Jean-Claude Gerard Koven – Shooting Dead Horses

Rancho Mirage, California

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Why God won’t save us

Commentary: Shooting Dead Horses

A lot of people are asking: why an omnipotent, loving, compassionate God would allow
such worldwide pain and suffering to continue? Surely this could not be part of the divine
plan. Or is it?
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The news filling the airwaves these days—terrorism, war, starvation, severe weather,
threats of epidemics, financial upheavals, and incessant litigation – has a palpable ripple-
effect on all of us. The worse it gets “out there,” the more we are challenged to find
meaning in our personal lives. A lot of people are asking: why would an omnipotent,
loving, compassionate God allow such worldwide pain and suffering to continue? Surely
this could not be part of the divine plan.

Based on our limited, human knowledge of how things get done, we assume that since
there is a creation, there must, logically, be a creator – an all-knowing, all-powerful
supreme being that designed all this and brought it to pass. He, She, or It must be
responsible and must surely be in charge.

This assumption is what has us locked into the very pain and suffering we want to escape.
We keep praying for the some heavenly God to intervene. To my way of seeing things,
there {ital}is{/ital} no creator separate from the creation itself. The entire universe is no
more (and certainly no less) than the Oneness experiencing itself infinitely.

In order to have the greatest range of experiences, the Oneness – akin to a vast cosmic
hologram – veils itself with a series of filters that simulate varying degrees of separation
and multiplicity. These successive frequencies of consciousness (also called densities) are
much like the colors of the visible spectrum. Humankind currently lives at the third
density, analogous to the yellow band of color. Below us are the plants and animals,
which perceive through the second, or orange, stage of consciousness, and the elemental
(air, earth, fire, water) kingdom – the most heavily veiled – which inhabits the first, or
red, level. The densities above us range from the fourth through the seventh, matching the
spectrum colors of green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Every aspect of creation is a point through which the Oneness perceives itself. As an
individual bit of awareness progresses upward through the densities, successive veils fall
away and the degree of consciousness increases. At the eighth density no veils remain,
and, losing all sense of personal identity, we merge back into the Oneness. When people
talk about the impending shift on Planet Earth, they are referring to our ascension from
the third density into the fourth.

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The range of experience in Earth's third-density illusion is both rich and challenging. At
the third density, consciousness has risen sufficiently to be able to observe the grand
mystery of the universe while simultaneously feeling separate from and abandoned by
source. This condition brings about the full panoply of human emotions, as well as the
tension of opposites that characterizes the third-density, human experience: good versus
evil, light versus dark, feminine versus masculine, and so on. We live in an illusion of
polarities deliberately designed to pit us against ourselves. This is also the first level of
consciousness where co-creation is possible through the exercise of individual free will.
Our part in creation's great experiment is to see what kind of existence and
interrelationships Oneness (as us) might create under these conditions.

The world we see and experience is our great masterpiece hanging on the wall of the
cosmos. We continually add to it masses of data that can only come through the dance of
opposites: exquisite kindness and generosity in the face of greed and cruelty; love in the
face of fear.

To those who pray for only peace and goodwill to prevail upon Earth, I would respond:
“Why, then, did you step into this illusion of polarities in the first place, if not to
experience all the challenges of conflict? Step back for a moment and appreciate how the
wild diversity of the human experience reflects back to Oneness its infinite nature. In the
infinite, all things are possible and ultimately find expression. It is curiosity's nature to
poke into every conceivable nook and cranny in search of itself.”

Our illusion is as disharmonious as it is because we've made it that way. This density's
template held within it the world as we know it as one probability. We could have opted
for a myriad other scenarios. There is no external God to rescue us from our misery. We
made this mess ourselves through the exercise of our free will. With the power to create
comes the responsibility for the result – and the capacity to change it if we want to.

If one believes the timetable set by the predictions of the Mayans, Hopis, and other
indigenous peoples, then we have precious little time left to mend our ways. I suggest we
stop looking either to the skies or to our nations’ leaders for miracle answers. If we are in
deep trouble, it is because we have failed to embrace our individual responsibility and
power. It is time for us to grow up and stop pretending to be helpless and incapable. To
paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, “We must be the God we want to see in this world.”

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{italic}{bold}Jean-Claude Gerard Koven{/bold} is a writer and speaker based in Rancho

Mirage, CA. He is a featured weekly columnist for UPI’s (United Press International)
ReligionAndSpirituality.com and the author of “Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of
Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense,” recipient of both the Allbooks Reviews
editor’s choice award and the USABookNews.com award for the best metaphysical book
of the year. For more information, please visit: {url
http://www.goingdeeper.org}www.goingdeeper.org{/url}. © copyright 2007 Jean-Claude
Gerard Koven{/italic}

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