This triggers a laugh because it places an unexpected contradiction before us. It is a contradiction with much truth. It is worthy of a healthy laugh that our Good Book is so full of the opposite. Yet there is I think something here that the general public, religious and non religious alike, still must learn about that which is God. By God I think we are conscientiously cornered to say it must be what is everything. I mean where everything that is, has been or can be , is located in potential. But my hunch is that in that original everything is included "racism, sexism, homophobias , violence and sexual frustration" along with some things worse. This would fit why all our religions about God and gods, along with the facts of human history, are full of this kind of disappointments.
It seems likely now the more conscious human species is where what is truly good and what is truly bad has to be sorted out. And with advancing human consciousness this has become far more complex than most of us have let ourselves acknowledge. It has now become the task for finding potential answers from an expanding human consciousness. There is not a God back there somewhere which was only good and perfect. God evolves into a humane, responsible and loving consciousness only to the extent that the conscious human creature does. This has never yet happened in any consistent collective way, ever. It is true that untold numbers of us glimpse such a discriminating consciousness in our 'image of Jesus'...who was, by the way, human from all reports. But we still then turn right around and say Jesus is the same as a perfectly good eternal creator God that existed always before.(The eternal God must surely be 'perfect' in the sense that it is Whole , including within it all that is , known and unknown, but not as a clearly differentiated morality or ethics. That requires far more consciousness than must have been present at the beginning).
I see the clinging more orthodox images for God as most likely a gigantic post-modern blockage of an ever evolving revelation of God. It appears we humans are going to have to find our way and the courage to question some outgrown images of God if we are to achieve what we apparently are assigned to accomplish. This is where evolution is now.
I see the clinging more orthodox images for God as most likely a gigantic post-modern blockage of an ever evolving revelation of God. It appears we humans are going to have to find our way and the courage to question some outgrown images of God if we are to achieve what we apparently are assigned to accomplish. This is where evolution is now.
So it seems to me we humans, or at least a great number of our species, must give up there ever having been any past perfect God, or as perfection being the quality of the ambiguous 'mind' present when creation began. That quite a-moral powerful presence at most must have had a dream of being a fully loving self and creating a lovingly conscious species . But all our evidence points that such mature effective love was not a completed perfection then or even fully imagined. And that same somewhat conscious creative 'mind' either intuited from the start or later painfully learned that only the increased consciousness of the creature, combined with the hazy dream of the creative God mind, could make either of these dreamed for ' intertwined consciousnesses' become a reality. The beginning was at best a dream for mature effective love to be realized as the natural character of life and being in the real world. If we humans can manage to give up the flawed notion of a past perfect God, without caving into the absurdity that there was no mind at all, then we are more likely to help usher in the level of consciousness needed to keep evolution moving toward love of the planet and each other rather than our present observed trajectory toward destruction of both self and the planet.
Surprisingly this view of an imperfect and evolving God does not have to limit or reduce a sincere person's respect for God. Looking for God has had my attention for as long as I can remember , deep into my childhood. I now have the impression that God, for the unimaginable and unspeakable reality that name is used by humanity, is on the brink of being accepted more for what God actually is and not our insistence of what it be. And the emerging image of God is something that remains the most astonishing mystery of life. The metaphor I imagine is of God being very relieved and far more connected to humanity to finally be appreciated for it's less than perfect but still most essential birthing aspect of all of reality, truly the Great Mother. For love is basically accepting, valuing and trusting one for what he, she or it actually is and not for what we have insisted in our human egotism the other be. Also, I'm imagining that God has suffered mutually along with all the human suffering the world has ever known, searching along with sincere humans to find a way to bring the world to a place where effective earthbound love is the natural ruling virtue of life. That wins my forever sincerest respect. I am moved with a profound empathy for that which we call God. I'm recalling that even Jesus, on whom many have projected their positive inner image of God, at the end asked his friends to call him their friend not master. He wanted mutual empathy not worship. Only mutual relationships have any hope of being matured loving ones. This surely includes the Sacred-Human relationship. The presently evolving post modern image of God, rather than diminishing God, brings a higher and more honest appreciation of that bed rock psychological reality. I am full of hope there is a collective leap in human/divine consciousness happening in our present time regarding the meaning of God and the mutuality and interdependence between God and Human.
I'm unsure how the quote in the picture stimulated me to this reflection but it did. Or why I would be attempting to describe such an idea on New Years Eve? Must have been the pasta and lite beer. :)
Surprisingly this view of an imperfect and evolving God does not have to limit or reduce a sincere person's respect for God. Looking for God has had my attention for as long as I can remember , deep into my childhood. I now have the impression that God, for the unimaginable and unspeakable reality that name is used by humanity, is on the brink of being accepted more for what God actually is and not our insistence of what it be. And the emerging image of God is something that remains the most astonishing mystery of life. The metaphor I imagine is of God being very relieved and far more connected to humanity to finally be appreciated for it's less than perfect but still most essential birthing aspect of all of reality, truly the Great Mother. For love is basically accepting, valuing and trusting one for what he, she or it actually is and not for what we have insisted in our human egotism the other be. Also, I'm imagining that God has suffered mutually along with all the human suffering the world has ever known, searching along with sincere humans to find a way to bring the world to a place where effective earthbound love is the natural ruling virtue of life. That wins my forever sincerest respect. I am moved with a profound empathy for that which we call God. I'm recalling that even Jesus, on whom many have projected their positive inner image of God, at the end asked his friends to call him their friend not master. He wanted mutual empathy not worship. Only mutual relationships have any hope of being matured loving ones. This surely includes the Sacred-Human relationship. The presently evolving post modern image of God, rather than diminishing God, brings a higher and more honest appreciation of that bed rock psychological reality. I am full of hope there is a collective leap in human/divine consciousness happening in our present time regarding the meaning of God and the mutuality and interdependence between God and Human.
I'm unsure how the quote in the picture stimulated me to this reflection but it did. Or why I would be attempting to describe such an idea on New Years Eve? Must have been the pasta and lite beer. :)
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