirit guides, karma, predicting the future, how to
meditate, how to deal with stress and so on. Check out the sub-chapter titled 'There
Really Are No Past Lives.' I find the book to be a handy tool because it
also walks the reader through easy to follow steps to learn interesting
activities, such as seeing auras, meditating, conducting past life regressions.
This is a little gem of a book that will be sure to become doggy eared in no
time." Jill Ledden, review for Tone, July/August, 2004, Volume 19,
Number 11.
1.
The Universe
What Is God?
God is All That Is
God Is Not A Person
God Is Pure Consciousness That
Includes Everything
God’s Purpose Is To Experience And
Create
God Fragments Into Powerful Parts To Experience Limitation And
Separation
Summary
We Are Multi-Dimensional And
Holographic
Summary
We Densify Energy To Create The
Illusion
The Seven Densities
Summary
2.
Some Other Pieces to the Puzzle
Belief
Reincarnation
Laws of the Universe
Channeling
Spirit Guides
Angels
Judgment
Gratitude
Injury, Dis-ease and Aging
Sleep
Extraterrestrials
Karma
Predicting The Future
Emotion
3. Some Thought Starters
Birth and Death
World Population
The Earth as a Sentient Being
Heroes
The Observer
The Disappearance of the Dinosaurs
Lemuria
Atlantis
The Maya
Play
Television and Movies
Climate
Whales and Dolphins
Domestic Pets
Illness and Dis-ease
Astrology
Christ Consciousness
A School of Patience
A School of Relationships
Self-Discovery
7. Bibliography
8.
Index
God:
Likely,
our first concept of God was something along the lines of an older, bearded
gentleman who was wise, powerful and who somehow pulled the strings that
orchestrated human affairs.
Over
time, our concepts evolved and matured. We probably began to understand that God
really didn’t have a body, a gender or human limitations. Then, it began to
get complicated. As our concepts matured, so did our questions. Where is God?
What is His involvement with humans? How powerful is He? Where do we fit in?
What are we supposed to be doing? Is He really pulling all the strings or is He
allowing us the use of free will? What is the grand plan? Why did He create us,
or anything for that matter? Is He perfect? Why does He allow evil? Did He
actually create it? Does He change? Etc., etc.
Of
course, organized religions provide some answers, as do mystics, gurus,
scientists, preachers and others. Some tell us that they have the answers or
their books do, or it is within each of us. Some say God is a being. Some say a
force. Some say a spark of consciousness. It seems that the more answers we
have, the more questions we develop. But, our concepts do evolve and we do edge
closer, not likely to a final answer, but closer.
You will notice too, that God goes by many different names: God, Allah, Jehovah, Infinite Creator, etc. The one that I like best is: “All That Is.” It is a term that you see frequently in the metaphysical literature and it is one that I believe captures the essence of what God is. Many spiritual leaders, mystics, church managers, etc. tell us that God is omnipotent and universal. From this, I conclude that God is all – everything, everyone, everywhere, everywhen. God includes everything and everyone. There is nothing outside of God, including you and me. We are all included. We are aspects or expressions of God. We are a part of God and God is not separate from us.
As
well, God is neither a person nor a being. It is too simplistic to personify
God. We did this when times were simpler and we still do it today with children.
God does not have a location, a body or a gender.
Another
point: We often refer to God as He or Him but God includes both genders and is
not limited by either. It would be more accurate, I believe, to refer to God as
“It” but to many of us who use the English language, this is the pronoun we
apply to inanimate objects or things that we value as less than human. That
aside, I am going to use “It” when referring to God and I will intend at
least as much respect as implied in personal pronouns.
I
also believe that God does not suffer the human weaknesses of anger and ego.
There are references in the Bible to God getting angry. As God includes
everything and everyone, does it make any sense that God, in all of Its
perfection, would be angry at Itself, or at any part of Itself? Isn’t anger
really unresolved frustration? Do we really think that God would be frustrated
or incapable of resolving it? I don’t believe for a moment that God is
susceptible to anger.
As
to ego, wouldn’t it be a little like egomania to insist that One’s creations
engage in worshipping their creator? What possible need would God have for the
worship of humans, again, which are a part of Itself? Isn’t it more likely
that the idea of worship is a human construct, perhaps the product of an
organization engaged in the enterprise of leading large populations of
worshippers?
So, if God isn’t a person or a personality with human weaknesses, what is It?
Well, I believe that God’s essence is consciousness and everything that exists, exists within that consciousness. I believe that that consciousness manifests as a force that includes and permeates everything and everyone, and holds everything together. There is no thing and no one that isn’t included in God. Nothing can exist outside of God. There is no “outside of God.” And, there is no separation from God, except by illusion -- more about that later.
To
get at this, let’s go to the beginning. Of course, for God, there really was
no beginning but there was for the physical universe. So, before the creation of
the physical universe, God existed and God reflected on everything and, God
being everything, God reflected on Itself. In this reflecting, God knew that it
knew everything. That is, It had all knowledge of everything, actual and
potential. It realized, however, that intellectual or cognitive knowledge was
not as rich a knowledge as the knowledge that comes from experience. So, simply,
God set out to experience all that It knew about cognitively.
As
well, by nature, God is a creator, the infinite creator, and It could do nothing
other than create. And, It did it from a twofold basis: One, unconditional love
for Itself (meaning everything and everyone) and two, from a sense of fun. So,
with this drive to experience all, with this natural creative urge, and with a
sense of fun, God set out on a creating mission and It created a
“playground” in which to experience all that It knew about cognitively.
Now,
being God, we would expect that It would not want to miss anything, so to cover
all the bases, God fragmented Itself into powerful, parts or aspects. These
aspects divided and the divisions subdivided and the subdivisions divided
further and so on until we got to ourselves. Sub, sub, sub, etc., divisions or
expressions of God. In this way, all of these subdivisions, aspects or
expressions of God, could spread out, so to speak, to create, to explore and to
experience every thing and every idea that actually or potentially exists.
As
the subdividing went on, it eventually got down to us. It unfolded something
like this: Imagine a group of powerful entities deciding what they would choose
to create, explore and experience. Remember, these are powerful, creative,
spiritual entities with no limits. What would be interesting for them? Well,
they hit upon something that was very novel and different for them. They decided
to pursue the idea of “Limitation.”
Now,
imagine if you were all-powerful, had no limits and wanted to experience
limitation. How would you go about it? Well, one way would be to create an arena
or a universe containing limiting elements, things like time, space and matter.
In order to make it work, you would have to introduce one other key element.
That is, if one was truly unlimited and was going to experience limitation, one
would have to somehow put aside or “forget” one’s true unlimited nature.
So, this forgetting process was invented for all of those who incarnate into
this universe. That is, everyone born into this universe “forgets” his/her
true nature in order to experience limitation and “play the game.” We have
to. Otherwise, how could we truly experience limitation if, all along, we knew
that this was really just an illusion that we had created and the real us
actually had no limits? We couldn’t play the game fairly, could we?
Now,
in addition to being unlimited, God was also unified, meaning, all was one and
one was all. In deciding to experience limitation, God also decided to
experience the opposite to unification, namely, separation. To pursue this idea,
God/we have created the illusion that all isn’t one or that you and I and God
are all separate from one another. Just to intensify the impact of this
illusion, we created a universe of polarities, e.g. black and white, up and
down, hot and cold, positive and negative, male and female, etc.
So,
here we are, aspects of God, creating, playing and experiencing in a realm or
universe of limitation and separation. And, we are doing this while other
aspects of God are busy experiencing other universes with other conditions and
circumstances that they have created for the purpose of experiencing other ideas
that God knows cognitively but not experientially.
Now,
given that we are essentially powerful, unlimited aspects of God creating this
physical universe in order to experience all that we can in a universe of
limitation and separation, how could we do this fully? Remember there are only
limits once we incarnate but there’s an incredible, unlimited intelligence
behind the creation of this experience that makes it all work and enables us to
get the most from it.
To
get the most from it, it was decided to make the beings experiencing it, namely
us, multi-dimensional. Why restrict experience to only one dimension when the
possibilities are so much greater? We are multi-dimensional in at least two
ways. First, we live many lives simultaneously but, in our “limited” human
minds, we separate them in time so that they appear to be past, present and
future lives. That is to say, at a level “higher” than ourselves, we create
many personalities. That is, our higher self fragments into many aspects, each
of which takes on its own personality and is born into a different time period.
Some are male some female, some are rich, some poor, some are nice, some rotten,
etc. until that entity has enough aspects to engage in all of the experiences
that it wishes.
Here’s
where the plot thickens. The second way we are multi-dimensional is that, each
time we come to a decision point, we fragment further to explore all of the
alternatives. For example, if we decide to get married, we do and we don’t --
we experience both. One aspect of us goes one way and another goes another.
Further, if we do decide to marry, we could marry any of a number of potential
partners and, so, we do. Each of our personalities, of course, is not aware of
this or the others because our consciousness is limited and focused only in one
personality at a time. From the perspective of our higher self, it is all
happening simultaneously and the higher self is experiencing all of the possible
experiences and variations that it has set out to experience.
Bashar
provides an analogy that has helped me to understand some of this. He speaks of
a projectionist and a filmstrip. The filmstrip has a number of frames and, from
the perspective of any one frame, there are frames that come before it and
others that come after. Each frame can represent a lifetime, with the frames on
one side representing past lives and the frames on the other side representing
future lives. From the perspective of the projectionist, however, the frames can
all be viewed at once. Similarly, from the prospective of the oversoul or higher
self, the lifetimes are all happening simultaneously.
Additionally,
we are holographic, which means that each one of us contains all the information
of the whole. That is, we have all knowledge but, of course, have chosen to
forget it or put it aside while we are exploring limitation and physicality.
In
Summary:
We
are unlimited, multi-dimensional, holographic fragments of God (souls) creating
the illusion of a physical universe in order to explore the concepts of
limitation and separation, with the purpose of learning experientially what we
know cognitively and, to accomplish this with integrity, we have chosen to
temporarily forget that the real reality is one that is spiritual, unified and
unlimited.
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