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Had a chance to work on this a little more.  It feels like it’s making a bit more sense, it’s certainly not a painful feeling as the above was.  Now I need to peel off for another project.

On a fundamental level the Abrahamic religions are all about self-centeredness, ours’ and God’s.  Declaring a Faith on the basis of a selected kernels of knowledge, supported by certitude, with hostility towards learning and other teachers.  All the while pretty much ignoring the independent validity of Earth’s biosphere and her other inhabitants.

Think about that, within the Abrahamic tradition our planet’s life support system never rises above a thing for us to exploit until it’s sucked dry.  Whereas to me Earth and her evolution is my touch stone with physical reality.  It transcends all the thoughts that flow from our human minds.

Most people seem to think, “God” comes down on us from out there in the heavens, beyond our Earth and daily realities.  Western philosophy was born out of such a heritage and never broke those ego-centric blinders.  On the other, I’ve come to understand God comes from within us, she/he is an element of our mindscape.

As I’ve progressed in a life long enthusiasm for learning about our human body and Earth and Evolution, an alternative perspective on “God” has developed in my thoughts.  A perspective that appreciates we humans were born out of a long tradition of Life’s striving to improve.  The product of Earth’s evolution and deep-time.

Why, we happened remains is a mystery, what we know is that evidence does reflects a pageant of evolution relentlessly striving towards improving manipulatory controls, moving, grasping.  While simultaneously improving the sensing, information processing, and command and control needed to successfully operate life’s increasingly complex bodies.  Of course, may other species have found their niche and no improvement is needed so a species plateau is reached and Earth’s pyramid of interconnected webs of life are the result.

As my understanding has evolved into a deep appreciation for the Human Mindscape ~ Physical Reality divide, were I’ve recognized that our sense of “God” comes from within ourselves and not some outside supernatural agency.

On a personal note, recognizing this divide helped me validate “God” with the recognition that our god’s come from within our own mindscapes, products of our own creation, in search of something beyond our grasp.  I’ve come to accept that notions of “God’ are a necessary component of how humans deal with an overwhelming world.

With that background and 66 years worth of living and learning under my belt, I want to try my hand at early questions: Why am I here?  We live, we die, we’re gone.  What’s the point of it all?    Back in the day, I licked all those concerns with a simple concept that stands firm:

“Your life means as much or as little as you yourself want it to.”

Still now that I have a deeper understanding of the God/religion question, an old notion has come back to mind.  It’s a different sort of perspective on the God, human relationship that starts with a mind experiment.

If a God there be, what would, what could that “God” of the universe actually know?  God doesn’t have any senses with which to experience its own being.

To me it made sense that God could only know its creation through the experience of the inhabitants of that creation.  Starting right along side of energy and the evolving complexity of interactions in the growing cosmos.  Through the stuff of matter, “God” was finally able to sense something of itself.

Blossoming through all the different stages of the cosmos from energy coalescing into matter, then atoms, molecules, dust, rocks, galaxies, stars, planets, exploding stars, more planets, and so on.  Then our miraculous Earth with geology, then joined by biology and life.  With creatures constantly striving for every greater grasping/manipulatory abilities, plus the sensing and processes to do the best they could with the new hardware.  Then time and folds within folds of cumulative harmonic change and improvements, relentlessly moving towards ever more awareness of the Earth, then came us.

Think of it, with us humans “God” finally had a creature that could reflect back on the Cosmos of its Creation with genuine introspection.

Think of it next time you’re down, you are the eyes of the universe.  Or simply be grateful that you can appreciate the reality you are embedded within better than any creature that has every existed.

The beauty of this story and perspective is that it doesn’t demand a rejection of physical reality.  What is it?  Another psychological teddy bear for our mind.  Like a beautiful love song that, of course we know isn’t true, yet we choose to identify with it and latch our emotions onto for a moment, because it feels good.

The important part is that it belongs within the panorama of my Mindscape, which I can recognize as different from this Physical Reality I’m embedded within and also trying to make more sense out of.

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