12-13-2012, 10:49 AM
(12-13-2012, 06:57 AM)anagogy Wrote: "Nothingness" is a word for a concept which depicts a state of infinite lack.
It's ultimately a matter of semantics, don't you think? I do not wish to stir argumentation (I am congruent withe everything you are saying, anagogy), but I'd like to toss in a few cents here. I always perceived "Nothingness" as the Source of "everythingness." The keyword here is "thing," and since I have never been able to define the Source/Intelligent Infinity/One Infinite Creator as a "thing" I call it No-Thing-ness—a VOID of Infinite Potential (unpotentiated, boundless, formless state of undistorted, undifferentiated, indivisible Infinity, or Oneness). This is to me the Ultimate Being(ness), absolute emptiness or nothingness equaling infinite fullness or plenum. Again, this is my perception.
I'll share a very simple example: I do not like to accumulate hoards of "things" or piles of "junk" because it makes me (and my room/home) feel "obstructed" or "blocked." So I am very minimalistic and keep very few material possessions. The more EMPTY my room is, the FULLER I feel; the less things (no-things) I carry around, the more FULL-FILLED I am; which is why I have defined the Source of All That Is as "No-Thing-ness," and why I have often said I seek this very "No-Thing-ness."
Yet I am aware Ra have said (as you quoted): "The dissolution into nothingness is the dissolution into unity, for there is no nothingness."
And I also agree. "Nothingness" to me is simply a close approximation to a description for defining that which is an Infinite BEING rather than a "thing." There is no objective referent to Infinite Intelligence/Intelligent Infinity.
Quote:Consciousness cannot actually become un-conscious. It can only forget that it was conscious.
And yet Q'uo and co. have defined the One Infinite Creator as "unaware, infinite intelligence;" "unconscious, intelligent infinity;" and "that great, unknowing, unconscious well of infinite intelligence."
I believe this is precisely the very Mystery of BEING—the dreamless dreamer dreaming all dreams.