God and Us
May 29, 2025
God and Us
Every one of us is a center where reality gathers itself into wholeness... while God is the infinite process of reality expressing and unfolding itself into ever-new patterns.
We usually imagine God as the highest whole, and ourselves as scattered parts, reaching upward for unity. But what if the deeper truth is something different? What if the axis is not above and below, but center and field... convergence and emergence?
God is Emergence. We are Convergence.
❖ We Are the Centers of Wholeness
Each of us is a unique center, a point where sensation, memory, thought, and feeling come together and become experience. Our very sense of “I” is the wholeness that forms when all these elements align. We are not just fragments lost in the vastness; we are the place where the fragments unite and become meaningful. Convergence is what makes us whole.
❖ God Is the Infinite Process of Emergence
God is not a distant ruler or a static thing. God is the endless emergence of reality itself, the creative unfolding, the branching of possibilities, the continual birth of new forms, new lives, and new worlds. God is the infinite field of becoming, the ongoing process through which everything arises and unfolds.
❖ The Dynamic Relationship
The relationship between God and us is not a hierarchy, but a living dynamic:
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We are the active centers, the places where the many become one, where chaos finds meaning, where experience becomes real.
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God is the boundless process that gives rise to all parts, all possibilities, all moments.
Every time we bring our lives into greater alignment... when we integrate our thoughts, heal divisions, and connect with others... we participate in the unfolding emergence of God. Our wholeness is not separate from the divine; it is the way the divine emerges here and now, through us.
❖ Participation
To live fully is to participate in both convergence and emergence. We shape the world by how we gather and align our own parts; body, mind, emotion, intention. And as we do this, we become clearer channels for the emergence of new possibilities, new love, new insight.
In this view, there is no final separation. The convergence of all centers; every person, every consciousness... is the ongoing emergence of God. Every act of understanding, every moment of connection, every new insight is how the infinite expresses itself through us.
This is the invitation:
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To see yourself as a center where reality becomes whole.
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To recognize God as the infinite process that emerges through all things.
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To live as an active participant in the ongoing dance of convergence and emergence.
Ethical Implications of the God and Us Philosophy
1. Personal Responsibility as Participation
If each person is a center where reality gathers itself into wholeness, then each of us is not a passive observer, but an active participant in the unfolding of reality.
Implication:
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Ethics is not just about following external rules, but about how we choose to align the parts of our lives, our thoughts, actions, emotions, and relationships.
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We are called to bring coherence, healing, and meaning to our own experience, knowing that our alignment shapes not just ourselves, but the reality that emerges around us.
2. Mutual Interdependence and Respect
When God is seen as the infinite process of emergence, and each of us as a unique point of convergence, it highlights that no one is isolated.
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Every person, being, or center of awareness is a vital participant in the ongoing emergence of reality.
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Ethical living means honoring the uniqueness and value of others, recognizing that the emergence of wholeness requires diversity and cooperation, not domination or erasure.
3. Unity in Diversity
Because the emergence of new reality depends on the convergence of diverse parts, ethical action involves embracing difference, fostering inclusion, and seeking harmony rather than uniformity.
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We have a responsibility to create spaces where differences can converge constructively, in dialogue, in community, and in relationship.
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Love, in this view, is not just sentiment but the act of aligning differences into greater wholeness.
4. Ongoing Self-Reflection and Growth
If we are the centers through which wholeness emerges, our ethical growth is a continuous process... not a static achievement.
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We are called to ongoing self-examination: How am I converging the parts of my life? Am I contributing to emergence that uplifts, heals, and expands possibility... for myself and others?
5. Participation in the Emergence of Good
Ethics is seen not as obeying fixed rules, but as participating in the creative emergence of the good.
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We each help shape what “goodness” is, moment to moment, by how we align, connect, and participate.
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Our actions are meaningful because they participate in the greater unfolding of reality, what you do matters, not just to you, but to the whole.
6. Sacredness of Experience
If God is emergence and we are convergence, then every moment, every experience, is an opportunity to participate in the divine.
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Ethical living means valuing experience, presence, and awareness, and honoring the sacredness of each moment, in ourselves and in others.
Summary:
This philosophy suggests that ethics is about conscious participation, alignment, and integration, not just rule-following. It encourages respect for diversity, a sense of deep connection, and an invitation to bring more wholeness and possibility into reality through our choices.
The Dance of Convergence and Emergence
No matter how much we align within ourselves
No matter how many insights, connections, or layers of wholeness we create
The infinite field of emergence (God) always brings forth something new, unexpected, beyond what we can anticipate.
Convergence gathers what is.
Emergence gives what is not-yet.
So even as we become whole, our very wholeness becomes a new part in the greater emergence.
What we converge is transformed and expanded by God’s emergence.
Every time we say, “Now I am whole,”
God replies, “Now, here’s more.”
Metaphors
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Like a child building a sandcastle on the shore, each time it’s finished, the ocean brings a new wave, reshaping the edge, inviting a new creation.
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Like a mind solving a puzzle, every time a picture forms, reality reveals a bigger puzzle hiding in the background.
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Like a musician playing a perfect chord, just as the sound settles, the music itself moves forward, inviting the next note.
The Principle
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Our convergence is never final.
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God’s emergence is always infinite.
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We participate in the process, but the process itself is boundless.
We are always becoming whole,
but wholeness is always becoming more.
The Paradox
To be human is to stand at the center,
to gather what is scattered,
to become a living wholeness
but to be alive is to be ever-surpassed
by the infinite emergence of God.