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The Science of Proving God’S Existence The Science of Proving God’s Existence Yoga, God and Enlightenment. The Path to Inner Happiness. What is God? Newest Findings. Near-death Research. Reincarnation Research. Amma embraces the World. Darshan with Mutter Meera. The Great Atheist Debate 2009. Reform the Church. The Unity of all Religions. Nils Horn Copyright: 2010 Nils Horn, Hamburg, Germany. Many thanks for translation to Megan Leo. Private (non-commercial) distribution is permitted. Proof of God’s Existence? 3 What is God? Threefold Proof of God The Path to Inner Happiness Levels of Happiness Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount The Search for Happiness The Ten Points of Happiness Newest Findings 14 American Physicist Amit Goswami Interview with Amit Goswami What Was There Before the Big Bang? The Three Worlds Model Near-death Research 19 German Television Program on Near-death Research The arguments of the atheists Proof of Life After Death The Death of the 16th Karmapa Discussion of the Death of the Karmapa Reincarnation Research 27 Earlier Life Along the Way of the Yogi Yogi without Eating Parapsychology Are there Such Things as Ghosts? The Other Side 35 The Four Astral Worlds The Three Light Worlds The Eight Heavens Seventh Heaven Meditation Is There a Hell? 41 Is There a Devil? Rage as Hell Depression as Hell Going Through Difficult Times The Astral Journey 45 Two Ways to Paradise The Jellyfish Dream Swami Muktananda Nils’ Life as a Yogi 49 The Five Duties The Spritual Daily Routine The Way of All-Encompassing Love Amma embraces the World Darshan with Mutter Meera The 85th Birthday of Nils’ Mother The Great Atheist Debate 2009 59 Sven and Nils Physicist Klaus Brain Research Julia and Nils Thanks, Wikipedia Seven Arguments God and Enlightenment Reform the Church 69 The Story of Creation Is there a God? God is Love The Personal Concept of God Jesus is the Only Way? Practice and Grace An Atheist Meets Jesus Is the Bible God’s Word? Levels of Enlightenment 78 Psycological and Physical Proof of God The Most Powerful and Effective Exercise Nils’ Life as a Single Humans are Good What is Scientific Proof? 84 Jevi, the Enlightened The Goal of Reincarnation The Zen Way A Zen Poem In the Philosophy Room 88 Nihilism Love is the Essence The Highest Philosophy The Omnipotent God The Unity of all Religions 93 Interview with an Enlightened Master Go your own Way The Swan Quotes of enlightement Proof of God’s Existence? ------------------------------- God’s existence can be proven through the reality of enlightenment. Those who are enlightened, can sense and even see God. These individuals live in God. One sees God as a form of light, which shines through the entire world. One feels God as energy surrounding the self and within oneself. One feels God as a form of inner bliss, inner peace, and inner power. Such enlightened individuals recognize that a higher truth exists which could also be described as complete and utter love of a deeper kind. There are millions of people in the world who bear witness to the reality of enlightenment. A million people from every culture and from every era of history have experienced this ultimate spiritual epiphany. There were enlightened individuals in the form of Shaman, known by a variety of names in a slew of cultures. Among the Celts were the Druids, who held trees sacred and found God within the groves of trees they so revered and in nature itself. Similar were the experiences of the Native Americans, whose Medicine Men (as they came to be called by the European settlers ) divined the almighty within rocks, trees, plants, animals, and had ecstatic visions of the spiritual dimension. Similar practitioners existed (and still exist today in some cultures) among the tribes of all of the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their experiences were too similar to be dismissed as simply coincidence, so parallel were the results of their deep commune with a higher power. They named God by many words which all referred to the same entity: Nature, Cosmos, Tao, Brahman, Nirvana, Manitu, Allah, Yahweh. Among the most well known of the Enlightened are arguably Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Laotse, Socrates, Krishna, and Patanjali. Today, thousands of enlightened inviduals exist in one form or another. This reality has not been accepted by Western mass media, as it is contradictory to the goals of a consumer oriented lifestyle. Those who simply look to their local book sellers might stumble across some literature which does in fact exemplify a more enlightened outlook. Modern science has even researched these aforementioned enlightened individuals and has confirmed their abilities. Everyone can look into this topic and satisfy his or her own scepticism by either following the path of the enlightened or by trusting the evidence of those who have come before and who have written or talked about their experiences. It should be stressed that God as a term comes from the perception of those who have walked the path of enlightenment. Those who have never experienced this path cannot truly speak of God from a personal perspective. It would be like someone who has never been in love attempting to write heartfelt love poems. Instead of discussing one’s own perception of God, one can consider modern science’s indication of the existence of God. Albert Einstein considered energy to be the basis of the cosmos. Energy is like a power line to God, but there is more to it than that. As science advances in its understanding of energy in general, more developments will lead us to even more comprehensive indications, examples, and ultimately proof of God. There are several religions in the world. Every real religion is based on the teachings of an enlightened individual or several enlightened individuals. Judaism was based on the teachings of Moses, Christianity on the teachings of Jesus, Buddhism on the wisdom of Buddha, and Hinduism on that of many. Religions without enlightened founders are not real religions. (Scientology is one such example of a phony “religion”).The center of a religion is that of enlightenment. Religion should lead to enlightenment. A problem that has arisen from religion in its organized form is the tendency to not emphasize happiness or bliss (the human’s way of perceiving God) on the part of its members, rather to emphasize the strengthening of the organization itself. From that standpoint, many difficulties between said organizations have arisen, which could mainly be classified as ego issues. What is the Meaning of God? ---------------------------------- In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, God is mainly seen as a person with whom the followers deal. God is a higher being people can talk to and ask for help. In Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, God is more of an abstract term. God is seen as a higher form of energy, as a state of being, a state of consciousness, and as the cosmos itself. God has been named Brahman, Nirvana, and Tao in this light. In every major religion, there are many various definitions of God. There are followers of the personal concept of God, and of the abstract concept of God. In Hinduism, God is seen as an all- encompassing Brahman (cosmic energy), and at the same time depicted as a more solid entity in the Bhagavadgita. As Krishna, God took on human form and gave the inhabitants of India the gift of knowledge of the path of love (Karma Yoga). When God is incarnated in an earthly body, some enlightened soul in the energy dimension of the cosmos has emerged from this dimension into that of material and has taken on a solid body. We all possess the ability to direct and develop our consciousness toward enlightenment and die as one of the enlightened. Then we can stay in the world of light as long as we wish or return to the earth for a time. According to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, that is the freedom of the enlightened. In Buddhism, such particular souls are called Bodhisattvas, while in Hinduism they are referred to as Nitya-Siddhas or Karma Yogis. In the case of Moses, the abstract concept of God was the most prevalent. In his central definition he described God with the words “I am”. These words refer to the central state of enlightened bliss. In the words “I am”, the path to enlightenment is contained. Humans must develop a cosmic consciousness in order to lose the concept of self, the ego. They can thus experience a pure consciousness that is in harmony with everything and then say “I am”, from this persepective. One cannot say “I am the person who...” One must identify with everyone and everything and see oneself as nothing, as completely devoid of ego in this state of being. In Yoga, Sat-Chid-Ananda is referred to in connection to a united state of consciousness. Although both definitions of God can be found in every major religion, one can still say Christianity is more commonly associated with the personal concept whereas Hinduism is more connected to the abstract point of view. For this reason, many conflicts and misunderstandings have been encountered by the followers of the aforementioned religions. Each side claims to possess the real understanding of God. A significant gap among the religions has been bridged by Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi). Amma is to date the main representative of Hinduism in the West. According to Amma, there is a great enlightened force composed of fully enlightened souls. This force possesses a cosmic consciousness which is at one with the cosmos (with God) and with one another. One could view this as a mass of souls who see themselves as one, or a mass of souls who view one another as friends.
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