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Excellent post, ISM.

Personally. I believe we co-create our universe though I am unclear on the details. I like how Einstein put it, something about that which is out there, we call god.

I'm an animist- I see god in rocks, dirt, and flies. Among other things. Everything to me has a soul. Not like the movie-version of soul as having a personality and a name and a specific existance after death, but an energy signature. Everything has it.

The tooth fairy and Santa and all? I caught my folks bringing the Santa presents in from the car one night and I got it. The Easter bunny scavenger hunt notes were in my dad's very distinctive handwriting. I guess we knew, but we didn't think about it, nor did we care. It was a fun game. I still believe in Santa as the spirit of the winter holidays.

My practice? I'm a pagan. I follow a relatively typical course, if there is such a thing. It informs my universe and is a way it all makes sense to me. More than that, I don't need.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But what if God is not the designer, but rather the creation designs itself? What if the meaning of man being created in the image of God does not mean the flowing white beard, but rather the power of creation?

Everything in the universe connected by via an intricate web of energy, interacting and influencing ... with the thoughts and words and actions of every living thing having an effect on the universe.
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For myself, I am encouraged that man's explorations into quantum physics lean more and more toward evidencing the universe of metaphysics which is the underpinning of my spiritual philosophy. Namely, that we are indeed made in the image of GOD ... we have the power to create, and we are - all of us - doing so, whether consciously or not - with every thought and word and action. The universe is made by us.