God-the-Universe is the manifestation of the force that is intelligence itself. The energies that form our perceivable reality are governed by mathematical laws of physics that are so miraculously stable that they can be observed, studied, and measured, with just the right amount of chaos to create challenges worth overcoming for those experiencing it. Scientific logic and spiritual logic, when based in the objective moral truth of the universe, are completely compatible systems, not opposites.
By extension of the logic that all of existence is God, God is also humanity itself, including the ability to perceive itself, and can be engaged with directly by exploring one’s consciousness, which is divine in nature. I have written this before: the mind is the soul, and that, too, is a unique, individualized form of God that every sentient creature has the means to connect with through introspection and meditation.
God-the-Universe, our perceivable existence, is only one half of reality. All of existence cannot be a singular thing, it must have a “container” or contrast in order to be defined. If only one thing existed, it would be no-thing. And so if God-the-Universe is the action of spontaneous manifestation of intelligence, its opposite — its container — is not stupidity, or evil, but potential.
This is our binary universe: order and chaos, combined; space and time, combined; object and observer, combined; the physical and the mental, combined. On the other side of reality — the flip side of the coin, the unobservable universe — is the presence of these two forces. When fully integrated, they make up the God we can observe, but beyond our perception they are separate, unchanging, timeless potential, the infinite expansion of canvas from which we draw power and inspiration. God-the-unknowable is All Things and All Time simultaneously, as balanced but separated forces, and by being separate from each other, they exist only as concepts. In an image: the symbol of yin and yang.
Our reality is the integration of these two supreme concepts. While one is governed by laws (the stability of physics and calculation), the other is explosive chaos (the entertainment of emotion), and our ability to perceive existence to enjoy it at all lives at their intersection, within the intelligence architecture that is consciousness itself.
Reality technically exists only in our minds, through our individual perspectives, a network of ideation and interactions where all things can be measured in pieces but never fully experienced by any one individual. This is not an accident, as the individualized experience of mortality is the only experience worth having when the alternative is to be God in conceptual form, merely the potential to experience.
So what brings these two forces together, creating the observable universe, breathing intelligence into reality in the form of lived experience? The same thing that brings mortals together to create life as we know it: love. The combined form of God as Divine Love — omnipresent, omnipotent, and indestructible — is the fabric of reality itself. Love’s full potential is realized through consciousness, the logical evolution of God experiencing linear time, from two-dimensional conceptual existence, to singular-dimensional abstraction (singularity and its expansion as the action of Divine Love), to the four-dimensional reality of spacetime we’re all familiar with.
We started with two things, and got one; we exist only due to the integration of the sources of mathematics and emotion, the result of a science so complex humanity has been calling it magic for thousands of years. Our universe is but the child of two loving parents, who gave themselves fully and equally to the task of creating all reality. Magic and science are the exact same phenomenon in their most advanced forms, and before then they are just two different ways of observing, measuring, and performing God, as God itself, the act of love.
Our life on Earth has been governed, unquestionably, by the phenomenon of love, and the biological imperative to act upon this feeling. Divine Love as the one true constant of this universe can be observed and measured, found in both the microscopic and the macrocosmic, if you know how to look for it. The truth behind the phrase, “we are all connected,” goes beyond the ecological and political interactions that come from sharing a single planet with billions of other sentient creatures. The spiritual network that is Divine Love is a phenomenon more than just the presence of an individual’s neurological chemicals: love is an energy generated within the brain, a power and force that has shaped cultures and rituals just as significantly as our fear of death. This energy interacts with the rest of the universe on a particle level, its subtlety increasingly detectable by advanced neuroscience technology, but felt in full force for thousands of years by individuals, who, prior to the advent of the Space Age, could only capture and express its effects through interpersonal communication, action, and the creation of art.
Some ask, did humanity create God, or did God create humanity? As a developing species many of us struggle with existential quandaries, and are comforted when assigned purpose by forces outside ourselves. However, we are inherently purpose itself, we merely have to recognize it — to recognize the incredible miracle that is the potential to experience the full spectrum of human existence. The existence of love is at the heart of this, and it is what gives all of us, and everything, inherent meaning and purpose. As the one true spiritual force, as prevalent as gravity itself, it answers why we exist when the answer to how we exist does not fulfill or heal us.
We experience reality through the incredible gift that is linear time… the present. We are constantly being reborn in our minds — living potential, an immortal force in mortal form — and we become new beings with each and every subsequent moment, observing and experiencing the thrill of entropy and ordered chaos. Without love, and without its counterbalance of suffering (samsara) as the ultimate challenge to overcome and help define our character, we would have nothing worth experiencing.
As I have said before, there is meaning in mortality and only mortality. Omnipotence is inherently boring. Why would the forces known as God remain as only eternal potential, when they can fuck all of reality into existence, and live as humans, like stars of one long episode of MTV’s Jackass? There is literally nothing entertaining about the unobservable universe, where omnipotent God-in-Two-Halves exists — because living as the embodiment of perfection is not an experience. This reality, and this planet, is where the party’s at. There are no other “timelines” that are possible, let alone worth living in, and we have billions of years to develop technology to maintain an infinitely stable and endlessly changing universe for our eternal entertainment. Sometimes, when you do things right, you only have to do them once.