OK, so let's tackle a difficult
subject. Specifically, that which lies beyond the everyday. I
consider myself, at heart, a scientist. But I have had personal
experiences that collectively lead me to believe that there is
something going on other than what can be measured in scientific
terms.
I am not a person of faith and never
will be. There are reasons for that, but mostly because faith is not
in my nature. Whatever path I walk, it will my own search, and my
answers will never lie in the philosophical or spiritual constructs
of others. I will take pieces from them, ideas that suit me and that
make sense in my understanding, but to entirely accept the worldview
of someone else and try to make it my own, is not me.
So what is there? Is there a divine
presence of some kind? A god or gods, an overmind, a tao, karma,
magick, an akashic field, or a great lion who speaks to young British
girls?
I honestly don't know. What I do find
is that I cannot accept the existence of any being I have ever heard
described as being God. All of those descriptions (and I warn you in
advance that this statement will offend some of you) are far too
narrow and limiting.
Whatever role one may see God in, be it
Creator, Designer, Judge, Mover, Ruler or otherwise, these are human
roles, and the faces we put on these versions of the divine or
supernatural are human faces.
If there are such beings out there, I
find it impossible to accept that they exist with anything we would
understand as human-like emotions and motivations. While applying
these to anything that might (or might not) exist beyond the
observable puts a layer, a mask, in between us and what really is
there. Maybe that mask is correct, but I don't think so.
So to whomever or whatever might be out
there, I'd really like to buy you a cup of coffee sometime and
discuss the possibilities inherent in cross-existential experiences.
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