Geez, that’s some weighty reply you’ve given me. Glad again that I managed to come across you yesterday.

I will check out those Matrix posts of yours. You have a lot of content posted and I’m excited to read more.

I had to laugh at you bringing up Mark Passio. That shows discernment. I watched that lecture about a year ago and loved it, but couldn’t remember what he specifically said about the Architect. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again. I’ll be giving it another watch.

Also amusing that you mentioned Stargate. My girlfriend and I watched the extended edition of it last week. Good timing. Great film. (she never saw it before)

The “snake Gods” comment of yours is new to me. Care to expand on it?

I’m familiar with the Annunaki/slave narrative from my reading of Bob Frissell many years ago in addition to Sitchin and Daniken.

I don’t know how true it is that we were created in order to build the pyramids, but it’s not a huge leap of faith to make. It does however raise more questions; such as explaining the bent pyramid, which isn’t constructed the same way as the Great Pyramid is. Or the pyramids in South America which have flat tops. And if these pyramids are meant as power generators or water pumps, then I wonder why they went to the trouble of “levitating” over a million blocks of stone and cutting each of them to fit when it makes more sense to create something efficient and easier to build. Like a hydroelectric dam across the Nile.

I stand by what I wrote earlier about God not being entirely omniscient. I feel that you agree He wouldn’t and couldn’t be. The way I view the Hindu concept of the Para Brahman is a lot like you said, the “body” of the universe. When we look at our own bodies, we aren’t aware of the going-ons and thought processes of each of the billions of cells inside of us. We don’t have omniscience. What we have is something of an awareness in which each of the parts are controlled by the whole.

I believe the anthropomorphicized “God” that religions believe exist (and I do) is something below the guiding awareness of the entire universe(s). It has to be.

Think of an ant and a human being. They aren’t able to fully relate and interact with each other. In order for that to happen, there are “steps” the ant has to take in order to be of intelligence and awareness to understand and evolve to the point where it can relate to the human being (God, as we know Him).

But between the ant and the human are these stepping stones. There is a ladder or a hierarchy that brings the ant higher and higher up the scale of evolution. I believe that men like Jesus and the Buddha can be looked at as being on this higher step of evolution. They are intermediaries leading the way forward.

Following this logic, once we evolve to their way of being (obviously not anytime soon, but we’re getting better) we should then(in theory) be confronted with another intermediary that elevates us higher again. Like Jesus on steroids.

I believe the Gnostic perspective makes a good case for a Demiurge to exist because that would be the “higher” power and the next step towards evolution. It’s described as a flawed creature undergoing its own evolution as well. I think ultimately we are going to progress through these stages of creation until we reach a level where we no longer have the primitive awareness of an ant, but can finally be of competence enough to throughly understand the Creator, who I’m sure, has It’s own evolution to achieve in coming to understand what lies beyond itself (the Para Brahman, again).

What do you think? Seems like humanity organizes itself into hierarchies as well as the insect and animal kingdom. Why not God, aliens and spirits as well? Evolution certainly has its gradual steps. Why would a “God” be immune from this process?

I don’t know for sure if the God of the Bible is truly omniscient (I don’t think so) but I do think it’s likely to have been a being that has not fully transcended itself. There are far too many human qualities in the God of the Old Testament or in the Vedas and other texts. And it makes sense that this being would evolve like we do. We no longer have incidents like people being turned into pillars of salt, or seas being parted, etc. It is very possible that this God-like entity had either abandoned us (the Stargate premise), or has realized that intervention is against free will and its efforts are hindering rather than aiding our evolution.

Kind of like doing a child’s homework for them. The child is not going to learn independence if it is kept from making mistakes and accepting responsibility for them. Transcending it’s own limitations.

That’s how I perceive omniscience. I’m pretty sure that all the information there is to know, can’t be held inside of a single entity. Makes more sense that something like the Akashic Records would exist instead. A database that can be accessed.

Edit: I realized I went off on a huge tangent that wasn’t what your original reply was addressing 😄 Sorry about that!