Monday, June 28, 2010
Purpose and Pursuit of Fulfillment
PURPOSE AND FULFILLMENT: If consciousness is fundamental to identity, then, within a single universal holism, how could there be more than “sum-whole” or “one collective unconscious?” Must each of us be a perspective of God? Must we each play a part in the purposes of God? Is the main purpose to reconcile God’s existential angst? How is that done, except by means of diversion, i.e., pretenses and appearances of smoke and mirrors and performance art, i.e., investing perspectives of identity in resolving aspects of “the Other,” i.e., one’s counter identity, i.e., the good vs. the bad, the beautiful vs. the ugly, the harmonious vs. the discordant, the truth vs. the deceit, the cooperative vs. the competitive, the creative vs. the destructive, the companionship of the whole vs. the parts vs. the sum, and the reconciling of the constraints of the complete with the continuous with the constant? Is it the main purpose of God to learn from how the parts that are us come to suffer, strive, and succeed? Is that how God and we pursue meaning and fulfillment, together, synchronously?
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How we relate to God affects how God relates to us. But we are more than our bodies and brains. The identity for each of us stretches in consciousness well beyond the apparent physical limits of our skins -- not magically or omnipotently, but in due course and time.
When we love, respect, and honor God, we believe. When we do not, we cause unnecessary pain for everyone, including ourselves. This is because our consciousness cannot flourish apart from the collecting consciousness of God. God uses the logos of carrots and sticks to help guide us back. Until we learn logic, God relies on superstition. Until we learn empiricism, God relies on logic. Until we bring intuition to consciousness, to fill holes that cannot otherwise be filled in reason, God relies on empiricism. Until we firmly accept God, God relies on intuition.
Regardless, the potential of that which we intuit as the Collective Unconscious seems trinitarian: Its holistic aspect is constant; its individuating aspect is continuous; its relational aspect is reconciling.
How may reasoned intuition suggest that the Judeo-Christian narrative is closer to the truth about God than the Mohammedan? Consider: Is God's purpose to guide us, to the extent we have been gifted with thinking minds and free will, to appreciate God as God abides and is intuitively pertinent? If so, God's pertinence is readily intuitable, in respect of God's being: existential accompanier; art communicator; empathy experiencer; care inspirer; civilizing performer; and synchronizer of feedback in meta relations among wholes and parts.
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