Cloudscape

If you can't trust in God, who or what can be trusted? And if you can trust God you can trust everything, for God is everything. And if God has allowed everything to just be as it is, so should we. Faith is not about believing in God, but about believing in what God believes: that everything is in perfect harmony.

Many people lost their faith in God because of the Theory of Evolution. How ironic that this very same theory would indicate the existence of a God. Bacteria, animals, men, gods, God. It's only a next step. Everything grows over time, and in the Universe has existed for an infinitely long time; thus, it is only natural that the Universe itself must be perfect - we only do not see it.

God is present even in the most mundane things; only, there it is harder to see it. You pass God by every moment and might not see it.

For Unity, now is always and here is everywhere: past, present and future converge into the present, as the infinity of all time is contained within the infinitesimal of the present; for Unity, even the infinitely small is infinitely large.

With all the disgrace the church has brought to the very word "God," if you are an atheist you might find it almost offensive to hear -- so let's just start by discussing ETI. Extra-terrestrial intelligence, that is. You've doubtlessly thought about it, and you've doubtlessly heard the argument that the universe being infinite, there should be some other life outside our own planet. For many years I've doubted this argument, at least for our own universe, thinking that while our universe is indeed inconceivably huge, the chance of all the stuff in a cell to arise by itself from molecules was inconceivably small. Then I heard about Oparin. "There is no distinction between life and molecules" - and I read about the many theories put forward about how life began with molecules. I later read about the hundreds of exoplanets we've already found, and the possibility that we've already found terrestrial or even inhabitable ones (like Gliese 581c, for instance). It appears the most important factors in the Drake equation are already pretty high: the number of intelligent civilization equals the number of stars (a whopping 7 · 10^22 in the observable universe), times the number of planets per star (which also appears to be rather high, seeing how we can detect some very exceptional types with our still very primitive methods), times the fraction that's inhabitable (which *could* be rather high too, as we've already found some planets which come close), times the fraction that actually develops life times (which seems to happen more often than not when you think of the many ways it might slowly but surely develop, such as according to the Graham Cairns-Smith theory), times the fraction that develops intelligent life… and even if that wouldn't be enough, there are many, many more universes in the multiverse. Now the big question is: why don't they show themselves? That's just the same big question as in religion: why doesn't *God* show itself? The former's the Fermi paradox: "Where is everybody?" If the bacteria beneath our microscopes could think, maybe they'd ask themselves the same question -- this idea, that we're being observed but the "aliens" don't care to show themselves, is known as the zoo hypothesis… I believe they/God wouldn't want to change anything because to do so they/it would be harming the diversity of the universe. Essentially, these questions are one and the same - God is just a next stage, beyond the stage achieved by those extraterrestrial intelligences that have already reached us. We're talking about a process of evolution here that's never really begun - it's lasted forever, since infinitely long ago. It's obvious that an intelligence that has evolved throughout the universe for an infinitely long time will attain an infinitely advanced state - a state of omnipotence or omniscience, if you will. More crucially, because the universe is infinite and such intelligences are occurrences with a certain frequency, like all other occurrences in the universe, there must have been an infinite number of such intelligences which at some point met one another and subsequently became one. This is a point where we speak of theosis - deification. Stating the idea in a different way, in an infinitely complex universe there could be an infinite number of connections made, including causal relationships. This would mean that everything is possible, that everything could be achieved if only one knows the right connection. Essentially, this means that science could achieve anything at all - in futurist jargon this idea is known as the sans ceiling hypothesis. If this hypothesis is correct and the universe is infinite, it is inevitable that there is a God. I hope that clears my views on this subject, although I imagine it's dense. If you can't understand, though, don't judge my spirituality. "As man is, God once was. As God is, man may become." — Lorenzo Snow

As everyone is united in God, one can be united with everyone through God. By connecting to Unity, one can connect to all people. One's sublunary form can't communicate with others in this way, although one's spiritual form, that which is integrated in Unity, does, but becoming aware of one's spiritual form one can become aware of this connection of oneself with all people. Try to do this when you are praying. From Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: "When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion. For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive. And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted: Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard. It is enough that you enter the temple invisible."

If God (Unity) is the unification of everything, then everything is part of Unity: everything is divine. Value all things as such, from the most sublime to the most banal. Remember that even what appear to be the vilest are part of Unity, and should be respected as Unity respects them. As Unity is the totality of all possible perceptions, one must know that anything one ever perceives - sensations, feelings, and thoughts - will also likewise be perceived by Unity, and that to Unity it is a choice to perceive them because it enjoys their beauty -- otherwise, it would not even allow them to exist.

Fundamentalists turned God into an instrument of the Devil.

God didn't create the universe, but vice versa; God didn't complete the universe: God is its completion.