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God Has Many Names
God has many names
to which God responds
—just like you have many
names to which you respond,
such as birth names, nicknames,
chosen names, familial names,
professional names, and societal
names—since the many names
that God is called apply to the
many ways that God is called.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
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My Writing About How God Has Many Names: God has many names to which God responds—just like you have many names to which you respond, such as birth names, nicknames, chosen names, familial names, professional names, and societal names—since the many names that God is called apply to the many ways that God is called. –Paul Whiting (written September 1st, 2016, revised September 2nd, 2016 and revised October 16th, 2022)
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My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question" when I read the quote below on page 153, which inspired me to write the poem above:
"Humans will understand that Adonai, Allah, Brahman, Elohim, God, Jehovah, Krishna, and Yahweh are among that many names humans give to The One Thing That Is."
Plus, as I continued reading "What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question," I read the quote below on page 206, which supports the poem above:
"There is only One God. What God is this? Is it Adonai? Allah? Elohim? God? Hari? Jehovah? Krishna? Lord? Rama? Vishnu? Yahweh? It's All of Them."
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"
CwG's basic messages:
"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:
1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God
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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 138 was edited on December 6th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
