Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The activation of the cosmos and life, and accepting our sacred fate
Heidegger asked the
question why there is something rather than nothing? He said it
was the basic question of metaphysics.
I start with the
centrality of the activation of the cosmos and of life. Why is
something activated? I see the goal of the sacred activation as the
evolution of material life in the cosmos to ever ascending levels of
Godhood, culminating in the zenith of everlasting eternal life. That
which does not reach the zenith of everlasting eternal life tries
again, endlessly, in new cosmos. And so the universe transport
itself, whether it always begins again with ongoing powerful big
bangs or with powerful electrical currents.
It may be that since
human life has a beginning and an end humans are biased to demand an
end and beginning to the cosmos when there is no end or beginning.
Arrived evolved Godhood doesn't have an ending but has eternal life.
In the theological
materialism just described the ancient prescription of “accepting
ones fate” means first and foremost getting in harmony with the
sacred activation to evolve material life in the cosmos to ever
ascending levels of Godhood. “Faith” in that natural goal, in
the zenith of that sacred process, would come from the natural
evolving process, which includes instances of stagnation and retreat
and the ups and downs of natural selection, with the pattern moving
toward higher and higher more effective living forms, without having
to invent a non-material spiritual world in order to surpass the
endings and beginnings of human life.
If you ask where did this
activation come from, we probably won't know until we evolve
intelligence high enough to know, perhaps not until we evolve to
Godhood. It seem likely to me that when life evolves to eternal
Godhood it will have absolute answers to these questions. Meanwhile
we accept our sacred fate.
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