Psyche is God Without Theology

Psyche is God without theology. Without the baggage. Psyche is God in the raw. Psyche is God newborn. Psyche is exactly what we need–what we have always needed, in every generation of every age from the beginning. Psyche is exactly what we have needed in each situation as it has arisen.

Psyche is the Life Force. When Obie Wan Kenobi said, “Let the Force be with you, Luke” (Even though he may never have actually said it in the movie–If he had said it) it was the Psyche he was talking about. Psyche is Life Eternal, unending, always, forever, here, now. Psyche is Life Everlasting. Unending, Always, Forever, Here, Now. Blowing like the wind through the Cosmos, made manifest in the infinite numbers of Life’s children through the ages and eons of time. She is the valley spirit. The Tao. The mother of all things. She knows the names of all that is, has been, will be. She knows all things. She knows what’s what, what matters, what is called for in each situation as it arises, and forgets not one thing in the entire universe of things.

Here, now is eternal in the mind of Psyche. It is always Now–Now is always the time for something, and Psyche is there to birth what needs birthing, and to do what needs to be done, calling us to be her hands and feet in the birthing and the bringing forth. And we know this when we know what we know. When we take the time and make the space for listening, seeing, hearing, understanding, knowing, doing, being. In the emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing, not three) we meet Psyche and brush it aside, with other things on our mind and our agenda.

When are we ever still enough, quiet enough, for long enough to be fully present here, now? For long enough to be free of wanting, desiring, having to have? Whatever robs us of our silence (All those diversions, distractions, wants and wishes, etc.) is a barrier preventing the realization of Psyche within us, with us, here, now.

When Jesus said, “The Father and I are one,” and “When you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” he was speaking of Psyche, who goes. by many names: Alla, Atman, Anima Mundi, Brahma, Jehova, Krishna, Shakti, Shiva, Vishu… And they all are Psyche. We are all Psyche. Life itself is Psyche. Whomever has seen themselves fully, just as they are, has seen Psyche. We all are being Psyche and not-knowing Psyche.

Remove the diversions, remove the distractions, remove the denial, remove the projections–and enter the emptiness, stillness and silence, become who we are, become who we are before we are born, there is Psyche. The return to Psyche is the return to emptiiness, stillness, silence before birth and after death. Psyche is with us all there and all in between. And we know it not, because we know not the truth of emptiness, stillness, silence.

When we are quiet, the noisse is deafening, no? Memories, fear, desire, shame, sorrow, anguish, agony…. The list goes on forever of all the things that meet us in the quiet, preventing the quiet from being quiet–and so, the practice of seeing, hearing, knowing what’s what and what is called for–and doing that in the right way, at the right time, in the right place, in each situation as it arises, no matter what. Just as Jesus did, and the Buddha before him, and all of those like them throughout all times and places–being who they were, when, where, how they were, meeting each moment as the moment needed to be met: With their Original Nature, their Innate Virtues (What they did best and enjoyed doing most), their Intrinsic Intuition, and their Inherent Imagination–in the service of Tao, Psyche and Intuition.

Intuition is the interfacej between Psyche and ourselves, and all life forms everywhere. If you are alive, you live by way of your intuition. Newborn babies know what to do with a nipple. Ducklings know how to swim… And where does the line lie between Life and Matter and Empty Space?

Two Greek Poets in the vicinity of 500 BCE had something to say in the matter. First, Aeschylus: “He who learns must suffer. And in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon our heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

And Heraclitus: “Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of the soul by going–so deep is its measure.”

Both Poets are talking about Psyche, who is at once the source of our knowledge and the one who defies our interest and our curiosity, remaining far beyond our seeking, searching, inuiring, poking, prodding, exploring, bringing to mind another poet, T. S. Eliot: “We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.

The line, “Not ceasing from eploration,” leads me to say that my own efforts of experiencing Psyche directy were all without success, though I did discover what people throughout the world have discovered for themselves from the first moment there were people: Self-induced trance states! Religions from the start have employed trance states to conjure up experiences of “The Whollly Other,” who always remains somehow “within our reach while far exceeding our grasp.”

Trance states are essential in the search for Tao, Psyche and Intuition. They can be produced simply by sitting quietly, by repetitive chanting, humming drumming, singing, hand clapping, foot stomping, sweat lodging, meditating, praying silently and out loud, peyote, mescalin, marijuana, wine, bourbon, vodka, etc., any of which are capable of enabling us to achieve an altered state of consciousness which open the way to experiencing, projecting, imagining aspects of apparent reality unavailable to us amid the routines of daily life, and therefore, cannot be counted on as a reliable source of knowing that is capable of wiithstanding the scrutiny of the scientific method. Which means the experience of the Psyche thus produced can easily be dismissed as nothing more than an aspect of our imagination. And, “When Jones follows his Inner Light, Jones follows Jones.” (H.L Mencken).

What Mencken missed, or ignored, in his remark is that when Jones doesn’t follow his inner light, Jones follows Jones. Jones is all there is. If Jones listens to his preacher, Jones still follows Jones to his preacher. And so, with all of us! There is nothing here but us and our projections! Even Psyche is a human projection the instant we move beyond the faint-ever so faint-sense that “Something is there!” Sometimes we call the “Something, “God.” Sometimes we call it “The Life Force.” Sometimes we call it “Psyche.” Etc. The more theology we add to the sense of “Something” being there, the more immersed in our own imagination we become and the more we embellish our experience we become and the more we become “Projection machine guns creating imagined possibilities everywhere on all sides which we declare to be “Absolute Truth!” The Old Testament prophets’ idea of the Something That Is There worked it magic throughout the Old Testament period to produce Christianity’s cosmologly/theology as it stands today.

All of which comes down to this: e cannot hope to SEE until we see ourselves seeing–and so the development of double-blind experiments world-wide. As close as we can come to a double-blind evaluation of our own seeing is to simply sit with it, knowing that what we think we see is our interpretation of what we look at, and we cannot get outside of our vision to see, and so we wait longer and keep looking wondering what may change about our vision over time.

The way this works with Tao, Psyche and Intuition is to be overly sensitive about where we stop and projection starts, understanding and remembering that “the less we say with conviction, the better.

Dropping into emptinss, stillness, silence, and simply waiting for what meets us there to enter into our awareness with its sense of what’s what and what is called for here, now and what needs to be done about it in each situation as it arises, using the gifts of our Original Nature, our Innate Virtues (The things we do best and enjoy doing most), our Intrinsic Intuition, and our Inherent Imagination, all coming together to do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, not matter what all our life long is the Hero’s Journey, the Hero’s Task, through all the ages for as long as there are ages.

And we all ways have Tao, Psyche and Intuition to work with, delight in and enjoy, here, now everywhere all the time.