My Philosophy of Life
Posted on March 13, 2010
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By Kimberly Aislinn Badgett
I am not a religious person and I do not believe in god but I do crave to understand the universe in such a way that empowers me to live with it both harmoniously as well as advantageously. I will take this as far as sensibility allows, including spirituality and how it relates to that which we see as reality.
So anyways…
I see the entire universe as one. We came from energy, we are comprised of energy, and in the end return to energy. Even our lifetimes as we know them are that same energy in action, physically and emotionally.
We are all clearly part of something greater. That is often reaffirmed. So is their really such thing as self? Or are we all part of the same mass of energy dancing with itself? And that we have an illusion of self only because our limited awareness prevents our seeing the whole to which we “each” entirely belong?
Enter god.
I really don’t believe in “god” (a single omnipotent being that is separate from us). Now relate god to energy for a moment. On god: We are borne from god, we are “in god’s image” and we return to god in the end. On energy: We cam from energy, are made of energy, and return to energy. In the second version it especially seems that very little changes. Energy here, energy there, energy here again. So what you really have is energy that just keeps on moving around.
Now why does it move around? Wouldn’t there need to be some hand holding the spoon to stir things up? Well, no.
To say there is a separate force stirring existence brings us back to the question of how can there really be two separate entities in the first place when it has already been explained that we are all one entity. It is more logical to conclude that the stirring is simply the energy in action – energy dancing with itself. This could also be expressed as “for every action their is an equal and opposite reaction.”
The next logical question would be “but where did the energy come from and what caused it to begin dancing with itself?” The answer to that is outside the scope of our understanding of time, at least at this time. Time is linear and the answer will be beyond linear, planar, or even global understanding. Our minds are trapped by this limitation.
Back to god.
Isn’t that mass of energy able to contain separate entities… an omnipotent being and also people? Yes and no. Yes in that there are a multitude of individual consciousnesses springing from it and interacting. And no in that we are all still part of the same entity – that mass of dancing energy. Just as we cannot claim the air in England is truly separate from the air in Australia, we cannot claim one clump of energy is truly separate from another clump (Dear reader, you are now a dear clump. Sorry.)
As for the notion that we have a god who has dominion over us, this is impossible of course because if we are all one entity then there is no one to have dominion over. Unless, we consider this angle…
We are that god. There is only god and nothing else. God is that mass of dancing energy. God is you, god is me, god is everything. God is not a ruler of anything except god because there is nothing except god.
Our existence is our own making and we are not bound by any spiritual plans. There are no plans. There is cause and effect. Balance. So even if we are nothing more than extensions of a greater whole possessing only the mere illusion of individuality, it does not matter. Those illusions, including the one who writes this essay, have only our limited awareness to work with and work with it we should. Just as our inner desires compete for dominance over us to determine our paths, so we the people of the world contribute to the greater whole.
There will always be balance because balance is inherent to existence. But we have the great honor of deciding where we choose to sit on that balance.
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