God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I’ll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don’t believe in magic
I don’t believe in I-ching
I don’t believe in Bible
I don’t believe in Tarot
I don’t believe in Hitler
I don’t believe in Jesus
I don’t believe in Kennedy
I don’t believe in Buddha
I don’t believe in Mantra
I don’t believe in Gita
I don’t believe in Yoga
I don’t believe in Kings
I don’t believe in Elvis
I don’t believe in Zimmerman
I don’t believe in Beatles
I just believe in me…and that reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I’m reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I’m John
and so dear friends
you’ll just have to carry on
The Dream is over
John Lennon
Now tell me please Abraham, what does it mean?!! I went to see the musical “Across the Universe” on Thursday night – a celebration of Beatles music. Some of their lyrics are truly bizarre!! Too deep for me. I was thinking to myself, “what were they on at the time?”
Julia
By: Julia on May 23, 2009
at 1:15 pm
Fabulous question. Thanks.
There are several reasons I simply posted this post-Beatles song by John Lennon.
This first is because he speaks of “not believing”. As a Christian I devoted myself to “believing” particularly in Christ and the Bible. Adherence to this “belief system” created a construct in my thinking that defined everything in life. If the Bible validated something it was good. If the Bible condemned, or seemed to condemn something, it was bad. My viewpoint was continually under the constraint of some level of judgmentalism. Little by little over many years this viewpoint took on the basic assumptions of modern day evangelical thought.
The highlights of this thinking are defined in the basic elements that comprise the “Statements of Faith” in most fundamental churches, such as: Jesus is the only way to God; if you are not a confessing Christian, you are sinful and under God’s wrath and headed for hell… and on and on and on.
In my mind I completely identified with these doctrines. I saw everything in life through the eyes of Christianity as “THE WAY”. We were right. We were right with God. We had the “in” with God because of our belief in Jesus Christ. I was Abraham, the devote Christian elder, who could be counted on to clarify and explain the truth. I could distill most any controversy with pinpointed Biblical references, thus revealing how not only why the Christian viewpoint was the right viewpoint, but why MY particular Christian viewpoint was right.
It was only when I experienced deep personal disillusionment that I was willing throw all my beliefs aside and start over. This did not happen in one day and it did not happen without pain. It was death. It was death to a persona that had taken over thirty years to develop. It was death to my life as a modern day, evangelical, fundamentalist Christian “man of God”.
So, I can understand for myself the idea that I saw in John Lennon’s song. I am living now, not by any established or defined belief system, but by a growing awareness of the eternal life that is present within me at this very moment.
The dream is over. I did what I knew to do to live it, but in the end I failed at it and it failed me. It had to fail because at its heart was an idolatrous adherence to a man-made religion of theological superiority.
And what is the result of all this in me?
I am very much at peace with myself.
And… I am happy.
By: Abraham Mackey on May 24, 2009
at 1:27 am