That's What God Is Like

It pleases me to witness the proof that other people have realized that a genius is a person who has a genie at their disposable. This woman explains why such is so:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

Toward the end of this video Elizabeth Gilbert tells a story about what sometimes what happens with some professional African dancers called The Moonlight Dancers. Occasionally, after having performed their show many times during their yearly tour, one of the performers becomes transcendent, steps through some invisible portal, and their individual performance is no long merely human. It becomes imbued with divinity. When that happened the people would cry out "Allah, Allah, Allah, that's God! That's what God is like." Eventually, in Spain during the bull fights when the matador dodged being gored in some spectacular way by the bull the crowd shouts, "Ole!, Ole!, Ole!" in a similar way, to signify that's what God is like. An adroit dancer, like Krishna of the Hindoos. God can't become human so he uses humans to dance his cosmic dance.

Ms. Gilbert also points out that after any performer offers their audience a glimpse of god, and the next day the performer no longer ex-is-ts as a glimpse of God, that there is a painful period of reconciliation with realizing that the spirit that animated the dancer into a divine dance is fickle, and is not always there at one's beck and call. She points out in the video with poignant examples that an unsuccessful reconciliation with God's departure "has been the ruin of many a po' boy...".

People flock to places where they think they might see what God is like. That's my new working hypotheses. I don't know if it's relevant to what matters or not. Why would it matter? Everybody reads what they would have meant if they wrote what I write.

The image I have in my mind when I write this is the basketball player Michael Jordan. He could perform like God would at times. When he was on a roll he couldn't miss. The accolades he earned seem similar to another performer I never saw do his stuff except on TV, the Russian ballet dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov.

People who enter a transcendent state become so charismatic they can't be ignored. Their inspiration gets them over their personal limitations and they become like Gods. There is no area or aspect in life where this can't happen or where it doesn't happen. This phenomena confirms for me that God is docetic and it moves. It surpasses by abandonment everything it attempts to become ('Why hast thou forsaken me?'). God is indwelling when anyone is being better than the best they can be.

I've written about being a student of charisma for a long time. Long before I began writing online. Finding out how easily I can be swayed by charismatic people drove me to find out why I'm too easily charmed by charisma as my life long goal. This quest has provided me with many strange bedfellows, because when I didn't know anything, something or anything might be it.

Watching Ms. Gilbert's video and hearing her describe the incident of how the African dancer became transcendent, and with that incident resulting in how one gains a glimpse of God, is somewhat like the missing link in describing my long quest. Namely, one of the main points to what I seek understanding about is to simply comprehend that God can only be seen in glimpses. It figures. Why am I always the last to know?

Here is a link to a bunch of paintings by a Russian artist. The islands in the sky in these pictures is like what i experienced in a very vivid dream once where people were sitting in a outside bleachers looking over the edge of the land. People would walk to the edge of where the land dropped off into space like in some of the pictures at this site, and jump off in a very deliberate manner.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2546#more-2546