A proposition is an idea or a concept which is offered for discussion. For AMSWAY’s purposes, we must agree on two basic propositions in order for us to have any discussion of spirituality. I propose God is Omnipresent. I propose we spirit-humans are eternally aware of being aware. AMSWAY is based on these two propositions. I believe any discussion or thoughts on spiritual concepts must be grounded in and harmonize with these two propositions. Any thought or concept which cannot harmonize with these two propositions must be invalid, regardless of how attached we are to the thought or the concept.
For example, Proposition number one. If we accept that God is Omnipresent, then it is logical that there is nothing but God and manifestations of God within God. You cannot have an Omnipresent God and the same God be absent from any place, at any time. You cannot have it both ways. One of the hardest propositions to take responsibility for wherever it leads us is the Omnipresence of God. Where does this leave our sense of individual self? If there is nothing but God, then what are we? God? We draw away from what seems like such an absurd possibility. We cannot be God, we are too small, too week, two fragile. If we are God, then how could there have been any of the holocausts that have been recorded over and over in history. If we are God, then why did so many Gods allow themselves to be marched into the gas chambers of Hitler’s “Final Solution”? We cannot be God. Only God can be God. However, if God is Omnipresent, then what else are we but God? You have many cells which compose your body. Each cell is you but no one cell is the entire “YOU”. In similar fashion, the body of God has many cells. Each of the cells of God’s body is God but no one cell is the entire “GOD”. I won’t go further right now in this essay but some answers to this “Who Are We” question are contained within this first book of AMSWAY.
Another example is Proposition number 2. We are eternally aware of being aware. How can this be when what we think we are dies and returns to the dust of the Earth? Is there a spirit that lives on and someday we will “arise from our earthly grave” and spiritually be aware that we are no longer “dead”? The problem here is we think we are what we see in the mirror. We think we are what we think we are. We hurt our toe and we think this proves that are least part of us is the toe we just hurt. After all, we feel the pain, don’t we? Well, we do seem to feel the pain. I run into a sharp object and it definitely feels painful. However, does this mean that we are what feel the pain? Some answers to this are also contained in this first book of AMSWAY.
Do we agree on the two propositions on AMSWAY? Then let us share this most incredible journey we find ourselves on. If we share just one thing with another that helps the other in his or her spiritual journey, then we have shared a most divine gift – a most precious gift.
I look forward to hearing from you and sharing together.
Spirit of AM
