聽神談【為何要了解「宇宙是個活系統」？】
大多數人類猜想，在宇宙裡的物體，如地球、太陽及太陽系是「死的」。人們設想它們是無生命的物體。
這是個幻覺，當你活在這幻覺裡時，你除了盡可能去利用和去剝削，讓你自己「活得較好」之外，你根本沒理由去做與那些「死的」東西有任何關係的行為。
然而，當你想像和體驗宇宙裡的物體為一個「活系統」 (living system)的一部分時——那是真相——你對於「你自己 (Self)與那系統之間的關係」的想法就會改變。
現在你知道你，你自己，是活的，而一旦你感知其他每樣東西也是活的的時候，你會感受到自己是個 更大整體的一部分，一個更大能量包裹內的一個能量包裹，一個更大 生命形式內的一個 生命形式，一個大我的一部分之小我。
這就是現代神學裡沒講到的「遺漏的信息」(the “Missing Message”)。
摘自《重新定義神》第8章
Most humans imagine that objects in the universe such as the earth, the sun, and the solar system are “dead.” They conceive of them as inert objects—”rocks,” essentially—moving through Time and Space accord-ing to a pattern set in motion by a Primal Explosion…the so-called Big Bang.
Yes, I suppose that is true, most people do believe that, if they think about it at all.
This is an illusion, and when you live within this illusion you have no reason to act in any way in relationship to those “dead” things except to exploit as many of them as you can, so that you can “live better.”
Yet when you envision and experience the objects in the universe as part of a living system, which is the reality, your idea about your Self in relation to that System changes.
Right now you know that you, your self, are living, but once you perceive everything else as being alive also, you expe-rience yourself as one part of a Larger Whole, one energy package within a larger energy package, one Life Form within a larger Life Form, a Little Self that is part of a Big Self.
The Missing Message not contained in today’s theology.
