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I would hypothesize that you are on to something there. Perhaps such a viewpoint would be that such a being or presence would have such knowledge or perhaps wisdom that he would be far beyond that of our understanding. But from his point of view...perhaps he would see us as children learning how to do things as opposed to just thinking we are ignorant ants in his collection. Considering that even Thomas Aquinas believed God to be only two things; good and simple.
After I looked into this possibility, I came to a startling conclusion.
Did (do) Christians/Catholics see both the voice in our minds and the higher thought as God? Considering that 'good' is a term only used by the human Ego to label something as something we keep and 'bad' as something we destroy from our awareness; out of sight, out of mind. The higher thinking is when something comes to mind upon perceiving something; ego attempts to reason through it or even dispel it in an attempt to understand it. If you perceive human Ego as a child-like personality; what do you see? Upon this revelation, what do you perceive to feel?
Supposedly, the human body and the human soul are separate and yet working in conjunction with one-another. Is there a way for the human soul to 'have' feelings? I wonder if the human body is what thinks and feels; and the human soul only perceives. We can perceive pain, but that pain is the body's not ours...it's confusing, but interesting ideology. I like the idea, cause it works with my Free-Will prospective. "Do what you don't feel like doing." If you can't, you're not free. This freedom is from the entrapment of human ego. This is where choice comes in handy, "to be or not to be" to do or not to do; this of course from the simplification of Shakespeare to choose to do something or to not do something is the entire process of binary thinking compared with over-complicating issues via situations. How we can 'know' what to do is what options we are able to perceive at that conjunction and what perceivable outcomes would be to our benefit. And that brings me to the final understanding; bringing something perceivably mundane into our awareness as though it were to our benefit or advantage is what makes life different for each and every person. This has to do with seeing things as mundane or as miracles. "Thank god for such and such"; or "oh that was only coincidence." When we look at life in one of these two ways we begin to change our outlook on possible future outcomes in our lives. These possibilities are known as 'faith'. The less we have of 'faith' the less possibilities for future happenings such as the details regarding what you do for work, relationships, adventures, etc. The more of 'faith' we have, the more the possibilities in the same. When you see something as 'not to my benefit', you would see one thing as unimportant and not worth time, attention, thought, purpose, etc. However, if we were able to see one thing 'to my benefit', we would begin to see how, where, and why we might be able to use this one thing in a myriad of places within our lives; that's faith, doing something with future implications even though we might die at any minute. The final thought here is, to bring out that higher thinking or intuition, being somewhat random and sometimes incoherent, we as humans would have to think along the lines of;
1) we know nothing, what we know is like an echo of perception that may be used for the moment, but may change later on as all things change given time even if our knowledge doesn't get updated.
2) there is never nothing going on.
3) we are not immortal, so the logical choice would be to account for this instead of insist upon it until the inevitable happens.
4) since we are in these bodies, it is logical to account for its necessities; eating, drinking, sleeping, exercising, etc including what we desire aesthetically. See maslow's hierarchy of needs.
5) if you find yourself ever in a state of uncertainty, good. Now you know you are uncertain; that's turning a disadvantage into an advantage.
6) if you ever find yourself having too much pain or stress to move forward, realize that this pain is not yours, but your body's attempt to tell you to stop cause it doesn't like change. but that...is only for the moment. when it is moving, it likes this state of motion until that changes as well.
7) seek the interim; look for what is hidden, this includes seeking and understanding the human ego and what it tempts us to partake. All you require is two things to start; where are you? where would you like to be? the hardest of these is knowing where you stand; no one likes to look at themselves scared of what they might find, ergo free-will and choice.
8) the past and future are illusions, only the present is real. The ego will attempt to confuse or distract you from the present because it would rather be doing something else.
9) finally, you are not your ego; but it would have you think so.
The greatest con HE ever pulled was convincing you, HE is you.
You are not your ego, you are not your body, you are not your thoughts; these are your perceptions. Just because you perceive something doesn't make it yours. This extension of ownership to certain things is also an extension of our identity; I, me, mine. In making these things ours, we invariably subject our identity to change depending upon what happens to these extensions of our identities. Look what happens when a close relative dies; we break down. Not all attachments are bad or good, per se, rather just realize that it is the ego that makes these attachments, it is our duty to turn the easily perceivable pains into our advantage. It's not good that your son died and that you are grieving his loss; it's that you are able to perceive that there was this attachment to your son. Do you see that? Finding out things at this simple level and bringing them to our awareness is what brings intuition to our awareness. This is God's attempt to see himself by looking for himself using himself; if you can believe that.
Anyway, my philosophy is that everything works via sex.
The universe, like me, was created via sexual intercourse.
The energy or atoms that exist in our universe is sperm, and the vacuum of space is the womb; amidst interactions of these materials and the vacuum of space there is a reaction of that which we see today. All is here as a matter of motion through cold bringing heat; friction.
If I didn't know any better, even though we've left our mother's womb; we've yet to leave the universal womb. And whatever happens to our universe or environment; we are subject to equally. What allows us to live is seen as good and simple as well.
I hope this has brought some insight...to those who've taken the time to read through this.
Some sources are;
wikipedia - thanks for the starting point.
encyclopedias - more points of interest found.
networking - tons of people have great insights that I've never considered, but now I am deeply interested.
and believe it or not; children. They have very highly advanced active imaginations and interesting ways of using them to their advantages. We shouldn't be teaching them; they should be teaching us! I wonder where we would be if this were the case since the beginning? Interesting where we might be another 4000 years from now...
:)