God is everyone, the world, ancestors, a bowel movement, and the heart

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And this bit of news- that God is everyone- means that everyone is innocent, or so you’d think, if God was logical, which God isn’t.

I had to learn to be with God first, then with the world.

And if your ancestors have botched things up royally- which most of ours have- you may have to repair the disfigured emanation, stitching the fissure closed, before moving onto your own.

A west coast bowel movement: Purging your bowels while squatting in the intertidal zone, and then cleaning your hoop east-Indian style, except not with the Gangetic holy water, but with the Mother’s own, homestyle Pacific brine to chisel off the last hanger-on.

Strange how the world has turned out this way.

It is impossible to accept another until you accept yourself. Impossible.

In order for the Macrocosm to be God, the microcosm must be the Christ.

I make no claims about righteousness or perfection.

The Creator enters creation so as to investigate and educate the creatures.

            The heart requires context, and so only the mind can lift the heart out of context’s bind, and yet only the heart can save the mind from floating off into the deep blue with no anchor to hold it back. Thus they are supposed to act as a team, though most often they are as warring enemies within a person.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.