Mine
The poem 'Mine' was written to express a particular non spiritual view of life. For me it seems that humanity is obsessed with its own importance, anthropomorphism appears to being the underlying position of most thinking and the fear of mortality a motive force that projects the fiction of the supernatural. The great sadness in all of this, beyond the incessant slaughter our dominant mythologies produce in the name of 'God', is the way people miss the deep beauty of what we really are and what we really know for sure. Once we remove the psychosis of the divine from our consciousness we do not need to be left in a barren wilderness, quite the opposite. The wonderful richness of our existence has to be a source of great joy to all those intellectually strong enough to perceive it.
Particularly in the monotheistic mythologies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, there stands a fundamental principle of separation from the universe as the underlying state of being that we call humanity. This separation is conceived at the beginning of the mythology with the expulsion from Eden, the removal from the presence of 'God' and the instruction to seek dominion over the Earth (nature). In this model of existence we are not part of the universal physical reality but move with our own power, through divine providence, in its landscape. The science of the 21st century simply doesn't support any such idea. Such a statement casts fear into the minds of the believers, those for whom blind faith is sufficient and the discipline of academic study and scientific knowledge is either too taxing or too complicated for their minds.
For me, and I stress this point, a universe in which my own being is an intrinsic part of the physical fabric of being, an existence in which my perception is limited to four dimensions whilst my own physical form is clearly comprised of many dimensions, such a universe, such a multiverse, is a wonderful place to be. That in the 15 billion year known history of what we see beyond us I should have consciousness for maybe 60 or so years is utterly amazing. Further, if we consider the mutliverse as the true nature of what lies beyond our consciousness then our ability to percieve is really where all the questions lie.
