Created in the Image of a Creator who's Image is impossible to Conceptualize

      A friend of mine asked me an intriguing question. For the first time in my life I actually feel like I have enough of my own understanding to give him what I feel is an answer.  At this point I am going to borrow from the concept of The Wanderer.  I feel like I am coming from that place of the creator and am looking in at him thinking okay I am going to wake another one up.  Kinda like Neo in the matrix, I'm out of the Matrix but at times have to go in for specific reasons.  I'm sure allot of people are thinking I am full of it right now.  The truth is it is strange being me.  The self I feel is it the self you feel?  Are we all one person having Billions of experiences?  In a way I believe that's we are like grains of sand molded into Glass, which shatters then grinds back to sand, 

"Okay I'll keep this simple and short.

200 years ago, we were nothing. We did not exist. Our brains were not created yet.

We weren't dead, we were just nothing. We did not exist yet.

When we are born and as we develop, we live our lives through all our senses.

Our senses are used by the brain, everything we see and experience is in the brain.

So, before we were born, there was nothing. Then once our brains were created, we have life.

If I was to take a shotgun and blow my brains out,

wouldn’t it be the same thing as before I was born?

It’s not a bad thing (no afterlife,) it’s just nothing.

Nothing is good. It’s like sleeping, except for forever. We won't even know.

Makes sense?''

     I was very confused when I followed people’s paths, but I feel like throughout life my understanding of my own self, as not just a creation of the highest thing in existence but a piece of it developed.  Would love to hear how others feel about the subject or have anything to add or feel is flawed all together. 

      When my friend quoted above mentions before we were born there was nothing, that's the fundamental flaw in his belief system. Before we where born everything in the universe existed, even his own consciousness.  I don’t remember being a year and a half old but I was conscious.  He’s relating not remembering to not existing. Nothing and Everything are interchangeable. Nothing gives room for everything. Therefore, nothing is Everything and vice versa.  Lao-Szu in Chapter Two of The Tao Te Ching makes an interesting point.
"As soon as beauty is known by the world as beautiful, it becomes ugly. As soon as virtue is being known as something good, it becomes evil. Therefore being and non-being give birth to each other. Difficult and easy accomplish each other. Long and short form each other. High and low distinguish each other. Sound and tone harmonize each other Before and after follow each other as a sequence. Realizing this, the saint performs effortlessly according to the natural Way without personal desire, and practices the wordless teaching thru one’s deeds. The saint inspires the vitality of all lives, without holding back. He nurtures all beings with no wish to take possession of. He devotes all his energy but has no intention to hold on to the merit. When success is achieved, he seeks no recognition. Because he does not claim for the credit, hence shall not lose it."

First I told him to begin meditating.  When meditating you often reach moments of space between thoughts.  With practice this space gets longer and longer and you achieve it faster and faster.

We can do that test right now without any one blowing their brains out or giving birth. Meditate for 20 minutes’ focus on your breathing and clear your mind. I know you’re not going to be able to clear your mind fully for 20 minutes unless you have been practicing for years.

     Notice that during the moments between your thoughts you are still conscious. Remember the famous quote ‘’I think therefore I am.’’ Is completely wrong.  Should be I am Therefore I think.  We can't describe that awareness because it is greater than our comprehension.  So yes it is tuff because it cannot be scenically proven and allot of groups take this and add on wacky stuff that is in no way related.  At the core this is sacred knowledge shared by societies that had no connection to each other and where separated by thousands of years but we see it again and again.  That proves that we are not our thoughts. That empty space is the source of all things.

This empty space and the attempt to describe that space being higher than our understanding is also the great artistic muse.  I believe describing this indescribable thing is the source of all art, music, and creativity throughout history.

     When it says in the Bible "god created us in his image". I hope you guys out there don't think that means God looks like a human being. What does it mean to be created in the image of the creator of all things whose image is impossible to even imagine?  Yea that makes sense!

What is the only thing we can say about this creator... That he created. There for when it says we are created in the image of god (which can be described in no way except that it is the creator of all things). That means the only thing we get from that statement is that we are creators ourselves created by a creative force who’s desire is to create.

I am realizing it’s possible that that religion is a 2000-year-old game of telephone.  where all of it was lost in translation. I am going to look for sources to support the whole Blog Post For now Namaste. : )