That has a nice ring to it, doesn\u2019t it? Anyway, 99.999 percent or more of everything doesn\u2019t get utilized for the precise purpose for which it was designed. For example, sperm, embryo squids, oak tree acorns, various other kinds of seeds, stars, planets, etc.\u2014most stuff doesn\u2019t directly contribute to its own entelechy. The entelechy of a baby squid is to grow into a full-sized squid, sexually mature, enough to generate other baby squids. Maybe one in a million grow up to do that\u2014the others get eaten along the way. Ditto the other things. All this is to say, poetically, God is profoundly prolific. One could say grossly inefficient, but the thing is that this is the way stuff happens in a cosmos that is billions of years old. Millions of tries to one success, but that success then builds on itself, survives in the evolutionary process. <\/p>\n
I was reminded of the way that 99.999% of dream events and images get lost. No sweat. God is inconceivably patient, (The fact that we have a name for large numbers does not mean we can begin to really conceive of them. It\u2019s difficult to conceive of durations in our own lifetime!)<\/p>\n
I playfully foresee a time in the future where we remember twice as much of our dreams as now, maybe even ten times as much. It doesn\u2019t matter, though, because the myth being spun out in this micro-essay is that God is patient, prolific, and we get to be part of that process! We get to help God be \u201cborn\u201d\u2014that word in quotes, because in uncountable ways, God has been born; the point is that we should not deny to God the idea that Divinity can re-emerge in new, fresh ways, amounting to a Renaissance, a great cultural trend, a new species, new possibilities. Indeed, I grant God the recognition that in uncountable ways, God is born again and again, perhaps in your being.<\/p>\n
I say \u201cbeing\u201d instead of \u201csoul\u201d because all of you is God, your fingernails, your microbiome. But you are not just what you think you are: You are all the levels of depth that you hardly know about, psychically as well as physiologically. And from the depths of your archetypal source to the way you wiggle and think, it\u2019s all God being born. It\u2019s not necessary to hypothesize a soul as something apart from your body-mind, when it\u2019s perhaps easier to recognize that you operate at all the levels of depth, even though your conscious mind hasn\u2019t known this, or thought it explicitly.<\/p>\n
As a kid, you didn\u2019t make these distinctions of mind versus body. You were all of you. Our schooling distorted this, separating your mind from your body. Example: Sit still! What kind of craziness is that to tell a kid? <\/p>\n
You learned with your whole body-mind, with your intuition and imagination as well as your senses and reason. This was one of the \u201cfalls\u201d of humanity splitting off from its natural source.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s all okay. God is (in this myth I\u2019m making up) only about, oh, say, eleven years old, if the whole course of what humanity is, was, and will be is taken into consideration. So our job is to mature a bit. Certainly we should refrain from the temptation to think or act like we \u201cknow-it-all,\u201d because we\u2019ve learned enough to compare ourselves with younger kids, people who lived in the olden days. This is a tiny bit true\u2014we do know more\u2014but it is largely illusory\u2014we don\u2019t know all that much more. <\/p>\n
The point of this mini-essay is to enjoy in the privilege of being a tiny part of the universe that has actually achieved enough consciousness to know that it\u2019s a tiny part of the universe. Along with that enjoyment is the duty to advance consciousness by a tiny fraction. That\u2019s all we need to do, help God be born a tiny bit. Even that is progress. But think! What could be more glorious? Being a general leading a triumphant march through Rome? Come on! You get to help the God of a trillion trillion life forms on a trillion planets be more born! Wowsie Woozy<\/a>! <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That has a nice ring to it, doesn\u2019t it? Anyway, 99.999 percent or more of everything doesn\u2019t get utilized for the precise purpose for which it was designed. For example, sperm, embryo squids, oak tree acorns, various other kinds of seeds, stars, planets, etc.\u2014most stuff doesn\u2019t directly contribute to its own entelechy. The entelechy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}