What is the Purpose of Life? Andrew Cohen

[Music] we talk about Le leading from meaning and purpose and about about living from higher Consciousness basically what I'm trying to find out from your perspective is what is the purpose of it all anyway I mean if if we're just just of life and the purpose of what we're um what what the point of higher Consciousness is if it's just to manifest another thing and to keep going and to manifest another thing and another thing and another thing I'm just wondering what is the point of it is for it to always manifest something isn't that kind of is that well well you that's a fair question but you want to look at it from God's point of view so so if God God's the energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process then you want to say why did God create the universe so you you have to put yourself in in you have to put yourself in in God's position we're if we're using theological language here so permit me to do that so you want to put yourself in God's position because the answer to your question is why did God create the universe so if you were God you would already you would already be perfect and complete as you were so right if you were God as God the unmanifest or unbecome God God before the universe was created right I don't know that I what well just think about it if you were God before the universe was created if you before the universe was created there wouldn't be any time right right there wouldn't be any form MH there wouldn't be any space right but you'd still be there right so what is it like to exist when when there's no when there's no time no space and no form very peaceful very good so it's very so it' be incredibly peaceful right unbelievably right because no because there's no time so so before so because when there's time see before the universe was born you didn't have any problems you didn't have anything to overcome you didn't have any big evolutionary projects either right right you also didn't have any problems to overcome no fear no regret MH so be so before the universe was created everything was very was was how it couldn't have been better right based on what we're speaking about could have you had no problems right everything was cool but the point is if you want to put yourself you have to just go on a little bit of a kind of theological fantasy here you want to put yourself in that position and imagine that you'd been abiding in this perfect State this perfectly Blissful state for billions of eons of No Time billions of eons of no time everything had been just absolutely couldn't have been better now if if you were God and you've been doing this for billions ions of eons of no time you might start wondering yeah you say this is just absolutely fantastic but you know I've been doing this forever and and maybe I maybe maybe maybe I should do something right right because you don't have to do anything because if you're God you wouldn't have to do anything but you might decide you wanted to do something because there'd be nothing else for you to do because you already been doing nothing forever anyway right right no it makes sense you you just say yeah I might do that and you might think of think this over for billions for eons and eons you might be considering I will I won't I will I won't no yes no yes until you got to a point when you said the hell with it I'm going to do it and if you are God what's the biggest thing you could possibly think of doing creating creating a universe material because it's a big if you were God you don't do anything in small measur you only you only do you only do things you only do the biggest thing you only think in very big terms so if you were God you'd say well I'm going to I'm going to create a material universe in my own image and what's your and what's your own image Consciousness which is not a thing it's not an object okay so okay now of course the nature of what God is is absolutely perfect always one and perfect right so if you were a god you'd be trying to you'd be striving then to create that absolute perfection that you already are in form it's a Perfection that you already are because that's that's your own Natural State being God but then when you create the material Universe you take a deep breath and then boom that's when it started then your then the universe project as I Define it is that is the is that original intention to create a material Universe in your own form in your own form would be that Perfection but what we find is that in manifestation because the unmanifest expression of God is the perfect tallness but when God becomes manifest when we take that leap from formlessness to form from nothing to something uh then we realize that what we're calling Perfection is unattainable because then when once you cross over the realm and enter into manifestation you enter into creative process where you're ever striving to reach that Perfection but you'll never you you always will just be about to but you'll never get there so so we want so so so God as AOS or as the creative principle or as the urge to become is is Right which is what we're all about is that is that is it is the striving towards that holess or Perfection that you already are are in your unmanifest form and you're striving to create it and become it in manifestation so it seems that's what God's up to and when you awaken to this what I'm calling this authentic self for evolutionary impulse that's what you start to feel you start to feel this ecstatic urgency and the exas inherent in the Ecstasy is the experience of fullness wholeness Perfection freedom but it's a freedom and a wholeness and Perfection that is striving that wants to become so it's a Perfection it's an it's you experience it as an already whole already perfect State feeling right that that at the same time is striving is striving to become right see my point I do see your point I I no I do see your point I get see that's the answer but it's also also it's always manifesting something so it's always in a sense material because it's always wanting to manifest something so what's the point no but but you you you see you you if you only look at the exterior then you're only going to see matter you have to see remember there's an exterior and an interior so the materialist worldview doesn't recognize Interiors it only sees exteriors if you if you realize that for every exterior there's an interior then you're going to see the interior is always is always going to be part of the process and so what's driving the process is coming from the interior and and obviously from an when even when we look at the whole notion of evolutionary biology and if you look if you look at the evolution of life you know there you we've been begin to see there there is an INT there's obviously an intelligence at work here this this is not purely accidental where and it's being where is it being driven from the Interior right so the answer to your question is it's it's it's the it's it's ultimately you know the ultimate answer I as I understand is it's a love for itself it's kind of it's kind of a cosmic narcissism in a sense but you could but you could say it's God's love of him or herself to create and manifest them herself in and through form so it's kind of a self L and so when people experience kind of this this spiritual love or kind of this kind of in this state of intoxication that's what they're experiencing it's a love that's not personal and and that's the in the nature of Consciousness when you really begin to experience it directly is that love that's what it is so it's it's it's it's a love for itself that's driving to create and manifest itself in form why because there's nothing else to do [Music]