Busby, the study of epistemology looks at the philosophy of knowledge, and how do we know what we know. I feel like much of what human beings think they know, including myself, is myth. But then myth has always played an important role in human culture; ritual is very important to the inner life of human beings.
I am fascinated by how many people think of time as a straight line, from past to present, to future. The planet turns on its axis once and we humans call it a day, the planet goes around the sun once and we humans call it a year. These are circular motions by which we here on earth mark time.
Even birth and death are circular motions, returning to a state which we may have been before birth. There is so much evidence that all motion is circular. Yet most people insist that we are on a straight-line from past to future. In 2012 scientists discover something that many call “the God particle;” a particle that gives elementary particles mass.
I base my belief in God on a single substance that permeates all creation, that substance is called by many names, and it can be experienced within ourselves. There are lots of such omni present substances on many levels, like the “God Particle.” Another ever present substance is hydrogen; it is the most abundant element in the universe.
On a sub-atomic scale the simplicity of life can be perceived, although the human definition of “intelligent life” is much more complex. Regardless, the breakdown of energy, commonly called entropy and from which all things are made, suggests by scientists in what is called “the law of conservation” that all things are transformed but nothing is destroyed. These scientific concepts can also be applied to human birth and death.
Yes, I also accept that life is awareness, and to the extent that we are aware we have more options in our animation. I also embrace awareness as radiant energy, light which allows us to see. On the level of medical science light enters our eyeball and touches the back of our brain, which allows us to see. The operative word is “light.” I have experienced a light, or radiant energy, within my self which allows me a greater insight, and I believe that light is within all people and within everything else in this creation.
Peace