Modified: November 23, 2023
hating god
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.On Michael Taft's podcast, A. H. Almaas pointed out that an obstacle for most people realizing a sense of divine, nondual love, is some part of ourself hates God for all the bad things that happen in the world - for not being the omnipotent font of goodness we thought we were promised.
I think this connects to psychological wounding and trauma. We are attached to the specific bad things that have happened to us. It can feel like seeing the world as loving, as divine, magical, basically okay, would mean denying our own experience, a failure of empathy towards those parts of ourselves that have been hurt.
From this perspective it's clear that part of the path forward is to include those parts in the sense of unifying love. We care about them and hope that they can heal, and we trust that love eventually can heal all (psychological) wounds.