God's Gracious Gifts

Ethan Lipton and his orchestra...
from the movie...The Shift,  with Dr. Wayne Dyer

“No More Secondhand God”

“The revolution has come -set on fire from the top. Let it burn swiftly.  Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered.  Only last years leaves and the parasite-bearded moss and orchids will not be there when the next spring brings fresh growth and free standing flowers.  Here is God's purpose - for God to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated;  is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, nor ecclesiastic canon.  Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy.  And there is born unheralded a great natural peace, not out of exclusive pseudo-static security but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing.  Naught is lost.  Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.  And I've thought through to tomorrow which is also today.  The telephone rings and you say to me: Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or Daddy it's Allegra; or Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office; and I say you are inaccurate.  Because I knew you were going to call and furthermore I recognize that it is God who is "speaking."  And you say aren't you being fantastic?  And knowing you I say no.  At least a quarter of a billion people sit quietly for hours in darkened halls.  And they say they are "at the movies" not looking at anyone or anything real.  They certainly don't see the screen.  I say they are looking at God.  And there is now only half a world left and one-half of our time remaining in which to "let our hair all the way down" and say, "We have plenty, we have the means, the ability, the knowledge.  Let us start the mechanism to creative account; not to vast and vaster destruction."  No one in America will say that its leader is overstepping his authorized bounds if he takes sincere, forthright, and adequately big steps to accomplish world healing.  God will be handling the radio-telegraph for such a mandated dictatorship; and Democracy is not challenged by such a dictator whose very first move must and will be tidal-waved with Demos authority.  Stop "calling names";  Names that are meaningless; You can't suppress God by killing off people which are, physically, only transceiver mechanisms Through which God is broadcasting.  But his requirement is dynamic and if man-mechanism proves too inefficient as an invention he will immediately devise a cataclysmic improvement.  - R. Buckminster Fuller, 1940