The simple analogy that CWG uses is that of a computer game on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains all the "outcomes" but we choose our individual path through it as we "play the game"
Bill, that analogy is a good description, in a certain sense, of the operation of the ego. The "game programs" are analagous to the TENDENCY TO EXPERIENCE of the individual ego. The exact outcomes are not defined by those tendencies/programs because there always is an element of choice present within the framework of the "experience". However, the choices as seen by the ego are virtually always of the black/white variety, driven by the inclination to value pleasure above pain, etc, etc.
In traditional Eastern teachings, these dynamics are typically described in terms of the operation of "karma".
The view you describe (from CWG) typifies (in its clearest form), that of saint-type beings of the 4th stage of life, in which God is still viewed as an "other" and the ego sees itself as the servant of God. God can be seen as all around, and so on, but the "entity" still views itself as
separate, but connected to God.
Adi Da makes the point, relentlessly, that there is NOTHING but God, and any sense of separation from God is totally illusory (even though, of course, the ego experiences its personal reality as real).
In other words, there really isn't anybody to be a co-creator with God. Ultimately, there is ONLY God, and God as the witness of ITSELF. And the productions of the ego
are just more data, so to speak, functionally no different than the data of billions upon billions of beings of countless kinds, all arising in God and (another traditional definition) "ATOMS IN THE BODY OF GOD".
Namaste!
Jim |
