The emergence of pondering
As Homo Sapiens emerged from caves in different parts of the world and began developing with different cultures and varied creeds they began to wonder where it all began. They became aware of a dimension beyond the material - of creativity and love and of a wide variety of emotional nuances.
‘There is more to all this than meets the eye’ thought each HS group - from their own perspectives. Concepts of the Divine began to take shape as hearts reached out for an understanding. Across the earth, understandings of this Divine varied greatly. But it was the same truth, the same Divine that was being sought.
Nevertheless, the people began to argue, and even got into devastating wars about whose ponderings were correct, and whose scriptures were truly from the Divine. Some even concluded that unless people accepted their group’s beliefs, they were heading for eternal damnation.
One day a person, had an idea and told it as a parable (Love’s Endeavour, Love’s Expense by W. H. Vanstone):
‘Let us suppose that a blind man and a deaf man are together in a room when a thunderstorm breaks out close at hand. The blind man experiences and reports a loud noise; the deaf man experiences and reports a bright light; and each is convinced of the reality of his experience and the truth of his report.
‘But the two reports are different, and, on the face of it, that of which the blind man is convinced is different from that of which the deaf man is convinced. The ‘truth’ of one appears quite unconnected with, and irrelevant to, the ‘truth’ of the other. But if each should discover his own truth, exploring the implications, the causes and the origins of that of which he is convinced, the two might soon recognise that what they had experienced in different ways and reported in different ways was, in fact, the same thing - the proximity of a thunderstorm. The ‘truth’ of each would then become relevant to, and even a confirmation of, the ‘truth’ of the other.’
The implications of this vibed for some who had ears to hear. Together, and with growing numbers of others from very different belief systems and ponderings, they went forth into all the world with expanding hearts and minds. As they lived and proclaimed their new sense of connectedness with each other Homo Sapiens grew more and more in tune with the Divine.
