Life: God’s Virtual Reality

by Mark A. Staton

God's Beginning

God may seem eternal from a human perspective, but God had a beginning. Long before God was formed, there was mindless energy. There was no consciousness. Without thought, time had no meaning. Even God does not know how much time passed before His formation. He knows that there was some passage of time, before He was formed, when only lesser beings existed. He thinks there was a period of time before consciousness existed, but its duration is unknown, and perhaps unknowable. Consciousness has not always existed, but there has always been, and there will always be - energy.

Through a vast multitude of random interactions within the energy, and helped along by properties inherent in the energy, consciousness was born. Given sufficient time, such as the eternity before consciousness arose from chance interactions, the least likely event may occur. It was a very limited consciousness, because it had almost nothing to think. It was a long time before it really became self-aware. It gradually learned that it was something separate. Although all was energy, some of the energy belonged to it, and the rest did not. Not long after the first consciousness, there were many others, because the conditions necessary for their formation had occurred over a vast expanse of the energy. It is not known which was the real first consciousness, because they all thought they were alone. In fact, there was no concept of such a thing as "another" being. When they eventually interacted, they each assumed they had been first, and the "others" had come later.

The interactions between beings helped to speed up the learning process. They began to discern differences among themselves. They began to identify characteristics they associated with more developed, or advanced, beings, and lesser ones. There seemed to be a correlation between advancement and "age," but certainly not a perfect one. Some had happened to learn more quickly than the others. Some of these also happened to be among the "oldest" of the beings. They were larger than the others. They controlled more of the energy around themselves, and they were the size of the energy field they could control. The largest and strongest ones found that they could "seed" or start new energy beings, by sacrificing a part of themselves. They differed in their ability to recover their former size after doing this. The more of themselves they were willing to use for the process, the better the result. If too little was used, the new being could not hold itself together for long. If a generous amount were used, the new being would begin to grow quickly, and soon fit within the normal range of sizes.

The early interactions between the beings were similar to interactions between people, who speak different languages. They had nothing on which to base their attempts at communication. Fortunately, in a world of energy and thought, there were no barriers. They gradually learned to "synchronize" their thoughts with others. They all shared some basic thoughts. They all had a sense of self-preservation. They did not have a reason why, but they preferred "being" over not being. They learned about others of their kind loosing control of their energy, and loosing coherence. Their consciousness was lost, as if it had never been. There was a powerful sense of loss by the others when this happened. They agreed to help each other avoid this fate, if a way could be found.

Two of the oldest, and most advanced, beings, attempted to enhance their communications by temporarily merging their energy fields together. It was surprisingly successful. They each acquired the knowledge and experience of the other. In fact, when they separated, they each felt so diminished, that they quickly agreed to merge permanently. Other beings soon attempted such a joining, with varying degrees of success. Success depended on the advancement of the beings, and their degree of similarity. Immature beings had difficulty synchronizing and merging at all. When the differences between the beings were too great, the merging usually could not be sustained for very long.

When these new paired beings interacted with others, they felt themselves flipping back and forth between the two minds such that what was presented was sometimes one and sometimes the other, and occasionally something new - a third consciousness. They had somehow managed to form a consensus consciousness. They each retained their own consciousness, but it became less important to them than their combined consciousness. As this new idea spread among the energy beings, many more pairs were formed, and soon there were groups of three, four, or more.

These larger groups were far more stable than individuals. When any member of the group began losing control over his energy, the others would help him recover. The idea of group survival based on cooperation was born. This began a progression that lead to the formation of God. God is composed of countless energy beings, each with their own consciousness, that together form one great unifying super-consciousness, that is greater than the sum of His parts. The energy beings are souls. Souls form God's body.

The great coalescence which became God would not have occurred, without the influence of another group of energy beings. These other beings also learned to merge with others, but not in a cooperative sense. When they merged, only the strongest survived. The weaker being was consumed. Its consciousness was lost. Only a fraction of what was known by the weaker was retained in the stronger. This was a fundamental concept, from their earliest days. They never thought of another way to be. When they finally encountered their philosophical opposites, they did not accept the new way of thinking. Instead, they began trying to consume them. They quickly found that contact between their two different kinds of beings was destructive to both sides. On what was to become God's side, which I will call "good," the beings had no desire to merge with the others, which I will call "evil." The evil ones discovered that trying to merge with a group of good beings caused them to lose control of their energy structure, and this frightened them. They soon learned that only individual good beings were vulnerable. These individuals could be overwhelmed, and broken apart into raw energy, and consumed safely. The evil ones grew rapidly, with only their challenging of each other to slow them down. When the good beings realized what was happening, their concept of self-preservation forced them to take action. One of the small groups, which contained the original pair bond, suggested joining in one great formation for mutual self-defense. Most decided to join. The process was much more difficult and complicated than the merging that had happened within the smaller groups, because there were great differences among the good beings. Such unbalanced merging had never lasted very long. The most advanced of the groups sought out the other more advanced groups, that were most like themselves. They began by forming the largest group ever known, made up of the most advanced groups. When they had stabilized their new group, and formed a new super-group consciousness, this new consciousness guided the remainder of the groups who were joining them. They gradually formed an immense ball of energy, with the most advanced beings in the center, and the less advanced beings around the outside. There was a spectrum of advancement from the center to the perimeter. There was also a spectrum of "goodness," with the strongest at the center and the weakest around the outside. The souls around the outside were most like the evil beings. They were less sensitive to being hurt by the evil ones than were the more advanced beings. They were safe as long as they stayed part of the group, part of God. If they separated from God, they were soon consumed by evil, and their consciousness was lost forever.

The largest of the evil ones attacked God before He was fully formed, and almost defeated Him. The ferocity of the attack was unexpected, and He was unprepared to defend himself. He saw that He was losing because the evil one was breaking Him apart and attacking the pieces. He fought back by pulling Himself together and trying to merge with the evil one. The evil one found that he could not sustain his control over all his energy when God was merging with him. God was seeding the evil one with His own ideas of merging and cooperation. Individual beings began to form from the energy of the evil one, and join God's efforts. The evil one had to break away and flee. When God attained most of His size, there was seldom any single evil being large enough to threaten Him. Occasionally, a super-sized evil one would result from a clash between evil titans, but the evil form had a sustainable size limit that was much smaller than God's. God's size had no known limit.

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