Joe Shmuckatelly wrote:I'm trying to figure out what I believe after the recent fiasco of learning the truth (or lie) of Mormonism.
I've toyed with the idea that rather than God being the cause of creation, God may actually be the ultimate result after millions of years of evolution. In other words, as we (humans) evolve over time, WE become God...with God being the sum of all totals which is us.So rather than God being a cause, he's more of an effect. As more of us come to know truth, we count ourselves as part of that God. God is attained over time, and God is more of an awareness than an actual physical being. Coming to understand God may take many lives.
I've also toyed with the idea that eternity is NOW and we are, in fact, progressing through the different levels of "kingdoms" (for lack of a better term) and have been for many many thousands of generations. Our separateness from God is an illusion. Once we personally shatter that illusion, we become part of this "God".
Make sense? What are your thoughts?
That is basically how I view it also. Maybe that is how "eternity" stays fresh and does not stagnate: Awareness or consciousness evolves and forms infinite variety and expression. God itself (the sum consciousness of all) doesn't know how it will turn out, because there is no future (the notion of a future is a construct of the mind, as is time itself) and nothing beyond the NOW and this moment to know ahead of time.
This moment NOW is the freshest, most alive and perfect moment that could possibly be. And that is how every moment is always; perfect.
What is out harmony is not reality itself, but our notions of what reality should be (the egoic mind), or how it should unfold.