Boots, myself, and others talked awhile back about the fact that everything exists in relationship by virtue of the awareness that describes consciousness. This is how I see it.
I remember (barely) those chemistry diagrams of atoms being pictorially bonded together to form molecules of substances. They always looked like a huge leggo set that went into a random artificial intelligence mode. The linchpin arms represented the energy forces that bonded together the separate atoms to make a greater whole. Is this not what occurs as we move to a higher conceptual level?
Are feeling and thought not energy forces that create greater conceptual wholes through relationship? Because the space between people and objects is feet or miles whether than atomic spacing...is there any difference in the idea that the energy of thought or consciousness relates or binds all things at this level? So is it one, or is it many, or is it both?
It seems obvious to me that all is one, and that the awareness of oneness makes it so.
It seems extremely doubtful that any personal ego/body identity would live on after death. Who would want it so? Just as obvious, the positive and negative energy forces that are existence, and that express in myriad forms, will continue to do so. Mary Smith does not yet exist. When she is born in 2002 she will be as much me as you, or anyone or anything. And Mary Smith, and I and you, will ponder the meaning of existence. This is true whether or not sentience is the underlying substance immanent in those energy forces. The Universe is a Force; It is a Power. I call that power God.
Everything is moving towards pure mind and pure oneness, the Universe expressing itself through the myriad natures of every single thing. These ideas account for the problem of evil, and also for an ecology ethic. As parts of the totality of God (which is really what all religions say even when they don't know it), we must not harm one another because we harm ourselves. When we nurture everything else, we nurture God.
Can I prove any of this? Hell no!! Who do you think I am?! |
