God - Nature or Supra-nature

The problem is that as human beings, we tend to think that we're where it's at, we're natural and because we don't percieve a connection with God, we tend to think of God as something supranatural and we look for signs of a supernatural God eg. living up in the sky, communicating through disembodied voices/visions etc. Actually, God is natural, God is nature, God is that which is, that which has always been and will always be, in all places, everywhere. It's human beings who are the supranatural ones. That's what the story of the fall of man is telling us. We have become divorced from nature and yet it's us (or some of us) who are saying that we are righteous, we truly exist, but that which created us does not. Human 'intelligence', that tells us we are separate from God has only been going on for a couple of thousand years. That's nothing. It's like something happening in the blink of an eye compared to the omniscience of the universe. In fact, it hasn't even really happened, because the universe is eternal so a few thousand years doesn't even have any meaning.

 

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Isn't nature what it is? That which is...why call it 'god' instead of what it is?!

God is humanitys greatest error.

The superhuman however will be our greatest pleasure!

 

wise words man

 

true enough.

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How did we get into this mess in the first place? I mean the 'human condition'. My best guess ATM is that we randomly evolved extra brain power and became too reliant on the reasoning processes that we used to physically survive and that this created our illusory sense of ego and separation from our apparently, hostile environment.

Our cognitive reasoning is based on sensory information in a spatial/temporal paradigm, so according to our basic senses and reason, we appear manifest as individual separate life forms clinging to a rock hurtling through space. Thus, in the presence of individual ego, we, as individuals are unable to exist harmoniously with our surroundings due to the percieved need for competition and individual self-preservation.

This world-view is not the whole picture, because our sensory data is incomplete, so it is impossible for our reason to determine objective truth. Therefore, sensory information which is readily available to the individual creates illusory perception of reality. However, concerted study of the nature of the universe by the collective, represented by the wider disciplines of human knowledge (History, Science, Arts), reveals that everything that exists is intimately connected and the universe actually functions as a single unified sentient being. Time and space do not actually exist, but are just illusions which are apparent from the perspective of the fragment of the consciousness of the whole that we posess as individuals.

I think we lost it when we stopped taking psychoactive drugs. I mean, they're part of nature and have been part of the flow of energy between living things since the beginning of time. I don't think I would have ever conceptualised the non-existence of space and time if I hadn't taken all those drugs. The exclusion of psychedelics from human experience is a relatively recent and artificial prohibition.

I like the way that Terence McKenna put it when he said that 'psychedelics dissolve boundaries', because it is true with regard to sensory information and consciousness. Our natural state is that there are no boundaries and we are truly one with each other and with the universe. I guess we don't necessarily need drugs to get a glimpse of our interconnectedness. We just need love, but drugs just seem to be more readily available nowadays.