Impossible Definitions for Fun and Profit

Something a bit lighter now (yes, the following is light conversation in my book ;) ~

I was involved in a really fun, if not very productive, conversation lately about the definition of Monophasic God. Such conversations are like mental Rubik’s Cubes; they’re fun to play with, but even if you “solve” them (which you usually don’t, especially in a group), you don’t expect your solution to much impact anybody.

Nonetheless, with that conversation so recent, it amused the flying monkeys out of me to pick up a little hippie-magazine (”TRUTH JOURNAL: A Center For Spiritual Awareness Publication”, it says) and find this, on a page near the front labeled “Word Meanings to Know”:

God: Word origin: Old German, “the highest good.” The names used to indicate ultimate Reality describe concepts, imagined characteristics, or what may be believed to be (or are) intellectual insights or intuitive perceptions. The transcendental, absolute aspect is devoid of attributes. The expressive aspect is a radiant field with constituent attributes which manifest, pervade, and maintain universes.

Wow.

I have to say, ignoring the cringeworthy term “universes”, that that is the best attempt at a definition of Monophasic God that I have ever seen. Go, crazy Yoga people!

(Then again, of all the people to nail it–or come close to nailing it–it’s not very surprising that the Yoga people should be it, really. They eat right, exercise a lot, contemplate and meditate often, and stress open-mindedness. That’s a pretty good recipe if you ask me.)

Hmm…the rest of the magazine isn’t bad either, though I loathe affirmations and it does have those. Ah well.