The God Metaphor

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
-- Joseph Campbell
After leaving Mormonism, much of my struggle has been to organize enough of my beliefs to understand what it is that I'm listening to in my inner communications with myself.
Mr. Campbell's metaphor referring to God as that metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought continues to resonate within my scope of thinking about God.
In my daily dialogs with so many people on this pathway to further intellectual daylight, I continually run into this question: "What now?"
This question includes, what should I do now, what should I read now, and what should I believe now. I love they idea of taking the concept of God as the level of mindfulness that we may aspire to, but possibly never reach. God is that nonverbal understanding we may have of the life we desire, the meaning we crave.

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