The Empirical Death of Him and the Organic Discovery of Me
The answer to whether or not God exists and what exactly is His nature and connection to us has been attempted by philosophers, poets, and priests since man walked the earth. However, in the face of no empirical evidence whatsoever that demonstrates proof of this external being, I have always been an existentialist who believes that God is part myth, part human psyche projection and the tool of many a leader (whether political or religious) for opiating the masses. In fact, this view of God is one that often left me feeling despondent and hopeless, because, without an eternal God, as Alper (4) argues, then there is little reason to live another moment when all of them become equally absolutely pointless in the scheme of things, “Without God, there is no spirit, no vital transcendental force or power. Instead, I am abandoned to the spiritless forces of a coldly mechanistic universe, an expendable cog in a soul-less machine-here today, gone tomorrow-a random accident in an arbitrary and purposeless abyss, no more or less significant than a grain of sand, a spec of cosmic dust. In essence, without God, life has no inherent meaning.” Being scientifically grounded, in light of no empirical evidence for such an external and universal entity as God, I often felt that the only meaning in life is the one an individual invests it with (thus, those who are able to believe in an afterlife easily come by a meaning in life to me, false at it has always appeared from my scientific and empirical glasses).
However, after reading Alper I believe my problem in finding meaning in spite of God and spirituality being non-existent externally, is because of a lack of conscious awareness of my collective unconscious. I was unable to understand that the universal and human tendency to believe in God and spirituality were merely elaborate physical/functional/organic/evolutionary/ cognitiv...