Thank you for the opportunity to explore here. Putting our  thoughts to words subjects us to semantics. Please forgive me for the matters of semantics that might follow.  

To answer the question, I agree. However, I don't feel that God gives a blessing, per se. I believe that we're inclined to give God human attributes and conjure contexts in order to relate or to try to make sense of things. We’re human-centric, so we can’t help but to relate everything to the human experience. For example, when I am larger from gaining forty pounds, the people and chairs around me look smaller to me. When I lose forty pounds, the people and chairs around me look larger to me. Hence, we perceive and understand everything through the scales of human being.

Please bare with me...

 
In my puny human-centric opinion, God is energy vibration flowing to balance, unattached and impartial to the stories and sentiments as we experience them. God is a category of energy vibration that we experience as love in the category of experience that we call life in a physical domain. I feel that we, the human beings, are an aspect of God through which we can feel the flow to balance that we are, a.k.a. the love that we are. One way I describe it is that we are conduits through which Love/God flows. That's the best I can do in most conversations because I see that everything is energy vibration and every spot of the energy vibration is conscious and perceptive. The perceptions, e.g. all things that we experience, are "thought"; which is a label we attach to another category of energy vibrations.

In a nutshell, there are two things going on. 

We make up the realities by adding and validating contexts... a bunch of perceptions upon perceptions that perceive and experience collectively. Yes, the perceptions are perceiving. Ironically, We can't even really say collectively, because we're One and to say "collectively" implies that our individuation is also true. Our individuation is not true. It's all an illusion. To be clear, our individuation is real to the extent that we actually do have the experience. The experience is present. In other words, it is true that the experiences occur, albeit the experiences are illusions.

In my puny opinion, the idea of receiving God's blessings is a primitive human-centric perspective, an ego trip. The is-ness that is God occurs beyond anything that we can imagine or fathom, certainly a tad more dynamic than existing in a capacity to give blessings in a fashion similarly to the way we little humans approve or disapprove anything.

Still, I’m comfortable to use the term blessings to express gratitude. I feel that you are a blessing. You bring joy. You enrich us. You are a blessing to us. While I recognize and embrace the gift that you are, you and I bless, fortify, contribute to, enrich, make whole and invigorate me. We do the blessing together as a team. Likewise, God, e.g. the magnificent is-ness of it all is a blessing to us. I believe that God blesses us with the gift of God’s magnificence, parts of which you and I are. I feel that we, including God, bless each other and ourselves by seeing/recognizing the gifts that we are. 

I don’t feel that God is a third party that determines worthiness, judges and provides approvals called blessings. I believe that we receive or experience blessings the same way we experience beauty, gratitude and love. We choose them. 

Thank you for your partnership in the exploration! 

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe

Metaphysical Visionary & Speaker

Facebook thread follows:

Tony Praill:  The whole world, deep down, realises that nothing is more important than human and social evolution in harmony with our environment. We know that it is crucial that we advance integrated solutions that address the root causes of greed, intolerance, injustice, inequality, distress and conflict, and that we do that through co-operation and co-creation rather than coca-cola! ;-) 

Tony Praill:  Consider a world inspired to fulfil each person's unique potential to liberate mutual completeness in abundant variety. A world with an effortless, entire awareness that our varied needs to flower co-operate to harvest the fruits of truth, harmony, peace and bounteous, beautiful creativity. Now is the time to consider, intend and co-create this magnificent world....this is why we are here! ((( ♥ )))

Joe Simmons:  The root cause of all of these is the illusion of separation. "We are organically one" is the "The Earth is round" of our time.  

Tony Praill: Idealism is the new reality! ;-)

Joe Simmons:  Our being one is as much of an ideal as is the Earth being round. We just can't see it because we believe that the illusion of separation must disappear before we can realize our oneness. We can embrace the illusion of separation the same way we can embrace the illusion that a movie is made from individual still frames playing in sequence, which we cannot detect with our human tools for perception. The Earth is round, and we are One, organically. This is absolute - regardless of our ability to recognize it. ♥

Tony Praill:  True, though as you say, the recognition is the 'warp- speed' for human evolution. :-)

John Halderman:  Yes, before any human descriptions and explanations about life, we were One . . . ARE ONE! We allow ourselves to go down the specific rabbit holes loosing sight of our Oneness. :)))

Joe Simmons:  Tony, the good news is that our thwarting or resisting the realization of our oneness, for however many years we may do it, does not change that our believing that the illusion of separation is true is what makes all strife possible. Name it... starvation, homelessness, poverty, war, greed, intolerance, inequality, distress and conflict are all symptoms of our believing and operating as if we are separate. 

Knowing that we are One, whenever we act inconsistently to that, we are operating insanely. Hence, we have dis-ease. This is true no matter what we think or no matter how we might rationalize our unwillingness (for whatever reasons) to surrender.

Until we do, we will remain in "The Age of Insanity, the time when we, the humans, believe that the illusion of separation is true." The love that comes from realizing our oneness is the cure for all of it. Actually, it's the only cure. Any other study or exploration for answers is futile and foolish, insane.

More good news... As more of us entertain Oneness consciousness we are building momentum, like a snowball, to reach a critical mass of awareness. Eventually, we will get it like a light going on in our heads. We will say, "What the? Of course, we are one! What the hell were we thinking?" ♥

John Halderman:  agree Joe, seeing our Oneness is the way. When we know our Oneness we stop acting in selfish fearful ways seeking to fill the void created by the perceived separation. We then act in unity seeing how what we do benefits the whole. :)

Elynn Diamond submitted, "…here's my question, of course one that does not need an answer... It’s one of those questions that I already know the answer and yet, I feel I want to share with another person in this moment of time, and I am choosing you.....so, my question is: What is it gonna take for everyone to just love one another without any fear or need to shut down!” 

Hello Elynn,

Thank you for sharing yourself. It’s a wonderful opportunity that helps us to look and remember a perspective on what we are doing here in the life.

In my opinion, we don't really want complete harmony. If harmony were all we had, it would disappear. You might wonder how we can say this with confidence. The answer is simple. Given that everything is one and all-inclusive, including that we are the creators and created onto thee and ourselves, we intend everything. Therefore, if a thing or experience exists, it's supposed to be there.

You might ask still, "Why or how do we perceive disharmony if we are love and if love is all there is?" The answer is that we know how to create reality - spaces of experiences that we conjure with an arsenal of tools that we call illusions. Knowing all things, we are beginning to remember that all things are perceivable by virtue of their comparison to something else. It's the only way. Therefore, we conjure the experience/illusion of disharmony so that we can create a reality where we can feel harmony. The experiences of disharmony are provided by illusions, not by truths. Imagine the illusions are real to the extent that we experience them; however, they are not truths.

Being smart, we also know that we can use the experiences/illusions available in the contexts of individuated bodies to intentionally stand distractingly close to the microcosms. The distractions blind us. This is the "how" part. We must stand distractingly close in order to believe there's such a thing as disharmony. Therefore, we conjure the physical domains to keep us close to the distractions, so that we are less readily able to see the big pictures. We see less than ants see while they hustle in the footprints of elephants.  We don't see the footprints and we don't know that there are elephants. That's not an accident or a mistake. We design it that way.

Everything related to the paths, explorations, endeavors, including our sharing now, are what we want from being tiny. Otherwise, we'd be aware and have neither purpose nor either an impetus to engage. We choose life because it's rich and spicy in the engagements. Eventually, we'll remember that life is most rich and most spicy when we are most vulnerable. That time will mark an end of endless endings and a beginning of endless beginnings.

Thank you for the opportunity to look and remember! <3

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary

A friend on Facebook asked, “Who really discovered America, metaphysically speaking?”

From an historical perspective, Christopher Columbus did not discover America.

Metaphysically speaking, all things always are and always have been. We conjured the context of having discovered a thing and believing it's true that we've discovered it in order to have a point of contrast. The contrasts provide a place for us to bite into the life or to engage in it. It's the only way because all things are perceivable only by virtue of their comparison to something else.

Metaphysically, we are literally one All-that-is, without points of separation. If this is true, when we discover anything, we are merely remembering a part of ourselves that we've forgotten or are newly entertaining. The parts of us include all things - even rocks and "their" particulates. Rocks are living conscious parts of us, albeit we have difficulty realizing it because we associate life and living with a heart, brain, lungs, blood-flow, etc. Our puny selves have opinions about what constitutes life or being.

Life and consciousness occur energetically. It's about energy vibration. The forms are merely constellations of vibrations upon vibrations reflecting upon layers and layers of perceptions amongst all the parts of us. When I say "all the parts of us", they include the quarks and whatever other minute particulates we've conjured to try to figure out of what we're made. Even the particles are made-up - conjured. Additionally, each of all the conjured parts are perceiving and reflecting those perceptions about each other.

Here's the thing... All the stuff is made-up. We are living in a product of our creativity and imagination. Even the experiences of a physical domain, life and death, etc. are the result of perceptions layered upon perceptions ad infinitum that illuminate a physical experience. "Physical" is merely a label we apply to categories of experiences, perceptions, thoughts, etc., which we call true when they are not. The stuff is real only to the extent that we actually experience it. We really do experience this stuff; however, the manifestations are illusions. They are real, but they are not true.

So, who discovered America? Nobody. There is no America or USA… There is only one us – US, WE, ONE. We made up a context called “Discovered America” for fun. 

By the way, this Oneness thing that we are is also called Love or God. We are love. Why the contrasts? Because, we cannot experience ourselves (Love) without something to which to compare ourselves. Remember? We need the stuff that is not love or the resistance to love, in order to recognize love. We’re here in contexts of physical-ness to access experiences of ourselves that are only available in this domain. The physical domains provide all the contrast we need and desire to re-discover who and what we are. We are one and love.

Thanks for taking the time to explore these perspectives. I like to try them on like a coat and ask myself, “If this is true, what else might be true?”

Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary and Speaker

birds, fish, bugs, etc. The senses, e.g., sight, taste,smell, touch and hearing are experience-able through and are products of the layered and co-mingled interpretations entertained by the integrated constellations of conglomerates and their parts. All the parts of all things, animate, inanimate, matter and non-matter are interpreting and co-creating simultaneously, including the parts of the conglomerates themselves.

Therefore, we can surmise that the content of the physical plane is an illusion, albeit real to the extent that we actually experience it. Imagine the perceiver behind the illusions is the only non-illusionary entity except for our inability to realize it. Ironically, we are illusive to ourselves - lurking in the silence behind the noise; we play with the looking glasses. So amused, submersed and distracted by what we perceive, we believe the illusions are true and forget who and what we are.

From a human-centric perspective, we are One and Love, the Co-Creators. 

In another discussion, we will explore that love is merely a label that we put on certain categories of perception and experience, such that even love is an illusion.

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary & Public Speaker