My friend asked me to describe my vision of God, which of course I could not do. That is, a mature concept of God is an understanding of how the word relates to every definition offered throughout history as it is perceived and comprehended in one's private thoughts. How people define God is as varied as individuals, but intimately intertwined with how they define and understand spirit, or religion, or science, or love, or nature, or Creation, or all the other aspects of the human condition. The meditative experiences that have clarified my personal understanding- as it relates to the rest of humanity- is all that I can offer, and such revelations cannot be articulated, rather are intuitive, emotional perceptions of reality rather than blind faith. God in that sense encompasses an holistic vision which incorporates my non-verbal intelligence rather than my verbal, logical reasoning, which together strive to understand the unknown.
Were I to be pressed further I would say that the word God, at least as it is related to a spiritual experience, is as undefinable as the word orgasm, or sorrow, in that unless one has experienced them there is No explaining them to another person through words and rational means of thinking. They are in no way less unintelligent or less real than logical, linear ways of perceiving. There will always be a gap in our knowledge, and spiritual, mystical experiences may never prove something exists beyond materialism, but they offer a different way of seeing and interpreting the world. I envision the unity of materialism and spirit and man and God and time and all other aspects of Creation as parts of the same Universal Intelligence, although the loving, positive aspects of that origin have been distorted by some religions into perverse,negative aberrations-called the Devil or Satan or other terms. Science has no answer for the idea of God as being one possible origin of the Universe,
including the Big Bang, evolution and all the rest. As the Buddhists would say, the whole conflict is merely a 'grasping for soul theory' brought about by the ego...Get rid of that and peace of mind-and maybe of humanity- follows.
