How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance,… — Ricky Ray Copy Share
Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a… — Ricky Ray Copy Share
How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to… — Ricky Ray Copy Share
Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop… — Ricky Ray Copy Share
The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science,… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
God is the causal power of consciousness as the ground of all being. So we can say that God is the causal power exerted… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
