Re: The Cosmic Ferris Wheel
Interesting notion. Very.
Now, if I personally were in a store, trying to decide which Afterlife to buy, I wouldn't pick this one, because it lacks three basic features I would insist on having in an Afterlife:
1) Justice, understood as fairness. (Legacy of a Catholic girlhood.) That old business of Judgment Day, when God divides the sheep from the goats, etc., won't do, so we go for Universal Memorialization.
2) No Memory. That, in my mind, is the corollary of Justice: everybody gets remembered, and becomes part of the remembering. We will eventually know everything, but serieally, and forget it again. Unh, unh...
3) Some sort of teleological sense (another legacy of a Catholic girlhood). Like the evolution of a cosmic consciousness, or something along those lines, rather than the idle play of a bored Creator.
BUT....the Cosmic Ferris Wheel may be much closer to the "real thing" than my artificial construct. And aesthetically, if not morally, it may even be preferable to mine.
Have you thought of some possible permutations of this theory?
For instance, the idea of The Cosmic Man. Normally, to say we are all part of a Cosmic Man -- in the way that our little white blood corpuscles rushing to work in the morning are part of Us -- makes no logical sense, if most of the universe is inanimate. But if you consider everything in the universe not just animate, but conscious as well, then it makes perfect sense.
So, if all this is going on in the body of Cosmic Man, then what kind of man is he? Is he a nasty man? Is he a nice man? Is he an ordinary, so-so man? Does he take good care of his health (us), or is he a self-abuser? Is he the only one of his kind, or are there a lot of other Cosmic Men walking around out there? Is there a different God for each Cosmic Man/Universe -- as, I gather, the Mormons say? And what is The Point of It All?
What fun, snuffling at the traces of all these possibilities...<g>
Joan
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