What Are We Doin’ Here?
Monday, July 19th, 2010
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In case you’ve just arrived on the scene and aren’t familiar with my basic thoughts on spirituality, here’s a quick summary.
In my opinion (or wild-assed guess – your choice):
1. God is likely not an individual entity but rather a total of all of the love, wisdom and power that exists in all creations.
2. Heaven may be just another existence or set of dimensions that coexists with ours.
3. Heaven’s inhabitants (angels, whatever…) are individual entities (sort of “spirit”-types) who are just a normal part of this existence.
4. We humans may be just another one of these spiritual entities who are spending a short time here on earth occupying an animal body.
So why have I come to these conclusions? Because at this point in my life, these are the only semi-logical cinder blocks that I can slap together to create some type of a foundation for an understandable (for me anyway) reason for our human existence. If I try to go back further to the reasons for God’s existence or a logical purpose for “heaven”, I wind up slamming into the proverbial wall. Right now all I can do is assume that the all-encompassing power of all creations that we have personified into a god or gods exists – and has always existed – just because “that’s the way it is”. The other existence (or existences) that we normally refer to as “heaven” are there (or here) for the same reason – although I do strongly feel that there is probably some type of “love” foundation supporting the presence and activities of these existences.
So what are we humans doin’ here on earth? With the above foundation in place, the answer to this question is a bit more obvious. We’re here to learn! If we are indeed just another one of the inhabitants of heaven, we’re likely somewhere on the road between “Just Startin’” and “Almost There” in a developmental process. Assuming that “There” is probably unachievable, “Almost There” would be a desired destination. The more closely we approached that level of development, the more capable we would be of performing whatever tasks that needed to be accomplished. Or maybe the main goal of the “system” is simply development of the individual entities that make up the system. It would seem that this would tend to make the overall system stronger.