- Does God exist?
That depends on what we think God is. If God is a literal, sentient, all-knowing, all-powerful “person,” all we have to go on is our own intuition, and what other people say or write. No scientific evidence for this person has been found, but there is a lot that is still unknown to science.
If, on the other hand, the word God is the name we use to personify the entirety of all things real, for example, then it would be hard for anyone to deny that reality exists. It is this latter definition that Consonance finds actionable, that is to say useful in a practical sense, until such time as evidence for the more literal version is discovered.
And such a discovery wouldn’t necessarily change the Consonant practice anyway, so in one sense, it doesn’t matter as much how we envision God, as it does that we know a God of some description is undeniable.
2. Is there life after death?
People should believe what they must in order to find peace about this question, but until science is able to fill in the details, a metaphorical reading of this theme can be very enlightening… literally!
If “death” refers not to the death of the physical body, but to the death of ego-identity, then life after this kind of death is entirely within the realm of current scientific plausibility. If Christ’s death on the cross is a metaphor for the voluntary renunciation of ego-identity, then resurrection is the resulting experience of life in identification with the entirety of reality, otherwise known as God.
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