Organic Religion, The “Projects”

[otherbrother]

I’ll start this thread with a response I made on another thread (Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy). The notion that a God Function is probably more “real” in any meaningful/worthwhile sense than the form or forms we attribute to God led me to a broader concept (than self fulfilling prophecy) of “organic religion.” The below response reflects the logic of organic religion:

People without sufficient resources need to create more resources or make better use of the resources they had. How could one (or a group) do that? Find something that can create. The regular human mind can dream up all sorts of things and then create them. But a yet deeper Mind is needed when the situation seems impossible. More creative ability than we normally have. So they found the Creator/Father from which the mind could create needed resources or ways. Is it a separate being, or the very base of each of our being? Maybe it doesn’t matter as long as it works.
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The first “Project” was a manifestation of the meeting of a human need for survival. Extra resources and/or means of creatively using existing resources was needed to be created, and The Creator God was found as the original face of The Unknown. In terms of the Trinity, this seems to qualify as being the “Father” sub-function of the God Function. Create.
The Holy Spirit then helps the Creator/Father allow us to be guided as co-creators (or at least stewards) of Creation. This was phase two of the original Project which was still focused on production of resources and means for survival and successful adaptation to the tricky demands of physical existence.
But in time, some thinkers about God, realized that the only way for Creation to maintain the beauty or goodness that “God” experienced at the “end of the sixth day,” was to harmonize the parts of Creation via love. This jives with the Son of the Trinity. We saw the possibility of the Divine in at least one human being, which then inspired us all to explore and utilize our own potential God Goodness, to be more “Christlike.” Admittedly, this interpretation requires a de-emphasis of the “only” begotten Son, and a reinterpretation of “only” as meaning EXCEPTIONALLY spiritual, close to God.
This harmonization or higher integration of the stuff of Creation from the first Project “begat” a new Project altogether, one in which the emphasis is more on relationship than production. During the “Second Coming,” the main value and task is improved relationships with each other, all of physical Creation, and with God or the Good Unknown so deep within it all that it appears beyond it. Love and operating from a deeper dimension will go hand in hand during the New Project.
The reason I call this view of religion “organic” is because it is from the get go tied to human need. It also is tied to the verb form of “project,” as in to project onto overall reality the potential to meet human needs. This in no way means that God is but a figment of our imagination. It only means that some sort of potential is rooted so deep that we can’t wrap our regular-thinking minds around it, and so it can only be accessed (at least initially, during the First Project) via projection—not unlike the Batman icon projected in the sky over Gotham City. Is that deep God stuff part of us? Or is it beyond us? I think it is probably beyond the way we regularly see/identify ourselves, but probably not beyond the inmost base of our being. But, again, does it really matter if it’s self or other? Not (in my opinion) if we successfully use “God” as a function in our individual and collective lives. This is a more “organic” form of religion than beliefs that try to point to formal characteristics of God.

 

[wil]

To.me gods answer the unanswerable questions...yeah some god uses his chariot to drag the sun across the sky.

Where.did man and the animals come from, well god made them.

Ya take the oldest religions and new knowledge wipes out the earlier conjecture, the binds of the unknown which have "He did it!'.as the answer slowly dissappear as light (knowledge) is let out of the prism and we see a whole.spectrum of scientific answers.

They all have not been discovered yet....but..

 

[otherbrother]

To.me gods answer the unanswerable questions...yeah some god uses his chariot to drag the sun across the sky.

Where.did man and the animals come from, well god made them.

Ya take the oldest religions and new knowledge wipes out the earlier conjecture, the binds of the unknown which have "He did it!'.as the answer slowly dissappear as light (knowledge) is let out of the prism and we see a whole.spectrum of scientific answers.

They all have not been discovered yet....but..

I think science is already hinting of something like a natural iCloud that we may use to enhance the quality of our existence. One of my premonitory dreams saved my life. Others gave me previews of sermon and movie content. Seeing into a future doesn’t fit with assumptions of a material reality where things obey time. Call it Zero Point Field or simply Spectral Domain, but there seems to be another dimension that imparts at least some information and feels like it can give us nudges to reorient in helpful ways. An Unknown that can be of good use to us. And yes, not at all clearly discovered in the way that science proves things.
So, you are probably right that “God” is probably a placeholder for aspects of overall reality that we don’t know yet. Whatever is beyond our knowledge and is experienced as beneficial is still “God.”