We Are God - 12/14/2008

A thought occurred the other week, one which I've no doubt thought about before. . .but which suddenly hit me as an epiphany while staring at the bottom of a bottle of scotch.  We are God in the sense that. ..you and I aren't, but as a collective we are.  God can only experience Himself through us, but more to the point. . He can only experience his truest form, his greatest joy....through our interactions with one another.  It is our experiencing life in relationship to eachother that is the embodiment of God within the universe.

In otherwords, I often feel like I would enjoy life much more if it was just me and nature, and like. . .everyone else disappeared off the face of the planet.  Like in "I am Legend", or similar works of fiction.  (Of course I would want to keep you TWO, but allow me to wax philosophic a bit and speak hypothetically).  If I was the only person alive, would I really enjoy life more?  Would I live in communion with nature and come to adore the simplicity that a life of quiet solitude would entail?  I think it's far more likely that I would go insane.  

Life is not meant to be lived as a hermit on some mountain top waiting for enlightenment, or as a recluse in your parents' basement scouring the net for truth.  Life should be a dynamic, interactive process of engaging fellow human beings and recreating yourself in relation TO them.  When it's just you and nature, you have no basis for comparison....you take yourself with you wherever you go, but the process of creating, of becoming....is mitigated if not completely discarded without the presence of another human being.  It is essential for our spiritual unfoldment and our journey here on earth that we're accompanied by other Selves experiencing the Infinite with us.  That's possibly why the God of the Old Testament told us to "go forth and multiply"  He wants us to be numerous so that his experience of Himself can be all the more varied, interesting, and nuanced.