What if God\/Allah\/The Tao\/ Oshun \/ Yah \/ \u201cThe Divine\u201d truly did create humanity in its image? What if everything we go through, the stages of our development, is the divine attempting to detach and observe its own evolution. If we are the image of the divine, then it cannot be that we evolve and the divine does not. What if the divine was evolving along the same stages, seeking to learn to love itself, becoming sometimes frustrated, feeling fear, many times feeling love, creating, playing, trying, knowing, not knowing, wondering, questioning, seeking purpose, finding purpose, acting, and ultimately seeking the unification of itself. What if all these things that we call our \u201chumanity\u201d (our evolution through stages of identity and understanding, how some fraction of us is always seemingly held back from completely unifying, etc)… what if what we call our humanity is actually our DIVINITY? What if the divine craves love, because it\u2019s hard to be alone in your journey. What if the divine craves the love of humanity in particular, because we, given free will, would had to have given that love out of free choice, and therefore that love would have meant something. What if all of creation is the mechanism through which the divine comes to understand, accept and love itself? What if God felt despair, attachment, or pain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A reflective essay posing a thought experiment: that the stages of human development are the divine detaching to observe its own evolution, and that what we call our humanity \u2014 our striving, fear, and love \u2014 may actually be our divinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[1888,31],"project_tag":[36,1429,654,180,900,280,649,981,947,1452,1857,977,309,1248,655,112,302,186,979,978,284,980,605,332,1361,283],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3331","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-consciousness","project_category-observations","project_tag-art","project_tag-business","project_tag-complete-connection","project_tag-connection","project_tag-consciousness","project_tag-cycle","project_tag-cycle-of-human-development","project_tag-finding-peace","project_tag-human-development","project_tag-lasting-peace","project_tag-lastingpeace-org","project_tag-life-optimization","project_tag-money","project_tag-poetry","project_tag-purna-asatti","project_tag-relationships","project_tag-religion","project_tag-science","project_tag-seeing-yourself","project_tag-self-mastery","project_tag-self-development","project_tag-self-improvement-2","project_tag-self-understanding","project_tag-society","project_tag-spirituality","project_tag-stages"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For contemplative readers drawn to questions about God, evolution, and meaning. A short, open-ended meditation on the idea that our very human struggles might be the divine coming to know and love itself.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"What If Our Humanity Is Actually Our Divinity?,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/what-if-our-humanity-is-actually-our-divinity\/","topics":["spirit","growth"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amazing-Sunset-Tree.png","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/CCA57320-6DC3-4284-BC27-49E433028503.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/on-life-being-human\/id1360368906","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2nq6d35q9nFAFlanaJc2Do","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/feed\/podcast\/on-life-being-human","embedCode":"
What If Our Humanity Is Actually Our Divinity?<\/a><\/blockquote>