My DREAMTIME LIFE STORY
My understanding of how and why we exist as a species, and what happens to us individually and collectively when we die. We are here to learn and share - even after death! Listen up, we don’t have a lot of time left to get this right! Let science and scholars fill in the details, but the important part is that regular folks (like us) take action right now to begin sharing with one another. I will start today to give away all of my unneeded and/or unwanted possessions. This solution is so beautifully simple and so beautifully good for mankind. Now for my explanation of the fundamental “why” of human existence.
I believe that dreams are a condensed version of our emotional intuitions over our lifetime - then we have to share that story with other humans who love us. That includes our family and closest friends, and some empathic, spiritually aligned people. In this crazy, emotionally charged world today I think it best for me to frame my story into a third party narrative. So here it is;
The story that I am going to tell is billions of years old and is written in the stars, blown in the wind, flowing in the jet stream, and embedded in all of life that exists. It is life itself. It may be absurd, but we humans have become blind to this ancient, mysterious truth that exists within us and surrounds all our thoughts and prayers.
Before Creation, there was only a tiny but very powerful energy field without structure or form, but (as an energy field), it had characteristics like potential and flow toward becoming something “conscious”, so it could experience what creation was like. And it wanted to be a good flow of energy, so it could create better experiences. And this was the entrance of “creator energy” and the beginning of all of creation. This creative energy could also be considered sacred, since it it creates life from nothing and it provides the energy to sustain creation forward through a perpetual evolution toward a more perfect creation.
I believe that we humans are a vital Part of our Devine Universe and should be understood and perceived with deep reverence for one another - the same kind of reverence given to newborn infants, but with skills and responsibilities.
If we were created by a Devine universe, don’t we have a responsibility to understand what that means? The easiest answer is to deny any divinityleaving only the bits and pieces and their interactions to understand. That is still difficult, but at least that means that humanity can have a finite answer to how everything in the universe works. while still lacking an answer to our most fundamental question - “why”?
I am boldly proclaiming that the universe is “good”, because the whole of nature tells me that life is “good”. I might not think that life was “good”, if I hadn’t looked closely at natural (ecological) systems throughout my own
I have studied nature closely through a combination of academics, professional, psychological, and personal perspectives and then waited patiently for those many perspectives to incubate in my dreaming mind until those perspectives were integrated into a coherent and personal narrative.
My integrated personal narrative is that all of creation is one Devine entity with God at its center, but also embedded (as creator energy) throughout all of creation - experiencing the same things, suffering the same cycles of life and death, all the pain and suffering, all the advancements and setbacks, all the brokenness and sinfulness of creation - How else could our creator understand how to guide us into the future with faith, hope, and love?
Why do I believe in in my integrated coherant narrative over a lifetime of 80 years? First, natural systems have convinced me that all of life is essentially one Devine entity or energy field - where every form of life only exist individually during our lifetime, but rejoins the whole Devine entity when we die. I believe that we have “free will” to rejoin the “Devine entity” at the time of our death, or we can choose to remain a disembodied spirit on earth. This prediction assumes that no life forms “die spiritually”, but they can choose to be separated from the whole of the “Devine entity”. I believe that this choice is often based on our own self - worth (ego) compared to others of our own species - not our self - esteem or self - love. This implies that we choose our own fate at the time of our death through the filter of our own ego.
What evidence do I have for my beliefs? My evidence is a lifetime of experiences condensed into this short story. First, Humanity is conscious of itself and it’s environment - that suggests that consciousness is a necessary
step to our understanding of the fundamental “why”. Second, the “Devine entity” Could have revealed it’s presence throughout the universe in a much more definitive way, but choose to gently and gradually reveal itself through its “Devine creativity”. I am reluctant to call humanity highly evolved, but we have to assume that we are good enough. We are growing in knowledge and understanding of that knowledge. . Third, when we humans learn, more about the the natural flow of energy through - out all of nature, we realize there is structure and purpose to that flow. Energy balance seems to be that purpose!
Nothing can exist in the universe without energy balance, and that seems to be the key role of humanity - keeping all of created life evolving to higher levels of consciousness and understanding. But don’t assume that only refers to energy to fuel human endeavors, but includes the energy to share resources, to share power, to love one another, and to be thankful for what we have, rather than what we want. And finally, humanity has been motivated to tell stories that give meaning to created life. These stories have been sacred within their own cultures, but in our own materialistic western cultures they are thought to be nothing but superstition. Ask yourselves, would we feel the same way about human science if we were a more advanced species - probably! Ask yourselves if a more advanced species would believe that humanity was maintaining the the life sustaining energy balance in nature, or even among humans - probably not! So how are we are we supposed to free ourselves from our own cultural biases and our own egocentric selves to become the Stewart’s of our lives rather than slaves to our own egos. I would rather believe in the Divinity of all of creation rather than think that I can use all of creation for my own benefit without any consequences. We cannot live an entitled life on our sacred world. First, we can admit our own failures to properly appreciate the miracle of life itself. Second, we can ask forgiveness for our broken relationship with creation. Thirdly, we can repair our relationship with creation by changing the way we see creation - as a co-creator rather than just a resource to benefit us.
Finally, there is the problem of “why”we are here - the “why” of our existence. This should have been obvious to philosophers throughout human history, but this perspective calls for all of humanity to be creations keeper rather than it’s controller. This involves a profound shift of our perspective - In a democracy like our own, we have the responsibility to choose leaders who are truly compassionate and fair in both their private and public lives. We cannot allow the narcissistic charismatics to rise to leadership, because in reality, they are
sadistic tyrants in disguise. These sadistic personality types are overly represented in both Hollywood, and most profoundly in politics. It’s a paradox that we all know that assholes are both enchanted by and driven toward power ,but strangely, we can easily give up are moral principles in service of an idealistic political victory for our team or village. And we also know that once that victory is achieve, the very asshole that we enabled will betray us and our ideals. We know beforehand that our personal moral principles will have to be sacrificed, but we console ourselves with another delusion that our tribe will be able to resurrect our collective sense of our moral principals. That’s something like believing a bunch of ghosts can create one whole real person with personal moral principals. I would call that another form of alchemy or magic - Or just call it “fiddlesticks” like Grandma did.
Terry Heilman Grumpy Old Angel