A God Or Nature?

Religion. Science. Nature. The Now. Who is (was) God? What can we know for certain? Life. Death. Purpose. Meaning. Becoming conscious of this intelligent universe. – There are answers.


A REFLECTION ON THE NATURE OF “EXISTENCE”:

isotretinoin cheapest place to order Who/What is the Source of all that exists? 

It is not enough not to believe, we must know why there is no God… and… know and understand who/what we are at Source.

Who are we? What are we? Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is Creation? Purpose? Life? Death? Eternity? Meaning? – At present, about these questions, religion and science enounce most of the answers. Is there another answer?

Creation’s beginning:
A day in the past?
The Now? 

http://city-made.com/2010/03/02/373/ A day in the past: At a precise moment, eons ago, where there was nothing, a Cause: a “God”, claimed by religion or an unknown “Force”, intimated by science, produced an effect… a ‘Day One’ of Creation”… to come into being. Then, following this first effect/moment, within Creation, effects/thoughs upon effects/forms – all containing the will of the ‘God’ or the ‘Force’ moved forward in an uncut – continuum – all the way to this present moment. At one point on the continuum’s trajectory, by divine procurement or by evolution, a being human became a part of Creation

The problem with a ‘First Day’:

All effects (material, animal, vegetal, human) contain, enact and move forward the design, will, and purpose of the originating Cause (God or Force). Within an attached and unbreakable cause to effect continuum, freedom is but an illusion. We are robots.

Then, we are divided beings. ‘God’ is ‘Spirit’, the ‘Force’ is Mind. But who/what are we? Spirit? Matter? 50/50? We are not God. We are not the unknown Force. And both are hidden from us. The consequence of this Spirit/Mind “dislocation” from form/body: A disjuncted world, nature, and “Self”.

The Now. This instant. – What if what governs us and the universe is not an external, pre-time, pre-space ‘Spirit’ or ‘Force’ but ‘the Now’? The Now being a ‘Formula’. A Formula/ Source/ Mind enacting into matter/form/body a single present instant. No past. No future.

At origin (always):

Instinct.
Freedom.

The Now – having no past or future – is not caused. The Now is still. The Now’s primary essence is stillness. But motion/movement exists. Mind exists.Forms exist. What is the formula behind a world that moves without moving? 

Answers about the nature of the ‘God’ are many and everywhere. Science sees creation beginning, eons ago, in a (Big Bang) explosion. The  creative impetus (Force) behind the Big Bang is still unknown.   

A PERSONAL JOURNEY:

This is where I found myself many long seasons ago. I was everywhere surrounded by answers representing a God who did not make much sense and a science which swam backward into time and space hoping to find a point of origin…  and behind it the Originating Force which gave birth to Creation.

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When pressed, religion and science lift their hands up in the air and claim and admonish that “no one can know for certain”. This certitude closes the door to desire, to doubt, to knowledge. 

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Walking in nature:

What do I know for certain?
I exist.
Nature exists.
People are born, people die.
Tree leaves turn red in the fall.
I speak.
I think.
I feel.

How does this vast nature which – we know for certain – is there – operates? And why is it functioning the way it does?

What if we had the originating Source wrong? What if no Creator/ Force, Cause/effect, First Instant, continuum… ever existed? What if what exists never emerged from nothing? … because “substance” has always been? Creation would then respond to a very different “formula”  from the one presented by religion and science. What would this formula be? How would it work? And what would giving it light and understanding mean for our everyday existence?

I began to ask, read, think, reflect. I also understood that leaving the recognized, accepted, normalized landscapes would not be easy. The landscape would be different. (As most people recognize when they leave their home town.) Along the way, I noted new roads,  findings, reflections, and “what did it all mean?” in a book entitled A Natural Philosophy.

A Natural Philosophy is available on Amazon.

AN OVERVIEW:

The first bump on the road.
Or a completely different road.

WHO IS/WAS “GOD”? How have we come to believe in the existence of a God?

THE GREAT LINE:

The “God” who visited earth in the days of old was not a “Spirit” but a being of flesh and blood. And He we was not alone to have come to earth from the heavens.

And He and they were real. 

It is recounted in the Roman and Greek legends, the Egyptian texts, the Bible, the Enuma Elish, the Mahabharata, the Popol Vuh that in the days of old “gods” came down from the heavens and established residence on earth. Once here, they constructed homes/temples, walls, pyramids, out of massive megaliths. Some of the massive stone blocks weighted up to hundreds of tons. Some megaliths at BaalBeck, Libanon, tipped the scale at more than 1000 to 1500 tons. That’s 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 pounds. They were extracted from the quarry, transported to the site, then lifted and stacked on top of one another.

And it is said that these gods/ beings/ individuals engineered a “being” human… in their resemblance. 

The Bible mentions that there are more than one God: “You shall have no other gods before me”. Exodus 20:3

Many legends say that God (and the gods) had His/their very own children.  Their progeny becoming demi-gods. “… the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives….” Gen 6:2

What/who did “God” and the gods looked like? “The heavens opened… a whirlwind (spacecraft) came from the north… a great cloud… fire… I heard the noise of their wings… a seat…  upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man….” Ezekiel, chapter one.

For a time, the gods lived among mankind, helping, directing and governing this or that group. Then they returned to the heavens whence they came. 

With the passage of time, all over the earth, “priesthoods” assembled stories, memories, words spoken, exhortations into sacred books, dances, and rituals relating the “feats” of the magnificent ones. History dissolved into religion. Gods ruled from the heavens over their human flock below. 

Then one day, the god Yahweh dislodged all the other gods and became GOD.

God Almighty.  

Some or much of what has been written in the days of old about the gods (and of God) was/is real and true… but it has nothing at all to do with the mechanism/ laws/ principles which construct, maintain and deconstruct the cosmos, nature, human beings… dreams, thoughts, actions, senses, emotions, feelings… values, purpose and meaning. We, ideologically, philosophically, paddle furiously in a boat without a rudder or a bottom… or even a boat. 

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(Facing the second less travelled road.)

MOVING THE DATE OF CREATION TO ITS NATURAL SPACE:
FROM PAST TO PRESENT, TO THE NOW:

It is now.

It is now. It is now. It is now.
It is always now.

There never was a beginning to Creation.
There never was a “day one”.

Who/What created the Now?
No one. Nothing.

It has always been “now”.

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The Now is not hidden from us.
The Now is who we are.
The Now is what a grain of sand is.

 

The Now’s operating formula is discoverable.

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