Quicksilver

Is God Invented or Experienced?

Whatever is IS. Our conceptualizations of it are our creations (inventions) for they are not What Is but representations of What Is, in our terms, from our perspective. As such, I consider all conceptualizations valid because each can only understand from their own understanding, by definition. I also believe that we change What Is by being dynamic entities, participants in What Is, whether we're conscious of it or not. So, to me, we experience and invent, just as our 'origin' experiences and invents, for I believe we are one and the same.

Is God truly as described by Christians, or Jews? Is God the same as Allah? Are the God(s) and Goddess(es) of pagans or the pantheon of god/desses in mythology the same as God but delineated? Is God a Thingness or No-Thingness or both? Is God an eternal infinity of matter and energy acting, interacting, and reacting?

Does it matter which is 'right'? Would we know if we hit on THE answer? Could we know that what we believe is God IS God... without being God? Are we God?

I start with me and work out a way to know me as well as possible, then find out how I can best cooperate with everyone else. For me, that means accepting who you are, helping if I can, caring about you as well as myself. Whether I do that through serving in a soup kitchen, having a family and raising children, preaching my own understanding, using meditation and metaphysics to work with energies... my intent seems to be the crucial issue.

Do I have compassion for myself and others such that I want to do my best and help others find their best? Then I fit in the grand scheme, whatever it's called, however it's described... whether we experience it or invent it as we go along.

Have you ever tried to point out something to a dog? You stretch out your arm and point a finger right at the thing you really want the dog to notice.

How do most dogs respond? They look at your finger, not where you're pointing.

Whether God is a gestalt of our oneness or a completely separate entity, I would image that it's just fascinating to see us forever looking so hard at God's finger and paying very little attention to where it's pointing.

Whether God is trying to show us something about ourselves or each other, this nurturing planet, or the universe as a whole... so many seem to be SO focused on who/what "GOD" is that we're missing God's points entirely.

We sure do a lot of talking about that finger though.

02.13.2002/03.18.2002

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