when i say we i mean humans, no one in particular. and there are tons of holes in my thinking, i realize this as i try and get this into text. i hope this doesnt come off as shallow lol
Was thinking walking out of work about 40 minutes ago. are we missing the big picture? we search for god as if its an object or an energy. what if its much more simple?
i was thinking about reincarnation and the balance of karma(im not well versed on these subjects so i thought yahooka would be perfect to learn and get my idea out to some heads
) The accepted idea of reincarnation is that the soul is retained after death and deposited into a new phyisical body(right?). The idea being that one goes through this process until they have become enlightened. What if the concept of reincarnation is much more literal and physical/ chemical? my idea is that we ARE reincarnates, but that our reincarnation is much less about the deposition of a timeless spirit into a new body, but moreso about becoming the next step toward enlightenment for all people.
I was thinking about how we learn from our parents. They teach us how to behave and what is right. We see what troubles them and how they react, and then we either act the same way, or we feel like we dont want to "end up like my mom and dad". In essence we learn how to be better people by the chain of our parents learning from their parents who learned from their parents so on and so on. Perhaps each successive generation brings people as a whole closer or further from enlightenment. As one people we're starting to become more aware, on a global scale, of the damage that humans have done to the ecosystem. Were seeing progress in the areas of civil rights and ethics. Ideas that are relatively new on the timescale of the human race. are these signs that we are progressing to a higher conciousness? dare i say enlightenment?
what if god is not something, not one thing, but all things. everything. infinity, as mydriasis has stated elswhere. I know that one definition of god is "that which is greater than can be concieved[my addendum: or imagined or visualized or quantified]", and i feel that though many people may misinterprate that phrase, it describes EVERYTHING. GOD is everything. Many of us are tied up with trying to decipher ancient texts that are hardly practical/ understandable in the context todays society.
I think if people studied the world around them even half as much as they studied their stacks of erudition, theyd have no choice but to see that god is in every atom of every molecule of everything, and in the energy that brings it all together. I think the concept of a seperation between ourselves and god is stifling our spiritual growth. we need to realize that the connections of ourselves to all-that-is are so numerous, even limitless, that we are all one. What if we are god? what if thats how its always been? and now are getting closer to realizing this?
im running out of steam. what do you all think?