At the Glick family reunion in July, I had some deep conversations with my many cousins. The one that literally had me speechless(!) was the conversation I had with my cousin Shelley. When I made the bold statement that I believe that we co-create with God, she simply asked, “How so?” I found I wasn’t prepared to articulate a response in a moment’s notice. All the reading I’ve done—from quantum physics to social sciences to spirituality—came flooding into my brain without form. It was like trying to gather up bits of feathers and present them in pillow form in an instant. I want to thank my dear cousin for this asking. It made me realize that not everyone has read what I have read, nor come to the same conclusions. The purpose of this writing is to help me get my thoughts around this question.
What makes the response to the question of co-creation so difficult is that it is complex and nonlinear. One cannot say that one thing follows another and get to the answer. Given this difficulty and in the attempt to provide a concise response, I will address its two main components:
1. How do we define God and our relationship to God?
2. How do we define creation?
How we define God and our relationship to God depends on the individual, which makes the response to the question of co-creation so difficult. Definitions range from atheism (believing that God doesn’t exist at all) to believing that God is a separate physical being who lives in a separate physical place and whom we will see after we die to God is ever-present in the universe and exists and participates in everything. For example, if one is an atheist, there simply cannot be co-creation, because there is no one to create with; everything is what it is; when you die that’s it. If one believes that God is separate from the world, God is the creator, and, while we have “free will,” there is a grand plan over which we have no control. If we believe that God is omnipresent and we believe that, as recent science has shown us, everything is a system, how can we not believe that we and God create together?
Remember the question, in science class, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is there sound?” How we co-create with God is a similar question. In the last 30 years, quantum science has shown us that until we observe an event, there is only a probability of its existence. Therefore, the observer cannot be separated from the observed. In addition, we can only be sure of a particular event’s state and properties in the present. Any future state or properties cannot be predicted; likewise, past state or properties cannot be described accurately. Time is a human invention. According to Albert Einstein, time is actually circular; there is no beginning and no end. In every religion, God said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” that is, no beginning and no end. Herein lies the connection.
Every minute of every day, we make decisions. Until we make the decision, there exists an infinite number of possibilities. As we make these decisions, we create the world we live in. We cannot predict what will happen in the future. History is different for each person; it is all in the perception of the person living in that moment.
The next frontier of discovery is going to be the role of feelings and emotions within the decision making process. Most of us have learned over the years that we get what we expect. If we expect wellness, we get wellness; if we expect a bad experience, we generally get a bad experience. In other words, we get what we ask for, good and bad. All the religions of the world speak to the idea that if we ask, believing, we receive. There is no discrimination by the Deity as to whether what we are asking for is good or bad. Believing is the feeling or emotion associated with the asking. Believing is also the “observation.” If we cannot separate the observer from what is being observed, within the belief of the asking, we co-create with God.
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