I appreciate you putting yourself out there, so to speak, with this. Religion seems to fill a void in people by answering why we are here or what our purpose is. Your revelation seems to be that our goal, or purpose, is the pursuit of love and knowledge resulting in creation. Can you expound further on this?
Can I expound further? I'll try.
The challenge in attempting to explain what I experienced is that I can't even come close through words to the simplicity of the meaning and influence of our lives here. I read once in a book that "we're not human beings having a spiritual experience; we're spiritual beings having a human experience." There may be some truth to that, maybe not, but it sure seems to fit what I experienced.
Imagine for a second that you could feel exactly what another person feels when they interact with you, plus you could know their thoughts during the interaction. If you knew that fact before you said anything, wrote anything, or acted in any way, would it change your behavior? A person who acts from a position of Love would interact very differently than someone who was uncaring, manipulative, prejudiced, or selfish. That's the Love I'm talking about.
The next part is Knowledge. If you're like me you have a pretty good idea of the things you're good at and enjoy, your natural skill set. My natural skill set is very different than my wife's, very different than our friends. That skill set demands my attention, thirsts for knowledge so it can expand and grow. The Knowledge we're talking about in this thread was anchored to science due to the investigative methods they use, but Knowledge could just as easily apply to investments, carpentry, engineering, doctoring, teaching, raising kids, cleaning houses, pouring cement, whatever.
When you express the connected Love I descibed to the Knowledgeable application of your abilities, you create. You create feelings, emotions, peace. You create books, art, and music. You create houses, bridges, and skyscrapers. You create healing, education, and discovery. A person doesn't have to believe in God or religion to express Love, apply Knowledge, and create. God and religious beliefs may help some, may hinder others, but we all have the capacity to do the A+B=C formula.
In the absence of Love, you still create with your Knowledge. Generally you create pain, anguish, fights, 9/11's, scams, sweat-houses, shortages, wars; you get the picture.
What exists today in societies world wide are examples of both Love's application and responses to Love's absence. I was once a military pilot with the skill set and knowledge to kill a million people with the touch of a button, though I cannot confirm nor deny the presence of the weapons to do so. I could not do that job today, but I respect those who make that choice to do so.
We're all incomplete individuals. As long as you're alive and have the mental capacity to think, you can Love, Learn, and create. You don't need a religion or belief to do any of those three. All you need is a desire to participate and the ability to pay attention.
Believe it or not, what you've contributed with your all your creations, how you've applied "you" in a loving way, that's what will be important as you review your life. That's it.
Happy creating.
