God Is the Seeker, Too
We mustn't project too much onto God, also known as "The
Everything Becoming." To project our limited mind, our type of
consciousness, is blasphemy of if not the worst then a pretty bad
sort, pride-wise. Still, I will risk sinning in an act of daring
to imagine what it's all about in a new way:
So I am starting with the idea that God gets off on our thinking.
Thoughts and their products, architecture, city planning,
political programs, space programs, are all great fun. I don't
assume these products to be more than interesting ornaments,
aesthetic pleasures: "I never thought this way before!" I
anthropmorphically project onto God. "This is fun!"
So, in this fantasy, there are innumerable aesthetic joys as the
game of life at every level, from galaxy to electron, is played
out over billions of years. It's long for us to even contemplate,
but no sweat for The Everything.
The theology here is not that God makes rules and sees if we
follow them and then judges if we've been naughty or nice and
rewards and punishes us. If God is a millionth of what I imagine
It to be (i.e., a sort of living Everything), that would get
boring in a millisecond. Unworthy of the project. More fun,
obviously, is the opportunity to be three dimensional and material
and experience what's that like, living in form at every level!
Of course it takes time to set up the cosmos so that life emerges
and then consciousness. And even if there are a million other
consciousness-forms (conservatively speaking) and half are less
evolve and half are more evolved---just sayin'---well, that's
pretty mind-blowing right there. I mean, what would "more evolved"
be like and can we know it even if we encountered it? Maybe not.
Maybe we'd assume they were about as smart as we were and
unconsciously expect them to be as greedy, exploitative, careless,
actively destructive, war-like, and damn-near cannibalistic as we
were! Hypocritical too!
So anyway, God has created this cosmos, or maybe, better said, God
IS this cosmos creating from within its own entelechy, and in this
fantasy, wondering what it's like to be, become, advance, and
enjoy all aesthetic pleasures. God recognizes also that in this
mid-evolutionary challenge both fight and flight, predation and
being preyed upon, disease, suffering, death, catastrophe---these
and other elements are just part of the game. It is our
self-centered-ness that objects to these events as if they were a
breaking of a contract, a testament: Hey, God, tell you what.
We'll worship you if you protect us. In my thinking, God never
agreed to this, nor did She impose a set of rules just to one tiny
tribe living at a tiny point in history, rules and stories that
apply to the hundreds of billions of galaxies at inconceivable
distances. Yeah, right.
But in this myth, God does enjoy, and we all enjoy, and the cosmos
enjoys in very subtle ways. Electrons enjoy! Atoms enjoy. That's
real hard for little-mind humans to get, but it's all about deeper
aesthetic values. Thinking is just one sub-type, a special type,
more complex than a cow ruminating her food, chewing her cud. It's
a new type of flower, Thinking is, a special aesthetic experience
to reflect and take in the wonders of the cosmos. And fun, too, to
share ideas with others.
Right now humans are learning to stop fighting. They learned how
to renounce superstition and slavish thinking as an ideal several
hundreds of years ago; and renounce monarchy around 220 years ago,
and renounce enslaving others 150 years ago, and so forth. None of
these lessons have spread much to more than a small fraction of
the population even today. They're learning to think about truth
not as authority-driven, but as testable, and to be more
skeptical. They have not yet learned to question the existence of
an out-there objective "truth" as if this abstraction were real.
People tend to not question that what they want the world to be is
perhaps not the way the way it is. That's just beginning to seep
in. Philosophy and economics, religion and politics, child-rearing
and education, all still tends to be formulated as following the
way people want it to be rather than what it is---which is not
just the way the enemies think it is---that would be too
easy---but really unbelievably more complex. So because of this
failure in making the correct assumptions, they feel wronged by
those who don't agree and feel justified in fighting the wrong.
That they might just possibly be wrong is unthinkable, because to
most people that would make the enemy right. That both sides might
be operating in too small of a mental arena is again un-thinkable.
It's like grown-ups seeing that little kids squabbling may not be
the "end of the world," although the idea that their squabbles may
indeed end the world is equally unthinkable.
Hence the diagram on the upper right: God is the Seeker too, is
curious, is living through the adventures of scores, hundreds of
levels of complexity or organization. (That this organization
includes layers of disorganization, chaos, seeming randomness,
mixed with layers of relative organization, only adds to the
universe's inscrutability!
Explaining the Picture
It might help to be
reminded of the diagram used by the Jewish mystics as they
contemplated the cosmos. This "tree of life" diagram hints at
the multiple "levels" of manifestation. The radiance of the One
is for our cosmos voluntarily concentrated and transmitted
through levels of mind and essence. We can access it partially
through mystical contemplation, but never fully know it.
In the upper right hand picture it passes through major
and minor galactoid entities, with our galaxy and sector and
star and planet and country and individual being ever-more
specific levels of manifestation. (There are tinier levels,
organs, tissues, cells, bacteria, cell organelles, viral sized
and molecular, and atomic levels of size and subsidiary
orgnization.) God "seeks" to know us, and through us, and
experience. Our experience is also God's experience because
we're as much a part of God as a cell on our fingertips is a
"part" of us.
Is It True?
No, it's not true, the way I presented it. I'm somewhat
apophatic, meaning there's no way I can begin to begin to know
what's ultimately true. It's just that this mythic structure
seems so far to be better than any other
theology or philosophy or mythology I've ever read about or can
think of. If you don't agree, I welcome you telling me why it's
not better, and what would be better?
Constructing the Cosmos
The cosmos as we know it is only the bottom circle on the left,
written from right to left, MLKUT, the kingdom, from the word
root for king, MLK melech. Esoterically---and here we head
over to India and beyond, the cosmos is constantly being
re-configured, every moment, in many dimensions. Your thoughts
create waves. Each level expresses the others, just as the
health of your fingers expresses the health of your whole
organism.
This picture on the right was sent by Zordak in one of the
languages he uses to try to connect with me. I can't make it
out, but it's not for his lack of trying. I suspect that some of
the concepts are very subtle. What I get is that the activity of
manifestation "descends" or goes through multiple "layers" of
manifestation as it tries to take form, such as the form of a
distinct thought that I could write down and communicate to
you---not that that's the end: There's also the process of your
"understanding" it, which involves you in the triangles coming
up to meet the triangles headed down bringing your
interpretations and open-mindedness, you cultural world-view and
its emerging edges in your mind, all to the challenge of
appreciating what I'm trying to tell you.
This kind of "coming-to-meet" activity is truly co-created. In
the future this all will be ho-hum of course, but for right now
it's paradigm-shifting, because humans still think of the
universe as out there, either inert or guided by a
Father-God---but not co-created---which means that we're far
more responsible than we feel comfortable being. But that's the
way it seems to be turning out.
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