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HOMEPAGE THE INTERNAL CHURCH - GOD ACTED. COMPASSION AND CREATIVITY. HOW WE LOSE OUR NATURAL SENSE OF SELF. WORDS AS CAGES, WORDS AS WINGS. INTRODUCING DEOGENICS - SPIRITUAL TOOLS.
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The search for new knowledge is an expression of the primal creative force - Deogenic.
Our hunger to know increasingly includes a scientific focus on our minds, emotions
and spiritual life. Science now includes research into the meditating mind
and religious and psychic experience. In earlier centuries this was
claimed to be the exclusive domain of religion. People were burnt at the
stake for disagreeing. Human curiosity and the need to know and
understand ourselves and our worlds eventually broke free of dogma. We now have imaging technology which can 'see' the brain in
action as it thinks, imagines, sleeps, creates, reasons, meditates or
malfunctions. The Internal Church takes the view that the curiosity and creative drive that is typical of an active human mind is a spiritual quality. It is God's Creative Power expressing itself through living beings. Creativity and its essential moral component of compassion are keys to spiritual development and epiphanies.
When creativity and established beliefs come into conflict unpleasant things can happen. This is not confined to religion. It happens in any area of life including science. When a creative mind examines scientific theories, religious and spiritual matters, methods of healing, political issues and even approaches to fine art the current orthodox views resist. It is a natural reaction to the new and unexpected. But change continues to occur. It has been that way since the beginning of the universe. Creativity is Deogenic and will express itself.
With regard to morality The internal Church simplifies the matter
by focussing on compassionate behaviour. If you behave as compassionately
as you can as often as you can, others cannot expect more.
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