(3) The Light

Occasionally I weary over all of our God-Talk. In reality I'm not
positive any of us know very much about what we talk about.
Lots of this God-Talk comes from various sources, and nowadays
some of these sources are under critical re-evaluation. And,
overall, we mostly inherit our opinions from religion, philosophy,
and history. To use a Catholic term, we are all "cradle"
God-talkers!

So is there any *new* approach that we might take outside
religion, philosophy, and history? I don't know. It has been said
that we humans are immersed in our inherited world-view by the
time we are two years of age--and really locked-in by the time we
are four.

The trouble for our present living generations is that our world-view
no longer seems to have that "lock" that it once had on people. We
are those generations on the cusp of a New Millennium, leaving
the Old one behind, and that maybe makes our predicament even
more confusing. Regardless, either the Old needs new ways to
view its theologies--or the New needs to start coming into view. It's
a rough time, perplexing, and we living generations certainly reflect
all this activity in a micro-scale kind of way.

Now I've spent a goodly part of my life gleaning insight from history,
philosophy, and religion--as well as science. And over this period
I've slowly been putting all that I have come to know into a kind of
new package (or world-view). Beyond that I have been whittling it
down into shorthand. Quickly, my personal world-view can be
called the "Light."

I really can't say that God does this, or God says that, or God means
thus and so. Sorry, I just can't presume such a thing. Rather mine
seems more an observation, an interpretation, and an evaluation.
Yet not any of this approach is set in concrete. It's always open-
ended.

Looking out onto the Universe, reading about the beginnings of such,
knowing about the detected background radiation of the Big Bang,
there's just a great burst of Light. Out of this Light comes forth all the
building-blocks for the gradual unfolding of the Universe, as we have
come to know it today, and surely as we will never see it in far
different ways in the Future.

The Light stands as a spiritual symbol for me. We have come to
know that Light is both Particles and Waves. In turn I can transcribe
these constituents into Matter and Energy. And bingo! That's what
composes this Universe, and what constitutes us!

What else might Light be--as we understand it? It's Illumination, and
it's Energetic Vitality. Out of these conceptualizations we can glean
forth the Forces that move us through evolution, move us from the
primitive unto various levels of Civilization. These Forces of the Light
would seem to be Consciousness, Comprehension, and the urge to
move forward towards greater Achievement and Character.

So--when I look back at all our God-Talk, look back on our inherited
world-view(s), I now can spot the Light slowly and surely creeping
into our horizon, into our vision. We have "incarnations" of the
Light (the Logos), we have our great moments of Nobility wherein,
who in, the Light illuminates most brightly.

And, finally, my view of the Light takes us into far-reaching territories,
not just in the realm of God-Talk. The Light is the underlying Core
that under-girds all the activities of the Universe, including our own.
Thus, I view the Light standing behind our pursuit for ever greater
knowledge, via all the disciplines, via our integral approaches. I also
view the Light in our myriad of efforts to become better human
beings, to become more truly aware and fully spirited beings, to
become the "Consciousness Points" of the Universe through which
the Light shines and shines and shines ever more clearly.