The Route 80 Philosophy
Have faith that God is already waiting for you down the road with wonderful surprises. Be “all in” for God and let miracles happen along Route 80 or whatever path you find.
God and Love on Route 80
By Stephen G. Post
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free. The world before me.
~ Walt Whitman
Be grateful that there is a loving infinite Mind who wants to see each of us express the spirit of creative love for which purpose we were created. The key thing is to pray or meditate to be gratefully one with your peaceful soul and its connectivity with the infinite Mind, envision loving goals from this place within, and work hard, trusting that there is a power for goodness that is higher than ourselves that will help you along the way so long as you let it. Sometimes it is enough just to remove the obstacles of bitterness and rumination that block the flow of God within us, and by getting these destructive emotions out of the way we let God do things through us.
It was early morning, silver-gray misty, up high over the sea, at the end of a road to the unknown west. A long-haired blond youth leaned outward over a ledge, about to let go, when out of the mist appeared the light blue image of an angel’s face, and it spoke these few words softly with great love: “If you save him, you too shall live.” Then she faded back into the silver-gray haze of the dawn.
Stephen Post’s (the boy) blue angel dream was filled with symbols, but they were hard to interpret. The blue angel dream felt deeply spiritual and provided a path for the boy when he embraced it as a guide. Such dreams can arise in the minds of people from any spiritual tradition and be equally meaningful. The infinite Mind transcends all human cultural limits and symbols and does not wish to be named, perhaps because, once one group of humans decides that “my name for God is better than yours,” it can lead to conflict and even war. In a significant revelatory moment, standing before a burning bush, Moses asked God for a name, but God answered, “I AM WHO I AM.”[1] The Chandogya Upanishad (c. 600 BCE), an ancient Hindu sacred text, stresses the phrase, “tat tvam asi,” or “thou art that,” as an expression of the nature of Brahman, or the Supreme Reality, with “that” referring to the infinite Mind that is both the highest as well as the inmost. Indeed, “Allah” is used by Arabic speakers of all the Abrahamic faiths (including Christianity and Judaism) to refer to God and is based on the word for “I AM,” as is Yahweh in Hebrew, so it is not a name at all. These days, many spiritual people refer to the infinite Mind as “the Universe” or “Universal Mind,” which also suggests something too profound to be named. It is good to give people and dogs names, but bad to give God names.
When we acknowledge that in this original, universal, and infinite Mind we “live and move and have our being,”[2] we are unconsciously guided toward our destiny, and we are empowered to love and value other human beings in a much deeper sense, as equally gifted with some part of the Mind of God. Our minds are part of something infinite just as they are, and we can consciously cooperate with God in creative love. We are a spark of and in the divine Mind. So, we have a natural tendency to pray, to meditate, to receive meaningful dreams, to enter flow states beyond time and place, and find the silent oneness within. Infinite Mind is at the center of our own being and unreluctantly responsive to us as we are responsive to it. But we have to be precise and clear in the things we aspire to and consistent with creativity and love for self and for others.
Every one of us is then a treasure in an earthen vessel while embodied on this earth. But all visible things at the quantum level are shaped and formed and even comprised by divine Mind, which sustains the universe in energy and the material form of that energy. That Mind gave infinitely sophisticated mathematical order and constants of energy to a beautifully formed universe.
Whether looking at the internal soul or mind that lies within or looking outward at our universe and all that is, life is an awakening to the constant union with God. No limit can be placed on the individual mind in conscious union with infinite Mind. We are in God, as God is in us.
Ethics and conscience have their ultimate ground in the realization that we are each a small circle within the infinite Mind that includes all people without exception. Our connectedness to God and to one another is much more powerful and real than we often know.
The great Jewish philosopher Martin Buber wrote that at our lowest state of awareness, we relate to others only to the extent that they contribute to our little selfish agendas. He called this way of living “I and It” because we treat others as mere means to our ends. As an alternative, Buber proposed “I and Thou,” meaning that we are in awe of others and honor them as ends in themselves. There is still an “I,” of course, but at a higher spiritual and ethical awareness. But going beyond Buber, when we help others in our oneness, we also are helping ourselves because of that oneness, so, therefore, the highest state is not “Thou and I” but “I and me.” When “I” realize that the security and well-being of another is inextricably a part of my own security and well-being because all are equally participating in infinite Mind, then “I” have arrived.
Never give up on your dream and your soul. A soul is not just a mix of evolved human emotions and accumulated social influences. A soul is spiritual and eternal, a little bit of the infinite Mind given us to sense God and experience Oneness. So much in our culture pushes us away from the level of spiritual focus on our inner being, and it is worth it to just leave things behind and strike out free on whatever road you like unless you have a lot of responsibilities. Have faith that God is already waiting for you down the road with wonderful surprises. Be “all in” for God and let miracles happen along Route 80 or whatever path you find.
Remember, “In the beginning, God!” Infinite, creative, everywhere, loving before time and space were born. From the divine Word and Thought came the universe with the intent of creating free spiritual beings like ourselves who could, in their creative love, extend divine creativity in such a way as to bring great joy to God, to neighbor, and to themselves.
This is how we live on Route 80.
The key thing is: Take the journey and stay very grateful for it.
[1] Exodus 3:14. [2] Acts 17:28.
Excerpted from God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness by Stephen G. Post. Foreword by Larry Dossey.
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About the Author
Stephen G. Post is a bestselling author and the founding director of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Dr. Post, a professor at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, NY, where he also directs the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. A leader in medicine, research, and spirituality, God and Love on Route 80 is a meditation on the meaning of life and the importance of spirituality. https://stephengpost.com
