Is ‘universal intelligence’ a good name for God?

by Vic Shayne
author
Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience

Someone asked me if universal intelligence is a good name for God. I think there is a big problem with these sorts of ideas, because people take other people’s word as a valid explanation. They are wont to accept secondhand information and then store it away as part of their personal database. This is how most knowledge works — you read, listen, watch, or follow someone and then make their assessments, ideas, learnings, and discoveries your own. We see this going on with religion, philosophy, politics, and so on down the line.

The alternative to accepting secondhand knowledge is to just observe for yourself so that your understanding is firsthand.

What is God? What is universal intelligence? What is consciousness? Have you ever delved into these things by way of observing your life to find out? When you do this persistently and without judgment then you start to discover what you are, and when this happens you also discover what consciousness is.

So what is God? From my observation, God is consciousness that has been anthropomorphized. Consciousness is the entirety of all that is — existence, creation, destruction, movement, ideas, thoughts, complementary and opposite values, memories, emotions, bodies, forms, expressions, and so on. Consciousness is that from which everything comes into being; it is everywhere and it is the only power or force that really exists. If you take these ideas and anthropomorphize them then you come up with a god. And if you give it the quality of intelligence then you come up with the idea of universal intelligence.