God in Evolution is Us in Evolution
As a Christian theologian, thinking in terms of evolution is somewhat new to me. In the Methodist Youth Fellowship, my pastor asked what God is. I gave what I thought was a safe, standard answer: I said, "God is life." I might have been more right than I knew, quite literally that "God" is "Life," whatever that is.
For the last few days I have been thinking about the evolution of electromagnetic forces carrying intelligence in this planet's overall evolution. Could the forces which caused life to begin become it's "God?" But wait! If you will believe this right now, I will throw in the insight that while this planet is only four to five billion years old, the electromagnetic forces that are the repository of intelligence go back fourteen billions of years to the beginning of the universe. Life as God was around a long time before Earth was even a gleam in Its eye!
So what I've got is the singular, pervasive, natural evolutionary electromagnetic force that is Life as the repository and medium/administration of intelligence in the universe guiding the evolution of living things on the earth including the strata of our mental states, a living consciousness which contains all the wisdom, all the languages, all the states beyond our experience. "It is all evolution," and evolution naturally includes this consciousness which is calling us upward. Why? Because the force is high, and we are It, and we are low, and this is evolution.
This highly evolved natural Life assumes that we, as It, should be as It is, that we ARE as it is. And our lives are imagic of this arrangement: we are as It is (with us immature within It), and we should be as It is (we are not living up to what we are). Life is fairly screaming at us, "Hey, Moses, the world is imagic ("Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"*)! Danny has got this one thing right (yea!): the world is imaging Me. That is why you are now imaging Me. And as you are Me, the world images you. Me. Us. So learn to deny that you are not what you desire to be, forgive what you are, and assume that you are what you desire to be: Me, rejoicing that you are as I am."
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* See Victor Alexander's note on Exodus 3:14 in his translation from the ancient Aramaic.
For the last few days I have been thinking about the evolution of electromagnetic forces carrying intelligence in this planet's overall evolution. Could the forces which caused life to begin become it's "God?" But wait! If you will believe this right now, I will throw in the insight that while this planet is only four to five billion years old, the electromagnetic forces that are the repository of intelligence go back fourteen billions of years to the beginning of the universe. Life as God was around a long time before Earth was even a gleam in Its eye!
So what I've got is the singular, pervasive, natural evolutionary electromagnetic force that is Life as the repository and medium/administration of intelligence in the universe guiding the evolution of living things on the earth including the strata of our mental states, a living consciousness which contains all the wisdom, all the languages, all the states beyond our experience. "It is all evolution," and evolution naturally includes this consciousness which is calling us upward. Why? Because the force is high, and we are It, and we are low, and this is evolution.
This highly evolved natural Life assumes that we, as It, should be as It is, that we ARE as it is. And our lives are imagic of this arrangement: we are as It is (with us immature within It), and we should be as It is (we are not living up to what we are). Life is fairly screaming at us, "Hey, Moses, the world is imagic ("Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"*)! Danny has got this one thing right (yea!): the world is imaging Me. That is why you are now imaging Me. And as you are Me, the world images you. Me. Us. So learn to deny that you are not what you desire to be, forgive what you are, and assume that you are what you desire to be: Me, rejoicing that you are as I am."
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* See Victor Alexander's note on Exodus 3:14 in his translation from the ancient Aramaic.
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