How sweet it is!

http://sites.google.com/a/transfigurism.org/transfigurism-wiki/Home/quotes-1/mormon-quotes-on-transfiguration-and-resurrection

An interesting collection of quotes taken from Scripture I've been considering for a while now,

1 Corinthians 15: 51-55
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"

I've been beginning to think the trajectory of evolution of the universe from an "Alpha" point with the Big Bang heading towards a Teilhardian "Omega" point where immortality is, basically, part of God's plan for us. This is hinted at in 1 CORINTHIANS 15:25-28 when, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death," so that, "God may be all in all."

All this reminds me of what Einstein had to say about religion and him feeling that "everything else seems superfluous" when reading the Bhagavad Gita; I also remember Planck's rallying cry, "Religion and Natural Science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism, against dogmatism and against superstition, and the rallying cry in these crusades has always been, and always will be: On to God!"

Sitting here at my desk, I understand Einstein's feeling that everything else seems superfluous. I'm alive. I was born and somehow I wake up seeing the world through my eyes as this single mind swimming in a fish bowl on Earth with all these other beings, namely, a lot of really wonderful people. I relate to what Bill Hicks learned when he tried psilocybin mushrooms, I took this quote to heart when I tried it, "The heavens parted, God looked down and rained gifts of forgiveness onto my being, healing me on every level, psychically, physically, emotionally. And I realized our true nature is spirit, not body, that we are eternal beings, and God's love is unconditional and there's nothing we can ever do to change that. It is only our illusion that we are separate from God, or that we are alone. In fact the reality is we are one with God and He loves us."

Although the universe is as Woody Allen wrote, "haphazard, morally neutral and unimaginably violent," my connection with reality and all this positivity within me is biased a bit because I grew up in a good enough environment where I didn't have to worry about getting randomly robbed or murdered. Now that I'm older and have been around New York City for a while I realize life isn't always the pretty world I thought it would be. It's realer than that and I feel unprepared, but I'm learning. I listen to a lot of 90s New York hip-hop and try to develop a hustler mentality, and it's funny. Irfan the hustler, you mean the kid who wrote all that fruity poetry growing up? But then again, Nas and Tupac are poets in their own right, "It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out."

Who really knows any of these things for sure? I subscribe to these ideas only because they are more exciting and fruitful in providing me with a reasonable enough explanation for why I'm here and where we're all headed. The singularity hypothesis is so much more interesting to think about with the quotes above and books like Teilhard's Phenomenon of Man. I've been worrying about dying too much in my posts, so much so I feel like I prevent myself from living the way I want to day-to-day. Thinking about Substance as this creative theater makes me feel a lot better knowing that I'm united with it and can contribute to it. How sweet it is to be loved by You!

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new! And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Revelation 21:3-7