Human beings seem to have a fascination in the difference between physical and nonphysical influences.
For many people when anything good happens that they cannot explain scientifically, they call it God.
And yet I wonder.
We are physical beings. We live in a physical world.
Many of those things we thought were magical in the past have turned out to have simple scientific explanations. Science does not mean there is no God. It only means we understand how something works.
We like to think we understand God and that is where I step away from the common beliefs. I suspect there is no separation between physical and nonphysical. I believe there is some ineffable power that has created everything that is.
That I can control this power by certain rites or prayers only makes sense to me if I consider them a way to reach into the power that is already there everywhere. I don't think they are necessary to appease or beg from a man like creature God. I believe they are merely a way to connect with a power so great I will never understand it.
This power created a universe and everything in it. I am part of that and if I use the powers given to me by that I may be able to experience wondrous things. The faith really has to be in myself, that I am capable in using all my physical gifts to achieve what I desire. I may fail, in fact I will fail, I am not a perfect creature, but it is the trying the makes my life good.
What happens to me when this body wears out is way beyond my understanding or control, but all creations have been coming and going, being and ending since before I can comprehend and therefore I must think it is a natural thing to do.
Some candles burn longer and brighter than others, but they are all candles. They all burn and they all burn out. We are no different except to ourselves and those who love us. We miss the ones who have burned out.
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