Does Life have a Source? Another Interesting Paradox
[voice from the Other Side - Sha'Tara]
I get challenged sometimes to "reveal" or explain what my "source" or "sources" are. And it comes down to this: life.
Life (undefined) is my source. Paradoxically it is I who must breathe into it all the qualities I wish to draw from it, including the sustaining of that which sustains me.
Some will read this and say I've got a "God" complex: that I see myself as both, life and author of life. But I don't see it that way. I see life as great winds that blow in every direction: pure energy. It has no definition for me, just raw potential. So it's up to me to develop ways to tap this potential, to manipulate, create, invent and direct its flow where I would wish it. Life (undefined) does not oppose, nor does it seek to help or direct. But I am the parts of it I have captured and tamed. No, that is not accurate. I am that part which I seduced from the undefined pattern in order to make myself.
Now it needs me as I need it. I sense that without my acknowledgment, my "use" of life, it would cease to be. It would have no purpose. What sustains life; what keeps it feeding energy into these endless realms of beingness is engagement. Force with; force against. Push and pull. Stretching, ever stretching however it is being stretched. Intercourse that leads to reproduction, however strange the results may be.
We go through stages of inactivity between "lives" sustained by life on some life-support system; sustained by that part of life we seduced and can no longer exist without us; sustained by life in love. Then we re-awaken full of screaming energy to plunge into some "world" - into beingness and the "life in love" part follows us to energize us, emulating our frenzy. We challenge any existing order we encounter because none fits our new dreams. We make change and this change in turn sustains life's process.
Everything needs a reason to exist and nothing exists without reason. Yes, even God. For those who insist that "God" is the ultimate Source, here's something to mull over: God is spirit but is also called the living God. God is alive, which means spirit is also part of the great pattern of life. Whatever that be, at whatever stage of evolution it be, it needs life as much as any other. And it needs stages of inactivity, as we are witnessing now on this world -- for where is the manifestation of the Divine today? -- and as attested to in Genesis 2:2 and quote: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done."
(As an aside: neither earth nor the Earthians recognize the seventh day as holy any longer. "24 - 7" is the order of every day for Big Business and how their employees' shifts are worked out. There is no day of rest, no complete stop to the certifiable insanity of the marketplace. Indeed, and here's another Biblical quote worth remembering: "There is no rest for the wicked says the Lord." )
So here's the question: does life have a Source other than itself? Something not living, something beyond life? Well, every question carries within itself the seed of its own answer. It gestates and I wait. Maybe the mountain comes to Mohammed...
Aberjhani
A well articulated and thought provoking article. Thank you, Bless you Reg.
I'll repeat WOW! Deep thinking, Reg! I admit...nay, know there is an invisible life-force/energy that surrounds us. Anyone who has ever practiced Tai Chi has felt this energy with their movements; may be it's the Earths magnetic force, I don't know...but it is there.
"As an aside: neither earth nor the Earthians recognize the seventh day as holy any longer." Who can or how do we quantify the length of God's "day"? There's the possibility of His day being equal to Earth-man's decade; who is there to disprove that thought? That's why at 60 we Earthians slow our lifestyle, and comtemplate more on all that is around us (rest). Not that I'm presenting ourselves as God, or god-like, but consider this: Our productive years reveal our own creations.
More to think about...as an aside to life.
Micke
who still believes in God, Almighty, and Jesus Christ, His only Son.
Question But I Haveto agree with
Leland Waldrip
You just gave me somting to think about?
Love And Peace To You..Morning Star
Interesting piece. Deism apparently was the most prevalent mindset among our founding fathers, so if I understand what you are saying, you are in esteemed company. I for one would not have major problems with your thesis.
But to give a deconstructionist answer to "the question," yes, life has a source other than itself. Without a platform of non-life, how could life exist? I reject the idea of Gaia, but obviously non-life (this earthen ball and the universal support it receives), having acquired the destiny of a rarified combination of conditions, is the source of life as we know it. (This doesn't rule out the existence of other such sets of circumstances, but neither does it require them (agnosticism as to extraterestrial life.))
So it is just a matter of how deconstructive one wishes to be to discover their Source. You can go to life or all the way back to non-life, as expressed in evolutionary terms.
Best regards,
Leland
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