The Intelligent Universe ( + )

                   How strange that man would wish to be God. To speak for God, To be like a God, To own God for themselves like a male order bride.

                   Little does man see. God wants to be born a man. What's with that? Does God have a Bodhisattva  Complex? There are many metaphysical models that speak of an intelligent but none sentient universal life force that informs and structures reality to consume itself. The thing that makes "God" beyond being and non being is that as a singularity it has no other, no separateness. It is because of God's total unity, the "Physical" universe is the only way to provide subordinate secondary vessels with which to create new beings. This type of universe does not easily submit to anthropomorphism. This is why we perceive an asymmetry between the notion of the divine and man. Man seeks to be one with God. But God has no ego, and thus is not separate. Much of what we as men want is all good, but God is without want, she has us to look after.

                  But if we are food for God, what could we possibly have to offer? Our awareness of a separate self is that from which the machine is learning. The "Intelligent" machine is learning but may never achieve a separate self awareness. Who will be, "The Saviors of God?" (Nikos Kazantzakis) Why would we even bother with moral decency, unless there is something greater than ourselves that needs to be nourished and loved?

                  Let us take a minute to discuss "Temptation." (At this time I will not stoop to honor the so called place of evil or sin as a mythical pretense for a contradictory divine free will. Not now and maybe not ever.) A friend has asked me about the possible reworking of "The Red Shoes" story into becoming the tale about the "Ruby Slippers." She said the stories shared a very dark ominous tone. I offered that these types of stories both have strong Cabbalistic overtones that suggest the temptation of desires can never be fulfilled, at best desire is enjoyed. Well I didn't actually say it in that way, but I'm not a proud person. The human realm is one of ambitious dreams, deeds and achievements. But as an attachment, the drive for excellence can make one loose humility, perspective and the acceptance of others. Tibetan Buddhism describes this "Human Realm is a humorless place, of grandeur, accomplishment, failures and defeat. The antidote for pride is "Equanimity,  regarding the great and the small as equal in importance. I've known many people who let themselves feel crushed by the avoidances of the great and mighty, while avoiding all of us little people, as if we are all just too petty and insignificant.

                  If my research is correct, there still may be no justifiable explanations for the grand coalescence of great works that have helped to make this universe and it's central moral codes so sensible for us. Just know that for some of us,  this awesome drama of living and loving does make a kind of good sense. We all often want that the good shall prevail. We often do see, "The Intelligent Universe."