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You are God… in drag.
Most people who are grounded in science today
find it difficult to believe in the traditional
religious image of God as an external being.
Yet the mystery of existence looms larger
than ever.
Even though we now know that the visible universe
with all of its galaxies and billions of stars
is less than 1 percent of what exists out
there, we have no idea of why it exists or
how it came to exist.
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Today we know that matter and energy are inseparable.
What is the source of this energy?
What existed prior to the Big Bang?
If it occurred 13.8 billion years ago, why
did it not happen sooner or later?
What do we even mean by sooner since there
was no such thing as a yesterday or time before
the Big Bang?
In addition to all of this, we have no idea
why life as we know it exists.
Evolution does not explain the origins of
life, but the transformation of life into
different species.
We have no idea, despite the advances in neuroscience,
of how we experience anything at all such
as color, taste, smell, sound, form, texture,
or even memory.
How does an electrical signal in the brain
create the smell of onions or the taste of
garlic or love at first sight?
Or the feeling of awe and reverence when one
looks at the Grand Canyon or the Milky Way
galaxy.
These are considered “hard problems” in
science.
A new idea is emerging in the minds of some
cutting edge scientists, philosophers and
seers.
An infinite consciousness is the ground state
of the Universe.
It is neither matter nor energy, but a field
of possibilities and potentials that is acausal,
and hence the source of space, time, energy
and matter.
It is the ground state that emerges as both
the observer and the observed.
In other words, as it is the ground state
of the Universe, it is also our ground state
since we are an activity of the Universe.
If we peel away all the labels, definitions,
perceptions, analysis of our own selves, we
are left with the infinite being or consciousness.
You and I – minus all our labels – are
God.
Anything less is a compromise.
