The Creativity of the Godhead 2

Mon Feb 2 20:04:21 CST 2009

Beats me,
anathg

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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:17:44 -0700

Help me to understand why Texans always
seem to use Latinos (Mexicans) for their humor?

Dario  

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Subject: RE: The Creativity of the
Godhead 2

Dear Giggglemeister,

Well done!!!!

Pedro's cousin

(Responding to the item below, the photograph of the Yes,
yes. Sombrero Galaxy. Yeah, I know someone
from there, fellow named Pedro. That’s his joking name—it’s really quite
un-pronounceable—but was communicated to me from his translation-telepathy
gizmo. He was here on a visit—you know those flying saucer sightings?--- and we
were chatting about the whole shebang. 

It turns out that "Pedro" and his kin have this interesting theology
of sorts: The whole cosmos is still part of a greater cosmos that includes all
psychic stuff, all the dimensions reported on by people in mystical and
psychedelic and shamanistic trances. And all this is part of the still-cloudy
mind of an awakening god-field that, in their belief, is still somewhat
embryonic!

Rather than partaking of our (to him, primitive) tendencies to elevate our god
concept in a patriarchal king-like way, their people (well, they’re not
actually people—it would be hard to describe what they are, something like
resonant energy fields) imagine God to be more in need of nurturance, care,
attention. Rather than obedience, our duty (in their mythology) is to find out
what the embryo or newly-born God needs and to make sure he gets it. Forgive
the gendered pronouns—there’s no gender implied in their language or their
theology.

Not that this God is any less wondrous to them than He is to us! Perhaps more!
(They are advanced enough to be able to manage inter-galactic travel, after
all. And they have a much better sewage system and teamwork to pull off such
collective endeavors.) Even though their development is not as
materially-"carbon" based as ours, it is no less complex, and they
project this understanding of embryology on the heavens. They know it’s a
projection, a provisional model, but they also know that the development of
theology goes along with the development of science, and is necessarily a
developing process, a creative process. There’s no illusion for them that they
are anywhere near getting the actual whole "truth" or picture.
They’re happy if they can just improve their models bit by bit, and occasionally
with a paradigm shift here and there. 

Anyway, for Pedro’s people, embryos are marvelous, engaging in a zillion
complex transformations and differentiations that they study, and every time
they discover yet another way God does it, it opens up two other mysteries. So
studying the cosmos is for them a religious activity.

Apparently they never went through a phase that idealized words as if they were
truths, that confused legend with history, or myth from fact. They find that
our planet’s dominant species being in turn dominated by this illusion to be
curious. So religion for them is like science for us, always in a process of
creative re-formation. I told ‘em about Moreno
and they said that just maybe part of their insight might have gotten reincarnated
in his mind-body. (They have an interesting theory of reincarnation that is
more like shuffling cards: Everyone is made of a number—more in the range of 40
- 70—soul fragments that arise from a similar number of other beings—like the
cards are constantly re-shuffled—and these account for our preferred imagery,
talents, weaknesses, body structure, temperament, and so forth.)

Anyway, back to their embryological theology—which, to say again, is clearly a
provisional model—they are quite aware that the Greater Wholeness of the Cosmos
cannot be known even to their advanced civilization—but they theologize as a
process of theory building because it is just part of the overall creative
process of mind: The embryo in the sense of its many transformations is near-infinitely
intelligent, and yet is only barely conscious, in the sense of being
self-reflective. For this, we are needed—all sentient creatures in the cosmos.
To the extent that we can wake up, become more sentient, we function as the
operational brain cells of God. Let’s say that God needs a google (that’s ten
to the hundredth power) brain cells to not only be energized, but to also be as
inter-connected and coordinated as the puny ten billion brain cells in our
minds are, then the implications of that theology is that we all have to wake
up more and to cooperate more! Stop all this fighting and killing and being
mean and selfish! 

Well, this was nice to hear, in some ways—as it supported my general moral
inclinations to be nice; but it approached it from a somewhat shocking angle:
God needed us, but wasn’t this parent-figure who would "save"
us—whatever "saving" entailed—something that seems like it would
compensate for our folly. No, rather than using religion to avoid responsibility,
if we believed the way Pedro’s people did, we would be called to more
responsibility. Whew! I told him I didn’t know if folks I knew down here would
buy that. He shrugged. 

Well, I thought I’d pass along this story of this encounter. (As John Lennon
sang in "Imagine": "You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the
only one.")

Warmly, Adam "Gigglemeister" Blatner here where it’s been cold, but
not as cold as some places... 

Subject: The Creativity of
the Godhead

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The Sombrero Galaxy - 28
million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble
telescope. �

The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as
spectacular as its appearance.�

It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.

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