God is NOT Insane

"To justify one value that the world upholds is to deny your Father's sanity and yours. For God and His Beloved Son do not think differently... So if he chooses to believe one thought opposed to Truth, he has decided he is not his Father's Son... This you believe. Think not that this belief depends upon the form it takes. Who thinks the world is sane in any way, is justified in anything it thinks, or is maintained by any form of reason, believes this to be true." -- A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 25, Section VII, 4:1-2, 4-7

Well, there you have it. Either God is nuts, or we are, or both. Reading contemporary metaphysics and theology, they're pretty much all true. How could any of it have any meaning when you are willing to actually question the premise that insanity in any form could exist within the Oneness and Allness of God? This is not a matter of theology. This is a matter of extreme delusion and psychosis, collectively. We are all collectively insane in our imagined separateness.

Within the Ocean there exist many currents, many forms, many ecosystems, and all come and go within the Oneness that is the Ocean. To call any of them true in themselves is insanity. A fish out of water is no longer a fish... it's sushi.

Let's say we're that fish. We think we are autonomous, and we choose to flop out onto dry land to see what it's about. Or we grab that hook dangling temptingly in front of us, sure that this one will be different! Yeah, this is it! Or we simply choose to swim in the same circle over and over and over again, hoping that we will stay safe, or that it will look different this time around. We tell ourselves how beautiful and safe it is in this little circle. Over and over the same story in re-enacted, with different fish and a different host of supporting actors and roles... but the outcome is always the same. What imagines itself as separate is all made up, and it comes and goes within an illusory world of delusion that sometimes looks like pleasure, sometimes like pain. In this world there really is no difference.

A Course in Miracles reassures us: "The Holy Spirit has the Power to change the whole foundation of the world you see to something else; a basis not insane, on which a sane perception can be based, another world perceived. And one in which nothing is contradicted that would lead the Son of God to sanity and Joy. Nothing attests to death and cruelty; to separation and to differences. For Here is everything perceived as One, and no one loses that each one may gain. Test everything that you believe against this one requirement, and understand that everything that meets this one demand is worthy of your faith. But nothing else."

In our insanity of imagined separateness, we think we have to compete and struggle against others and against the environment and even against our own tendencies and habits. It's constant war with someone or something. We thrive on it. We institutionalize it in our schools and athletic teams. We market it with our music and video games. We spiritualize it with our religions and metaphysics. And it's still the same old insane story. We imagine gods many, and we suffer the disillusionment of the inevitable. Our gods are not alive. They will always fail us because they are all made up.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The Bible, Exodus 20:3. Not because we shouldn't, but because there aren't any. It's insanity and delusion to make imaginary gods out of our own stories. All that really exists is in God, and to imagine ourselves anywhere else is to suffer, like the fish imagining that he could want to be anywhere but in the Ocean in which he lives and moves and has his being.

Yes, we are all weaving in and out of insanity, waking up to Who We Really Are. We are the Son of God, and God is NOT insane. Thank God.

"Your special function is the special form in which the fact that God is not insane appears most sensible and meaningful to you. The content is the same. The form is suited to your special needs, and to the special time and place in which you think you find yourself, and where you can be free of place and time, and all that you believe must limit you. The Son of God cannot be bound by time nor place nor anything God did not Will." -- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 25, Section VII, 7:1-4