#omnipresence

[cherry-vennom]

You can initiate a massive shift in your favor, which simultaneously activates a butterfly effect of benevolence to the farthest reaches of the planet and to dimensions beyond - when you simply take your attention away from circumstances and events distant from your own tangible reality, those which you have not actually witnessed firsthand; and instead choose to refocus your attention on your immediate environment, that which you can actually see/touch/taste around you - where you can have a direct and impacting effect. Here lies the true heart of significance, where your influence resonates most deeply. Here is where you can nurture the beauty in the world you wish to see flourish, and where you can utilize and amplify the full extent of your power. — Shannon Sophia

[fierysword]

1 O God, You search me and know me inside out. 2 You know my comings and goings. You understand my thoughts completely. 3 You examine my ways, whether waking or sleeping, and are familiar with the habits of my being. 4 Before I speak a word, You already know it. 5 You are all around me, behind me and before me. You lay Your loving hand on me, choosing me in love. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me to comprehend. It is utterly beyond me.

7 Where could I go to escape Your Spirit? Where could I flee from Your presence? 8 Were I to go to the highest heavens, I would find You there. Were I to descend into the depths of hell, even there I would find You!

9 Were I to take the red wings of dawn and flee to the sea's utmost end, 10 even there You would be leading me, and Your right hand would hold me fast! 11 Were I to say, "I will take cover in darkness," the night would turn to light. 12 For darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day, and darkness is as bright as light. Waking or sleeping, I am always with You. 13 You have formed my innermost parts. You knit me together in the womb of my mother. 14 I thank You, for I am marvelously and wonderfully made! All Your works are wonder-full, as my soul knows very well. 15 You clearly saw even my bones when You made me in secret, when You wove me together in the dark depths of the womb. 16 Your eyes saw me as embryo, and before my days began, You shaped them. My whole life is written in Your Book of Life! 17 How precious Your thoughts are to me, Shaddai! How great in number they are! 18 If I were to try and count them, it would be impossible, like trying to count the grains of sand on the seashore.

Psalm 139:1-18  (feminine translation from Swallow’s Nest: A Feminine Reading of the Psalms by Marchiene Rienstra)

Possible uses of this psalm:

Reassurance of God's presence in the darkness

Pray over a blue candle to instill confidence in God's guidance

Pray to replace feelings of sadness with hope and optimism

Pray to nurture and maintain love, especially in marriage

Receive confidence and self-worth

2-3 sourced from Power of the Psalms by Anna Riva & 4 sourced from My New Everyday Prayer Book by Brother ADA 

[theinwardlight]

From James Parnell, A Trial of Faith (1654)

[apilgrimsprogress]

I have come to believe that all life is holy, for there is nowhere that God is not.

Mary Dee

[radskull-69]

explaining a oc thing I made for undertale (or any fandom really)

I’ve made some videos about them on my tiktok if u wanna see them! Kinda wanna make this a ARG or smth

silly guy named [REDACTED] is not from anywhere, technically their outside it all. Their only limit to existence is technology, not able to leave devices but can travel within it.

[REDACTED] is an entity really, and entities can go into fandoms and insert themselves into it as a character. But it acts more as a vessel for them, they do this for many reasons.

Food (different entities feed off of different things, emotions, attention, etc.)

For their or the viewers entertainment (they are aware they’re being watched)

they need a home and a fandom or place, it helps them exist.

they get a attachment or infatuated with the fandom or character(s)

some entity’s can take a liking to a character so much they insert themselves into the characters body, altering them depending how good they are at possessing someone:

if they’re sloppy it’s fairy obvious since the character will have some features the entity had.

if they a expert you wouldn’t notice any changes aside from small habits that can be brushed off.

all entities have a ‘human’ form, or at least a form that fits into the world’s aesthetic they’re currently in. So they can’t change Willy nilly into whatever they want, it’s either their true form or their human form.

[REDACTED] didn’t have a home to settle in for a while, hopping between several that none caught their eye. But eventually found UNDERTALE, the one world they became infatuated with.

[REDACTED] forcefully inserted themselves into that timeline, altering the memories of the characters into believing they’ve been friends for years even though they just met.

But of course eventually thanks to sans natural awareness he was able realise [REDACTED] wasn’t the friendly human they made themselves seem thanks to the slip ups they constantly made.

he couldn’t remember how they met, when they moved in with sans and his brother. Whenever he calls their ‘name’ (rad) they are often slow to respond, as if it’s not their real name.

when [REDACTED] see’s he’s catching on they immediately ‘reset’ the world, how they do this is by killing all the characters and then rebuild them from the pieces. altering the world and the characters slightly each time so they only remember what they want them to remember

it’s basically this video here

Y/n is a entity that lives in undertale before [REDACTED] had came along, though y/n did not know they weren’t originally from this world and also a entity, this whole time they thought themselves human.

[REDACTED] Watches from the sidelines when y/n’s vessel dies of old age due to being so convinced their human their body follows along with the role. A entities mindset affects their life gradually.

[REDACTED] re-inserts themselves into sans life to ‘bring y/n back to life’ despite not particularly liking them, only doing it to bring out the vulnerable feelings of sans desperately trying to get his lover back, At the cost of [REDACTED] possessing his body slowly over time.

ofc [REDACTED] isn’t really gonna bring y/n back, making sans have false hope and a reason he can’t leave [REDACTED] or else there’s no chance to bring back y/n

During this phase whenever sans messes up or tries to stop [REDACTED] will kill him before resetting and trying to start again, each time the universe is a bit more different than the original. And each time sans remember’s the resets and what [REDACTED] did to him bit by bit

whenever sans dies he briefly meets y/n in limbo, and always forgets about it when he’s brought back.

eventually sans remembers too much and actually snaps from the intense feelings and having a part of what [REDACTED] in him, sans was tipped over the edge and killed [REDACTED] by pushing them off the bridge, making it look like a suicide.

traumatised with awareness of the resets, how he’ll never get y/n back, just killing someone AND having a piece of that person still inside you sans slowly started to succumb to the urges [REDACTED] still had over him through the unfinished possessing thingy.

sans is unfortunately able to see visions and hallucinations of [REDACTED] so commonly he’s only annoyed by it at this point, kinda like dust sans and papyrus.

sans doesn’t tell anyone about this and keeps it to himself while [REDACTED] slowly takes over him.

!uoy teem ot eciN

[poligraf]

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

Hildegard von Bingen

[neweresth]

2255.

[1nt3rn3t4ng3l]

TW VENT!!

I dont owe you an answer when you prod at me asking me "why i am like i am"

I dont owe you and answer when you scream and howl at me like i am the devil

I dont owe you an answer when you sob and grip onto my feeble frame screaming and shouting how im never nice to you

for I am the same I always have been and no answer I provide will satisfy you

but you remember her

you long for her now

for..

she is human

she was real

she is just a flicker of memory waiting...

waiting for her mother to pick her up

and soothe her pain

but that never happened, did it?

And now I am here and I will not wait

for I am not human and never have been

for I am not a memory faded with time

I am no longer that little girl you called yours

I am the shadow in the corner

I am the stain on the coffee table

I am cruel and mean

I now realize thats what I was meant to be.

I am the night sky

I am the boiling rain

I am the scattered bones on a forest floor

I am the ink splotches on weathered paper

I am everything and nothing

and you are just a ant

meant to be squished.

-Luka

(i wrote this at night in the middle of an episode and felt like i should share it)

(this is about my mother and me)

(if you need clarification about what i mean just ask and i can provide)

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Can a Man Hide So the Lord does not see Him?

“I am a God who is near,” says the Lord.    “I am also a God who is far away.”

“No one can hide    where I cannot see him,” says the Lord. “I fill all of heaven and earth,” says the Lord. — Jeremiah 23:23-24 | International Children’s Bible (ICB) The Holy Bible, International Children’s Bible® Copyright© 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 by Thomas Nelson. Cross References: 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Job 22:13-14; Job 34:21-22; Psalm 139:1; Acts 17:27; Hebrews 4:13

[archangelween]

Does Gabriel have omnipresence? Does purple mean power?

hmmmmmmmm. When Gabriel opens the fly memories, we see a bunch flash by before getting to the proper memory scenes with Beez. None of the memories are from his own POV, they are from our/god's POV, as we saw in s1. See the end of this post for a list of what we see. Why would they be from that view? We can perhaps put it down to mechanics of the show, since we also see him flying around inside the memory tunnels in third person perspective.

More solidly, why would he have memories from places we know he was not present? The only reason I can come up with for that ties into the fact he regains his purple eyes both after regaining his memories AND gets those purple eyes back too when he's having his "visions" speaking with a doubled female voice:

(1) He is the only character to have the purple eyes, and as far as we know he's always had those eyes. He only loses them when he loses his memories. The memories that show us he knows things he was not present for. He specifically says his head isn't built for that anymore and it hurts to remember. Why would remembering hurt, unless there was so much to remember that it does not fit?

I think that adds up to omnipresence, "power of sight". I do not think this is omniscience because this is specifically shown to be about PRESENCE, not knowledge or understanding, and because I do not think even god herself has omniscience. Gold means god's presence. The purple comes in many shades, even on Gabriel; I think this means he can dial up or down the omnipresence. Less purple or lighter purple is him turning it down, and more saturated/darker purple is tapping into the power more. The purple on his tie and other places represents power: a tie is a symbol of corporate power, his is purple because he's got the top job, but even that goes lighter vs more saturated purple, and he even loses it in s1e6.

Omnipresence is CCTV; omniscience requires understanding, like the way you can attend a lecture but not be able to apply the lesson: you had presence, but you failed to understand. Presence can get you some kinds of knowledge but they're not the same thing.

This means that every time Aziraphale lies to Gabriel, Gabriel could know it's a lie. Every time Gabriel says something that's wrong, he could be deliberately pulling everyone's leg, and given his tone, he's doing it gleefully. This completely upends how we should think about Gabriel's "awful" behavior. He knows, or was told by god, something no one else was told. He could have been way, way, worse, but was not. WHY??? Is what we saw only what he was forced to act on? He knew there were back channels to hell for Michael to snitch on Crowley, yet he said they didn't exist--was he trying to save Crowley? Did he not know if Michael knew about them? Was he trying to get Michael to lay off? Was he giving Michael the choice, a blatant choice on whether to act on their arrangement?

(2) Gabriel's analogue in the paintball war has a name that means "little twin", which refers to Satan, who is traditionally twins with Gabriel, sometimes triplets with Michael. Satan has purple around his eyes, and may also have purple eyes but they're so dark it's black.

Here's Gabriel's eyes after getting his memories back, they are definitely purple but it's hard to tell so:

Here's the brightness and exposure upped:

Here is Satan's eyes, I upped the brightness and exposure, and decreased the shadows:

If you do that same round of edits twice, it comes out looking close to Gabriel's original eyes:

That's purple. He's also got purple lips that edge to looking gray.

What does "the power of speech" mean? Omnipotence? Surely not, also because it's a very light purple. Or like what Adam has and perhaps Satan bequeathed to Adam, the power to speak into reality? The power to make things real? Satan must speak it whereas Adam can will it.

The list of the scenes from the fly is under the cut.

I don't know how to edit video, so I will make a list of what I see:

First tunnel into the memories is dark orange with even darker orange rings. Orange means agent of god's will, bright is positive change and dark is negative.

Gabriel and the archangels talking to Aziraphale in heaven, from a third party POV.

God's opening monologue from s1e1

The fly by into Eden, apparently the same view we got

A bunch of the scenes we saw in Eden

Not sure what these two are, possibly the apocalypse tarmac:

A bunch of scenes from the apocalypse in s1, including INSIDE the communications bunker, which we know Gabriel wasn't in, and scenes from before he showed up.

Then the few seconds of a memory at the apocalypse, Gabriel saying "we know whose fault it is".

Next memory tunnel is bright orange with bright red rings--bright red is negative passion, like anger, fear, or fight/war--as we leave that memory, then when we flip to flying towards the next one it turns to bright orange with dark red/dark orange rings. Dark red is positive passion, ie love.

Scene in the Russian bar with Beez. I did not notice before but there is a glowing orange globe/heater thing on the floor behind Beez.

Next memory tunnel is saturated blue with slightly darker blue rings. Blue is life, darker blue is death.

American bar scene with Beez, introducing the Everyday "tuneful info".

Another memory tunnel with saturated blue but much darker blue rings. I think life/death alternating like that is "rebirth".

Edinburgh scene with Beez.

Final tunnel is light purple/white that turns into darker purple and one blurple ring the farther we come out of the eye.

[turiyatitta]

Omnipresence & Nonlocality

The Parallels between Spiritual Enlightenment & Quantum Physics

There is a fascinating world where science and spirituality converge, a landscape of notions that challenge our understanding of reality and existence. This terrain is vibrant, marked by two compelling ideas: the spiritually enlightened experience of omnipresence and nonlocality in quantum physics. As disparate as they may seem, these concepts may intertwine, offering a captivating perspective on our experience of reality.

The Spiritual Experience of Omnipresence

At the heart of numerous religious and spiritual traditions is the concept of Omnipresence - the notion that divine consciousness or spirit is present everywhere, within and around all things. From the Eastern philosophies of Buddhism and Hinduism to the monotheistic religions like Christianity and Islam, omnipresence underscores an inherent interconnectivity of all life.

In the journey of spiritual enlightenment, many individuals have reported experiencing a profound sense of unity and interconnectedness with all of creation. They no longer perceive themselves as separate entities, but rather as a part of an endless, seamless, and harmonious whole. This feeling is often described as merging with the divine, a realization of being part of the one omnipresent consciousness.

Nonlocality in Quantum Physics

In the world of quantum physics, particles can be entangled, meaning that the state of one particle can instantly influence the state of another, regardless of the distance separating them. This phenomenon is known as "nonlocality," and it has been experimentally confirmed numerous times, challenging our classical understanding of space and time.

According to quantum nonlocality, two or more particles can behave as a single entity, no matter how far apart they may be. If the state of one particle changes, the state of the other changes instantaneously. This notion defies our everyday understanding of the world, where we expect actions to have local effects, not ones that jump vast distances instantaneously.

The Interplay: Omnipresence and Nonlocality

One might wonder: how could these two domains, one spiritual and the other scientific, possibly intersect? The connection lies in the notion of interconnectedness. The feeling of omnipresence experienced in spiritual enlightenment mirrors the entangled, interconnected universe suggested by quantum nonlocality.

Both concepts challenge our traditional views of separateness and locality. In spiritual enlightenment, the sense of a separate "self" dissolves into a realization of unity with the divine and all of creation. Similarly, in quantum physics, the state of one particle is entwined with another, regardless of the distance between them.

Just as the enlightened person feels a sense of unity and interconnectedness with all things, so too are quantum particles connected in ways that transcend the confines of space and time. This suggests a universe that is not a collection of separate parts but rather a web of patterns intricately interconnected.

In conclusion, the spiritually enlightened experience of omnipresence and the scientific concept of nonlocality in quantum physics offer us a profound perspective of interconnectedness and unity. While we must be cautious in drawing parallels between spiritual and scientific concepts, this exploration can still serve as an invitation to a deeper understanding of our existence, sparking curiosity, wonder, and a sense of unity in our increasingly fragmented world.

Morgan O. Smith

My book, Bodhi in the Brain Available Now!

[cherry-vennom]

Simplify the personality, refine the sexual energy upward, integrate yin and yang in body, mind, and spirit - make your conscience one with pure law, and you will uncover truth after truth and enter the exquisite upper realm.

Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching

[fierysword]

"I dwelt in high places, and my throne was in a pillar of cloud. I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep. In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession." (Ecclesiasticus 24)

Art source: (x)

[theinwardlight]

Francis Howgill, early Quaker, 1656

[catholicsaintquotes33ad]

[apilgrimsprogress]

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

Kallistos Ware, Through the Creation to the Creator