I'll post it. I have nothing to hide
Fortunately I can just paste it from an email I wrote. This ideology exists on the idea that there is a God.
Lets imagine a universe before the universe physically existed. All that existed was God. Omnificent, omnipresent, omnifarious, and infinite. God was all and all was God. So why would such an entity create a physical universe? What would an infinite being that is limitless seek to achieve?
Since God was all there was this created a sort of dilemma. God knew that God was God. However God could not experience what it was like to be God.
If you were born into a world of pure darkness, you would not know what dark is, because that is all there is. It is only when light comes into the picture that one understands the dark. We only know what things are through what they are not. That is why this life is full of opposites and dichotomy. This is why many seek to find a balance. This is why the idea of the yin yang or opposing forces is so popular in theology.
So since God was all there was, God didn't know what it was like to be God since there was nothing that was not God. There was no reference point. So God created the physical universe. A place where things would be separate from each other. A place where opposites would exist. However if God is infinite how can God create something that is outside God's own infinite? The universe is made out of God. God is the universe. The universe is the physical embodiment of God.
So now God has a physical universe, however since God is the universe this doesn't seem to solve the dilemma of allowing God to experience Godself. This is where life comes in. This is where we come in.
God created life. However much like the universe all things are made out of and from God. Thus God individuated parts of Godself into what we call souls. These parts of God then created physical bodies for themselves in order for us to make ourselves forget we are God so we can experience all the things that are not God. The feelings of separation, anger, hate, sadness, violence, sickness, etc. This way we experience during our physical lifetimes, all that is not God, so that when are in a state of God, we experience that which is God.
Thus the point of all of this, is not necessarily to learn a specific lesson, rather to experience God.
That is not to say that their are not things that we may see as "lesson like." When one begins to look at ones life not as a series of random events but as a planned and self created journey towards the divine, it becomes almost impossible to not see the continual patterns in our life, to not see the messages that the universe is try to tell us. We wonder why we continue to meet with or fall for the same kind of people, why we continue to find ourselves in similar "negative" situations all through out our lives. Since God is everything. Everything that happens is God communicating with us. Telling us something, not so that we will learn. Our soul is made out of God. A piece of infinity is still infinity. Our soul already knows everything! These things happen because before we came to this life we decided we wanted to experience something.
Say you wanted to experience, courage, so you create a situation for yourself in which you will be forced to act courageously in life. It's not about passing or failing life, its about living it, and being what you want to be.
Many people call these pre-life creations or agreements, contracts. However I do not like that term. A contract implies that you are bound to it, and that it is unchanging. However this is not the case. The beautiful gift that we have is free will. We can choose to void and change our contract, our karma if we wish it.
Since we are all God, we are all the creators of our lives. The underpinnings of this reality is a network of souls that are all working in conjunction with each other and with the God conscious to create the life that exists. Yes physically we may see this life as hard, or that things happen to us without control. But the reality which can be both hard to take, and yet the ultimate freedom, is that we ultimate create our lives. We create everything that happens to us. All with the purpose of evolving closer and closer to the Godself.
