The Trial Of The Man Who Said He Was God by Harding Douglas

Author:Harding, Douglas [Harding, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-1, Science-3, Douglas Harding, enlightenment, Headless Way, Shollond Trust
Publisher: The Shollond Trust
Published: 2013-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

16a

16b

Diagram No. 16

Diagram 16a shows a deluded me, perversely mistaking that pinhead for the seat and centre of my consciousness, and the vantage point from which I survey the world. It shows an object masquerading as the Subject, a third person playing First Person. It shows a conceited rose posturing as its own Root. It shows me getting above myself by a yard - and I mean this quite literally. It shows me blaspheming like mad. Yet such is the human condition, so endemic is this fallacy of misplaced consciousness, that it’s rarely challenged. The result is a world mis-seen through and through, a dream world becoming a nightmare world, a gigantic and self-perpetuating social fiction. A fiction that is nevertheless factual enough to foul up God’s world from beginning to end.

Diagram 16b shows His world put to rights by consciously viewing it from the only place it can be viewed from anyway - from the Centre of it all, from the Origin of it all, from the Receptacle of it all. Here is the God’s-eye view of His world as very good, in every sort of contrast to that illusory man’s-eye view of it as now so-so, now a shambles, now a disaster area.

I hope these two pictures not only show clearly the shift from the blasphemer’s viewpoint to the non-blasphemer’s, but also suggest how different their two worlds have to be.

WITNESS: But they tell me nothing about what happens in my day-to-day experience. I can’t picture what difference this shift in viewpoint makes to the view - if any.

MYSELF: The consequences are many and radical and heartfelt. They are discovered by making the shift and staying shifted, not by discussing it. What I can do for your encouragement, however, is to outline the shape of three major results:

(1) The false or man’s-eye view (16a) inflicts a near-mortal wound on the world, cleaving it into one part called ‘me’ and another called ‘not-me’, into a small viewing thing here and a big viewed thing there. No wonder there’s a lot of blood about! Only God can heal such a wound, an injury so serious that it will yield only to the most drastic of treatments by the Master Physician. He reduces me to No-thing, then reconstitutes me as the Whole of things. Thus most graciously He arranges that I become the One for whom the world is intact because He claims not a particle of it for Himself, because He vanishes in its favour, because He dies for it. Only as Him here am I all there, and quite compos mentis, and seeing things as they are.

(2) The second difference is linked with the first. On the one hand is my false or man’s-eye view of a world that I’m up against, that I’m not responsible for, that I wash my hands of. Of a world much of which I don’t like, and some of which I loathe - for example, those deplorable characters we mentioned. Ivan the Terrible is - terrible, and that’s that.

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