Dec
“Mister” and the “Elderly Gentleman”
Like everybody else, I have always taken myself for granted. I’m just a normal guy going through this thing we call “LIFE” like everyone else. While contemplating this tapestry recently, I recalled an incident many years ago when I was a young fellow. I was approached by a younger kid who stopped me to ask directions, “Excuse me, Mister,” he said.
MISTER !
This was a first for me. If ever there was a right of passage that identified me as an accepted “adult” with some semblance of coming authority, this was surely IT.
Fast forward to a more recent time. I overheard a person refer to me as that “older gentleman.”
What’s going on here? What’s changed? Who am I, really? As far as I am concerned, I’m the same “Dave Goss” I’ve always been. I have always been aware of being “me”… NOW…..devoid of anything called time other than to be aware of a continuity of events and circumstances that has comprised the tapestry of my life experiences.
Close your eyes and see if you can accept the fact that the only “place” these experiences can exist is as mental images in your present consciousness awareness.
Rene Descartes, back in the 15th century, made the observation, “Cogito ergo sum,” which translates from Latin as “I think, therefore, I am.” First person. Singular. Present tense.
One could make the argument that we have TWO existences. One is a “human” persona who experiences a never ending continuity of events and circumstances over which we seem to have no control. These are really sensations occurring in my personal ever-present conscious NOW and flow into an unknown something we call a future leaving only a mental awareness of them in a wake we call the past.
The way my reasoning process works, I couldn’t just leave it there. Among the other characteristics, I am also an observer contemplating these phenomena. “Who or what is this ‘observer’ who is aware of such things? ‘Wherein is he to be accounted of?’” (Isaiah 2:22)
“Let us reason together,” go back to Descartes and realize that included in this awareness that “I am” I include the capacity to reason which Webster defines as, “an orderly, logical mode of thinking; the power of the intellect by which one attains to truth and knowledge.”
I know I am not self-created, so I must be the result of a greater power that did. And whatever “power” this is must be all-inclusive and infinite: “That which is limitless, boundless, endless and greater than any pre-assigned finite value however great.” (Webster)
By its very nature and definition, there is no place or time for infinity to be anything other than infinite and, therefore, could never have had a beginning nor and ending; just all-inclusive self-awareness. Whatever is true of infinity, is true of me. NOTHING ELSE IS! Logic demands that we accept the fact that “I am” is an integral part of, and under the absolute control of, ONE single, undivided infinite IS-ness. Period.
How do I know this? Because the “I” of me is the “I am” of consciousness… Being an element of infinity it all comes from within, as Galileo noted. By its very nature and definition, NOTHING can exist independent of this infinite inner thing we call CONSCIOUSNESS. I am individually experiencing this in the constancy of an ever-present NOW as defined by Webster as an “awareness, known or felt by one’s inner self.”
Somewhere between “Mister” and that “elderly gentleman” something happened. As I look back, that which I thought were overwhelming problems awakened me to realize that all my problems emanated from one root cause, and when I could understand and implement this common cause all problems, regardless of their nature or apparent severity, would disappear as effortlessly as darkness disappears in the presence of light.
That was more than 50 years ago and the principles are still working. For example, all my obligatory physical check-ups bring forth a common question from the Doctors, “What are you doing? You’re 86 and are healthier than most peoples half your age.” I tell them that I read a good book.
“Oh,” they ask, “the Bible, huh?”
“Well, that, too,” I tell them. “But I’ve written my own book telling others how they can learn and experience “The Science of LIVING BETTER FOREVER” the way I have.”
I think it’s pretty good…. it’s certainly refreshingly different from all the others. At the risk of seeming overly pushy, I invite you to my website www.livingbetterforever.com and check it out. For $8.95 you can download a copy and have all you will ever need to know to change your world as I have mine. If it provokes questions, and it probably will, contact me and let me fill in the gaps.
Today, I am neither “Mister” at one end nor that “elderly gentleman” at the other. I’m just a happy guy living in an infinite world with “Health to spare, Love to share and Friends who care” and doing so in a present NOW without a limited sense of anything. What a world! I love it! My new “raison d’etre” is to share my proven, scientific message with others seeking peace, success and prosperity in a chaotic world seemingly bent on self-destruction.
