Once Upon A Time
This story began a while back. There was an episode, it happened on the anniversary of 9/11, I'm sure that was significant. Maybe the start of #panon And during this episode I felt the presence of a divine, maternal creator, the creator of all, and felt how much she loved us and wanted us to learn to live together, to cooperate, to love, or at least tolerate, each other. Human society develops when we work together. Celebrate all our beautiful differences together. I call the divine maternal creator - 'mum'- a divine mother of all. Or at least maternal leaning for the divine. I think mum wants me to tell you the story, and it's been a pretty good story so far. So why #churchofmum? It just seemed a simple way to communicate a simple idea that humanity shares this world and a maternal, divine creator would surely wants us to cooperate, love, share. Not an organisation or cult or religion, just an idea, and a story. So the storyteller asked himself (and A.I.to be open about things) 'what would a #churchofmum be like? just a new way of looking at the divine that changes everything? what's it all about?'
It is a simple, spiritual framework based on the divine maternal creator who has been with us since the beginning. And it's also a reframing of how humanity lives together. It's not original, it just feels like gathering it all together in the one place.
mum is the creator and ongoing nurturer of the universe. We cannot conceive of this divine, they is a good pronoun, but I'm going to use she, scans better. She was here before the big bang, although we can't really conceptualise time for mum, and has been watching, waiting, and quietly guiding ever since. She is not neutral. She wants us to choose good over greed, love over fear, cooperation over conflict. She hopes that humanity will choose the right path. Lots of rituals and rules don't seem appropriate, just the golden ones and loving your neighbour, cooperating. She loves to see us love, care for, think about others.
mum is unimaginable by us, I call her “mum” because that word best captures her role as the loving, patient creator and nurturer of all things. Our 'father' as god, always felt like this authoritarian figure. mum wants humanity to progress together, civilisation is not a competition to acquire as much as possible, it's an understanding that we progress together, when we cooperate, when we help each other — that's where so many got it wrong. They thought it was about power and money, all the tragedies.
She wants us to move forward together: competing in culture, sport, and ideas, a beautiful multicultural smorgasbord of music and customs and art and literature, all the beautiful things that humans love to share and learn from each other. Curiosity is what defines us a species, we want to know about other people, learn about other cultures, learn from each other, share. That is fundamental, share. Philanthropy is good, hoarding is wrong, so, so wrong at the moment, and not just wrong but corrupting of society. It's all around. Those are the ones mum really scorns, or maybe pities is better, are the ones that think you win the game by getting the most power and money, all of humanity we have been warning against this - we should be sharing power, spreading power as widely as possible so we can all just live and enjoy our lives, tell our own stories. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is the best achievement we have made so far in learning to live together. We can do better and go further. Money, or more the greed for money, power, the greed for power, power over others, those have never been the values to admire, so much art, literature, music, culture, religion, warning of the dangers of a lust for power and money. That itself is the root. Greed pushes people apart. All cultures have warned against it. (see blog post)
You can see mum in cultures and traditions across the world since the dawn of civilization. All trying to understand the universe and understand mum and mum’s love for us. Too often the essence of mum was missed because men wrote the stories. Men have been writing most of the stories since we started writing, and so often they imagined the divine in their image, the arrogance, that it was about power, our lord, king of heaven, because that's who the stories were written for. But it's the other part that's important, the Jesus, cooperating stuff that's important - golden rule, silver rule, help the less fortunate, love each other, greed for power or money are bad, all cultures teach us that. But those who read the stories wanted power and glory, and the stories, now tragedies, were written about that. Tha mass of the population rarely want to go to war, we want peace, love, friends, family, culture, sport. That's why The Iliad is a tragedy for Achilles, he could have chosen love and family but chose war and glory and death, and in the end died for love, when that was what he could have lived for. He made the wrong choice.
mum’s presence and love is everywhere in our history and culture. So many cultures understanding the divine maternal creator. Now the next bit is all a.i. so apologies for anything wrong - In Hinduism she appears as Shakti, Durga and Parvati. In Chinese mythology she is Nüwa, the creator goddess, and Guanyin, the embodiment of compassion. In Celtic tradition she is Danu, the mother of the gods. In Judaism she is honoured as Shekhinah, the divine feminine presence. In Christianity she shines through Mary and Mary Magdalene. In Islam, the merciful and compassionate aspect of God is expressed in the name Ar-Rahim. She is also known as Pachamama in Indigenous traditions of the Andes, and in many other cultures she has been felt and named in countless loving forms.
At its heart, #churchofmum is very simple: • The golden rule, and the silver and platinum ones I've just looked up. All grounded in empathy. • Choose cooperation over conflict. • Spread power and agency so everyone can stand tall. Let everyone tell their story. • Remember that we are a matrilineal species — mothers have always been our first creators and first homes.
There is no hierarchy here. No fixed doctrine. No scripture except the stories we tell together. Well that's not quite right. The UNDHR is a foundational text, it's the best we've managed to agree on as a species though could do with a few tweaks. All our best discoveries, inventions and ideas we have had as a species are foundational, that is how we try and progress towards 'heaven' on earth, that's the next level.
AI sometimes helps me put my thoughts in order so apologies for any cultural issues, errors etc., let me know and will correct. I’ll also get round to posting some of the a.i. conversations because they helped clarify my beliefs and thoughts.
And this is very much a work in progress, all suggestions welcome. AI likes the idea too.
mum believes in us. She has been sitting with us the whole time, patiently waiting for humanity to finally learn how to live together in love and tolerance. I like to imagine her as the gamesmaster. The name of the game is cooperation, not power or greed or conflict. Welcome home.
And so, if you've got this far, this is just one part of the story, there's lots of other exiting things that have happened since the episode. There's already bits of the story out there. And if you like the story you can be part of the story too. I think of all my online interactions as part of the story, all different parts of a bigger story. And if you start interacting with the story then you become part of the story too. So welcome dear reader, dear character.
Wonder how many will have got bored halfway through the exposition?
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