The Cloud Of Unknowing // MB 014

[@HexproofAnarchist]

"Be still, and know that I am God."

[@samuelmarriott5498]

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[@msimp0108]

It’s really great to see a young dude like yourself with a breadth of knowledge of Christian mysticism. I recently read The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart which is a great resource to counter the atheistic/materialistic paradigm that has infected our world culture. The distinction you make between fundamentalism as mentally based vs mysticism as experientially based is vital to understand in the midst of all the noise. I am a grateful and impressed subscriber. We need more of your caliber of discussion.

[@josephvanda5113]

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[@yeshazion4098]

When You " pray" from THAT Place You will find( realize) all You need is already provided. All You desire after that is Non material. You BECOME( feel) LOVE ...sit in total Gratitude ...ALL WILL come to YOU Thank You for sharing THIS TRUTH❤

[@LivSal22]

The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you ☯️ Not in a mansion of wood and stone Split a piece of wood and I am there Lift a stone and you will find me. 🙏🏾

[@markjones9631]

I've Followed you from your beginning on your channel. I asked you, are your folks excepting of your ,changed truth. You said , yes ,and it was comforting for you . So, as you teach , my mind wonders Do Aaron parents watch your videos? I'm 63 ,I've been spirituality searching all my life for truth. I got into all , conservative, carsmatic, until I started to what to watch the sun set. Then the , book power of now ,I heard a voice say if you can get this working ,it will be your inner peace ✌️ 😉 That was20yrs ago. So may things have happened to or for me. A year ago I had a triple, Kundalini awakening. Sunday -Divine feminine Monday -Divine masculine Tuesday - it stood in between Male and female trees 🌳 Blend both . Now 1yr later, I am so grateful to you and all the many teachers who were there to guide me. The energy is settled 😌 I can so relate to you starting you education at Oral Robert,s I love the , Jesus shouting happy Carsmatic. But like you I never resonate with it completely. I was a terrible reader, now I read books, three at a time . Also, my path is being directed so easy to see. Keep up your beautiful way of simplicity. We are all mirror,s to each other . Love Mark "SHINE "

[@DD-rk7vl]

Thank you seems inadequate. I have been binge watching most days. Breaking off to digest through my soul and the more I hear the more I become aware of who I am and how simple everything is. This one is making me cry because I finally get it. After wasting decades trying and failing to change myself. I don't have to improve perfect and don't need long fake prayers. Just honest truth.

[@ursulaansbach2244]

Love your comment. Happy for you!

[@seemagupta8540]

Truly Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing. Stay blessed always 🎊

[@sanjeevbjain]

you too will inspire every being for centuries and act as a catalyst for divine transformation

[@msvoo64]

It is so sacred to hear what I have learned in the past 15 years, from a fine young man with a christian background. I live in the Bible Belt and often have a hard time sharing what I have learned without being overly aware of being disrespectful to Christians around me. Your well thought out teachings and carefully chosen words have been wonderful for me in learning to help others. You are like a lovely spiritual concoction of Mooji, Rupert Spira, and Adyashanti, with a Jesus loving heart. Thank you!

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

You can’t pray from the separate self or ego but rather through the heart with all of your being . Wow that hit me hard . I’ve done this in times of desperation and despair and know it works miracles.

[@creativeandaliveat65]

I love the compassion that your whole being exudes when you help others unfold in/into Spirit. Thank you for all that you have come here to be.

[@keeshahoward8343]

You are heaven sent. I have been yearning for something deeper and sometimes not knowing what that actually meant. I was looking up videos on spiritual awareness/law of attraction/etc. I stumbled upon your channel and i don't watch anything else!! God bless you...please keep it up. Your gift is bringing awareness to those seeking MORE!

[@quantumgirl222]

Just found you in the last few days. You have a great channel Aaron!! I’ve read The Cloud of Unknowing and while I remember it blowing my mind, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to explain it in Lehman’s terms like you have in this video. Keep up the good work!!

[@cathyjardim2778]

Thank you Aaron... you are a gift❤❤❤

[@MatthewRichards81]

I just received my copy of 'The Cloud of Unknowing' from Amazon today. Can't wait to start reading it. When I watched this video of your take on it I knew I had to read it. This journey of awakening is something I can't put words to. I was very lost in life, but today I feel like I am being guided by something much greater than myself. Thank you for helping me find my way Aaron. God bless you!

[@mikebowman9844]

It is good that you have by now read it or are in the process of reading it. My appreciation for the video is that it calls attention to the Cloud of Unknowing. My concern from others who have commented is that they blow past this video receiving a good feeling or even thinking they “got it” without reading the actual book with the abundant and necessary advice to avoid going astray. The ego has to be utterly surrendered as you probably know by now from reading it carefully.

[@ursulaansbach2244]

I just ordered my copy! Can't wait for it to get here.

[@eleanorburns8686]

I read this book for the first time over the weekend, and really appreciate your extra reflections on it (I hadn't considered the quantum field angle at all, but it certainly increases one's sense of wonder at the author's amazing intuition). Thank you so much for sharing. x

[@helloworld-wn9vi]

DUDE, YOUR VIDEOS ARE ONE LEVEL UP

[@erikadawnwyatt1104]

Instead of going to Wednesday night service I’ve been watching your channel now☺️

[@lfbeam]

I am gobsmaked, by both your breadth and depth of knowledge/ wisdom and mystical understanding, but also that you are so young! It has taken me a life time of painful fumbling around to get to where you appear to be, so youthfully...thank you!

[@Boetiuos]

One of the best.

[@ursulaansbach2244]

Ive been on this path for several years now... through studying eastern meditation and mystics; through reading the Nag Hammadi library collection and the Other Bible which include the Gnostic, Essene, Kabbalist and other ancient texts. I also began reading quantum physics and listening to Gregg Braden and Joe Dispenza . Thank you for sharing these specific texts that will add to the mix. It's fascinating how all approaches to the Divine intersect and become one understanding...how there really is no essential discrepancy between them. The conflict arises in the traditional christian church, which appears to have manufactured it to benefit the clergy, creating a tragedy that continued for centuries. High time to share the fullness of the truth. I'm delighted to find others on this journey. Thank you Aaron!

[@Zoki_Joy_of_Being]

12:14 "Just be where nothing Is." - beautiful. Thanks for sharing🙏

[@yoursecretpath3709]

Synchronicity!! This am during meditation I heard very clearly “Iam nothing. I am everything.” and what followed was very similar to what you are talking about! Thank You!

[@goldengirls9230]

You are a unique and beautiful gift. Thank you for sharing your spirit, divinity, and love to others. ❤❤❤

[@Edson15081986]

Aaron my brother i thank God, for finding your channel. The words and the wisdom in which you speak are helping me to really understand where I am and how to express myself towards God. I understand now what Jesus was really trying to teach us. Thank you

[@audioartisan]

"Until you can see Christ in everything, then you do not truly see the Christ yet in anything" Thank you for that, Aaron. I needed to be reminded. I found the The Cloud of Unknowing online, and can't thank you enough for bringing this work to light.

[@grizzlogic]

Everytime I start a new series , it becomes my favorite ! This is So good and much needed - Thank YOU so much ! Sending lots of love & light 🙏🏼✨

[@mirian593]

Thank you ❤

[@mirian593]

This is so true!❤

[@rinacoy3761]

I am so grateful that I have found your channel. Your teaching are so awakening and well received. Thank you.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

'I use words when Silence fails', Sri Ramana Maharishi

[@seliar7586]

Thank You BeautiFuLL Soul, not only it is a delight to watch you MashAllah, you are Divine perfection, but your eloquence , your faith , your devotion to the Truth is Magnetic and so enticing . You are a True God Lover that is why , it is so captivating , the one , the Pure , the Real LOve is Love for the Divine . The rest is bonus :) Thank you for pouring your heart and Soul into this, you are blessed to have found and responded to the Truth Calling, I am with you .

[@anitawbrown]

This was really awesome Aaron. Thank you for all you do to spread the mystical way of love!!

[@trishfisher3992]

@@AaronAbke I am totally undone, totally! It's only been weeks that I endeavored to be silent and could not understand the nothingness. I would say to friends I dont mind that He does not show up I will do it each day. This session has given me so much understanding THANK YOU!

[@danielazeilinger3722]

After and beside all books that I’ve read, all videos that I’ve listened, this is BEST EXPLANATION EVER!!!💫✨ Thank you for your work and thank you that you are Aaron! 🙏😊💙 Love and light to you and to all! 💙✨💫🌈

[@charlesgray9616]

Aaron, I so appreciate the insights you share so understandably. Thank You!

[@fredclarkson4642]

Thanks Aaron. You made my Awakening easier for me. God bless you 💚🌄

[@melaniestarkey7868]

I feel like I came home. A couple times I almost cried. I've left comments on different ones of your videos through the years. I'm really comforted that you love the course in Miracles I absolutely love the course in Miracles. There is so much to learn from the different videos you have out I am behind

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

I just started reading this book , I love it already !! 🙏🏼

[@channelingheaven2817]

Thank you so much for all that you are doing! Life changing wisdom here! I wholeheartedly believe you are some sort of 4D angel. I am sharing your stuff with all of the people I love, praying that they find you to be as clear a channel as I do! Stay the course, light the path! Love and peace to all!

[@tanara4069]

This is simply beautiful! Thank you so much for all your shared wisdom. xx

[@sungoddiss]

This is the very first spiritual book I read! I was 19, and walking through a bookstore the title caught my attention and it was the book I walked out with.

[@e.smitty6950]

Omg. I just stumbled upon your channel by happenstance and looked through some of your videos... Subscribed.

[@monterock6726]

happenstance? Perhaps not. Excerpt from A Course in Miracles lesson 42: "Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts." I suspect that you did not "stumble" upon Aaron's channel. Instead, I suppose it was YOU that guided you to the precise point in space and time where you would intercept Aaron.

[@tenniswerewolf8095]

@@monterock6726 Beautiful ✌🏾

[@magister5691]

Thank you, Aaron. Dominus Illuminatio Mea. 🌹🙏

[@hshyne3240]

So glad I found your channel. My heart is opened. Thank you, my brother.

[@deannekaye]

Another really nice video. I was in a yoga & meditation community for 20+ years. We had mantras, prayers and songs in another language, plus many other practices. There are lots of dogmas, rituals and beliefs in almost every path to God. they serve a purpose for a while, but if these practices don't become heart centered, they definitely aren't fulfilling. It took me years to realize the difference but it was an important part of my journey to the heart.

[@stringtheories]

Where were these videos ten years ago. Shit. I need to evangelize these vids haha

[@Martha-LaMexa]

I love love love your channel Aaron! I’m recommending you to everyone.Thank you for the valuable content.🙏🏼

[@viethoangnguyen6679]

Thank you Aaron!

[@jasmineflores9760]

I want to thank you for saving my life again on another level 🥰💖✨

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Love The Cloud of Unknowing..🙏🌟🙏 Thankyou Aaron for sharing..❤❤❤

[@goldrose457]

Well, I am praying every night before bed. I was looking for some time for a better prayer than Our Father, which i don t resonate with. Then you posted this :D . So thank you!

[@monterock6726]

Excerpt from A Course in Miracles supplement, Song of Prayer Intro: "To you who are in time a little while, prayer takes the form that best will suit your need. You have but one. What God created one must recognize its oneness, and rejoice that what illusions seemed to separate is one forever in the Mind of God. Prayer now must be the means by which God's Son leaves separate goals and separate interests by, and turns in holy gladness to the truth of union in his Father and himself. "

[@abhilashbhole179]

You gave me strength and calm in times of overthinking. Thankyou Aaron. Much love

[@donmilo4733]

Awesome book. Awareness without thought is the key 🔑

[@GregAlterton]

Two primary realizations turned me toward the writings of the mystics (I'm currently reading THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, which is how I came across this video): First, a growing realization that the conservative evangelical perspective was proving to be inadequate -- essentially, that it doesn't work, however one might define "doesn't work," and for me this meant that it didn't give me the peace and joy and sense of God's presence in my life that I hoped it would. All it gave me was a structure of doctrines, theology, and dogmas, some of which I was discovering weren't entirely accurate or complete. Second, in a study of Ephesians, I came across Eph. 3: 18-19: "...that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of Christ." We are to comprehend the immensity of the love of Christ with a knowledge that is beyond comprehension. So much for trying to get our dogma correct. The knowledge which Christ wants us to know him by is beyond dogma. So, I've read Teresa of Avila's INTERIOR CASTLE, John of the Cross's THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, books by Thomas Merton, Mdm. Guyon's book EXPERIENCING THE DEPTHS OF JESUS CHRIST, Julian of Norwich's THE SHOWINGS. As the author of the CLOUD states in his book, one who is drawn to the perspective of the Christian mystics may not find many, or anyone, to share these things with, and that's been true for me. Many of the people I went to church with 20, 30, 40 years ago, are not open to the things I'm experiencing. But that's OK. I have learned from James Finley in the podcast "Turning to the Mystics" that one can look to Teresa, John of the Cross, Thomas Merton, the anonymous author of the CLOUD, as contemplative spiritual directors, sit with them and learn of them.

[@lbeschrich]

Your videos are simply amazing!!!! Thank you!

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

Is this state of being where “Be still , and know that I am God” came from ?

[@annawachtel2464]

You are causing me to grow ... thanks Aaron !

[@michaeljohn6693]

Simply amazing ! Thank you Aaron! I am grateful for your service! Love and light to everyone!💚🌍☝️💫😇

[@samanthaking1530]

I came across this book many years ago and love the older ‘Thee & Thou’ style of text. For me I find the old texts so much more sacred. And recently in the past few years I bought an audio copy. The the Book of Privy Counsel attached. A new translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Discovering the Cloud Of Forgetting has also been most helpful.

[@sm7855]

Thank you Aaron.. Thank you 🙏 ❤️

[@angelacounelis9394]

Aaron Akbe can you do more videos like this? You have done a fantastic job thus far. But i really enjoy linking the bible to these teaches. Thanks ego..

[@philmcdonald6088]

you are a precious resource. be safe.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

" Mysticism itself, by its very nature, is a contradiction, because it is not an ism. It is not a creed or dogma in which you can believe. You can be a mystic, but there is nothing like mysticism. And when one is a mystic the paradox deepens, it does not disappear. When one is a mystic there is no one left. There is a mystery, but with no center to it. It is like a cloud: translucent darkness, infinite darkness. One of the most important statements about mysticism in the Western hemisphere is the book called The Cloud of Unknowing. The name of the author is not known; it is good that we don’t know who wrote it. It indicates one thing: that before he wrote it he had disappeared into a cloud of unknowing. It is the only book in the Western world which comes close to the Upanishads, The Tao Te Ching, The Dhammapada. There is a rare insight in it. First he calls it a cloud. A cloud is vague, with no definable limits. It is constantly changing; it is not static - never, even for two consecutive moments, is it the same. It is a flux, it is pure change. And there is nothing substantial in it. If you hold it in your hand just mist will be left, nothing else. Maybe your hands will become wet, but you will not find any cloud in your fist. That’s what happens to the mystic: he becomes wet, really wet. Those countries where alcohol is prohibited they call dry, and those countries where alcohol is not prohibited they call wet. But the only wet person is the mystic. He is a real alcoholic! He cannot be helped by Alcoholics Anonymous. If a mystic enters there, they will all become alcoholics themselves! But for Dionysius it is even more a contradiction because he was a theologian. His whole book is written with a disguise, as if it is a treatise on theology; mysticism is just something by the side, secondary, not primary. Hence the name Theologia Mystica - as if mysticism is only a consequence of getting deep into the world of theology. Just the reverse is the case. The word “theology” means logic about God; theo means God. But there can be no logic about God. There is love about God, love for God, but no logic about God. There are no proofs possible. The only proof is the existence of the mystic. The presence of Dionysius, of Ramakrishna, of Bahauddin - the presence of these people is the proof that God exists, otherwise there is no proof. Because Buddhas have walked on the earth, there are a few footprints of God left behind on the shores of time. Philosophers have argued for centuries, but all their arguments are utterly futile and impotent; they have not come to a single conclusion. The mystic has to speak in contradictions because he is speaking about the whole, and the whole contains the contradictions. It contains the day and the night, both. If you call God the day, then it is only half the truth; if you call him the night, that too is only half the truth. Hence Dionysius calls God translucent darkness - as if the sun has risen in the night. The whole consists of both life and death. If you call God life, only life, then it is a half-statement. And remember a half-truth is far more dangerous than a complete lie because the complete lie is bound to be discovered sooner or later - just a little intelligence is needed. But the half-truth is very dangerous; even intelligent people, very intelligent people, may not be able to find that it is untrue. That is the danger of half-truths: they look like truths and they are not. They can keep you deceived for centuries. Mysticism is the whole truth; it has to be contradictory. Somewhere logic and love have to meet, because they both exist. Hence Theologia Mystica. Somewhere man and woman have to meet and merge and disappear into each other because they both exist and they are both halves of one whole. Hence the beauty and the bliss of a real meeting between a man and a woman: the orgasmic joy is possible only because two halves of a single whole have come together. Both were suffering, both were missing something. Suddenly, all that feeling of missing has disappeared. Of course, the meeting between a man and a woman can only be momentary. Again they are separate, and again the misery sets in, and again the desire to be united. Because the meeting is physical it cannot be very deep and it cannot be lasting either. But the meeting of the mystic with the whole is absolute; there is no coming back. He has gone beyond the point of no return. He has dissolved himself like a dew-drop slipping out of the lotus leaf into the lake. He has become the lake. Then whatsoever he says will be contradictory, because a part of it will be the vision of the dew-drop and a part of it will be the vision of the total lake, a part will be the standpoint of the part and a part will be the standpoint of the whole. Hence all mystics have spoken in contradictory terms. This is one of the reasons why intellectuals are against them, because the intellectual demands consistency and the mystics cannot be consistent. By the very nature of things that is not possible. He is helpless - he has to be contradictory. He has to say, “I am contradictory because I am vast enough to contain contradictions.” Logic is a small thing, love is infinity."

[@jkd6969]

Thank you, this was refreshing!

[@cartooneyed]

Video was so good didn’t want it to stop

[@lisatighe7656]

That was beautiful. I'm so grateful I found your channel. Love to you and yours.

[@sylviasilcox246]

Thank you again for these programs, they are awesome Aaron as you are.

[@HoneyWaterRain]

Beautiful. Namaste.

[@mikeflores625]

Aaron I like your funny sense of humor ie; acting out the ego! 😂

[@bernihouk445]

Loved this and will practice to the best of my ability.... amazing how humanity has turned God into a fire breathing dragon just because we live by ego and not by heart....may we someday return to love wholly...I have been thinking... would you ever consider collaboration with someone to create a simple way to teach young humans about all this? We really need to revamp education! Love you and all your sharing! Namaste Aaron

[@Tef1563]

🌹OH THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! Finaly my Way.🙏🏽🌹

[@bonniegreatorex72]

Thank you Aaron. 🌼

[@DavidDavid-if4te]

I love this guy

[@redmimic5532]

Thank you for this

[@kathrynphillips3710]

love the cloud of knowing..thankyou aaron for sharing..♥️

[@leslieoreilly6448]

Awesome as always. Peace be with you.

[@devarmont87]

Which author did you go for, for the translation? I might choose Carmen Butcher, unless you have a preferred one

[@mariejip]

Hi Aaron, loving this series. Would be great to hear you delving into Pseudo Dionysius 😊

[@Navenanthen]

Thank you, Aaron. Do we need anything from God but the liberation from our desires? Would there be anything to ask for if we had complete faith in 'God's will'?

[@derektrudelle4182]

We need liberation from our illusions, which we desire. Desire the Truth, and God's Voice - the Holy Spirit - will separate truth from illusion in your mind. It's a process and a practice.

[@LilachLavy]

So much beauty...

[@Victoria-hr2qq]

Thank you for sharing this 🙏❤

[@badethcurio1468]

Thank you Aaron for enlightenment .

[@krieghart5515]

My mind: "pfffft this is so stupid. You can't think about nothing. What are you even trying to do right now?" Me: "nothing."

[@guygreen7188]

so very helpful! thankyou!

[@Algumnomequalquer]

Make some videos on contemplative prayer, Aaron. Thank you!

[@Phoenix-tv4gb]

Split a piece of wood and I am there, lift up that rock and I am there ... : )

[@crazyc99]

Gospel of Thomas is my favorite! It's as if the timeless Yeshua speaks to you through it in spirit!

[@borkapajic3093]

Thank You for sharing from Your lnner Light ..:-)..Divine Blessings and Eternal Light is Everpresent within each Soul everywhere..may l say that the preyer is not something we do it is the preyer that God does within us..as we begin of the contemplating on His Word we enter the lnner Silence of Sacred ..where all that is unlike onto Him cannot enter.. So that in the deep listening for His Word is the way of prayer without words and thoughts..With L o v e and Light ..Namaste..

[@gone5598]

Beautiful Aaron❤

[@oceanistarz]

Subscribed Vernon Howard is another True Mystic.

[@jennyvalvano9416]

Would like to know which version Aaron is reading from? Anybody know? Ty.

[@kueiyenchen1942]

This is relate to philosophy of Buddhism of “not explaining “(as try not set judge toward one or another)

[@Marlenechm]

Where can I find this translation? Please help me find the is book 🙏🏼

[@derektrudelle4182]

C-in.2.5 A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. 6 It is this experience toward which the course is directed.

[@nikkitourlouart9014]

Aaron you are Brilliant ! Thank you for sharing.... I have not heard of this book b4, I will be sure to pick up a copy 🙂

[@nikkitourlouart9014]

Aaron Abke Found the AudioBook... On it now.... Here’s one for you, if you don’t know of it already.... but I have a feeling you already do.... “The Game of Life and How to Play It” by Florence Scovel Shinn It’s another oldie & goodie & likely divinely channeled🙂

[@nikkitourlouart9014]

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[@nikkitourlouart9014]

Aaron Abke It’s the link to the AudioBook Enjoy I have a feeling you’ll like it 🙂

[@mamabell1122]

Great talk.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

The truth

[@sharnitac]

Wow ! Just found your channel.. So wise so young! Bless your heart! Can you provide a link for the book please.

[@philmcdonald6088]

well said. THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING is a basic text and a key to contemplation. rest in present awareness be still close eyes listen to your breathing. 83 years young lifelong hidden contemplative here. thank you aaron❤️. book recommend: THE BASIC SPACE OF PHENOMENA by longchen rabjam. HELP is the best word.

[@dilnozaerkaboyeva6397]

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