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I kind of follow Maimonides, kind of like the negative theology, that I don't know what God is.
I think God is something bigger than all of us, than all of creation, something that connects all of creation.
One way I think about God has been the force that holds paradox together, is one way to think about what God is.
My concept of God fluctuates even today.
God and desire is a really good question. Does God want anything? Does God have consciousness?
I kind of waver back and forth on that line - sometimes thinking that there might be a separate intelligence and personality,
sometimes thinking that God is just a force in the universe that holds things together. The idea that God is a verb. It's more than a subject. God is action.
I find it useful sometimes to speak in the language of "God wants" – what does God want from me? It's a question I'll ask myself sometimes.
But I'm not sure ... I don't really believe that there's a personality that has a list or a plan, necessarily.
I tend to follow the theological idea, I call it "as if." I act as if certain things are true.
If I'm praying with someone for healing, I act as if the prayer is being heard and being answered. Not hoping it will be answered, but acting as if it actually is happening.
So, sometimes it is useful for me to think of ... to speak in the language of "God wants," but I don't know for sure.
I think we have to talk about the multiplicity and the diversity of God in that way, that God is both imminent and transcendent.
There is a God that is ... there is an essence, or sense of God. There is God with us, right here, that is experienceable, that is a verb. We have to just talk about our experiences.
I do believe that when people hear other possibilities to what they're thinking, light bulbs can go on and transformations can happen.