The nature of God

What if God is not an entity?

What if 'God' is just an experience?

All through history, people have been experiencing this amazing feeling — let’s call it the 'God High’. These people tell other people “I just had this phenomenal experience and I want you to have it too!”

And their friends go “How did you have it?”

“By sitting really still under this tree and thinking about life.”

In another part of the world, one guy says “By focussing on this little fire here”

Another guy is saying “By wandering through the desert for 40 days without food.”

Someone else tries it. They have the experience. They excitedly tell others. They don’t know how to define the experience, so they call it God. Being one with God. Feeling the love of God. Attaining nirvana. Eventually, enough people have felt this thing that it’s become a religion. They can’t explain to others exactly how they arrived at the experience, so they start writing books about it, general roadmaps to having the experience. People follow the advice in the books. Some of them experience it. Most of them don’t. But they all go searching for it. The 'God High’ is prized above everything else in the world.

Someone, while trying to describe the God High, describes it as a person who knows everything and is all-powerful. People lap it up. It’s so much easier to live life according to someone else’s rules than it is to ask questions and make your own choices and decisions. People who are showing others how to attain the God High are now powerful. People look to them for advice. The power they have is attractive. Unscrupulous people gravitate towards the religions that are being formed, craving the power that comes with being a guide to the God High. These people become priests, and twist the original teachings to their own purposes.

The problem here is that the God High isn’t a good or bad thing. It just is. You don’t have to necessarily be good to achieve it. There are a ton of ways to get to it. Which is why you’ll find so many depraved, terrible people who are fanatically religious.

Some people find the high in patriotism. Others find it in hero-worshipping a movie star. Still others find it in political rallies, in demonstrations and in cricket matches.

Maybe belonging to a group and believing really hard in something is a trigger to achieving the God High. It doesn’t have to be something fixed or something good. It’s just a high.

Nobody bothers studying the God High scientifically. It’s religious now, so it’s just a matter of belief.

And so the battle rages on.