Urban Mystic
People have strange ideas about God. Not me. I see God everywhere. Interconnectedness is what it’s all about. Wherever I see connection, I see God. People, animals, fungi in the forest floor—intelligence. Intelligence everywhere. Communicating. Sharing. Growing. Exploring. Endless ramifications of infinite potential. Life in the act of becoming. Life becoming more alive.
I saw a man. Totally unlike me. Different color. Different country. Different orientation. But when I saw him, he saw me. And we were bonded in that moment. The act of seeing and the act of being seen merged into one act. That’s God. With one glance, we were connected with the world. Beyond place. Beyond time. Right here, right now. That’s life eternal. And death can’t touch it.
Buried a friend’s dog the other day. His name was Roy. I could see Roy in my mind’s eye playing in a green field with other dogs. He was happy and free. Free from his seventeen-year-old body. Then I saw him look up at the blue sky. There was an opening. Through the opening, Roy could see the universe. And in his little doggy mind, he felt awe.
Is the universe God? Maybe. Who knows? I’d say that the feeling of awe is closer to God than any galaxy. To me, the universe is made of awe. Not information, but awe. The feeling of being amazed with itself. The feeling of what’s possible. What can I do next? What am I made for? What can I become? That’s what the universe feels.
People think they’re afraid of dying. I think they’re afraid of living. To live is to be in awe. To die every moment. Die to who you were. Live into what you can be. Every breath another letting go. Every breath a reset. Every door another world, another moment, another life. An endless procession of nowness.
That’s God. And I can live with that. I can be with that. Wherever I am, I’m right in the center of it. It’s in the center of me.
And that’s amazing.