Post #152 "The Lesser God"

How is this God of Creation doing? How do we feel about the archetype that we have created to represent us? How close are we to becoming that which we have chosen to become? How close have we become to being God? How do we feel about this God to whom we have created and given the credit for the creation of the heaven and the earth in six days and who we determined deemed the seventh day, a day set aside as belonging to this God's purpose? What of the change in our values through the levels of Time and Place? It seems we have created our God to be what we need God to be, no matter how inconsistent and conflicting that mold, that pattern of God has become. Of course, as Time divides into smaller and small fragments, the pattern also divides into smaller and smaller fragments, the imprint becoming more distorted and blurred with each passing generation, each passing day, each passing level of history. How does this process of division affect or influence our association or our non-association with the God of Creation? How much does this association or lack of association with Reality result from the impact of religion and science? A recent report by the American Religious Identification Survey claimed that the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. It seems that the America, which could at one time be described as a Judeo-Christian religious culture is more aptly described now as a post-Christian culture.

This shift threatens the very purpose and cause of our American foundations. Europe has, for some time now, been identified as a secular culture. One could almost deduce that we are losing interest in that which was once considered the very essence of American foundations, and according to the christian bible, of creation itself. Is interest being lost or has the interest been reinterpreted or transferred to a new focus?

The more scientific a culture becomes, the more difficult it is for that culture to relate to that which is unseen. More and more as time moves on through all the levels of creation, credibility rests in the very tangible, the see-able, the touchable, the edible. Where does dreaming, which brought this all about to begin with, fit into the picture? Dreams are far from tangible. Surly, we still dream, image, and create. Our multi-media culture seems to present a state of perpetual, mechanical, dreaming and imaging. Many find themselves lost in the stories of life situations produced on screens of all sizes and shapes. All themed and built around all sorts of escape substances. It could be said that these situations produce an out-of-touch-with-reality condition. Where did it all begin? Where did we make the Choice? Where do we shift from one focus or give up on an ideal and create a new reality? Seems we are on a never-ending quest to rediscover Reality. But why do we not allow Reality to be Reality? Why do we insist on Reality being our own creation?