Our minds are incredible. We can close our eyes and be transported virtually anywhere. We can visualize virtual worlds and recall past ones. We can ponder mathematics and memories. Yet all that we see is not actually there it is not projected upon the back of your eyelids or anyplace it does not exist in the form in which we perceive it. Our visions are never more than electricity jumping across myelinated cells and firing neurochemicals across synapses, but they are more than this. They are after all what they are, they are our minds.
It is easy to take so much for granted we dream, we awake we dread our working day in Technicolor, we go to work and dream of something other than work, we go home and read Roman Missiles, we think about what a jerk that guy must be, we go to bed, and we start again, with much in between. It is easy never to consider the fact that all those Technicolor visions of dread have only ever existed inside of your mind, it would be easy to say head but our minds are not seemingly that small. Our minds project alternate worlds in front of us; a mind seems to be able to inhabit more than the world let alone our head and yet we accept it as the most mundane of facts.
We have done this also with God. We accept Him or we don’t as a result of our ability to take God for granted; to be blind to the obvious and the too tangible. To say God does not exist because of science is to say the mind does not exist because of science, except much more so. We can say that the mind is only neurological functioning and that is all and that would diminish every aspect of the mind except the neurological functioning. Science would have the last word and our dreams would have no meaning outside of the ability to connect the neurological dots.
That is what science has done with God. Connecting the dots of nature is only ever just that. Science misses the point and the meaning because it cannot see the invisible. If it were to map your thoughts neurologically all of the data collected would never be able to be turned into a three dimensional vision of what you are experiencing simply by inhabiting your mind. That corner of reality is solely your own.
God inhabits the world in a very vaguely similar way; metaphors of God are inherently flawed. None the less, we look as the scientist does at the processes for the image of God but God is only in the processes as much as the mind is in the processes of the brain. Just as the observation of the brain will not produce an image of a thought the observation of nature will not produce the image of God.
There is a clue in this process, however. Our minds are special and they remind us of the original mind which created everything we seek Him in. We are the image of God. Stated in first Genesis, a book no one could logically believe right, except it’s true. We are the image of God.
What we have done with this knowledge has left a lot to be desired because we have understood it only as well as our neurology, which is not at all. It is not, however, hard to embrace the mind though we know very little of it neurologically. If we embrace God in the same way I assure you we will not be disappointed. Though the mind and God be invisible it is in their invisibility where we gain our true depth.
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