It seems to me people have lost all common sense in the discussion of origins and creationism, spirituality and indeed any subject relating to the
concept of "God".
The problem is one of culture and how it relates to consciousness. The problem is western (and therefore most of) culture is in an epistemological
and ontological crisis. The western mind is ill. Spiritually sick and lost, because of materialism.
Most discussion of "God" (the nature(/existence) of whom "creationism" depends) quickly degrades into a fierce fight of self-perpetuating
belief-knowledge systems and their respective twists (religious establishment, scientific establishment, etc). We cannot stick to the simple
definition of "God" = "all that is" - we have to fall back again and again to our programming and perpetuate what bogus ideology has been shoved down
our throats for millennia regarding the nature of God and our relationship to God.
It seems on one side we have a mass of people clinging to dogma and literal interpretation of thousand year old scriptures which makes no sense when
observing the world and bearing in mind the achievements of the exploration of physical matter through science. Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism all
do as good of a job of explaining the world as does the African creation myth of God Bumba who had a stomach ache and puked out the world. Yet, you
have a millennia year old institution which addresses extremely fundamental human needs of understanding.
On the other side we have materialism - the idea that all of reality is made of matter and therefore the study of matter gives or CAN give complete
understanding of reality. An equally loony idea, in my opinion. An argument can be made that science has propelled civilization forward towards
progress. I agree to an extent - it has propelled it towards material progress.
The problem is there is an infinite amount of experience out there than science cannot account for, so being the self-perpetuating belief-knowledge
system that it is, it simply tries to explain it "away" even when such action is inappropriate and obviously not relevant to some deeper truth of
reality waiting to be understood. This is what I find in so much of what has been labeled the "New Age" - that, in my definition, includes the
beginning of what I consider to be a kind of Spiritual Renaissance - spiritual gurus, alien channels, psychonauts, healers, remote viewers, alien
contactees and so on.
The collective mind has rebuked against the absurdity of shallow, dogmatic, manipulative control-based religion, then rebuked against the answer to
religion - the absurdity of the rationalist-reductionist methodologies of science, the mathematical and strictly physical way of explaining things
"away". And what we get is people searching for truth somewhere in between. Some framework of understanding that can account for the apparent presence
of something beyond physical reality - however you may experience it.
I'm not saying some people who call themselves "new agers" are not a bunch of swindlers looking to make a buck selling faith for money and
power/fame, but I am saying a lot of them are not. They're all crazy in their specific way and some of them make tremendous sense, if you're willing
to set aside your belief system and preconceptions for a moment, put your intellectual arrogance asleep for a moment and try to take on a new
perspective and try to push the limits of your perception further than they've been so far.
The trick is, in seeking any truth in anything - and therefore in God (in my definition) is not selling your faith to anyone. Not to religion, not
to science, not to spiritual gurus or alien channels. What you have to do is flood your mind with as much information as possible and don't believe
anyone. Just see how the immense volumes of diverse information relate to YOUR DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF REALITY and in time, metaphorically speaking, a
"mathematical formula" of understanding will pop-up in your mind and unify seemingly unrelated patterns of consciousness. Don't be afraid to be a
minority of one - on the contrary - remain true to yourself in this journey.
This is all for now, I really needed to spill my thoughts somewhere. Sorry if I was a little incohesive, my mind is kind of foggy as of late.
P.S.
Really, this guy sums it up brilliantly
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