When anyone speaks of us humans being as God, even Jesus made the
statement, it must primarily mean that the only avenue by which God
has ever been imagined has come through the natural human psyche.
There is no story or metaphor of God in or out of the Bible that demands the notion that God came , or was revealed, to humanity except
through the natural processes of the human psyche. All comes to us
from within us, the mind or psyche. No reality outside of us,
including God, is pushed literally or physically into our heads and
we thus get an image of it ...whether it be a tree or a god. There is
no other way to comprehend or to be conscious except through the
natural processes of the psyche. God was never, by any normal
evidence, ever anything 'outside the human' that the human discovered. It seems quite important to get clear this awareness in
order for our notion of god to further develop from the ' Super being in the sky.'
This does not mean that any human is equal to God or that the idea
or experience of God is always as Freud said, 'only a crutch for the
weak minded'. No human has ever or can ever 'know' and thus embrace
consciously the whole psyche. In fact most of the whole collective psyche
remains unconscious to any one human and even to all humanity's
combined consciousness.
The part of anything can never embrace the
whole but the part can be the home of the whole and so we are, in
that sense, all God in potential.
For all that can be potentially known is at home within us. Philosophers have spoken of the 'Macrocosm being contained in the Microcosm.' This, if Jesus were truly a human being, had to also be true of him or else, by any psychological definition of human, he was not fully human. Of course Jesus of Nazareth must most assuredly been fully human-- and thus potentially God. This reasoning does astonishingly imply at some point God and Human become the same from different perspectives. But like us, for Jesus to remain human means he also did not embrace or become conscious of the whole psyche- the Collective Unconscious. Only his admirers claimed that status for him. And their claim need not be considered a delusion or deception but an evolutionary psychological fact for them.
Now there have
always been humans who have claimed to be God overtly or by their
presumptuous
behavior and their cultures have usually recognized them, when in that state of mind,
as not healthy representatives of the human species. Jesus was no
doubt a very healthy representative of our species so would have
made no such claims for himself.
It was not deception by which those who after his death told and wrote about him made him to be the totality of what depth psychology now calls the Collective Unconscious or God but a sincere natural human process we can now call unconscious projection. Everything that is or can be that has not become conscious to the human is automatically and unconsciously(without our knowing it) projected onto something in the outside world and there we 'see' what was already in us both good and ill.
We have within us an image or many images of God and, until we
become more conscious of how we 'see' or imagine God by projection we
unconsciously project these images of 'all knowing' and 'all
powerful', 'all perfection' and 'all horrible' onto the outside, most
usually as a 'person' or 'being' much like ourselves only much more
of everything. Thus our unconscious determination to keep alive the
Big Person, anthropomorphic image of God in the sky.
One among many ways to begin to grasp our own projection of the
internal psychic God image is to explore our experience of how we
projected this on to our parental figures as small children when personal consciousness
was just beginning to unfold. We 'saw' them as 'extremely
powerful, knowing and either very kind or the opposite.' Our parents
simply were not truly as we 'saw' them but were very much our own
projections. Many persons cling strongly to those original parental
projections their entire life, never facing and integrating the
imperfections of their own human parents. Humans become conscious of
such projections and many others in varying degrees for reasons we do
not know. It seems evolution of the mind pushes us to withdraw
projections as much as possible so we become more conscious. The
level of consciousness attained, and there are always many blind
spots remaining, does not depend primarily on having superior
intelligence but more likely on experiences, inner and outer, that
seem to push one to doubt the conventional notion of 'common sense' reality
and to intuit that there is a 'world unseen'. An underlying penetrating world that is just as real and
influencing us, mostly unconsciously, as the biased conventional claim to see clearly the material world as it 'actually is' whether acknowledged or not.
Finally now, in the past
100 years, the objective processes of science, which at first
supported our common human confidence of the certainty of the
material world being substantially what it 'appears' to be by common
sense, is showing us more and more(via Sub Atomic Quantum Theory)
that consciousness development in the human is the process of
dropping our projections along with all other kinds of biases and
assumptions in what can be a long and painful, as well as
exhilarating, awakening to more and more of what is more real and true. The maxim, "
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" continues to be happening with us.
There is no story or metaphor of God in or out of the Bible that demands the notion that God came , or was revealed, to humanity except
through the natural processes of the human psyche. All comes to us
from within us, the mind or psyche. No reality outside of us,
including God, is pushed literally or physically into our heads and
we thus get an image of it ...whether it be a tree or a god. There is
no other way to comprehend or to be conscious except through the
natural processes of the psyche. God was never, by any normal
evidence, ever anything 'outside the human' that the human discovered. It seems quite important to get clear this awareness in
order for our notion of god to further develop from the ' Super being in the sky.'
For all that can be potentially known is at home within us. Philosophers have spoken of the 'Macrocosm being contained in the Microcosm.' This, if Jesus were truly a human being, had to also be true of him or else, by any psychological definition of human, he was not fully human. Of course Jesus of Nazareth must most assuredly been fully human-- and thus potentially God. This reasoning does astonishingly imply at some point God and Human become the same from different perspectives. But like us, for Jesus to remain human means he also did not embrace or become conscious of the whole psyche- the Collective Unconscious. Only his admirers claimed that status for him. And their claim need not be considered a delusion or deception but an evolutionary psychological fact for them.
behavior and their cultures have usually recognized them, when in that state of mind,
as not healthy representatives of the human species. Jesus was no
doubt a very healthy representative of our species so would have
made no such claims for himself.It was not deception by which those who after his death told and wrote about him made him to be the totality of what depth psychology now calls the Collective Unconscious or God but a sincere natural human process we can now call unconscious projection. Everything that is or can be that has not become conscious to the human is automatically and unconsciously(without our knowing it) projected onto something in the outside world and there we 'see' what was already in us both good and ill.
One among many ways to begin to grasp our own projection of the
internal psychic God image is to explore our experience of how we
projected this on to our parental figures as small children when personal consciousness
was just beginning to unfold. We 'saw' them as 'extremely
powerful, knowing and either very kind or the opposite.' Our parents
simply were not truly as we 'saw' them but were very much our own
projections. Many persons cling strongly to those original parental
projections their entire life, never facing and integrating the
imperfections of their own human parents. Humans become conscious of
such projections and many others in varying degrees for reasons we do
not know. It seems evolution of the mind pushes us to withdraw
projections as much as possible so we become more conscious. The
level of consciousness attained, and there are always many blind
spots remaining, does not depend primarily on having superior
intelligence but more likely on experiences, inner and outer, that
seem to push one to doubt the conventional notion of 'common sense' reality
and to intuit that there is a 'world unseen'. An underlying penetrating world that is just as real and
influencing us, mostly unconsciously, as the biased conventional claim to see clearly the material world as it 'actually is' whether acknowledged or not. 
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