Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar claimed “God is man’s greatest invention.” He was the Nobel physicist who introduced me to mysticism when we met at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory. Chandra was not questioning God, but rather our shaping the image of God to suit our personal preferences.

On the above… good thinking… well done… There are, perhaps, broader metaphors for “god” that are more intuitively appealing than big god small god. But how would one know? Otto Rank presents his take on the human-god metaphor better than anybody I’ve ever read… Check out “Psychology and the Soul” by Otto Rank… the recent translation is the way to go.

keep writing… but no rush on my part. And Bhusundha agrees whole heartedly.

Tommy (baloooma)

You know my views on God. The only God there is is yourself and what it is you choose to do, and how you choose to do it.

Maybe the evolution has occured because as intellectual demands increased so did the level of comfort causing our minds and consciousnesses to shift from fear and surivival to the kind of society we have now. This change in thinking could have also caused our biology to slowly change. I personaly believe that to a lesser extent a person’s thinking affects their biology. Over the span of a few generations I could see how evolution could change the brain.

Most people, myself included have delusional concepts of God born out of the need to feel comfortable and secure. If there is a ‘God’ I don’t believe it can be known. The ‘God I know’ I don’t know, sure sometimes maybe we experience small fragments of it, but that is not all of god (or is it?), and thus we can’t hold onto only that if we are to know god. To me God would have to be ever new, and thus ever changing and thus beyond time because we’d never be able to know it all at once. Maybe that’s the secret… We as people are to close-minded to truly let ‘God’ in. We hold onto one concept and judge another. Rarely do we hold onto one concept while learning to expand into and out of another.
It’s been said God is all things, maybe it’s true, but it is very hard to embrace and express the heart of every single thing you interact with. We’re much more selfish than that. We’d much rather feel that others have to be like us, understand us, love us unconditionally, than us doing those things.