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Originally Posted by fellowtraveler  This is where I started my journey in earnest, by reading The God Theory.
Makes perfect sense to me, except I can't puzzle out why the One wants or needs to experience growth (although I'm certainly glad we do...).
Maybe the fact that I'm glad we do, is the reason itself. |
That could be true, but if you want a more esoteric answer, we could say that since the One *IS* existence, it contains all knowledge. This knowledge, or knowingness, also includes what it is like to experience growth. Knowledge of ignorance or lack in other words. The One's knowingness of this thoughtform called "ignorance" is ALSO what we MISTAKE for our "selves". And voila, an "ego" is born, or rather, temporarily appears to exist.
We identified with but a portion of infinity so we lost our connection to the whole. It's still there, we just have to let go of limitation, and traverse our consciousness along nodes of experience that lead back to infinity.
So it's not so much that the source wants to experience growth, but rather, it has to. Egos are a natural byproduct of that knowingness.