Problems with this section (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 12, 2009, 00:50 (5279 days ago) @ Frank Paris


> Boy, that is quite a mouthful! Lots of assertions and presumptions stuck together, some of which I can go for and some of which I can't. So if the above statement is supposed to be a summary of my views, I still have not made myself clear to you. So let's break it down, one statement at a time that does not apply to what I've at least meant if not said!-> 
> So for whatever reason, you are once again making assumptions about my theology that as far as I know, I have not given you reason for making. Maybe you're just asking me whether in additional to all I've said, I also "meant" to say these other things.-Pardon me but I'd like to break into the discussion, if I may. 
I have not mixed into this discussion so far, because frankly I have been as confused as dhw. You appear to have meditated to the point of becoming 'at one with the universe', as it has been called in the material I have read about meditation, Kaballah, mysticism, etc. Then you seem to have taken that experience and tried to mix it into the science you know and the process theology you have read. What results is an interesting group of concepts, that I am very interested in learning. I've not had a meditative experience. I've not tried. But I have developed a somewhat similar concept without that mystic experience. Before I really enter the discussion I'd like to know if the following paragraph, short as it is, catches the essence of your theology. It seems that Bbella has had a similar mystical experience, and appreciates what you are trying to describe. Perhaps both can join in and help me comprehend their feelings and thoughts:-God is eternal and the ground of everything that exists. From part of himself he created multi-universes including our universe, or just our universe. God is not omnipotent, omniscient, and does not know the future. He has not controlled evolution of either the universe or of life. He is watching and learning as all this develops. As consciousness appears he encourages some type of intellectual interchange between conscious beings and himself.