It occurs to me that physics is finally catching up with cultural mythology and the knowledge preserved by the ancient wisdom schools. The data sets are converging.
I grew up going to church. It didn't take. Their idea of God didn't make sense to a kid thrown to reason and logic. Instead, I understood intuitively what a belief system was. I wondered how people could be so illogical as to believe in myths and fairy tales. How could they believe anyone could have lived hundreds of years, or that a flood in Egypt could covered the entire world? It just seemed to me that Occam's razor was conspicuously absent. What did a middle eastern religion have to do with Europeans (or anyone else) for that matter anyway? Don't even get me started with why people think that God has human emotions and values. If God created Good, then He created Evil too, right? Still, there was something that made me want to think about philosophy and religion and to have a desire understand people's religious beliefs. Over time, I resolved that I was neither a believer or an atheist. My take away was to follow the path of the prudent agnostic. That is until a thought occurred to me: The universe is an energy field and everything in it is a manifestation of energy. Everything, including consciousness.
The kernel of thought about energy led me to think about fractals. Then I understood: The universe not only expands through fractals, but everything in the universe's energy field is repeated. This concept of self replication is pointed out to us in the expression, "as above, so below." Think atoms, molecules, cells, organs, and organ systems as being akin to planets, solar systems, galaxies, and the universe. If fractals are real, and everything is a manifestation of energy, then it follows that consciousness itself, is a property of energy that is repeated throughout the scale. The idea allows room for an understanding that other systems of organized energy could be, and probably are by this system, conscious. That means consciousness occurs in other animals, plant systems, the Earth, the Sun, and on up the scale until you realize that the entire, unified field of energy that comprises the universe must be conscious too. And isn't that what cultural mythology and the religious schools have been saying all along? They just weren't saying it in a way that I could understand.
There is something compelling to the idea that we could be to God, as bacteria are to us. Our entire galaxy could be like so many cells on the knee of God, who is sitting on a couch, watching Adventure Time, and eating really big pistachios somewhere in the multiverse.
