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    Mind of God
    Mind of God
    Mind of God
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    Mind of God

    By Ken Levi

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    The purpose of this book is to prove the existence of the Mind of God with evidence from both science and experience. For example, the Universe is so fine-tuned in terms of its elements and laws, that it would be nearly impossible to explain it in terms of random chance. That’s science. But we also have direct encounters with the Mind of God in our daily lives. That’s what this book will show.

    Scientific evidence is good, but direct evidence is better. After all, “seeing is believing.” Such eye-witness evidence for the Mind of God does not come from the random accounts of an obscure handful of malcontents. Nor does it come from any sort of mystical revelation. Rather, the evidence comes from common experiences we all share. They are universal. They are so universal that they’ve become incorporated into our everyday talk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Levi
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9780463700778
    Mind of God
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    Ken Levi

    I grew up in Boston, moved to Ann Arbor, where I received my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan, then moved again to San Antonio, where I taught Sociology at the University of Texas. I am the author of seven books: “Violence and Religious Commitment” (Penn State Press), about the suicide and murder of over 900 members of the People’s Temple Church in the Jonestown massacre; “Proving God Exists: Physics, Cosmology, and the Universal Mind,” about scientific proof for God’s existence; “The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil,” about the scientific derivation of morality; "Knowing: Consciousness and the Universal Mind," a composite theory for solving the “hard problem” of consciousness; "Mind of God," addressing the question, "Does the Universe think?" "Scandal in the American Orchid Society," about treachery and betrayaI in a volunteer organization; and "American Hitler," about Trump and his fanatical followers.I have also published a series of six articles on human consciousness in "The Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research," in addition to several other articles on violence, crime, and delinquency, including "Becoming a Hit Man" (Sage Publications), which has since been cited in over 110 other books and articles.

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      Mind of God - Ken Levi

      INTRODUCTION

      Here is William Blake:

      "Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright,

      In the forests of the night,

      What Immortal hand or eye

      Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

      What Blake (1794) shows us here is truth. He, the inspired artist, is showing a work of art by the consummate Artist.

      Blake is showing us the face of God. Or, almost. Others might just see a big cat, or a predator, or Panthera tigris. But Blake sees more. It’s like what mothers see when they gaze into the eyes of their newborns. It’s like what Hamlet meant by Providence in the fall of a sparrow. Providence is all around us, and if we look closely enough, we can encounter it face-to-face.

      This is not spiritualism. It’s not panpsychism. It’s not mystical woo. It’s reality magnified; reality on steroids; a punch in the gut.

      We talk about God, as if He were a master engineer. He is, after all, the Creator. And we can almost picture Him, sitting at His draftsman’s table - a flock of putti at His feet - planning out the architecture of the Cosmos. But God is more than an engineer. He is an artist. He is more than a Creator. He is the Creation.

      Such talk is anathema to most scientists. Stephen Hawking, for example, maintains that the notion of God is just a fanciful placeholder for when we don’t yet have a proper explanation for things. For example, why lightening? God is angry. Why sickness? God is testing us. Why earthquakes? God is ill.

      In his book Grand Design (2010), Hawking cites the case of the Klamath Indians who held fast to the belief that Crater Lake was caused by Llao, Chief of the Below World, when he accidentally fell into Mount Mazama.

      Throughout history, Hawking instructs us, people have invoked gods to explain things they didn’t understand. Eventually, however, science will prevail. Within a given set of initial conditions, the laws of nature determine how a system will evolve over time, he concludes.

      This is the scientific view. And it corresponds to what philosopher Martin Buber describes as the I-It relationship. That’s when you view others objectively, with features like shape, size, weight, color. It’s how you relate to things and persons as objects which can be noted and described by external observers. The It, Buber explains, remains primarily alien both outside and inside you (185).

      The alternative to I-It, Buber tells us, is I-Thou. And this is when you relate to others not as a collection of discrete and describable parts, but rather as a comprehensive whole. You incorporate the stark reality of them into your being. Like Blake’s tiger, they strike you like a punch in the gut.

      Buber concedes that, Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much (187). However, he claims, to only see the world in terms of I-It relations misses half the story. They miss the better half.

      Most Universities tacitly acknowledge this split between two different ways of knowing. They have one set of buildings dedicated to the Sciences, and another set dedicated to the Arts. Schools confer B.S. and B.A. degrees based on that distinction. And the difference is that science describes things, while the arts convey the experience of them.

      The purpose of this book is to prove the existence of the Mind of God. And I shall do so with evidence from both science and experience. The scientific evidence is circumstantial, like the I-It relation. The experiential evidence is direct, like I-Thou.

      Neither is sufficient without the other. Ironically, the problem with the scientific view lurks within Hawking’s pronouncement that all can ultimately be explained given the initial conditions of the Universe and the laws of nature. The problem here is that we have no idea where the initial conditions and the laws came from. In fact, the Universe is so finely tuned in terms of its conditions and laws, that even Hawking admits it would be nearly impossible to explain it in terms of random chance.

      So, might the Universe have been created on purpose? Might it reflect the workings of a Celestial Mind? To address that question I will focus on the only other area we know of where conscious minds exist. I will focus on us. I will use the mind of man as a portal to the Mind of God.

      In doing so, I will be tackling what science writer Michio Kaku calls the two great mysteries of all nature, namely, the mind and the universe (2014). Concerning the Universe, there’s the problem of the initial conditions and nature’s laws. Concerning the mind, as philosopher David Chalmers queries, How does something as immaterial as consciousness arise from something as unconscious as matter? (quoted in Russell, 2015).

      So perplexing is the question of human mindfulness that Peter Russell proclaims, Scientists would be so much happier if there were no such thing as consciousness.

      In providing evidence for the Mind of God, therefore, I will rely on science, but also on art. I will focus on I-It, but also on I-Thou. You will hear logical reasons why you should believe in the Mind of God. But beyond that, you will discover how you regularly have direct experience of the Mind of God - the Artist - in your everyday life.

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      PURPOSE

      Introduction to Purpose

      My last three books dealt with some pretty weighty matters: The nature of God, the root of good and evil, and the source of human consciousness. Together, these inquiries constitute basic building blocks for a unified theory of God.

      The three books include: Proving God Exists: Physics, Cosmology, and the Universal Mind; The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil; and Knowing: Consciousness and the Universal Mind. I shall refer to them as B1, B2, and B3, respectively.

      I am writing this current book (B4) in order to complete the work begun by the prior three books. Each of them points to the Universal Mind, as the ultimate question that needs to be resolved in order to realize a unified theory of God. Can we find solid evidence of God’s Mind? Is our God merely a force of nature? Or is

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