[Moderator: This philosophical message has very little relevance to parapsychology, so it seems important to point out that the messages should concentrate on this subject, not anything else regardless of how important those matters are.]

The First Cause.

It is just my opinion of course, (and it would be nice to hear yours) but it would seem to me that the very first cause of all existence (and assuming there ever was an actual beginning to the existence of things other than primordial energy of some kind which exists in a state of potential for change but below the level of any time, change or emanation) could never be KNOWN to exist anyway. I also maintain that it makes not a jot of difference as to whether one believes in such an entity, potential, initiator, or not. But, nevertheless things exist, and none of the things which we know of contain their own causation.

However, I do maintain that the obsolete inner depth of our own being can be known by direct experience (a transcendent aspect of our SELF in ITS primordial state of existence) and which has been confused by some (if not many) for the first cause itself, whereas it is in fact the first thing caused or brought forth from the point of no duration and no extension - hence the proverbial child or progeny of the first cause. I also claim that in the conscious reunion with that part of our SELF (the raw life force) is the closest one can come to KNOWING the implication of the existence of a first cause which is itself none manifest - and hence the MIND, or just MIND, also exists beyond the level of all known time and space and is the closest emanation to the entity which religions call god, or the power or force beyond the beginning and the end of BEING.

Thus, to know ones SELF (not to be confused with the personality) is the closest one can come to knowing the true essential nature and quality of the essential raw nature of all existence - and, in an over simplistic terms maybe - to know why life and existence exists; or the reason for existence.

Thus, it would seem to me that people should not be seeking a god of some kind, but rather seeking for the original aspect of their SELF - and that involves looking inwards, not out among and beyond the stars or backward or forward in linear time, for time starts and ends inwards. But when OUR individual time ends this does not mean cosmic or universal time ends. And hence the ancient saying of - Know Thy Self; and the absolute things of the divine or sacred can only be known at the end of time.

In simple mechanistic terms this means everything eventually goes back to from whence it came, and no matter as to whether it is the energy of material things or the mind and consciousness itself - and if it happens once then it can happen time and again, or for ever, for one cannot add to or detract from energy - it simply changes its form. And THAT is what we call time. Thus none of this is relevant to ones beliefs about it or the lack of them; and what is - IS.

Dick.