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The Inferential Life: Part IV 

the Inferential Life from the great teacher: 'how much more'

 
 

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Editor's prefatory comment: 

The following, below, is reprinted from "Inferential Life, Part II". It seemed especially appropriate for this section. See more details there.

Recently, though, I was walking on a path in a woods, a place I try to go often. Along the path I saw a small tree that had obviously been vandalized, purposely broken, by someone. It made me think: Here is a young tree that’s had its life ruined, for no reason, other than someone’s bad character. And it caused me to pose the question: do trees, like animals, have an eternal life in Summerland?

Elsewhere on the WG site, we’ve discussed how plants are far more aware than we might know – and so why should not this even somewhat-diminished level of awareness be persevered? There’s no problem with space over there, so why not? A tree seems to me a noble creature and why should it not enjoy its own life?

In the course of these thoughts it then occurred to me, if I’m concerned about the well-being and even the future life of this tree, how much more would the Source of my own sentience, Universal Consciousness, also be concerned? – in fact, where do I think my concern for nature came from?

In that moment, I felt what the apostle Paul might have felt when he said, to the effect, “I have no chapter-and-verse to refer to, but I think I have the spirit of God, and I think I know the answer to the question before us.” I rested in this.

 

 

“how much more”

In the New Testament teachings of Jesus, from time to time we find him using the phrase “how much more.”

He might be talking about sparrows, or flowers of the field, or an unjust man; but then he’ll say, to the effect, “If God takes care of unthinking little animals, or flowers that bloom a short time, or someone who postures that he's not interested in God, then – how much more – will he help you with your cares?”

this is The Inferential Life from the great teacher

We’ve considered the Anthropic Principle that suggests, because randomness cannot surmount the mathematics of probability, everything around us, to one degree or another, is here because Somebody wanted it to be here.

What does this really mean? To what degree would God or Universal Intelligence get involved in one’s life? How small the detail of one’s life would God bother him/herself with to arrange things for our best interests?

I think we’ve been given our answer. If Universal Intelligence gets down-and-dirty even with sorting out tiny seeds, choosing the best very-slightly-altered seed for one bird as opposed to another, then – how much more – will the details, the very smallest details, of our existence -- ones "made in the image" -- be of interest to the Universal Force who supervises our lives?

Editor’s note: Materialistic science views reality as something meaningless, without purpose. It’s as if, we, as individuals, are floating alone, lost, bereft, in the blackness of outer space. We’re disconnected, they say, from any whole; no one knows of our accidental existence; no one is “out there” to hear, they say, in our time of need when we call. But this is not true. How can we know it’s not true? We can know by observing how the seemingly smallest creatures of the world live in a specially-crafted environment which reduces competition and promotes an interrelated well-being among the animals of planet Earth. And if this supervision, the micromanagement, occurs on the level of tiny birds, seeds, blades of grass, and caterpillars, “how much more” is our destiny being attended to and worked out?

 

 

 

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