If there are things beyond our awareness, could they really be a factor in the creation of our universe, and thereby in forming me and who I am?
And if that is so, what should be my response to that?
If
I accept that there are things outside of my physical ken, do
they have to be restricted to the level of inanimate events or
can they be even more complex than you and me? In fact could
they be complex enough to create the universe as I understand
it to be, and to have established the underlying physical laws
that have caused matter to evolve in such wonderful ways that
ultimately give rise to us?
My initial answer to this question was 'no'.
Not because it wasn't a conceivable option, but because I felt
that there would have to be some evidence of the fact. While
not precluding different forms of evolution in different places,
I found it difficult to accept that if we actually were some
part of a 'creator's' master plan that we would exist in such
practical confusion about not only the plan, but about the 'creator'
itself.
Of course the 'creator' could have died,
or gone for a 14 aeon vacation - but I felt that to all practical
intents and purposes that would be little different from the
universe arising 'by accident', at least in terms of its implications
for me personally.
But in reaching such a conclusion, that any
'creator' would not leave us in confusion, I have to assume that
I am in full possession of the facts and the underlying reasoning.
If I infer how somebody ought to behave it implies I might be
not only their intellectual equal, but also that I have their
understanding of the detail and context - and that is difficult
enough when I consider even the person next to me, let alone
a being with sufficient intellect to be the 'creator'.
The picture becomes even more complicated
if I were to consider that their might be more than one spiritual
being of such awesome power, particularly if they too operated
in a 'society' which had to reconcile itself. And if, despite
its level of development, this 'society' contained (as practically
all do) elements of both good and evil (perhaps even, in a spiritual
sense, absolute 'good' and absolute 'evil') then might I expect
to reach an accurate conclusion about what a 'creator' would
do. I might find it difficult enough to understand the reasoning
of the 'creator' even if the route was straightforward. How would
I cope if any messages that there might be, were deliberately
obscured and confused?
Does this then mean that I cannot discern
whether such a 'creator' really might exist? Strangely I concluded
the reverse. All that I could reason out of this thinking is
that I would be unable to discern whether such a 'creator' really
did not exist, at least on my own terms and from my own perspective.
I began to realise that if I was to look for a creator I would
have to try to look from 'it's' perspective (as difficult as
that might be) - it could only be the absence of any such perspective
that would put beyond practical relevance the concept of any
such 'creator'.
Eventually I concluded that things beyond
my awareness really could be a factor in the creation of our
universe, and thereby in forming me and who I am. In other words
I concluded that the concept of 'God' was not as fundamentally
flawed as my training and upbringing had led me to believe.
And if 'God' does exist, what should be my
response to that?
If 'God' created (by some complex sequence
of events) me, then it is likely that my best path to 'development'
would be in line with the plans that He has for me, and that
I need to understand those plans. But I need to seek to understand
them on His terms, and not on my own.
And if I am wrong, then I won't find anything!
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