Its been an interesting adventure setting sail with no anchor to speak of. Opening my mind to other possibilites- learning from friends who have very different beliefs.
An interesting thought was posted on my facebook page recently with the question:
"What if you found out that the sun that warms us is the heart of a being... the planets were its organs... and we are the cells that make it possible?"
Science has proven that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Religion believes that our foundation- our very existence and purpose for life is for and by Jesus Christ- the son.
What if they were one and the same? If somewhere along the lines of translation someone changed the U to an O and personified the Sun of God to be the Son of God? That "God" itself/himself/herself really was someones interpretation of the universe- a way to mindfully grasp the sheer magnitude of something far too great to understand. Imagining a God as a human being such as ourselves is far easier to wrap our heads around than attempting to comprehend an all powerful; unforseen energy that created us from nothing with such biological perfection to intertwine us with everything around us for survival.
What if faith, the laws of attraction, the force, the energy we feel are really just our own individual ways of connecting with the Uni-God-iverse?
While sitting in church pondering these thoughts on Sunday, the teacher used very interesting wording in her lesson. she said, "Some people connect to their God through prayer, personally I connect to my God through song." It struck me that here we were as a congregation- all there for the 'same' purpose- purportedly believing in the same thing- yet we each connect to "our God" in different ways. Why is it that we as a religion all have our own God- not just connecting to "God"?
The scriptures, that so many people base their beliefs on, are really just compilations of journals and stories written by other people based on their own interpretation of experiences- a history book from one person's point of view as they lived it; as they saw it.. Think about how a simple translational mistake like writing a U as an O completely changes the way we perceive it today!
What if God really is just a personified explanation of the Universe?
What if we, as individuals, are all right? That we are all discovering and holding different pieces of the same puzzle...The Atheists and the Theists, Science and religion... both are simply looking at the same thing with different eyes.
Just as with science and research- some people are further along in their quest for knowledge than others.
Some people are satisfied with the simple answer: the one that shows ignorance is bliss- the answer that makes something as astronomical as a Universal coincidence, vibrating at a specific level and creating a perfect molecular harmony for us to evolve and survive as living beings, too complex to grasp- so they personify it as a human-shaped "God" and leave it at that.
Others want to understand more. This is how science and technology have evolved into what it is today- if we were all satisfied with the simple answer we's still be afraid of falling off the end of the earth, we wouldn't have electricity or telephones or any of the first world problems we enjoy, we would all just be content hunting and gathering in mud huts and loin clothes! So some people started with a foundational knowledge of a God, built on the foundations and moved on to search for higher knowledge and meaning.
Both groups however recognize that there is a force greater than us- that in the larger view- we are so indispensably small and insignificant. We're just the cells pumping the blood, delivering nutrients, fighting infection, carrying and oxygen to something/for something far greater than we'll ever be and more complicated for us to understand.
So God-Allah-Buddha-Jesus-Darwin! Can't we all just get along?! ;)
Ding ding ding!!!
ReplyDeleteI very much appreciate this. I've had a lot of similar thoughts.. what it comes down to is we don't know whats going on, what the purpose is, what the meaning is of all of this, life, galaxies, planets Gods, etc... so instead of focusing on the infinite.. why not make the finite something more incredible.. living in the now, being happy now.
ReplyDeleteI think more than religion/ God.. knowing how to understand and to love and to live with each other... being logical creatures.. is so much more important than figuring out where we will end up.
Love you Lareesa. Thanks for this.
-Shea
we seem more like we are a viral cell in the grand scheme of the universe...we stopped moving, started reproducing more, then our children explode out of our cities to other lands and populate a new place till we extinguish those natural resources there...
ReplyDeleteI can not tell you how much I love this.
ReplyDeleteI especially love how some parts of your post, while already easily grasped, have deeper layers of understanding.
In the Matrix, there is a line that goes, "There is no spoon." On the surface, it means there is no obstacle; that we create our own resistance...and the deeper layer is that we and the spoon are not separate; that we (and all things) are connected.
Parts of your post reminded me of that.