Posted by Loretta on January 24, 19101 at 14:54:19:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS posted by Jenn on January 24, 19101 at 12:59:58:
: What kind of bothers me about talking about Jesus as an "operating system" is that it seems very impersonal. I know you mean it as an analogy, and it might speak to some people, but I kind of life a new vine grafted onto an old root, or something more alive.
Dear Jenn,
One of the things I came to appreciate about Godde through my meditation practices and studies of Eastern religions is that there can be a profoundly impersonal encounter of "It". There is a place in our experience of God that is beyond concepts, beyond us even having a self. In this place, analogies don't hold, metaphors collapse and symbols collide and all that is left is this at-one-ment with the whole of creation and The Uncreated. Now that's an operating system upgrade!
So, to me, impersonal, is okay.
Philoman, does your metaphor apply to enlightenment? Can you concieve of an Avatar OS? a Guru OS? a Shaman OS?
Looking forward to participating.
Loretta