(For what it\u2019s worth: I\u2019m just contemplating electronically \u201cout loud.\u201d) I envision God becoming in every dimension, and it\u2019s sort of a meta-erotic joy! I hear God giggling, \u201cOooh, I can do this and I can do that!\u2014and what\u2019ll happen when I do this other? Oops, life ends. Game over. Start another game. I got a million of \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n
God is sooo great s\/he isn\u2019t even focused. In this fantasy, we humans and perhaps uncountable other \u201csentient\u201d beings on other planets are chosen as the focusing point, the retina\u2019s fovea, rich in the neural structures that bring things into focus. (In other metaphors I\u2019m a cell on the tip of God\u2019s finger, or a cell on the tip of the Dancing Shiva\u2019s Toe. It\u2019s poetry, as I said.)<\/p>\n
The key point here is that as we bring things into focus, attend to them, we make them \u201cconscious,\u201d and act on them. Reality as we know it is the focusing process whereby we select and co-create. We are God doing this, and God enjoys the discovery of our work as if to murmur, \u201cOh, so that\u2019s what it is!\u201d (Actually, it was everything getting focused a moment earlier, so it\u2019s not as if it was anything; it was becoming.)<\/p>\n
(The basis for this fantasy is the great mystery of dreaming and awakening, of forgetting and remembering dreams. Yeah, what\u2019s that about?)<\/p>\n
Our role then is a glorious one, getting to foster the becoming of the cosmos in interesting ways. Was the cosmos becoming as we have envisioned it? It seems so, but we co-create the past and future\u2014but not all past and futures, not all possible past and futures. Check out our dreams! But those that we can sell each other as a consensus reality.<\/p>\n
There are many problems here, of course, and communication heightens these: Which reality shall we choose? Could it be that there are more than one and part of becoming is the sorting out of which one we will agree on? Maybe. This too is a co-creative process. To us, though, it seems as though there\u2019s one reality and \u201cwe\u201d are all traveling through \u201cit.\u201d To a wider view of the cosmos in which we are all co-creating reality, there may be a sorting-out process, a zillion of them, and as we evolve, there seem to evolve fewer and fewer. I can\u2019t hope to resolve the paradoxes I become aware of, but becoming aware of alternative realities is one of the phenomena of our postmodern era. <\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter, in the sense that my opinion makes a hill of beans of difference. It may make one bean, though, and I can no naught but make my bean, dream my dream, co-construct the reality that seems nicest to me. Others are doing their thing and sometimes there\u2019s war. <\/p>\n
My world is nice, and people are learning to be even nicer. Peacemaking and co-creativity trump wallowing in the fight to have \u201cmy\u201d reality vindicated. There are thousands doing this right now in the Middle East, and millions doing their own version of fighting the world over, and perhaps on uncountable other worlds. That\u2019s how there are a million hells, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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