A HUGE POST!!!!
On my mind today - who is God to me? I know this may spark controversy in the blogosphere.. but I wanted to record my thoughts about this very important topic so that I can most likely look back on it years to come and laugh at myself. :) Really though.. (a silence falls on the crowd as they anxiously await the prophet to speak).. ;pI believe there is a God.. I was raised a Catholic, have experienced other religions, and have now come to certain conclusions that can be reconciled with my personal truths..
1. God exists, God is the connecting spiritual force that binds the universe and everything in it. God is a part of us, of Nature, of everything and so to worship God is to respect and love each other and Nature. That's basically the philosophy of all religions, right?
2. The universe may be infinite as God is, but there was an "unmoved mover" and God is that being.
3. There most likely is life on other planets, possibly in our own galaxy that we haven't been able to reach yet. Because there are billions upon billions of galaxies in the universe, the probability of life (human-like or something different) elsewhere is extremely high meaning we (humans) are nothing close to special.. and along those lines, any organized religion we may create that symbolizes God to us is most likely just a personal way of experiencing the divine in our life. As a result, I am completely open to experiencing God on many different levels in many different ways, not restricting my mind to seeing God in any one way through any one dogmatic perception. Symbols are just that, they are symbols, representations of things and in this case, things that we can not explain and may never be able to.
4. Just as there is balance in chemistry, biology, and all life there must be a balance of positive and negative energies that are one in the same which push and pull upon each other constantly in life. A good example of this would be the fictional story of Star Wars and the "Force". The life force of the world, a part of God, is neither good nor bad, just two opposing forces which bring balance to the universe. There may in fact be a life force that we could tap into if we were aware of its existence, which we are not as of yet in our infancy as a species. As the song by "System of a Down" goes.. "Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence Letting the reigns go to the unfoldingIs faith, faith, faith, faith... Spirit-moves-through-all-things". (Album: Toxicity, Song: Science).
5. Another big question is our souls, do we have them? Is there life after death? Since matter can neither be destroyed nor created, we are formed by the energies/chromosomes of our parents through reproduction. Our souls may be a part of this new creation that exists in a dimension we are not aware of again. Well, my personal experiences, cognitions, feelings tell me that there are one of two possibilities. We die - If there is another dimension that we exist in, but are not aware of, this dimension may be what we consider "Heaven". After we shed our bodies, our spiritual entities that posses all of our intangible "self" passes to this next reality where we exist forever afterward. If not this, then perhaps the "light at the end of the tunnel" that near death experiences illustrate may be in fact a preprogrammed "death sequence" (Copyright: Me) that all of our expectations of death and the afterlife have created in our minds, so that just before it dies, our mind runs the sequence as if to give itself one last sense of peace. When our consciousness ends, we no longer exist and because we are not aware of no longer existing, it's not like we are trapped in some never-ending darkness, we just aren't anymore. I'll go with the first hypothesis, since the second is depressing!! haha
In reality, humans may be special in spectrum of life on Earth, but all in all, I feel we are just another facet of an amazing array of life in the universe. We know of a 4th dimension yet we can't perceive it, see it, it's even hard to think about it.. so if there is a 4th dimension, why not a 5th, a 6th, dimensions of reality that we can't possibly be aware of when we look at things on a linear level. With that being said, there are many possibilities and many truths that we all have that are real to each and everyone of us. I merely am voicing my own personal truth as it exists today, an adaptation of previous truths that has evolved from experiencing a wide variety of cultures and people in my short time on Earth thus far.
Lots of love... live long and prosper ;)
1. God exists, God is the connecting spiritual force that binds the universe and everything in it. God is a part of us, of Nature, of everything and so to worship God is to respect and love each other and Nature. That's basically the philosophy of all religions, right?
2. The universe may be infinite as God is, but there was an "unmoved mover" and God is that being.
3. There most likely is life on other planets, possibly in our own galaxy that we haven't been able to reach yet. Because there are billions upon billions of galaxies in the universe, the probability of life (human-like or something different) elsewhere is extremely high meaning we (humans) are nothing close to special.. and along those lines, any organized religion we may create that symbolizes God to us is most likely just a personal way of experiencing the divine in our life. As a result, I am completely open to experiencing God on many different levels in many different ways, not restricting my mind to seeing God in any one way through any one dogmatic perception. Symbols are just that, they are symbols, representations of things and in this case, things that we can not explain and may never be able to.
4. Just as there is balance in chemistry, biology, and all life there must be a balance of positive and negative energies that are one in the same which push and pull upon each other constantly in life. A good example of this would be the fictional story of Star Wars and the "Force". The life force of the world, a part of God, is neither good nor bad, just two opposing forces which bring balance to the universe. There may in fact be a life force that we could tap into if we were aware of its existence, which we are not as of yet in our infancy as a species. As the song by "System of a Down" goes.. "Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence Letting the reigns go to the unfoldingIs faith, faith, faith, faith... Spirit-moves-through-all-things". (Album: Toxicity, Song: Science).
5. Another big question is our souls, do we have them? Is there life after death? Since matter can neither be destroyed nor created, we are formed by the energies/chromosomes of our parents through reproduction. Our souls may be a part of this new creation that exists in a dimension we are not aware of again. Well, my personal experiences, cognitions, feelings tell me that there are one of two possibilities. We die - If there is another dimension that we exist in, but are not aware of, this dimension may be what we consider "Heaven". After we shed our bodies, our spiritual entities that posses all of our intangible "self" passes to this next reality where we exist forever afterward. If not this, then perhaps the "light at the end of the tunnel" that near death experiences illustrate may be in fact a preprogrammed "death sequence" (Copyright: Me) that all of our expectations of death and the afterlife have created in our minds, so that just before it dies, our mind runs the sequence as if to give itself one last sense of peace. When our consciousness ends, we no longer exist and because we are not aware of no longer existing, it's not like we are trapped in some never-ending darkness, we just aren't anymore. I'll go with the first hypothesis, since the second is depressing!! haha
In reality, humans may be special in spectrum of life on Earth, but all in all, I feel we are just another facet of an amazing array of life in the universe. We know of a 4th dimension yet we can't perceive it, see it, it's even hard to think about it.. so if there is a 4th dimension, why not a 5th, a 6th, dimensions of reality that we can't possibly be aware of when we look at things on a linear level. With that being said, there are many possibilities and many truths that we all have that are real to each and everyone of us. I merely am voicing my own personal truth as it exists today, an adaptation of previous truths that has evolved from experiencing a wide variety of cultures and people in my short time on Earth thus far.
Lots of love... live long and prosper ;)
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