Soaring Like an Eagle

Would you believe me if I told you that within you lies everything you could ever need to survive, to thrive, to prosper, and to fulfill your potential as a human being?  Does it sound too good to be true?

The modern world is full of confusion.  Millions of human beings live lives of quiet desperation, never knowing or fully realizing who they are, or why they exist.  Under the hypnotic spell of the human race mind, they never believe it is possible to know or be anything other than the way society tells them they should be.  Many people feel that something is wrong with the world, that life should be richer, fuller, and more exciting.  They wonder why human life is so full of deceit, hypocrisy, violence, poverty, and despair.  They complain about work, about politics, about their families, or spouses.  They say things like,” life sucks and then you die.”  Many think life should not be like this, yet we do not question it, we simply shrug our shoulders and accept it.  Humans exist, but few of us ever truly live.

It is a tragedy that most people never realize that the way out of this situation lies within themselves, as a constitutive dimension of their being human in the first place.  It just seems to them to be too easy, too convenient, or silly unrealistic wishful thinking.  And perhaps it is, if it begins and ends as a wish and is not followed by steady and persistent desire and action.  However, desire and persistent action will show convincingly that it is true;  that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, and have at their disposal powers given them by the creator, powers that are virtually infinite in scope and nature.

The answer to the problem of life, and the problems of life, are for every human being to take responsibility for his or her own life, and begin to make it a life of power and overcoming by tapping into and becoming a channel for the divine which lies hidden within them.  Until they do, life will continue to puzzle and confuse them, and send lessons which are designed to rouse them from their hypnotic sleep and awaken them to the truth. They will live as a slave, while being secretly Noble.  I will end with a fable which illustrates this fact clearly:

A fable is told about an eagle who thought he was a chicken. When the eagle was very small, he fell from the safety of his nest.  A chicken farmer found the eagle, brought him to the farm, and raised him in a chicken coop among his many chickens. The eagle grew up doing what chickens do, living like a chicken, and believing he was a chicken.

        A naturalist came to the chicken farm to see if what he had heard about an eagle acting like a chicken was really true.  He knew that an eagle is king of the sky.  He was surprised to see the eagle strutting around the chicken coop, pecking at the ground, and acting very much like a chicken.  The farmer explained to the naturalist that this bird was no longer an eagle.  He was now a chicken because he had been trained to be a chicken and he believed that he was a chicken.
 

        The naturalist knew there was more to this great bird than his actions showed as he "pretended" to be a chicken.  He was born an eagle and had the heart of an eagle, and nothing could change that.  The man lifted the eagle onto the fence surrounding the chicken coop and said,  "Eagle, thou art an eagle.  Stretch forth thy wings and fly."  The eagle moved slightly, only to look at the man; then he glanced down at his home among the chickens in the chicken coop where he was comfortable.  He jumped off the fence and continued doing what chickens do.  The farmer was satisfied. "I told you it was a chicken," he said.
 

        The naturalist returned the next day and tried again to convince the farmer and the eagle that the eagle was born for something greater.  He took the eagle to the top of the farmhouse and spoke to him: "Eagle, thou art an eagle.  Thou dost belong to the sky and not to the earth.  Stretch forth thy wings and fly." The large bird looked at the man, then again down into the chicken coop.  He jumped from the man's arm onto the roof of the farmhouse.
 

        Knowing what eagles are really about, the naturalist asked the farmer to let him try one more time.  He would return the next day and prove that this bird was an eagle.  The farmer, convinced otherwise, said, "It is a chicken."
 

        The naturalist returned the next morning to the chicken farm and took the eagle and the farmer some distance away to the foot of a high mountain.  They could not see the farm nor the chicken coop from this new setting.  The man held the eagle on his arm and pointed high into the sky where the bright sun was beckoning above.  He spoke: "Eagle, thou art an eagle!  Thou dost belong to the sky and not to the earth.  Stretch forth thy wings and fly." This time the eagle stared skyward into the bright sun, straightened his large body, and stretched his massive wings.  His wings moved, slowly at first, then surely and powerfully.  With the mighty screech of an eagle, he flew.

Human beings were made to soar like eagles.  It is time for us to claim our birthright.

The Greatest Speech Ever Made

Change is coming.  Are you ready?

Psalm 14:1-3

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God. They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.

Does God exist?  This is an absurd question, and fundamentally meaningless, a question that is essentially impossible to prove either positively or negatively.  Simply put, if God does exist, then how do we define what we mean by that existence?  What type of existence does God have?  Unless we ourselves are God, which is unlikely given our reality as an earth bound and limited creature, then our understanding of existence is also limited to what we understand and experience as earth bound and limited creatures. Religious people claim that God is an infinite being. What do they mean by the term infinite being?  Beyond limits?  Try to imagine that.  You cannot, because humans are limited, and finite.  Essentially, human beings cannot know what it means to say God exists, therefore to speak of it is folly, because if an infinite God exists then God requires no one to assert God's existence, since God IS existence.  Moses asked God’s name and God replied I am Who I am.  The name means I AM Existence , with no beginning and end, a reality which is so outside of human experience that the only response that is truthful and appropriate is one of silence.

And arguing against the existence of God is equally impossible and absurd, for the same reasons.  The atheist claims science has shown more evidence against God’s existence than for God's existence. Again, what does science mean by the term existence? If science means existence which can be observed by earth bound limited beings, then we cannot ever know anything beyond our earth bound observations.   Science can only describe existence as it is observed and tested, and develop theories on how they believe existence evolved, but it can never define that which could exist beyond its observations and theories. Again, the best response to this paradox is silence.

Ultimately, as I observe the two poles of the existence or non-existence of God, in both cases I am confronted with a mystery which my mind cannot solve.  And since human beings find it difficult to exist in a world of mystery, we lean on faith as the vehicle by which  we can explain the mystery.  The religious person extols the virtue of faith in their creeds, rituals, scriptures, and religious practices.  The atheist extols faith in human reason, science, evolution and progress.  Both camps settle on opposite sides of the poles of God’s existence, and resign themselves to further ignorance and error. The answer, as always, lies in the balancing of the poles.


If God exists then the only way to truly know it is to experience it.  You cannot think about the existence of God as a concept, since God's existence is the source of all conception and all thought.  Atheists and agnostics deny this fact at their peril because God is all life, all existence.  So how do we experience it?  By living our lives in love and service to God, ourselves, and our neighbor. By living faithfully not to a set of dogmas, creeds, and church regulations but instead to a deep belief in the law of love. A life lived in this manner reveals that God is present within each person, aye every atom in the universe is filled with the prescence and power of God.  We see that existence itself is the proof of God's existence.

Religious people often feel that God demands that they believe in Him and the doctrines of his church, and in doing so they are justified by faith.  However, a closer examination shows us that it is by engaging life postively and with love in our hearts that we are justified, and made partakers in the eternal life of our creator.