I had one of those coincidence things happen to me recently. I have been considering how all life truly belongs to one life force that God created and even if one organism dies that life force continues to live. My reasoning for this idea comes from several observations and readings. However, there are some tenets that have led me to this idea.
First, I realized that part of my own body has already died. The physical body that made up the baby I was when I was born is no longer alive. The teeth, the bones, the organs, the blood, and everything else that made up that body are no longer the same as the components that make up my body now in my fifties. That baby no longer exists. We are constantly dying and changing all the time, but we don’t notice it until our entire body changes and dies all at once at a single moment in time instead of gradually over several years.
Second, I realized that our stories have some of the same components. One of the weirdest ideas I have heard is that some scientists want to believe that the only way ancient people would have similar symbols and stories in their cultures without having any contact with each other is ancient alien contact. If ancient aliens had contacted Earth, then in my opinion they would still be in contact with us. Instead, I like to believe the ideas of Carl Jung and think we have a collective unconscious. There’s a universal consciousness that we all share and this consciousness explains why we have some of the same symbols in cultures without contact, why we have similar stories, why we have the similar symbolism in dreams, and even why some people seem to have psychic powers. We all have an ability to tap into this universal consciousness, some people can do it better than others. Most of the time, we just don’t realize it because we believe that the thoughts we have belong to us individually alone.
Last, I realized that if we cannot create life on our own, then all life comes from the same source. In other words, we cannot create life without having a living cell first. In simplest terms, when a human being is created, a living sperm cell and living egg cell are needed. Even in the smallest of one celled organisms, the living cell, separated to create two new cells. As far as I know, no one has ever created a cell and brought it to life. That’s the stuff of horror legends. If we have never created life, then every life must have come from another living organism. I came from my parents, they came from their parents, etc. Everyone had some parents, until you find the source. That means all life is connected somehow. We are all part of the same lifeforce.
So, what does this all mean? For me, it means that my life is my own, but my life is also part of something much bigger than me. I am connected to every human being that has ever lived, every person living now, and every person that will ever live. I am part of a universal life force. The is a hidden consciousness that we can tap into that gives up a glimpse into all the answers to all the questions we have never asked. And when I die, no matter what happens, it will be okay because that life force will go on.
Now, what was the weird coincidence? I thought that if I shared this idea with anyone, they would think I was crazy. They would say I didn’t have any idea what I was talking about. Then, I found a video on the Internet that had a quote by Albert Einstein. The video’s ideas didn’t resonate with me at all, I didn’t even watch the entire thing, but I did look up the Einstein quote. His quote talks says something about human beings as part of a whole that we call “Universe.” The rest of the quote sounds like he and I had almost the same idea about human beings belonging to a universal life. It seems crazy that I would have a thought almost the same as one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. However, maybe some strange winding path led me to find that quote at just the right time so that I could know that I am on the correct path.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
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