The Human Experiment

On Sunday, January 10, during our service at Unity Spiritual Center Denver, I shared a version of the creation myth that I wrote titled “The Human Experiment.” You may watch the service on Facebook or YouTube. Several people asked if I would share it. I am happy to do so here.

I hope that this story will remind us all of who and what we truly are and inspire us to live from the conscious awareness of our Unity in God and with each other.

 

The Human Experiment

One day, God was feeling a little bored and lonely. So, they decided to try an experiment.

God said, “Let us create some mini-we’s. We will create beings in our own image/likeness. They will be our children. They will be pure Light, endowed with all of our qualities. They will have creativity, order, love, balance, harmony, wholeness, beauty, indeed they will be filled with All of Our Light. And they will all have the power to comprehend and make use of these qualities to create for themselves an energy field where Our Light through them will reign supreme and where they will live in harmony and eternal bliss.”

God stopped to ponder for a moment, and they and said to themselves, “That sounds positively dull. That’s not a very good experiment. How can we make this more interesting?”

After a while, they said. “Yes! We know. We will put them in a trance. Of course, they will always be Our Light, they just won’t remember. It will be as though they are asleep to Our Light!”

God thought, “That doesn’t seem quite fair, does it?” And they said, “No it does not, so what can we do?”

After no time, they said, “Now we know. We will also instill deep within them a desire, a longing to wake up, to seek and find Our Light for themselves. When they find it, they will cherish it and use it to help their siblings find it as well.”

Then, God thought, “This is all well and good, but where are they going to do all of this?”

Suddenly, they shouted, “Ah, We know! We will create for them a playground on which they can have fun awakening to who they are and discovering each other in this little game of hide and seek.”

Then, God said, “Oh, but they will find each other straight away. We want to gain some insight from this experiment. We want to know just how powerful Our Light truly is. How will we know if they can clearly see and recognize each other? What shall we do?”

God pondered. Then they exclaimed, “Oh, Yes! We will place them in costumes, so they are disguised from each other. And We will call them humans.

We will create these costumes with different skin colors, facial features, body shapes and sizes, hair colors and textures, and genders.

We will give them different languages, so they do not quickly communicate.

We will place them in different regions of the playground.

They will have access to different resources.

Oh, and We will confuse them even more. We will hide Our Light a little closer to the surface in a few of them. They will believe they have found Our Light. Then they will create movements that others will follow.

In this trance, they will believe that they are separate from each other and separate from us. We will see how long it takes them to wake up.

We are confident that Our Light is so powerful within them and the desire so strong to awaken that they will wake up very quickly and they will all live in harmony, peace and love together on this playground.”

This is how the Human Experiment began.

 

Ever since, God has been checking and analyzing the data of this experiment every day. And every day God scratches their head in disbelief. “Why have all of our children not yet awakened?” they ask.

“How much violence will it take? How much death? How long must they fight each other? How much pain and suffering must they witness and endure before they wake up and realize that they are the same and that there is a better world that awaits?

When will they learn to focus in their hearts where Our Light abides? It is not that difficult is it?

When will they learn that they are not their possessions? Not their jobs? Not their money? Not these costumes? Not their religion? Not their nationality? Not their gender? Not their sexuality? Not their political party?”

God asked themselves, “What is to be done? We cannot intervene on their behalf. That would ruin the experiment.

Let us look more closely.” So, God gazed upon the playground, observing all of their children. Until, they said with delight, “Ah, yes, We see that some of our children are waking up. There is a glimmer of hope!

They are the ones we must rely upon. They are the ones who have the power now on this human playground to connect to Our Light in their hearts and open to receive all the gifts that we gave them from the beginning of their creation.

They will come together, and see beyond their outer appearances, the skin color, places of birth, as well as beyond the guides and teachers they have chosen to follow.

They will remember that they are all wearing costumes. They will know that the things that make them appear different are all made up. They will know that they are disguises meant to make the game of hide and seek more fun and interesting. They will remember that Our Light is beneath those costumes. They will look beyond and know that they are all the same.

They will remember that they all desire the same thing. We placed that within them. They desire to wake up and remember that they are Our Light.

They will know that as humans, they all want the same things – peace of mind, love, security, safety, belonging, and freedom – all of the qualities that reflect the true radiance of Our Light.

They will awaken to what some of our children call – Ubuntu – knowing that they are all connected.

They will receive their gift of empathy – the ability to listen and hear and understand with their hearts their shared original nature and their shared experience of being entranced.

They will receive their gift of compassion – to be present with the suffering of others whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.

They will receive their gift of mercy – to care about the suffering of others and to do all that is within their ability to help alleviate that suffering.

And they will awaken to the greatest gift of all – the Holy Spirit, the comforter, the spirit of Our Light and Love. The One who, with the still, small voice within is forever reminding them who they are.

They will receive their gift to comprehend and their capacity to use all of these gifts to bring forth upon this playground a new earth – a new reality that embodies all of the qualities that We Are, they are.

This is what we know! We know our children. We know they are awakening! And, we see that day now!”

The End!