Higher Powered

It's easy to think that each of us is a separate individual, a complete and self contained entity capable of thinking, reasoning, remembering, and speaking, as well as art, math, song, and many other mental functions seamlessly. I don't believe it. I have told this story many times and as the words come pouring out so clearly, quickly, and comprehensibly it can't be all me. The ideas and images flowing out with such precision and intelligence essentially "without thinking." Have you ever really considered it? It is incredible. Too much for little old me. Consider instead, that we are all conduits, receivers of the "one mind", the infinite intelligence, power, and presence that permeates the universe from the microscopic atom to the macrocosm of a solar system. These two even look and work alike, electrons spinning around the nucleus like planets spinning around a sun. There is also the consciousness and mental functioning of all of life forms, mammals, reptiles, insects, and yes, as well as the intelligence of plants. And yet there is another level, that of biological intelligence, as eating, balancing, digesting, fighting off disease, seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, growing, birthing, singing, dancing, laughing, crying, and much, much more. All of these also infinitely too amazing to be little old me, or you, or any living thing. For me this is proof positive of a higher power, intelligence, and presence that animates and informs us all from the microscopic life of bacteria to the gargantuan life of 200 ton whales.