The Grand Pantheist View

Imagine for a moment that the essence of existence is what we call God. Imagine that this essence has taken form as the fundamental state, the very base essence of quanta or rolled up dimensions. Now, imagine that as the Universe evolved in the aftermath of the "Big Bang," or better, "The Great Inflation," that this essence, the very seed of the Big Bang has vastly expanded, diversified, and taken form as all the wonder of creation that now exist. Is it possible that all of existence is really made of this essence? Is it possible that all things are really, made of God? This would turn on its head, all that we think about God today. I believe that this idea is a more amazing and beautiful possibility for the reality of God and the creation. It is a more astounding and noble vision of just what we exist within. I feel very awed by the idea, but buoyed by the wonder of what this essence has created and how it has created it. Evolution by natural selection has had a tough time in religion since its discovery in the 19th Century. But it is a beautiful and wondrous account of the creation of life through the pure and unintentional processes of nature. This account incorporates chaos, chance, mutation, complexity, all undirected, unintentional, creative processes that bring to awareness a new understanding of what a freely loving consciousness can do. This account does not describe a single omnipotent cosmic architect, but a vast myriad relational and interactive process through which creation changes and improves upon itself over the decades, centuries, millenia, eons. It does not portray a human-like feeling consciousness, but an amazing impersonal radiant force that ceaselessly manifests form out of itself. This may not warm your heart or still your fears, but look deeper. This essence, this deep reality, could be the ultimate form of Love. Not the idea of Love that we commonly know as human beings, but a grand cosmic love that spans eternity and infinity. Is it possible that reality is made out of Love? Is it possible that God is cosmic Love itself? Is it possible that we, all of us, are the very Love of God? If this is true, what does it mean? Does it not convey that each created being, thing, is inherently precious, priceless beyond all imagining? Does it not bring to mind a fundamental morality - a primal moral awareness? What if?