seeds wrote: The transformation of substances through bodily processes is simply the means through-which we continue to exist as physical beings on the surface of this planet – and should in no way be referred to as being our “purpose.”
Actually, Nick, the sun produces the energy that you seem to be referencing.
And the act of living organisms feeding on each other is how they tap into that energy which then powers the processes that allow them to reproduce.
Please allow me to present a slightly paraphrased version of something I have written elsewhere regarding the concept of “solar-powered DNA”:
Now to me, that makes a lot more sense than what you suggest in the following quote:seeds wrote: Your physical body is merely the “vessel” in which the germ of your consciousness originated.
Your body represents the vestibule of your being that stands between the dimension of nonexistence and that of your entrance into the realm of true reality and eternal life.
In practical terms, the creation of your body is the result of our Panentheistic (Berkeleyanish) Creator setting up a complex “solar powered” system that converts the raw mental essence of his mind into elaborate and intricately designed patterns of energy without his central consciousness needing to be present to oversee the process.
We can view this creation process as being a deliberate programming of architectural design information known to us as DNA.
Think of each “living” cell as being like a tiny fragment of self-replicating “mental imaging energy” that is encoded with the information that not only causes it to replicate itself, but also with the entire architectural blueprint of the “hologram” it is designed to produce (a peacock for instance)...
...And on the steadily rotating “canvas” of a planet such as the earth, a sun provides the energy that powers the programming in the DNA which, in turn, uses the cellular “machinery” to metaphorically “paint” God’s advanced mental holography into existence.
That’s what suns and “solar systems” are all about. They are the perfect and “believable settings” upon which God’s creation can manifest into existence in his “absence.”
God merely has to visit his islands of mental reality from time to time to make periodic adjustments in the DNA programming of the creations that he is interested in...
(us, for example, as is metaphorically represented in the Eden myth)
...while the rest can proliferate under the auspices of the random processes of evolution.
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Nick, stop complicating the effort to reconcile spirituality with science by using esoteric (old paradigmy) allusions to some nondescript “cosmic purpose” based on how you (another “cave dweller” just like the rest of us) “understand it.”
(Continued in next post)
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