The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by BBella , Thursday, October 14, 2010, 05:51 (4942 days ago) @ dhw

The only consciousness we know of for sure is our own, although other animals have a less developed form. You have consistently maintained that there is a kind of universal life force (chi) to which humans can tune in, and that life was not deliberately created as such, but has always been present through this life force. (I hope I've got that right.) Bearing in mind the astonishing creative powers of human consciousness, is it not equally conceivable that we ourselves are making the force we "tune into"? Just as a writer can conjure up a whole world of characters that are not himself, anyone can conjure up a kind of energy that appears to be outside himself. 
 
It definitely is conceivable and a possibility that we ourselves make(up) the force (conscious force) we tune into. Most all agree there is a life force that all is created by and from. No matter what we choose to call this life force, most agree 95% of it we know nothing about. But what we do know of what we can see and study, we know it does not die, it evolves/changes. So, with that in mind, it seems to me a possibility that human consciousness does not die as well but only evolves/changes. I assume the life force that works within matter as a constant changing force works in the same way within the 95% of what we can't see. Consciousness, like matter, always IS. -Of course it is a possibility we create these ideas of tuning into God or our higher selves/consciousness or our connections to others consciousness. But it seems to me, if consciousness does not die, just as matter does not, we would find the evidence. Some accept what might be considered the evidence and some do not. This is something science could look closer into (and probably is). ->If our particular world was not deliberately created (i.e. by the conventional God figure), it came about by chance, as did our consciousness, and so we don't need any other explanation for the origin of life. The life force is then relevant only in so far as it affects us in the here and now, so why should it not be our consciousness that creates both it and the supposed links between it and ourselves? That doesn't make it unreal, because our consciousness can create all kinds of realities, non-fictional as well as fictional ... for instance love, aesthetic appreciation, the placebo effect ... but these are individual (or at best intersubjective) realities that do not exist outside of ourselves as humans. If this were so, the mind of God we "tune into" would be our mind.-It's not that far out for me to think that, either way, whether a conventional God created all that IS, or if everything came about by chance, that the conscious part of what is called God could be called our conscious mind as well. Consciousness is consciousness just like dirt is dirt, whether it be God, man or animal. All evolved and is now in it's present form as we see and know it. No telling what all will eventually become as everything is ever changing. But, I personally do not think God is one huge thinking conscious mind, but is an ever evolving life force within all that IS. Consciousness is but a part of the life force in all that IS and all we are.