Creation, Reality & Mind. Episode #6 Pure Spring Water.
Music can inspire in many ways. This lyrics of a song can unearth deeper thoughts and feelings about our existence.
Meet Alan Fraser & Daisy Debolt
Haunted by a song
A portion of the song lyrics for ‘Pure Spring Water’ have visited my mind often since I first heard them in 1970 and saw the artists perform at a small Toronto club in 1972:
We’re the colour of the sun
The colour of the sun
The greatest happiness I feel
Is to give you pleasure
Don’t you think we could rest a while
And drink some of this pure spring water.
You’re me, I’m you, we’re all the same person.
Floating peacocks dance ‘round and ‘round our bed.
We are free spirits
We are old and we are one,
And I feel … I feel … your every pleasure.
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This song continues to play in my mind from time to time as it has many times since the 1970s. Recently, however, it took on a new significance for me.
A few months ago, I wrote a series of five Substacks under the title “Creation, Reality & Mind”. It addresses a metaphysical hypothesis concerning the nature of “creation” and “reality”. This hypothesis began to take form over 30 years ago during a period of personal crisis and renewal which lasted ten years. Over the years since, those ideas have continued to grow in significance for me.
As I recently listened to Alan and Daisy sing those words, I imagined where they came from. Who was thinking them when they were first conceived and written down on paper?
The unseen muse.
Here are my thoughts regarding the real author of these lyrics.
Creation, as commonly understood, must have a source especially where the universe is concerned. Putting aside the stories of Genesis in religious scriptures, many attempts have been made to understand our existence.
The universe must have come from somewhere. The exact nature of that source, however, is still unclear. There are different theories.
Scientists, for example, particularly some physicists, have postulated the “God Particle” theory to explain the origin of the universe and all that it contains. It argues that our observed and experienced reality originated with a “big bang” of a single particle of infinite mass which exploded into trillions of fragments. Ostensively, the explosion flung those pieces into infinite space (where did it come from?) to become the celestial bodies we perceive in an ever-expanding universe. We are its “stardust”.
Awareness, however, must pre-exist that which is created in order to perceive it. In other words, consciousness must pre-exist reality in all of its complexity and glory. Perhaps, then, a “God Mind” may be a better way to perceive Creation and Reality than the explosion of a God Particle.
Singularity
The concept of ‘singularity’ is central to both the God Particle and the God Mind theories of creation and reality.
In physics, a singularity of infinite mass had to exist to explain the Big Bang theory about how the universe was created and is sustained. Atoms are fundamental elements in the physical universe story because they are claimed to be the most fundamental elements of every thing in our physical “reality”.
In metaphysics and the God Mind hypothesis in particular, the ‘singularity’ is a single point of consciousness. Time, space and matter do not exist. Instead of atoms, articons (artifacts of consciousness) are the fundamental elements of the God Mind. You can think of articons as the fundamental elements of the God Mind universe in the same manner that atoms are conceived to be the building blocks of the physical universe.
The role of language.
Words are mind tools.
Words are used to translate articons (thoughts, images, memories, feelings) which originate in consciousness into a form that can be shared with other minds.
All articons collectively comprise the God Mind in totality. Each human mind, however, is incapable of understanding that totality and only get a glimpse of its magnitude and complexity.
The words of Pure Spring Water.
As I hear those words as a God Mind expression, interpret them as follows.
The thinker behind those words is the God Mind - the Source of all creation.
“God” is speaking through one “child” - the author of the lyrics. The intent is to reach many more “children” with a message. A “child of God” is a mind - an instance of consciousness within the God Mind.
“God’s family” is the source of “God’s” joy.
Before “God” chose to create a “family”, “God” existed as a singularity of beingness. In that state, God had no joy because joy cannot exist in a singular dimension of beingness.
Creating “children” produced a multiplicity of beingness which enabled “God” to know joy. The instant the God Mind chose to expand beyond the single state of beingness, the seed was planted to create the universe of articons. That universe is the ever-expanding God Mind - essentsislly a metaphysical “big bang”.
Every “child of God” inherits the essence of “God” referred to in scripture as “the image and likeness of God”. Does this mean that the qualities of the God Mind are represented in humanity with all the quirks and foibles? Is this what is means to “know God”?
The God Mind contains all ‘artifacts of consciousness’, articons, derived from the existence of all “beings of consciousness” (humans are not the only creatures with a mind and will). Articons form the “palette and stage of our existence” used to manifest all creation. The mind of each “being of consciousness” is very limited. Only a personal and restricted experience a “reality” is possible because no “child of God” can know and experience the totality of the God Mind - only very limited portions of it. This portion manifests in the mind of each ‘being of consciousness” as the “currents” of one’s Life.
The lyrics explained in a nut shell: The God Mind is the speaker of the lyrics. With those words, the God Mind is assuring each “child” that they are ‘one’ in the God Mind, and we should take some time to enjoy Life by drinking its currents of Pure Spring Water.