I personally would posit that God is already in all people RIGHT NOW, that they just keep themselves down by not realizing it.
That's pretty much my take on the whole thing, but on the other hand that process of realization usually seems to result in various changes to the mind and body (some drastic, some subtle; some rapid and some less so) which can certainly feel like one has been entered by God, or found the Tao, or had one's soul recollected (http://www.livejournal.com/users/acheron_hades/134759.html), or whatever. So I guess it's a kind of verbal shorthand that's prone to misinterpretation — as Chuang Tzu says, there is "no need to help Tao along", which seems to be the root problem underlying all proselytizing.
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Date: 2005-08-16 03:38 pm (UTC)That's pretty much my take on the whole thing, but on the other hand that process of realization usually seems to result in various changes to the mind and body (some drastic, some subtle; some rapid and some less so) which can certainly feel like one has been entered by God, or found the Tao, or had one's soul recollected (http://www.livejournal.com/users/acheron_hades/134759.html), or whatever. So I guess it's a kind of verbal shorthand that's prone to misinterpretation — as Chuang Tzu says, there is "no need to help Tao along", which seems to be the root problem underlying all proselytizing.